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Residency Rodrigo Alves

Rodrigo Alves

Presentation | Monday 3 August | 18:00
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Rodrigo Alves, performance and film maker presents an essay on interruption, a study on non-linear performance or the art of interruption. Yet, and most perpetually in development.

With Bryndis Brynjolfsdottir and Maurits Goossens (dancer and composer)

Rodrigo Alves studied in Lisbon’s Dance Conservatory and later finished his degree on dance performance at CODARTS, Rotterdam. As performer he worked for Scapino Ballet Rotterdam, De Nationale Opera and Duo Attema-Haring.

As a maker Rodrigo is focused on the human condition, the core of humanity and animality, as means to develop works in the field of live art and film.

He has made several dance, performance and exhibition pieces in both Portugal and The Netherlands and March this year he presented his second short film ‘demora’ at OFF SCREEN, Rotterdam.

The spectator will contribute by being part of a performing state that happens with watching the performance, sitting down, coughing, clapping etc (unconscious choreography), even if silence fills the room, it will be used as an instrument for conducting the next step.

The performance, at this moment of construction, involves Scapino dancer Bryndis Brynjolfsdottir whose been part of my creative work in a previous piece and in a short film, and composer Maurits Goossens. Both act as performers of physicality as well as composers of real life sound-images; which could be the pulling of a chair, talking or water running. Finding a balance between body and sound is our second important focus.

At the end of the research week, a presentation will offered, to further the investigation on how it works with the real audience and how adaptable or destroyable it might become.

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The transfusions: Research of the Voice and Body of Blood

Presentation | Saturday 8 August | 20:00
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About the artists:

Cora Schmeiser is a versatile vocalist. Her voice moves effortlessly between medieval and contemporary styles. During her performances she uses her sophisticated voice and virtuosity with expressive contrasts to create an intimate atmosphere that captivates the listener. Theatrical but completely natural.

After her study in the Royal Academy of the Hague, the Netherlands, she specialized in medieval and contemporary music, being a member of the Vocaallaboratorium/Silbersee. In the Lunyala Trio and ensemble Nu:n she collaborates with musicians from different musical backgrounds as jazz and electronic music as wel as in in her soloprogramme ‘hier und dort’-Sprachklänge-Klangmomente. www.coraschmeiser.nl

Anne Wellmer | nonlinear is a sound artist, composer and performer. She studied electronic music at the Institute of Sonology in The Hague and composition with Alvin Lucier and Anthony Braxton at Wesleyan University in Middletown CT/USA. Among her work are sonic environments for performances, sound installations, live music for dance and theater, radio art, music theater pieces, network projects and improvisation with electronics. Anne Wellmer lives and works in Den Haag (NL). www.nonlinear.demon.nl

Geerten Ten Bosch (Dordrecht 1959) is working in the art field since 1986 as draftsman/illustrator/free designer. She forms the duo Banketje with Harriët van Reek, creating absurd, intimate and visual worlds in stand-alone environments. www.geertentenbosch.nl

Made possible with the financial support of the Gemeente Den Haag

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Presentation Dansdrift | Dance Improvisation The Hague | 25 June 20:00

25 June | 20:00-21:00
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An encounter in the moment – composition ‘on the spot’ – dance with submission.
Dansdrift invites you warmly to a presentation of the dance improvisation community in the Hague. After the presentation there will drinks and talks.Dansdrift was founded in 1998 by a group of enthusiastic dancers that deepen and enjoy dance improvisation. They are inspired by different dance techniques and forms, such as contact improvisation, Body-Mind Centering ®, Skinner-Releasing Technique ®, Instant Composition en  Authentic Movement. They invite dance teachers of their interest and curiosity, to guide short series of courses from 6 to 8 weeks on Thursday evenings: 20.00 – 22.00.
They also organize workshops  twice a year on Saturday or Sunday 11.00 till 17.00 h

www.dansdrift.nl

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Residency | Pilgrym’s Journey | Celia Amade & Marco Santos

5 June – 25 June

Performance | 23 June | 19:30 | €3,-
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In this residency Celia Amade and Marco Santos address the question:

How can intellect and body live without being haunted by negative energies accumulated in the past, which stop us to be conscious of the environment we live in? How can we reverse those experiences to allow ourselves to live in the Present?

This work is thought for a dancer and live music which will be composed by Marco Santos and choreographed by Celia Amade. They will explore the physical entity that relates to the origin and development of an individual organism: ”physical existence”. To concentrate within the aspect of GROWTH within the process of an individual organism growing organically, purely biological UNFOLDING OF EVENTS involved in this organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level. This research is a reflection of their personal memories and how it has affected the person they are today. Also it address the influences of other human species. , and more particularly the state of human species at present.

About Celia Amade
Celia was born in Nice (France) where she studied at the Conservatoire Regional from 1995 till 2001 under the tutelage Jerome Benezech. She then furthered her studies at the Conservatoire Superieur of Musique and Danse of Lyon in 2001 where she obtained her Diploma in choreography in 2004. She joined IT DANSA in Barcelona directed by Catherine Allard,where she explored and performed the works of Stein Celis, Peter Zuska, Jiri Kylian ,Tony Fabre, Ramon Oller and Nacho Duato. Celia then joined NDT2 in 2005. She went on to work with Nederlands Dans Theater until 2014.During those years came into encounter with Gustavo Ramirez, Ivan Perez, Stefan Toss, Alexander Ekman, Lightfoot/Leon, Enrich Olvodaivo, Marco Goecke, Johan Inger, Azure Barton,Teo Saarinen,William Forsythe, Amanda Miller, Ohad Naharin and Jiri Kylian… At the time, she also coordinated and produced an existing choreographic project called Switch, for the dancers of the company (a platform where they could have the experience of creating themselves using professional tools such as the stage of the Lucent theater.) She created ‘Under the same moon’ and ‘Blink of an eye’ under this platform. Having left NDT, Celia continues to delve into her fascination for movement, art, the world, human kind in all its complexity. She follows her path of expression and sharing.

About Marco Santos
Marco Santos (Pombal, Portugal, 1981) is a musician and composer, having his base in the Netherlands. With strong roots in classical music, jazz and world music, Marco has been collaborating with many different artists and projects over the last 14 years. Besides working as a side musician, Marco has always been composing. In 2013 he released the album “”Ode Portrait””, presenting original jazzy compositions, with a modern, melodic character. At his moment Marco is working on his next album.
In Portugal, Marco has been active in projects related to modern dance, collaborating with choreographers, such as; Rui Horta, Clara Andermatt, Rui Lopes Graça and many others. Since he moved to the Netherlands, he has been working on modern dance projects in collaboration with Nederlands Dans Theater and the Korzo Theater.”

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Residency | Tools from the Box | Keren Rosenberg

8 June – 18 June

How do you nourish soils?

Keren Rosenberg will use this residency as a moment of reflection. In the last few months she has been producing and working with a lot of positive end results. This coming Summer she is invited to create and give various workshop in Henry Juriens and in the Open FLR in Florence. Coming up to these workshop, she feels the need to see where she is now, what would be important for the coming process, and what could be the view point. Keren asks heself the question: “How did the past few processes I have been through influenced the way I communicate now?

About Keren Rosenberg
Keren’s works were presented in various festivals & theaters in Israel, Iceland, The Netherlands and Ireland. In 2011 she was invited by Ohad Naharin to study the Gaga movement language. Since then, she has been invited to teach Gaga as well as her own creative workshops in various dance companies and institutions around Europe.

Her recent work ‘Body-House’ premiered at the One Night’s Dance Project at Dansataliers, invited to Korzo Theater, Dansmakers Amsterdam and Tel-Aviv Dance This Summer.

www.kerenrosenberg.com

 

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Presentation | Moving Material | Axis Syllabus | Ilse van Haastrecht

Wednesday 24 June | 17:00-18:00
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During her residency Ilse van Haastrecht​ looked at various layers of the human body. Such as the joint integrity, spinal mechanics, architecture of the foot, muscles as landing cushions.

Through the lens of the Axis Syllabus Lexicon Ilse tested tactics for healthy and safe locomotion and studied how it affects her dancing. In the Study Labs she shared her findings with a group of curious movers, in order to practice sharing these parameters for falling into grace with our dancing body.

During the presentation Ilse will elaborate on some of her findings and conclusions. She will also share about what the Axis Syllabus Lexicon is and there will be a mini workshop walking mechanics.

You are all very welcome to come and participate

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Residency | Zwoisy Mears-Clarke is looking for co-creators!

13 August – 26 August
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Registration by mail to Zwoisy Mears-Clarke zmearscl@gmail.com
No prior dance training is necessary

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Zwoisy Mears-Clarke is a Jamaican choreographer based in Berlin. Zwoisy focusses on the translation of untold stories. The working proces  aims to provide alternative ways to share experiences and form connections between estranged communities. During this two-week residency at CLOUD/Danslab from August 13-26th, he will be developing the section of the piece that is inspired by the phrase:

“You can’t really understand another person’s experience until you’ve walked a mile in their shoes.”

As a co-creator you join the researsals with Zwoisy Mears-Clarke during one or more rehearsals from August 13th till August 26th. During the sessions you develop your own movement vocabulary based on structured improvisational formats handed to you by Zwoisy Mears-Clarke. Some of the material created will be directly quoted in the final piece. Co-creators will be listed as collaborator in the credits of the piece. Each rehearsal will be 1,5 hrs long.

Please email Zwoisy at zmearscl@gmail.com with the subject “walk a mile in my shoes” to reserve a slot in one or more of the rehearsals.

The language of the rehearsals is English No prior dance training is necessary.

 

About Zwoisy Mears-Clarke
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.

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Performance | Vignettes of Sringaar | Paromita Kar

Sunday 21 June | 14:00  | €3,-
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Read more about Workshop ‘The Nine Moods’ on Friday 19 June, 17:30-19:30

Paromita Kar will be working in CLOUD/Danslab building upon an existing project ‘Vignettes of Sringaar’.  In this project she brings contemporary choreographic concepts/compositional methodologies into dialogue with her understanding and training in the classical Indian dances. The piece Vignettes of Sringaar will be created and crafted from the material generated at the workshop and developed over the residency.

Dancers: Paromita Kar, workshop participants
Live music: Mike Anklewicz
Duration: 35 minutes

About Vignettes of Sringaar project
The kernel idea of Vignettes of Sringaar started eight years ago, in 2007, during a Masters-level choreography class with Prof. Holly Small at York University Dance Department, Toronto. The concept of a choreographic study and the development of choreographic vignettes were first introduced to Paromita Kar during this class. In this project she brings  contemporary choreographic concepts/compositional methodologies into dialogue with her understanding and training in the classical Indian dances. The residency at CLOUD/Danslab provides Paromita Kar the opportunity to continue the development of this project in dialogue with different genres and in an intercultural context. Additionally, she will collaborate in a contemporary context with composer Mike Anklewicz.

About Nrittanz Dance Theatre – Paromita Kar
Nrittanz is a non-profit South Asian-Canadian dance theatre company invested in the continuum between traditional Indian performing arts and the contemporary stage. The company’s premiere production, Corpus Matris, at the Toronto International Fringe Festival (July 3-14, 2013) marked the Canadian premiere of these unique repertoire pieces of the Debaprasad Das lineage of Odissi dance celebrating subversive female figures from Indian mythology.

Artistic Director Paromita Kar is a Toronto-based independent dance artist. She is a classical Indian Odissi dancer, trained under Odissi maestro Guru Durgacharan Ranbir of Odisha, India. She holds a PhD in Dance Studies from York University, Toronto, and is the first in Canada to complete a doctoral degree in Dance Studies. She is the recipient of the Lawrence Heisey Award (2009), and the Shastri Indo-Canadian Fine Arts Fellowship for Dance (2011-2012). Select performances include Canadian National

Exhibition, Royal Ontario Museum’s Asian Heritage Month initiatives, TD Festival of South Asia, Toronto International Youth Dance Festival, Caf’ Conc Theatre and La Salle Oscar Pearson in Montreal, the Choreography Festival in India, Toronto International Fringe Festival, the Horizon Soloist Series at Sampradaya Theatre, and the Agha Khan Museum with Artist-in-Residence Tehreema Mitha for The Hive. Dr. Kar also professionally practices dances of Central Asian, Romani and Turkish heritages. paromitakar.wix.com/danseuse

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Paromita Kar | Workshop The Nine Moods

Friday 19 June | 17:30-19:30 | €15,-
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Registration by mail to cloud.danslab@gmail.com
Read more about Performance on Sunday 21 June 14:00 

This workshop introduces the participants (any dancers, movement artists, theatre artists and performers welcome) to the Rasa aesthetics of classical Indian dance. The Rasas or the “Nine Moods” of classical Indian dance come from the Natyashastra treatise (200 BCE-200 ADE). These moods will be explained and participants will be given insight into layers of meaning, and taught hand gestures, stylized movements and facial expressions which may be used as tools in exploring each of these nine moods. There will be opportunities for improvisation, and students will also be guided through short series of guided explorations of the rasas. Finally, the workshop will examine how rasas may be used in contemporary performance.

Participants from the workshop are invited to participate in the development and showcase performance of Paromita Kar’s piece “Vignettes of Sringaar” as a work-in-progress. The performance will take place on Sunday 21 June at 14.00

About Paromita Kar
Paromita Kar is a Toronto-based independent dance artist. She is a classical Indian Odissi dancer, trained under Odissi maestro Guru Durgacharan Ranbir of Odisha, India. She is the first in Canada to complete a doctoral degree in Dance Studies. She is the recipient of the Canada Council Grant for Professional Dance Artists (2015), Shastri Indo-Canadian Fine Arts Fellowship for Dance (2011-2012), and the Lawrence Heisey Award (2009). Select performances include Canadian National Exhibition, Royal Ontario Museum’s Asian Heritage initiatives, Toronto International Youth Dance Festival, Caf’ Conc Theatre and La Salle Oscar Pearson in Montreal, the Choreography Festival in India, Toronto International Fringe Festival, the Horizon Soloist Series at Sampradaya Theatre, and the Agha Khan Museum. Dr. Kar also professionally practices dances of Central Asian, Romani and Turkish heritages. paromitakar.wix.com/danseuse

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PERFORMANCE | Choreographies by Antonin Comestaz & Keren Rosenberg

Sunday 24 May  19:30  €5,-

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Antonin Comestaz and Keren Rosenberg have been working in the studio of CLOUD/Danslab these last few months. Both with their distinct style. Antonin will present “Then, Before, Now, Once more” developed in CLOUD/Danslab and Keren will present “Body-House” developed in Dansateliers Rotterdam. Their connection is a special one, which is growing in CLOUD. The last edition of CLOUD Club has been hosted by Antonin Comestaz, and the next edition in on June 13 will be hosted by Keren Rosenberg. Read more about the Gaga Edition of CLOUD Club with Keren or see Facebook event

Then, Before, Now, Once more – choreography Antonin Comestaz
The universe seems to play by the rule of constant change. Nothing remains, everything transform. Life and death, days and nights, seasons… What is now isn’t what it was then, nor before, but may occur again. Nature lets us witness these patterns in everything, including feelings. How do we cope with this fact when we seek for eternity?

Dancers : Inés Belda Nacher & Jefta Tanate
Music : Aphex Twin, Robert Lippok, Nicolas Jaar
Duration: 10 minutes

About Antonin Comestaz
Antonin Comestaz (1980) is a French dancer, choreographer and multidisciplinary artist based in The Hague (NL). He trained at the Paris Opera Ballet School and went on to dance with companies including Paris Opera, The Hamburg Ballet, T.T.M (Tanz Theater München), Ballet Mainz, and Scapino Ballet. During his tenure at these companies, Antonin has worked with renowned choreographers, such as John Neumeier, Marco Goecke, Rui Horta, Carolin Carlson, Ed Wubbe, and Jacopo Godani among others. Antonin’s artistic career has been forged by his ability to constantly explore and redefine boundaries in the various fields of dance, from ballet to neo-classic, modern and improvisation.
www.antonincomestaz.com

Antonin has developed this choreography in the studios of CLOUD/Danslab and Korzo. This work has recently premiered at the Open Stage of Dansmakers Amsterdam. Read more about his residency at CLOUD.

Body-House – choreography Keren Rosenberg

“The body and me are not the same.
The body is the house in which I live in.
I don’t own this house and this house is not me, though its my house.
Sometimes I feel my body as a home and sometimes it becomes an unfamiliar property.
I live under my skin.
Sometimes I come through the walls of my skin to feel, I even open small cracks to the outside, I don’t like exposing too much cause then I am vulnerable.”

Collaborators & Performers:  Nathalie Van Den Hombergh, Keren Rosenberg
Live Music: ENKA
Costumes: Natasja Lansen
Image: Paul Sixta
Dramaturgy: Kristine De Groot
Light Design: Edwin Van Steenberg
Duration: 15 minutes

 

About Keren Rosenberg
Keren’s works were presented in various festivals & theaters in Israel, Iceland, The Netherlands and Ireland. In 2011 she was invited by Ohad Naharin to study the Gaga movement language. Since then, she has been invited to teach Gaga as well as her own creative workshops in various dance companies and institutions around Europe.

Her recent work ‘Body-House’ premiered at the One Night’s Dance Project at Dansataliers, invited to Korzo Theater, Dansmakers Amsterdam and Tel-Aviv Dance This Summer.

Keren has been working in CLOUD/Danslab in several residencies of which the most recent is “The Never Dry Land”. Read more about her last residency in CLOUD

 

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CLOUD Club: The Gaga Edition | Keren Rosenberg | 13 June | 21:00

Saturday 13 June | 21:00 | €5,-
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CLOUD Club 7th edition receives miss Keren Rosenberg
to share her charisma, uniqueness, nerve & talent on the dance floor.

We will take off with a Gaga session and continue with heavy beats into the depth of the night.

For this event we challenge you to dress your most
unforgettable you!

Doors open: 21:00
Gaga session starts at 21:30 (No entry during the session!)
Contribution to the studio: €5,-

About Keren Rosenberg
Keren’s works were presented in various festivals & theaters in Israel, Iceland, The Netherlands and Ireland. In 2011 she was invited by Ohad Naharin to study the Gaga movement language. Since then, she has been invited to teach Gaga as well as her own creative workshops in various dance companies and institutions around Europe.

Her recent work ‘Body-House’ premiered at the One Night’s Dance Project at Dansataliers, invited to Korzo Theater, Dansmakers Amsterdam and Tel-Aviv Dance This Summer.

Keren has been working in CLOUD/Danslab in several residencies of which the most recent is “The Never Dry Land”. Read more about her last residency in CLOUD

About Gaga
Gaga, the movement language developed by Ohad Naharin (Batsheva Dance Company). Gaga is a new way of gaining knowledge and self-awareness through your body. Gaga provides a framework for discovering and strengthening your body and adding flexibility, stamina, and agility while lightening the senses and imagination. Gaga raises awareness of physical weaknesses, awakens numb areas, exposes physical fixations, and offers ways for their elimination. The work improves instinctive movement and connects conscious and unconscious movement, and it allows for an experience of freedom and pleasure in a simple way, in a pleasant space, in comfortable clothes, accompanied by music, each person with himself and others.
www.gagapeople.com

 

CLOUD Club is a dance gathering where one releases the dancer beast from within. It’s not a party. It’s a celebration of movement and a work out.

Every edition we invite a contemporary dancer/choreographer to guide the crowd with warm up, improvisation tasks, games and more.

No expertise required. The best delight is to discover your own way to move. Take your shoes off and release your power on the dance floor.

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Workshop | Presence & Space | Marta Reig Torres

Sunday 7 June  13.00-16.00  €20

Registration by mail to mreigtorres@gmail.com
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Marta Reig Torres will be resident at CLOUD/Danslab from 1st of June till 7th of June. During her residency she will organize the workshop ‘Presence & Space’. Read more about her residency and presentation.

About workshop
In this workshop attention will be given to noticing and observing the differences layers that emerge, when we are fully present/aware in what we do while dancing. How do we travel from the specific into the context? How is our dance relating and living in the space? And it communicates to the watcher and the public. Marta is interested to get in touch with our creative mind, and notice the specific moment that movement becomes dance.

She will be taking you through a journey, offering and giving you specific tools that will allow you to connect with yourself and the place from where your natural and personal movement arises. In order to experience the dancing body as a physical, thoughtful, intelligent, emotional, perceptive, spatial, playful, imaginative, musical body. And allow those elements to resonate in the space.

About Marta Reig Torres
Marta Reig Torres  is an independent dance artist. In 2012 she co-created CLOUD/Danslab (previously Danslab) with a group of colleagues as an urge and listening to the needs of the independent field. As a dancer she still performs the work of Nicole Beutler and her own work. She has danced with Conny Janssen Danst, Leine & Roebana, Ballet Gulbenkian in Portugal and with the Dutch National Ballet. As a freelance choreographer, her work has been produced by Korzo Productions and co-produced by Dansateliers, DWA Danswerkplaats Amsterdam, Cadance Festival, De Doelen Rotterdam, Codarts and Meekers. It has been selected several times for the Nederlandse Dans Dagen as one of the most outstanding choreographies of the dance season in The Netherlands and it has been chosen for the Dansclick, the Serie Nieuwe Theatermakers, and in Spain by the “Red de Teatros Alternativos” with extended tours. She also makes location projects and her pieces have travelled internationally to different festivals and venues. She is a regular guest choreographer and teacher at Codarts University of the Arts, and ArtEZ Institute of the Arts in Arnhem.
www.martareigtorres.com