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Sergi Faüstino
Sergi nos ha pasado este apetito sobre Estilo Internacional, sobre el ir trabajando y el ir entendiendo conforme se trabaja, sobre el cansancio, sobre el correr, sobre un hacer que muta en relación a los espacios, sobre el hacer sin representar, …
Esto no es una explicación.
Vladimir Miller
Renegotiating the Space: Interview with Vladimir Miller
Una entrevista entre Vladimir Miller y Dmitry Paranyushkin sobre estrategias en relación al espacio y cómo este puede facilitar la renegociación de ciertos comportamientos, interacciones, pensamientos y relaciones entre los participantes.
Bea Fernández
de lo invisible durante el proceso en Pontós Girona
no se porqué a veces se me escapa hacer los puntos de las íes con un circulito en
vez de con un punto,..dicen que es signo de egocentrismo… otros dicen inmadurez
y también falta de afecto?? no sé…… donde me debo colocar.
Será que tengo un hígado congestionado?
Cada vez que vuelvo al estudio sola, cada vez que vuelvo a empezar, tengo que
ponerme al día con este cuerpo que me encuentro, este cuerpo que ha vuelto a
cambiar………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
Hoy he intentado activar mi abdomen, estaba abandonado y mis lumbares doloridas,
he abierto espacio y para eso necesito ir en contra de la gravedad.. con lo que a
mí me gusta ir a favor…………………………………..¿que es la continuidad?
Me monto estrategias para movilizar todas las partes y sin querer la memoria
empieza a trabajar con materiales antiguos, me vienen instantes de espectáculos
pasados………hoy he intentado trabajar con la sequedad y fuerza muscular de Bajo
cantos rodados, sin rescatar la forma…………………………………………………..era un
cuerpo+ingenuo-experimentado pero con mucha pasión esa que tiene el cuerpo
del PRINCIPIANTE.
Masu Fajardo escribió desde el contexto de la última edición el Festival A ras de
suelo (Las Palmas, 2010) esta reflexión sobre la pieza creada por Bea Fernández:
"Este texto es simplemente una reflexión a posteriori como aquellas que me gusta
hacer cuando entiendo que algo tiene una potencia que no está únicamente en su
estimulación más directa, sino que detrás, abajo, o no sé donde, hay una esencia
muy sencilla, y con esto me refiero a muy humana."
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Sònia Gómez Sònia en casa y en acción...
Durante todo el mes de marzo iremos publicando en este Blog diferentes Apetitos relacionados con los artistas que presentan sus trabajos o propuestas en LP’11.
Los apetitos-fuentes son textos, vídeos, audios, imágenes (vamos, cualquier cosa que podamos colgar o de la que podamos daros la referencia a través de la red) que no tienen porqué estar directamente relacionados con el trabajo específico que el artista o teórico presentará en LP’11. A veces los apetitos serán invitaciones en las que los artistas os propondrán una reflexión sobre cuestiones que les ocupan o que transitan por su obra en general, otras serán textos o entrevistas en vídeo en los que se cuestionan el contexto o el medio. En otros casos no serán materiales propios, sino citas de textos o imágenes que les han servido como fuentes, como motores, como inspiración; en algunos casos serán breves filmaciones de otros trabajos que no se presentarán en LP’11 y, en ocasiones, reflexiones críticas de otros autores sobre obras anteriores o relatos de experiencias pasadas…
Los apetitos son una forma de invitaros a abrir la mirada y acercarnos a los diferentes autores que conforman ese cuerpo múltiple que es LP’11.
¡Bon appétit!
Aquí va un primer aperitivo en “acción”: “I’m going to perform one of my musical compositions….” John Cage
John Cage performing “Water Walk” in January, 1960 on the popular TV show I’ve Got A Secret
Discover Spider Galaxies, the new creation of the Cie Gilles Jobin, in pre premiere on March 3rd at 4 pm for the opening of the Swiss Dance Days festival in Bern.
After the heady Black Swan he created in 2009, Gilles Jobin commits himself further into movement with this new piece. Accompanied by 4 iconographer dancers, he conceives elaborate generators of figurative abstraction, while Cristian Vogel and Carla Scaletti invoke the particles and Daniel Demont disperses the spectrum. Protean, infinitely large or infinitesimal, such are the Spider Galaxies…
More information on the cie's website
ABSTRACT
Politically engaged art practices have been important inputs for feminist theory throughout history. In the contemporary art landscape, the work of Spanish multimedia artist Jaime del Val proves to be as innovative as it is provocative in how it reflects complex phenomena – from the undoing of traditional understandings of bodies and identities, to the capitalism of affects and the influence of surveillance technologies. Del Val's expressive strategies such as combining urban interventions with microcameras, and dance movements electronically coded and turned into visual images, create engaged artistic projects such as his ‘Antibodies of Surveillance’ and ‘European TelePlateaus’, respectively. The interview format allows for the exchange of first-hand information from a creative and multidisciplinary posthuman standpoint that questions dichotomous thinking in terms of sex/gender, human/non-human, activism/academy, ability/disability, among others. The result is a mapping of the work of this transnational artist that might inspire fruitful debates on ways to develop alternatives for social, cultural and political change.
assuminggender.com
In Volume 1, Issue 2
Autumn 2010
http://www.assuminggender.com/2010/11/cecilia-gordano-pangendered-cyborg-of.html
Seriously, when there is no music all I hear is the scuffing and dragging of feet and for the youth-fully challenged, some joints popping. Unless I watch a video of you dancing and the music has been either disabled by youtube or there is simply no sound available.
I challenged you dancers to show me a dance sequence without any music. Why? Well, what else can a DJ blog about on a 'dance' blog?
What if you could have music made specifically to your talent, speed or routine? How about a sound-alike music track? Matched precisely to your desire.
I use to customize a dozen songs for aerobic instructors. Just a thought.
Thank You,
Roman-Gabriel
MotionFrames is an integrative installation that explores evolving dance images under software controlled video playback. A collaborative project in the generation of an aesthetic environment that conveys the urban landscape of the city and movement artists from Switzerland. Under the direction of composer Cristian Vogel, dancers from Bern will create video clips that feature the interaction between dancers, the environments of the city and real time software processing. These clips will be displayed during the festival and participating artists of the festival will be offered to participate and create new content. Content will be updated daily during the festival.
Conception: Cristian Vogel and Gilles Jobin
Direction: Cristian Vogel and Marlon Barrios Solano
Programming: Cristian Vogel
Production: Gva Dance Media Lab/Cie Gilles Jobin
In collaborations with Bern dancers:
Marion Ruchti
Marcel Leemann
Dominique Cardito
Ismael Oiartzabal
Maja Brönnimann
Azusa Nishimura
Emma Murray
Motion Frames has been initially developed in the Gva Sessions Made In Yokohama/Japan in summer 2010 and it is the inaugural project of the Gva DanceMedia Lab/Cie Gilles Jobin
Upcoming this summer!
GVA Sessions 011
Dialog: Sound and Movement
July 16th - 23rd 2011
Contact: gvasessions11@gillesjobin.com
Studios 44,
44, rue de la Coulouvrenière, Geneva
Switzerland
Don’t miss the 3 projects of Cie at 8th edition of the Swiss Dance Days from March, 3 till 6 in Bern (Switzerland)!!
> Spider Galaxies
Discover Spider Galaxies, the new creation of the Cie Gilles Jobin, in pre premiere on March 3rd at 4 pm for the opening of the festival and on March 4th at 8 pm.
> A+B=X
The Cie Gilles Jobin will present an excerpt of the first group piece of the choreographer, A+B=X (creation 1997), on Saturday, March 5th at 2:30 pm.
> Motion Frames
Integrative installation directed by Cristian Vogel and Marlon Barrios - March, 3rd till 6th.
The dancers will create video clips that feature the interaction between dancers, urban environments and real time software processing. These clips will be displayed during the festival, and artists present at the festival will have the opportunity to participate and create new content.
It is the inaugural project of the Gva Dance Media Lab.
Conception: Cristian Vogel and Gilles Jobin.
PLEASE CIRCULATE
Call for papers
Music and Gesture : 2nd Musical Itineraries Forum
Lisbon, Portugal, 28 and 29 October, 2011
The Center for the Study of Sociological and Musical Aesthetics – CESEM (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University NOVA of Lisbon), announces the call for papers for the 2nd Musical Itineraries Forum: ‘Music and Gesture’ taking place in Lisbon, 28 and 29 October 2011.
The Musical Itineraries Forum was established in 2010 as a meeting place for interdisciplinary debates and presentation of scientific projects, encouraging the discussion between researchers, performers, students and creative artists. This Forum promotes an open critical reflection on contemporary subjects in artistic practices fields and music and sound discourses and its relationships with other disciplines. Its main purposes are: 1) to address innovative areas of research in the fields of music and sound and establish synergies between a variety of scientific and artistic domains providing e opportunities for meeting and discussion between artists and researchers from diverse origins, as well as promoting the crossover between theory and practice; 2) to establish dynamic and interdisciplinary methodologies that will contribute to “the state of art” advances in this field of study, revisiting and highlighting scientific questioning and providing the opportunity for collaboration between national and international researchers.
The 2nd Musical Itineraries Forum, dedicated to music and gesture will focus on the study of the relationships between sound, music, gesture, performing arts and technology. A reflection on how the discourses of identity, culture, power and knowledge are encoded in body gestures involved in artistic expression, links the main lines of thought to be presented at this Forum. Theater, dance, audiovisual, new technologies, and their crossover with sound and musical expression are the areas on which reflection and debate will be developed, particularly in relation to the representation and dramaturgy of gesture. Keynote speakers will include Atau Tanaka (Director of Culture Lab, Newcastle University), Adam Parkinson (Culture Lab, Newcastle University) and Paulo Ferreira de Castro (Universidade Nova de Lisboa).
We invite all those interested to submit their paper proposals for a 20-minute presentation, on the above topics and including title, abstract (up to 2000 characters) and five keywords. We also request a brief biography (up to 1500 characters), a phone number and an email address, as indicated on the attached form. Proposals should be submitted via email until 16th March 2011 to itinerariosmusicais@gmail.com and cesem@fcsh.unl.pt.
The acceptance of proposals will be communicated until the 10th of April 2011. All additional informations on the 2nd Musical Itineraries Forum can be found at the CESEM’s website: http://cesem.fcsh.unl.pt.
Forum Topics:
1. Gesture, Body, Sound and Space
2. Sound, Gesture, New technologies
3. Sociology of Performance Practices: discourse, representation, power and mediation
4. Gesture Ontologies and Performative Practices
By decision of the Scientific Committee any proposals that do not address these topics may however be included in a free communication session.
Coordination:
Paula Gomes Ribeiro and Isabel Pires
Scientific Committee:
Carlos Sena Caires (EA / UCP), Isabel Pires (CESEM / UNL), Isabel Valverde (IHSIS), Luís Sousa (CESEM / UNL), Paula Gomes Ribeiro (CESEM / UNL)
Organizing Committee (CESEM):
Beatriz Serrão, Ernesto Donoso, João Romão, Luzia Rocha, Manuela Oliveira, Rui Araújo
Calendar:
Proposal Submissions: from 20th January to16th March 2011
Acceptance Notification: until April 10th 2011.
Language:
Portuguese, English and French
Subscriptions:
Subscription with communication including two meals : 50€
Subscription with communication without meals : Free
Entrance is free
Organization:
CESEM, FCSH, UNL
Subscription Form / Proposals Submission
2nd Musical Itineraries Forum: Music and Gesture
Lisbon, 28 and 29 October 2011
Please complete the following information and send to itinerariosmusicais@gmail.com and cesem@fcsh.unl.pt
First Name:
Last Name:
University or Institution / Profession:
Address:
City:
Postal Code:
Country:
Telephone / Mobile:
Email:
Paper Title
Abstract (up to 2000 characters):
5 keywords:
Supplementary Informations:
Musical Itineraries Forum : itinerariosmusicais@gmail.com
CESEM (Centro de Estudos de Sociologia e Estética Musical)
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Av. de Berna, 26-C 1069-061 Lisboa Portugal
cesem@fcsh.unl.pt
Tel. (351) 217 908 300 ext. 1496 Tm. (351) 96 555 37 55
Our archive is a treasure chest! This week we uploaded a serious of great videos both performances & documentaries of/about Stelarc's ground breaking works from 90's!
If you are as intrigued as we are by his works we are confident that you'll enjoy the videos /documentations.
Please check it out:
http://www.v2.nl/archive/people/stelarc
MoveStream 05 - Screendance | Scandinavia
11 February 2011
Interview with Rannvá Káradóttir
This interview is one of the many that I will be uploading as part of MoveStream's focus on dance videos/films made in the Scandinavian countries. The series investigates the directorial choices that Scandinavian filmmakers make and asks more specifically about the dark emotional tone that is seemingly present in most of the works coming from Northern Europe. It will explore this and ask why - is it psycho-geographic? or....
Margaret Sharrow says about Magma after visiting Liverpool Biennial. "It may be apparent by now that I have longed to go to the Faroes for many years. This film was far more than imaginative transport, however. It seemed not to posit an impossible relationship between the people and the landscape; instead the black-clad figures became high-speed embodiments of the geological ultraslow dance of the land itself - the magma..."
Rannvá Káradóttir was in Copenhagen last week to show her dance film BOW which won the DFA Dance for Camera Jury Award in NYC in Jan 2011. I asked her about her screendance work Magma, and what makes it so surreal and other.
Magma is the first film in The Cycle, a series of 8 experimental short films that embrace and discover movement through camera. The films are shot in the extreme and wild landscapes of a remote group of islands far up in the North Atlantic Ocean, The Faroe Islands. Fragmented stories are unraveled in these open and empty spaces, enhanced by the uncontrollable and extreme weather conditions that have an important character in all the films.
To read more about The Cycle, visit www.rammatik.blogspot.com
Interview
Shot and edited by
Jeannette Ginslov
Location
Dansehallerne Copenhagen Denmark
MoveStream is a co-production with www.dance-tech.net
Laura Taler, maker of the wonderful A VERY DANGEROUS PASTIME and Village Trilogy, said during her talk at Dance on Camera Festival that one of her professors urged her to use proprioceptive writing as a part of her practice. "Through PW you learn to listen to your thoughts with impassioned curiosity, reflect on them imaginatively, and set them free."
Put on music that can run for 25 minutes, listen to your thoughts and play on them in print daily.
According to Wikipedia
"Proprioception (pronounced /ˌproʊpri.ɵˈsɛpʃən/ PRO-pree-o-SEP-shən), from Latin proprius, meaning "one's own" and perception, is the sense of the relative position of neighbouring parts of the body.
In 1906, Charles Scott Sherrington published a landmark work that introduced the terms 'proprioception', 'interoception', and 'exteroception'. The 'exteroceptors' are the organs responsible for information from outside the body such as the eyes, ears, mouth, and skin. The interoceptors then give information about the internal organs, while 'proprioception' is awareness of movement derived from muscular, tendon, and articular sources."
Suggestions to get started...
soak in the natural world
close your eyes and take slow, deep breaths.
Artists around the world are constantly inspired by the beauty, struggles, culture and history of South Africa. Paul Simon's Graceland introduced its musical roots to the pop culture mainstream. Athol Fugard exposed its dramatic wisdom. Now, another South African auteur is taking the pulse of her country's complex social reality.
Robyn Orlin is known for work that can be subversive, outrageous, provocatively humorous, and visually arresting. From her early days as a choreographer during the Apartheid era, Orlin has made a career of confronting taboo subjects with a heightened, vaudevillian theatricality that aims to test and redefine ideas about South African performance.
