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Residency / Emma Schild

22 May – 4 June 2023

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

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

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

Photo: Jostijn Ligtvoet Fotografie
Editen by: Luay Salha

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

From 14 – 20 November 2022

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

Synopsis:

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

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

Biographies: 

Ana Meireles 

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

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

Evelyn Hutchings  

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

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

Project description: 

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

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

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

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

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

https://vimeo.com/774744497

BRIDGING | RESIDENCY | IVAN COOK

06-19 December 2021

Presentation

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

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

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

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

Donation based. Reservation & Covid pass required.

Reservations via: www.cookmovementpractice.online/event

COSMIC CATERPILLARS

Lecture Performance by Lili Ullrich

Sunday 21 November 2021 at 16:00

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

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

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

RESIDENCY LO BIL

18 – 24 March 2019

workshop & presentation | 23 March 19:00 -21:00

lo bil is a York University Interdisciplinary Masters student creating body-based performance art using cross-disciplinary methodologies to correlate research into process, pleasure, vulnerability, an aesthetics of feeling, and the impacts of a social location on identity. Through non-repeated performance gestures, lo generates intuitive research into academic concepts by using physical improvisation, spontaneous utterance, impulse- based scores, object manipulation, and inter relational proposals with audience. Her work has been called “raw”, “amusing”, “transparent”, and often involves creating a feedback loop with the audience.

I am developing a performance-research practice of “dropping” questions into the body, aiming for “non-repeatability” and moving on intuition as a method for understanding philosophical texts.

Encouraging myself to move into states of intoxication through movement provides an entry-point into my unconscious image life, connecting abstract physical impulses to sublimated content by letting speech effect movements and movements affect speech. Making this physical practice into a performative one, layers on an interrelational complication, to notice how the body responds to itself while being seen by others – in this state of hyper-awareness and “felt knowing” – thoughts surface differently.

I become aware of “habits” or psycho-physical patterns of movement and related thought sequences from memory. I try to identify, deconstruct and reorder these habitual patterns into non-repeatable forms, disrupting psychic material that surfaces. I want to interrogate habits that are blocking my ability to create new ways of thinking. I will prepare with texts by Butler, Nancy, Deleuze and Guttari, Ranciere and Agamben.

ARTIST STATEMENT:

I am a Performance Artist. I write with images – sourcing my work from my own identity transparently and investigating my philosophical problems with improvisatory actions and object relationships. I offer audience situations and provocations to dream around. I offer a context for people to think of their own questions and notice their own desires.

I practice for months, but in the moment before the performance, I let go of what I want to happen or expect to do. I ask, “How can I be in front of this audience in an attentive and receptive way and what is moving to me about the topic at hand right now?” I do this action. This first mark on the canvas is an offer that I follow through to the end of the composition. I use body memory as a generative source of possible exchange and inquiry. In this way, I am researching my knowledge and lack of knowledge; I am accepting the reality of my body, the reality of my economic state, the reality of my class, my gender and all unknown aspects of my history.

This performance style is a DIY strategy where in body and thought I am ready to perform at any moment in alignment with my own integrity and the nature and energy of the people present. The “currency” of this methodology is the responsiveness to context – information can be immediately incorporated into the texture, movement, and conversation with the audience – thus the work allows us to unpack questions in a collective way.

I am also researching what it is that elevates my consciousness in the moment of performance – that energetic flow that allows meaning to emerge that I could not have realized if I had not made the performance. This question has come from my constant radical doubt around: why perform at all? I keep performing because actually it is in the moment of performance that I don’t know where I’m going, that I can look back at and say: I know where I am going now, thanks to this performance. As crazy or wild as the performative state can be, it leads me into knowledge.

I would love to have conversations with local artists to help generate more context for the performance proposals and for my thesis writing.
If you are interested please contact me : lbil@rogers.com

The workshop presentation of 23 March

“I propose an open studio performance and workshop.  I will show you what I have been working on in the intersection between movement and philosophy and then I will make some proposals for audience to engage in. No pressure to participate but I hope you will be curious enough to join us for this mini workshop that aims to generate pleasure, connection and interesting things to think about. “

Blog : http://lo-bil.tumblr.com/ 

Beauty… Once… Then… Now

Research and presentation
Dance:
Manuela Tessi

Choreography:
Paul Estabrook

Music:
Alfredo Genovesi

A dialogue between past and present – memory and conjecture – what
was, what is, what may have been.

What is beauty?

Why is beauty so important?

Is it what we find most ugly that we find most beautiful?

Do we chase beauty – or does beauty chase us?

With these questions and this research we have been exploring the
iconography of beauty, dance, pain and joy and how we create,use and
portray those icons.

The showing is at 19.00 – (are we sharing the evening or not)?

Presentation: Jack Gallagher and Eline van Ark

Research and Development in search of feedback

 

ULTERIOR

*Made in Holland*
Jack Gallagher and Eline van Ark are working on a solo. It is about dismantling all the shoulds in dance making and instead activating the performative pallet that they both bring with them every day into every process.
This Sunday they present the result of phase II:

6 pieces of music, 6 different genres, 18 pillows and a black suit.

35 minutes

 

Sunday 13 April, 18:30
CLOUD studio

Come and see refreshing combinations of dance stuff that doesn’t belong together. Not as a hodge podge, but as a fusion and an evolution.

Ulterior flyer 1 small

Of course we’re looking for quality here, so we made some rules:

> No original steps
> No original production designs
> No illusions of Grandeur about the piece and it’s future
> No nudity
> No seduction of the audience
> No selling of sex
> No suspending disbelief
> No pretentions about a special crowd with a special gaze
> Art as crowd pleaser but in ways they least expect it…
> It will be intellectual accidentally
> Play the situation from inside out
> Gender is not performed but embedded in the gaze of the audience

Because in the end, that’s what CLOUD is for, to try weird things :)

Come help us figure out what we’re doing.

Leonie Kuipers Performative Merging Games

With a group of people I want to explore how you can achieve an evolution in movement through playful exercises. With simple movement actions such as walking, standing still, moving in spatial figures and moving in layers in height, we explore how movement develops in space. I research the idea of connection and patterns, logic and dynamics that arise. The goal is to develop movement games that lead to interesting results in terms of choreography. I invite you to move and puzzle along!

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In deze werksessie wordt onderzocht hoe speelse oefeningen leiden tot ontwikkeling in beweging. Dit doen we aan de hand van simpele bewegingsacties als lopen, stilstaan het bewegen in ruimtelijke figuren en het verplaatsen in hoogtelagen. We onderzoeken het idee van verbinding en kijken naar logica, patronen en dynamieken die ontstaan. Ik nodig je uit om mee te bewegen en te puzzelen!

 


© Leonie Kuipers