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RESIDENCY| SHADOW AND LIGHT (PART 2)|OONA MINOO

3-19 June 2024

workshop 14June 15:00-17:00

“About Shadow And Light” is dedicated to a primal human need: Telling stories and listening to them.

Through movement and music this project explores the meaning of myths and fairy tales for our society and approaches them from a female perspective. How much complexity is there behind these seemingly black-and-white stories? Why have they remained vibrant to this day? Who is actually telling them? And are we told everything?

In this first research periode I will explore “the act of telling” via the body and via the voice. I will also experiment with combining those two media of expression. How does my body tell a story? What wants to be expressed through the body and what through the voice? And what happens when they both meet?

As a basis for this project I want to explore different movement qualities and how it can be made possible to change instantly between them. Therefore I want to connect movement with music. How can rhythm/music help create and change movement qualities? How can the use of the voice support my movement and the other way around?

Oona Minoo is an interdisciplinary performer/maker in the fields of music and dance from Vienna, currently based in The Hague. In her work she experiments with the relationship between different media of expression and has a particular interest in the relationship between music and movement. Not letting herself be limited by borders of genres, Oona blends together her artistic backgrounds in music, dance and theatre. Central to her is the contact with the audience and making art accessible to everyone.

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP : In this workshop I will share some approaches to movement improvisation with you, that I am exploring myself at the moment. Working with imagination and the relationship to music, we will dive into different movement qualities. We will explore how rhythm and the use of our voice can support and inspire our bodily expression. We will also have time to exchange and reflect on our experiences during the workshop.

This workshop is free and for all levels!

To register, please send an e-mail to: contact@oonaminoo.com

Residency| Place/Make | Melody Nolan & Omer van Soldt

1 April 2024 – 14 April 2024

Place/Make is a circus performance and film installation centered on the question: how do we find space for ourselves?

The house is seen as a microcosm of the city and the city as a collection of the small and larger actions of its inhabitants. 

Building a home of bricks through handstands and acrobatics, the performer works to discover: How does the human negotiate its habitat?

Our physical research centers on the question: How can the body communicate the agility necessary to adapt (to) one’s surroundings? By working with the interaction between the body and the basic building material of bricks, we look for opportunities to apply the body’s capacities to problematize the relationship between human and surroundings.

Melody Nolan is a circus maker hailing from California. As a keen explorer of her physicality and surroundings, Melody draws inspiration from a physical approach to artistic research, balancing technique with creativity. Her work melds handstands with acrobatic movement as she seeks to nourish a rich dialogue between body, space, and expression.

Omer van Soldt has his artistic base in writing. Over the years, he has ventured onto different disciplines such as film, theatre and contemporary performance. He studied acting for six years before continuing his education at the joint interfaculty of ArtScience at the Royal Academy of Art and the Royal Conservatory of The Hague.

Website: www.placemakeproject.com

Instagram: @placemakeproject

Image by Jona Harnischmacher

🌟 Ignite Your Dancing Spirit: 3-Day Dance Retreat  🌟

🔥 Ignite Your Dancing Spirit: 3-Day Dance Retreat in the heart of Den Haag ❤️

Step into a world of movement, expression, and self-discovery as we present a transformative 3-day dance intensive. Designed by ex NDT and Batsheva dancers, for dancers of all levels, this immersive experience invites you to explore a diverse range of techniques, including Release Technique, Contact Improvisation, iFlow, Shake, and Breathwork. Join us as we embark on a journey of self-expression, connection, and artistic growth in a supportive and vibrant environment.

📅 September 1-3, 2023 at CLOUD/Danslab 📅

Mark your calendars for an unforgettable experience! The “Ignite Your Dancing Spirit” with a 3-day dance retreat will take place on September 1, 2, and 3, 2023. We are thrilled to announce that the event will be held at CLOUD/Danslab, known as the best dance studio in town, located in the heart of The Hague. 

Click the link here for registration details and secure your place in this incredible journey of self-discovery and artistic exploration.

🌐 Hosted by Jérôme aka the Dancing Monk Wizard

Get ready to be inspired by Jérôme, a renowned dancer and teacher who has traveled the world sharing his expertise. With over 20 years of teaching experience and 30 years of professional dancer, Jérôme brings a unique approach that combines breath forms, contemporary dance, yoga, and martial arts. Join us as we delve into new dimensions of movement, optimizing health, and unlocking your true dance potential.

Special guest teacher will be Isabelle Chaffaud and Tjeerd Buis.
All together they will create magic with you.

📅 Program day 1

✨ Flow, Shake, and Breathe ® (10:30-12:00) With Jérôme tap into your inner flow and unlock your creative potential through a fusion of yoga, contemporary dance, soma movement, and martial arts. Explore the fluidity of contemporary dance, the vibrancy of flow, and the grounding principles of somatic practices. Engage in energetic shaking exercises to release tension and unlock stagnant energy within your body. Dive into breathwork techniques that enhance your physicality, presence, and emotional connection to movement. Dance with passion, authenticity, and self-expression as you leave no stone unturned. More info here

✨ Intentional-Efficiency  (13:00-14:30) Teacher Isabelle Chaffaud. Developed by Isabelle this practice delves into the profound understanding that clear inner intention gives rise to diverse qualities and textures of movement. This method places a strong emphasis on cultivating awareness and recognizing the vital role of the body’s efficiency and articulation in supporting and effectively conveying intention. It embraces an approach that allows for the individual exploration and development of each aspect—intention and efficiency—while highlighting their interconnectedness.

✨ Connect and Create (15:00-16:00) With Jerome. Experience the joy of spontaneous connection through the practice of Contact Improvisation and group Improvisation. Explore the principles of shared weight, balance, and trust as you engage in dynamic duets, trio and group exercises. Discover the beauty of non-verbal communication and the art of listening through touch. Develop your partnering skills, enhance spatial awareness, and embrace the exhilaration of dancing in the present moment.

Nidra Yoga: Dive into Blissful Relaxation (16:15-17:15)
Welcome to the transformative world of Nidra Yoga with Tjeerd Buis, also Wim Hof method instructor, where you will embark on a profound journey of deep relaxation and rejuvenation. Nidra Yoga, also known as Yoga Nidra or Yogic Sleep, is a powerful practice that combines elements of meditation, mindfulness, and guided relaxation to help you access the state of conscious sleep.

In this one-hour course, you will be introduced to the principles and techniques of Nidra Yoga, allowing you to experience the profound benefits it offers. Through a series of guided sessions and experiential learning, you will learn to enter a state of deep relaxation while maintaining full awareness, leading to physical, mental, and emotional healing.

✨ Unwind with thee and cakes(17:15-18:00)

📅 Program day 2

✨ Flow, Shake, and Breathe ® (10:30-12:00)
✨ Intentional-Efficiency Method  (13:00-14:30)
✨ Connect and Create (15:00-16:30)
✨ Unwind with thee and cakes(16:30-17:00)

Day 3 we will use what we have learned the previous day during an ecstatic dance session to close the workshop. 

📅 Program day 3
✨ Flow, Shake, and Breathe warm up(12:00-13:00)
✨ Active breath session with Tjeerd ala Wim Hof with a touch of Tjeerd magic (13:30-14:15)
✨ Ecstatic dance session (14:15-15:45)
✨ Food and drinks (16:00-17:00)

✨ Benefits of all class:

• Expand your movement vocabulary and enhance your technical skills. • Cultivate body awareness, fluidity, and a sense of release in your dancing. • Deepen your understanding of connection and communication through contact improvisation. • Develop improvisational and partnering skills for increased versatility and creativity. • Explore the power of breath, flow, and shaking to unlock new dimensions of movement. • Nurture your artistic growth in a supportive and collaborative online community. • Connect with like-minded dancers from around the world and build lasting friendships.

🎭 “Ignite Your Summer Spirit” invites you to embark on a transformative 3-day dance intensive where you’ll explore the realms of Release Technique, Contact Improvisation, Flow, Shake, and Breathwork. Unleash your creativity, connect with fellow dancers, and discover new layers of expression within yourself. Join us on this incredible journey of self-discovery, growth, and artistic exploration. Let your spirit soar and dance like never before this summer! 🌞🌈

Spaces are limited, so reserve your spot now! Click the link here for registration details and secure your place in this incredible journey of self-discovery and artistic exploration.

Testimonials

My pleasure to share love with you beautiful people, thanks a lot Jérôme for the opportunity to get this so special safe space, it mean so much to me ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
Sandra

A wonderful playground where I can (re)discover my movability. Not doing, just being. Being danced. No work, just play! Freedom. ❤️
Ellen

I totally support what you’ve moved within me, because that is the gift I gave myself. 
Roger 

What Jerôme’s class brings me is a place of transformation and recycling of my emotions, through the body. I’m more self-aware in relationship as a result. It also strengthens my faith in human connection, because of the fun and kindness that develops.
Tamara
future teacher

In this space I can safely practice how to bring the relationship between my body and my mind into one of   More equal and Playful cooperation, rather than one of discipline and domination. I become aware – can notice how – my Body/mind are always in dialogue, never static, and I am encouraged to move in the flow – yin/yang – without judgement or resistance. At least, that’s the goal 😉🙏💛
Michelle 

Getting over mental boundaries about being close to others

Interacting with others on a different level also helps me deal with daily social interaction
Chronic pain management, making it easier for my body to return to a natural flow state
And feeling more at ease in my own body
Julia

Magical, just magical. The space: created by beautiful souls and their energies 💫The body is indeed sore today! 😆 and the emotional body allows some soreness too, some sadness to sit along with the amazement of receiving love 💛🚿💦
Michelle

Yes. And yesterday’s ending ceremony was the cherry on top. How important it is to be invited and to invite ourselves to connect and treat each other with kindness, love and care. We all know that as human beings and the mamals we are that this helps us thrive. 🙏 to the soul (I don’t know her name) who thought of inviting us to do this process.
Kim

I can’t tell you how much I have enjoyed and appreciated the class – the community the safe space the JOY in the body! 💫 you have (co) created something special 💛
Michelle

So what really helps me as a musician is first the connection with my body, which i believe is integral in a performance, being musical or not, beyond that you also explore communication with your colleagues in a different way, as the same you would do in a improvisation in music, you would explore the movements and geometry of your own body in relation to another, counterpoint… so for me is also an ludic way of doing the same i would do in musical dialogue, but without all the self judgments and technical struggles with instruments

Last but not least, connecting your breathing to your movement is an excellent way of connecting better my breathing in my playing, in my case since i play wind instruments is even more, but for a string player or whatever would still be important and healthy, usually we tend to create unnecessary tension and disconnection with our breath when playing
Nitai 
Musician student 

Annulation policy
2 month before 100%
1 month before 50%
2 weeks before 25%
1 week before 10%
Reimbursement are excluding transaction costs

Click the link here for registration details and secure your place in this incredible journey of self-discovery and artistic exploration.

Residency / Emma Schild

22 May – 4 June 2023

Emma‘s research is about expressing the inner world of the performer in an authentic way. With the body as her biggest source of inspiration and an instinctive approach to movement she creates an intimate connection with the audience. After completing the first week of a two-week research period with scenographer Jolein Kop (@joleneheads) at @makershuistilburg, where they explored how a light landscape can become an extension of this inner world. Creating different atmospheres using light and movement, inspired by triggers from the outside world. How can the light become like a living organism in the space? 

Now, she will continue her research at CLOUD Danslab focusing on the sound and movement aspect of the work. How much do external stimuli influence our inner world? How do they transform and echo inside us? What effect do they have on our being?

Emma aims to create a surreal world where we can immerse ourselves in this experience. 

Photo: Jostijn Ligtvoet Fotografie
Editen by: Luay Salha

“So, now what?” | Residency | Ana Sofie Meireles & Evelyn Hutchings

From 14 – 20 November 2022

Presentation: Friday 18 November 20:00 – door open 15 min. before

Synopsis:

There is frustration attached to us, for some reason or another, it fills us up with  questions, emotions, reflections. It comes up when we are not able to control something  that happened, something that we didn’t want to feel, or be. It’s triggered once  something doesn’t match the expectations, ours, of other people or the environment  around us. 

“So, now what?” explores the individual yet collective physical and emotional  experience of two people that are framed into a society, controlled into fitting a type,  while facing an unpredictable world, in which a lot is out of their own control. How does it feel to be controlled but not to be able to control? 

Biographies: 

Ana Meireles 

Ana Meireles is a dancer and young maker born in Porto. She initiated her dance studies  at Ginasiano Escola de Dança and concluded in 2021 her Dance Bachelor studies at  ArtEZ University of the Arts, in The Netherlands. 

During the last year of education at ArtEZ, Ana had an internship with the dance  company Another Kind of Blue, in The Hague, and developed her skills as a maker with  the creation of two pieces. She is currently working as a freelance dancer, maker and  dance teacher. 

Evelyn Hutchings  

Evelyn Hutchings is a dancer and young maker born in Palermo, Italy. She was part of the Eko Dance Project of Pompea Santoro and the I.C.D Professional  Dance Program. She finished her Bachelor studies in 2021 at ArtEZ University of the  Arts, in The Netherlands. During the last year of education at ArtEZ, Evelyn had an  internship with the dance company Another Kind of Blue, in The Hague, with the 

company Equilibrio Dinamico, in Italy, and created three pieces. She is currently  working as a freelance dancer and maker. 

Project description: 

We began working with the idea of social manipulation, the idea that we, as members  of a society, are constantly a target for being told what to do, what to wear, what to  say, who to be. And from the outside, a lot of us will act accordingly, and fit the frame  that we are put in. Everything is then done and said according to the rules, to the beliefs  and opinions of those in higher authority positions, those who have the power to  control.  

Later, we began to be interested in exploring what this concept means to us, personally,  emotionally and physically. What triggers us when we think about this framed world  and our obligation to fit in it. We felt frustration, each of us in a different way and for  different reasons, but we both felt it. We connected this feeling to our concept in the  way that it relates to wanting to go out of this frame, but not having the control to do  so. Everything beyond us is out of our hands, so there is a constant fight between us  and the world out there, where the actions of others and the actions of nature are  unpredictable and out of our control, while we struggle to get us out of the frame.  

The feeling is of helplessness, there are questions, emotions, reflections, plans. It feels  suffocating and the body becomes tense, there is so much information running through  our heads and our biggest question is, what can I do? What is possible for me to do in  this world that people fight to get control of, where I feel I have no control in anything  but myself, and somehow, everyone has control over me? 

We are now in the process of exploring all these ideas and finding out how the body  reacts to them. Our goal is to present a personal perspective on this concept, showing  not only out it looks from the outside, how we just do what we are supposed to do in  this framed society, but also how we internally struggle through fitting into it and not  wanting to.

curious? click link to listen to a short interview with the makers :

https://vimeo.com/774744497

BEING & BECOMING | RESIDENCY | OONA MINOO

6-19 June 2022

Presentation : Friday June 17, 7:30 PM

How did we become what we are? What shapes us, what makes us decide to choose one way or the other? And is it possible to transform oneself into someone or something completely different?

Humans are developing and transforming themselves continuously. Like a never-ending micro evolution. Being & Becoming searches for the very first moments, movements, and thoughts in our lives – still so flexible and adaptable that we could almost go in every direction. It is also about the courage to leave what does not fit anymore and about trying something new.

Celebrating all the different kinds of transformation: smoothly, slowly, unconscious, controlled, explosive and never ending.

During this residency I will be further developing my piece, (re)searching for ways to embody transformation. Especially the ones, that surprise yourself.

Research questions will be:

Is it possible to create movements that you never done before? And if yes, how?

A special focus will also be brought to the relationship between movement and (live) music:

How does music influence movement improvisation?

What difference does it make if this music is played live?

What inspiration can movement offer for (live) music creation?

During the last days of this residency electronic composer and synth player Maria Solberger ( AT) will join me to experiment with ways of adaption, fusion and distinction between music and movement.

On our last day we would be happy to invite you for our presentation: Friday 17th June 19:30

About the artist: Una Wiplinger (AT/NL) is a choreographer/dancer and musician/composer. Under her artistic name OONA MINOO she creates interdisciplinary performances, that use dance and music as ways to connect to and communicate with the audience and go beyond genre borders.

www.oonaminoo.com

RESIDENCY | RECONNECT | BODIES IN ACTION

11 – 15 April 2022

Open classes every morning 10:30 -11:15 AM

Showing Friday 15 April 19:30 – 21:30

Julian & Shira from Bodies In Action ~ enGendering Contemporary Dance from England will be starting a new Research in the Cloud studio.

We will look at what it is like to reconnect with something unfamiliar. This can be taken in an abstract or literal sense. It will be quite a personal residency, with opportunity to take things we are familiar with, throw them out the window, and discover new things both physically, emotionally, and mentally.

Some questions and ideas we have while playing with this new creation is: 

  1. How do unfamiliar bodies become familiar once again? How does the familiarity change?
  2. Does the reconnection of something that seems distant automatically reconnect or not?
  3. How does one/something smell, look, feel different? Can this happen with both a person and materialistic thing ?
  4. How do we transform the act of “re-meeting” into something abstract and visual? 
  5. How does the amount of time apart from someone/something affect the reconnection of this?

Through these questions and figuring out the answers, we will find ways to manifest the creative process through physical tasks in order to generate material. We will take inspiration from our own unique experience as well as gather other experiences from our individual selves to tackle the question of how we reconnect with estranged individuals. 

At the CLOUD/Danslab residency, we will invite people to come and take class in the morning.

Depending on what the space allows for, we will either guide a meditation/pilates/movement class or if professional dancers would like, we will host a ballet for contemporary dancers; otherwise, we will do a combination of both.

if you want more information about the classes please contact Julian: bodiesinactiondance@gmail.com

We will host a showing at the end of the week

to gather the immediate community to see what we have been up to. After this showing, there will be a discussion based on what people saw.

https://www.bodiesinaction.org/home

https://instagram.com/bodiesinactiondance

RESIDENCY | STONE NETWORK | Anna Bierler and Marit Mihklepp

8-12 March 2022

Stone Network is a knot of gatherings initiated by Anna Bierler and Marit Mihklepp. They begin weaving the network with a week-long residency-ritual – from March 8-12 – to connect the voices and bodies of the geologic and the human, as well as focus on modes of writing and reading as spaces for intimacy and collectivity. 

Each day an invited guest will be sharing their practice as an intensive learning and playing session:

Tuesday, 8.3. with Juliette Lizotte

Wednesday, 9.3. with Greta Facchinato

–Thursday, 10.3. with Cocky Eek

–Friday, 11.3. with Undead Matter

–Saturday, 12.3. with Comfort Ball

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From March 8–12 between 7pm–8pm the public is invited to join for interactive radio-experiments on Good Times Bad Times. Streaming live from CLOUD Danslab in The Hague, we’ll explore reading and writing as a collective practice while tending to stones and the stories they carry.

To participate, please enter the chatroom of Good Times Bad Times

🔗

Every summer I gather a few stones from
the beach and keep them in a glass bowl.
Now and again I cover them with water,
and they drink. There’s no question about
this; I put tinfoil over the bowl, tightly,
yet the water disappears. This doesn’t
mean we ever have a conversation, or that
they have the kind of feelings we do, yet
it might mean something. Whatever the
stones are, they don’t lie in the water
and do nothing.
Some of my friends refuse to believe it
happens, even though they’ve seen it. But
a few others—I’ve seen them walking down
the beach holding a few stones, and they
look at them rather more closely now.
Once in a while, I swear, I’ve even heard
one or two of them saying “Hello.”
Which, I think, does no harm to anyone or
anything, does it?

Mary Oliver, Watering the Stones

📡

Let’s meet in the chatroom!

xoxo Stone Network

This project is made possible with the kind support of creative industries fund NL

BRIDGING | RESIDENCY | IVAN COOK

06-19 December 2021

Presentation

18 December 13:00 – 13:30 & 15:00 – 15:30

A look at the thin line walked between stability and utter insanity.

How the mind and body copes with forced timeouts, everyday living and the need for purpose.

Bridging plays with memorizing forms of music performed by Nikos Charalambous , dancer Ivan Cook explores the depth of extreme physicality and mental despair, through theater and acrobatic dance.

Donation based. Reservation & Covid pass required.

Reservations via: www.cookmovementpractice.online/event

COSMIC CATERPILLARS

Lecture Performance by Lili Ullrich

Sunday 21 November 2021 at 16:00

In this lecture performance Lili Ullrich will share her research on the Knowing Body, institutional trauma and the Collective Unconscious. During her residency at CLOUD she worked on the performance Kosmische Raupe, in which she translated these topics into a collage of acting, physical theatre, contemporary poetry & sound. You can expect a magical journey into the subconscious mind and mystery of the body. 

We are looking forward to see you then, the space will be open 15 minutes in advance.

picture by Pilar Mata Dupont with a costume by Dragadina and Rico Dyks

State of excitement: research on the numinous experience | Dimitri v/d Wittenboer

31 oktober – 28 november 2019

Presentation | 28 november during the event: The Handshake

more info about this event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/595704267837355/

About Dimitri van den Wittenboer:

Dimitri’s background is in fine arts focusing on the exploration of the participatory aspects of performance art. In his collaborative artistic practice, he is curious about the potential of human interactions while critically questioning the current forms of social encounters in our society. For previous projects Dimitri has researched the history of western ritual traditions while relating them to the phenomenon of participation in fine arts performances and theatre practices. Recently his work has turned towards the public space and engages with the performativity of social interactions that can be found within urban environments.

“Participation asks for the commitment of the audience: to put a part of themselves into the encounter. I believe that participation can make art less consumable and more social through creating collective actions.” 

dimitrivandenwittenboer.com


“I am interested in the religious experience. There are many ways how one can generate this state in different traditions, reaching from the unifying rituals of the tribal cultures, meditation or the practices of solitude in the protestant Christianity. This topic is covered in studies of anthropology, religion studies and theology.

“Anthropologists see religion as the construction force of society. Roy Rappaport describes religion as composed of two interrelated elements of the Sacred and the Numinous. The Sacred is a function of discourse, and the Ritual the event in which it is realised. The Sacred is what we know as institutionalised Religion with all its forms of practices. The Numinous, on the other hand, is an individual experience, an incomprehensible non-discursive element of Religion.

“Otto Rudolf in his essay Das Heilige (the Holy) makes a deep analysis of the Numinous from a theologian and psychological perspective. He describes it as something which can not be expressed but only can be talked about using analogies of emotional states which are common to us. He talks about the feeling of Fear, Grace, Dependence and Ecstasy as the emotions which come close to the Numinous.

“In this project, I am interested in exploring the ecstatic state. I am looking for ways how this state of euphoric excitement can be generated in a group of performers and then be transcended to the audience. To generate this state I would like to use techniques of breathing, sounding and movement.

Breath

“Breathing is a powerful instrument which can be used to influence the psychic states. In moments of fear, excitement or aggression our breath changes drastically. I am interested in using the variations in breath to generate the state of high excitement. In the performative research, I am planning to try different breath techniques inspired by dynamic meditation (Osho), shamanic practices, pranayama and holotropic breathwork. I have experience in these fields and would like to see how this techniques can be abstracted from the mentioned context and be possibly used to generate excitement.

Sound

“The voice is another interesting instrument which I am interested in. Similar to breath the voice is used in various traditions to generate certain states or to create unity among a group of participants. In the chakra sound meditation, vocals are sang separately related to the chakras to trigger a certain effect. In ritualistic practices, shouts or songs are performed to create a unifying experience. Further various humming and chanting techniques are worked with in eastern traditions to elevate the state of mind. Also in this context, I would like to try to find the core elements of these techniques and see how it can be used in my work.

Movement

“Finally movement. Dancing, shaking and various forms of rhythmic movement are used similarly as the voice and breath. In the Kundalini mediation shaking is an important element to generate energy in the body which is then further directed. Further movements from dance, shamanic practices and hatha yoga will be a starting point.

“If one takes a look at the history of avant-garde theatre then probably Jerzy Grotowski is the one who deepened the exploration of the religious state the most. In the tradition of Antonin Artaud, he was trying to elaborate on how the actor can reach a primordial state through physical action. Grotowski was aware that in our fragmented society the unifying experience of the ritual is not possible. But he believed that if the actor touches this primordial energy of the human being the audience through mere watching of it will be able to connect to it as well. However, Grotowski stopped the Theatre of Production after a few performances and focused his work more on research and the work with the actor. He saw theatre as a vehicle for the actor to reach a higher state of being.

“I think that he gave up the exploration of the possibilities to transcend the religious state to the audience a little early. As Rappaport states it, Ritual is important as it allows the audience to get in a transcendent state without an extended preparation or training. All these elements are included in the structure of the ritual. Ritual, therefore, makes these states accessible to ordinary people.

“With regard to this, I will look for a way of incorporating the explored techniques into a performance and look for ways to engage the audience. It is important for me to fuse these abstract techniques with motives of daily life and to make them, therefore, more accessible to the contemporary audience. The question is, what is the foundation fo ritualistic actions and how can it be translated into the language of contemporary western society? This is a very important point for me because I think that the mere presentation of something from a distant culture or time or just something completely detached from the profane reality, can not create the necessary relation to the audience. As a result, the audience becomes even more distant observing it as an object of entertainment instead of being drawn into it.

“I am aware that it would be easier to achieve these states in the audience by making them do a certain action. However, I think that the distance with which the people prefer to approach an artwork not necessary must be challenged through a forceful call for participation. I would like to look for a more authentic way to create a relation to the work and make the audience part of it.”

Residency #2 CLOUD LAYER BY LAYER | Una Wiplinger

29 July – 10 August 2019

Presentation : 10 August 17:00

Skin as a border between the inner and the outer world. As the most intimate human cover. As the outermost envelope. As the closest contact point to our surroundings. Skin covers the many layers of the body, interwowen and engraved with memories and stories.

During my first residency at CLOUD, my research was mostly about the sensation, influence and relationship between different anatomical “layers” of the body and movement.
Now I will start working with sound and textile materials, bringing new layers and aspects to my movement researches.

After a week of exchanging ideas and experimentig with Claire Chatel (costume & stage design), the interaction between body, movement and material will get integrated in the performative process. How can textile material and movement influence each other? What kind of movement possibilities does a certain material have to offer? How does movement change the shape and meaning of a textile object? What new pictures and stories can arise during the interaction between movement and material?

Furthermore I want to start developing first compositions for voice and loop station, playing with text fragments, layering and different kind of sounds.