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African Dance is H-O-T this Summer

Posted by Lisa Leake on June 16, 2009 at 4:15am

Whew! Boston weather is cold outside but it's sizzlin' inside with djembe and sabar rockin' rhythms and rhapsodies, making our bodies gyrate and glisten. If you wanna sweat in the motion, come on and see what we have to offer, with over 10 (authentic) West African classes being held, weekly, at the Dance Complex, 567 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge. Just to add to the sweltering summer is a review of the "Dance for World Community" that just happened on June 6th, at Jose Mateo's Ballet Theatre, with over 30 "live" dance companies showing their "wears," inclusive of some of the most celebrate Afro bits in town. Next, spice it up with three days of Malian, Guinean, and Senegalese master dancers who storm Cambridge for the third annual Ndaje ("Come Together") West African dance festival. Classes to be held Friday from 4:00 through 10:00 pm, and from 10:30 am through 7:00 pm on Saturday and Sunday. Don't forget the "all inclusive" performance at MIT's Kresge Auditorium, or the featured "dance jam," culminating your supra-ethno experience.Here's a couple links:http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-12126-Boston-Dance-Examiner~y2009m6d15-Silimbo-DAdeane-West-African-Dance--Drum-Companyhttp://www.examiner.com/x-12126-Boston-Dance-Examiner~y2009m6d15-Bostons-Second-Summer-Dance-Festival-2009http://www.examiner.com/x-12126-Boston-Dance-Examiner~y2009m5d31-Bostons-first-2009-summer-dance-festival-Dance-for-World-CommunityChiao for now but keep posted.....Lisa

SEEDS Festival June 14-28th 2009

Posted by Olive on June 15, 2009 at 12:01am

Somatic Experiments in Earth, Dance and Science take place this year at Earthdance, MassachussetsCheck out the schedule for the 2009 festival beginning this week.Dance, Permaculture and ecology workshops, performances, artist residencies, dance and experimental science films, panels discussions, jams, field trips and more. Featuring Simon Whitehead, Jennifer Monson, Rafter Sass + Skott Kellog, Beverly Naidus and more.Check the SEEDS ning site for all the latest info.http://seedsfestival.ning.com/

WOW SEEDS begins this week!!!!

Posted by Olive on June 14, 2009 at 11:56pm

SEEDS Festival June 14-28th 2009Somatic Experiments in Earth, Dance and Science at Earthdance, MassachusetsCheck out the schedule for the 2009 festival beginning this week.Dance, Permaculture and ecology workshops, performances, artist residencies, dance and experimental science films, panels discussions, jams, field trips and more. Featuring Simon Whitehead, Jennifer Monson, Rafter Sass + Skott Kellog, Beverly Naidus and more.Check the SEEDS ning site for all the latest info.http://seedsfestival.ning.com/Olive Bieringa talks with Eva Yaa Asantewaa on her Body and Soul podcast about plans for this month's SEEDS Festival of arts and ecology. Now set to launch its second summer at EARTHDANCE in Massachusetts, SEEDS is an international, interdisciplinary festival, forging connections between innovative artists and scientists. Listen to the interviewhttp://infinitebody.blogspot.com/2009/05/olive-bieringa-body-and-soul-podcast.htmlWe hope you can come.Olive BieringaCu-curatorSEEDS Festival

the blank.

Posted by Ashley on June 14, 2009 at 12:54am

Check out this 10 minute compilation video of my 2008 piece, "the blank." This video will be shown at Laura Cull's book launch this coming week. The book is a collection, "Deleuze and Performance" and looks incredibly interesting.

After the Lobbytalk at DTW!

Posted by Marlon Barrios Solano on June 13, 2009 at 7:30pm

Last Tuesday evening, I connected to the Lobby of Dance Theater Workshop from Geneva via dance-techTV and skype with various guest panelist to share our ideas on new media and the distribution of information and knowledge about dance (name it audience development, marketing, open process etc) I was happy to contribute with my ideas about the dance-tech.net project although it was hard to keep up with the diverse ideas of the panelist and the many directions presented by the topic. It was also very early morning for me. Claudia La Rocco was one of the panelists and this is what she wrote on her blog: Tuesday night we had our second Performance Club event of the month - and a bit of a strange one for me to offer a critique of, since it was a Lobby Talks panel at DTW that included me. Organized by the choreographer Chase Granoff, the very broad topic centered on how new technologies are shaping the dance world - from marketing to social networking to criticism and more, and the panelists included bloggers, artists, and marketing/new media directors. Several P. Clubbers were in attendance, and several were on the panel, and I’ll leave it mostly to them if they want to deconstruct the evening (though I’m happy to answer questions!). Read the post in her blog: http://blogs.wnyc.org/culture/2009/06/11/performance-club-talk-talk-talk/

Recorded LIVE Broadcast: LecDem by Robert Wechsler on Motion Tracking and Geneva Sessions 09 participants

Posted by Marlon Barrios Solano on June 13, 2009 at 9:30am

This is a capture of the LIVE broadcast: LecDem on Motion Tracking by Robert Wechsler and participants of the Geneva Sessions 09/Made in Laussane. June 12th 7 pm @ L'Arsenic, Lausanne ttp://www.theatre-arsenic.ch/ This informal gathering was the culmination of the first week where the participants were introduced to real-time processing motion for the interactive control of media. About the Geneva sessions 09 http://gvadancetraining.ning.com/profiles/blogs/geneva-sessions-09 http://gvadancetraining.ning.com/ Software used: http://eyecon.palindrome.de/

GENEVA SESSIONS 09/made in Lausanne WE START NOW!!!!!!

Posted by Gilles Jobin on June 11, 2009 at 6:30pm

Gvadancetraining.ning.com will be the central point for the sessions. Participants will registrer as member and use the gvadancetraining website as an active tool during the workshop to drop images, videos, infos etc... Stay tuned for live DANCETECH TV broadcasts, videos from workshop participants etc... Or better, come to assist to the public events of the workshop!!!!

Trouvez plus de vidéos comme celle-ci sur GENEVA DANCE TRAINING

amberConference - Call for papers

Posted by body pixel on June 9, 2009 at 11:00am

The first international conference of amberConference will be held in conjunction with the amber’09 Art and Technology Festival, on 7,8 November 2009 in Istanbul, Turkey. The aims and scope of this conference are to create a platform of discussion and dissemination for the various themes and topics in which Social Science, Art and Technology converge.The theme for this year's event is the Cyborg, a phenomenon that has captured the attention and imagination of artistic, academic as well as scientific communities in terms of creative, theoretical, and technological output. The conference seeks previously unpublished papers of a maximum of 4500 words within the fields of Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences, Computer Sciences and Art Papers discussing original artwork.Topics can cover (but are not limited to)Machinic/Cyborg ArtRobotics and robotic artCyborg and Performing artsAvatars (virtual worlds and virtualenvironments)Computer GamesWearable and Tactile TechnologiesArtificial intelligencePost humanismNew modes of embodimentAgencyMedicineGenetic engineering, biology, clones and hybridsReligion, tradition and eternal lifeMilitarismGenderDeadline: 1st of August 2009Click here for more details: www.amberconference.org

GENEVA SESSIONS 09 MADE IN LAUSANNE Day 1 and 2 notes

Posted by Marlon Barrios Solano on June 7, 2009 at 7:12pm

have you sign it to our social network? Time to do it now.... FRAME: Training/learning Communicated Technological spaces/designed and engineered Mediated? Mapping Movement/motion Systems Input out puts Change cause and effect Control What is NEW? New steps? what is dance anyway? Leon Theremin David Rockeby Troika Ranch (MIDI Dancer) Palindrome Intermedia Group Gideon Obarzanek Hiroaki Umeda Bebe Miller Lisa Nelson Synchronous Objects/William Forsythe Blast Theory Builders Association Rachid Ouramdane Jeannete Ginslov Gilles Jobin and Vincent Pluss La Jetee/Chriss Markers We Feel Fine Aserty Dances Improv Everywhere Leave Britney alone! OK Go Human Browser Project 52 Nine Inches Nails Technological Mediation Automation (agency) Recording (register) Simulation (as if....) Transmission (space) Interactive control (alternative interfacing) Interactivity Virtuality (worlds and bodies) Interactive control/ games Coordination of actions/mobs Re-sampling Presence, Telepresence, co presence STORY and META SOCIAL IMAGINARY The thing, about the thing and that other thing STORYTELLING Explicit intention of: Reflexive Living: time based process Synchronous and asynchronous Creative engagement Collaborative creativity... Affords: Shifts in Time/pace Seriality Space/site mixed How we are going to work: -Collaboratively. -Sharing knowledge. -Sharing media. -Using what we have, who we are and what we know with our limitations. Group Project A PROTOTYPE Exploring: -Performance Spaces /technologically enhanced -On registering and recomposing -New capture delivery systems (alternative cameras) -New internet spaces and what they afford -Share process/digital multimedia documentation -Hybrid stories: the outcomes and process -Social mediation: Spontaneous gathering lifting media from the field: what is happening ? who is around me ? what is their story? in video, short video interviews? So you will be generating a project and its own on-line documentation/experience/process People: guest teachers, participants L'Arsenic Spaces 3 cameras, light kits Online platforms Geneva Sessions Social Network http://gvadancetraining.ning.com http://www.dance-tech.net Blogs, online video platforms: You Tube Vimeo Seissmic blip.tv UStream/LIVEStream (dance-techTV) Motionplex.org So: Start gathering media/try things Explore the space Produce a video interview: 3 minutes max. Interview another participant: everybody has to be interviewed and has to interview someone else. Capture, edit export and upload it to Geneva dance training using basic software: Imovie (mac) or moviemaker (PC). You can also use webcams with software or with web based platforms such as You tube. Then upload the video in the Geneva Sessions network: If using software: export video as h264 and no bigger than 640X480 4X3 or 16x9 extension: .mov Some logistics: Space schedule: from 10 to 8 pm (spaces available for work) Tuesday 6th: 12:00pm: Follow up on assignment and coaching/issues Start/session: Intro to Real time Processing with MAXMSPJitter Lunch Break: 1:30 to 2:30pm 2:30-5:30pm: Continuation of Intro to Real time Processing with MAXMSPJitter. 6:00 to 6:45pm: Live broadcasting Demo (before the talk) From Wednesday to Friday: 12:00pm to 6:00pm Introduction to Motion Tracking with Robert Wechsler

UPCOMING LIVE broadcasts in dance-techTV: La Ribot, Robert Wechsler, Muriel Romero, Esculturas Humanas and Yanira Castro

Posted by Marlon Barrios Solano on June 6, 2009 at 4:00pm

We will have several excellent LIVE broadcasts in the next two weeks on dance-techTV: Direct from the Geneva Session 09/Made in Lausanne (L'Arsenic) we will have: Lecture/artist talk by La Ribot Tuesday June 9th 2009 at 19h or 7:00pm (Swiss time), 1:00pm ESTime. -Influential performance artist/dancer/choreographer La Ribot will talk about her work with video, space and the body. Lecture/demo Motion Tracking and Dance by Robert Wechsler and workshop participants: Friday June 12th after three days of working with students. Special Performance: Tuesday June 16th at 19h 0r 7:00pm/ 1:00pm EST MURIEL ROMERO ET PABLO PALACIO ( Espagne) Acusmatrix and of ESCULTURAS HUMANAS (Mozambique) Ultra Secreto From NYC Yanira Castro | Dark Horse/Black Forest June 14, 2009 from 7pm to 8pm EST Brooklyn choreographer Yanira Castro is celebrating the launch of a new organism, a canary torsi, in a series of events scheduled throughout May and June 2009 and culminating in the premiere of her newest dance installation, Dark Horse/Black Forest, in the lobby bathroom of the Gershwin Hotel, with a LIVE WEBCAST on Dance-tech.net Stay tuned for more!

Of course I don't know anything about technique

Posted by Emelie Bardon on June 5, 2009 at 11:00pm

Tomorrow is the day of the Volt festival in Uppsala. Christian and I will set up a CCTV music installation there, and I went there today to hang the camera, and speak to the caretaker/technician. He was very easy to work with. After a while, when we'd been climbing, hanging, arranging, and discussing, another technician showed up. He was not very easy to work with. I know how the patriarchy works but it's quite rare to get such an obvious example. The second technician (male of course) started asking the first technician about my stuff. I replied - because it was my stuff we/they were talking about. The second technician didn't give a shit about me. He just kept addressing the first technician, and didn't even look at me. Totally rude but true.The second technician and I went down with the lift to put something on the floor to be able to find the camera focus. I went off the lift to put my bag there, and while I was on the floor (like 15 s), the second technician went up again, leaving me on the floor totally unable to do anything. He started messing about with the focus and zoom, and of course he had no fine motor control at all. Maximum or minimum of everything. I tried to instruct him from the floor until I realised how ridiculous this was, and got annoyed. I asked him quite roughly if I could come up. When I was up there, he wouldn't agree on which was the zoom, and which was the focus. It was so obvious to him that he would know better. Grrrrr....Well, at least I felt quite competent, and in the end he had to admit that I knew my own gear better than he did.

SOS (State of Space)

Posted by Ashley A. Friend on June 5, 2009 at 6:36am

A weekly collaborative workshop in NYconducted by Ashley A. Friend at Wow Café Theatre every Monday 10am-2pm for the rest of June...!It began in May and it is open to all who are interested in technology and performance.A weekly group dedicated to experimenting with space, light, projection, video,sound, and whatever other technology is brought to the group.Space—Setting—Light—Architecture—Environment—Experiment—Educate (re-educate) self and others—Research—Test, try, see, support, safe space—Interpret—Sites (Controlled spaces and chaotic)Workshop—Clinic—Seminar--Discussion/Action Group—Meeting—Collaboration—Ideas—Shared—Concepts actualizedDraw up idea, discuss, collaboratively piece together and viewed in space.The weekly task or investigation will be ideally discussed one week in advance.Technology as emphasisLight, video (live-feed or footage), objects in space, spatial constructions,audience/performance space relationshipTime:Mondays 10am-2pmDates:May 18th, 2009May 25thJune 1stJune 8thJune 15thJune 22ndJune 29thThings to know about wow:• The space will be left exactly as it is found• sos will be donation based and all donations go to wow• sos will bring a projector(s) as needed for workshops• sos is open to anyone in the community who is interested inperformance and technologysospc1.pdf

Crossing the Line 2009 Press Launch

Posted by Marlon Barrios Solano on June 2, 2009 at 7:53pm

Thank you! I won't be able to go! Very important to know about! Crossing the Line 2009 Press Launch Thursday, June 4 at 12pm Le Skyroom, FIAF Performing shopping, watching sounds, composing films, or reading movements... Crossing the Line 2009 promises a chance for audiences to join in exploring and tasting a unique collection of outstanding new works and experiences. Initiated, conceived, and produced by FIAF (French Institute Alliance Française) in partnership with leading New York cultural institutions, Crossing the Line is an inter-disciplinary contemporary arts festival presenting vibrant new works by a diverse range of artists working in France and New York City. Please join us for the start of a wonderful adventure as we introduce the program for Crossing the Line 2009: September 12-October 4, 2009. Co-curators Lili Chopra (Artistic Director at FIAF) and Simon Dove (Director, School of Dance at Arizona State University), will present the program for CTL09 with select partners and artists, and answer any questions. Partner institutions for CTL09 will include: Anthology Film Archives, the Baryshnikov Arts Center (BAC), Dance Theater Workshop (DTW), Danspace Project, Omnivore, Performance Space 122 (P.S. 122), and the Whitney Museum, among others. Refreshments will be provided by the Omnivore "brigade". Kindly RSVP by June 1 Camille Lebert Loiret clebert-loiret@fiaf.org / 646 388 6621 Venue: Le Skyroom, FIAF 22 East 60th Street (between Park and Madison) For information on Crossing the Line 2008, visit: fiaf.org/events/fall2008/2008-09-crossing-the-line.shtml

Master in Performing Arts Practice and Visual Culture/ Master en Prácticas Escénicas y Cultura Visual

Posted by Aula de Danza. CENAH on June 2, 2009 at 10:44am

The objective of this program is to open research spaces for artists, theoreticians and pedagogues, creating an autonomous field of work and research methodologies adequate to the performing arts specificity.Participants: Rolf Abderhalden, La Ribot, Juan Loriente, Óskar Gómez, Bojana Kunst, André Lepecki, Bojana Cvejic, Isabel de Naverán, José A. Sánchez, Óscar Cornago, Hans Thies Lehman, Gurur Ertem, Eugene van Erben, Janec Janza and others.Starting: 1 OctoberInscriptions: July 2009Master_en_Prácticas_Escénicas_y_Cultura_Visual.pdfEl objetivo de este programa es abrir espacios de investigación para artistas, teóricos y pedagogos, creando un campo autónomo de trabajo y metodologías de investigación adecuadas a la especificidad de las artes escénicas.Participantes: Rolf Abderhalden, La Ribot, Juan Loriente, Óskar Gómez, Bojana Kunst, André Lepecki, Bojana Cvejic, Isabel de Naverán, José A. Sánchez, Óscar Cornago, Hans Thies Lehman, Gurur Ertem, Eugene van Erben, Janec Janza and others.Fecha de inicio: 1 OctubreInscripciones: Julio 2009

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