Residency | Hey Jonathan | Manou Koreman

11 – 24 January

Presentation 23 January 19:00
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Open Trainings 14 – 22 January
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How can I structure a partly improvised solo in such a way that I can both describe it concretely (for an audience) and keep feeding my own curiosity?

“A flailing seagull searches for enlightenment. His flock has taken to eating pigeons and he cannot stand it any longer. He wants to go up, up and away from here. Just like Jonathan did.

Jonathan is his light, his guru, his everything. He would do anything to be Jonathan. And so he tries.”

Open Trainings
CLOUD resident Manou teaches a release based class, with elements of improvisation and a strong focus on floorwork. The class will culminate in bigger phrase work. During her residency, Manou will be incorporating aspects of her research into the class as well, making it a bit of a playground for exploration.

DATES OPEN TRAINING

10:00 – 12:00
Thursday 14 January
Friday 15 January
Thursday 21January
Friday 22 January

Costs: €7,- per class

About Manou Koreman
Manou Koreman is a dancer, performer and maker with a love for cross-discipline work. Born in the Netherlands, Manou trained in contemporary dance extensively before venturing out into voice and theatre work. She trained in New York, Berlin and London where she recently finished an MA in Contemporary Dance at The Place. Both within improvised and choreographed movement, Manou is deeply curious about the body’s senses and how they cross over. As a performer, she is more interested in funcionality of movement within the context of its piece than in traditional aesthetics. As a maker, she is currently grabbed by the media of film and the notion of choreography through edit. She also loves making movement with and for people from all walks of life. www.manoukoreman.com

Residency | Assimilations | Malik Nashad

20 December – 5 January
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Assimilation is a multilogical Afrofuturist solo choreography that gradually shifts from dialetical images to one with painstaking clarity. Focused on an ontology of Blackness, post Anarchy, and queerness, the project seeks to create nuanced states of  ulteriority for shifting bodies.

Malik Nashad invites you to learn more about his work during his contemporary technique class. In this class you become engaged in his creative process to develop the choreography further in CLOUD/Danslab.

On the 4/5 January Malik will also have his presentation, more information will follow soon.

About Assimilations
The first part of this piece has been worked on since August  2015, and was performed  in various iterations at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, and at Five Myles Gallery in Brooklyn, NY. Malik proposes to finish this work by way of an interrogation and  deep research in the studio of the various new influences paralleling the course of the  work. Influenced by Tere O’Connor’s antithematic prepositions, and Michael Klein’s  choreographies as an aesthetics of change, he hopes to offer new politicizations of minoritarian bodies. In the residency at CLOUD Malik will plan to use his time to  physically research multilogical dispositions. The work relies heavily on physical realization of movement, and the consistent interrogation of what movement does.

Program residency

Open Training | contemporary technique
20 – 23 December | 10:00 – 12:00
28 – 30 December | 10:00 – 12:00
Costs: €7,- per class

Presentation
4/5 January | 19:30
to be confirmed

About Malik Nashad
Malik Nashad Sharpe is a choreographer, dancer, and poetfrom 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*.

Residency | Writing and reading movement | Emilie Gallier

8 – 15 December

The research ‘In print: writing and reading movement’, aims to investigate the possible impact of scores and choreographic objects on the spectators qualities of participation. How can the artefacts of choreography encourage the encounter between spectators during the choreographic event, in the acts of thinking with others and of welcoming complexity?

Emilie Gallier works on these questions as a long-term research. During this residency she works on her PhD proposal based on this long-term research project.

About Emilie Gallier
Emilie Gallier (France, 1984) is choreographer, artist researcher, teacher and director of the PØST Cie.
Her work probes ways to expand boundaries. It shows recurring subjects of imagination, sensation and thought; and of relation between spectator and performer.
In 2012, she graduated from the Master in Choreography of ArtEZ (Arnhem). In this frame she initiated her research on choreographic writings, spectatorship, and the philosophical lens of Dorsality (considering the back, unseen, tactile). Before that, she studied pedagogy in Paris (RIDC), History of Arts at the University of Rennes, Laban-cinetography at the Conservatoire, and choreography at the PRCC directed by Myriam Gourfink.
Since her first piece (Ambiance, 2004), she adopted an expanded understanding of choreography. Her dance performances, installations, scores, books, lectures, and workshops have been presented in contexts such as the ICK choreographic arts center, Dansmakers, Generale Oost, Wintertuin literature festival, Scheltema, ArtEZ Dansacademie, Uferstudios, Paris 8, Sogn-of-Fjordane Theatre.
www.post-cie.com

 

 

Residency | Essential Rights | Fernando Troya

2 – 18 December
Presentation | Saturday 18 December 17:30
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Exploring the impact of education in our present, the emotional load that is indirectly transferred to us from generations(fears, insecurities, traumas, patterns). As well as the relation we, as individuals, have with society. How much our lives are affected by the rush of society, things we must do or are expected from us?

Fernando is inspired by Alejandro Jodorowsky (Danza de la realidad), Osho (Intuition, Freedom), Eckart Tolle (A new earth) among othrs.

The research includes a study of two fields, dance and acting. Therefore the result will be a mixture of both. A very physical theatre, or a very theatrical dance perhaps. We are aiming for something organic, simple and honest though. Taking as starting point and reference our experiences, and using them to find the right vocabulary to deliver our thoughts.

About Fernando Troya and collaborators
Fernando Troya as director/choreographer/producer and Quentin Roger, Gianmarco La Rocca and Arturo Vargas as performers/researchers.

Fernando Troya was born in Madrid (1989). There he did his education at the Royal Conservatoire. Right after he joined Staats Theatre Nuremberg for two years, and Staats Theatre Wiesbaden for one year, both companies based in Germany. In 2011 he joined NDT II for three years. And after became a freelancer working internationally as a performer, choreographer and repetitor.

For questions do not hesitate to write us to:
ffernandottroya@gmail.com

Residency | medvetánc – degrees of (in)tangibility | Thomas Körtvélyessy

13, 28, 29 November 2015

How close is it possible to get to one an·other?
What about the touch of hair/fur in dance?
How skindeep does it need to be?

Based on the Eurasian practice of bear dances, from ritual to spectacle,
choreographer Thomas Körtvélyessy explores and tries out
an evolving collection of dances, images, music, and ideas with a small audience.
The first results are pointing towards an identity-striptease and live-dramaturgy,
mixing pop-culture, Gay Bear culture, and Béla Bartók,
in an ongoing conversation with the present audience

CLOUD Club #10 HIGHER | Michele Rizzo | 28 november

Saturday 28 november | 19:00 | €7,-
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The 10th edition of CLOUD Club will be special! In a 4-HOURS session we will approach a mix of choreographic elements borrowed directly from the CLUB and from DANCE TRAINING. While dancing on TECHNO MUSIC, we will train the activity of LOSING OURSELVES, attempting to enter a state close to TRANCE while studying movement. Sneakers obligatory!

HIGHER WORKSHOP is a movement research practice based on club dancing.


Entrance €7,-
Please bring your own drinks
Doors open 18:30
Session starts from 19:00-23:00, no entrance possible after 19:00.CLOUD Club is an experimental dance session in the dance studio. An unpredictable dance club. Amateurs and professionals united for the fun of learning. Since its beginnings in 2014, we have had an increased number of enthusiastic participants who get to know CLOUD – bridging audience and dancers worldwide.About Michele Rizzo
Michele Rizzo (1984) graduated in 2011 at the SNDO (School for new Dance Development, Amsterdam), where he is now a guest teacher in choreography and movement research, and in 2015 at Sandberg Institute of Amsterdam, in the Dirty Art Department master program. Since 2012 he is supported by the ICK International Choreographic Art Centre of Amsterdam. His artistic practice touches various disciplines, including performance, music and visual art. Through out 2014 and 2015 his research has zoomed into the phenomenon of club dancing, which he has developed into performances, installations and workshops. His choreographic work, produced by Frascati Theatre Amsterdam and International Choreographic Centre ICK Amsterdam, revolves often around existential or ontological topics, such as the definition of the self, its inscription in the cultural-sociological context, the concepts of origin and flow and their implication in the development of creative practices.In the past few years he has been working with various artists, such us Julian Hetzel, Gertjan Franciscus, Vincent Riebeek, Igor Dobricic, and the musicians LVM and Lorenzo Senni.

Workshop | Framing dance and music improvisation | DaMu

Saturday 7 November | 11:00  – 16:00 | €45,-
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Can we work towards a structure, a true composition within an improvisation? Once an ease, a flow is there, how to take that next step? Holding space for spontaneity and developing a deep understanding of what is created here, now.

In this workshop we will investigate 2 subjects:

Physical and Musical Flow
Researching the dynamics between music and dance as two different yet very close elements of an improvisation. Pushing the weight of the improvisation first towards dance, then towards music we gain insight in what we move/play from and make compositional choices.

Frames for physical and musical flow
We offer several frames to give a shape to what’s being improvised on the spot. As a multidisciplinary collective, the structures shared come from our background in theatre, music, dance, video. They range from well known structures like a story, an existing musical composition to using secret codes. We are sharing our toolbox!

For whom
The workshop is for both dancers and musicians as well as artists (professional and non-professional) in other disciplines used to / interested in working with improvisation as a performing art.

Teachers
The DaMu Collective is a dance & music collective based in the Hague / Amsterdam, working on instant composition as a performing art since 2011.
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Camille Sa (clarinet/voice/movement)
James Hewitt (baroque violin/voice/movement)
Kristien Sonnevijlle (dance/voice)
will teach this workshop together, with fresh input from their residency.

DaMu performers are just as likely to move, speak, sing, or play with objects as to play instruments. Interacting in the moment with each other and with the environment, they merge sound, gesture, colour, and light, into an unpredictable, site-specific gesamtkunstwerk.

Practical
Time: 11-16h
Price: 45 euro (discount for students, please ask)
Registration:
send and email to sansvilleprojects@gmail.com and transfer the participation fee to Sansville, NL57TRIO0786885904, ‘DaMu workshop 7-10’
Registration in advance is required, spaces are limited.

Residency | Ludmila Rodrigues | Polytope performance/installation

16 November – 25 November
Performance in Quartair Tuesday 8 December | 19:30
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Polytope , tractable geometry for the curiosity of the user.
Polytope is an articulated net of tetrahedrons, built by rods of carbon fiber, which by its geometry allows a multitude of constructions and possibilities. The structure is designed for the interaction of one or more individuals, who can discover the possibilities of the object by handling it and moving through space. The strategy of the structure is to engage the users in an intuitive exploration of various shapes and positions.

Polytope will be performed in Quartair (Toussaintkade, 55, The Hague) during No Patent Pending #17 by SonoLab (Vitaly Medvedev & Mei Yi-Lee)  and Fazle Shairmahomed. No Patent Pending is a nomadic performance series presenting radical interdisciplinary practices that engage with sound, image, space and the body. Imagining new tools to articulate everyday phenomena, extending the body, remapping sense perceptions, hacking and reinventing existing media and codes, creating time and space for events which find their preferred storage medium in the memory of participants. Read more.

About Ludmila Rodrigues
As an artist Ludmila researches ways of interacting with the audience. She creates situations, spaces and devices for choreographing the public, generating spontaneous, collaborative actions in which she aims to enrich human communication.

www.tinamustao.com 

 

Residency Dance/Music

2 November – 7 November
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How to frame our improvised pieces? In the residency DAMU members Camille Verhaak (clarinet), James Hewitt (baroque violin), dancer/vocalist Kristien Sonnevijlle will try out different frames that they bring from their personal backgrounds in dance, music, and theater. Besides that they will explore other ways to frame their pieces (light, audience influence, using codes, etc).

Open Training: physical and musical flow
Researching the dynamics between music and dance as two different yet very close elements of an improvisation. Pushing the weight of the improvisation first towards dance, then towards music we gain insight in what we move/play from
and make compositional choices. With live music on clarinet, baroque violin, voice.
 
Tuesday 3 November 10:00 – 12:00
Thursday 5 November 10:00 – 12:00
Costs: €7,- payment at arrival
 
Open residency
Thursday 5 November 15:00 – 17:00
Free entrance

Presentation
Friday 6 November 20:00
Free entrance
 
Workshop
Saturday 7 November 11:00 – 17:00
45 euro
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info: sansvilleprojects@gmail.com

About DaMu

The DAMU collective is a dance & music collective based in the Hague/Amsterdam, working on instant composition as a performing art since the first members met at a workshop at the Hague Conservatoire with IC icons dancer Michael Schumacher and violinist Mary Oliver in 2011. They are just as likely to move, speak, sing, or play with objects as to play instruments. Interacting in the moment with each other and with the environment, they merge sound, gesture, colour, and light, into an unpredictable, site-specific gesamtkunstwerk. Since January 2015 DAMU members Camille Verhaak (clarinet), James Hewitt (baroque violin), dancer/vocalist Kristien Sonnevijlle and sometimes video maker Victorine van Alphen have performed in different settings: in collaboration with dancer Katie Duck, composer/pianist Guus Janssen, the Hague based sound artist Stefano Sgarbi, the Young Blood Initiative, an Amsterdam based interdisciplinary artist collective and many others.

Residency and production Menghan Lou

12 October – 12 November
Presentation 10 November (to be confirmed)

This creation research is about how emotion can affect you and how your body responds to these emotions. It explores how a person can become immersed in the emotions of another through empathy and how different people can have different feelings and responses in similar situations. This creation will explore how emotions can be translated into dance and how dance can be used to transfer emotions to others; to use the bodies and the movements of the dancers to convey emotions to the audience.

About Menghan Lou
NDT 1 dancer Menghan Lou (ChongQing China, 1983) joined NDT 2 in 2007 and was promoted to NDT 1 in 2009.  In 2014 he created work for the programme Up & Coming Choreographers by NDT and Korzo.  Lou was educated at the Hochschüle für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt, Huangzhou Art School of China (1995 – 2000), and Shanghai Drama College – Institute of the Art of Performing (2000 – 2002).  Before joining NDT he danced with Guangdong Modern Dance Company in China. 

Workshop | Anatomy, Movement, Improvisation | Marlieke Burghouts

Sunday 15 November | 14:00-17:00 | €25,-
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In this workshop we will explore animalistic and dynamic movement quality by deliberately using the connections of the muscled and joints in the body. This exploration aims towards articulated, yet organic flow of movements that, through the process, become instinctive.

This research aims to look at the body as a whole and connected by looking into the relations of the different joints and the muscles that activate them. Building up the alignment in the body by connecting different points in the body. We will be going into the artistic research with an anatomical basis.

Registration and payment
Please register by mail before 8th of November to cloud.danslab@gmail.com

Payment details will be provided and registration confirmed when payment received.
The costs of the workshop are €25,-

About Marlieke Burghouts
Marlieke Burghouts is a dancer, choreographer, teacher and workshop leader who works primarily in Europe. In 2014, she received the Trinity Laban bursary award, allowing her to attend the M.A. Choreography at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London. Her graduation performance was staged in London and Eindhoven (NL). She has created and presented work at Dansateliers Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Marlieke has danced for TNSP, the People Movers, Ekilibre Dance Company among others in New York City, Compagnie Lumen in Lausanne, Switzerland en Legitimate Bodies Dance Company in Ireland. She is currently based in Amsterdam and leading dance workshops for all sorts of dancers.

Workshop SPIRAAL Contemporary whirling dance practice | Valentina Lacmanovic | 30 January

30 January | 11:00-18:00 | €80,-
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SPIRAAL IS AN ORIGINAL, CONTEMPORARY APPROACH TO THE CREATIVE PROCESS THROUGH WHIRLING DANCE PRACTICE
(no relation with dervish, Sufi mysticism or any other
-ism, not aiming for transcendence but working from it towards an absolute presence and awareness).

Learning the sustained spinning and spiraling technique, facing fears and learning how to abandon oneself to dance, dealing with disorientation 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).

Registration and payment
Please register by mail  to cloud.danslab@gmail.com

Payment details will be provided and registration confirmed when payment received.

Early Bird (before 8 January) | €80
Late Bird (after 8 January) | €95

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