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Courtesy of Foofwa d'Imobilité http://www.foofwa.com/ Part I: Inter-face to face-view Merce Cunningham interviewed by Foofwa d'Imobilité - July 29 2000 - Vienna, Austria - 23 minutes – “I knew that Merce had a video camera, so I gave him a cassette and asked him to record me as I was recording him. It gave an informality to the interview, which I like. The interview is important to me because it shows that Merce wanted his work to survive him, as he says it in numerous interviews until 2008. I happen to have it on tape.” - FdI "Merce-Art Forever!" project « Merce-Art Forever! » is a project by Foofwa d'Imobilite / Neopost Ahrrrt about the legacy of Merce Cunningham. It is composed of interviews, readings, manifestos, dialogs, and different viewpoints, all related to the present, past, and future of Merce's work. It is a way to study and promote this legacy, which is certainly one of the most important for dance in the past century. Foofwa will make these documents available to the public for free and non-commercial distribution, sharing (with credits of course) being the ultimate goal. Check www.merce.org for more information on the Living Legacy Plan and activities of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
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The Best Dance of the 00s

The best dance of the 00s!First but not least, in 2008 Barack dances his way to his new task in Dance Off!In 2006 the Bande à Part dance is shown for the first time at You Tube.i.e. All All Over Over All All et. al by Mårten Spångberg and Tor Lindstrand is shown at The House of Dance in Stockholm, Sweden in 2002. Giving insight into the way images of images of images are produced, reproduced and mediatised.Now going back to the future, I look back to January 2009 and the T-mobile Dance that is presented at Liverpool Street Station in London. There is a clear aim; to increase the market value of this specific product, and to have a dancing moment at one of the most busy places in London.The piece Xavier Le Roy is created in 2000 with Jérôme Bel as its author and Xavier Le Roy as its creator. This piece, at the dawn of the new Century, indicates an increase of the dancer him/herself as author/creator/mediator. I haven't seen this piece but heard and talked about it, experienced it through the magic of reference. Maybe someone else have had a first person encounter with this piece?Who would have thought that the dance with one of the decade's largest audience (have had more than 133 million spectators up until today) would be an American motivational speaker doing a dance remix? Here's Evolution of Dance from 2006.What's your best dance of the 00s?
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As a new year feature we are honored to be able to stream the documentary Networked Cultures directed by Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer, 2008 (105 min.) With an emphasis in translocal exchanges and collaboration Networked Cultures provides a filmic archive of practitioners from the fields of art, architecture, theory and activism talking about their collaborative work in the light of global cultural transformation. The film features conversations with Özge Açıkkol, Azra Akšamija, Ayreen Anastas, Ricardo Basbaum, Helmut Batista, Jochen Becker, Ursula Biemann, Sylvie Blocher, Stefano Boeri, Katherine Carl, Branka Ćurčić, François Daune, Igor Dobričić, Iacopo Gallico, Erden Kosova, Olga Lopoukhova, Margarethe Makovec, Philipp Oswalt, Kyong Park, Marta Paz, Tadej Pogačar, Marjetica Potrc, Oliver Ressler, Irit Rogoff, Marco Sančanin, Güneş Savaş, Florian Schneider, Pablo de Soto, Srdjan Jovanović Weiss, Eyal Weizman and Seçil Yersel. For more information on the Networked Cultures project see: www.networkedcultures.org You can also watch it the dance-techTV page on dance-tech.net page or in the dance-techTV page in Livestream
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Breaking eggs

Did anyone predict a year ago how apt would be the idiomatic expression ‘You can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs.’ So many metaphoric omelettes have been made in the last year and so many “eggs”/ lives have been broken, so many systems and structures have been shaken. According to the internet site, The Phrase Finder, this expression is a loose translation from the Russian phrase "to chop down a forest, splinters will fly" ("lyes rubyat, shchepki letyat") . Both the Russian and English expressions have survived for a century because of their ability to create instant understanding of the chaotic repercussions of change. Not all of us who profess to want change are fully prepared to duck those “flying splinters.”Director/dancer Naomi Stikeman from Canada along with choreographer Crystal Pite filmed an unforgettable image in their 2009 Bravo!FACT supported short PINK NAVIGATOR.
We see a woman extend her leg out of bed to gingerly place an erotically arched barefoot on a floor strewn with eggs. The eggs, outside the kitchen and the barnyard, seem to be a poetic displacement and a potent symbol of birth bypassed. As the dancer gracefully passes through the treacherous terrain, leaving the eggs intact, we appreciate her deft avoidance of walking on egg shells.The 2010 Dance on Camera Festival offers a treasure of uncanny images. Perhaps more than the virtuosity of dancers (though we are thoroughly charmed by that of the Cambodian artist Sokvannara Sar as profiled in DANCING ACROSS BORDERS) or screen adaptations of superb stage works (though hinted at in URBAN BALLET), the participants in the Dance on Camera Festival will remember the bold, personal images, the visual language of the filmmakers.At press time, I am excited about the prospect of meeting this Saturday Blanca Añón, the set designer of CINETICA, one of the shorts nominated by the Jury for the Festival prize. The environments she created for this short directed by Ana Cembrero are extraordinary. A New York University/MFA Candidate, 2012, Blanca is here from her native country Spain, working on a visual and dramaturgical research project titled, “Evolution of the Christian Church Space.” What a provocative area of study. How indeed did the spiritual space for each religion become defined? How do dancers, many who consider their performing space sacred, create the environments that fully communicates what they have to share.Many have set the value of dance films, the pursuit of making dance films as akin to creating a language that can be universally understood. In place of written symbols or sounds, the dance filmmaker's means of communicating is through images that involve the body, mind, spirit. No need to rush out to buy the Rosetta Stone software to understand the language of dance films. It doesn't exist yet. But how can one learn the secrets of communicating with the language of dance films? Start by attending the next Dance On Camera Festival!
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For the 5th edition of the Bains numériques digital arts international festival (11-19 June 2010), the centre des arts isorganising an international competition for creations mixing “dance” and “new technologies”. This international call for project proposals is the first step of the competition and aims at pre-selecting hybrid stage forms, in the process of being created. After examination of the application forms, artistic committees will select eight international projects, including one created on the African continent. These selected pieces will be presented in a “condensed” form at the Bains numériques#5 festival from 17 to 19 June 2010. The selected teams of artists will be auditioned by a jury, in public, over those three days. Two of the eight works presented will be awarded prizes at the closing ceremony: one “Grand Prize” and one “Prize for Creation”, each prize being associated with a grant and residence time at the centre des arts.CONTACT Amélie SINARD _ project manager / compétition Bains numériques #5 _ asinard@cdarts.enghien95.frwww.bainsnumeriques.fr
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For the 5th edition of the Bains numériques international digital arts festival (12-19 June 2010), the centre des arts is organising aninternational competition for creative works that mix “visual arts” with “new technologies”. This international call for projects is thefirst step of the competition and aims at pre-selecting five visual art projects that are either in progress or recently completed. Eachproposal will in some way or another consider the notion of public space, the diversity of its landscapes and land use, its ebb and flow andthe constraints upon it. The successful installations will be showcased around Enghien-les-Bains as part of a public open-air exhibition.After the applications have been examined, an arts committee will select five international projects. The chosen pieces will bepresented around the city for the duration of the festival. The teams of artists selected will be auditioned by a jury, in public, onWednesday 16 June 2010. To close the festival, the winning project will receive a Creation Award comprising a €4,000 grant, a residency, the programming of a new project as part of the Bains Numériques#6 Festival and distribution assistance.http://www.bainsnumeriques.fr/
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Interactive Dance-Tech Performance this Friday!

This Friday, December 11 at 6pm PST"Fragment 3" is the third fragment in a process-based series that choreographer Ashley Ferro-Murray has been working on since Fall 2008.Exploring the space between digital spectrality and digital saturation, this piece moves through various networks as it leads an audience through various iterations of digital choreographies. Wireless accelerometers used throughout the choreographic process inspire the conceptual context of this piece. These sensors are deleted are not worn in performance to explore the body in movement as it exhibits a digital tone in the absence of digital technology. In contrast to the spectral presence of the sensors, the performance space itself is saturated with digital interface. A live video feed of the real-time performance will be input into French digital installation artist Maurice Benayoun’s online network for artistic collaboration, The Art Collider (TAC). Simultaneously, Ferro-Murray projects real-time images from other artists using TAC.In association with BCNM (Berkeley Center for New Media).To participate:Please find instructions for easy ways to connect to TAC via the Connect and Participate site. I would recommend "Live Camera" if you want to input live video, or "Flowmixer" to input prerecorded and/or mixed material. Then, you can simultaneously connect to other footage from the system by opening up links from other live projects. TAC is a fairly new project that is still in the final development stages, but the system seems to be working quite well. I will project a sampling of any material in the network throughout my performance.Also, if you are in the area this event is free and open to the public. You'll find us in Banatao Auditorium in Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley.
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Digitale Afrique

Incident (Art et Technologies), Netart Online Platform (Paris), Trias Culture (Cultural Company, Dakar), doual'art (Contemporary Art Center, Douala) and MCD (Musiques & Cultures Digitales - Paris) magazine initiate together a Paper and a Web-based Publication Project called « Digitale Afrique », which aims to realize an inventory and a Cartography of Digital Creation on the African Continent.Digitale Afrique missions are to strengthen networks in the field of Digital Creation on the entire African Continent, to inventory resources and actors like artists, technicians, researchers, structures of education, production, distribution and fundraising, networks and tools that support African Digital Creation in all its forms, from Open Source code to Artworks.Digitale Afrique answers to an increasing interregional and international demand of identification of Digital Arts Professionals in Africa. The initiatives about Digital Creation exist but they are isolated, not interconnected. The visibility in this field is insufficient, internationally and locally.Main cultural manifestations already included Digital Art, such as Dak'Art Contemporary African Art Biennale in Dakar since 2002. Time has come to make information circulate, to interconnect people and to proceed to a first state of Digital Creation on the African Continent.This inventory will be realized by Incident (Art et Technologies) in coordination with Trias Culture and doual'art and with the help of relays based in several cities identified as the most actives in this field in different regions of Africa(such as the Digital Arts Division of the Wits School of Arts in Johannesburg (South Africa). This research will be coordinated and diffused online on digitalafrique.net Website, enabling those involved in the Digital Culture to be connected on a single, dynamic and bilingual platform. The result will be published as a special issue of MCD (Musiques & Cultures Digitales) magazine.Web : http://digitalafrique.net/
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Digital Performances & Cultures

The Digital Performances and Cultures Association animated by Philippe Baudelot is dedicated to the development and to the promotion of the cultural innovation and the arts and the performinds arts involving the new technologies and the sciences:- residences,- programming,- accompaniment of the projects,- research,- events,- training,- interventions in schools,- cultural mediation.DP&C in 2009 :- 2 events in Novela ( Toulouse) -- Co-organisation of Pasta Unica with Cécile Denis, Emmanuelle Raynaut and Cyril Thomas (104 in Paris)- French Video Dances programing in Prisma Forum ( Mexico)- Preparation of a cartography of the digital arts ( Cda Enghien)- Artistic codirection of the Printemps de la Danse (Tunis)- Consultant of Dansoir for the digital artsWeb : http://digitalperformanceculture.blog.fr/Facebook : http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=175652177620&v=wall#/group.php?v=info&gid=175652177620E-Mail : dgitalperfomance@orange.frPhone : ++ 33 (0)6 08 61 05 88Adress : 1 avenue des Pyrénées, 09340 Verniolle, France
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The Digitals Arts Network, or RAN in French, offers a unique platform for the convergence of art, science and industry, removing the barriers between these sectors and opening up a unique space for creation and innovation. The RAN seeks to develop a collaborative approach aimed at fostering exchange, reflection and co-production between artistic, scientific and industrial structures. It promotes the synergy of cross-disciplinary expertise and helps bolster national and international cooperation.OBJECTIVES- To promote interdisciplinary exchanges and reinforce ties between art, science and industry- To pool resources, know-how and methods between digital arts research, production, distribution and training structures- To develop co-production and the joint diffusion of works and tools, and to promote the mobility of those working in the area of digital creation- To communicate on and support training and awareness-raising initiativesMEMBERSThe network currently comprises 31 members located both in France and beyond its borders (6 different nationalities are represented). The members include artistic production and diffusion sites, university research laboratories, industrial R&D hubs, resource and training centers, etc.1. (ars) numerica _ Monbéliard_FR (Nicole et Norbert Corsino)2. A(rt) Passionata_Caen_ FR (Nathalie Saïdi)3. Art Sensitif Nice_FR (Jean-Noël Montagné)4. Artefact – La Laiterie - Les Nuits de l'Ososphère_Strasbourg_FR (Thierry Danet)5. Bodig_Istanbut_TU (Aylin Kaylen)6. Body Data Space_London_UK (Ghislaine Boddington)7. centre des arts_Enghien-les-Bains_FR (Dominique Roland)8. Centre Wallonie Bruxelles_Paris_FR (Christian Bourgoignie)9. Comédie de Caen – Centre Dramatique National de Normandie_Caen_FR (Aurélia Marin)10. Didascalie.net_Paris_FR (Georges Gagneré)11. Digital Flesh - Université Paris 8 _ Saint-Denis_FR (Armando Menicacci & Christian Delécluse)12. Digital Performances & Culture_Toulouse_FR (Philippe Baudelot)13. Ecole Supérieure de l'Image de Poitiers_Poitiers_FR (Emmanuelle Baud & Fabien Maheu)14. Elektra_Montreal_CA (Alain Thibault)15. Espace Multimedia Gantne - Conseil Général du territoire de Belfort_Bourogne_FR (Valérie Perrin)16. Gaw Lab – Dakar Sénégal (Sylviane Diop)17. K-danse_Toulouse_FR (Jean-Marc Matos)18. L'Hexagone, scène nationale de Meylan_Meylan_FR (Antoine Conjard)19. La Ferme du Buisson, scène nationale de Marne la Vallée_Marne-la-vallée_FR (Vincent Eches)20. La Gaïté Lyrique_ Paris_FR (Jérôme Delormas)21. Le Dansoir / L'auteur studio_Paris_FR (Karine Saporta)22. Les Brigittines – centre culturel européen Bruxelles_BE (Véronique Barcelo)23. Lieu Multiple - Espace Mendès France_Poitiers_FR (Patrick Treguer)24. Mains d'Œuvres – CRAS Centre de Ressources Art Sensitif_Saint-Ouen_FR (Agnès Lefoulgoc)25. MCD Musiques & Cultures Digitales_Paris_FR (Anne-Cécile Worms)26. NABI art center_ Seoul_CO (Dooeun Choi)27. Ness El Fen (Tunisie), Syhem Belkodja28. Pôle ICI Industrie de la Créativité et Innovation_Nice_FR (Olivier Echapasse)29. Pôle ModeSCoS Université de Caen Basse-Normandie_Caen_FR (Francis Lestienne)30. Transcultures – centre interdisciplinaire des arts électroniques et sonores _ Mons_BE (Philippe Franck)31. Université Paris 8 - département ATI arts et technologies de l’image_Paris_FR (Marie-Hélène Tramus)RAN PROJECTSProject no. 1 / A cross-disciplinary online digital arts guideThis online guide is designed to be an adaptable, open tool intended for artists, technicians, researchers and programmers. The purpose of this vast “real-time” directory is to inventory and centralize opportunities and expertise in the area of digital arts and, more notably, to draw up a national map of resource sites. The tree diagram refers back to various entries or sections containing information on training opportunities, platforms, university laboratories, corporate R&D centers, etc. The aim is to develop the database in 2010.Project no. 2 / Support for pilot projectsA selection of artistic projects and digital tools (creation of performing arts shows, installations, software and materials) corresponding to a specific call for projects will receive the support of RAN members in 2010. The teams selected will be given the opportunity to complete a “research and creation track” which includes a mobile residency in specific locations (training center, research laboratory, cultural site, etc.) and incorporates critical observation and mediation experiences with the general public. The projects will be followed by a Support Committee and will receive co-production aid from RAN members.Project no. 3 / A Watch on new uses and activities in the area of performing and visual artsThe purpose of this Watch is to draw the attention of institutions and professional organizations to the benefits of building stronger bridges between the professional and university spheres; to implement more pluridisciplinary “Art and Science” training opportunities; and to recognize the new skills and professions emerging in the world of digital arts.1st PUBLICATION ISSUED FROM A RAN EXPERIENCECorps digitals en scène is a hybrid publication (book + DVD), both a reflective piece and a documentary. It was inspired by two concrete experiences: the 2nd Bains Numériques Festival (held on October 24-26, 2007, in Enghien-les-Bains, France) and the Digital Art Network (RAN), via the network’s “pilot experiences” that bring together researchers, creators and critical observers for cooperative projects in various university and cultural sites. (release date: June 2008, co-publication Centre des Arts _ La Lettre Volée)CHARTER OF THE RANA. DEFINITIONThe RAN aims to foster the development of digital arts via artistic, scientific and technical research, production, dissemination and mediation, training and education.B. COMPOSITIONThe RAN is comprised of artistic, scientific and industry research, training, production and dissemination structures working in the domain of digital creation.C. DEONTOLOGIE - CODE OF ETHICSThe RAN does not defend any specific artistic or scientific school of thought. The RAN recognizes the different environments inherent to each of its members and respects the identity, objectives, functioning, artistic policies and means of each member. The aim is to leverage the elements that bring the partners together while preserving their distinguishing characteristics.D. COMMITMENTS- The members of the RAN undertake to:- Promote the intersection between research – production – dissemination – training / art – science – industry by:1. Increasing cooperation between production, training, research and dissemination structures in the field of digital arts2. Strengthening ties between art, science and industry3. Promoting the circulation of knowledge developed in the artistic, scientific and technical realms4. Fostering ties, exchanges of information and collaborative endeavors between cultural, scientific and industry players- Increase the sharing of resources between structures by:5. Facilitating technical and artistic experimentation, exchanges and the sharing of methods and expertise6. Organizing host studios and joint residencies7. Developing the co-productions of works8. Facilitating the joint dissemination of works9. Forging sustainable ties between the network’s participants10. Informing other members of projects- Help support projects by:11. Providing follow-up and support to artists, technicians and researchers for the development of their projects and research12. Planning interdisciplinary exchanges13. Organizing experimental workshops14. Promoting the mobility of artists and works- Communicate and serve as a mediator by:15. Supporting training and awareness-raising actions: workshops, meetings, master classes, etc.16. Disseminating and printing the communication documents and reflection material of the member structures17. Supporting the development of dedicated events and sites18. Lobbying institutions for the protection and development of digital artsContact : ran@cdarts.enghien95.fr
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moves - International Festival of Movement on Screen--- only one week to go! - deadline for open call (films/installations/papers): 13 December 2009 ---MOVES10: FRAMING MOTION | 21-25 APRIL 2010 | LIVERPOOLTHE THEMEUnder the theme “Framing Motion”, moves - the International Festival of Movement on Screen will explore how practitioners choose to frame movement through their choice of setting and context, viewed through the eyes of the director, choreographer, animator,... in defining the boundaries for screen-based works. These can be real worlds or imaginary, abstract, impossible or augmented environments defined by a specific visual intent.In looking at methods of capturing a sense of pulse and energy, we also investigate definitions of stillness. Rather than contradicting our central motif, it is the dialogue of pause-and-release through which motion occurs: capturing - if only for a moment - the essence of life ablaze.ALTERNATIVE ROUTES AWARDmoves is part of Alternative Routes, a European network to encourage the transnational circulation of artistic and cultural works, developing a new route for experimental screen-based work in collaboration with three festivals in Hungary, Iceland and Portugal.By participating in moves10's open call, you and your work enter the Alternative Routes competition with a chance to become part of this exciting network and tour to the partner festivals across Europe!Successful entries will be either nominated for the Alternative Routes PRIZE or the Alternative Routes TOUR:AR Prize: Alternative Routes will take you and your work as far as Iceland, Hungary and Portugal. The prize is a great opportunity to present your work across Europe, meet other artists, visit and get to know other organisations, and promote your work to industry people on international level.AR Tour: Alternative Routes will take your work on tour and showcase it across Europe, using moves (UK), 700IS (Iceland), FRAME Research (Portugal) and INTERMODEM (Hungary) as platforms.note: only Europe-based artists are eligible to enter the AR award.Read more about Alternative Routes and moves here .OPEN CALL FOR ENTRIES (films/installations/papers)Download entry forms from www.movementonscreen.org.uk.Deadline Sunday 13 December 2009 (postmark).Experience, create, debate and tour your work celebrating with us 6 years of moves!
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request

hello every onethis blog is really a request. i'm currently studying a BA (Hons) contemporary dance at Newcastle college in England and as part of this course i have to do a dissertation and i’m doing mine on projection in live dance and if possible i would like to send questionnaire to any one that will fill one in.for any one that is interested please reply with your email address and ill send it via your email.thanks
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Hello dance-techers, this is Marlon, the network producer. It has been a while since the last NEWS message and since them we have passed the 2000 members. A critical mass has formed in dance-tech.net, then it is very important that you create your own network within it.Explore the other members profile, or do an advanced search to find other members in your local/global community and invite them to be your friends or connection. In that way you can manage better your event invitations and other interactions within the site. Work the network!! You can customize your page and share your ideas, work and questions with blog posts, photos and videos, creating public and private groups and also developing and responding to discussion threads. Notice that when you organize you photos in albums they show in the home page. Your participation is what makes the site... Highlights Upcoming LIVE Broadcast: European Tele-Plateaus Performance from The Hellerau, Dresden, Germany, Saturday December 5th 2009 at 20h CEST (Germany time) on Dance-techTV New dance-tech.net interviews: -Watch more than 30 video interviews/performances produced in partnership with Festival Panorama de Danza celebrated in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil last November. Most of them in Portuguese and few in English and Spanish. -CYNETART 2009 Festival and the European Tele-Plateaus Project -On the Balkan Dance Platform with Sasa Asentic which took place in Novi Sad, Serbia from November 1st to 3rd 2009. This project is made possible by a grant of Dance Theater Workshop with major support from the Trust for Mutual Understanding. - The video interview series Notes on Prisma Forum as an attempt to sketch the experience of the Prisma Forum in Mexico at the end of June and beginning of July 2009. Produced in partnership with Critical Correspondence. -About the South American Network of Dance (Red Sudamericana de Danza). Special Collaborators: -Great collection of interviews by Deborah Hustic aka Lomodeedee -Sabine Kraus aka CreationEditor reports about the Kedja Conference celebrated in Oslo, Norway. -dance-tech.net Interviews edited by Ragnar Chacin including an in depth interview with the late Michel Waisvisz (1949-2008) and others with members with the Forsythe Company. RANDOM EXPLORATION OF THE DANCE-TECH.NET INTERVIEWS/ Click this link EXPLORE MORE THAN 80 HOURS OF GREAT PROGRAMS IN DANCE-TECHTV: performance excerpts, documentaries, screendances, podcasts, lectures and more.. TO WATCH PROGRAMS FROM THE BEGINNING CLICK MENU IN THE RIGHT MIDDLE AREA OF THE PLAYER. Then click "Browse On-demand library", then CLICK "FEATURING NOW". THANKS TO ALL DANCE-TECH.NET VIP CONNECTIONS for different kinds of support during Fall 2009

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