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The manifesto of the production: to manufacture desires, images and thoughts. In Luigi Pirandello’s Giganti della montagna, an archaic dream where the elements of life are transfigured into the theatrical rhythm
of visions, the characters ask where the truth lies. And it is the
wizard Cotrone who answers them: “It is in the magic of the theatre.”
Because the wizard is an illusionist, he knows the power of narrative
and its contemporary evolution takes into consideration the “new
scenario of technological change, fed by enlarged reality and
interactive narrative”: these are the words of Marcel.lì Antùnez Roca,
the founder of the Fura dels Baus and inventor of ‘Systematurgy’, a
working method based on interactive drama. Cotrone blends different
genres (theatre, dance, music, visual arts, cartoons) and language with a
high technological density, in a single form. Software developed for
this project makes it possible to manage and interact with devices and
robots, lighting, images, music and sound.

with Alessandro Lombardo, Ettore Scarpa
directed by regia Marcel.lì Antunez Roca
assistant director Vanessa Vozzo
Il Mutamento Zona Castalia (Italy)/ Panspermia S.L. (Spain) / Virtual
reality & Multi Media Park (ASA Lab)/ CIRMA Centro
interdipartimentale di Ricerca su Multimedia e Audiovisivo (Italy)/
Servi di scena opus rt (Italy)/ Festival Temporada Alta (Spain)
with a contribution from Regione Piemonte/ with the support of Sistema
Teatro Torino/ with the collaboration of Fondazione del Circuito
Teatrale del Piemonte
in collaboration with Turin Polytechnic – Degree Course in Cinema and
Media Engineering / Laboratorio Multimediale “Guido Quazza”


Cavallerizza Reale, Maneggio | World première | Length 1h
November 14, 2010 | 8.30 pm

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La Fábrica presents EUROPES, the first meeting in Barcelona to celebrate and explore contemporary European culture

Starting on 21 October, EUROPES is the new festival created by La Fábrica designed to showcase the latest cultural and artistic trends in Europe. Until 14 November it will make the city the epicentre for contemporary European creation.

EUROPES presents a wide range of contents in different areas, including plastic and visual arts, performing arts, music, film, literature, architecture, cuisine and design. The festival features a crosscutting programme that reveals the rich and complex cultural fabric throughout Europe today and which will shake up Barcelona’s cultural calendar with over 250 activities, including screenings, performances, talks, meetings, exhibitions and conferences.

For three weeks, this new city festival will turn Barcelona into a gateway to Europe. In order to reach the widest possible audience, EUROPES is working with the city’s leading cultural centres, including the TNC, MACBA, Gran Teatre del Liceu, Sala Beckett, Museu Picasso, Mercat de les Flors, L’Auditori, and CaixaFòrum, amongst others. They will be joined by 30 civic centres and 36 public city libraries, over 60 art galleries, and a large number of bookshops, art schools, universities and restaurants, among over 200 spaces.

Thanks to this consensus, the festival brings together the city’s many different cultural systems, both public and private. EUROPES aims to be a catalyst for talent that interconnects and reinforces networks, both locally and throughout Europe. This key aspect will ensure that Barcelona can present a wide-ranging programme that will throw the spotlight on the latest creative trends across Europe.

Among the hundreds of activities being held under the umbrella of EUROPES, on 10, 11 and 12 November there will be an unprecedented symposium bringing together the leading production centres in Europe. The 1st Europes Conference on European Production Centres and Platforms will be a three-day meeting designed to share, compare and contrast different lines of action at the top European creation centres, set out new ideas for the future and set up an exchange and communication network between centres to collaborate on short- and medium-term projects.

EUROPES has invited the twenty heads of the top twenty centres from twelve countries in Europe to come to Barcelona, including Alessio Antoniolli, director of Gasworks (United Kingdom), Gerfried Stocker, director and curator of Ars Electronica (Austria), Ludger Orlok, director of Tanzfabrik (Germany), Stine Hebert, new director of the Baltic Art Centre (Sweden), Chus Martínez, chief curator at Macba (Barcelona), and Pablo Berástegui, coordinator of Matadero (Madrid).

EUROPES activities are arranged in three major sections: the Official Programme, containing the bulk of the main activities, mostly linked to some of the city’s benchmark cultural spaces; the OFF Programme, made up of a generous programme of parallel activities to enrich the Official Programme; and WelcomeEUROPES, created by EUROPES with Barcelona training and education centres, including a range of exchange activities, a pilot bedsharing programme and a creation campus. Anyone interested in welcoming students from Europe can get more information on the EUROPES website: www.europes-festival.eu
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Denise Fujiwara



2do día

13 de octubre de 2010

Toronto, Canadá


Hoy no se dieron más sorpresas, pero el trabajo comienza a tomar forma en su dificultad técnica. El respeto que Denise tiene por no exponer en público las dificultades que tenemos los integrantes del taller es de aplaudirse, pero las dudas sobre "la calidad" personal de nuestro trabajo deben entonces desvanecerse si no queremos entrar en un conflicto de ego. ¿Voy bien o voy mal?


La sesión comenzó como era de preeverse, con Taiji qigong y los ejercicios de desplazamientos, pero hoy hubo un interesante añadido: un juego de tensiones con la imagen de hilos que jalan en oposición, primero nuestra cadera y después diferentes partes del cuerpo, siempre en desplazamiento. Un ejercicio maravilloso de concentración y de fuerza, de control, ejercicio que no me dió tiempo para pensar en nada sólo en imaginar y sentir y trabajar con ello.


El encuentro y desencuentro con el sonido y la música formaron otra parte esencial de este segundo día. Primero, un ejercicio en el que nos pidió entrar en contacto con el sonido del salón y responder a ello en movimiento; inevitable responder al ritmo que venía de la energía electrica de la iluminación, o al movimiento que el viento hace al mover algunas partes metálicas del edificio en el exterior, o al aire acondicionado y los ventiladores. No fue un ejercicio largo y puedo decir que en un principio no tan enriquecedor, quedé un tanto sin saber hasta dónde poder ir, acaso no perdido, ya no, en esta clase no se puede perder uno, se desconcierta pero continua en el trabajo. Esta parte de la sesión continuaría hacia el final, entonces mi duda sobre la riqueza de la experiencia quedaría resuelta.


La tercera parte se dedicó a continuar aquello que iniciamos ayer mismo, la exploración con diferentes estados de cada uno de los 4 elementos (sí, ahora lo puedo asegurar), y hoy tocó el Aire.


Mucho más complicado de entrar que en el ejercicio de la tierra, al final fue una experiencia profundamente extraña. Denise nos pidió que al principio pensáramos que nuestro cuerpo era un recipiente vacío por el que entraba el aire, desde los pies (sí, así es) y que estuviéramos en contacto con la respiración. A veces hablaba de danza y a veces de movimiento, pero siempre recalcaba el no hacer personajes y el no coreografiar. Y una de mis grandes dudas era esa, ¿estaba yo haciendo personajes? No, al menos concientemente, ¿pero lo estaba logrando? Era una lucha por dejarme ir, por realizar aquello que me llevara al aire y a ser el aire mismo y a transformarme en sus diferentes estados,.. ¡pero es tan complicado asegurar qué hice! Yo respondía a los estados del aire, mi mente volaba, había sensaciones, disfrutaba, gozaba, pero en momentos podía ser que reaccionaba a ello como yo mismo... ¿y qué no era yo mismo? ¿no era eso lo que se pretendía? Ante la insistencia de Denise (a todos, no a mí directamente) de evitar hacer personas o responder a la música, me abrí a una expansión (otroestado del aire), esa era la única manera en que sentiría que no estaba reaccionando yo como persona, y busqué literalmente pensar y sentir como un aire expandido, sin cuestionamientos. Extraño y placentero, no era yo, y mi cuerpo reaccionaba a ello, aunque si lo viera de fuera diría yo que bailaba a veces... y a veces no, a veces sólo era aire en ese estado.


Recuerdo una foto de Kazuo Ohno como dormido en un estanque de lotos,... parte del agua, sin lugar a dudas.

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Terminando mi "expansión" tuve un curiosa explosión, digamos de forma natural, me vino un estornudo, pero fue verdaderamente una sorpresa, para mí y para todo el grupo, eso prácticamente dió pauta al final de este primer ejercicio con el aire.


Siguieron a la primera exploración con el aire las repeticiones de dos de los estados que consideramos valiosos, con sus respectivas pausas para definirlos ante el espectador. Esta vez no saldríamos de escena si no que terminarían todos sus dos exposiciones y después vendría un grupo nuevo (el grupo se dividió en dos).


La representación improvisada se repitió una vez más (parece que Denise no estaba muy contenta con la primera), y yo decidí continuar trabajando, no quería dejar que mi duda de si hacía o no un personaje siguiera, al menos quería seguirla trabajando.


Cuando estuve como espectador pude percibir algo: esta vez hubo mayores diferencias en el movimiento de los participantes, aunque no en la concentración, la calidad de la creación de cada uno podía variar debido a las exigencias del movimiento del aire; pude ver cuerpos reaccionando con mayor fluidez que otros, especialmenete cuando se trataba de altas velocidades o saltos; pero la calidad del estar aquí y ahora, de atraer al espectador a su personal historia, eso, eso no cambió, todos nos convertimos en imanes.


Ante el momento de comentarios pensé que el silencio me ayudaría mucho más, y creo lo fue así.


La última hora fue dedicada a continuar el trabajo con la música: divididos una vez más en dos grupos y alternándonos, exploramos unas 5 piezas musicales, (una y cambio, otra y cambio), con la premisa de seguir lo más posible cada instrumento, cada nota, cada sonido de la música. Fue un infierno, un caos, una locura; la atención en los sonidos y el surgimiento de un movimiento acorde a cada uno es una de las tareas técnicas más complicadas de las que yo pueda tener memoria, uno enloquece ahí mismo y se fatiga tremendamente. Y así fue con diferentes piezas, diferentes ritmos y diferentes sonidos.


Pero al final, vino el cambio, rematamos con un ejercicio opuesto, luchar por no seguir la música. Liberado de la dictadura del ritmo y la melodía, pude tener control de mí y saber qué hacía, podía tomar decisiones de cómo luchar para no estar con la música, y aunque en momentos era complicado no dejarse llevar por el ritmo, en general fue una exploración mucho más accesible para mi como creador de movimiento.


Denise habló mucho de cómo la continua práctica nos llevará al manejo de la verdad descubierta en la primera exploración, y hacerla repetible; el punto era no buscar cómo llegó a nosotros si no entrar a ella por la memoria interior, practicando. Su tono es suave y nos habla como si ella estuviera haciendo una coreografía con nuestros movimientos, y es alentador, es un juego que te hace sentir más que un simple estudiante.


En una de las pausas pasé por la oficina y ví posters de Denise en diferentes espectáculos de Butoh, y quedé impresionado de la transformación que tiene en ellos. También vi una foto de Kazuo Ohno, una foto de periódico en una visita a Canadá, una foto de periódico enmarcada.


No dejo de pensar que el siguiente paso en mi estudio de las fuentes de mi interés por el Butoh es la visita a la casa de Kazuo Ohno en Yokohama y tomar algunas sesiones con su hijo, Yoshito Ohno. Bailar en una de las fuentes, es también un sueño.


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Friday, October 22, 6:30pm
New York's Showbiz Cafe
19 West 21st Street
Presented by Loikka-festivaali director Hanna Pajala-Assefa
in collaboration with Dance Films Association.


Dance on Camera
sparks
your imagination!


Hanna Pajala-Assefa, who is accepting entries until the end of October for her 2011 Festival, will present:

KOTKA (Eagle)
Eino Ruutsalo, 7', 1962
This short by the pioneer of Finnish experimental film stars Riitta Vainio with a score by Otto Donner, a central figure in Finnish popular music scene in 60's and 70's.



LIIKKEEN MIELI (Mind Embodied)
Seppo Rustanius, 7'20," 2007
Reveals the connection between modern dance in Finland and women´s gymastics.



365 DAYS
Reijo Kela, 18,'1999 (2006)
A video diary directed by Reijo Kela (b.1952), a pioneer of site-specific dance and political environmental art.

MUURAHAINEN (An Ant)
Kimmo Alakunnas, 23', 2010
"An Ant" reveals a workaholic's questionable sense of reality.

Register for Sunday, October 24thdance on camera workshop at 92nd St Y led by Alla Kovgan, Russian born filmmaker, curator, editor, and story teller who co-directed with David Hinton the award-winning film NORA.

December 19th workshop will be led by Richard Move, the multi-talented performer, choreographer, filmmaker.
Register now for these unique dance on camera workshops.

Dance on Camera Touring Events
October 23
New Jersey State Film Festival at Cape May

October 26
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond

November 5-21
FEDAME in Mexico

DFA produced 44 events this year, in addition to its 38th Festival co-produced by the Film Society of Lincoln Center, Movement Research, Beacon School, and Mark Morris Dancec Center with the support of the National Endowment of the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. We thank our 112 partners for their enthusiasm for this blossoming art.

For more details see Dance on Camera Festival Touring Schedule
Stay in touch!
Deirdre Towers
DFA Festival Director
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THEM at Performance Space 122, New York City, October 21-30, 2010

Thursday, October 21 - Saturday, October 30, 2010
Wednesday - Saturday at 8PM, LATE SHOWS: Saturdays at 10PM
Performance Space 122 150 1st Avenue at 9th Street

Conceived by Chris Cochrane, Dennis Cooper, and Ishmael Houston-Jones
Directed by Ishmael Houston-Jones
Choreography improvised by the performers after a score by Houston-Jones
Music by Chris Cochrane
Text by Dennis Cooper
Lighting by Joe Levasseur
Advisor to the Production Jonathan Walker
Performed by Joey Cannizzaro, Felix Cruz, Niall Noel, Jeremy Pheiffer, Jacob Slominski Arturo Vidich and Enrico D. Wey

Ishmael Houston-Jones, whose intensely physical improvisations have been a staple of New York's contemporary dance scene for over three decades, sparked controversy in 1986 at Performance Space 122 with THEM. Made in collaboration with Dennis Cooper (text) and Chris Cochrane (music), this incendiary work addressed some of the many ways men could be with men. After a successful run of the work-in-progress at PS122 in 1985 the creators of THEM felt that the urgency of the AIDS epidemic demanded a presence in this piece about men with men. In the 1986 premier of the full-length version for six male dancers at PS122 Cooper read his own provocative words, and Cochrane played cacophonous electric guitar live; frequently violent and exhausting dance sequences, culminated in a horrific duet between Houston-Jones and an animal carcass on a dusty mattress. The production almost got PS122 shut down.

Through a reconstruction residency at the New Museum, the three creators have recast THEM with a new generation of male performers. Rehearsals of THEM at the New Museum culminate in a series of programs collectively titled THEM AND NOW, exploring the artistic impulses that propelled the creation of this "aggressive and vital" (Village Voice) performance work and its reconstruction 25 years later.

As part of PS122's 30th Anniversary Season, this ground-breaking piece is back and investigating its continuing relevance to dance and to social discourse in 2010.

Photo courtesy of Dona Ann McAdams

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New York—On Monday, October 18 at Symphony Space, Dance/NYC presented its first New York Dance and Performance Awards (the Bessie Awards). The sold-out evening included a VIP cocktail reception and a free awards ceremony recognizing six dance productions from the 08-09 season, six productions from the 09-10 season and performers from a mix of the past two seasons. This is the first awards ceremony after a two-year hiatus, and the awards are being restructured by Dance/NYC and the Bessie Steering Committee in the year ahead.

“This is an important moment for dance service to take the stage,” said Lane Harwell, who was named Director of Dance/NYC in September. “The mission of Dance/NYC, to strengthen professional dance, is achieved tonight through a celebration of dance and its contributions to the City and its creative life. Tonight we are a community over 700 strong—dance artists, managers, policymakers and audiences—uniting as advocates for culture. Our challenge and opportunity are to unite in advocacy every day.”

“For me, the most exciting aspect of this transition time for the Bessie Awards has been talking with an ever widening circle of people,” said Lucy Sexton, the independent producer of the Bessies. "From the Bessie Steering Committee and the Bessie Selection Committee to roundtable discussions held with a wide range of dance artists this summer,” she went on, “so many people came up with such brilliant solutions and new ideas for how to structure the award categories and the voting. I’m very excited to keep talking and keep the Bessies and dance in New York happening far into the future.”

The Bessie Steering Committee, responsible for setting policy and shepherding the awards, includes Judy Hussie-Taylor, Carla Peterson, Mikki Sheperd, Andrea Sholler, Elizabeth Streb, Martin Wechsler and Reggie Wilson.

The event was hosted by Isaac Mizrahi and awards were presented by leaders and legends in dance: HT Chen, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Virginia Johnson, Yvonne Rainer, Tina Ramirez, Gus Solomons Jr., Jock Soto, Elizabeth Streb and Jennifer Tipton.

Production awards went to 837 Venice Boulevard, Faye Driscoll; Be in the Gray With Me, Pam Tanowitz; Crotch (all the Joseph Beuys references in the world cannot heal the pain, confusion, regret, cruelty, betrayal or trauma . . .), Keith Hennessy; Dark Horse/Black Forest, Yanira Castro; Pent-Up: A Revenge Dance, Okwui Okpokwasilli; Stolen, Yvonne Meier; Comme Toujours, Here I Stand, Annie-B Parson; Grupo de Rua, Bruno Beltrao; Last Meadow, Miguel Gutierrez; parades & changes, replays, Anne Collod, Anna Halprin, Morton Subotnick; Puro Deseo, Luciana Achugar; The Radio Show, Kyle Abraham. Performer awards went to Michelle Boule, David Leventhal, Heather Olson, Miki Orihara, Gus Solomons Jr., Carmen deLavallade, Dudley Williams, Valda Setterfield, Michael Blake, Hope Clark, Keith Sabado, Kayvon Pourazar, Latysha Antonio, Sofia Britos, Non Griffiths and Allegra Herman.

The evening was made possible by major support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Mertz Gilmore Foundation and individual donors. Sponsors included Nel Shelby Productions, SKY/NOVA, D’Agostino, Touton and Two Boots Pizza.






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INTERFACE 2.0 / SECOND LIFE


INTERFACE 2.0


INTERFACES FÍSICO VIRTUALES DEL CUERPO-JUEGO
País: Nueva Zelanda –Portugal
Dicta: Todd Cochrane (presencial) Isabel Valverde (Videoconferencia)
Total horas cronológicas: 2 cursos de 3 horas c/ u
Horario: Miércoles 24 y Jueves 25 11:30 a 14: 30 hrs. hora de CHILE

PHYSICAL INTERFACES VIRTUAL BODY
Country: New Zealand-Portugal
Dicta: Todd Cochrane (face) Isabel Valverde (Videoconference)
Total chronological hours: 2 courses of 3 hours each
Hours: Wednesday 24 and Thursday 25 11:30 14: 30 hrs. CHILE time

In SecondLife:



Location 1
LX Factory
Location 2
WI Three


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Photo by Yi-Chun Wu
Michele Boulé, Miguel Gutierrez, and Tarek Halaby in Gutierrez’s "Last Meadow"


FULL PRODUCTIONS HONORED FOR 2008-09

837 Venice Boulevard
Choreographed by Faye Driscoll
Lighting design by Amanda K. Ringger
Set design by Sara C. Walsh
Costume design by Normandy Sherwood
Performers Nikki Zialcita, Michael Helland, Celia Rowlson-Hall
For masterfully invoking a collective past by exploring the raw intensity of childhood; for using text, movement, and song to uncover the falsity of the performance of identity; and for calling forth the true emotions beneath the surface, a 2009 New York Dance and Performance Award goes to Faye Driscoll’s “837 Venice Boulevard.”

Pent-Up: A Revenge Dance
Created and choreographed by Okwui Okpokwasili
Directed and designed by Peter Born
Performed by Okwui Okpokwasili and Gloria Huwiler
For conjuring an uncomfortably intimate, viscerally theatrical landscape inhabited by two women—a lone mother and her daughter, who map out the psychic territories of race history, and identity fueled by inexhaustible rage and unknowable anger, yet who are ultimately redeemed by compassion, humanity and a delicate grace at Performance Space 122, a 2009 New York Dance and Performance Award goes to Okwui Okpokwasili’s “Pent Up: A Revenge Dance”

Stolen
Choreographed by Yvonne Meier
Music by Alsarah
Lighting design by Kathy Kaufman
Performed by Arturo Vidich and Aki Sasamoto
For leading the audience with absolute sureness and skill, into a magical, mysterious and oftentimes mischievous world filled with ever-folding fabric, electric cords used as jump ropes, and a Buster Keaton-worthy dance with a coffee table at Danspace Project, a 2009 New York Dance and Performance Award goes to Yvonne Meier’s “Stolen”.

Crotch (all the Joseph Beuys references in the world cannot heal the pain, confusion, regret, cruelty, betrayal or trauma . . .)
Choreography, performance, installation and visuals by Keith Hennessy
For combining virtuosic improvisation, a history of Western Art in seven minutes and playful, sexy, shamanistic trickery that both enchanted and terrified at Dance Theater Workshop, a 2009 New York Dance and Performance Award goes to Keith Hennessy’s “Antibody” and “Crotch (all the Joseph Beuys references in the world cannot heal the pain, confusion, regret, cruelty, betrayal or trauma ... )”

Dark Horse/Black Forest
Direction and Choreography by Yanira Castro
Music by Stephan Moore
Installation by Charles Merritt Houghton
Costume Design by Suzanne Dougan
Lighting by Kathy Couch
Video by Peter Richards
Performed by Heather Olson, Joseph Poulson, Luke Miller, and Darrin Wright For an intimate, sensual, and voyeuristic installation that invited audiences inside an intensely emotional and private love story in a hotel lobby bathroom filled with lights, mirrors, and video screens, presented by Performance Space 122 at The Gershwin Hotel, a 2009 New York Dance and Performance Award goes to Yanira Castro’s “Dark Horse / Black Forest”

Be in the Gray With Me
Choreographed by Pam Tanowitz
Score composed by Pavel Karmanov and Dan Siegler
Lights and Scenic design by Philip Treviño
Costumes designed by Renée Kurz
Performed by Christina Amendolia, Dylan Crossman, Ashlie Kittleson, Ellie Kusner, Anne Lentz, Theresa Ling, Rashaun Mitchell, Glen Rumsey, Dan Siegler, Uta Takemura
For using plastic sheets and lighting to transform Dance Theater Workshop into a chambered laboratory and populating it with skilled dancers performing a rich blend of balletic modern with quotes from dance history, a 2009 New York Dance and Performance Award goes to Pam Tanowitz’s “Be in the Gray With Me.”

FULL PRODUCTIONS HONORED FOR 2009-10

The Radio Show
Choreographed by Kyle Abraham
Score mixed by Kyle Abraham and including orignal music by Amber Lee Parker
Score by Alva Noto, mixed with music by Ryoji Ikeda
Costume design by Sarah Cubbage
Lighting design by Dan Scully.
Performed by Maureen Damaso, Samantha Farrow, Raja Kelly, Nicole Mannarino, Jeremy Nedd, Amber Lee Parker, Rachelle Rafailedes, and Kyle Abraham
For daring to mix stuff thought not to be mixable in a work that asked questions about communication and community using humor, lush and striking dance moves, and a lingering sense of loss at Danspace Project, a 2010 New York Dance and Performance Award goes to Kyle Abraham’s “The Radio Show”.

Last Meadow
Created and choreographed by Miguel Gutierrez in collaboration with the performers, with assistance from Alex Anfanger and Neal Medlyn
Performed by Michelle Boulé, Miguel Gutierrez, and Tarek Halaby
Sound Design by Neal Medlyn
Lighting Design by Lenore Doxsee
Costume Styling by David Tabbert
For engaging movement, language, and sound to explore American archetypes, featuring performers unafraid to embody characters and then abandon everything at Dance Theater Workshop, a 2010 New York Dance and Performance Award goes to Miguel Gutierrez’s “Last Meadow”.

PURO DESEO
Concept and direction by luciana achugar
Choreography and performance by Michael Mahalchick and luciana achugar
Lighting design by Madeline Best
Costume design by Walter Dundervill
For casting a spell on the audience and taking them into the dark, dark mysteries of the body and all its desires at The Kitchen, a 2010 New York Dance and Performance Award goes to luciana achugar’s “PURO DESEO”.

Comme Toujours, Here I Stand
By Big Dance Theater
Directed and choreographed by Annie-B Parson
Co-direction by Paul Lazar
Video by Jeff Larson
Original title song by Robyn Hitchcock
Costume design by Claudia Stephen Claudia Stephens
Lighting design by Joe Levasseur.
Set design by Joanne Howard
Sound design by Jane Shaw
Performed by Tymberly Canale, Chris Giarmo, Molly Hickok, Ryutaro Mishima, Kourtney Rutherford, Chris Wendelken, Aaron Rosenblum and Jeff Larson
On Video - Stacy Dawson Stearns
For fearlessly re-inventing a classic New Wave film for live stage using an elaborate fusion of dance, music, and theater, resulting in a totally new work filled with sadness, humor, and warmth, 2010 New York Dance and Performance Award goes to Big Dance Theater's “Comme Toujours Here I Stand”.

Grupo de Rua’s H3
Direction and Choreography by Bruno Beltrao
Assistant directed by Ugo Alexandre Neves
Dramaturgy Rodrigo Bernardi
Music by Lucas Marcier, Rodrigo Marçal -­‐ ARPX
Costume design by Marcelo Sommer
Lighting design by Renato Machado and Bruno Beltrão
Set design by Gualter Pupo
Performed by Thiago Almeida, Bruno Neres, Bruno Duarte, Augusto Eduardo Hermanson, Luiz Carlos Gadelha, Kleberson Goncalves, Kristiano Goncalves, Filipi De Morais, Danilo Pereira
For delving deeply into the theatrical possibilities of hip-hop, ranging from subtly poetic to flat-out adrenalizing, and for overturning every stereotype about the genre at Dance Theater Workshop, a 2010 New York Dance and Performance Award goes to Grupo de Rua’s “H3”

parades & changes, replays
(a re-enactment of Parades & Changes, created by Anna Halprin in collaboration with Morton Subotnick - 1965)
Conception & artistic direction Anne Collod in dialogue with Anna Halprin and Morton Subotnick
Music by Morton Subotnick assisted by Sébastien Roux
Costumes designed by Anna Halprin
Set designed by Anne Collod and Mikko Hynninen
Performed by Boaz K. Barkan, Nuno Bizarro, Alain Buffard, Anne Collod, DD Dorvillier, Emmanuelle Huyhn, Vera Mantero, Laurent Pichaud, Fabrice Ramalingom
For reconfiguring the pedestrian into a performance piece that reflects life itself; for reminding us that mystery and magic reside in the mind and can be discovered in the routine as well as the exotic, for bringing this trailblazing performance work back to life, a 2010 New York Dance and Performance Award goes to Anne Collod’s reenactment of Anna Halprin and Morton Subotnick’s “parades and changes, replay”.

PERFORMERS HONORED FOR WORK DURING 2008-2010

Michelle Boulé
For channeling the essence of James Dean’s character Cal in East of Eden through fearlessly dancing, singing, acting, and brooding in Last Meadow, presented at Dance Theater Workshop, , a 2010 New York Dance and Performance Award goes to Michelle Boulé.

Young dancers from Sarah Michelson’s Dover Beach
Latysha Antonio, Sofia Britos, Non Griffiths, Allegra Herman
For their exacting performance in Sarah Michelson’s Dover Beach, at the Kitchen, lending an innocent but romantically charged fervor to Michelson’s eccentrically elegant vision of mortals in motion, a 2010 New York Dance and Performance Award goes to Latysha Antonio, Sofia Britos, Non Griffiths, Allegra Herman.

David Leventhal
For adding a singular polish and elegance to every step he performed, and for projecting a keen intelligence with a twinkle in his eye while bringing to exhilarating life more than 40 of Mark Morris’s works, a 2010 New York Dance and Performance Award goes to David Leventhal.

Heather Olson
For being a Raphaelite muse who sculpts the work from inside and out, through consistent, compelling, committed creation and development in performances over many years and many works dancing with Tere O’Connor, a 2009-2010 New York Dance and Performance Award goes to Heather Olson.

Miki Orihara
For her commitment to the true spirit and rigorous interpretation of the work of Martha Graham; for her constancy in keeping Graham’s work alive onstage and in the classroom; and for the remarkable
beauty, grace, and power of her dancing, a 2010 New York Dance and Performance Award goes to Miki Orihara

Ensemble of dancers in Paradigm
Bold, beautiful and boundless, the performers of Paradigm have dared choreographers to "bring it," and they have delivered. In work after work, these grand performers, without fail, bring into vibrant focus the essence of what it means to dance. A 2010 New York Dance and Performance Award goes to Carmen deLavallade, Gus Solomons jr, Carmen deLavallade, Dudley Williams, Valda Setterfield, Michael Blake, Hope Clark, and Keith Sabado

Kayvon Pourazar
For the fierce individuality of his sensual, grounded presence; for his ability to move through space with knife-slicing precision combined with a tender, fluid physicality; and for fully-embodying the choreographic sensibilities of the artists he dances with, most notably in the works of John Jasperse and Yasuko Yokoshi, a 2010 New York Dance and Performance Award goes to Kayvon Pourazar.
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Move: Choreographing You
13 October 2010 – 9 January 2011


Hayward Gallery
Southbank Centre
Belvedere Road
London SE1 8XX

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This autumn the Hayward Gallery presents seminal works and new commissions by leading artists in Move: Choreographing You. Exploring the historical and current relationship between visual arts, dance and performance, the exhibition focuses on visual artists and choreographers from the last 50 years who create sculptures and installations that turn the audience into active participants, becoming more aware of their body – or even becoming a dancer. The exhibition is accompanied by a series of performances at Southbank Centre by acclaimed choreographers including Trisha Brown and Rosemary Butcher, La Ribot and Xavier Le Roy. The exhibition has been designed by Amanda Levete Architects.

Artists featured include: Nevin Aladağ, Janine Antoni, Pablo Bronstein, Trisha Brown, Tania Bruguera, Boris Charmatz, Lygia Clark, Siobhan Davies, EVERYBODYS/Générique, William Forsythe, Simone Forti, Dan Graham, Christian Jankowski, Isaac Julien, Mike Kelley, Michael Kliën, Anita Pace, La Ribot, Xavier Le Roy & Mårten Spångberg, The OpenEnded Group and Wayne McGregor, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, João Penalva, Yvonne Rainer, Franz Erhard Walther and Franz West.

The exhibition takes as its starting point the Judson Church Theater and Allan Kaprow's Happenings in 1960s New York, which blurred the boundaries between art and life. Curated by Stephanie Rosenthal, Chief Curator, Hayward Gallery, the exhibition explores how everyday movements have been a driving force in the development of both contemporary art and dance since the 1960s. It examines how visual artists in the 1960s and 1970s used choreography as a means to encourage audiences to experience art with their whole body, whilst increasingly over the last two decades artists have used dance and performance to explore how everyday behaviour is choreographed and manipulated.

At points throughout the exhibition visitors can pause to explore a touch-screen digital archive designed by Unit9 and co-curated by André Lepecki, Professor of Performance Studies at New York University, which brings together photographs and films of 120 of some of the most important performance works from the last 50 years.

Stephanie Rosenthal, Curator of Move: Choreographing You, says: "I believe that this will be a totally new approach to experiencing the crucial and inspiring relationship between art and dance. I hope that the exhibition will give people a new awareness of their own bodies in space and how they can interact with the environment around them."

Alongside the exhibition, a there is a programme of high-profile performances, co-curated by the dance programming team at Southbank Centre in collaboration with Stephanie Rosenthal. British choreographer Rosemary Butcher reinterprets Allan Kaprow's 18 Happenings in 6 parts and there are UK premieres of Schrottplatz by Thomas Lehmen (9 Nov), Llamame Mariachi by La Ribot (26 Nov) and Anne Collod's reinterpretation of Anna Halprin's Parades & Changes, Replays (27 Nov) and a new work by Xavier Le Roy (28 Nov). All these performances are programmed to coincide with a three-day symposium at Southbank Centre (26-28 Nov).

The exhibition is supported by German Federal Cultural Foundation, the Henry Moore Foundation and Louis Vuitton. It tours to Haus der Kunst, Munich, from 4 February to 15 May 2011 and will be adapted for presentation at K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf from 16 July to 25 September 2011.

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*Image above:
Photo by Fredrik Nilsen.
Courtesy Kelley Studio.
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MAX Jitter and life among cables.

So it's been a while since my first post.

Finally I managed to learn and build the patch I needed for my project, all at the same time. The idea was to feed MAX with 5 video cameras and create 5 separate videos from it. The videos created where some kind of edition of the video income, as not everything that came from each camera had to be in each final video.
So what I did was getting Ableton Live (from where I also sent two separate channels of audio) to send MIDI notes telling MAX which camera had to capture and when. I finally had to use two computers because I wanted maximum quality, therefore fireware and not USB. I could only get one fireware camera into each computer at a time (I finally got two cameras in one of the computers where I installed Windows 7 in BootCamp) because of a Quicktime limitation. So Live was telling both MAX in both computers (through a MIDI cable) exactly when to capture what.


The patch is made of one jit.qt.grab object for each camera. According to the MIDI in note, the grab objects (in a subpatcher) create little videos.


The name of the videos is set by a little subpatcher which adds up a number each time it receives
the MIDI note.


So after all the little videos have been captured by each grab object (three on one computer, two on the other one), I use jit.qt.movie to put all these videos together and export a mp4 video file that can be read by five multimedia players that I bought (the simplest way I found to play five independent videos). Again, it's a MIDI note telling the program "ok, now make a big video out of all these little ones". I created a small video in black which I could load already at when opening the patch. This way I could set the export settings before hand.




The big problem I got was when I tried to append all the videos automatically into the qt.movie object. I know there must be a way, but I didn't have the time to find it! So what I did finally was writing the name of all the videos (which is always the same). The resulting patch is rather beautiful.



I had to use sprintf because I couldn't get a message to output file locations with the $1 system. So I spent quite a lot of time finding this out, until my savior Yoann Trellu told me about sprintf.


Conclusion: I love MAX and the way it works. It takes a lot of time to learn its mechanics, but I will continue exploring its possibilities. Next I want to dive into the world of MSP which I didn't have the time to even touch! The sound was captured directly with he write_audio message of the grab object.


If anyone is interested in knowing more about the patch I just tried to explain or about the project it was used for, please don't hesitate asking me. I will answer with pleasure to all questions and suggestions.


See you all!


Pablo


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Canadian Children's Dance Theatre (Toronto, Canadá. 2010)





1er día

12 de octubre de 2010



Denise Fujiwara es una mujer afable, y eso me gusta. No se respira protagonismo en ella, no nos crea un ambiente en el que uno debiera adorarla, ni a ella ni al Butoh.


Somos casi 30 personas y aunque pareciera un exceso no lo es en la práctica, pero debo resaltar que los comentarios finales se hacen cansados por la cantidad de gente.


Mi primer día fue un día difícil en el inicio; no había tenido contacto práctico con el quehacer teatral desde hace 7 años. Estaba nervioso pero no tenía más expectativa que la de reencontrar mi propio ritmo creativo en el contacto con el Butoh. Sé que es inherente a él (la creatividad, el encuentro con tu propio ser creativo) y no temía el no lograrlo.


Mis nervios son humanos, algo nuevo siempre es algo desconocido.


¿Y qué es lo primero que Denise nos ofrece? Ejercicios del Taiji Qigong. ¡Ejercicios que conozco desde hace casi 20 años!


El proceso del "calentamiento" es suave y claro, paso por paso: taijiqigong, posicionamiento de la cadera, control del centro, circulación, desplazamiento, contacto continuo con el compañero, fluidez de movimientos. Parecía que revivía el training de Grotowski, y en una primera sesión. Mi pie entonces avanzaba seguro, mi cadera era su centro, mi desplazamiento se entregaba al juego, el pasado y mi tradición estaban de mi parte.


-"We are not performers"-, decía Denise; -"don't try to show anything"-.

-"Don't do characters", nos repetía.


Mis maestros hablaban también... ¿Quiénes somos si no seres que ligan continuamente sus destinos?


El ejercicio principal fue una verdadera explosión en mi ser: trabajar con propiedades del elemento tierra; no era tratar de ser la tierra, no era qué te provoca la tierra, era ser la tierra.


Mi pasado se hacía presente, las técnicas asumidas se entrecuzaban y buscaban su propia definición. No había tiempo de pensar más allá en ese entrecuzamiento, el ejercicio estaba por empezar y las premisas eran claras: Primero palabras referentes al elemento tierra, después el movimiento, el serlo, ser estados de ese elemento; como si las palabras fueran Haikús que entran a nosotros y se transforman en nosotros (Denise nunca mencionó haikús, lo hago yo).


Mi imaginación se cruzaba, mi cuerpo podía moverse pero estaba demasiado atento a no hacer aquello que no debía de hacer; después de un rato de lucha, dejé correr el impulso (sí, recordé otra vez palabras de mi pasado). Un impulso que se volvía confuso y cambiante, un impulso que creaba imágenes y sensaciones, que movía mis pies y un impulso que provocaba dolores también.


En algún otro momento luché por evitar el llanto; temía que Denise creyera que buscaba la emoción y la proyección (lo que estaba prohibido), pero el llanto salió sin dolor, liberante. Imágenes de dureza y frialdad, primero un metal, frío y duro, entonces vino la delicadeza de la madera, y mi ser entró en el gusto por ser madera, primero en mi piel, después formar parte de ella; en otra, el miedo por la desintegración de la roca, de la arena suelta que se va con el viento; fuí un cuerpo con huesos que se desmoronaban, y lloré y soplé desesperado, y mis pies se disolvían, tiraban la arena y se deformaba mi todo. Hasta que tuve que dejar que el miedo saliera también.


Las indicaciones de Denise estaban en todo momento, durante el proceso de encuentro de los estados, durante el ser del elemento; debíamos no dejarnos ir a la par de la música (la música es muy poderosa y me ataba); debíamos no bailar no danzar; debíamos no crear escenas... ¿Qué era eso? Dejar correr sin hacer...


Cuando detuvo aquella explosión (que era la improvisación) el salón parecía un hervidero creativo. La sorpresa, era inmensa, el gusto era mayor. Denise parecía contenta, nosotros también.


El siguiente paso debía ser la repetición de dos de los estados del elemento que acabábamos de explorar. Habría que escogerlos.


¿Cómo habría de repetir eso?...


Volvimos al espacio y buscamos repetir esos dos estados; con sorpresa descubrí que no fue tan complicado; digamos que guardaba rezagos de lo hecho hace unos momentos, y mi memoria estaba fresca para retomar imágenes utilizadas y posturas que me habían llevado a esos estados; y ahora las repetía.


Después de un mucho más limitado tiempo, Denise detuvo el trabajo y nos propuso algo un tanto más complejo.


7 personas sobre la escena debían repetir 2 de sus estados del elemento experimentados en el ejercicio anterior, crear una separación entre ellos con una pausa, al terminar el primer estado ponerse de pie y mirar al público, y entonces comenzar el siguiente, al final de éste otro retomar esa posición mirando al público y salir. Entonces otro tomaría su lugar y continuaría trabajando con sus propios estados. Debíamos ser concientes del inicio y del final de cada estado que se repetía y aún del espacio escogido para realizarlo. Habría la creación de un espectáculo, ahí, en ese presente.


Aún cuando el conflicto y la contradicción era patente: volver a repetir lo aparantemente irrepetible (si dejamos correr, si era único, ¿cómo podia volver a ser verídico?), y a la vez ser conciente de la escena misma, nadie opuso objeción a las instrucciones.


Yo fui parte del grupo que inició el espectáculo improvisado.


No puedo hablar del exterior, de cómo se vió aquelló (nadie lo hizo, ni Denise), pero puedo hablar que no luché, que no estaba nervioso por ser visto o criticado, y aún más, que estaba dedicado a mi búsqueda. La experiencia teatral me daba pauta para saber cuando acabar y cambiar, eso no era complicado, pero la honestidad de re-encontarr aquél estado del elemento tierra que había escogido era el mayor reto. Dejé correr, busqué las posiciones, las imágenes, y fácil entré a la madera (ese era uno de los estados escogidos,) y después de la pausa volví a ser los huesos que se disolvían. Pero mis estados fluctuaban, no puedo asegurar que me sentía que era yo madera, lo fuí en momentos, pero también era yo en la madera, era la madera, y era la madera sintiéndome a mí. Los huesos que se disolvían eran los míos, pero también eran de otro, y la arena era yo, mis pies que se desintegraban con el viento y el movimiento mismo.


¿Debo decir que esa confusión no me era extraña? Me era como familiar, esa confusión era la que me movía, y yo la dejaba ir.


Dar el 100% nos había dicho Denise, y aunque aún no reconozco mi 100% en el Butoh, mi intención fue darlo, y lo disfruté enormemente.


Cuando terminé y salí del grupo de la escena me volví un espectador, un espectador en un estado especial, claro; pero lo que ví me sorprendió mucho más: Todos, absolutamente todos, y en un gran porcentaje, estaban dentro en su trabajo, todos tenían "un mundo", sus movimientos estaban llenos... ¡Y ese era el primer ejercicio en el curso de Butoh!


Yo estaba viendo un espectáculo hecho, con seres en movimiento haciendo algo incomprensible pero profundo y atrayente; una música hermosa de fondo (la selección de Denise era idónea, claro), y mi mente como espectador se perdía mientras mi cuerpo sentía, percibía, porque buscaba a cada uno de ellos, porque quería urgar en cada uno de sus estados. Quise volver a entrar a la escena, lo acepto, ¡el gusto era tanto¡ Ellos me invitaban a participar otra vez.


En esta sesión Butoh ha sido un reencuentro con mi ritmo creativo, pero posiblemente sea mucho más que eso.


Al final, Denise nos expuso su concepto de Butoh. Repetirlo con mi rala memoria simplemente sería un fiasco; lo debo para otro momento, cuando ese concepto lo pueda repetir con mi cuerpo mismo.


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Go to Motion Bank Website

MOTION BANK is a new four year project (2010-2013) of The Forsythe Company providing a broad context for research into choreographic practice. The main focus is on the creation of on-line digital scores in collaboration with guest choreographers* to be made publicly available via the Motion Bank website. Both these unique score productions and development of related teaching curriculum will be undertaken with and rely on the expertise and experience of key collaborative partners.

Public educational activities and events reflecting the diverse issues related to score creation will be offered at The Frankfurt Lab, and will include performances and presentations of the guest choreographers as well as lectures. Workshops and residencies organized with senior scientists and scholars aim to stimulate interdisciplinary research based on questions coming from dance practice. Exchange of information with and support for related projects is facilitated through working groups and associate networks.

The pilot project for Motion Bank is the award winning Synchronous Objects for One Flat Thing, reproduced: a joint project of William Forsythe and The Ohio State University’s Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design and the Department of Dance.

*The guest choreographers for 2010-2013 will be Deborah Hay, Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion, and Bruno Beltrão.


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Center for Contemporary and Digital Performance
Research Seminar Series
Brunel Universiity

Coproduction with danceTech TV
ALL 2010 series

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Site venue: School of Arts, Brunel University, West London
Time:
4 pm (GMT) 11:oo am EST


Wednesday October 13th
Fiona Templeton, Brunel University
Speaking for Performance


Wednesday October 27th
Johannes Birringer, Brunel University
‘Dispositif: Performance Repositions’



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Wednesday November 3rd
Misha Myers, University College Falmouth
Is that a pistol in your pocket...?’: Corral Consciousness and the Performance of Enclosure and Concealment

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Wednesday November 10th
Mike Pearson, University of Plymouth
'Fighting in Built-Up Areas': staging The Persians with the British Army

Wednesday November 24th
Guillerme Mendonça, Brunel University
Title: TBA

Wednesday December 8th
Rachel Fensham, University of Surrey

Title: TBA


DESCRIPTIONS


Wednesday October 13th: Fiona Templeton, Brunel University

Speaking for Performance

I will introduce a method I use in the last few years to generate text
without writing, described in my article ‘Speaking for Performance’ in
Sensualities/Technologies, and used particularly in my work The Medead.
I’ll also talk about voice, not only physiologically and musically but
about the notion of voice in the sense of authorial position/ persona in
performance / inhabitation / ventriloquism. This relates to my current
work in progress, and also to another very brief article/note about the
work I directed last June by Leslie Scalapino. That article, entitled
'Acting Brackets' is about directing decisions about the non-lexical
aspects of the text to reflect Scalapino’s and my own interest in the
above notions.

Fiona Templeton is currently director of New York based The
Relationship, an international performance group, and was a founder of
The Theatre of Mistakes in the 70s. Her work ranges across theatre,
poetry and installation, and she has won awards and published 12 books
in several disciplines. Her You-The City (1988) was a pioneering work
in the genre of the site-specific performance journey. Recent
productions include the 6-part performance epic The Medead, and L’Ile, a
recreation of the dreams of the people of Lille in the places dreamt
of.

Wednesday October 27th Johannes Birringer, Brunel University

‘Dispositif: Performance Repositions’

In this speculative lecture, Birringer seeks to develop methodological
frameworks for grappling with the daunting challenges that underlie a
sociological or pragmatist/materialist analysis of contemporary
"interfacial installations." After introducing the notion of the
"performative dispositif" (extending studies of cinematic and
scenographic arrangements), questions will address the material
processes in installations and what it might mean to advance knowledge
or explore sensory perception. How do performer-participants assess or
value attributes or affordances of "technical beings," of programmed
responsive environments or hybrid media spaces which behave with and
towards the visitor-participant – as if becoming living, moving, animate
matter, changing their vitality and displaying a range of symptoms in
their materiality (motion, agency, autonomy, protocol behavior, and
ritual aspect, etc.). With this research, Birringer proposes to place
more attention on how a particular dispositif enables the interface
relations technically while observing how human performers respond to
responsive environments or experience its sensate articulations.


Johannes Birringer is a choreographer and media artist. As artistic director of the Houston-based AlienNation Co.(www.aliennationcompany.com),
he has created numerous dance-theatre works, video installations and
digital projects in collaboration with artists in Europe, the Americas,
China, Japan and Australia. His digital oratorio Corpo, Carne e Espírito
premiered in Brasil at the FIT Theatre Festival in 2008; the
interactive dancework Suna no Onna was featured at Laban Centre and
Watermans, London. The mixed reality installation UKIYO toured Eastern
Europe in June 2010. He is founder of Interaktionslabor Göttelborn in
Germany (http://interaktionslabor.de)
and director of DAP-Lab at Brunel University, West London, where he is a
Professor of Performance Technologies in the School of Arts. His new
book, Performance, Technology and Science, was released by PAJ
Publications in 2009.

Wednesday November 3 Misha Myers, University of Falmouth
Is that a pistol in your pocket...?’:
Corral Consciousness and the Performance of Enclosure and Concealment

This presentation stages a performative ‘fictocritical’ dialogue with
Jimmie Durham on the strategies employed in his work to intervene in the
rituals of concealment and erasure which founded and continue founding
the unique brand of empire made in the political and ideological
narratives of the US.
This dialogue engages with Durham’s performance/installation works,
writings on cowboys, and his curation of the American West (2005) at
Compton Verney, UK, and his work Building a Nation (2006) at Matt’s
Gallery, London, through the persona, performance texts, lyrics, stage
directions and images of my own performance practice, including Yodel
Rodeo and Lonesome Long Gone and the installation/outpost Buffalo Sue’s
Wild West (2004), which were commissioned and performed as part of
Spacex Gallery and Relational’s Homeland exhibition in Exeter, UK. As a
method of researching Durham’s strategies of interruption, I staged a
re-enactment of a moment of Building a Nation for a Performance
Re-enactment Society (PRS) photo shoot. It is a kind of research that I
do through the doing of a thing. This involved a process of finding out
what something was, is or what it can become through a dynamic and
discursive relationship with ‘second hand’ memories, photographs, and
other relics of a performance archive.

Originally, from Mississippi, Dr. Misha Myers is a live artist and
Senior Lecturer in Theatre at University College Falmouth-incorporating
Dartington College of Arts. She creates socially engaged, dialogic and
participatory events that invite participants to reflect on and
articulate their experience of particular places and landscapes through
various spatial practices and performance mechanisms involving walking,
singing, moving and writing. Documentation and digital artworks from her
walk works way from home and Take me to a place, co-created with
refugees and asylum seekers and refugee support organisations in cities
across the UK, are online at www.homingplace.org.
Her recent work has been shown at Spacex Gallery’s public art
exhibition ‘Homelands’, in the Millais Gallery’s ‘Art in the Age of
Terrorism’ exhibition, and as part of Art Surgery and Newlyn Art
Gallery’s ‘Tract’, a programme of site-specific and live art. She has
published articles on her work and that of others in various journals,
including Visual Studies, Performance Research Journal, Leonardo
Electronic Almanac, Performance Paradigm, The International Journal of
Arts and Society, Research in Drama Education and in the book Art in the
Age of Terrorism.

Wednesday November 10th Mike Pearson, University of Plymouth
'Fighting in Built-Up Areas': staging The Persians with the British Army

This seminar will reflect upon matters of archaeology, landscape and
site-specificity theory and practice in relation to the production of
Aeschylus's The Persians that Mike Pearson directed in August for the
newly-founded National Theatre Wales.

Mike Pearson studied archaeology in University College, Cardiff
(1968–71). He was a member of R.A.T. Theatre (1972–3) and an artistic
director of Cardiff Laboratory Theatre (1973–80) and Brith Gof
(1981–97). He continues to make performance as a solo artist and in
collaboration with artist/designer Mike Brookes as Pearson/Brookes
(1997–present). In August 2010 he directed a site-specific production of
Aeschylus’s The Persians for National Theatre Wales on the military
training ranges in mid-Wales. He is co-author with Michael Shanks of
Theatre/Archaeology (2001) and author of In Comes I: Performance, Memory
and Landscape (2006) and Site-Specific Performance (2010). The
monograph: All that remains: an imperfect archaeology of the Mickery
Theatre, Amsterdam is forthcoming in 2010. He is currently Professor of
Performance Studies, Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies,
Aberystwyth University.

Wednesday November 24th Guillerme Mendonça, Research Student Brunel University
Title: TBA

Wednesday December 8th Rachel Fensham, University of Surrey
Title: TBA

For more information please contact
Gretchen.schiller@brunel.ac.uk


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Harvestworks slashes class prices in half! See below a new weekend Interactive Art Intensive Course we added to our list of upcoming classes, in November. If you're interested in interactivity, this is the course you want to take - and now it costs just half of what a full-weekend course has cost before.

A few open spots remain in our full-week Max/MSP/Jitter Intensive Course, starting in a little more than two weeks. Now we're offering a $100 discount for students enrolled in any college if they sign up! Just look for "Special Student Pricing" when you choose your payment option. Well, don't forget to bring your student ID to the class...
For more information about classes and events, check out our main website at http://harvestworks.org. You can sign up for our classes thrpough our PayPal store, you'll find all classes listed on our front page. If you have questions call Hans Tammen at 212-431-1130 ext 2. Membership is $75/yr, and you can pay for the membership when you sign up for the class.
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Exciting one-off chance brought to your door step:

Industry workshop INTERACTIVE SCENO LAB 19-21 Oct 2010, Liverpool.

The workshop is aimed at filmmakers, video art and interactive art enthusiasts, musicians, scenographers and creative engineers who are up
for experimenting some days and unleashing creativity...

More details at www.movementonscreen.org.uk.
Contact moves@movementonscreen.org.uk and register now. There are only few places left.

Catch a glimpse of the workshop and watch our online video here: http://www.movementonscreen.org.uk/video.asp?id=80849


All the best,
The moves team.

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Professor Dava Newman, MIT: Inventor, Science and Engineering
Guillermo Trotti, A.I.A., Trotti and Associates, Inc. (Cambridge, MA): Design
Dainese (Vincenca, Italy): Fabrication
Douglas Sonders: Photography
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Dava Newman,
"Second Skin Bio-suit"


Monday, October 18
7:00 PM

MIT Bartos Theater
Wiesner Building (E15)
20 Ames Street, Cambridge
Free and open to the public
617-253-5229
act@mit.edu

http://visualarts.mit.edu/about/lecture.html

Second Skin Bio-suit

With support from the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts and Trotti & Assoc. Inc., Cambridge, Mass., the BioSuit was developed to provide a 'second skin' capability for astronaut performance. Processes such as electrospinning and melt-blowing have been used to develop fibers for the suit. A current mockup uses nylon, spandex and urethane layers with varied properties and electronics incorporated into the suit and helmet materials that can have "smart textile" functions relating to physiology (thermal comfort), communications and spatial orientation. Space suit research can lead to improvements in the quality of life here on earth, too, through advances in orthotics that can help children with cerebral palsy and 'smart orthoses' for stroke patients.

Dava J. Newman is Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems at MIT She assisted NASA in developing the Bio-Suit.

Location:
MIT Bartos Theater, Wiesner Building (E15)
20 Ames Street, Cambridge
Free and open to the public.

For more information:
http://visualarts.mit.edu/about/lecture.html
act@mit.edu
617-253-5229

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The Give Me Shelter lecture series draws together speakers from different disciplines to discuss questions such as: How can bodywear function as body extension or to support the human body under unusual conditions such as hot and cold climates? How can we expand the notion of the boundary between the body and environment? What kind of second skin would be required to survive walking through a volcano, living under water, or visiting outer space? How does clothing contribute to the question of the protection of endangered peoples and environments? The ACT Monday night lecture series is organized this term as part of the ACT course of Professor Ute Meta Bauer, Second Skin / Body Wear. Artistic Research and Transdisciplinary Studies, in collaboration with the Performance Workshop of Professor Joan Jonas and Introduction to Networked Cultures of lecturer Nitin Sawhney.

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9/13/10 - Climate Changes in Science Fashion
Elke Gaugele
Gaugele will reflect upon climate changes in "science fashion" and discuss different points of departure for its contemporary artistic research. Elke Gaugele is a cultural anthropologist and professor of Fashions and Styles at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Austria.

09/20/10 - Com(ment)ic: Wondersuits, Fast Skin, Poison Ivy
Regina Maria Moeller
Comic superheroes dress in hightech suits that support their hyperactivities with magic powers. Are these "wondersuits" fictional? Or have they become models for current "second skin" developments? Regina Maria Möller is a German artist, author, founder of the magazine regina. She is a professor at the Trondheim Academy of Fine Art / Faculty of Architecture and Fine Art at the Norwegian University of Science andTechnology.

09//27/10 - 21st Century Living in the Amazon: In the Order of Chaos
Laura Anderson Barbata
Laura Anderson Barbata worked with the Yanomami people of the Venezuelan Amazon Rainforest, teaching them to make paper and books so they could write their own history. Barbata is a professor at the Escuela Nacional de Escultura, Pintura y Grabado La Esmeralda of the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, México.

10/04/10 - Tierra Brillante
Omar Foglio and Jose Luis Figueroa
Tierra Brilliante ("the brightest glaze") spotlights lead poisoning suffered by practitioners of traditional ceramics in Mexico. Jose Luis Figueroa co-directed Tierra Brillante, and Omar Folgio was in charge of production for the same film. Tierra Brillante is a co-production between Galatea and the Mexican Institute of Cinema (IMCINE).

10/18/10 - Second Skin Bio-suit
Dava Newman
See details above.

10/25/10 - SOFT, SMART & STEALTHY: New Paradigms for Design Practice
Sheila Kennedy
Sheila Kennedy will present recent research and work. Sheila Kennedy is a Principal of Kennedy & Violich Architecture Ltd. (KVA), an interdisciplinary design practice that explores the relationships between architecture, digital technology and emerging public needs. She is a Professor of the Practice, Architectural Design at MIT.

11/01/10 - Build your own world
Steve Dietz
Steve Dietz is the Artistic Director of ZER01 which produces the 01SJ Biennial, dedicated to inspiring creativity at the intersection of art, technology and digital culture. Dietz is a serial platform creator.

11/08/10 - Metabolic Studio
Lauren Bon
Lauren Bon will talk about current projects with her Metabolic Studio, including Silver and Water, a film made out of the silver and water historically mined out of the Owens River Valley. Lauren Bon is an artist and MIT alumna. Her Metabolic Studio is based in Los Angeles.

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The MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology operates as a critical studies and production based laboratory, connecting the arts with an advanced technological community. ACT faculty, fellows and students engage in advanced visual studies and research by implementing both an experimental and systematic approach to creative production and transdisciplinary collaboration. As an academic and research unit, the ACT Program emphasizes both knowledge production and knowledge dissemination. In the tradition of artist and educator Gyorgy Kepes, the founder of MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies and an advocate of "art on a civic scale," ACT envisions artistic leadership initiating change, providing a critically transformative view of the world with the civic responsibility to enrich cultural discourse.
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