Choreography, research, professional development for dance artists
22 May 2011
FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS
12 April 2011
Final Performances
1 April 2011
PROJECT PRESENTATIONS 5th-6th APRIL 2011
For booking information please contact:
Kinitiras Studio Artistic Residency Centre
22 Erechtheiou Str
Athens, Greece
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Ακρόπολη, Αθήνα
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22 March 2011
IN FOCUS: THE SOLO PROJECTS
17 March 2011
Chris Clow Session 2, 17.3.2011
15 March 2011
Chris Clow Session 15.3.2011
- self documentation is more difficult than documenting the work of another
- how can we use documentation not just as a memory aid but also to help with discoveries?
- an important aspect of documentation is realising what we see and how we see when 'seeing' dance through a frame
- Vitoria raises the interesting issue of the body as an archive and therefore performance as a type of documentation
PLEASE JOIN THE PETITION!!!
12 March 2011
A Pre-Kinitiras Choreography Lab blog
9 March 2011
Video of Michael Klien's Session 1
6 March 2011
CHOREOGRAPHY LAB PROJECTS SPRING 2011
1 March 2011
Video Documentation of John Paul Zaccarini's Session 2
26 February 2011
Music from Interdisciplinary Session 2
One of the tasks we did was asking the dancers to move in a sound-scape the musicians were creating. The musical ensemble had a small score I had already composed that wasn't really set or "closed". The musicians had fragments of musical notation that they had to mix-up and perform as they liked, depending on the conditions of the movement, the atmosphere, the other musician's playing and so on; thus we performed a structured improvisation to which the dancers had to respond with movement. I encouraged the dancers to close their eyes while moving, as to experience the sonorous aspect of the "event" more intensely. In the following recording you can hear part of the ensemble's improvisation, as well as other sounds from the studio, produced by the dancers' movement. It was interesting to see that the "non-musical" sounds in the studio complemented the "musical" sounds, and even picked up the rhythms and mood of what the musicians were playing.
Then Ana proposed that we did another improvisation, but this time it shouldn't be structured. The only rule was that the dancers should follow what the musicians were doing. In other words, the musicians were creating a sonorous presence to which the dancers had to "plug into" and respond to.
In the last part of our session, we decided to do a task that would involve a structured improvisation by both parts, both dancers and musicians. Dancers were asked to bring into the "event" material that they had already set and created, while musicians were using their composed notation fragments. In the end, the musicians stopped playing but the dancers continued moving until the momentum of the "event" came to silence. You can listen to them moving (their "body music") in this next recording.
24 February 2011
24.2.2011 Interdisciplinary Collaborations 2 - Live-Sound-Body
18 February 2011
Message from John Paul Zaccarini in Madrid, Spain, 11.2.11
The Kinitiras Choreography Lab, curated and mentored by Ana Sanchez-Colberg is a unique opportunity to expand, refresh and invigorate one's practice in a safe environment free from external, market-driven pressures. Forms of physical truth are privileged over forms that repeat or conform to existing tastes or trends.
Each international practitioner brings her/his own practice to the space with the Lab Mentor facilitating connections or hybrids with one's own practice, pointing out the liminal spaces between different theories and practices and gently guiding the participants through a meticulously curated journey.
This journey encourages above all dialogue, reflective activities, writing and the opportunity for creative, productive disobedience.
In its structure it allows time for digestion, assimilation, allowing participants to make methodologies that may seem alien to them, personal and “owned”. Sanchez-Colberg's choice of workshop facilitators is based as much on their research and pedagogic practice as their international pedigree and acclaim as artists and is forever blurring the line between educator and educatee.
This is not a laboratory for those who wish to be told what to do by an “authority”.
Along the way, via a continuous on-line blog that all contribute to, participants will encounter a deliciously diverse array of writers, thinkers and philosophers of artistic practice and be allowed time to explore them more or discover relationships with others.
As a practitioner this laboratory feels like a crucial step in an authentic direction.
LAB TIME 15.2. 2011
THOUGHTS ON THE GO II:
At the end of the session each one adds a phrase into the basket of this lab day, something that was left after the investigation, most of them spontaneous thoughts, traces:
- ‘ The Other - Reflects Me ’ (Io)
- Πως ακόμη και μία κίνηση μπορεί να φανεί περιττή ή να χαμηλώσει την ένταση του κομματιού αν δεν έχει βρει το νόημάτης. How even a move may seem unnecessary or lower the intensity of the piece if it has not found its meaning, its purpose. (Rena)
Είναι ανακουφιστικό να υπάρχει feedback την ώρα που κινείσαι γιατί σε πάει σε μονοπάτια ξένα για σένα. It is comforting to have feedback while you move; it can takes you to unknown pathways and clears blocks of your path. (Anthii)
Form my experience by experiencing my form. Experiences change my form into experienced process of forming. Forming is an experience of breaking formal form into experiencial form forming pathways. (Vitoria)
The origin of how we do what we do is the key to influence. This is the start to the journey. Breathe. (Maria)
Δεν υπάρχει σωστό και λάθος. Υπάρχει η καθαρή πρόθεση.There is not right or wrong. Only the pure intention (Eugenia)
Το εξωτερικό μάτι μπορεί να σε βοηθήσει να αλλάξεις το ταξίδι, να πλησιάσεις το συγχρονισμό με το presence σου, την αλήθεια σου. The outside eye can assist you change the trip; you come closer to the synchronization with your presence, your truth (Olga)
The issue is not to answer but simply to question. (Androniki)
In the universal unconscious lies the seed of any inspiration. When we honestly approach the source then we get a connection. (Rena)
There must always be a reason to move. Like breathing. (Androniki)
10 February 2011
Thoughts on the spot, 10.2.11
9 February 2011
News!!!!
8 February 2011
Paradigm shifts
- We begin by considering the nature of 'the task', going back to Evgenia's questions in the opening session (see first post in the blog).
- We re address the idea of 'what we are looking for...", the search driven by an artistic/personal imperative (for which language may be needed, to define what I must and desire to do).
- What are the issues surrounding this creative imperative? How this first layer of imperatives connect to others?