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Workshop | The Sensation of Movement | Wilma Vesseur

Workshop | The Sensation of Movement | Wilma Vesseur
Saturday 30 March, 10:00-18:00
Costs: €70,- (incl. lunch)

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The sensation of movement is shifting.  Shifting induces change within the space of the body or your body in relation to something else. We research change of weight, work on fluid movements and amaze ourselves about three-dimensionality of a gesture. A dance is also learned by moving yourself into it. Let us explore and enjoy in how that actually happens

By Wilma Vesseur and Body-Mind Centering®

Registration: SubsTanz@bluewin.ch
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Billie’s Roos | Billie Hanne

Billie’s Roos, mythe en been in het Regentessekwartier

Poet and dancemaker Billie Hanne will share her work in performances and workshops. A collaboration with CLOUD and several other art venues in Regentessekwartier, Den Haag

Programme:

SHOWS + TICKETS

07 May DEEP BROWN SEA (solo)            at Whispering Wall, Weimarstraat 56, 7€
10 May VANDEWEYER AND HANNE IN CONCERT  at Studio Loos, De Constant Rebecqueplein 20B, 7€
13 May MELCHIOR (company piece)         at De Nieuwe Regentes, Weimarstraat 63, 10€
14 May MELCHIOR (company piece)         at De Nieuwe Regentes, Weimarstraat 63, 10€

Shows take place at 20h. 14 May: Artist Talk will take place after the performance

Tickets: buy tickets here or make a reservation at cloud.danslab@gmail.com

WORKSHOPS + SIGN UP

10-13 May       WORKSHOP PROFESSIONALS          10-16h, 150€
14 May          WORKSHOP AMATEURS               10-15h, 60€

Workshops take place at De Nieuwe Regentes, Weimarstraat 63

To sign up write an email to cloud.danslab@gmail.com.
(full description below)

 

S H O W S

07 May DEEP BROWN SEA

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May we gather in a cathedral made of water and mud

where the heart beats like a drum

and the humming is made devoid of human sound.

The laboratories obsolete now give away their secrets

collected in iced pearls that once cascaded from mountains.

In Deep Brown Sea the world is simple and enormous. It is a giant vessel that is largely empty and every move and word echo for years. There are no transitions, nothing is to be arranged or to be accounted for. ‘Deep Brown Sea’ is a solo show by Billie Hanne.
The piece was shown in Brussels, Amsterdam, London, Thessaloniki and will later in 2016 travel to Iceland.

Dance, text, vision: Billie Hanne
Costume: Eloïse Neuville
Production: God and Bones vzw

******** Whispering Wall, Weimarstraat 56, 7€ —— buy tickets here

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10 May VANDEWEYER AND HANNE IN CONCERT

The milk of a star that no longer hides the flesh in ignorance.
This slender book is all about face and form. Waterborne.

An encounter between dancer, poet Billie Hanne (BE) and vibraphonist, composer Els Vandeweyer (BE).
Vandeweyer’s ability to create harmonies like virtuoso fractals and her way of zigzagging through traditional material makes for an interesting combination with Hanne’s lyrical way of creating poetry by abstracting words and morphing them into new mythologies. This is their first artistic meeting.

Els Vandeweyer is currently engaged in Quat (with Fred Van Hove, Paul Lovens, and Martin Blume); Trio Grilo (with Ute Wassermann and Aleks Kolkowski); Spin Track (with Olaf Rupp and DJ Illvibe); a duo with Fred Van Hove, and participation in two orchestras (Pascal Niggenkemper´s Vision 7 and the Serenus Zeitblom Oktett).
In the next months Billie Hanne is performing in ‘Deep Brown Sea’, a solo on tour in Europe, ‘Melchior’ and ‘All for Big B!’, two pieces by her company Wheelgod, and ‘’Mud like Gold’ by Allen’s Line, the Julyen Hamilton Company.

******** Studio Loos, De Constant Rebecqueplein 20B, 7€  —— buy tickets here

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13 + 14 May MELCHIOR (company piece)

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“You are stupid!”, we told the watchman. We stole his key and locked him in eternal sleep.
There he bathed and looked younger than we could ever be.
Melchior did not disapprove, but busied himself with the World elsewhere.
“What can I do?”, he said. And we too saw he was better off taking care of his plants and horses, of his dahlias and sea star collection.
I remember one of us pointing at the waves until they became transparent and we entered a new day.

MELCHIOR is the imagined space in which new action is being produced and is lightly threaded by the facts of common history, rather than the burden of it.
The action itself is sharp and precise, a direct implication of the action that precedes.
Words are spoken occasionally and reveal a poetry of place and moment, of brevity and ephemeral gravity before they are let go off and disappear.
This is a company piece performed by Wheelgod under direction of Billie Hanne for four dancers.

Dance and poetry:Johnny Schoofs, Dezso Virag, Ilse Van Haastrecht, Billie Hanne
Direction: Billie Hanne
Production: God and Bones vzw
******** De Nieuwe Regentes, Weimarstraat 63, 10€   —— buy tickets here

W O R K S H O P S

10-13 May WORKSHOP PROFESSIONALS

——> 4-day class open to dancers, musicians and other professionals or equivalent

An essential class for dancers wanting to explore and produce poetry in performance.
The dancer who makes dance and poetry from a body in motion deals with an intimate mythology that is raw and textured, three dimensional.
Technically the areas of bone and muscle in relationship to gravity are worked on to facilitate an integrated speech. Therefor tongue and body must find spatial resonance in imagery and meaning as well as in euphonic qualities. The combining of elements in space, both linear and sequential, radial and instant, unite the material and weave it into the fabric of the dance.
Poetry then is a voluminous, changing complex of body, voice, form, space and time.

10-13/05 10-16h
150€
To enroll send an email to: cloud.danslab@gmail.com (intro + cv)

******** De Nieuwe Regentes, Weimarstraat 63,

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14 May WORKSHOP AMATEURS

—->  1 day class

Een introductie workshop voor ieder die graag wil improviseren met dans en poëzie.
Deze cursus onderzoekt met eenvoudige instructies een intieme mythologie van lichaam en stem.
Er wordt beweging per beweging en woord voor woord gewerkt om uiteindelijk te komen tot intelligente groepscomposities.
Lichaam – spraak – ruimte – tijd als één complex geheel dat altijd in beweging is.

Open voor iedereen die zin heeft!
14/05 10h tot 15
60€
Om zich in te schrijven stuur een mailtje naar: cloud.danslab@gmail.com

******** De Nieuwe Regentes, Weimarstraat 63,

 

B I L L I E  H A N N E  B I O

Poet and dancer Billie Hanne makes work through radical handling of poetry and dance, of body and tongue.
Her work presents the refined body in space and reveals the matrix in which speech and action take place. The result is a rare and physical lyricism that is quick-witted in its dealing with time, space, object and light.
From May 7th till May 14th her work will be shown in different locations for performance in Den Haag as well as sharing her work process in two workshops. One for professionals, one for amateurs.
You are invited and welcome!

Billie Hanne started her artistic career as dancer and poet in the Julyen Hamilton Company ‘Allen’s Line’, in 2009. In 2012 she established Wheelgod as a platform to make ensemble pieces under her direction. Currently they are performing ‘Melchior’. A piece for four dancers. ….. She is also a growing soloist and is on tour with her solo ‘Deep Brown Sea’. This is her fifth solo work.
Billie Hanne performed in Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, England, Norway, Greece, France and later this year in Iceland
Billie’s Roos is supported by Gemeente Den Haag, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds Zuid-Holland and Gravin van Bylandt Stichting

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Residency | Marlieke Burghouts

2 – 8 May
Presentation 5 May 18:00 Facebook
Movement lab monday till thursday from 100:00 till 11:15 am

During the residency Marlieke Burghouts is going to deepen out the first stages of her research into the embodiment and staging of ‘willfulness’ and ‘willingness’.
(Sara Ahmed Willful subjects Duke Press 2014 )

This research is conducted in relation to the whole body, but in particularly in relation to the action of raising the arm and the diverse meanings and readings this gesture can have.

My interest lays in investigating how the individual body, in this case myself, experiences willingness and willfulness and how that influences the actions and shaping of the body. Where do my decisions spatially and physically bring me?

The work will be created in collaboration with sound artists Jeske de Blauw en Mark IJzerman.
About Marlieke Burghouts
Marlieke Burghouts is a dancer, choreographer and teacher active in the Netherlands. In 2014 she graduated from the MA Choreography of Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London, UK. There she developed a deep interest in researching how the body is being shaped within society. Specifically she researches how we make decisions, how the physical body is ‘inscribed’ and shaped and how our identity is formed through culture and societal structures.
Marlieke has taught modern classes in upstate New York, New york City, Rotterdam, the Hague and Delft and will continue to teach modern classes and improvisation workshops throughout the Netherland and Europe

 

CLOUD Club #12 | The Underscore | Yaniv & Pablo

Saturday 21 May 19:00
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Next edition will be a real music and dance jam session! For all  impro lovers out there, join us for this more than amazing edition of  CLOUD Club!

Costs: €7,00
Doors open at 18:15
Session starts at 18:45
We finish at 23:00

ABOUT THE UNDERSCORE
The Underscore is a vehicle for incorporating Contact Improvisation into a broader arena of improvisational dance practice; for developing greater ease dancing in spherical space—alone and with others; and for integrating kinesthetic and compositional aspects while improvising. It allows for a full spectrum of energetic and physical expressions, embodying a range of forms and changing states. Its practice is familiar yet unpredictable.
(Nancy Stark Smith)

A quote by Nancy Stark Smith (from “Caught Falling”)
“You can’t do it wrong”
As long as your intention is to do the Underscore (and you haven’t inadvertently mistaken this for a tango class or nightclub), you can relax and assume that your actions and interpretations won’t be “wrong”.

ABOUT PABLO
Pablo (Pawel Wysocki) is a musician who grew up between the  blues, the rock, the jazz and the folk.
He is a songwriter and composer, and used to be a singer and guitar player in the Polish band Transcendent. As a musician he participated in theater performances and musical projects. In the past two years he has worked as improviser for dancers, playing the acoustic guitar.

ABOUT YANIV
Yaniv has enthusiastically explored Contact Improvisation in the past few years. It has been a home for him to return to his movement and to take it with him on his travels. He has been studying and exploring his movement with Nancy Stark Smith, Daniel Lepkoff, Julyen Hamilton, Mirva Makinnen and many other wonderful teachers, dancers and friends. He incorporates in his practice Human Design, Vipassana and Yoga. Photography and Music are part of his artistic life journey. He has also worked as Software Consultant for 12 years. www.yanivginton.com

Presentation | Wetec Lab KABK

Friday 22 April 20:00
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Students of the research lab WEtec from the KABK Den Haag present their outcomes at CLOUD/Danslab. During 9 weeks our students have developed their own research on researching body awareness, body movement, the senses, sensor technology and soft electronics. The diversity of this interdisciplinary lab is reflected in the different research results. The evening will be presented with installations and performances.

Doors open from 19.30
There will be a self-service bar. Donations for studio are welcome

More information soon

Workshop | Egyptian dance with Arabic music ensemble | Laura Maria de Gaspari

with Laura Maria De Gaspari and Live music
29 May, From 14:00 to 18:00

Under the name Egyptian dance, we mean the foundation movement that characterizes the rich classical and folk dance heritage of Egypt. The workshop is accompanied by a Classical Arab music ensemble.

The aim is to have an experience with the essence of the dance and music, an inner, meditative moment of joy and freedom. An experience with the richness and beauty of traditional dance both for Egyptian dancers and contemporary dancers.

Register via: lmdegaspari@gmail.com
About Egyptian Dance: http://lmdegaspari3.wix.com/egyptiandance
Find the event on Facebook.

Prices
Very Early bird (before April 15th): € 50
Early Bird (before May 1st): € 60
May price: € 70

The participation fee is half reimbursed (50% of the paid amount) in case of illness and with a medical certificate.

Residency | Trouble Wit, Magic and Choreography at the Table | Tilman Andris & Emilie Gallier

On April 27 and April 28, Tilman Andris and Emilie Gallier are again working in CLOUD preparing for their presentation for the International Dance Day (Leiden, 29 April, open to all) and for an experimental afternoon within the walls of Quartair (Den Haag, 1 May, closed event).

To join their performance see http://leideninternationaldanceday.tumblr.com/debibliotheek
or contact emilie@post-cie.com (reservation is recommended since there are only few seats at the table)
Trouble Wit is a theatrical paper folding demonstration performed by magicians since the 17th century. In their performances, magicians used Trouble Wit as an illustration device for narratives.
We enrich the possibilities of Trouble Wit by the use of choreography.
Where this performance usually takes place on stage in front of its audience, we invite spectators to sit around tables and we perform close-up for them at those. We hope for the dinner-table format to serve proximity, friendship, and possible conversations. No dinner is served, but food for thought, causing the imagination of our audience to wander. Spectators learn about the history of Trouble Wit and hear unexpected surrealistic stories. We intend to address the audience’s expectation when it comes to see a magic performance by a male magician and a female choreographer: will bodies disappear, be cut in half? The spectator’s status of co-creator fascinates us and we wish to make our audience more aware of the nuances of their participation (from physically helping, to reacting with ‘aaah’ ‘ooooh’, or to mentally and silently imagining tricks).
Concept, magic: Tilman Andris
Concept, choreography: Emilie Gallier
Supported by: CLOUD, PØST Cie, C-DaRE (Centre for Dance Research, Coventry).

 

Classes| Contemporary Dance| Christina Karagianni

christina K contempFrom tuesday 12 april we will be having a new evening class  from 19:00 till 20:00
Contemporary Dance by Christina Karagianni.

This class is based on the principles of release technique. This means, focusing on the breathing, skeletal alignment, muscle relaxation, joint articulation and the use of gravity to facilitate efficient movement.
Open to all levels.

Christina Karagianni (1987, Larisa, Greece) received her education as a professional dancer from the Greek National School of Dance (KSOT) and completed her MA in Theater studies at the University of Utrecht. She considers dance and choreography as an art form that can produce knowledge; therefore she is interested in the inquiry of the relationship between practice (praxis) and theory.

more info & contact & price: look at the classes page  for Contemporary Dance by Christina Karagianni

Residency | Dreams I Have Dreamt in the Studio | Tal Garmiza

23 – 26 August

Presentation  Saturday 27 August 2016 19:00
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The project is called “Dreams I Have Dreamt in the Studio” and it deals a lot with the connection between women in different cultures to music and nature. How do we re-find our passion for dancing? When did dancing become so real that we have lost the ability to dream through it and how do we regain it? Where is our happiness in the dance? These are all questions I deal with in this project.

About Tal Garmiza
I’m an Israeli dancer currently based in Tel Aviv. I created and produced a project called “A Door to a Room” that brings dancers and musicians together. I believe in taking the dance and the music into the world because everyone is entitled to it. Among other things, we created a show that explored the meaning of a place and how do I create within it. I’m also involved in building a new center for dancers at the Arab-Jewish community center in Jaffa.

Residency | Non visual palbable dances | Zwoisy Mears-Clarke

1 – 8 April 
Presentation
Movement Labs | Non-visual palpable dances | 4-8 April | 10:00-12:00 | €7,-

About the residency and movement labs
Non-visual, palpable dance – how Zwoisy defines it – is a form of dance where the dance is communicated physically through touch. The audience is a physical participant by using their somatosensory faculties (skin, bones, for example) to ‘view’ the piece in which the shape of the whole body of the dancer and eyesight become irrelevant as the audience’s body becomes the dancefloor.

The main ideas that will be explored are:
– Types of touches: are there certain touches that have common interpretations?
– Connotations of the areas of the body: what happens when the dance takes place ‘on’ the wedding-ring finger versus the pointer finger?
– Physical amplification: In a pitch black room with touch as the main medium, what kinds of amplifiers can be used for one performer to be able to dance for 4 or even 30 people?

About Zwoisy
Zwoisy Mears-Clarke was born in Jamaica and immigrated to the U.S.A. at the age of 13, before heading off again at 21. Following this ongoing migratory experience Zwoisy’s work focuses on the translation of untold stories. Paired with discussion of written and oral stories throughout the process of creating each piece, full-bodied movement, gestures, scholarly literature and collaboration are used to support its materialization. The aim of this process remains to provide alternatives ways to share experiences and form connections between estranged communities. Zwoisy received a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering at Columbia University, New York City and a B.A. in Physics and Dance at Oberlin College, Oberlin, U.S.A. in 2012. Within the work, one will find that these opposing yet complementary concepts of the body are connected. In the recent years, Zwoisy has studied with Billie Hanne, Jodi Melnick, Kirstie Simson, Mary Cochran, and Nancy Stark-Smith, and has performed the works of Isabelle Schad,Susan Rethorst, Kyle Abraham, and Will Rawls. Zwoisy has performed and shown work at venues both in Berlin and New York City, such as HAU, Sophiensaele, New York Live Arts, and the Tank. Currently, Zwoisy is based in Berlin.

Workshop | Samba & Afro-Brazilian | Noëlla Das

16 April | 13:00 – 15:00 | €20,-
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Noëlla Das has been dancing Samba and other Brazilian and African styles since she was only 15 years old. After years of performing, she specialized in Afro-Brazilian and contemporary African dance. Noëlla also received training in classical ballet, improvisation, and modern dance. By combining her years of experience with yearly trips to Senegal and Brazil, Noëlla is always up-to-date with the latest developments in her field. Additionally, Noëlla is a talented musician, playing the saxophone and several Latin and African percussion instruments.

Noëlla’s classes are focused on the different rhythms from West-Africa and Brazil, and how they relate to the body. Isolation of movement, posture and use of space are central parts of her class and her warm approach to teaching have made her a favorite of many students across the Netherlands.

Workshop Afro-Brazilian dance
Saturday 16 April from 13:00 – 15:00
Price: €20

Please register by sending an email to Damani on: dleidsman@gmail.com

Residency | Trouble Wit | Emilie Gallier & Tilman Andris

14-19 March
Presentation | Saturday 19 March | 11:00-13:00

Trouble Wit is a theatrical paper folding demonstration performed by magicians since the 17th century. In their performances, magicians used Trouble Wit as an illustration device for narratives.
We enrich the possibilities of ‘Trouble Wit’ by the use of choreography. We build larger sized Trouble Wits in order to access other movements, proportions, and narratives. Where this performance usually takes place on stage in front of its audience, we invite spectators to sit around tables and we perform close-up for them at those. We hope for the dinner-table format to serve proximity, friendship, and possible conversations. No dinner is served, but food for thought, causing the imagination of our audience to wander. Spectators learn about the history of Trouble Wit and hear unexpected surrealistic stories. We intend to address the audience’s expectation when it comes to see a magic performance by a male magician and a female choreographer: will bodies disappear, be cut in half? The spectator’s status of co-creator fascinates us and we wish to make our audience more aware of the nuances of their participation (from physically helping, to reacting with ‘aaah’ ‘ooooh’, or to mentally and silently imagining tricks).

Concept, magic: Tilman Andris
Concept, choreography: Emilie Gallier
CLOUD, PØST Cie.