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In most European countries independent dancers and choreographers lack suitable structures and financial means to develop their creations and promote themselves in front of new audiences.

One significant determinant of quality in dance art creation is the length of time required for the careful preparation and completion of the different phases of the process.

Most independent dance artists and companies receive only limited local subventions for their productions, which are often produced and presented within a very short period of time.

Modul-dance has been created and structured to address artists's needs during their process of creation and allow them to make itineraries across Europe.

Accordingly, the core of the project is the modular system, an organized model of support for dance art, creation and dissemination.

Every participating artist has the opportunity to work with at least 3 different partners while going through 4 module phases:

Research: During a 2-4 week research period, artists are invited to create and/or develop a concept, gather materials, partners and exchange information with the local dance/arts community, looking at locations, venues and political aspects.

Residency: During a period of 3-8 weeks, the selected artists and their artistic collaborators involve themselves in the creation of a new work by exploring their ideas.

Production: Over a fixed period of 4-8 weeks, the selected artists’ full companies, based in a studio, develop and produce the project to get it ready for presentation.

Presentation: The artists premiere and present the piece developed during the project, relating it to an audience.

This systematic approach ensures mobility and new experiences and also a process of dialogue leading to joint decision-making, valuable for the participants’ artistic development and dissemination of their projects.

Click on the names to know more about the 52 modul-dance selected artists.

Agata Maszkiewicz [Poland]

Alessandro Sciarroni [Italy]

Alexandra Waierstall [Cyprus]
An Kaler [Austria]
Angie Hiesl & Roland Kaiser [Germany]
Anita Wach [Poland]
Anne Juren [Austria]
Antje Pfundtner [Germany]
Arno Schuitemaker [The Netherlands]
Ben Duke/Lost Dog [United Kingdom]
Ben Riepe [Germany]
Cláudia Dias [Portugal]
Coraline Lamaison [France]
Daniel Abreu [Spain]
David Wampach [France]
Emma Martin [Ireland]
Eric Minh Cuong Castaing / Cie. Shonen [France]
Eugénie Rebetez [Switzerland]
Fabrice Lambert [France]
Fearghus O'Conchuir [Ireland]
Frauke Requardt [United Kingdom]
Gunilla Heilborn [Sweden]
Hafiz Dhaou and Aicha M'Barek / Cie Chatha [Tunisia/France]
Helena Franzén [Sweden]
Hooman Sharifi [Norway]
Ioannis Mandafounis & May Zarhy [Switzerland/Greece]
Itamar Serussi [Israel/The Netherlands]
Jasmina Križaj [Slovenia]
Jefta van Dinther [Sweden/Germany]
Julia Cima [France]
Jurij Konjar [Slovenia]
Kaori Ito [Japan/Germany]
Leja Jurišić [Slovenia]
Lili M [Slovenia]
Liz Roche [Ireland]
loscorderos [Spain]
Luca Silvestrini / Protein [United Kingdom]
Magali Milian & Romuald Luydlin / La Zampa [France]
Mala Kline [Slovenia]
Marcos Morau / La Veronal [Spain]
Marie-Caroline Hominal [France/Switzerland]
Maud Le Pladec [France]
Patricia Apergi / Aerites Dance Company [Greece]
Perrine Valli [Switzerland/France]
Pia Meuthen [The Netherlands]
Qudus Onikeku [France]
Sofia Dias & Vítor Roriz [Portugal]
Tânia Carvalho [Portugal]
The Loose Collective [Austria]
The Mob [Sweden/Denmark]
Tina Tarpgaard [Denmark]
Tina Valentan [Slovenia]

Since 2008, LARTech is on the way to produce a no body dance film on the music by Igor Stravinsky thanks to grants from SSHRC and FRQSC.

This short dance film (10 min) entitled «CODA, the finale of NoBody dance: The Rite of Spring»  is set on the last part of this music (from phrase 121 to the end) which it aims to commemorate its 1913, May the 29th famous premiere by giving it a .

Motion Captured dance movements represented through various kinds of particles give CODA a XXIst century aesthetic and signature. Evoking dramas that occurred during our modern era, CODA aims to be an ode to life and the Earth.

Extracts of this film will be premiered on the website of SRC television's www.espace.mu/espace-musique/‎ during its Rite of Spring commemoration's week (2013, May 27th to 31th)

Based on artistic criteria, each modul-dance project partner proposed an artist in the three selection processes that have taken place (2010, 2011 and 2012).

All the proposed artists were invited to a meeting with all the partners and artists in order to present their project and see how modul-dance could support the creative process.

The proposed artists became modul-dance selected artists if more than 3 dance house partners were interested in collaborating in their projects.

After three selections, modul-dance now hosts a community of 52 European artists. It offers them a framework to create and present their work, linking diverse proposals, aesthetics and sensibilities under the same umbrella and providing regular interaction and exchange of ideas.

Filmmakers and dancers —

Filmmaker Mitchell Rose and choreographer Bebe Miller are working on a crowd-sourced dance-film project called GLOBE TROT in which 50 filmmaker/dancer pairs around the world teach two seconds of Bebe's choreography to non-dancers on the streets of their respective lands. (Most people can learn two seconds of even moderately complicated dance steps.) They'll send the footage to Mitchell who'll edit it together into a seamless whole. We're looking for collaborators!

Check out the intro video at:

http://www.MitchellRose.com/GlobeTrot/

What we like about this is seeing non-dancers performing sophisticated choreography, a bit awkwardly… but trying their best. And there’s a sense of unity in it -- of the democratization of dance.

We also think this is a fascinating exercise in getting strangers around the world to remotely collaborate in detailed precision.

Would you like to participate? Please sign-up at the website. (Sign-up closes in a few days.)

Thanks very much for considering it.

Cheers...

Mitchell Rose and Bebe Miller

Wooster Group Fellowship

The Wooster Group offers a one-year, paid, full-time Fellowship to a talented individual who will work with the company in one or more of the following areas: production management, technical direction, stage management, costume maintenance and construction, lighting/electrics, sound, video, and administration.

The individual who receives a Wooster Group Fellowship will work alongside company members in a collaborative environment during development, rehearsals, and performances of new and repertory productions. Technical and production Fellows may have opportunities to work with The Wooster Group on tour or work with visiting artists at The Performing Garage.

The Fellowship recipient will receive a $24,000 grant award. At the end of the one-year period, the recipient will have gained practical understanding in the areas of the Fellowship’s focus and will be well positioned for opportunities in his or her chosen field.

How To Apply

There are two ways to receive a Wooster Group Fellowship. First, the Wooster Group internship program (see below) can act as a stepping-stone to the Fellowship program. Or, individuals can apply on a rolling basis directly to the Fellowship program by sending a letter of interest and resume to:

THE WOOSTER GROUP
Cynthia Hedstrom, Producer
PO Box 654, Canal Street Station
New York, NY 10013
fellowship@thewoostergroup.org

Isadora has become an essential resource for creative ingenuity for thousands individual artists, designers, educators, and companies in a variety of disciplines and environments worldwide. Because all patches in Isadora are created from scratch by their user, they are as unique as their creator.

http://troikatronix.com/isadora/applications/

TroikaTronix will host a series of free mini-workshops – as well as a three-day workshop intensive for artists –taught by Isadora's creator Mark Coniglio this May and June in Berlin, Germany. If you're not in the area, but know someone who might be interested, please feel free to pass this on.

Workshop attendance is limited to 15 participants maximum. If you wish to attend, please send us a mail using this form. (Link to this page: http://troikatronix.com/support/isadora/)

We hope to see some of you there!

Best Wishes,
Mark Coniglio + the TroikaTronix team

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Isadora Mini Workshop: The Basics - FREE!
29 May 2013 / 18 - 20h / Berlin

This workshop will introduce the core functions of Isadora: how to play, layer and project video imagery, and how to organize that imagery into a series scenes that can be cued by the operator. We will also demonstrate how use Isadora's keystoning features to achieve simple but flexible video mapping.

Isadora Mini Workshop: Interactivity - FREE!
5 June 2013 / 18- 20h / Berlin

What sets Isadora apart from other media servers is it's focus on interactive control. In this workshop we will explore a variety of interactive sensing possibilities including camera tracking, Wii controllers and iPad/iPhone. You will learn how the actions of a performer (or operator) can control generation and/or manipulation of video, sound and light.

Isadora Mini Workshop 3D: - FREE!
12 June 2013 / 18 - 20h / Berlin

Isadora provides the real-time, interactive rendering of 3D models. In this workshop, we will show you how you can capitalize on these 3D features to create compelling interactive imagery that is generated in real-time – either by using generative systems or in response to the actions of performers on the stage.

Interactive Digital Media for Live Performance - 150€
26 - 28 June 2013 / 11 - 17h / Berlin

This workshop is designed for artists who wish to incorporate interactive video, sound or light into the live performance they create. Designed for choreographers, composers, theater directors, or scenographers who want to use these digital forms in an artistically compelling way, this workshop will introduce you to the software tool Isadora® – Coniglio's powerful yet artist-friendly software tool that allows you to quickly and effectively add interactive elements to your creations.

During the three day workshop, participants will learn to create simple but compelling interactive setups using Isadora. The focus of this workshop will not be technical. Instead, we will consider the real-world compositional problems of the participants and respond to these by introducing features that address these concerns in an artistically compelling way. The participants will leave the workshop with a basic, solid knowledge of the software that can be put into pra ctice immediately. (All students will receive a complimentary three-month license to the software so that they may continue their experiments after the workshop's conclusion.)

While Isadora is very friendly and easy to learn, applicants should nevertheless be comfortable working with computers. (We encourage you to prepare for the workshop by exploring the online video tutorials for Isadora at youtube.com/troikatronix)

The language of the workshops will be English.

Modul-dance is a multi-annual cooperation project with the participation of 20 European dancehouses from 16 countries with the aim to support the artistic development and mobility of independent professionals in the dance field.

The project was created and structured to address the needs of the artists in their creative process. Thus, its core is the modular system, an organized model of support for dance creation and dissemination in which every participating artist has the opportunity to work with at least 3 different partners going through 4 module phases: research, residency, production and presentation. This allows them to make itineraries across Europe.

The project was set up by the European Dancehouse Network and funded by the European Comission through the Culture Programme

To know more about the modul-dance project click on here.

This work programme has been funded with the support of the European Commission. This blogsite reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be hold responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

The 5th International Festival of Video, Performance and Technologies will be held between 29th November and 7th December 2013 in São Luiz Teatro Municipal, among other theatres, museums, galleries and venues in Lisbon.

We are still looking forward to receive submissions of videodance and documentary to be integrated in our International Competition of Videodance and DocShadow. Beyond those, we’re also accepting performances (solos) and installations. The works run for a total of 9 awards given by 6 juries.

The submission is FREE.  We eagerly await for your submissions!

Here is the premiere of our wearable tech / contemporary dance piece at the HASTAC conference last week. 

Our clumsy bows aside, we got some good feedback, and I am interested in continuing this line of research where new media technologies can be employed to enrich the affectivity of performative art. 

Would love to get your thoughts on it.

Enjoy. Click!

Watch it at night. If you don't I'll know. :)

MG

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URGENT WANTED: 2 FEMALE DANCERS, 1 FEMALE ACTOR,

FOR EXPERIMENTAL PERFORMANCE PIECE

DAY OF THE PERFORMANCE: MAY 23RD at LA CASA ENCENDIDA, MADRID (SPAIN)

-2 female dancers, 1 female actor (English is OK and/or Spanish speaking is perfect)  to be a part of an experimental piece, outside of the 'comfort zone' in an art exhibition space in Madrid

Description / Concept

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 Madrid. 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. They will be required to do both improvised and choreographed 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 choreography (in the case of the dancers), and the scripts (in the case of the actors)

Total duration of the performance around 20 min. 

I am preparing a performance at La Casa Encendida, the opening is the May 23, the curator is Juan Canela. I'm looking for 3 women performers: two dancers who are interested in creating their own choreography, solo (the dancers)  and her own script (for the actress) starting with an anarchist text ongoing work fruit of my artistic research. You should create a choreography or a script 2-3 minutes long and it will be shown in a 15-20min performance. The total duration of the solo piece that the performer should prepare based on the text is just around 1-2 min (that will be looped in different ways throughout the performance, 20 mins in total). The piece consists of a solo part, rehearsed and a collective-improvised part unrehearsed.

None of the performers will know what the others are presenting until the moment of the performance . I would like to work with performers who can work the concept of exhaustion in dance (Andrei Lepecki) and performance (Becket the quadrant)  non-movement and still movement, more postmodern and conceptual, more absence than presence .... 

Conceptual line, aware of the postmodernist discourse and technique,  Yvonne Rayner, Trisha Brown, Laban technique...etc

REHEARSALS: 2  days, 2 hour/day rehearsals and1 run-through the day of the performance or the day before.

If you are interested in this project please send me an email to elena@elenabajo.com  including a link where I can see your work  as soon as possible. Express briefly why you want to participate in the project. You will be contacted by email to proceed forward. This is quite urgent. 

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.

This is an event widely advertised and expected to be a good exposure and experience.

You will receive a small payment for your participation, dvd video footage and photos of the performance as well as program credits.  The greatest reward of this project lies in that you're interested in the experience for your work.

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

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SE BUSCAN: 2 bailarinas y 1 actriz, MUJERES, 

PARA PIEZA DE PERFORMANCE EXPERIMENTAL en MADRID, SPAIN

Dia de la performance: 23 de mayo en La Casa Encendida, Madrid (ESPAÑA) 

-2 Bailarinas,y 1 actriz (acento extranjero en Inglés está bien y hablar español es perfecto) para formar parte de una pieza experimental, fuera de la "zona de confort" en un espacio de exposición de arte en Madrid, La Casa Encendida

Descripción / Concepto 

La pieza esta creada por Elena Bajo, un artista visual que ha expuesto a nivel internacional y 

se centra en los aspectos sociales, políticos del sitio en la ciudad de Madrid. Bajo combina performance con instalaciones a gran escala para investigar las condiciones políticas y sociales del cambio en las estructuras post-industriales, la creación de trabajo específica del sitio y un espacio de acción colectiva. 

Será necesarios que las performers actúen en el espacio de exhibición. La pieza tendrá elementos improvisados y tambien movimientos coreográficos determinado de antemano con la artista. El generador de la pieza es un texto político / poema. 

Este texto-manifiesto politico será entregado a los performers y se  utilizara para generar su coreografía individual (en el caso de los bailarines), y el guion (en el caso de los actores) 

Duración total de la actuación en torno a 20 min. 

El performance se realizara  el 23 de mayo y el curador es Juan Canela. Estoy buscando a 3 mujeres artistas: dos bailarines que estén interesados ​​en crear su propia coreografía, solo (los bailarines) y su propio guión (para la actriz) a partir de un texto anarquista en curso fruto de mi trabajo de investigación artística. Debe crear una coreografía o una secuencia de comandos de 2-3 minutos de duración y se mostrará en una actuación de 15 -20 min. La duración total de la pieza en solitario que el performer debe preparar partiendo del texto esera de 2-3 min (que se presentara en loop de diferentes maneras a lo largo de la actuación, 20 minutos en total). La pieza consta de una parte en solitario, ensayado y una parte colectiva improvisada. 

Ninguno de los artistas intérpretes o ejecutantes sabrá lo que los otros están presentando hasta el momento de la actuación. Me gustaría trabajar con actores que pueden trabajar el concepto de agotamiento de la danza (Andrei Lepecki) y el rendimiento (Becket el cuadrante) no-movimiento y still movimiento, más postmodern y conceptual, más  ausencia de movimiento que presencia .... 

Línea conceptual, consciente del discurso posmoderno y de la técnica, por mencionar modelos: Yvonne Rayner, Trisha Brown, técnica de Labán. 

ENSAYOS: 2 días, 2 horas / día y 1 día antes del opening para el run though con todas las performers. 

Si este proyecto es de tu interés, por favor envíame un 

correo electrónico a elena@elenabajo.com incluyendo un enlace a video donde pueda ver una muestra de tu trabajo o de como te mueves,  tan pronto como sea posible. Por favor expresa brevemente por qué deseas participar en este proyecto. Me comunicare contigo por correo electrónico para continuar el proceso. Esto es muy urgente. 

Si no tienes un enlace de video online dejamelo saber  y entonces te le enviaria un fragmento de texto para preparar algo corto 1-2 minutos que se puede grabar en Skype o cámara de video o iphone. 

Este es un evento ampliamente anunciado y se espera que sea una buena experiencia. 

A cambio de tu participación recibirás un pequeño pago, dvd video y las fotos de la actuación, así como los créditos en el programa. Aunque la mayor recompensa de este proyecto radica en que estés interesada en la experiencia para utilizarlo para tu trabajo. 

Más información sobre la obra de Elena Bajo puedes encontrarla en su página web: www.elenabajo.com 

The URUCUNGO PROJECT researches the movements of capoeira, and how to mix it in dance, going to many differents spaces to try it.Jailton Oliveira;Vila dos Pescadores.Jaraguá.Maceió.AL.BRAZIL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypUMTa9a2dQ

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Important talk by Howard Rheingold watch here

Update on 'Corporeal Computing' event at University of Surrey (September 2-3, Ivy Arts Centre University of Surrey, Guildford0

Deadline extension for conference papers/ performances/ publication contributions (May 8th, 2013)

Confirmed presenters:

Paul Kaiser (Openeneded Group), will be showing 'After Ghostcatching' in 3D

Thomas Calvert (CEO Credo Interactive)

Kirk Woolford (University of Sussex)

Mark Coniglio (Troika Ranch)

Nic Sandiland (Middlesex University)

To submit an abstract, or for more information, please visit:

http://www.ias.surrey.ac.uk/workshops/corpcom/

Nick

Motion Bank Workshop No. 5 on “Writing Dance” under the direction of Jonathan Burrows, Matteo Fargion and Adrian Heathfield will commence in just a few days. From April 16 to 18, participants will come together at Frankfurt LAB to focus on discussion leading to practical work. Emphasis will be towards investigating choreographic and compositional processes, and experimental writing and scoring practices, questioning how a dance can be made and what it can communicate to the audience.

As part of the workshop, a Motion Bank Salon will take place once again. We therefore cordially invite you to join Adrian Heathfield on April 17 at 6 p.m. when he presents the film “Writing Not Yet Thought,” in which he and French author Hélène Cixous discuss the practice of writing as it relates to the genres of fiction, essays and poetry and its relationship to painting, music and philosophy.
Admission is free.
For more information, please visit www.motionbank.org

In addition, we would like to make you aware of one of our main events in 2013: as part of the 2013 Dance Congress, which will be held from June 6 to 9 in Düsseldorf, Motion Bank will be presenting the digital score based on Deborah Hay’s choreography “No Time To Fly.” Motion Bank and the Forsythe Company will also be conducting several workshops and talks at the event. 
More information on the Dance Congress program is available at www.tanzkongress.de

Moving Without A Body
Digital Philosophy and Choreographic Thoughts
By Stamatia Portanova
Overview
Digital technologies offer the possibility of capturing, storing, and manipulating movement, abstracting it from the body and transforming it into numerical information. In Moving without a Body, Stamatia Portanova considers what really happens when the physicality of movement is translated into a numerical code by a technological system. Drawing on the radical empiricism of Gilles Deleuze and Alfred North Whitehead, she argues that this does not amount to a technical assessment of software’s capacity to record motion but requires a philosophical rethinking of what movement itself is, or can become.

Discussing the development of different audiovisual tools and the shift from analog to digital, she focuses on some choreographic realizations of this evolution, including works by Loie Fuller and Merce Cunningham. Throughout, Portanova considers these technologies and dances as ways to think—rather than just perform or perceive—movement. She distinguishes the choreographic thought from the performance: a body performs a movement, and a mind thinks or choreographs a dance. Similarly, she sees the move from analog to digital as a shift in conception rather than simply in technical realization. Analyzing choreographic technologies for their capacity to redesign the way movement is thought, Moving without a Body offers an ambitiously conceived reflection on the ontological implications of the encounter between movement and technological systems.

Stamatia Portanova choreographs technology, media, dance, and philosophy together to make a brilliant, multilayered account of contemporary culture and the changes and possibilities brought by the floods of computation. This is a book full of sensual abstraction and lucid, rigorous bodies: an inspiration!”
—Matthew Fuller, David Gee Reader in Digital Media, Digital Culture Unit, Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London

“Moving without a Body is a book about choreography, and about the use of digital technologies in contemporary dance. But beyond this, the book also offers a deeply original discussion of the relations between body and mind, between analog and digital, and between the fluidity of the organic and the algorithmic complexity of software. These pairs of terms should not be seen as opposites; for Stamatia Portanova demonstrates the fertile creativity that arises from their intertwining.”
—Steven Shaviro, DeRoy Professor of English, Wayne State University; author of Without Critiera: Kant, Whitehead, Deleuze, and Aesthetics

“In the increasingly rich literature exploring the intersections between contemporary dance and philosophy, Stamatia Portanova’s Moving without a Body stands out as a true achievement. Investigating the digital as metaphor of thought, Portanova shows how choreography is not only concerned with the creation of artistic works, or with the implementation of training techniques, but reveals itself to be also, and importantly, an ‘abstractive perspective’ that forces us into thought—as Deleuze would say.”
—André Lepecki, Associate Professor, Department of Performance Studies, New York University