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Workshop| Composing Dance and Poetics | Billie Hanne

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

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Residency | Synergetic Interpolations | Fazle S. & Mári Mákó

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.

Workshop | African Contemporary dance | Simone Heijloo

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

Residency | Da Solo | Lorenzo Capodieci

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.

Residency | Fluid Mosaic | Kay Patru & Jihae Ko

From 1st  to 12th February 2016

About FLUID MOSAIC
FLUID MOSAIC is a project exploring the interactivity of movement, sound, and plastic material while being inspired by the process and dynamics of human biological functions. The design of the environment suggests the internal world of the human body as it takes us on a visual journey of cellular fluids and fascia network. We manipulate plastic to find its transformative properties and biological correspondence. The result is a production of physical movements, projected images and live sound derived from this material.

FLUID MOSAIC is also a metaphor of the exchange, and
collaboration between people, technology and artistic ideas. We are interested in the permeable boundaries between various artistic approaches and the emergence of mutual transformation. The meeting point of this collaboration practice is similar to the intelligent patterns of the cellular membrane also called Fluid Mosaic membrane due to its constant dynamic of selection and exchange taking place between the inside and the outside of the cell.

Program residency
Workshop | 6 February | 10:30 – 15:00 (incl. lunch break)
Register at:  kaypatru@gmail.com (last minute drop-in also possible)
Costs: € 30

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About Kay Patru
Kay Patru is a dance and movement improvisation teacher, choreographer, certified body worker based in Amsterdam. His work focuses primarily on developing improvisation and somatic awareness tools designed to awaken the innate intelligence of the body.

His choreographic projects focus on designing and integrating movement, visual information and sound as a multi-layered environment.

In the recent years, Kay Patru started an intensive artistic collaboration with South Korean based artists. He is currently guest lecturer at the Korean National University of Performing Arts for the Choreographic and Performance department. He teaches regularly movement research and somatic awareness classes.

www.kaypatru.net

 About Jihae Ko
Jihae Ko is a dancer, choreographer and bodywork therapist based in Amsterdam. She graduated from the School of Toronto Dance Theater (Modern dance), SNDO (performance studies and choreography) and Shenzou open university (Acupuncture therapy).

While collaborating with numerous choreographers, visual artists and theater makers in Canada, Europe and South Korea, she is committed to bridging art practice and therapy as a path where creativity and inter-personal growth meet.

www.jihaeko.com

Workshop | Uncover Your Grace | Kim Brice

13 February, 14:00-17:00
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Uncover Your Grace :
Blending with the energy of Aikido
Grounded, Relaxed, Alert, Centered and Energized

About workshop
Give yourself and a loved one a Valentine’s gift: an afternoon of pleasurable, grounded and harmonious movement.

On Saturday February 13 from 14h00 to 17h00, Aikido teacher Lawrence Warry joins Nia teacher Kim Brice to create an afternoon of movement grounded in the techniques and philosophy of Aikido, the martial art of harmony. The focus of this playshop is to experience GRACE through movement: Grounded, Relaxed, Alert, and Centered.

The afternoon will start with a warm-up blending practices from Nia and Aikido, followed by a session of Aikido practices that will teach you how to move from your body’s center in a grounded, relaxed and fluid way. After a break, Kim will lead a Nia class which will incorporate the principles you have learned. We will end the day with mindful relaxation techniques from the traditions of Shiatsu and Thai massage.

This event is open to men, women and children 12 years or older. Bring your loved one!

Cost: Contribution based on your level of pleasure and gratitude, cash only.

For more information and to sign-up go to: http://www.graceandgrit.nl/events/#saturday

 

Workshop | Somatic Practices | Nathalie Heller

13 – 14 February 
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About workshop
This 2-day workshop is aimed at professional dance and theatre artists who are interesting in deepening their practice and re-visiting their creative self. The workshop is designed around exercises that deepen body awareness and encourage an individual investigation of the mind/body unity. The class material is informed by movement approaches such as Body Mind Centering, Alexander Technique, Feldenkrais, Skinner Releasing Technique, Yoga, Rolfing, Contact Improvisation and Experiential Anatomy. Such approaches support a first person engagement with the work and offer a ground for creative investigation. Each day begins with bodywork where participants come into physical contact as they awaken joints, muscles and internal organs. This leads to somatic investigations (guided improvisations using imagery) that start from the floor and gradually work up to standing. The focus is to draw attention to weight, breath and the skeletal structure. We incorporate this body awareness into collaborative exercises and improvisational experiments through group-work. These include working with the organization of bodies in space, exploring non-verbal communication through posture and gesture, devising collaborative theatre sketches and working on group improvisations.

Saturday 13th of February 10.30-13.30
Sunday 14th of February 14.00-17.00

About Nathalie Heller
Natalie Heller is a choreographer and dance artist. She has an MA in ‘Creative Practice’ from Trinity Laban and professional training from Dance New Amsterdam (NYC), Movement Research (NYC), Siobhan Davies Studios (London) and Ecole Supérieure de l’Enseignement de la Danse (Montpellier, France). She is interested in how somatic practices can transform and deepen our sense of self. It was on her exploration of different movement methodologies that she discovered Ashtanga Yoga, Pilates, Thai massage, Body Mind Centering, Contact Improvisation, Alexander Technique, Skinner Releasing, Feldenkrais, Klein Technique and many others. She has been taking movement workshops for over twenty years and has been trained by key players in the field (including Gill Clarke, KJ, Holmes, Malcolm Manning, Eva Karczag and many others). She has been teaching movement techniques since 2006.

www.natalieheller.com
www.practicingsomatics.com

Registration and payment
Reservations must be made before 6th Feb.
email: natalie.heller@gmail.com

Price: 70 euros or 60 (for professional performers).

Level: Professional (advanced amateurs welcome)

 

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
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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