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Saturday, February 13, 2010

Some dance and other things on the internet



I made this for EDAP last summer and thought I should post it here. It is in no way exhaustive, the world and the internet are very large places. The internet, however, is more easily searchable.

Some general goodness:
John Berger -Ways of Seeing


Ira Glass - from This American Life
On Taste: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hidvElQ0xE&feature=related (talking about radio and TV, but I think it applies)



Great Sites

Sarma - a great site of dance criticism from Europe
[It can be a bit tricky to find things, oddly. I’ve found stumbling around to be the way to go - just following curiosity (as in many things.) Here’s some that I’ve bookmarked:]
– Jeroen Peeters - Living together on Stage
[This lists the critics - if you click on the one you want, and then on “texts” you’ll get everything that’s on the site for that author. For example:]
[The letters on dramaturgy are particularly good.]

Artists:
Martha Graham (New York,  1894 –  1991)
Merce Cunningham (1919-2009) (New York)
Channels/Inserts
Yvonne Rainer (New York, Current- but most active as choreographer in 60's / 70's)

Pina Baush (Germany, 1940 – 2009)
Le Sacre Du Printemps (Wuppertal Dance Theater) 
Meg Stuart (Brussels, Current)
Jerome Bel, (France, current)
huge amount of video of work and him talking about work: http://www.catalogueraisonne-jeromebel.com/ (kind like directors commentary)
writing: http://82.238.77.78/jeromebel/eng/jeromebel.asp?m=4
some  hightlights:
About "Last Performance"
Sasha Waltz andd Guests (Berlin, Current)
Dave St Pierre (Quebec, current)

Ame Henderson/Public Recordings (Toronto, Current - Double Bill #1 collaborator) 

kg Guttman (Montreal, current, Double Bill #2 collaborator) 

Jonathan Burrows (UK.Brussels, current) 



Other places to find interesting work:
Festival TransAmerique - Montreal Festival: http://www.fta.qc.ca/en/home
Impulstanz - Vienna Festival: http://www.impulstanz.com/
TanzimAugust - Berlin Festival: http://www.tanzimaugust.de/
Jacob's Pillow (upstate new york): http://www.jacobspillow.org/

for many more  Canadian go here: 
Candance Network: http://www.candance.ca/
B-chronicles
[I haven’t much all of this (recent find), but it looks exciting.]

Dance-tech
[Just found thing recently, but looks like an attempt at some of the things we were talking about]

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Monday, August 10, 2009

Ending EDAP for 2009



Thanks so much to everyone who participated. More reflection soon.

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Sunday, August 2, 2009

Guest Post: EDAP Week 2

By Kassandra Prus

This incredibly inspiring week began with Darryl Tracy’s full mind and body working classes. Ever fascinating, the wonderful accompaniment by Jeff made the days even more beautiful, while Darryl’s Wednesday birthday was cause for a fantastic skirt and dress filled class.
The week also contained my introduction to Skinner Release. Julia Sasso presents such a calm and inspiring yet incredibly logical way of looking at movement. The imagery and techniques used made me feel more grounded than I have felt in a long time, made me see how to move my limbs in a different way, gave me more relaxed mobility in all my joints, showed me where I held my tension, taught me how to effectively use my breath in a way that does not interfere or take energy away from my movement, and brought such a calm beauty into my improvisations. In a total of 4 hours! I told you it was good.

The beginning of the choreographic process has also been a joy. I couldn’t be happier with how the dancers have responded to my concepts and have helped me push them farther in just a few hours than I could have in months of deep contemplation. Their availability for discussion and improvisation have inspired me deeply, and have made me realize that part of my frustration with the world of the static arts is its inability to give back like a human mind and body can. Also, making a piece about happiness is the best decision anyone could make, as I walk out of those rehearsals walking on a cloud!

Being part of another choreographer’s process has also taught me a lot. Witnessing a thought process evolve from concept into movement has been at times confusing but important for me to see what it is probably like for others watching my own process. Being able to see such a thing gives me an opportunity to think on how I can be the most clear, efficient, and inspiring choreographer I can be. On to week three! Read Full Post...
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Sunday, July 26, 2009

Guest Post: First Week Reflection

by Kassandra Prus

So it’s the end of a completely exhausting, utterly inspiring and wonderfully emotional week for me. My first week at EDAP started with a bit of trepidation (I’m never very good at new social situations) but a surprisingly effective name game on the first day, as well as an immediate focus on feeling, watching, and sharing with the group made me feel at ease with 16 other wonderful dancers.

Darryl Tracy’s conditioning at the beginning of the day made me find muscles I forgot I had (though I still can’t figure out how to do baby finger ‘push-ups’), and I was so happy to see Michael and Jacob right there with us.
Bonnie Kim’s technique classes were incredibly inspiring and made me feel alive right from the beginning of class. Her impetus for us to open our eyes and just dance our barre with the same personal interpretation and energy as combinations across the floor permanently changed the way I see class.
The idea of Jerome Bobb’s hip-hop classes terrified me from the beginning but I surprised myself with my ability to (eventually) pick up the entirely foreign to me, yet strangely empowering movement style. I’m very thankful that there are no mirrors in the theatre space though…

The afternoons with Michael and Jacob were brilliant. Part of my recently completed undergrad thesis detailed my opinion about the importance of using the distinctive qualities of your fine art medium to unconsciously affect your audience—to put your audience in a specific space (literally and figuratively) that affects them in a certain way because of how they must approach and experience the medium. This belief made me wonder why I was moving, what turned inspiration into choreographed movement, what the distinctive qualities of dance were, and what forced me to take that first step in an improv. These questions were confronted in our first afternoon together and I was ecstatic!

Other than articulating concepts to myself, I found a few ideas presented resonated powerfully and changed how I saw performance and movement; the search into knowing when to hold onto an idea tightly and when to let go lightly; how our awareness in a task can change our behaviour (amazing to feel in your body); to really notice our own personal habits and comfort zones, as well as our western society’s comfort zones of 3-6 (in distance between people, time spent doing tasks, effort required to do said tasks, etc) and to try to break out of them; to not think ahead and really trust other people and your own gut reactions; seeing how dramatically music, entrances, exits, stillness, and Ann Bogart’s ‘Viewpoints’ affected our movement and ‘groupness’; the idea of looking at world as most beautiful piece of choreography ever and seeing how that changes how we see movement.

These ideas and more, as well as the readings, make me so incredibly thankful of having this opportunity. Can’t wait until next week to start working on choreography! Read Full Post...
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Thursday, July 23, 2009

Good, hard days

There is sometimes something useful about exhaustion. Not the kind of "stressed out, unable to finish anything" exhaustion, but the "I need to take a nap at lunch because I've been working so hard and will be working that hard again in 10 minutes"



When we're the good exhausted we can get past our assumptions (which we are simply to tired to hold on to) we need all our energy to be present, and so don't waste it on distractions.

In just 3 days we've got a lot done. We're tired, but that will pass and the simple act of walking through space with others is now richer - both to do and to watch. Our understandings of space, time and how we move through and share them has deepened.

I had a really great conversation with the four choreographers yesterday while Micheal worked with the performers. Wonderful questions and desire. Next week we start making some dances. Fun. Good, hard fun.


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Monday, July 20, 2009

First days

We start the Emerging Dance Artist Project (EDAP) today - very exciting to suddenly have the studio full of 17, well, emerging dance artists.

We will get the blog going with what we're doing and working on. We're focusing ways to be a part of making collaborative, contemporary dance work - looking at improvisation and coompositional strategies as well as morning technique and conditioning classes.

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