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— Carmelo Negro (@CarmeloNegro) November 6, 2013

The Italian artist Alessandro Sciarroni was selected for the modul-dance project after being proposed by Centro per la Scena Contemporanea Bassano del Grappa. Here, an interview with him during the research process of his project: UNTITLED_I will be there when you die.

Interview with Alessandro Sciarroni from Modul-dance on Vimeo.

There are a couple places left for the Experiential Anatomy series I have been invited to teach:

Saturday November 9, 16, and 23
from 2-3:30 pm

at The Construction Company
10 East 18th Street, 3rd floor, NYC

There is a maximum of 8 participants so that each person can receive individual attention.

Fee of $50 for all three sessions.

Our investigations of structure and energy will uncover new ways of understanding, releasing and toning core, low back, rotation of the legs–and much more–with a variety of sequencing including core to periphery, head to toe, and from the ground up. The specific needs of attendees will be intrinsic to our focus.

Please let me know if you have any questions and feel free to pass this on to colleagues and/or clients.

Call for Applications for Residency
dance-techAIR@Lake Studios Berlin
www.lakestudiosberlin.com

January  2014
(1 month period)

1st dance-tech artist in residency in Berlin offers to international interdisciplinary movement and media artists the possibility to live and make art in a peaceful artist run working, living and performance space in Berlin, Germany.

The artists will enjoy the recently opened Lake Studios Berlin, a unique living and creative working space with fast connection into the exciting creative center of Berlin and with the advantage of the quiet and beauty of Mueggelsee lake and a forest at only 5 minute walk for depth concentration on research and creative process.

The resident artist will enjoy a private apartment and access to a dance space with sprung wooden floors. Lake Studios Berlin is primarily a working space for 8 diverse movement artists with the need to go deeper into their work and practice. It is an experience of collaborative living and creation, and the resident will have the opportunity of artistic exchange as well as access to inside information about the dance scene in Berlin.

INCLUDES:

• The resident artist will have access to 100 hours of studio space per month, divided between the large and small Studios.
• The residency includes three hours of remote online coaching with Marlon Barrios Solano.
• There is a possibility to teach classes, workshops and / or organize a performance or work-in-progress showing at the end of the residency period.
• The artists will be featured  and should blog about their process on dance-tech.net for the months of the residency.
• The artist also may decide to use dance-tech.tvLIVE channels to share the  process of exchange with the community.

NOTE: the selected artist brings his/her own equipment. The residency  does not provide any equipment. 

There is one projector available in the big space.

The selected artists will pay his/her transportation expenses and will pay 500 Euros per month.

Artists, scholars and practitioners can apply for the residency. Their practice and research should relate to the  topical themes (not exclusive):

New media and performance

Movement practices  and economy

Improvisation and real time systems

Screen-dance  and movement based installation

Choreographic scores and new media tools (generative tools)

Movement, somatics and technology

Mobile devices, locative media and choreography

Social media  and trans-local collaborations

Contemplative practices and movement

Application Process:

The applicants must be a dance-tech member where you write you bio  and profile.

Please send an email including:

1.-Your research goals

2.-What would you like to work on and if you would like to offer master classes, workshops, etc.

3.-Two samples of you work posted on your dance-tech account (urls)

Send it via email to Marlon Barrios Solano @ <marlon@dance-tech.net>

IMPORTANT:

write in the email subject: dance-tech Berlin

Deadline for application: November 25, 2013. We will let you know by December 3 about the decision.

Note: this residency is conceived as an independent collaboration between dance-tech and Lake Studios Berlin as a way to generate alternative and affordable spaces for independent artists and creative researchers.

Highlights of Berlin  (not officially related to the residency):

From January 4 - 14, there is a well known Berlin Dance Festival taking place in Sophiensaele called Tanztage. (www.tanztage.de)

From  Wed 29 Jan - Sun 2 Feb 2014 the new media festival and conference Transmediale 2014 

From  January 24 – February 2, 2014 the fun electronic music festival CTM – Festival for Adventurous Music and Arts

Questions?

marlon@dance-tech.net

A key point for CODA and the research-creation team Époque_Poulin
For the first time in our life, we make today an open call through the Indiegogo social media to collect funds as to be able to reach the summit of our digital dance film CODA, NoBody dance: the Rite of Spring.

We are involved with ideas, time, money and a lot of energy in that making since 2005. Today, we need some financial support on your part as to perfecting this pioneer film the way it has to be as to become a leading one. We wait for you on the site http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/coda-nobody-dance-an-entrancing-21st-century-digital-dance-rite-of-spring-film. We thank you in advance for your interest and contribution.

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/coda-nobody-dance-an-entrancing-21st-century-digital-dance-rite-of-spring-film/x/4851049

Martine and Denis, October 31th, 2013

SÂLMON< festival starts its second edition. Mercat de les Flors and Graner remain committed to talent, to creators with new proposals, artists with fresh ideas, European and, sometimes, going against the current. A look at local and international artists in the framework of the artistic residencies offered by Graner, centre for dance creation and the European modul-dance project. A busy programme of events lasting two weeks, with different formats and diverse approaches to the body and movement.

The festival, that will take place from October the 19th to November the 3rd, offers a look at international creations linked to the modul-dance project. The Loose Collective will open the festival with a concert-performance about the Old Testament. Other artists who were in residence at Graner while creating their shows will be presented during SÂLMON

SÂLMON< aims to consolidate itself as a space that gives visibility to different ways of understanding choreography. The festival includes shows, laboratories for professionals, spaces for reflection and spaces for meetings with the public.

More information: www.salmon-dance.com

After four years research into the creation of digital dance scores with guest choreographers, the Motion Bank project of The Forsythe Company will conclude Phase One with a presentation of results both live and on-line and proposals for the future.

LIVE & ONLINE 2013
28 NOVEMBER TO 1 DECEMBER
FRANKFURT LAB
Schmidtstrasse 12, Frankfurt am Main


Live & OnLine will begin Thursday evening 28 November at 7 pm with a first public presentation of the on-line Motion Bankmaterials of guest choreographers Jonathan Burrows & Matteo Fargion, Bebe Miller and Thomas Hauert, alongside an updated version of Deborah Hay’s website ‘Using the Sky’ first presented in June 2013 at Tanzkongress, Düsseldorf. Additionally, on Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings, ZOO/ Thomas Hauert will present the German Premiere of MONO. 

Friday through Sunday activities are organised to support a fluid exchange of ideas and approaches to the creation and use of the new Motion Bank materials alongside related choreographic resources published by a growing Community of Practice (see:http://motionbank.org/en/content/research). Key individuals working with these projects have been invited to join the Motion Bankteam members to take part in and contribute to workshops, Q&A and public discussion during the days. Also planned is a major platform for dance students from Frankfurt, Dresden and Berlin to share the results of their research into applications of these resources. 

More information soon under: http://motionbank.org/en/event/live-online-2013

There is no attendance fee for the conference.
We kindly ask you to register for the conference by writing to registration@theforsythecompany.de with the subject-header “conference registration”. 

The performances of MONO cost Fri. & Sat. € 29 / € 14,50 – Sun. € 26 / € 13
Tickets must be purchased through the Städtischen Bühnen Frankfurt under the number 
+49 (0) 69 212 49494 or go to  www.theforsythecompany.com

CHOREOGRAPHIC CODING: A MOTION BANK LAB
26-29 November 2013
Z Zentrum für Proben und Forschung
Schmidtstrasse 12, Frankfurt am Main

Running in parallel with Live & OnLine, Choreographic Coding explores how to translate aspects of dance and choreography into digital form, one of the main goals of Motion Bank. This is a laboratory for 'code savvy' practitioners with expertise in digital media practice, e.g. video, graphics, programming.  Teams combining different skill sets including dance and choreography are encouraged to apply. 
For more information and to register for the lab: 
http://motionbank.org/en/event/motion-bank-laboratory

In September 2011 Anne Juren and Roland Rauschmeier wrote the following text regarding their experience within the modul-dance project. They have developed the project entitled Tableaux Vivants, where the art forms interweave and allow hybrid relations to develop between the paintings, sculptures and videos and the bodies of the performers.

Within the frame of the modul-dance project, we worked in three different locations (Faro/Portugal, Poznań/Poland and Ljubljana/Slovenia) on the conceptualisation, ideal configuration and technical translation of our idea for Tableaux Vivants.

During our stay in Faro, the composer Johannes Maria Staud gave us a compilation of his works based on the suite Berenice so that we could take some initial decisions on the choice of music. We also developed a comprehensive mind map that included socio-historic facts, artists and relevant eras for our performance. The southern atmosphere and some very pleasant and spacious studios made Faro an ideal place to work and make an in-depth study of concepts and ideas in a relaxed way.

In Poznań we analysed our artistic stance in the context of plastic and performance arts so that we could establish the underlying structure of the piece. We decided to develop five thematic groups on Europe’s cultural development, using an approach that spanned several, bringing them together in terms of space and performance set-up.

To do so, we stuck to the time sequence of the themes, starting with the wall paintings of Lascaux caves and moving on to the origins of central perspective in the Renaissance and the optimistic abundance of the Baroque. In the fourth part of our artistic research we hit upon the idea of reinterpreting the Oskar Schlemmer and Bauhaus Triadic ballet. The last part tackles the problems of giving today’s artistic output validity and meaning in relation to the media cannons and their inherent evaluation. The choice of each cultural era is tied to personal experiences, such as a trip to Lascaux or extensive research into the influence that Bauhaus has had on the artistic development of Juren and Rauschmeier.

In Ljubljana, during a relatively initial stage of the project’s conception, we were able to work on the lighting for the definitive performance. This allowed us to dedicate more time to experiment with the inclusion of several media and genres with our performers.

We also made the final musical selection, by this point Staud had already made four versions. We would like to emphasise Johannes Maria Staud’s openness and interest in our work and how he adapted to our – ever changing – way of creating. From a musical perspective he accompanied and complemented the development of the piece. In the woodlands around Ljubljana we organised a photographic session in which we researched the "Bauhaus party” of 1924. This session also led to a number of videos and important ideological considerations for future projects.

In short, without the modul-dance project, we wouldn’t have had access to the conditions and resources necessary to create Tableaux Vivants. We hope to be able to bring our performance to as many project participants as possible!

Picture: © Angela Bedekovic

Contemporary Performance Network is publishing a book called Contemporary Performance Almanac 2013! It will be a compendium of contemporary performance presented during the 2012/2013 season that is available for touring. This is a network funded book (crowdfunded from our network of 4700 artists from 81 countries). The book will be published in January and mailed to international presenters who are looking to invite touring work. So often presenters do not have access to the work of artists that are outside the touring circuit. Contemporary Performance sees a need to give access to both artists and presenters to find each other and start new working relationships. We need 100 artists and or companies to join to be able to produce the book. It will be about 120 page perfect bound book with each artist receiving a full page image and a full page listing that includes:

• Artist/Company Name
• Work Title
• Description
• Artist Statement
• Production History
• Contact information.

Fill out the form after the link if you are interested and we will contact you when we have reached our goal. Each artist company will pitch in US$50 to help publish the book. 

Here is the link to fill out the form.

http://contemporaryperformance.com/2013/09/25/opportunities-publish-your-20122013-work-in-the-contemporary-performance-almanac/

An Kaler will be presenting Insignificant Others (learning to look sideways) on 16th of October 2013 at RMNSC Krakow and on 22nd of October 2013 at STUK Leuven.

What are ways of distributing, or partitioning, or fragmenting presence when being together?

Insignificant Others examines the Tableaux as a shifting structure that diplays the process of the performers co-operating in modes of conducting, structuring and shifting a shared topography of physical presence and absence in fragmented cycles of movements.

The performers are as spectres and carriers of ambiguous images, still and fluctuating. A series of discontinuous but interconnected still postures that make images and situations between the performers but never quite build a shared narrative. Rather than a dramaturgy of determination, the artists are simultaneously working alone together as if in a field of energy that needs careful management, redistribution and direction, here they are making a dance out of the reabsorption of this energy field into the bodies of the empty space, themselves and the perception of audience. Harboured in that which is deemed unaffirmative pure potential is what is performed.

Picture: © Eva Würdinger

The second part of CoFestival will take place between 21 and 27 September 2013. This second round of the festival organized by Kino Šiška Ljubljana will be launched by the 3D film PINA by the German cineaste Wim Wenders, a sensitive homage to the unforgettable dancer and choreographer Pina Bausch. The film will be followed by the already traditional FičoDrom, intended for everybody who misses opportunities to dance.

Programme highlights include the first public presentation of Jurij Konjar’s piece Still (23 Sep at 9pm, Kino Šiška), the show Au contraire (based on Jean-Luc Godard) by the prize-winning Geneva-based artist Foofwa d’Imobilité (24 Sep at 9pm, Stara mestna Elektrarna), The Seagull directed by Tomi Janežič and produced by Novi Sad Serbian National Theatre (25 Sep and 26 Sep at 6pm, Kino Šiška). All shows will be followed by artist talks.

The Festival also promises the Vertigo dance workshop run by Eduardo Torroja, a member of the renowned Belgian group Ultima Vez, a research-art project of the Frankfurt-based dancer and choreographer Lili Mihajlović, and visiting artist Antje Pfundtner.

During the festival, the daily programme will be complemented by the festival team joined by many international artists having a go at The Art of Co-Living, a programme running in the Museum of Contemporary Arts as part of the Triennial of Contemporary Art.

For detailed information visit www.cofestival.net.

This is the second time that HELLERAU-European Center for the Arts will be putting on show the signature styles of up-and-coming European choreographers. The festival will be presenting both finished works and some which are still being created, with lectures, workshops and a wide range of films rounding off the programme.

The modul-dance projects programmed are:

Marcos Morau/La Veronal, Siena. 13/9/13 - 14/9/13

A woman looks at a Titian painting. A man stands at the door watching the woman look at the paiting. Who sees whom? What is art and how do we look at art? Siena investigates the constant human need for self-observation.

Agata Maszkiewicz, Duel. Work-in-progress showing. 13/9/13 - 14/9/13

Imagine a world in which every conflict is resolved as a duel; every argument is a matter of life and death; every presidential candidate puts their life at risk. In Duel, two dancers face one another and act out a series of confrontations.

Marie-Caroline Hominal, Froufrou. Work-in-progress showing. 19/9/13

The works of Marie-Caroline Hominal revolve around ideas of identity, transformation and anonymity. Her new project Froufrou investigates multiple identities and the question of how these identities are revealed and passed from one person to another.

Patricia Apergi/Aerites Dance Company, Planites. 20/9/13 - 21/9/13

The collective mind and body of the city provides the raw materials for the this work. Here, these elements have been re-evaluated so that the concept of wandering aimlessly in the streets (drifting) also applies to strangers, immigrants, people who travel for pleasure or because they have no other choice. This is a very physical dance, full of emotion.

The modul-dance artists Antje Pfundtner and Marie-Caroline Hominal will be also performing Tim Acy and BAT. The programme also includes two days of ShortDanceFilms sessions curated by Núria Font-NU2's.

Detailed programm at www.hellerau.org.

Analogic Drowning is a constant attempt of a resuscitative process of bringing back to life a stored and videotaped memory. It is an experimental video art where the original material is used both as an inspiration and final object itself, an intersection of both analogic and digital procedures that carry a sum of errors from the process and convert them into the core of this piece.

While the basic elements of the first action dated from 2003 are still present, they are residual within a 10 year working-in-progress experience approaching video as an artistic medium.

As any other being on the earth we strive to survive, we constantly regenerate from residual primary and basic instincts. We keep trying to have our heads above the water because that’s one of the only things that we can control between life and dead. We keep playing “rewind” in order to move “forward” while we “play”. II . [STOP]

2013

More: http://daniel-pinheiro.tumblr.com/analogicdrowning

4th modul-dance conference What do you want to share with others?Tanzhaus NRW Düsseldorf4-6 September 2013

Three years after the EU project modul-dance has started the directors of almost all dance houses from Europe and more than 50 artists and dance companies meet at Tanzhaus NRW in Düsseldorf. The modul-dance conference concentrates at perspectives of networking and internationally based collaborations. Planned as an “open space”, the conference features a program of lectures, thematic discussion panels, lecture demonstrations, presentations, showings and an ongoing forum. The program is completed by evening performances of modul-dance artists, curated by Tanzhaus nrw.

Click on here to discover the complete programme.

We will be broadcasting LIVE selected talks from an extraordinary gathering!

School of Arts and Department of Computing

Corporeal Computing

Live on dance tech tv

Monday September 2, Tuesday September 3, Wednesday September 4,  2013

WATCH AND PARTICIPATE HERE:

http://dance-tech.tv/videos/dance-techtv-live/

From the program:

We are delighted to welcome all participants to the Corporeal Computing 
conference, co-hosted by the School of Arts and the Computing Department, 
University of Surrey.
Increasingly, human-computer systems involve the capture and interpreting of 
motion in high-level 3+D environments, for more embodied interfacing across a 
number of social and cultural settings. This digitized form of ‘physical thinking’ 
bears upon a number of emergent narratives and discourses relating to the 
performance and performativity of body-machine systems. This conference 
brings together computer scientists, cultural theorists, digital media artists 
and artists in the movement arts (dance, theatre and digital music), to discuss 
the use of motion responsive and motion-calculative systems in digital live 
performance. 
We have put together an exciting programme of papers, demonstrations, 
forums, and performances, with world-leading practitioners and scholars. The 
event is a truly international gathering, with participants from over fifteen 
countries.

Organisers:
Nicolas Salazar Sutil, School of Arts, University of Surrey
Paul Krause, Department of Computing, University of Surrey

WATCH AND PARTICIPATE HERE:

http://dance-tech.tv/videos/dance-techtv-live/

LIVE STREAMING PROGRAM

(UK Times)

HERE TIME ZONE CONVERTERS:

http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/time-zone-converters/

Conference Schedule

Day 1

Monday September 2,

08.30 - 09.30 Registration and Coffee

09:30 - 09:40 Welcome: Phil Powrie (Dean, Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences)

09:40 -10:40 Keynote Presentation by Paul Kaiser (OpenEndedGroup)

10:40 - 11:40 Archaeologies of Digital Performance

Oskar Schlemmer’s programmatic gesture – Sally Jane Norman (University of Sussex)

CODA, a stereoscopic computer choreography after Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring— Martine Epoque and

Denis Poulin (LarTech, Canada)

11:40 -12:00 Coffee Break

12:00 -13:00 Corporealities and Materialities I Placing the body in virtual reality – Sita Popat

(University of Leeds)

Blended bodies and notions of materiality in live-digital dancing – Kerry Francksen (de Montfort

University)

13:00 -14:00 Lunch

14:00 -15:00 Keynote Presentation by Mark Coniglio (Troika Ranch)

15:00 - 16:30 Tools and Technologies I

I-CARE-US – Fernando Nabais (YDreams, Lisbon)

The TKB project: creative technologies for the multimodal annotation of performance composition

and documentation – Stephan Jürgens (New University of Lisbon)

Kinect: organising movement between measuring, calculating and perceiving – Irina Kaldrack

(University of Basel)

16:30 – 16:45 Coffee Break

16:45 - 18:00 Round Table Discussion Mark Coniglio, Paul Kaiser, Kirk Woolford, Tom Calvert (with

Sita Popat)

18:00 - 19:30 BBQ Dinner (venue depending on weather, tbc)

19:30 - 21:00 Live Art Installations/ Performances

Electrode, by Daniel Ploeger (UK), Dance Studio

Moments in Place, by Kirk Woolford (UK/US), various locations

NEX, by Cia Proyecto Uno (Spain), Studio 3

After Ghostcatching, by OpenEndedGroup (Paul Kaiser, US), Studio 2

21:00 Reception

Day 2

Tuesday September 3

09:30 - 10:30 Keynote Presentation by Tom Calvert (Credo Interactive)

10:30 - 10:45 Coffee Break

10:45 - 11:40 Corporealities and Materialities II

Transgressing the sonified body – Daniel Ploeger (Brunel University)

Hacking the body – Camille Baker (Brunel University) and Kate Sicchio (University of Lancaster)

11:40 - 12:30 Gesture and Haptics

Conversation with phones – James Charlton (Auckland University of Technology)

Haptics and particles (demo) –Doros Polydorou (Cyprus University of Technology) and Tychonas

Michailides (Birmingham Conservatoire, Birmingham City University)

12:30 -13:30 Lunch

13:30 - 14:30 Keynote Presentation by Kirk Woolford

14:30 - 15:30 Data, Visualisation, Motion

Modulation in interactive video installation – Nic Sandiland (Middlesex University)

MoveEngine – movement values visualized – Henner Drewes (Folkwang University of the Arts,

Germany)

15:30 - 15:45 Coffee Break

15:45 -16:30 Performance / Lecture Perfect Paul: on freedom of facial expression – Arthur Elsenaar

(Royal Academy of Art- Royal Conservatoire, Netherlands)

16:30 - 17:30 Forum 1 Cyborgs and Ghosts Laura Karreman (Ghent University, Belgium) and Seok Jin

Han (University of Surrey) present and chair

17:30 -19:00 BBQ Dinner (venue depending on weather, tbc)

19:00 - 21:00 Screendance session (Main Theatre)

Structured Light (Short) by Sebastian Melo (Chile)

CODA by Martine Epoque and Denis Poulin (Canada)

Installations:

All day: After Ghostcatching, by OpenEndedGroup (Paul Kaiser, US), Studio 2

21:00 Reception

Day 3

Wednesday September 4,

08:30 - 10:30 Current Approaches in Digital Laban Studies

Panel 1 (8:30)

Intentional and behavioral movement in virtual worlds: A Laban Movement Analysis approach –

Leslie Bishko (Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Canada)

How to make human animation more alive - Viewing human animation through the lens of Laban

Movement Analysis – Sandra Hooghwinkel (Moving Technology, Netherlands)

Panel 2 (9:30)

Movement archaeologies: digging for meaning in new landscapes of movement data – Thecla

Schiphorst (Simon Fraser University), Karen Bradley and Karen Studd (Laban/Bartenieff Institute of

Movement Studies)

Can affective movement be quantified? A Laban-based approach – Sarah Jane Burton, (Sheridan

College, Canada) Ali-Akbar Samadani, Rob Gorbet, Dana Kulic (University of Waterloo, Canada)

10:30 - 10:50 Coffee Break

10:50 - 12:00 Corporealities And Materialities III

Exploring the capacity of embodied, spontaneous interfaces to support creativity – Michael Neff

(University of California-Davis)

Behavioural coding and segmentation: Signifying practice and value production in technology –

Wangi Lee (Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths College)

12:00 -13:00 Lunch

13:00 - 14:00 Forum 2: Digital Feminism Margaret Jean Westby (Concordia University, Canada) and

Legacy Russell (Goldsmiths College) present and chair

14:00 - 14:15 Coffee Break

14:15 - 15:15 Tools And Technologies II

Materialising Acts: Exploring movement data for digital interaction through the Sync application –

Lise Amy Hansen (The Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Norway)

Sensor based motion capture in balletic dance – Corinna Spieth-Hoelzl (Dance Institut, Munich)

16:00 -17:15 Performance (+ Q & A’s with artists):

REACH by Mindbeat 2, Dance Studio

17:15 Coffee

DOWNLOAD CONFERENCE BROCHURE HERE

WATCH AND PARTICIPATE HERE:

http://dance-tech.tv/videos/dance-techtv-live/

Broadcast enabled by dance-tech.tv in collaboration with Digital Computing Conference organized by Nicolas Salazar Sutil, School of Arts, University of Surrey and Paul Krause, Department of Computing, University of Surrey

We’ve been working with Wayne McGregor|Random Dance and OpenEndedGroup on Becoming, an algorithmic “virtual dancer” that grows and evolves in response to emulated mechanical constraints and to a database of film material.

Becoming is currently being used in the studio in the making of Atomos, which premieres in October. Becoming will also be shown as part of the exhibit Thinking with the Body at the Wellcome Collection, opening September 19th.

More info: http://www.cassiel.com/2013/08/29/becoming/.