Featured: Philipp Gehmacher (Austria)
Philipp Gehmacher grew up in Salzburg and in Vienna. In 1993 he went to London Contemporary Dance School where he received a BA in Contemporary Dance in 1996. After the first solo “the mumbling fish” he enrolled for an MA Dance Studies at Laban Centre London which he was awarded in 1999. After ten years...
In Performance: Ulrika Kinn Svensson and Koen De Prete – Sometimes Its there (Belgium)
SOMETIMES IT’S THERE Ulrika Kinn Svensson and Koen De Prete ‘Sometimes it’s there’ is an intimate performance created by two young choreographers and friends, born out of a need to join their creative forces. This atmospheric piece is a search for subtle shifts of meaning in movement, words, sound, and light. The performers play with...
Opportunities: Festival Escrita na Paisagem Call For Video Works (Portugal)
Festival Escrita na Paisagem is looking for works to be presented at its Video-Performance Showroom, which will take place between the 20th and the 23rd September, in Évora, Portugal. Centered on the notion of documentation, this Mostra de Vídeo-Performance (Video-Performance Showroom) tries to address all those three realms in a competition and a thematic show....
Highlights: 2010 International Hamburg Summer Festival (Hamburg, Germany)
From the Artistic Director: We are looking forward to presenting you with another three weeks of international art and theory. Choreographers, directors, scholars, artists and musicians from everywhere from Tokyo to New York to Johannesburg are coming to Hamburg with their view of our reality – and this year, for the first time they’ll be...
Ong Keng Sen: First Contemporary Performance artist to be awarded the The Fukuoka Prize
The Fukuoka Prize The Fukuoka Prize was established to honor outstanding achievements by individuals or groups/organizations in preserving and creating the unique and diverse cultures of Asia. The aim is to foster and increase awareness of the value of Asian cultures as well as to establish a framework within which Asians can learn from, and...
Highlights: Performance Space 122 Fall Season 2010 (NYC)
Performance Space 122 is a not-for-profit arts center in New York City, serving the dance and performance community. Over the past 25 years what was once an abandoned school has become one of the world’s leading arts institutions, an esteemed presenter of experimental and alternative performance and a home to countless emerging artists. Located on...
In Performance: Dedicated to the Revolutions (Canada)
Dedicated to the Revolutions is a show about seven scientific revolutions that a grade eight teacher once said altered the course of humanity: Gutenberg, Copernican, Newtonian, Industrial, Darwinian, Nuclear and Information. Six performers, not in any way experts in science and not apologizing for that, attempt to understand and question our notions of progress and...
Highlights: Tanz Im August Aug 19 – Sept 3, 2010 (Berlin)
Tanz Im August 2010 From the Organizers: During the 22nd edition of Tanz im August, we would like to draw your attention to a topic that has become increasingly important – not only in politics and the media, but also in contemporary dance: the ethics of human existence. More often, choreographies include appeals that we...
Follow Up: Video of Gisèle Vienne’s “This is how you will disappear” on Arte
New Video of Gisèle Vienne’s “This is how you will disappear” on Arte.
In Performance: Gisèle Vienne – This is how you will disappear
Gisèle Vienne – This is how you will disappear: Everything starts in a forest. Extremely natural, inhabited by a buzzard in feathers and bones, this wooded landscape is staged like the reflection of the interior experiences of the characters who cross it. Depending on the light, mist and sound atmosphere, the metamorphosis capacity of the...
Featured: Dean Moss / Gametophyte Inc. (Brooklyn, USA)
ABOUT: GAMETOPHYTE INC. Gametophyte (ga•me´to•phyt´) the company name is from the greek meaning to marry and to grow. The word refers to the sexual generation of small pioneering plants found world wide that produce in true form neither flowers, fruits nor seeds. A plant commonly called “moss”. A hybrid production, performance and consulting company, founded...
Highlights: ImPulsTanz Festival July 15 – August 15 (Vienna, Austria)
ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival July 15 – August 15 Thousands of professional dancers, choreographers and teachers from all over the world, come together, work together, for five weeks, in one city – ImPulsTanz. 1984. In Austria‘s leading cultural city Vienna the cultural manager Karl Regenburger and the choreographer Ismael Ivo launch the Internationale...
