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).

CLOUD

Classes| Contemporary Dance| Christina Karagianni

5 April 2016 CLOUD

From 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

Residents

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

16 March 2016 CLOUD

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.

CLOUD

Residency | Non visual palbable dances | Zwoisy Mears-Clarke

16 March 2016 CLOUD

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.

CLOUD

Workshop | Samba & Afro-Brazilian | Noëlla Das

16 March 2016 CLOUD

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

CLOUD

Residency | Trouble Wit | Emilie Gallier & Tilman Andris

16 March 2016 CLOUD

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.

Workshop

Butoh Workshop| CHORE O’GRAFFITI | Yuko Kaseki

3 March 2016 CLOUD

20 – 24 April
From 10:00 – 15:00 | 200
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After the success of the first Butoh workshop at CLOUD/Danslab, lead by butoh master Natsu Nakajima, we organize the second butoh intensive week, now with 2nd generation butoh artist Yuko Kaseki.

About the workshop CHORE O’GRAFFITI
Dance is an odd job and graffiti is sprayed fast, erased and painted over and over in urban space. What is choreography? What is improvisation? What is life? Breaking the border of systems and accidents that feed each other to find their own way of creation. Take risk in the process for progress, to print on a new surface.

Participants are asked to bring their own theme for a performance, develop and demonstrate it. The intention of the workshop is to expose oneself to the possibilities and challenges of damage, and re-creation. Furthermore we will establish original movements through improvisation with image, gesture, space, and relationships and thus increase body awareness.

The physical training will be based on Noguchi gymnastics, elements of Tai-Chi, and Butoh methodology. We practice the whole body to make it permeable for the awakening and the deepening of our layers of sensitivity. We will attempt to explore how we associate the variations of our inner body in relation to the outer by listening honestly.

About Yuko Kaseki
Yuko Kaseki lives and works as a freelance dancer, choreographer and teacher in Berlin since 1995. She studied Butoh dance and Performing Art in HBK Braunschweig with Anzu Furukawa and danced in her company Dance Butter Tokio and Verwandlungsamt in 1989-2000.

Yuko Kaseki and Marc Ates founded the dance company cokaseki in 1995. She has been involved in various projects with musicians and visual artists.

Solo and ensemble performances, improvisations are performed throughout Europe, Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Canada, Mexico, Uruguay, Argentina, Australia, Russia and the USA. These works are physical performance that incorporates Butoh, contemporary dance, object design, texts, and soundscapes. Yuko Kaseki performs and organizes improvisation series “AMMO-NITE GIG” (Vol.1 – 48 and on going) with international performers and musicians since 2004.

Collaboration with inkBoat (San Francisco) since 2001, CAVE (New York), Isak Immanuel/Tableau Stations(San Francisco), Theater Thikwa (Berlin), improvisation duo with Antonis Anissegos(Berlin) and others.

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Registration and payment
Registration for 5-day Butoh workshop by Yuko Kaseki with an intensive training of 5 hours per day. The number of places is limited.

Early bird €200,- if registered before 18th of March
Late bird €220,- if registered after 18th of March
Drop-in registraton per day: €44,- (note that cancellation policy does not apply for drop-in)

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.

Cancellation policy
If you unfortunately have to cancel this workshop by any reasons, these are the conditions:

Before 18 March, €20,- for administration expenses will be deducted
After 18 March, the cancellation has a fee of 30% of the total amount: early bird €60,- or late bird €66,-
After 1 April, the cancellation has a fee of 50% of the total amount: early bird €100,- or late bird €110,-

Previous Butoh workshops at CLOUD/Danslab

Natsu Nakajima from 18 – 21 August 2015

CLOUD

Workshop| Composing Dance and Poetics | Billie Hanne

28 February 2016 CLOUD

10 till 13th of May 10:00 – 16:00h

COMPOSING DANCE AND POETICS

An essential class for dancers wanting to explore and produce poetry in performance.
The course investigates the relationship between words and gravity through effective use of the body’s anatomy. The dancer who makes dance and poetry from a body in motion deals with an intimate mythology that is raw and textured, three dimensional and springs from rhythm. In essence the work is to have both the poetry and the dance individuate so they can be housed by what is being imagined, produced, expressed.
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. Rhythm, both linear and sequential, radial and instant, in the combining of elements in space unites the material and weaves it into the fabric of the dance. Poetry then is a three-dimensional changing complex of body, voice, space, form and time.

“Yeah.

Surprise.

River.

Death.

Dog.” *

* from a piece titled ‘Lightning’ performed in 2015

Class is for dancers, professional, as well as offering some places for movers working in other fields.

TEACHING
In her teaching Billie Hanne engages both the choreographic and poetic mind to a level that allows for composition to occur from the body’s intelligence and inner logic. There is a particular focus on refining proprioceptive skills essential for the dancer to create materials that live in space and time in a meaningful way. By furthering this area of technique students develop awareness to read the many layers in a composition while making. Key words for recent classes are ‘spiral’, ‘phrasing’, ‘myth’, ‘cyclical time, ‘space’. Many of her classes involve using language hereby adressing the dancer’s skills and knowledge of the moving body. Billie Hanne teaches in different dance centres and studios in Europe. She is a passionate teacher and able to transmit her wide experience effectively and with zest.

BIO
Billie Hanne composes dance and poetry in instant choreographies, provocative poetics in the spur of the moment, in the realm of vision and instinct.
She retrieves and examines human intimacy with space, time, object and light. The body. Through radical handling of poetics and dance she weaves nature’s sophistication into different textures, tales and geometrics that penetrate skill with grace and lyrical power with rhythm. She transforms a space and inhabits the evocation with choreography and verse.
In her practice she reimagines tradition and pushes the boundaries of the art form through blending and morphing myth and physical reality. Her pieces are spiritual architectures that layer dissonant forces. She brings her work to different venues from underground studios to established theatres, to galleries and industrial sites.
Since 2009 she has performed with Allen’s Line, the Julyen Hamilton Company, amongst which the latest ‘i smooth crimson’ (2012-2013) and ‘Goat Ocean (2014-2015) which were shown in different places in Europe.. In 2012 she made her first solo ‘Hamlet in Palace’, and since other solos that have followed are: ‘Johnny on the Run’, ‘Deep Brown Sea’, ‘Lightning’ and ‘Daisy’. These works have been shown in Brussels, Berlin, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, London. For Wheelgod she has, amongst others, directed the duet ‘Map of Antarctica’, the quartert ‘Melchior’ and ‘All for Big B!’, a new piece.

registration: short intro letter + cv to cloud.danslab@gmail.com
payment: € 150

This workshop is part of the project

Billie’s Roos, Mythe en Been in het Regentessekwartier.

supported by:

Gemeente Den Haag

DH-Vrede-en-Recht

afdeling Zuid-Holland

CLOUD

Residency | Synergetic Interpolations | Fazle S. & Mári Mákó

16 February 2016 CLOUD

22 – 28 February
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Presentation Sunday 28 February 19:00

In this residency Mári Mákó (sound artist, sonologist) and Fazle Shairmahomed (artist-researcher, dancer) explore together the relations between sound and movement as immersive of each other.
It builds upon the existing work of Mári Mákó with oscilators and a sensor.

Mári Mákó’s sound installation consists out of one sensor and two oscillators, which allow an immersive physicality to develop. Initially by using the hands to create shadows, manipulate light, and to change the position of the sensor, transforming the soundscape constantly. In performance, physicality is most often facilitated by sound, and therefore sensorially more prominent, which we aim to challenge by enhancing this relation through technological devices and light. This research questions the input-output relation of sound and movement, and different technological devices. How can the relation between sound and movement become diffuse and immersive of each other?

The question of synesthesia will be addressed, as an inter-sensorial exhibition and initiation. We suggest to approach synaesthetic experience as a matter of what extent one experiences inter-sensoriality consciously. An enactivist approach will be used to understands the senses as organs of the body which exist in movement within an environment where perception takes shape, while a cultural specific understanding of the senses is acknowledged as a model that informs the way in which we understand the environment.

Movement Labs
Monday 22 February – Friday 27 February 10:00-12:00 | €7,- per class

This movement lab by Fazle Shairmahomed will offer exercises that sensitize the body which allows to find new relations between the senses, and emphasize the immediate interdependency of the senses. Inspired by Body Weather, Butoh, Fighting Monkey, somatics. The classes offer ways to explore individually and collectively the meaning of the senses to the body in locomotion and dance.

Day 1: Space
Day 2: Silence, tension, and threads
Day 3: Body pointing
Day 4: Urgency
Day 5: Internal bodily patterns

About Fazle Shairmahomed
Fazle Shairmahomed is an interdisciplinary artist-researcher, performer, performance maker, and anthropologist. His work evolves in challenging understandings of inter-sensoriality, the relation between environment, performance, spectatorship, and society, and the ability to learn and train particularly in dance. Fazle studied (MA) Cultural and Social Anthropology (2012) and (BA) Arabic/Middle Eastern Studies (2010) at the University of Amsterdam, University of Leiden, and NVIC in Cairo, Egypt. After ethnographic research in Bosnia-Herzegovina he has reshaped his interests in processes of perception, interpretation, and sensation through physical movement and dance practices. Currently in the process of applying for a PhD position in ethnographic practice as artistic-research on inter-sensoriality in dance among children and spectators. He collaborates with Emilie Gallier and Astarti Athanasiadou on choreographic objects and spectatorship, Ludmila Rodrigues on installations to choreograph the people, and Valentina Lacmanovic on contemporary whirling dance practice. Furthermore he is an active practitioner in the Axis Syllabus research group of Ilse van Haastrecht, and one of the organizers of CLOUD/Danslab. In improvisation dance performance he has collaborated with Ana Leonor Ladas, in organized by Oorsprong Curators. Besides he is experienced in different contemporary dance practices, (contact-)improvisation, Butoh, Body Weather, Biodanza, Palestinian folklore, shamanic dance rituals, and yoga.

About Mári Mákó
Mári Mákó is an interdisciplinary sound and performance artist. She has recently been experimenting with live electronic improvisation. For this piece she is focusing on exploring her own style of performance, primarily using sensors to control the sound of analogue oscillators. Along with this she is also digitally processing these sounds with the intention to realize new sonic textures. Mári is currently studying at the Institute of Sonology at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague, and has been guest student at the Liszt Ferenc Music Academy, Budapest in 2011. She collaborated with composer Mikolay Laskowski, Justin Bennett, Johan van Kreij, among which with a live electronic improvisation set up.

CLOUD

Workshop | African Contemporary dance | Simone Heijloo

10 February 2016 CLOUD

Sunday, 20th March | 14:00 – 16:00
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On Sunday 20 March ’16 Simone Heijloo will give a workshop in African Contemporary dance. This is a base of African traditional dance combined with contemporary dance.
In this workshop you can experience the multiple colors of the African dance and develop your technique in this unique dance style!

We will work with different exercises in African traditional dance, contemporary dance, Technique Acogny (African Contemporary dance), yoga and body work-out. In this way you will have a total experience of African Contemporary dance and a good work out for your body!
After we work step by step on choreography to DANCE and have FUN! :)

Bio Simone Heijloo:
Simone teach African Contemporary dance and is the only Dutch professional dance teacher in this Unique African technique in The Netherlands! She followed her professional dance education in African traditional dance and African Contemporary dance at:
l’Ecole des Sables, Senegal and l’Ecole de Danse Irène Tassembédo (EDIT), Burkina Faso.

Simone followed also training courses in Ghana and Ivory Coast and performed at MASA (Marché des Arts Africaines) 2014 in Ivory Coast.

Now Simone works on different African dance projects in The Netherlands and Burkina Faso.

Check out for more Classes, Videos and Workshops: www.simoneheijloo.nl

CLOUD Club

CLOUD Club #11: SHAKEN | With Zwoisy Mears-Clarke

4 February 2016 CLOUD

Yes! The next CLOUD Club will be on Saturday, April 9th, 2016!

Our resident Zwoisy Mears-Clarke will guide an intensive shaking session.

Doors open at 19:30
Session starts at 20:00 (no entrance after 20:00)
Contribution: €7,5

The physical practice of shaking is a personal preparation of “getting in tune” with ourselves so that when we sit the tensions will be dissolved. The repetitive action of continuously shaking can lessen and grow in intensity as we experiment with what state of the body/mind will be produced through this active release.

CLOUD Club is an experimental dance session where a new dancer/choreographer/artist is invited to guide a journey of about 2 hours. CLOUD Club is for everyone interested, from any ages and backgrounds – no expertise required! Read more on: CLOUD Club

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About Zwoisy

Zwoisy Mears-Clarke was born in Jamaica and immigrated to 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, Will Rawls, and Wendy Jehlen. Zwoisy has performed and shown work at venues both in Berlin and New York City, such as HAU, Sophiensaele, New York Live Arts, the Tank and the Glicker-Milstein Black Box Theatre. Currently, Zwoisy is based in Berlin.

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Residency | Da Solo | Lorenzo Capodieci

2 February 2016 CLOUD

From 15th to 19th February and from 29th February to 4th March 2016, Lorenzo Capodieci will be working at CLOUD Studio

Program residency

Open Training*
15 – 19 February | 10:00 – 12:00
29 February – 4 March | 10:00 – 12:00
Cost: €7,- per class

Presentation
Friday, 4 March | 19:00

About ‘Da Solo’

‘Da Solo’ is a research and interrogation about loneliness and garbage. Lorenzo will explore questions such as:
What do you do when you are alone?
What are the different emotions involved in being alone?
How can you overcome loneliness by finding “company” around you?

The other underlining theme of the solo research is Waste/Garbage.
There is something called “The Culture of Waste” that is very present in our societies. A culture that advertises throwing away as the way to get rid of the old to take something new.
This culture is taking us also in the way we deal with people and relationships.

Going back to loneliness, in this solo Lorenzo wants to meditate on the relation between being lonely and feeling like garbage and at the same time finding a new role of garbage in our lives to, somehow, not feel alone anymore. To touch also themes as Dignity, Honor and Self-hatred.

In his research it is crucial the exploration of dramaturgy through the use of different performing media: dance, theater, music and light. Interconnecting the different disciplines to serve the purpose of giving the message to the audience and allowing this interconnection to affect the content of the research.

* Open Trainings
CLOUD resident Lorenzo gives physical morning classes with elements of Flying Low, followed by a short choreographic and improvisation workshop on the theme of his research.
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About Lorenzo Capodieci
Lorenzo Capodieci, graduated in 2013 from Codarts, Rotterdam Dance Academy, where he started developing his own language and experimenting new performing ideas. Currently he is a freelance dancer, working with different choreographers and companies in The Netherlands, such as Cecilia Moisio, Karine Guizzo, Cie. Woest and more.

As a maker he wants to put in the center of the research the relation to the public and the true communication through the body. Treating social issues on the physical level, through its relation with our own bodies, to make us able to address them without ideology and with the true experience of the body.