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Residency | Lowlands Light project | DalioArts

10 November 2016 CLOUD

13 November – 18 December 2016

Movement labs | Wednesday 30 nov 10:00-12:00 / Monday 5 and 12 dec 20:00-22:00| €5/lab

Presentation |jan 2017 more details soon|

Monica Sharon is a choreographer and filmmaker with DalioArts, a performing arts collective which aims to create work in collaboration with artists of various disciplines. She is currently in residence at the DCR guest studios, along with choreographer Angela Fegers and visual artist Taffy Boudewijns, who are also a part of DalioArts.

She is here to start the creation of Lowlands Light project, an interdisciplinary installation combining dance, light sculptures, film and live music. Currently, she is at research stage of the movement section of the project.

The Lowlands Light Project aims to culminate into an interactive installation that combines choreography, light sculptures, short films and a color of choice. Each color chosen on the four button switchboard corresponds to a certain choreography, film and multiple light sculptures, strategically placed, to illuminate the performer. The way the performance unfolds is decided by the participator, who will choose an order of colors without knowing the outcome beforehand.

At the Cloud/Danslab, we aim to research, experiment, learn and connect with the community. Through movement research and experimentation within the space, we look to find ways of moving that can be transferred to different sites, while experimenting with compositional structures, such as the chance theory. Our research days are our lab days where we experiment, play and explore.

Through our weekly classes, we connect with the community, experiment, research and learn from our participants as much as we hope they would learn from us. An exchange in knowledge and ideas is what we look for in every class we lead. We do not consider ourselves to be the sole teachers of the classes, but merely a guide to encourage the exchange of ideas and knowledge.
At the end of our time here at the Cloud/Danslab, we will finish with a small, informal showing with a concept in support of our current piece, The Lowlands Light project. This showing will be just a taste of what’s to come in the near future.

http://www.gueststudio.com

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Residency | Ludic Collective

5 October 2016 CLOUD

10 – 23 October 2016

Presentation | by invitation
Movement Labs | contact: ludic.collective@gmail.com

Ludic Collective would like to present their focus and meditate on how their interests convert into movement/choreographic processes:

1. How can you dance/choreograph without being a dancer/choreographer – in terms of studies.

2. How can you dance without having to copy movements from someone else.
Every dancer is their own choreographer. Not using one’s individuality is a limitation.

“Two minds are better than one; we don’t believe in hierarchy and fixed roles in performance making. We are very interested in skill-swapping and strong collaboration throughout the creation and development of a project – it is not only the choreographers that work with dancers, it is also the musician, scenographer, producer that can act as choreographers.”

During this residency we will be working on two subjects:

Inverted Planet- an immersive performance : we want to explore how our physicalities and psychologies respond to extreme speculative changes – gravitational/geological/biological… – in our surroundings.

Our focus lies in the diverse nature of people: their culture/ backgrounds, memories, ways of seeing, moving, speaking etc. Whatever form we undertake, we find contents from the participants and collaborators.

Perception as Movement Generator: we are interested in exploring how our perception about external stimuli/objects can be physicalised, and therefore work as movement generator.

When doing the exercises rather than starting from nothing, Ludic wishes to introduce a formula, which will help the performers to construct a working process method that will almost work like a machine.

Ludic Manipesto

We are serious. We are very serious about not being serious.

We are Ludic.

We make many attempts

Attempts to do what?

Attempts to create, make and explore

Explore what?

Maybe art, maybe food, maybe just some time with some people.

We make
non-theatrical theatre
non-dramatic drama
non-literary literature
non-musical music

and non-performative performances.

But we are not, not necessarily, using these opposite views as our motivation.

We are not ideally post-anything.

We just want what we want.

We evolve around nice food, good people and excitement.

We tend to add subtle elements and details to our performances just as much as we tend to add oregano and paprika in our dishes.

We really like the small things. The big things are for adults. We are not there yet, nor will we ever get there.

We respect unintentional process and its consequences.

These manifesto can be easily contradicted by any of us.

Visit: www.ludiccollective.com

Residents

The Crossroad | Residency Roberta Štěpánková and Amund Røe

15 September 2016 CLOUD

CLOUD is thrilled to welcome Roberta Štěpánková (Slovakia) and Amund Røe (Norway) for their residency in The Hague (September 19-24, 2016). You are welcome to join their presentation on Friday 23rd at 20.30.

Roberta will be also sharing a introspective dance class on Saturday 24th, from 10 – 12:00.

Workshop SPIRAAL | contemporary whirling | Valentina Lacmanovic

13 September 2016 CLOUD

29 October | 11:00 – 18:00 | Early bird €85,-
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SPIRAAL is an original, contemporary approach to whirling movements. This approach was developped by Valentina Lacmanović, based on art, science research and practice.

Spiralling movement is at the core of our galaxy, our DNA, it is the force of nature in hurricanes and vortices. Spiralling patterns can be found in the shape of our fingerprint and the form of Time. It is a powerful instrument that leads towards harmonizing our physical, mental, emotional and energy bodies.

SPIRAAL workshop proposes an intensive work on sustained spiraling movement technique, disorientation, listening and body/mind (dis)connection. In a safe environment, participants travel through trance-like states and learn how to tap into the creative flow.

The build-up is inspired by techniques of breathing, internal martial arts and organic approach to body and mind motion. An introduction to ritualistic elements in contemporary performance is given through structured improvisations.

*Suitable for anyone engaged in corporal practice (dancers, performers, actors, martial arts or yoga practitioners… both amateurs and professionals). OPEN LEVEL!

Registration
Early Bird till 14th of October €85,-
Regular price after 14th of October €100,-

Registration via email: cloud.danslab@gmail.com

About Valentina Lacmanovic

Valentina Lacmanović is a performance artist with background in acting (studied at CNSAD (French National Academy of Dramatic Arts) and dance (studied classical and contemporary techniques in Croatia, France, Spain, Turkey, India, and the Netherlands). She also possesses a Master degree in Philosophy (Université Paris VIII).

Valentina was always attracted to a variety of cultures and has been introduced to Arab-Berber, North Indian music and dance, as well as practiced martial arts. She works and lives between Amsterdam and Paris. Her main focus is the creation of contemporary performances and video installations inspired by philosophical reflection on ritual practices and transformative performance acts. She continues her research (“From Trance to Performance”) on convergences and divergences between contemporary visions of performance and enacting of ancient rituals.

www.valentinalacmanovic.com

Workshop

Workshop | How to tell a story? | Tal Garmiza

28 July 2016 CLOUD

Creativity workshop – How do I tell a story?

22 – 26 August
Presentation | Saturday 27 August | Check Facebook page
Creativity workshop | Tuesday – Friday 13:00-15:00 €7 | Check Facebook page

What makes dance the unique form of art that it is and not just a series of movements? One thing more than anything else – telling a story.
When we create, how do we tell this story through our dance? How do we tell it without using words?
What character do I choose to be and how can a character help me tell my story? Or what happens when the character starts to tell a story of its own?

“Dreams I have Dreamt in the Studio” is a solo piece, that tells something using different characters, different emotions.
Learning some combintaions from the piece would be a place for us to start, and we will take it from there into trying different things that will help us find our creating characters, using movement, emotion, story and music.
We will spend our time together trying to find our own voice within the creation and our creativity.

About Tal Garmiza
Tal is an Israeli dancer currently based in Tel Aviv. She created and produced a project called “A Door to a Room” that brings dancers and musicians together. The project believes in taking the dance and the music into the world because everyone is entitled to it. Among other things, they created a show that explored the meaning of a place and how to create within it.
Today Tal is working on a solo piece called “Dreams I have Dreamt in the Studio” to the music of Roee Ben Binyamin and Itay Ashkenazy. The piece explores the connection between women, music and nature. She also works on and a short duet called “Desert”.
Tal will take part and present her work in Residencies in Dance City, Newcastle, UK (Creative Summer) and in CLOUD in The Hague, NL, this coming summer.
Tal is also involved in building a new center for dancers at the Arab-Jewish community center in Jaffa.

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Workshop | Egyptian dance with live music | Laura de Gaspari

12 July 2016 CLOUD

Saturday, 3 September 13:30-18:00
Early Bird €50,- till 10 August
Late Bird €60,- after 10 August
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The joy and freedom of dance: an experience to go deeper into our bodies through the wisdom of ancient moves.
Egyptian/Arabic dance with master musician Sattar Al Saadi: a search for the Beauty of essential movement.

First part:
Energizing warm up by means of natural breathing and movement techniques to awaken the body to its inner energy and wisdom.
A natural posture with a strong centre and an aligned spine which allow the natural flow of movement. Floating arms on a centred body. Searching for the purity of essential movements in Classical Egyptian/Arabic dance: lines, curves, walk.
Elements of free improvisations on live music .

Second part: Ritualistic and Sufi elements on the subtle and powerful rhythms of the Bendir. Joy and freedom of dance!

For whom: The workshops is for all levels and dancers of all background with an openness to the experience. It will suit beginners and advanced dancers because we will go to the essence of movement.

To register, please contact Laura de Gaspari via Facebook or by mail: lmdegaspari@gmail.com

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Residency | Propositions of Engagement | Joy M. Smith & Isabelle Sully

12 July 2016 CLOUD

25 – 31 July
Presentation | Friday 29 July 20:00 | Facebook
Movement Labs | Monday – Friday 10:00-13:00 | Facebook

How does the dichotomy of urban vs rural serve us and can we embody/perform ‘access’ as marginalized people?

During this residency Joy and Isabelle wish to further their research as part of a larger project called ‘PROJECT: PROPOSAL’. In ‘Propositions of Engagement’. They will further research on solo one-to-one performance, romance, intimacy, consent, agency (feminism, queer theory), real vs fake, ritual, beguilement and romance/courtship.

The structure of proposition serves as the basis for generating text and performance. Allowing them to reflect, produce, [re]generate material based on the embodied performance of the rural and the performance of self via voice, movement and automatic writing. The methodology surrounding this project has been developed through a resistance of and opposition to definitions of the ‘rural’. Through this project Joy and Isabelle are proposing a definition of rural within which they can work, and that they have defined themselves, which focuses on intersectionalities — rather than existing within the dichotomy of urban and rural. What they mean by this is: does this dichotomy serve us? Joy and Isabelle acknowledge the inherent romanticism associated with the rural and have chosen to direct their attention to this constructed romance by using the vehicle of spousal relationships as a medium. Coming from an ancestry where the relationship to land and ‘countryside’ — which happens to be the etymological root of rural — is not romantic, where instead, this narrative was interrupted and disrupted by the colonial project, it seems necessary to focus on romance as a tool for social activism and performance.

In this project they are engaging in a (re)generative process, that antagonised the line between social practice and art as life. It is through this project that they propose to talk about the intersection of rural within the frame of their own cultural narrative, to talk about ethnicity, race, class, sexuality and gender through their own current margins and the lens of commodification of self in order to survive.

About Joy Mariama Smith
Joy Mariama Smith a native Philadelphian relocated to the Netherlands to complete an MFA program at the Dutch Art Institute, Smith’s work primarily addresses the conundrum of projected identities in various contexts. For example, they* do not make work explicitly about being black, their approach is to question what ‘blackness’ is as a social construct and what others may assume about them as a product of that construct. Smith uses the same tactic with gender, sexuality, and class. Rooted in socially engaged art practice, Smith is a performance/installation/movement artist, curator and architectural designer.They have a strong improvisational practice spanning 20 years. Smith is the co-founder of the COLLAGE Festival, and has shown work in various festivals in the US; most recently the SoLow Festival in Philadelphia, PA. They co-facilitate Couples Therapy, a lab focusing on collaboration between artists. Smith is currently investigating efficiency in collaborative processes, and ‘real time’ as an artistic medium. When they choose to teach, they actively try to uphold inclusive spaces. A sub-theme, or ongoing question in their work is: What is the interplay between the body and it’s physical environment?

www.yournameherecollective.com

they/them/their*: third person singular gender-neutral pronoun

About Isabelle Sully
Isabelle Sully is an Australian artist temporarily based in Rotterdam who works across writing and visual platforms, as well as collaborative and curatorial projects. In 2015 she performed as part of Non-Transmittable Form, a public outcome of collective research presented at the Jakarta Biennale, Indonesia. Earlier in 2015 she self-published the first editions of Buffet Publication. The publication was then invited to launch at World Food Books, Melbourne, as well as the National Gallery of Victoria Art Book Fair. Isabelle was also commissioned by West Space Journal Volumn 4, where she produced a text which was then performed as a script as part of the public program at the NGV. She is currently working on a roaming curatorial project called Salon Gallery, which has already received critical attention in Frieze Magazine. Isabelle is also undertaking a Masters at the Dutch Art Institute, the Netherlands.

www.isabelle-sully.com

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Presentation | Pt. II – With Observing Eyes | Patricia Vane

7 July 2016 CLOUD

Presentation: 10 July 2016 | 20:00

PART II _WITH OBSERVING EYES

Research question:

What could be the pristine behavior of my body in time and space?

I am looking for a pristine behavior of my body in time and space.

I am observing a pristine behavior of me in time and space.

I am observing the initial behavior of my body in x time and x space

rudimentary

What could be the rudimental behavior of my body in x time and x space?

intended goal: to expand the range of freedom from zero
to expand the range of freedom from the existing blueprint of my body to zero.

I found myself growing back home in a dark cave and I knew this could be Heaven.

Somewhere suddenly I was fascinated by going back to a state of nothingness, trying to be empty.

In Sweden I found meanings of home, of states of being at ease. Going back to a delicate honest unspoiled position. I was looking into the theory of justice. John Rawls, who wrote about the way of depriving, cleaning from presumptions, approach the other with an ignorance to equalize.

When my father was laying in a coma for two months, waking up almost knowing nothing, I learnt about the depriving and the primal habits of a human.

In the middle of May my grandmother passed away and I was confronted with distinct feelings of origins. Who am I? What is my position in this timeline? Why am I here? What is my drive? Where do I come from?

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Residency The whispering Game | Nina Orteu

28 June 2016 CLOUD

nina

Residency: 11/24 July 2016

Presentation: Saturday 23 July

Project sessions:

Participant 1: 13th July (morning)/ Participant 2: 15th July (morning)/ Participant 3 : 16th July (morning)/ Participant 4: 21st July (morning)/ Participant 5: 23rd July (morning)

Workshop:
12 July 11:30h
14 July 11:30h
19 July 11:30h
22 July 11:30h

About Nina Orteu

Nina Orteu is a Catalan artist who works between the Netherlands and Barcelona. She started developing her performance practice when she got involved with Corpologia, a performance art festival, and became a member of the group. Later on, she also iniciated her own performance art festival in the Netherlands, Vertigo, and combined it with a performance research group for women artists in Barcelona.

She uses her body as a tool to research. For Nina, performance is not the goal, it is just a medium to get answers. She started her research in performance as a way to communicate to others things that cannot be said, most of the times related to her personal family history and involving domestic violence as a core topic.

More recently, she has started to add the participation of other people in her performances. Her main interest at the moment consists on the other. She wants to be able to understand and embrace the other, but at the same time she wants her to be understood and embraced too.

Project: the whispering game
Family and relationships, are my main focus of interest. I position myself as a daughter and sometimes, as a mother. In my performances, I research this topic while performing with other people or inanimate things that play a symbolic role in my life. This allows me to investigate how human relations function, so I can find other ways of living and loving, that are different from what I learned during my childhood with an abusive father.

The project
Nina is looking for participants who would like to take part in her research during the residency period. The idea of the whispering game project is based on a childhood game with that same name. ‘One person whispers a message to another, which is passed on through a line of people until the last player announces the message to the entire group. Errors typically accumulate in the retellings, so the statement announced by the last player differs significantly, and often amusingly, from the one uttered by the first.’

As part of my work I am inviting 5 people to play that game with me. In this case, instead of words, we are going to use actions to pass it through the line of participants. I will be the initiator of the game proposing an action called “The Ceremony” where daily objects take part. This will be the trigger to develop more actions together.

Would you like to join me? or do you have any questions?

send an email to : cloud.danslab@gmail.com

with subject:’ the wispering game’

Workshop: The Female Archive

this workshop aims to introduce women performance artists, to understand their practices and relate them to the present and put their concepts on the table in order to develop work in relation to theirs.

1 class € 7

whole workshop € 25

Sessions:

12th July at 11:30h -> the female archive : Yoko Ono

Yoko Ono, probably better known as the one that separated The Beatles.

Her work as an artist is very diverse. Member of Fluxus, she developed work using imagination as a very important tool. During her hard childhood in Japan, she often found herself playing games where she imagined delicious meals to eat to distract from her starvation. This is what later on, will trigger her other works.

During the workshop, we will have several scripts she wrote to be performed and interpreted in different ways for us.

14th July at 11:30h -> the female archive: Ana Mendieta

Ana Mendieta left Cuba when she was a child, during the “Peter Pan program”. She was brought to USA, leaving her family behind. In her work, she tries to reconnect to the land, the earth, and become one with it. She talks about her loss using her body and nature.

As an activity, Nina Orteu proposes to go to the beach and try to reenact or reinvent some of her pieces from the “Siluetas” series.

19th July at 11:30h -> the female archive: Rebecca Horn

Rebecca Horn has started exploring the concept of equilibrium with her body, and later on in her work, using kinetic structures. However, not related to that, she made a very interesting piece where she cut her own hair with a pair of scissors in front of a camera. Based on that, we are going to investigate during the workshop the importance of hair and its symbolic value while combining it with some of her equilibrium actions.

22nd July at 11:30h -> the female archive: Carolee Schneemann

Carolee Scheemann is known for her discourses on the body, sexuality and gender. In her piece interior scroll, she ritualistically stood naked on a table, painted her body with mud until she slowly exracted a paper scroll from her vagina while reading from it. I propose for the workshop to think about our bodies, reconnect to them, reactivate the pelvis/genital area as a center of energy and creativity.

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Residency | Habitual Behavior of the Body | Patricia Vane

20 June 2016 CLOUD

bergrummet 02-10 juli 2016

Presentation: sunday 10 juli 20:00 u.

Labs: 5 july 10:00 till 13:00 / 7 july 9:00 till 11:00

please send an email if u want to join to: cloud.danslab@gmail.com (subject Patricia Vane)

price per Lab : 7€

Patricia Vane studied applied arts at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam.

Currently working in the field of performance art: ‘I choreograph movement, compose sound and design costumes. Space and ambiance are a great contribution to my performances. Therefor I also style sets, make installations and capture my performances on video and in pictures.’

She started forming an ongoing research, using the disciplines dance, fashion design, sound design and visual art to give visual construction to the research.

Philosophizing about the world’s issues of today around segregation, crisis and populism, reading John Rawls justice theories and Erich Fromm’s social discourses, she went deeper into the motives of human behavior. Why are we discriminating. judging, making others lives miserable? Why do we make the other suffer? Why are we not in peace with one another? What makes us behaving bad towards each other? Where does this aggressiveness originate? What is its source?

The main answer that came along: the aggression comes out of those people who are behaving badly. And those people are we. We are the source. It derives from us. It comes from us. From within.

If it is indeed coming from within ourselves she can make a conclusion that in order to find non-belligerence amongst each other, we should find peace within ourselves. To do so, she has emphasized the great importance of the need of an individual state of happiness and came down to the essential question: How do we get happy*? A seemingly too simple question yet explicitly present in our entire human history.

This proposal for residence at Cloud is part of the happiness research where she studies the natural behavior of bodies/embodiments. In this particular section she will focus on the details of her own physical body being in her original positions. When is her body feeling most natural, safe, comfortable and so: when is the body most happy*?

Workshop

Butoh workshop | Natsu Nakajima | September 2016

26 May 2016 CLOUD

Organized in collaboration with Butoh Channel Berlin

14 – 18 September | 10:00-14:00 | €180 early bird
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We are happy to announce the second European tour of Natsu Nakajima in Berlin, the Hague, and Barcelona. Natsu Nakajima (1943 Sakhalin, Japan) is one of the founding members of Butoh movement in Tokyo since the 1960s, and is one of its foremost pioneers abroad.

Workshop description
Combining Hijikata’s choreographic methods with the improvisation intelligence taught by Kazuo Ohno, as well as the long choreographic and performance expertise of Nakajima herself, this workshop will prepare you for sensitive improvisation work, choreographic aptitude, and performance integrity. Natsu Nakajima will teach not only the physical techniques, but also the background of Butoh conceptions and ideas. Content:

Physical Exercise
- General exercise
- KATSUGEN activity (living vital force activity) by Noguchi Method
- body & vocalization
- playing game
Basic Butoh
- being nothing
- walking
Vocabulary (how to combine theatrical action & dancing movement)
- rhythm (time) and space
Various energy qualities
Transformation
Improvisation
Butoh-fu (Butoh Notation) from Hijikata’s work: how to use Butoh-fu and to combine with Hijikata’s method and Kazuo Ohno’s method.

About Natsu Nakajima
Natsu Nakajima (b. 1943 Sakhalin, Japan) has been one of the most prominent figures in Butoh dance since its foundation in Tokyo in the 1960s, and one of its foremost pioneers abroad. Training under both Hijikata Tatsumi and Kazuo Ohno, Nakajima went on to establish her own dance company, Muteki-sha, in 1969, with whom she has been performing and choreographing internationally since the early 1980s. Her highly acclaimed performance of ‘Niwa’ at LIFT ‘83 (London) marked the beginning of this international touring career, and led to performances at festivals such as FIND (Montreal), the Nancy Festival, and the Sydney Biennale. In addition to her performance and choreographic work, Nakajima has over thirty years of experience as a teacher, and has been one of the forerunners of dance for the disabled in Japan.

Ankoku Butoh (暗黒舞踏) – dance of darkness
Hijikata Tatsumi, who passed away in 1986, is the originator of Ankoku Butoh; and Ohno Kazuo (1906-2010), an extraordinary and rare dancer, was his great collaborator. Hijikata was like Picasso; every season, he would change the style of his works like a chameleon. This partly explains why each of his disciples developed very different working styles. Natsu Nakajima was among the founding members of the Ankoku Butoh movement and belongs to the first generation.

Ankoku Butoh is a movement in the performing arts that was born riding on the wave of counter-culture in post-war Japan in 1950-1960s. Now in Europe, and some other countries, the term “Ankoku” has been dropped from “Ankoku Butoh”, and the term “Butoh” has become more closely associated with these countries. Losing “ankoku” has resulted in losing sight of the original ideology from when Ankoku Butoh was created and has given rise to many misunderstandings and misinterpretations.

Whatever you may call it, darkness, spirituality, or even something formless, something that cannot be put into words, or simply, the unconscious, the inexplicable, the destroyed and disappeared… …we are actually talking about something that cannot be seen. Something that Hijikata called “ankoku”. Hijikata liked to use the word “yami” (shadowy darkness). It gives the feeling of something that is full of contradiction and irrationality, somewhere like the “chaos of eternal beginning”… To deconstruct Ankoku Butoh with “language” is moving further and further away from the joy of early Ankoku Butoh’s integral quest for “the body as the scene of fulfilled life”.
(from the lecture of Natsu Nakajima)

Registration
Registration for 5-day Butoh workshop by Natsu Nakajima with an intensive training of 4 hours per day. The number of places is limited.

Early bird €180,- if registered before 14th of August
Late bird €200, if registered after 14th of August

Please register by mail to cloud.danslab@gmail.com
With Subject Title: Registration Butoh Workshop
Payment details will be provided and registration confirmed when payment received on CLOUD/Danslab bank account.

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Residency | Sad King | Malik Nashad

26 May 2016 CLOUD

1 – 16 June
Presentation 13 June | 20:00 | Check Facebook
Movement Labs 1 – 9 June | 9:30 – 11:30 | Check Facebook

How can tangentiality propose new and politically subversive ways of working?

About the Residency
“SAD KING” is a new solo work that Malik has been creating under the mentorship of NYC choreographer Tere O’Connor, where he became interested in replacing/removing source material as a praxis for working politically. By brashly permitting tangentiality, this piece establishes thought and theory as choreographic form, while removing its materiality away from its source image in order to suss out radical subterranean politics. “SAD KING” nevertheless moves closer to the underground depths and complexities of a certain politics and does so in order to theorize with the body for a discernible political praxis.

Movement Labs – Tangential Movement (Contemporary Technique)
Tangential Movement is about finding new ways to move by permitting the body to move and stretch away from its source materiality. This class is about testing the extents of physicality without imposing codified technique, but playing with them in order to find new movement strategies and generation. The class will be based heavily in improvisation, and finish with phrase-material and stretching.

Schedule
Wednesday 1 June
Thursday 2 June
Monday 6 June
Tuesday 7 June
Wednesday 8 June
Thursday 9 June

Costs: €7,- per movement lab

About Malik Nashad
Malik Nashad Sharpe is a choreographer, dancer, and poet from New York City. He graduated with Highest Honors in Experimental Dance from Williams College, and is currently an MFA candidate at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Primarily interested in fostering an anarcho-somatic body in the Urban, his works interrogate both the realities and fictions of the City, as efforts to locate the revolutionary potential of the choreography of the oppressed. He has performed internationally and domestically, and has danced with Night Star Dance Company based in Dublin. His works have been shown at the Bonnie Bird Theatre in London, Studio 303 in Montreal, HT Chen Dance Center, Otion Front Studio, Secret Project Robot Art Experiment in New York City, 62’ Center for Theatre and Dance in Williamstown, and at ShuaSpace in Jersey Ciy, where he was 2015 Artist-in-Residence. In 2015, he founded NYC-based experimental dance troupe YESwave*.