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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.
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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. 

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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.

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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
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Residency | Words[and]Moves | Jerôme Meyer

7 September – 18 September

Not looking to ascend into the heavens you can find freedom in falling to earth.
Imagine you could be at 10 different places at the same time. Imagine you had the capacity to have different minds.
Imagine you could change appearance.
The meaning of your action would be radically different.
The meaning of your self as an unlimited being could mean to exist in another time, place or civilization.
Would you agree to disappear for this other you?

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During his residency at CLOUD Jerome Meyer will explore how spoken words affects the way movements and meaning are generated and how perceived feedback of the movements will affect the musicality of live spoken words. He will look at how personal humoristic philosophical inquiry with musicality of choreographed improvised score can match together.

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CLOUD/Danslab joins Het Circus

Workshops | Saturday 12th and Sunday 13th of September
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Costs: Free

CLOUD/Danslab is proud to announce its contribution to festival Het Circus with workshops by our current partners!

Het Circus is a socially sustainable festival with music, theater, dance, workshops, art, sustainability, camping and of course… the circus!

Het Circus is the result of a collaboration between local residents, local theater De Nieuwe Regentes and The Hague in Transition.

Dates: 11-12-13 September 2015
Location: District park De Verademing is situated in the Regentessekwartier in The Hague.  The main entrance can be found on the crossing of Newtonstraat and Van Bylandstraat.
Accessibility: Het Circus is easily reached by tram 11, 12, 2 and 3.

For more information on the festival, please visit www.hetcircus.me or FB:https://facebook.com/hetcircus

PROGRAM of Het Circus on Saturday 12th of September
CLOUD & Partners
13:15-14:00 Yoga by Angela Tait
14:15-14:45 Chakradance by Ivana Kontra
15:15-16:15 Open Floor by Hester Slagman 

PROGRAM of Het Circus on Sunday 13th of September
CLOUD & Partners
12:00-13:00 Yoga by Angela Tait
13:15-14:00 Open Floor by Hester Slagman
14:15-14:45 Chakradance by Ivana Kontra

 

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Sound and Movement Class with TodaysArt/4DSOUND

SpaceBody Intelligence – Sound and Movement class by Rob Jan Liethoff, with 4DSOUND & TodaysArt, supported by CLOUD/Danslab

CLOUD is joining forces with TodaysArt Festival on this exciting workshop on September 25th and 26th. We’ll be there and we are excited to invite you to join this special Sound and Movement class.

Premiering at TodaysArt 2015, the festival for contemporary art and music in The Hague, Netherlands, 4DSOUND: Circadian presents interdisciplinary works from a diverse set of artists – all created exclusively for the Electriciteitsfabriek.

4DSOUND prepares a 24 hour program of interactive spatial sound performances featuring Lisa Park, Marco Donnarumma, Kazuya Nagaya, Oscar Mulero, the overnight A/V meditation project Noqturnl by John Connell and Florence To, and more to be announced. The event includes an opening conference, a sound and movement workshop, immersive sonic meditation, participative spatial performances, overnight collective dream state.

Robert Jan Liethoff is a Berlin-based actor, dramaturgist and voice movement teacher. His work draws on aspects of voice physiology as a departure point for the development of sound-oriented bodywork. He is fascinated by the body’s own intelligence: his compositions often begin from the concept of a raw, or formless space-state, from where they begin to move towards clearer specific forms and structures. (Go to: Robert Jan Liethoff’s site )

Robert will host the sound and movement class and a lecture for 4DSOUND: Circadian inviting participants to explore a ‘physical’ listening practice. Investigating how we perceive sound composition, what the body considers a ‘healthy’ sound texture, our ability to perceive sound internally as well as externally, and the influence this has on our spatial awareness of space both internal and external, and the sense of self that emerges from this understanding.

Capacity: 50 people per class
Friday 25 September & Saturday 26 September
11:00 – 12:00 (please stay updated with the schedule as changes may happen later!)

Location: Electriciteitsfabriek, The Hague

Participation Fee: € 8

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About the 4DSOUND: Circadian

4DSOUND is a laboratory and cultural collective exploring Spatial Sound as a medium. Since 2008, it has developed an innovative Spatial Sound technology that has significantly improved and expanded the possibilities to create, perform and experience sound spatially. 4DSOUND is a fully omnidirectional sound environment, where the listener can appreciate Spatial Sound images in a virtually unlimited spatial continuum. Sound can move infinitely distant or intimately close to the listener: it moves around, as well as above, beneath, in between or right through them.

A 4DSOUND environment allows for a natural reproduction of sound sources in a spatial environment. The loudspeakers are completely transparent: instead of listening to speakers, one is listening to space.

4DSOUND is at the forefront of researching and demonstrating how Spatial Sound is becoming intertwined with a broader cultural movement that propagates self-awareness, social cohesion and sustainability. Spatial Sound is at the heart of a development leading to an Ecology of Listening – influencing the quality of the listening environment to enhance our mental and physical state.

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Workshop Dansdrift | Body Landscape | Ana Leonor Ladas

Thursdays from 3 September | 20:00-22:00 | €97,-
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How does Body, Space & Silence relate and transform one another in the process of dancing and creating dances? How does visible and invisible intertwine and co-exist with each other?

Costs: €97 for eight classes

The workshop focuses on the creative process itself and it evolves organically in direct relation with the individual and group dynamics. The work unfolds in two complementary directions. A dive inwardly bringing attention to the inner structural and physiological landscapes of the body; and an expansion outwardly, an opening and interaction of the body and one’s awareness to the external environment. Based on Improvisation and Instant Composition, we integrate the individual experiences within a performative context.
Space and Silence are explored through the polarities of continuum & discontinuous, matter & ki (energy), visible and invisible, moving and being moved. In this process we invite appreciation, surrender, the simplicity of being and ‘seeing what is’ within the creative act of dancing and making dances.



About Ana Leonor Ladas
Ana is one of the first residents of CLOUD/Danslab in 2012. She is a Portuguese freelance dancer, improviser, teacher, movement coach and shiatsu practitioner resident in Amsterdam. After studying psychology at I.P.S.A in Lisbon, she moved to Holland where she graduated from the HKA – Dansacademie Arnhem in 2001. Since then she has been dancing with many different companies and independent choreographers, (as Dansgroep Krisztina de Chatel, Conny Janssen Danst, CS Piet Rogie, Marta Reig Torres, Giulio D’Anna, etc). In parallel she has been creating her own work as well collaborating with many different artists. Improvisation and Instant Composition are central in her work and approach.
Her process is motivated by a curious need to understand the human condition and dance as a manifestation of life itself. This led her to get in deep contact with Oriental approach of Body. In 2006-2010 she lived and worked for long periods with her teacher Min Tanaka at the Body Weather farm in Japan. This experience was profoundly transformative both in her personal and artistic path. Presently she continues regular practices in Aikido, Katsugen Undo and Shiatsu. Along the years she developed a particular way in her artistic, pedagogical and therapeutic activities where there is a clear integration of Western and Eastern’ fundamental principles.
www.analadas.blogspot.com

About Dansdrift
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

info@dansdrift.nl
www.dansdrift.nl

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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.”