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A raíz de la sesión de debate organizada por CRIM en Barcelona para discutir alrededor de los temas propuestos por MOV-S 2012, la Asociación Andaluza de Profesionales de la Danza (PAD) se ha apuntado a la idea organizando un encuentro con bailarines y coreógrafos, performers y actores, directores y dramaturgos, músicos y técnicos, manager y programadores y cualquier persona interesada en este tema (socio de PAD o no). Se hará una primera puesta en común de reflexiones, preguntas e inquietudes en torno a los tres temas principales que se debatirán en el MOV-S

Día: Viernes, 11 mayo, 18 h
Lugar: C/ Eustaquio Barron nº 2 esquina Torreblanca al lado del Pumarejo (Sevilla)

www.asociacionpad.com

La conferencia de apertura de MOV-S 2012 presentará la Fundación de los Comunes.

Es una iniciativa autogestionada, formada por nodos (colectivos independientes) distribuidos por todo el estado y que comparten un propósito común. Es un modelo organizativo interesante de analizar para inspirarse en cómo podemos trabajar unidos para la autogestión de proyectos colectivos. Aborda diferentes líneas de investigación, siendo una de ellas Nuevas realidades culturales.

La Fundación de los Comunes evidencia que las utopías pueden ser realidades si hay un motivo, una comunidad, unos recursos y un modelo de gobernanza para desarrollar un proyecto compartido.

Aquí podéis ver un resumen visual del proyecto.

Research encounters and seminars  @ ICKAmsterdam, NL

Dance, science and technology
The dance field has since few years being very fertile in the production of access to its experiential knowledge. A varied range of artistic lead research projects, online networks and platforms together with the production of choreographic tools have been created. Yet questions around their repercussion, usability and dissemination are of great importance.

New media technologies,  specially the new internet, plays  a great role in the development of this new knowledge paradigm where methods and findings of artistic praxis are placed in the center. Allowing a broad community to have access to process, questions and knowledge generated within artistic environments while reflecting on the meaning, life and potential of the different generated materials, is at this moment of great importance for our artistic field.

Throughout two different programs Notation series aims at providing an interesting overview to the latest gatherings and encounters around dance technology.
This May edition is a collaboration with Marlon Barrios Solano, creator and curator of dance-tech.net and dance-tech.tv (link to sites) as ICKAmsterdam researcher in residency.
12th May
16h00-18h00 Research Encounters
Dance, science and technology with Bertha Bermudez and Marlon Barrios Solano.

During this encounter an overview of previous international encounters at IRCAM around Workshop on movement qualities and physical models visualizations and the Tanzplan Bienale around Digital tools in dance education will be presented by Bertha Bermudez. As a result of his research residency at ICK, Marlon Barrios Solano will present his research On Choreographic Knowledge and its Circulation on the Net.

19th-20th May
Seminars

Eco-systemic Embodiment: from Gregory Bateson and the latest approximations
An Ecology of (EMBODIED) mind(S)
The two seminars are articulated around two documentaries as portals for the discussions and activities. These two film screening/seminars will explore relevant, influential and polemic ideas from the cybernetics pioneer Gregory Bateson and its latest post-humanist developments in relation with embodied practices.
Day one: May 19th

11am to 3pm
An Ecology of Mind: A Daughter’s Portrait of Gregory Bateson
Seminar led by Nora Bateson, filmmaker.
Co facilitated by Marlon Barrios Solano
The art of thinking in terms of systems is a practice that requires all faculties of cognitive process. It takes effort to expand the context to include a perspective that can effectively hold the interrelationships of the natural world.
Einstein said, “ No problem can be solved at the same level of consciousness that created it”. To get to another level of thinking, different questions have to be asked, from a different perspective.
When Bateson asked the question, “What is the pattern that connects the crab to the lobster the orchid to the primrose and the four of them to me, and me to you?”-He pushed our perception to the level of patterning of the interrelationships.

The discussion and usage of Bateson’s  ideas will be brought to a broad range of interdisciplinary focuses, from scientific methodology to parenting, and from biological modeling to artistic processes.
Duration 4 hours
http://www.anecologyofmind.com/thefilm/
http://www.anecologyofmind.com/bateson/
Credits and Nora Bateson’s bio:
http://www.anecologyofmind.com/credits/

Day two: May 20th

11am to 3pm
The Whole Creature: embodied, networked and…out of control
Seminar/workshop based on the documentary Fast, Cheap and out of Control by Errol Morris offering a counterpoint of contemporary ideas of choreography, embodiment, social systems, networks, control, organization and complexity.

Facilitated by Marlon Barrios Solano
Bio:
http://www.dance-tech.net/profile/network_producer
Duration 4 hours

Time: 10:00-14:00
Fee per seminar 50 euro
90 E per both
Max 20 per seminar

Please register by sending an email with your name, email address and telephone number to francieneppens@ickamsterdam.com or phone ICK and ask for Francien +31-(0)20-6167240

   
Charles Atlas: Discount Body Parts
16 March–3 June 2012

De Hallen Haarlem
Grote Markt 16, Haarlem
The Netherlands

www.dehallenhaarlem.nl

This spring, De Hallen Haarlem is presenting Discount Body Parts, Charles Atlas's first ever comprehensive museum exhibition. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1949, Atlas is known above all for his groundbreaking work in collaboration with choreographers and performers like Merce Cunningham, Michael Clark, Yvonne Rainer, and Leigh Bowery. Atlas actively crosses the borders between the fields of dance, performance, and the visual arts. Starting out in New York in the early 1970s, Atlas was part of the first generation of artists to explore the artistic possibilities of video. With dancer/choreographer Merce Cunningham, a close collaborator for much of his career, Atlas developed what he described as 'media dance,' a radically new way of incorporating the camera into live performance. Rather than using the camera as a static recording device, Atlas and Cunningham started to develop pieces in which it played an active part in the choreography. Much of the exhibition will be devoted to a video installation that fills the whole of the room, highlighting these collaborations with Cunningham, whose dance company gave its last performance on 31 December 2011.

MC9
Discount Body Parts brings together several crucial aspects of Atlas's artistic practice. In the sweeping multi-channel video installation, which is entitled MC9, excerpts from his long-time collaboration with Merce Cunningham (1919-2009) are combined into an immersive audio-visual environment. Using footage from twenty-seven media dances, documentaries, and other material created with Cunningham over a period of forty years, MC9 showcases Atlas's ideas about reinterpreting, editing, and presenting existing material. Freely drawing on his image archive, the artist has developed a synchronized multi-channel video and sound installation that responds to the spatial characteristics of the monumental seventeenth-century exhibition space of De Vleeshal. The installation includes scenes from acclaimed media dances like Fractions (1978), Locale (1980), Channels/Inserts (1981) and Ocean (2011). Atlas has developed an idiosyncratic approach to editing, in which he employs graphic components like monochrome screens and countdown timers—allowing him to precisely (and rhythmically) direct the temporality of each individual screen in relation to the experiential time space of the installation as a whole.

Joints 4Tet
In addition to MC9 and single screen 'video portraits' like Teach, 99, and Ten, the exhibition will host another whole-room multi-channel installation: Joints 4tet for Ensemble (1971-2010). The installation combines footage from a series of Super-8 colour films made by Atlas and Cunningham in 1971, to which Atlas added unpublished ambient recordings by John Cage in 2010. Joints 4tet for Ensemble is a four-channel installation that plays out over a constellation of ten different sized monitors. The monitors are lit by a couple of slowly panning theatre lights that throw dramatic shadows on the walls of the exhibition space. The footage shows close-ups of Merce Cunningham's wrists, elbows, ankles, and knees, testifying to the dancer's unique physicality. Atlas and Cunningham filmed outside the studio on a warm afternoon, after a rehearsal in California. By adding Cage's soundtrack, which was recorded in different cities that Cage travelled to with Cunningham in the 1980s, and is made up chiefly of the sounds of the city, Atlas subtly pits the individual fragility of the human body against the immersive chaos of the urban environment. In this work, as in MC9, notions of the fragmented body, and of the fragment versus the whole, are linked to the medium-specific possibilities of the multi-channel video installation.

Curated by Xander Karskens


Charles Atlas's work has been represented in the collection of De Hallen Haarlem since 2009. His films Nevada and Floor (both 1974), made in collaboration with choreographer Douglas Dunn, are important works in the museum's collection of performative film and video art.

Charles Atlas's widely-exhibited work was recently shown in the South London Gallery, the New Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. His work is currently part of the Whitney Biennial. In the past few years De Hallen Haarlem has shown Atlas's films in several group exhibitions, such as He disappeared into complete silence (2011) and Body/Space Mechanics (2010). Alongside Charles Atlas's exhibition, De Hallen Haarlem also presents the solo exhibition La Vache Qui Rit by Hamid el Kanbouhi, and a display of recent acquisitions.

De Hallen Extra
21 May 2012, 8pm
Screening of Charles Atlas's film Hail the New Puritan (1987) and a Q&A session with the artist.
Venue: Toneelschuur, Lange Begijnestraat 9, Haarlem, the Netherlands. Admission: EUR 9.
Tickets from www.toneelschuur.nl

On Tuesday, May 15, 2012, Time/Food will open as a temporary restaurant at the Stella Art Foundation in Moscow, offering lunch in exchange for time credits that can be earned through the Time/Bank community.

The Time/Food restaurant, located at 7 Skaryatinsky Pereulok, will be open May 15 – June 28, 2012, Thursdays through Sundays, from 2–4 pm. The daily lunch menu will feature recipes by a group of artists who like to cook, including Martha Rosler, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Carolina Caycedo, Julieta Aranda, Paul Chan, Ingrid Erstad, Liam Gillick, Superflex, Pierre Huyghe, Alejandro Cesarco, Mariana Silva, Raqs Media Collective, AA Bronson, Anton Vidokle, Sina Najafi/Cabinet, and others.

Time/Food is a fully functional restaurant inspired by the Mexican comida corrida—informal restaurants serving home-style meals of several courses at a fixed price during lunch time.  The price of a meal at Time/Food is One Half-hour.

Time/Food will include a special program of public talks and conversations on art and politics, organized in cooperation with Ekaterina Degot and Openspace.ru, featuring speakers such as Franco Berardi (Bifo), Martha Rosler, Keti Chukhrov, Sarah RIfky, Boris Groys, Alexander Skidan, Liam Gillick, Rirkrit Tiravanija and others. The full schedule will be posted shortly.

LITTERAURBAN EVENTS is now accepting submissions for emerging choreographers/ artist who would like to present their works into an evening cabaret show @ Manhattan NYC.

 Any genre of dance, performance art, dance film & media based dance productions & or small scale or solo musician/bands with dance combos will be considered.
Works submitted by applicants should be adaptable to small theaters, loft style art spaces, restaurant spaces and hotel bar & lounges.

Dance submissions must be original choreography and material and cannot be more than eight minutes long. We will need to receive a video of the entire piece you would intend to present. We limit each event to five choreographers.  

Choreographers/ Artist will have the opportunity to tech 30 minutes before the show.

Date List include May (10,17,24,31), June (2,7,9,14,16,21,23,28,30) and July (5,7,12,14,19,21,26,28)

Application Guidelines

- Submit all materials listed on the application via email to litteraurban@gmail.com
- Links of your work
- Name of Dance Company/ Piece/ Group
- Name of Choreographer/ Artist
- Number of Performers
- Lengths
- Tech Requirement, please be aware that most spaces are unconventional dance spaces.
-Contact information phone number and email
-Artist's bio (250 words or less) keep it simple

We are excited to see your work. All applicants will be notified shortly after contacting us

DMAC- Duo Multicultural Arts Center presents

"SANGRE & ARENA" (Blood & Sand)

by ANABELLA LENZU/DANCEDRAMA

WORLD PREMIERE:

Friday, June 1st, 2012 at 8PM

Saturday, June 2nd, 2012 at 8PM

Sunday, June 3rd, 2012 at 2PM

DUO Multicultural Arts Center

62 East 4th Street, NEW YORK CITY

General Admission: $15 /www.smarttix.com or at the door

RSVP recommended: info@AnabellaLenzu.com

A sacrifice enacted before the audience's eyes.

Conceived and directed by Argentinean choreographer Anabella Lenzu, "Sangre y Arena" (Blood and Sand) is a visceral piece of dance-theater that reconnects with the primal impulses that underlie ritual, juxtaposing intellect and instinct.In this interdisciplinary, multimedia production with projections, paints, water, and masks, Lenzu rediscovers ceremony and heritage.

In our fast-paced society, where technological "connectedness" too often replaces real interpersonal connection, "Sangre y Arena" calls for a return to ritual. In a move away from the purely spectacular and presentational side of dance, Lenzu reconnects choreographically with the primal impulses of art and creation.

The sacrifice of the bull is the central image in the ancient cult of Roman Mithraism. The dramatic iconography of Mithraism-the God Mithras is born from a rock, feasts with the Sun and commands the constellations-provides the inspiration for a new movement vocabulary. By reenacting roles in ancient animal-human combat and rites of passage, "Sangre y Arena" explores the tensions between primitive nature and human sophistication. The performers slide between the artistic disciplines of painting, speaking and dancing, while projections show images from the underground temples to Mithras.

"Sangre y Arena" calls for a return to ritual. In a move away from the purely spectacular and presentational side of dance, Lenzu reconnects choreographically with the primal impulses of art and creation.

Choreography: Anabella Lenzu

Music: Geoff Gersh

Vocal Coach: Daniel Pettrow

Dancers: Lauren Ohmer, Julia Lindpaintner & Anabella Lenzu

Light Design: Stephen Petrilli

Photo By Ana Leiva

http://www.AnabellaLenzu.com/

Ya está disponible en la web de MOV-S la programación artística completa del encuentro y del festival que lo acoge, Cádiz en Danza.

Desde el 8 y hasta el 16 de junio, 35 compañías iberoamericanas presentarán sus espectáculos en los teatros y calles de la ciudad de Cádiz. Se contará con la presencia de Israel Galván, Mal Pelo, Kukai, La Veronal, PatriciaCaballero y Cristian Duarte entre muchos otros.

La programación completa se puede consultar en www.mov-s.org/programacion/calendario . En el siguiente vídeo, podéis ver imágenes de las propuestas.

La Plataforma CRIM (Creadores Independientes en Movimiento) es uno de los invitados a participar en las mesas de trabajo que tendrán lugar en Cádiz durante los días del encuentro MOV-S. En concreto, participará en la mesa que tratará el tema Movilidad y visibilidad.

Los miembros de la plataforma han organizado una mesa redonda no convencional sobre el tema para, previamente, recoger información, impresiones y opiniones de cualquier persona interesada en ir.

Será un encuentro informal y divertido alrededor de un vermut acompañado de acciones e intervenciones diversas. Se espera la participación de los miembros de la plataforma así como de bailarines, coreógrafos, performers, actores, directores y dramaturgos, músicos y técnicos, managers y programadores y de todos los agentes interesados en participar activamente en este encuentro.

Día: Domingo 6 de mayo, 12 h
Lugar: Espacio Erre que Erre (c/Ávila, 124, 2B, Barcelona - metro: Laguna o Marina).
¿Qué tienes que llevar? Energía, apetito y tus ideas y experiencias sobre visibilidad y movilidad

www.plataformacrim.wordpress.com

Hello,

 dance-tech.TV main video site has  been hacked.

 We are  trying to solve the issue.

Al video content is available in all dance-tech.tv  video hosting sites:

http://vimeo.com/dancetechtv
https://www.youtube.com/user/dancetechtv/
http://blip.tv/dancetechtvbliptv

To watch live streams go to the LIVEStream channels:

dancetechtvLIVE:

http://www.livestream.com/dancetechttvlive

daplabTV

http://www.livestream.com/daplabtv

Enjoy and thank you for understanding!

Marlon

   ‘DANCE AND HOMEMADE’

 Artist Commission  

 Scheme

2012

Chisenhale Dance Space is a home for experimentation in dance and performance. Situated in the heart of Tower Hamlets for over 30 years.

True to its roots Chisenhale Dance Space continues to challenge perceptions and understandings of what dance and performance can be.

Are you a Dancer or movement Artist? Are you interested in making new and risky work? ‘Dance and the Homemade’ is a project offering funding, expert mentoring, space and advice!

Artistic Commissions Scheme: Call out for artists who want to make new work that is risky, or takes them in a new direction in their practice, to apply for up to £2000 of cash this June!

Applications from both early career and more established artists to develop new work or take the next step in their career is encouraged.

To apply go to www.chisenhaledancespace.co.uk and download the application guidelines along with the application and monitoring form.

Deadline 8^th June 2012

Chisenhale Dance Space 64-84 Chisenhale Road, London E3 5QZ

Tel: 02089816617

http://www.tanzfabrik-berlin.de/wsbescheibung.php?d1=2012-07-09&d2=2012-07-13#26

Wir improvisieren mit der Kamera und entwickeln Videomaterial aus improvisiertem Tanz. Kameratechniken wie ‘in-camera editing’ (das gleichzeitige Editieren und Filmen) helfen uns, mit der Kamera in Bewegung und mit dem Körper im Tanz zu bleiben. Grundwissen im Umgang mit der Kamera erwünscht. Bitte eigene Kamera mitbringen wenn vorhanden.

This workshop explores ways of improvising with the camera and ways in which improvised dance can be used to generate video dance material. We will experiment with how camera techniques can capture the spontaneity, energy, presence and connection to the audience of an improvised dance performance. Practising in-camera editing techniques will help us to stay in motion and close to the creative, aesthetic and philosophical aspects of dancing on screen. Katrina will facilitate this process in a balance between active moving and filming, between teaching, experimentation, enquiry and support to the group.

Katrina McPherson (UK) is one of the world’s leading screendance artists; author of Making Video Dance (Routledge 2006); director of multi-award-winning film There is a Place, a collaboration with Chinese-Tibetan dancer Sang Jijia; Force of Nature, a performance documentary featuring Kirstie Simson. www.makingvideodance.com

Mittwoch_11.7._15.30 h
Film-Screening Force of Nature

Donnerstag_12.7._15.30 h
Workshopshowing Capturing Moving Images

Tanzfabrik Berlin/Kreuzberg
Möckernstr. 68, 10965 Berlin

Broadcasting LIVE from Chile CONTACT: communication technologies & the spatiality of encounter, new performance practices in Chile on dance-tech.tvLIVE

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

http://adauniacc.wordpress.com/

2012/2/6 F wrote :

Dear Emmelie, 

thank you for the lovely hours, the whole encounter was very inspiring,

I will def come back to the book, but not right now. I will take my time and see how a new performance will work. 

But I know already that the emphasis on reception (a word i never really cherished until this weekend) really struck me in its effects - especially in a ‘dance’ mixed with people from other diciplines-context. It seems almost that dance is so much about doing, that it is still hard to be actively passive with dance or physicality. 

Also the moment with Julian and the girl who’s name i forgot, being hesitant to move with the script (although of course it was the challenge to not move upon any script at all outside the inner body - the intimacy of the reader you indicated a few times also meant a lot to me) struck me, as if dance needs an allowance, an approval, is not a tool, like the writers wrote and i guess a musician would have taken his instrument and think through it …

anyway, many issues surfacing, great work you do telling al these apart and keep them at close hand at the same time, really wonderful

(.....)

a bientôt, j’espère, warm regards, fransien

PISO como plataforma de la improvisacion

en plancha HOY martes 24, 1:30 Inter Metro, Puerto Rico

en plancha este  jueves 26 en el lote, Cinema Paradiso en la calle Loiza, Puerto Rico

junto a los estudiantes y profesoras del Departamento de Arquitectura de la Politecnica.

como plataforma para la improvisacion:en la Trienal. 28 abril hasta agosto 2012.

Arsenal de la Puntilla, VSJ, Puerto Rico

en plancha, en un espacio performativo: DanceSpace Project, NYC, mayo 19, 2012

en plancha fuera del area metro este verano 2012, Puerto Rico.

aun esperamos por nuestra primera respuesta afirmativa a varias propuestas que hemos solicitado

esta es una manera de apoyar este proyecto AHORA.

http://igg.me/p/36447?a=208955

gracias

Seeking funding to present Bandwidth: Interactive Installation at Lumens Festival Staten Island, June 23, 2012

Short film of 2011 exhibit in Guelph, Ontario.

https://vimeo.com/35085077

I am trying to use Indiegogo for the first time to fund my project.

http://igg.me/p/92054?a=439358

Please help me out by sharing widely.

Bandwidth: Interactive Installation is a fun exhibit that blurs the boundary between video game, installation and visual music.

I have been invited to exhibit on Staten Island during the Lumens Festival on June 23rd.

Thanks for any help you can give. My problem with crowdsourcing is that my crowd are all artists too -- seeking funding for their own projects. Any helpful tips are welcome too.

Best wishes for all you do,

Victoria Gibson

WATCH on dance-tech.tv

From 20 to 24 August 2012 the international summer course will for the second time organised by two  schools, accredited by the state of Geneva and members of the CEGM: The dance department of the Conservatoire Populaire de Musique (CPMDT) and the Ecole de Danse de Genève (EDG).
You may find more details on our SUMMER pages.

The course is aimed at dance students from 12 to 23 years old, level intermediate to advanced.

-Ballet
-Contemporary
-Wayne McGregor Repertoire workshop

Guest teachers : Yoko Ichino, Gabor Varga and Odette Hughes