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The Fibreculture Journal   

DIGITAL MEDIA + NETWORKS + TRANSDISCIPLINARY CRITIQUE

 

MEDEA and the School of Arts and Communication, Malmö University, Sweden.

Issue 21: Exploring affective interactions. 

AffeXity: Performing Affect with Augmented Reality by Susan Kozel

CHOREOGRAPHING AFFECT USING AUGMENTED REALITY ON MOBILE DEVICES

Playing on both ‘affect city’ and ‘a-fixity’, AffeXity is an interdisciplinary, collaborative, social choreography project drawing together dance, geo-spatially tagged visual imagery, and people using mobile-networked devices. Located in Medea’s wider research and production profile, this is a particularly material and performative example of the “Internet of Things.”

Project description
Cities are made up of layers of choreographies, these are patterns of relations between people, technologies, and architectures. AffeXity will insert additional choreographic video layers viewed through Argon, a free open-source augmented reality browser. These layers of dance emphasise ebbs and flows of affect; they are created and sensed by bodies in motion.

Playing on both ‘affect city’ and ‘a-fixity’, AffeXity is an interdisciplinary, collaborative, social choreography project drawing together dance, geo-spatially tagged visual imagery, and people using mobile-networked devices. Located in Medea’s wider research and production profile, this is a particularly material and performative example of the “Internet of Things.”

Affexity is a collaboration between:

Susan Kozel (MEDEA, Malmö University, Sweden)
Jeannette Ginslov (Director of Screendance Africa & MoveStream, Denmark/South Africa)
- Timo Engelhardt (Master’s student in the Media Software Design programme, Malmö Högskola, Sweden)
Jay David Bolter (Mixed Environments Lab, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Maria Engberg (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden, and Georgia Tech USA)
- Wubkje Kuindersma (Dance Artist, Copenhagen)
- Additional screendance artists, choreographers, and dancers to be confirmed.

 

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS OF STUDENT SCREENDANCE WORKS

The University of Utah’s Departments of Modern Dance and Film and Media Arts are requesting submissions of student dance films to be screened on the opening night of the 9th International Screendance Festival and Summer Intensive Editing Workshop with SIMON FILDES, June 23, 2013. Submissions must be a screendance piece, created specifically for film or video, or a staged work recreated for the camera. We are also accepting short dance-related documentaries. Please note that these submissions are not to be performance documentations. A small cash prize for the Jury’s Choice will be awarded.

  • Only Region 1 or All Region DVD formats, and working web links will be accepted. More important information about screening formats is available at dance.utah.edu/screendancefest2013
  • The work must have been completed while enrolled in a full-time degree program or workshop setting.
  • DVDs will not be returned unless requested. If requested, please include a self-addressed stamped envelope for the return.
  • There is no submission fee.
  • Length of the work must not exceed 15 minutes.
  • Please DO NOT send additional materials with your submission such as press or other presentation materials. An effort is made to preserve a blind jury.
  • Artists may submit up to three different projects for consideration.
  • Jury comments will be available upon request.
  • Copies of submitted films will be retained for the purpose of archiving the festival.

 

Postmark deadline for mailed submissions is by 5:00PM, March 1st. Online submissions must be received by midnight Mountain Standard Time, March 15.
All submissions must include a submission form for each submission. Individuals are allowed to submit a maximum of 3 films. Links to Submission Forms will soon be available at dance.utah.edu/screendancefest

 

For submission information please contact:

Tanja London, t.london@utah.edu,

 

Send submissions or links to:

Ben Estabrook, ben.estabrook@utah.edu

International Screendance Festival,
 University of Utah
Department of Modern Dance,

330 S 1500 East, Room 106
, Salt Lake City, UT 84112
USA

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Don't miss Gustavia by Mathilde Monnier and La Ribot in NYC during the first day of the APAP vortex that will be taking place in New York City during the next two weeks!

In Gustavia, celebrated choreographers Mathilde Monnier and La Ribot use repetitive, energetic, and “slapstick” movement inspired by the classic burlesque tradition to address womanhood and the joys and sorrows surrounding their profession.

An explosive performance about the relationship between contemporary art and life.

Info here!

http://www.fiaf.org/events/winter2013/2013-01-10-mathilde-monnier.shtml

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Also watch a the documentary La Ribot Distinguida by Luc Peter on dance-tech.tv!
http://dance-tech.tv/videos/la-ribot-distinguida-documentary-la-ribot/

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Costa Contemporánea met La Ignorancia to create a unique video dance project that took place at the Natural Park of Cabo de Gata, (Almería, Spain).

This video-dance project has been conceived as creative break for directors, dancers, performers, photographers, film technicians or anyone else interested in the art of filmmaking.

 

A new concept with the goal of creating cultural and educational experiences in a unique environment.

Costa Contemporánea broadened its horizons to international participants thanks to the collaboration and experience of the multidisciplinary collective La ignorancia dance film music, based in Brussels since 2008 and formed by the choreographer / filmmaker Ana Cembrero and the cinematographer /musician Jorge Piquer.

 

During the workshop participants approached the currently under expansion art genre video dance: reviewing the history of cinema and dance, learning the technical aspects of the camera, editing and post-production software, introducing themselves to the new independent filmmaking technologies as well as the low-cost HDSLR cameras.

They analyzed motion from a cinematographic point of view and the relationship between body and audiovisual language. Overall, participants explored their personal creativity through practical exercises and carried out their dance-film from the first steps, wrapping up with a general overview of the different coverage media and distribution.

 

A selection of the work created at the workshop was screened at International Dance Festival Mes de Danza de Sevilla (see pictures) and at EAMM Arts School Miguel Marmolejo (see pictures

See video: MAKING OF VIDEO DANCE WORKSHOP, Videodance Workshop 2013

See video: MERCURIO by Tristana Castilla, Videodance Workshop 2013

See video: VIDEODANCE WORKSHOPS

Videodance Workshop 2013 

Join us in the art of dance filmmaking in a charismatic environment.. Come and create movies, create dance in a natural environment through the interaction of these two artistic languages, developing a powerful visual expression.

 

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Photo @Pollobarba
Find more photos like this on dance-tech.net

 

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mòdulmap

educational training programme for
contemporary performers and/or choreographers 


mòdulmap is an educational training programme directed at dancers and choreographers who have completed their studies and are now in the process of becoming profesionals or for existing profesionals who are looking to further their knowledge and skills. módulmap is an exploration of the various languages of movement, the body and the different tools and technologies which are employed in the creation of new works.

mòdulmap offers to the students a singular training programm, wide, compacted and specialized, unique in the sector, that allows an immersion in the learning process, interacting with national and international professionals, active creators in different fields of dance and performing arts. 

mòdulmap offers to dancers and/or choreographers who have completed their studies and are now in the process of becoming profesionals and to professionals and teachers of the sector away of upgrading and deepen their knowledge of the languages of movement, body and different tools and technologies used in the creative process.

mòdulmap is Ángels Margarit / cia. Mudances proposal to expand and increase m.a.p.-mudances aula pedagógicaactivities. This project is itinerant in nature and involves the participation of other related organisations. In this occasion we collaborate with lacaldera.

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mòdulmap #2 - February

at lacaldera

from 4th February to 1st March 2013
daily from 09.30 to 15.00

Option 1 - entire month
Option 2 - per weeks

* fees and discounts at the end of the page

Programme:

from 4th to 8th February
Victoria Szpunberg and Constanza Brncic
Dramaturgy and dance workshop
from 09.30 to 15.00

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from 11th to 15th and from 18th to 22nd February
Thomas McManus
Course description "Hypothetical Stream" by W. Forsythe 
Composition and repertoire
from 11 to 15, from 09.30 to 15.00
from 18 to 22, from 12.00 to 15.00

The dancers will be offered a workshop around the theme of a piece from the Forsythe repertoire called," Hypothetical Stream". The dancers will learn basic skills in figurative improvisation, drawing lines with the body, correlating to and inspired by the drawings of GiambattistaTiepolo. The drawings have many different characters in them and the dancers will create connections between these characters and the associative stories that come out of the dancer's physical interaction with movements suggested within the drawings. Remembering both intended and unintended movements the dancers will create their own solos and group material to work on. The Forsythe piece called "Hypothetical Stream" is really a forum in which dancers are asked to analyze classical drawings by the Italian painter to find geometrical relations within the paintings' subjects. The tools the dancers will use to analyze the drawings are outlined on the Forsythe CD Rom, "Improvisation Technologies". As we familiarize ourselves from day to day with the material on the CD Rom the students will begin to see the paintings in very different ways. This allows the student to see the material not as a fixed picture of a dance but rather more like a 3-dimensional sculpture that can be taken apart, examined in detail, remolded and put back together in different configurations. This will lead them to a comfortable balance between the conscious, analytical decision making and the unconscious, associative flow that is the other, more intuitive, half of this improvisation experience. After a few days of this it will seem natural to discuss and constructively criticize the decisions of speed-slowness, hardness-softness, simplicity-complexity and the other elements that make an abstract dance reach out to a public with more than just visual stimulation.

Thomas McManus 1963 U.S.A. Coming from a farm on the great plains of Illinois, Thomas is a graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts. Early work and experience was found in New York through venues such as improvisational performances at Westbeth Studios, dancing with a Chamber Ballet repertory company, a season with American Ballet Theater II, and the Broadway musical Cats. A desire to live and work in Europe led him to Germany where he danced from 1986-99 with William Forsythe and the Ballett Frankfurt taking part in most of the newly created ballets during that time. Since 1999 he has been a member of the performance group "commerce" which he founded together with Nik Haffner. He is currently choreographing for many different venues, teaches Forsythe repertory to major Ballet companies and teaches improvisation workshops all over Europe and America. 

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from 18th to 22nd February
Sabine Dahrendorf
The curiosity and the movement: Feldenkrais for dancers 
from 09.30 to 11.30

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from 25th February to 1st March
Lipi Hernandez
Creation Laboratory 
from 09.30 to 15.00

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Fees

from 04 February to 01 March - 550,00 € 

from 04 to 08 February - 170,00 € 
from 11 to 15 February - 190,00 € 
from 18 to 22 February - 180,00 € 
from 25 February to 01 March - 170,00 € 

* 10 % discount for associates to professional dance associations
* 10 % discount for two workshops / two weeks of mòdulmap #2
* 10 % discount if you did mòdulmap #1

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a canary torsi Recap: 2012

Marlon asked me to share this with the Dance-Tech community. It is a canary torsi's year end newsletter recapping the group's work in 2012:

2012 was an intensely creative and rewarding year for a canary torsi. We have so much to share, we thought we would present the highlights in a visual and fun recap.


We kicked it off in January with the production of the dance video, Heather O, at Kirby Theater at Amherst College (my alma mater) performed by Kimberly Young and designed with Kathy Couch + Stephan Moore.

As if one project in January were not enough, we presented the lab performances of Five Performers Demonstrate a Field as part of a five-week Floating Points Residency at the pioneering experimental performance center, ISSUE Project Room, with composer Ben Bernstein, installation designer Charles Houghton, performers Amity Jones and Marina Libel, and musicians Anna Garcia and Peter Lanctot.
 

In March, we had our first of several residencies with our primary partner--the innovative Vermont Performance Lab--on the development of our newest participatory installation project, The People to Come. We attended Town Meeting at Marlboro's historic Town House, where the preview of the piece would be performed. In July, I returned to work with local artist and photographer, Jess Weitz, to launch the website for the project, thepeopletocome.org, by taking over 50 portraits during Marlboro's Summer Sale. These became the first audience submissions uploaded to the site.
 
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In May, we had our Media Fellowship Residency at the national choreographic center, Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography. Web Director Sam Lerner, designer Kathy Couch and I worked with three focus groups to develop the accompanying website for The People to Come: thepeopletocome.org. We were joined by performer Luke Miller who performed the first work-in-progress using audience-created submissions to create a dance in front of the audience.
 
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 July was a flurry of activity. In addition to my visit to Vermont to work with photographer Jess Weitz, we presented the sold-out remount of 2011's highly successful, Paradis, for the Brooklyn Botanic Garden presented by New York Live Arts. It was met with critical and audience acclaim:

"A dance evolves within me over time. What isn’t memorable eventually slips away, while other moments may become more vivid. An entire scene can be condensed into a single image. I’ve always felt this with performance, but never have I experienced this evolution so intensely, as I did after seeing Paradis by Yanira Castro | a canary torsi."
– Christine Shan Shan Hou, Idiom
 
We ended the month with a special one-night only event, Invisible Dog Interior, Heather O, at The Invisible Dog Art Center, performed by Kimberly Young and Peter Schmitz with lighting and environment by Kathy Couch and sound by Stephan Moore. 
 
In a year that has been so full, the highlight was the creation and premiere of our newest participatory performance installation, The People to Come. With an installation by Couch, sound by Moore and five incredible performers: Simon Courchel, Luke Miller, Peter Musante, Peter Schmitz and Darrin Wright, People is my next step in a line of questioning: What is the divide between spectator and participant? People is a work made with and in front of the audience. It was built with the support of four major residency centers: Vermont Performance Lab; the venerable 40-year institution, The Yard; Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Swing Space program; and Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (MANCC). The piece premiered at Granoff Center for the Creative Arts thanks to Brown University's Creative Arts Council. Check out www.thepeopletocome.org and see over 400 submissions from audiences we visited in Providence, RI; Marlboro, VT; Tallahassee, FL and Martha’s Vineyard, MA. None of these presentations would have been possible without the amazing support of an Expeditions grant from the New England Foundation for the Arts.
 


2013 holds even more in store. We are touring People to Space Gallery in Portland, ME and presenting the New York premiere at the The Invisible Dog (June 22-29). We have been honored with a multi-year (!!) commitment from MANCC, and with a multi-year residency from Dance New Amsterdam to start developing our next work, Court/Garden, with another amazing cast: Simon Courchel, Luke Miller, Stuart Singer, Pamela Vail and Darrin Wright.
 
As 2012 draws to a close, we at a canary torsi wish to thank everyone who contributed so much to our work this year. Whether you came to a show, gave us a portrait, shared the stage with a performer or contributed a sound score -- you were part of the impact.
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CALL FOR PERFORMANCE SUBMISSIONS
Between the Seas Festival in New York City,
July 22nd- 28th 2013

www.betweentheseas.org

Submissions deadline: January 14th 2013

Contact:betweentheseasfestival@gmail.com


The third edition of Between the Seas Festival will take place from July 22nd to July 28th at the Wild Project theater in the heart of the East Village.
We are now inviting submissions for full and short length works, fully developed or works in progress, original or previously presented, in the fields of theater, dance and music by artists of the Mediterranean and Mediterranean diaspora.We are interested in a broad range of works that may include: works that present new aesthetic developments in the region;adaptations of the classics; performances that explore questions of identity, conflict, the reality of life in the region; and more. For the full call for submissions and detailed guidelines visit: www.betweentheseas.org

Between the Seas was founded in 2010 and it is the first and only festival in North America promoting contemporary Mediterranean performing arts. The annual festival that runs for one week each summer in New York City, has quickly grown into a unique platform of high quality work, presenting some of the most exciting and thought provoking artists working in the Mediterranean region. With an eclectic programming of performances that so far have included Egypt, Israel, Greece, Lebanon, Italy, Spain, Turkey, Canada, Morocco and the US, the festival's past two editions (2011 and 2012) have offered NYC audiences over 20 new works including NYC, USA and world premieres by established and young artists: Balletto Teatro di Sardegna, Lina Abiad, Mancopy Dansekompagni, Elias Aguirre, Rachel Erdos, Ido Tadmor, Korhan Basaran, Malika Zarra, are some of the artists that have honored Between the Seas with their participation.


Source: http://betweentheseas.org/home/

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Guillermo Weickert at Choreoroam Europe

29th and 30th November: Guillermo Weickert's Workshop at Choreoroam Europe

CONTEXT:  How do we approach, in just a few workshop sessions, a concept that is so broad and full of nuances, and at the same time, of such vital importance for our work?

For our encounter in Madrid I propose simply to share a common focus for our gaze and offer a space to work and reflect together.

I do not feel that I have anything concrete to say, nor revealing information to pass on to you.  I do, however, have enormous curiosity regarding everything that we can rethink together and share about this idea, to “reside” for these two days within the idea of “context”, define different meanings and senses, as individuals and as a group. Different ways of analyzing the way contexts affect or condition our creative processes. To design strategies that can help us detect possible difficulties and find ways of transforming them into assets.

I would like to propose lines of work that originate in the body and in work on the stage, and find others that are genuine and originate within the group itself; to visit and study cases or situations in which choreographic or dance initiatives have had an impact on and transformed contexts that seemed initially hostile. 

I would like the results of our two days of coming together and reflecting to bring some kind of new consciousness to our personal practice, to revisit our own experiences, not in order to acquire new knowledge but rather to sum up and structure in a useful way the resources and capacities of adaptation to our environment that we already possess and have undoubtedly applied in an intuitive manner; to make them visible and readily accessible to us for use in our future work.

Guillermo Weickert

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La esencia de la creación, 'Material inflamable'

Los días 24 y 25 de noviembre, el Teatro Central se vistió de gala con una de las programaciones más imprescindibles de la temporada, 'Material inflamable', de Guillermo Weickert. Una pieza que tras recorrer importantes espacios escénicos y girar, sobre todo, por los senderos interiores de Guillermo, llegaba al Central revisada en un formato si no definitivo, sí completo, coherente y conmovedor.

Partimos del principio de que no habrá crítica que haga justicia a lo que evoca esta pieza. Nadie con sus palabras, negro sobre blanco, podrá acercarse mínimamente al efecto y contenido que pudimos ver en Sevilla. Acercarse a tan inmensa fuente de sensaciones y materiales me provoca un sentimiento de alta pequeñez. Me acerco con cuidado y máximo respeto, y advierto de que lo que aquí escribo probablemente solo será apto para apasionados y defensores del arte escénico. Quien desee saber más o entender lo que aquí narro, solo tiene que perseguir lo que espero que sea

 la gira más fructífera de Guillermo Weickert.

Una gran luz blanca nos recibe inundando la sala, y Guillermo, en una esquina, nos espera paciente, cara a cara. Estamos todos al descubierto y él sin esconderse ya está haciendo su declaración de intenciones. A partir de ahí, nada esconderá. Nos da ese lugar protagonista o acompañante de público cómplice a su cara descubierta y nos dice que sin ambages nos está esperando. Comienza el espectáculo luminoso y sincero.


Como si de una obra épica se tratara, viajamos durante casi una hora sin descanso. Unagesta por caminos distorsionados que componen, descomponen, deshacen y enhebran los materiales del coreógrafo. Nos adentramos en nudos de creación interiormostrados en un cuerpo imponente que tensa las posibilidades físicas y creativas. La información se acumula y nos emborrachamos girando o siguiendo brazos que dibujan ochos infinitos. Con su cabeza y sus manos estamos dentro, estamos en Guillermo, en su pasado, en sus fuentes... en su material. Borrachos de movimiento, entramos en trance, no nos mareamos, seguimos un lenguaje lógico que repite para innovar, que juega para reinventar, que siembra para regalar, con el que discute y disfruta.

El cuerpo se hace infinito, múltiple y sobrenatural. Los yoes personales sobre el escenario nos dicen "aquí estoy", no hay más o lo hay todo, soy yo y mi trayecto, desnudo me muestro. En una especie de metaescena, vemos y recibimos tanta información y estímulos como puede haber en la mente de un coreógrafo, nos acercamos a sus contradicciones, a su deseo de transmitir y bailar. Y se nos empieza a inflamar el pecho porque estamos recibiendo esa intensidad nerviosa del creador que con deseo y pasión quiere soltar lo que tiene dentro, pero que pelea en ocasiones con las barreras para saltarlas y volverlas a construir.

Está solo y acompañado por su pasado y su presente, por tanto aprendido y vivido, pero está acompañado, porque desde el principio, bajo una luz blanca y mirándonos calmo, nos dijo: aquí estoy y aquí estáis. Entonces quiere más, pero se angustia, se vuelve a enrollar en sí mismo, se frena en la fluidez o se deja llevar y rebota su cuerpo en incesantes quiebros que nunca esperamos, que siempre sorprenden.

La tela es dorada, la vemos tendida sin construir aún en el suelo, la luz viaja con élde oscuros, íntimos y sugeridos momentos a otros más abiertos. Pero siempre viaja, como viaja con él su equipo, porque Paloma Parra está respirando con él para abrirle las estancias que necesita y prender las chispas más oportunas.

Es una noche dorada, de galas y reflejos, de fuegos. El dorado, como color propio de la escena, del teatro, como color de lo fastuoso, del lujo... puede ser impostado, puede ser ficticio o puede ser incandescente como el fuego. Cuando la tela sube yenmarca el espacio y se refleja en nuestras caras, las contradicciones cogen su sentido, e iluminada exquisitamente y ondeada por vientos suaves se convierte en los rayos eternos del creador. Lo dorado es grande, es luminoso, es pasional, pero también es reflejo, apariencia y superficialidad... Se trata en 'Material' entonces de darle calidez a esas contradicciones y quitarle al oro su papel de impostura para darle la máxima calidez. Guillermo, con su sinceridad y su viaje, le da al oro el tono más rojo, el de la pasión y la sinceridad.


Y seguimos viajando sin parar por movimientos que entran y salen del cuerpo, que se abren para volver a entrar, porque estamos saliendo y entrando por sus miembros, como lo hacemos con él, con el coreógrafo. Viajamos por ese espacio externo de la escena y por el interno del creador. Y vuelta a empezar, no acaba, puede ser infinito, cuánta capacidad tiene un creador de dar, dónde está el límite a tanto como quiere expresar, como tiene dentro. Y vuelta a caer cruzando las piernas en un 4 y vuelta a la contorsión... Me desconcierto ante las capacidades, me dejo llevar, me emborracho, ya soy suya, no hay vuelta atrás, estoy en su mundo y quiero más.

Cuando reposa y marca la pausa con su gesto, su mirada y potente dominio conocido de la interpretación, me hago cómplice y entiendo, entiendo y agradezco estar ahí, en su mundo de sufrimientos, de ardores y desconciertos. Una perspectiva sobre su gesto, sobre lo vivido, lo aprendido. Mirar atrás, construir pisando sobre lo aprendido, visto. Pisar sobre los caminos duros del creador, del bailarín con un aplomo difícil de ver. Y entonces camina por la tela más bella, su tela dorada, camina y discute sobre sí mismo, consigo mismo. Una esquizofrenia deliciosa. Pisar sobre un camino que brilla, quema y lleva galas. No está solo porque tiene entidades e identidades distintas, opuestas y complementarias, inseguras o luchadoras, enrabietadas y tristes, con humor y descaro.

Y sigue construyendo, como construyen los ruidos que nos evocan obras de magnas construcciones. Así, sigueconstruyendo el escenario del creador, con imponentes y elevados soportes y pilares grandes que cuesta tanto levantar, así, a golpes, con ruidos violentos que no generan tanta inquietud porque él se asume en estos vaivenes interiores y físicos.

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Estamos ante una pieza de lo peleado, lo roto, lo sufrido, pero lo siempre querido y deseado, lo gozado, lo reído. A lo que se le quita hierro o se le da peso y aturde, de lo que se ríe o burla como si le sacara la lengua a pasados que ya no tienen sentido, o sí. Y es que además hay humor. Cuando un artista sabe llevarte de la mano por tortuosos caminos vandeándote entre la tragedia y el humor o te acerca con la risa a terrenos duros y dolorosos o nostálgicos... te quedas ahí, incrustado. Te atrapa y quieres levantarte y hacerle una reverencia. Eso es, me provocas, me has pillado, no me lo esperaba, sigo contigo, haz lo que quieras conmigo, estoy en tu mundo. Desmitificarlo todo a la vez que le da el peso que tiene es grande, es inteligente.

Y esta pieza es inteligente, mucho, y pura y generosa, tanto que abruma. Entonces para, mira a los ojos, siento que me mira y me dice alto y claro, de nuevo, aquí estoy, esto soy, ni más ni menos.

Sorpresa la del Peta Zeta que agradezco y disfruto: saborear algo que pica, salta, incendia la boca... Siento que lo vive todo, que todo le chisporrotea desde el interior, lo vive desde dentro. Y se ríe de ello para pisarlo y quizás desecharlo.

El gran impacto que produce esta pieza, que desde que acaba quisieras volver a ver, me hace pensar en el papel del público.Abrumado por tanta sinceridad, por tanta claridad, tanto corazón abierto, tanto mundo interior, se ha convertido un poco en ese coreógrafo de contradicciones que busca materiales o que vive con ellos. Estamos impregnados de sus tortuosos y felices caminos y siento hasta vergüenza de haber entrado en su habitación, de haber visto y sentido tanto de él. Me quedo sin palabras, necesito quizás retirarme a la mía para volver a entrar a la que me dio paso con tanta generosidad. Pero estoy apabullada, aunque quiero más.

También quiero bailar, quiero moverme, expresarme, sentirme, conectar conmigo misma, porque inflama los corazones y los cuerpos, porque ha sido capaz de saltar hasta nosotros, meterse en nuestras cabezas con amor y sinceridad. La emoción ha acelerado los corazones, que ya no saben si llorar o reír, risa nerviosa. Las grandes vivencias aceleran al hombre, los sentimientos de verdad, los nervios de cuando sentimos con plenitud. Hemos percibido esencia, puereza y cuesta recuperarse.

El colofón final, un vídeo corto deliciosamente pensado, ejecutado, interpretado, dirigido, da la punzada final al corazón. Elteatro en todo su esplendor, con sus galas de nuevo pero aún más evidentes, con sus plumas y maquillajes. La belleza más grande y la más decadente al mismo tiempo. A un ritmo perfecto, acuna el final para dejarnos reposar la intensidad vivida y depositar las vísceras que Guillermo nos ha regalado en nuestros brazos, queremos acunarlo todo, queremos acariciar tanta nostalgia, llorarla, pensarla, sufrirla o disfrutarla.

Y es que esta pieza es, además de todo, de un gran equipo, el de las grandes epopeyas, con un Guillermo para mí inmenso,Paloma Parra, con la iluminación, espectacular, Vitor Joaquim con la música perfecta, y un vídeo final desde hoy imprescindible.

Siento algo extraño, siento que pierdo algo, siento tristeza, pero mucha alegría, he visto la esencia, he visto la verdad más clara en mucho tiempo, la emoción pura, me he sentido pequeña y grande, me he sentido llena de amor, de sensaciones que hacía tiempo no alcanzaba, he sentido que aquí radica el sentido de lo que más amamos, aquí está el sentido de la creación, del acto escénico, del amor por la danza. Y no quiero nunca dejar de estar cerca de todo ello, porque con 'Material inflamable' se ama de verdad la escena...

... Se ama de verdad.

 

Texto: Nerea Aguilar
Fotografía: @Pollobarba

Estreno del vídeo promocional de Material Inflamablehttp://guillermoweickert.com/?p=1086
 
Material Inflamable en Costa Contemporánea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlHbixAGHCI

Material Inflamable en Teatro Central Sevilla: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJHL7YrFclk
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Body and Technology research / P_B / P.A 1

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P_B / P.A 1

P_B / P.A   is an performance exercise… I try to think about the concept of “control-no control” from electronic devices attached to the body. This from the concepts of generativity and autonomous entities, as a way to reflect on the process of creation and production of art work, comprising work with dancer and technology as a global system where this concepts involved

The reactive system is a electronic sequencer with light sensor and speaker sound with the idea of clothing or accessory type bracelet, scarf, bracelet, etc.

Interactive System: + microcontroller pressure sensor. This is a reading on the Processing platform that by sending the signal is set to a range of sensor accuracy from XBEE protocol, data are extrapolated in a geometric graph.

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The condition is based on the parameter “more light at higher pressure and smaller, less” going from 255 to 0 or vice versa. The graph comes from a structure ellipse, a rect, and line ranging achurando the screen as a digital pen set in “if” (If) and millis timer that is changing as visually the same hardware generating a graph where converge in the body itself, the physical and digital space as geometric and mathematical entities.
The body and the digital system under an instruction dialogue, improvisation moving body always generate a aletoria visuality.

Brisa MP . Buenos Aires, Argentina . july 2012

 

 

 

 

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12249535068?profile=originalThe Postgraduate Programme in Digital Technologies for the Stage (DTED) is an innovative project intending to provide a response to the need to train professionals aware of the interactive media applied to the stage. It also intends to cover all those artistic practices connected to new technologies delivered live, such as audiovisual or interactive performances or dance.
Performances and contemporary theatre have been strongly influenced by the incorporation of digital technologies in all stages of production and creation. Traditional forms of performance such as dance, theatre, music and artistic shows have been in constant progression, encouraged by conceptual and practical research. For the last twenty years, many theatre companies and new media artists have been researching into the hybridisation of digital technologies in the stage.

This programme recapitulates on all this applied knowledge and creates a space for training and the exchange of experiences to educate professionals capable of projecting and conceptualizing interactive designs applied to the context of theatre.

Barcelona, March 2013 - July 2013

Outstanding teachers and companies:

Konic thtr

Marcel-lí Antúnez Roca

Agrupación Sr. Serrano

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Time Dance

Time Dance (online film version)

SOPHISTICATED, TIMELESS AND INTERNATIONAL IN SCOPE

Tempo Dance Festival 2012 | Time Dance and Soma Songs | Daniel Belton and Good Company Arts
Q Theatre, 305 Queen St, Auckland, 17 Oct 2012 | Reviewed by Jennifer Nikolai, 18 Oct 2012

Two pieces intricately layered with parallel through-lines, gave audiences an extraordinary experience that left us wanting more. Good Company Arts, Stroma and collaborators have a history of producing numerous award-winning projects making dance theatre works and art films on the subject of human movement.

Seeing both for the first time, the experience of the new work Time Dance was contextualized by SOMA SONGS, clearly an initial investigation into concepts that Time Dance explored further, but with a life of its own. As stated in the programme- yes, it IS “a testimony to the creative team behind SOMA SONGS that 7 years after it's first release, this unique project is gaining new interest on the international stage.”

In both works we experience a playful study of human movement and our relationship to our origins, to nature and more dominantly to the history of 20th and 21st century technologies in motion capture, photography and cinematography.

Time Dance is sophisticated and equally accessible, timeless and international in scope. It resonates as a reference to the conception of moving image, to the pioneers of modern dance, to the algebraic systems surrounding human movement. In relationship to these large systems, Time Dance pays attention to detail, through smaller studies repeated, augmented and transformed. Such attention to detail is refreshing, at such a high caliber.

Imagine what audiences initially experienced when they saw the first moving images on screen. We were exposed to a similar rare experience of viewing silent cinema with accompanying live musicians playing a stunning musical score. Live and pre-recorded sounds intertwined, as did musicians, dancers and conductors, alternating roles.

The marriage between human movement studies and the dancing subject has a long history, to which Time Dance has now substantially contributed. For those of us who see dance as an ideal form to investigate moving image technologies and time; this work gives weight to dance as the form that integrates the human figure and our more timeless relationship to geometry, geography, our journey, our planet and the passage of time.

The live and digital dancer make these studies more than a possibility, they become poetry in this work. The dance composition and performance of movement vocabulary linked thoughtfully, accurately, beautifully to the history of modern dance, human movement studies and studies in light. Dance and the moving image create a language that gives each of these subjects respect and consideration.

Time is manipulated, altered and manufactured through the duration of the performance experience. The pace at which these collaborative artists have determined the length and subject matter within the arc of the larger work as a whole, is so satisfying. Each of the seven studies is developed with individual nuances that allow viewers to be entertained investigators, a delightful combination in such a proposed study.

The moment where we get a close-up of the dancers in their duet, we get lost in who they are, how they move and their larger relationship to space. We see them, we want to see more, we get to see just enough, and we move on.

This element of tease and surprise returns again when we finally get to see a live performer enter the performance space, as she looks at herself, projected. Her presence is enormous, she occupies all of the space and yet she moves minimally in this live space, in dialog with herself and the environment. Geometry, geography, duration all meet in this moment. As the piece climaxes and then concludes, the experience of the work seems to have occurred so rapidly, with such satisfaction. Collaborators appear for a curtain call, there is a short interval and then we get more!

SOMA SONGS was a delightful accompaniment to Time Dance in its more playful manner, showing first attempts to explore space with stone. Again, investigating human relationship to materials in search of stories of architecture, the delightful play with scale as space and sound, was made even more playful with puzzles, landscape and echoes of initial studies in human movement with male subjects.. Experimentation with light parallel to geographic stratification again references time and the relationships between human-made and natural forms.

The live VJ and live audio processing performances were just as fascinating to watch as visual and sound cues rapidly moved again, so quickly through this work; a stunning accompaniment to Time Dance.

The relationships between SOMA SONGS and Time Dance make for a beautiful programme. Performances on screen and stage were equally stunning, giving full support to this intricate conceptual web that Belton and his numerous highly acclaimed collaborators have designed.

These works are internationally transferrable, timeless, accessible and sophisticated. Thank you for a stunning collaboration, may we see more. We want more.

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Next week starts the second block of mòdulmap #1 with following workshops:

from 12th to 16th November
Isabel López
Training
from 09.30 to 11.00

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from 12th to 16th November
Núria Font
Audiovisual tools for dance: 
dance video, creation process, documentation

from 11.30 to 15.00

 

Barcelona-based video maker and curator. Director of cultural projects related to video, videodance and electronic arts.: http://www.nu2s.org/eng/index.php

 

Fees

from 12 to 16 November - 170,00 € 

* 10 % discount for associates to professional dance associations

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INSCRIPTIONS:
Tones Llabrés
+34 93 4308763 
mudances@margarit-mudances.com

 

Workshops take place at La Caldera Barcelona.

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Costa Contemporánea is a Contemporary Dance and Performing Arts Festival held in Natural Park Cabo de Gata, Almería, Spain.


It is an opportunity to visit top quality workshops about contemporary dance and videodance, to attend to dance videos, shortfilms and videoinstallations screenings, as well as great spanish performers shows.

 

Enjoy great cultural holidays surrounded by nature and coast.

 

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