WANTED: 3 FEMALE ACTORS with movement skills or DANCERS with acting skills, 

FOR ELENA BAJO'S PERFORMANCE AT FORT DU BRUISSIN, LYON (FRANCE) 11th and 13th of September, within the framework of the Lyon Biennial

-3 female actors (the performance will be in French)  to be a part of an experimental piece, outside of the 'comfort zone' in an art exhibition space in Lyon

DESCRIPTION

The piece is created by Elena Bajo, a visual artist who has exhibited internationally and focuses on the social, political aspects of the site in the city of Lyon. Bajo combines performance with large scale installations to investigate the political and social conditions of change in post-industrial structures, creating site specific work and a space of collective action.

The performers will be required to perform in the space of Fort du Bruissin (Lyon). They will be required to do both improvised and choreographed script/movements determined before hand with the artist. The generator of the piece is a political text/poem. This political text-manifesto will be handed to the performers and it will be used to generate their individual script/choreography. Total duration of the performance around 20 min. 

REHEARSALS

2  days, 1 hour/day individual work with the artist and 1 day (1 hour) run-through in the space with all the performers

If you are interested in this project please send me an email to elena@elenabajo.com  including a web link where I can see your work and a brief bio/cv. Express briefly why you want to participate in the project. You will be contacted by email to proceed forward. If you don't have a link to video online let me know and I would send you a text fragment to prepare something short 1-2 min that you could record in Skype or video camera or iphone.

You will receive  dvd video footage and photos of the performance as well as credits on the program.  The greatest reward of this project lies in that you're interested in the experience. This is an event widely advertised and expected to be a good exposure.

More information about Elena Bajo’s work you can find in her webpage: www.elenabajo.com

Introducción: Arte, Cuerpo, Tecnología Aproximación a un Panorama Actual Latinoamericano" from Caída Libre on Vimeo.

ABTRACT 

Art, Body and Technology: an overview of current approaches from Latin America

By: Brisa MP (Chile)

The presentation aims to make a brief tour of the current state of the art of the production that articulates the human body and the technology in the fields of dance and performance. This tour offers a mapping of various levels of production, such as artists, work of art , theoretical production, collaboration networks, research in Latin American festivals and an analysis of the general situation in the region.

No doubt that the art-technology development in Latin America has been largely led by artists from the visual arts. In this scope we can see that the performative arts are not far behind, while its approach to science and technology has been happening slowly, it is now possible to recognize several projects developed in our region. These projects constitute a network of performances, educational and outreach that have shaped a recognizable set between dance-performance and technological mediation.

Moreover, the state of the art makes evident conceptual, aesthetic and economic problems, it proposes new ways of collaborative creation, instances of intercultural exchange and training that have allowed local development of projects pushing the boundaries of traditional Dance and Performance Art territories.

Meanwhile It is recognized that in Latin America a first approach to the relationship between dance and technology, comes from the videodance production, in which the initial scenic event moved to digital imaging and the screen. This is evident in several countries, making it visible a second state of the dance-performance and technology exploring more complex technical and aesthetic structures therefore presenting unequal levels of development in the countries of the region.

http://www.caidalibre.cl/

http://abierta.cl/isea2013/brisamp.html

Ben Riepe's Hundstage was the first project to be premiered within the framework of modul-dance. It was acclaimed by audiences and the media alike.

This piece, for seven performers, deals with existential questions: What is left when what is real presents itself in all its artificially? When does the cynical distance to the world lose its protective smile?

Ben J. Riepe has created complex arrangements, which are defined by, on the one hand, a precise choreographic management of space, time and movement and, on the other, by the individual improvisational creativity of the performers.

www.benjriepe.com

The italian choreographer Luca Silvestrini lives and works in London and leads the company Protein. "Border Tales" is the title of his modul-dance project, with which Silvestrini explores the idea of migration. Interview done during a research period at Graner, in Barcelona.

More videos on Numeridanse.tv

Hello Everybody,

on our new issue you can find (among other things) an interview with Bojana Bauer and an essay by Monica Gillette describing her vision on the similarities between dramaturgy and film editing.

you can also upload information regarding workshops, performances etc.

Ma'akaf - online magazine for performance

best,

Lior

Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies 36.2
Sept. 2010: 89-102

Malabou, Plasticity, and the Sculpturing of the Self
Hugh J. Silverman
Department of Philosophy
Stony Brook University, U.S.A

Abstract
In What Shall We Do With Our Brain? (2004), French philosopher Catherine
Malabou returns to the traditional philosophical mind-body problem (we do not
experience our mind as a “brain”) and introduces the concept of a difference or
“split” between our brain as a hard material substance and our consciousness of
the brain as a non-identity. Malabou speaks of the brain’s plasticity, a term
which stands between (as a kind of deconstructive “indecidable”) flexibility
and rigidity, suppleness and solidity, fixedness and transformability, identity
and modifiability, determination and freedom. This means seeing the brain no
longer as the “center” and “sovereign power” of the body—as it has been seen
for centuries, at least in the West—but as itself a locus and process of selfsculpting (self-forming) and transdifferentiation, as being very closely interconnected with the rest of the body. Malabou also speaks of our own
potential to sculpt or “re-fashion” ourselves, and (by further extension) to reform our society through trans-differentiating into new and potentially freer, more open and more democratic socio-political forms. In this bold project
Malabou still remains close to her Hegelian roots, and she is also influenced by
Merleau-Ponty’s notion of the body-subject and Nancy’s alter-mondialisation
(other-worlding) as an alternative to globalization.

Keywords
brain, plasticity, non-identity, self-decentering, transdifferentiation, entre-deux
altermondialisation, sculpting the self, Hegel, phenomenology

For the rest of the doc go to: http://www.concentric-literature.url.tw/issues/M/5.pdf

The Hartel Dance Group and I have been invited to perform at The Brincos International Dance Festival in Guatemala next month. We launched a kickstarter to help get us there, please check it out!

http://kck.st/1a0tTHt

Great documentation  about the meeting  that gathered

The conscious body: an interdisciplinary dialogue. Paris 8 5-7 October 2012

See documentation here:

http://theconsciousbodymeeting.wordpress.com/media/

This workshop proposed a meeting place for two communities who have been investigating the nature of consciousness in, possibly radically, different perspectives. Over the past half a century (and especially over the last 15 years) cognitive scientists and neuroscientists have been studying the nature and neural basis of our phenomenological ‘subjective’ experience of the world, our own body and action and ultimately our selves.  This research has employed traditional paradigms and scientific protocols of experimental (neuro)psychology as well as the emerging technology  of human functional brain imaging  (fMRI, EEG, MEG, TMS, intracranial recordings). Though most of the research on the topic has taken the traditional   “third person perspective”, the intimately subjective nature of this topic has led scientists to integrate subjective reports into their experimental paradigms.

The study of consciousness and awareness using subjective (first person) phenomenological tools has been a central occupation within post-modern dance and related somatic techniques  since  at least the 1960′s. Despite the shared topic of interest, there has been little cross-talk between neuroscientist and dance makers .We believe that such dialogue is possible and that it has the potential to cross-fertilize the research in both domains. For this purpose we have organized this weekend long workshop. The workshop will be organized in 3 blocks, each highlighting a specific dimension of inquiry (shared by both domains). Each block will consist of a presentation of cutting edge research in the field of cognitive neuroscience, followed by a movement practice led by a dance/somatic practitioner addressing the same general issues. Finally, each block will end with an open, informal discussion.  The workshop will start with a live dance performance and will end with a poster session which will allow for non-presenting workshop members to share their ongoing dance/scientific
research.

http://theconsciousbodymeeting.wordpress.com/media/

Friday 5 October 2012 – Studio Keller
1. Arrival and introduction
2. Myriam Gourfink – “The Breathing Monster”

Saturday 6 October 2012 – Paris-8 University
Body awareness and the self (1)
3. Erik Myin
4. Lisa Nelson
Body awareness and the self (2)
5. Steve Paxton

Sunday 7 October 2012 – Paris-8 University
Consciousness of movement, movement of consciousness
6. Aaron Schurger
7. Eva Karczag

Sunday afternoon presentations
8. Konstantina Georgelou
9. Florence Daupias d’Alcochete
10. Christophe Lopez
11. Emilie Gallier
12. Frédéric Bevilacqua
13. Joachim Forget
14. Luciana Cheregati & Ibon Salvador – “coletivo qualquer”
15. Malcolm Manning
16. Iris Trinkler
17. Suzanne Cotto
18. Natalie Heller

Seeley-MovGestMean13.pdf

Duets

TEST

meta-academy@Bates 2013 presents:

MINDED MOTION

an online lab exploring embodiment and co-creation on the internet using Nancy Stark Smith’s Underscore and other moving ideas.

Facilitated by Marlon Barrios Solano and Rachel Boggia

                  Photo by Raisa Kyllikki Karjalainen 

How can embodied knowledge be shared and deepened through the internet?  What unique forms of collaborative learning and creative activity might the internet offer?

MINDED MOTION, a 3 week pilot program for meta-academy.org, is a collaborative co-learning lab that will address these questions. Lab participants will use free internet-based tools to creatively explore questions about embodiment, training and memory, composition, and politics of the body. They will also explore how to translate embodied practices onto the internet. The lab will be structured around Nancy Stark Smith’s Underscore, an approach improvisational dance/movement that she has been developing for over 30 years, which she will be teaching at Bates Dance Festival July 22-August 10 2013.

Screenshot from video interview An Emergent Undersore on dance-tech.tv

Lab Details:

• The lab activities include: embodied activities, guest lectures, small creative projects using online tools to explore a pool of written and video resources, threaded discussions, and online synchronous video encounters (video chats).
• The time commitment is 4-8 hours per week for 3 weeks spanning July 22-August 10 2013.
• The lab is offered FREE of charge and uses free internet-based tools aggregated through google+.
• The lab is open to all interested dance, movement and multimedia artists, teachers, scholars researchers, journalists, writers and more.
• Benefits of participation include: increased understanding of on-line collaboration, increased literacy in internet-based creative tools, exposure to core principles of Nancy Stark Smith’s teaching, membership in a strong intellectual and creative community, and much more.
• The language of facilitation and presentation is English.
• If interested in participating, contact marlon@dance-tech.net by July 18, 2013.

How it works:

• EMBODIED ACTIVITY Each week, on-line participants focus on something that Nancy is teaching in her course at the Bates Dance Festival. For example, Nancy Stark Smith or the lab facilitators might share a score for solo movement or a compositional exercise through video or text directions. Lab participants will try the exercise at the beginning of each week.
• ONLINE CREATIVITY Each week, the lab facilitators will suggest online creative activities for the lab participants related to the embodied activity. These might include: blogging, micro-blogging, video mashups, screendances, online editing, collaborative writing and editing, collaborative curation of images and videos, playlist essays, mind and conceptual mapping, collaborative word cloud. All participants will be credited as collaborators.All material produced in this lab is available for remixing and mashup and it is delivered with a Creative Commons Licenses.
• GUEST LECTURES/LIVE CHAT Each week, lab participants will meet in a Google+ hangout to hear a short lecture by a guest expert on a topic such as body politics/theory, composition, or training. All lab participants, Nancy Stark Smith, and the expert will then discuss the topicand debrief about the week’s activities. Guest lectures are listed below. Hangout times will be announced soon. The video from this encounter will be archived and made available and become part of the creative assets of the projects.
• RESOURCE POOL Supplemental resources such as readings, images, and videos will be made 
• available to– and editable by– participants.
• ONLINE FORUM A forum moderated by Dr. Hannah Kosstrin will allow lab participants to discuss concepts, activities and resources.
• SUPPORT Lab facilitators will be available every day for conceptual and technical assistance.

Word cloud of the text of this page created with www.wordle.net/

Roles and participation:

Everyone in the lab is considered a co-creator and is valued as an artist and designer of the shared experience. Therefore, we propose the following structure, but are open to shifts and feedback.

Lab co-facilitators suggesting structure for lab experience, available for consultation:

• Marlon Barrios Solano (dance-tech/HZT Berlin)
• Rachel Boggia (Bates College)

Core expert providing core content and consult on structure:

• Nancy Stark Smith

Guest experts providing specific content through lectures and discussions in Google Hangouts:

• W. P. Seeley (Philosophy and Cognitive Science/ Bates College, USA)
• Corinne Jola, (Dance and Neuroscience, NSERM/CEA in Gif-sur-Yvette/Paris.)
• Bertha Bermudez (Dance Researcher/ICKAmsterdam, The Netherlands)
• Norah Zuniga-Shaw (aance and technology, composition, critical theories of the body  | Associate Professor @ The Ohio State University)
• Bojana Kunst (Dance and performance theorist/Giessen University, Germany)
• Susan Kozel (Philosophy and Phenomenology of the Body/Malmo University, Sweden)
• Hannah Kosstrin ( Resident Scholar @ Bates Dance Festival 2013 and Visiting Assistant Professor @ Reeds College, USA)

Lab participants: participating in Lab activities, produce creative projects, consulting on structure:

• You!
• LIMITED TO 50 PARTICIPANTS
•  INTERESTED/QUESTIONS: marlon@dance-tech.net

meta-academy@Bates 2013 is the first pilot of the project meta-academy.org conceived by Marlon Barrios Solano with the partial yet crucial  support of:

• ICKAmsterdam, The Netherlands
• STEIM, The Netherlands
• DanceDigital, UK
• Mount Tremper Arts, USA
• Rachel Boggia, Bates College, USA
• Laura Faure, Bates Dance Festival, USA
• HZT Berlin, Germany
• MaryAnn Sanford, Peaks Island, USA

All material produced in this lab is available for remixing and mashup and it is delivered with a a Creative Common License.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License.

A dance doccie by dance filmmaker Jeannette Ginslov (Teaser)

"Birgitte Skands: At rejse er at leve...at leve er at danse..." * (2013)

Original film 52'00.
*trans. "To travel is to live... to live is to dance..."

A documentary with
Dancer/Choreographer
Birgitte Skands

With gratitude and respect I wish to thank
all my mentors and teachers who have
inspired me in my life and dance expression
in Denmark New York City, Salvador Bahia, Brazil
and Senegal

Music
A la Hongroise: Kim Sjøgren

Live recordings with Musicians of Bougarabou Ballet
Sali Senegal

Traditional Berimbau Music

Direction
Jeannette Ginslov

Interview
Jeannette Ginslov

Camera, Edit, Fx & Sound
Jeannette Ginslov

Location
Hellerup Beach
Copenhagen
Denmark

Video produced by
Walking Gusto Productions
© 2013

http://JeannetteGinslov.com

INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION PARADISO senses+spaces

at JULIDANS FESTIVAL AMSTERDAM

7th-8th July from 18h00 until 20h00

at Theater Bellevue

The interactive Installation PARADISO senses+spaces will be presented at the international Dance festival Julidans.

PARADISO is a series of two interactive dance films. Its two levels, "senses" and "spaces," address sensory awareness and kinesthetic learning. Dancer and choreographer Bertha Bermudez (Amsterdam), her filmmaker Maite Bermudez (Barcelona) and media artist and director Chris  Ziegler expand cinematic experience into physicality and deliver an artistic review on the present hype surrounding 3D cinema. The film was shot in the eternal ice of the Arctic and Antarctic, in the deserts of Africa and in other inhospitable parts of the world.

In the first level of PARADISO - "senses" - the viewer is "touched" by the dancer’s movement. Force feedback sensors with electroactive polymers and a custom-built 4D chair give tactile feedback on the skin of the viewer. Image, sound, wind and evaporated perfumes activate almost all the senses: sight, hearing, touch and smell.

PARADISO’s second level - "spaces" - connects the viewer’s kinesphere to  the camera of the film. Watching the dancer’s movements in the film leads the viewer into the movement of the camera’s viewing angle. In an expansion of Vertov's mental montage in early 20th century filmmaking, the viewer of PARADISO generates an interactive physical montage.

PARADISO is the last phase of the film project film trilogy IMAGINED DANTE by Las Negras Productions, Imagined Hell, Imagined Purgatory and Imagined Paradiso.  This project is inspired by choreographers Emio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten and their Dante's trilogy, Inferno, Purgatorio and you Para | Diso.

With support from The Amsterdam International Choreographic Arts Center ICK/Emio Greco | PC (NL) and Flying Elephant Foundation - Gregory Colbert (USA/FR), city council of Munich, Muffathalle Munich and Center for Art and Media ZKM Karlsruhe.

New Deadline II Submissions for POOL 13 are still possible until July 14th!

Find more information and the application form here.

POOL is a festival and competition for films that showcase the several diversities of movements and create a new piece of art through the combination of various techniques in dance and film.

Proposal Deadline: 1st October 2013

Theme and Context:

Any good shows on in Amsterdam from June 25 - mid July?

Let me know!

From 4th to 8th September 2013: Costa Contemporánea

Contemporary Dance and Performing Arts Festival

- CÍA WEICKERT: 'Días  Pasan Cosas'

- CÍA COBOSMIKA

- JORDI CORTÉS

- MICHELLE MAN y JAMES HEWSION: 'Lightouch'

- JANET NOVAS: 'Who will save me today?

- ANUSKA ALONSO: 'Quando Corpus'

- CHEVI MURADAY: 'Contrarios Comunes'

- CÍA ÁLVARO FRUTOS: 'Bengala'

- SANDRA ANTÓN: 'Sombras de resiliencia clown'

- JAVIER BARANDIARAN: 'Pepinos podridos (en el frigo)'

- FÉLIX ARJONA: 'MedioLleno'

Workshops: 

- Conntemporary dance with Jordi Cortés (AltaRealitat) , Olga Cobos and Peter Mika (CobosMika)

- Videodance/Screendance/Filmdance with La Ignorancia dance film music

+info: Costa Contemporánea

Página Web - Facebook  - Twitter 

See video:

http://www.dance-tech.net/video/costa-contempor-nea-2013

Watch documentation of  talks here

I am honored to be able to aggregate and present the video documentation of he 1st. International Conference on “Multimodal Communication: Language, Performance and Digital Media” that was organized in the framework of TKB – A Transmedia Knowledge-Base For Performing Arts research project conclusion (http://tkb.fcsh.unl.pt)

It was  aimed to: present the results and software tools developed during the TKB project; provide a multidisciplinary forum for researchers from different disciplines and artists interested in the documentation of Performing Arts (with a focus on contemporary theatrical dance and Performance), as well as in issues of multimodality in human communication and in human-computer interaction, particularly regarding video annotation tools and collaborative platforms for cultural heritage.

The event wished to bring together contemporary artists and researchers from a broad range of academic disciplines, working within different theoretical and methodological paradigms in a creative, internationally oriented, and stimulating atmosphere. The importance of multimodal communication and creativity is now generally recognised by researchers from either the Humanities, Information Technologies or Cognitive Science. This conference has therefore offered an opportunity to present and learn about research findings concerning human behaviour and agency in different types of communication and their cognitive, cultural, narrative, technological, social, textual or discourse functions.

It was organized by the FCSH and the FCT of Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal, and has taken place at the CCB, Lisbon, from the 2nd to the 3rd May 2013.

Keynote speakers:
Sally Jane Norman (Attenborough Centre for Creative Arts, Sussex: UK)
Charles Forceville (Universiteit van Amsterdam, NL)
Irene Mittelberg, Aachen University

Organization: FCSH/CLUNL (www.fcsh.unl.pt) and FCT-UNL: Interactive Multimedia Group (www.fct.unl.pt)

TKB Project Supporters:

Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
O Espaço do Tempo (Transdisciplinary Arts Centre)
Centro Cultural de Belém
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Atelier Re.Al, Lisbon
Rumo do Fumo, Lisbon

For more than 20 years, the International Theatre Festival Malta has been a melting pot of traditions, themes and forms. The distinctive feature of the festival is the fusion of concerts of international stars, experimental shows, small projects in the city space and discussions with scholars.

Poznań will host from the 24th of June to the 20th of July a new edition of the Malta Festival, where contemporary dance is always present. A representation of the modul-dance project will be concentrated in a few days of the most innovative choreography. Anne Juren will present Tableaux Vivants (25 June) and Magali Milian and Romuald Luydlin, members of La Zampa their Spekies (27 June). Polish audience will have the chance to discover one of the artists selected in 2012, An Kaler who will perform On Orientations/Untimely Encounters twice in the same day (26 June).

Marie-Caroline Hominal and Sofia Dias & Vítor Roriz, modul-dance selected artists, are too part of the programme with other titles, Bat (26 June) and A gesture that is nothing but a threat (28 June), respectively.

All the shows will take place at Stary Browar, home of the Art Stations Foundation Poznań, one of the modul-dance partners.

http://malta-festival.pl/en/