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CLOUD, Residents, Workshop

Presentation | Residency of Alegia P.

Residency : 12- 25 march 2018
Presentation : 14 april 2018  | 7:30pm until 9:00pm
I am an emerging media scenographer and visual artist. I am based in The Hague (Netherlands) but working between The Netherlands, London, Athens as well as other cities in Europe. My background is in Design (BA Interior design / Vakalo College of Arts & Design Athens, University of Derby UK) and I hold a master’s degree (MA Scenography from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London). Currently I am undertaking my second master’s degree MA ArtScience in The Artscience Interfaculty (Royal Academy of Arts – Royal Conservatory – The Hague NL).
I work mainly in set and costume design for performance, theatre and installations. My work involves video, photography, lighting, projection mapping, sound editing, electronics hacking, scenic art, sculpture and any other technical support suiting the project.

In March 2018, I had a two weeks residency in The Cloud DansLab, in The Hague. During this residency, I started working with the idea of perception, body, movement and vision.

Key words: perceiving, touch, smell, see, feel, movement, formless.

People perceive differently the world around them due to many factors such as nationality, age, gender etc. According to Freud, the infant starts to perceive the world through his/ hers body.

Perception allows behaviour to be generally appropriate to non-sensed object characteristics. For example, we respond to certain objects as though they are doors even though we can only see a long narrow rectangle as the door is ajar.

I am using the vision (present or absent) to change (the condition) of people’s perspectives. I whilst to question the visible via sensations (hear, touch, smell, movement). And to “force” someone to experience simple very basic actions such as walking (with the eyes shut) by feeling not thinking.

The basic questions that need to be answered are:
What do you see?
How do you feel?
What do you hear?

(I can hear a smell or the silence. There is a sense of touch in seeing and a sense of seeing in touch etc.)

Someone needs to lose control in order to perceive differently.

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Residency Tashi Iwaoka | Mother

5 – 11 March
Presentation Saturday 10 March 21:00 (doors open 20.30)
Facebook event

Tashi Iwaoka will be working on a new solo – Mother [working title] to be premiered in November 2018. During his residency he will explore the emotional and physical land scape connected to the recent event of his mother passing away. Investigating the personal and universal space in the event of death of a mother and giving them poetic forms to be expressed.

About Tashi Iwaoka
Tashi Iwaoka, an Amsterdam based performance artist/mover studied Contemporary Arts BA(Hons) at Nottingham Trent University (1997-2001 Nottingham UK), Dance and Choreography as a guest student at School for New Dance Development (2002-2003 Amsterdam NL) and Performance Research at DasArts (2004-2007 Amsterdam NL).

After his first Butoh experiences in 1997 with Kazuo Ohno and Kim Itoh in Japan, Iwaoka practiced Butoh based bodywork for over 10 years. Currently he is practising Budo, Japanese martial arts, and working on finding the nucleus of human expression and connection, in relation to the movement skills he has learnt. One of the central driving forces for this is the attempt to fuse his oriental roots and Western perspectives to form a more proper view on ‘being a human’ in this world. He wishes to disinter the universality of Eastern wisdom in order to help us understand what it is to be a human.

Iwaoka is one of the founders of Ehkä-production, an international collective of independent performance and dance makers, based in Turku, Finland, with which he is still closely associated.

https://www.tashiwaoka.org

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Going to the Bone that Moves you

De dans is een prachtige manier om met ons lichaam uitdrukking te geven aan wat we voelen, denken, willen, verlangen.
We dansen onze ervaringen en wat ons raakt, een glimlach van iemand, kriebel in je Buik, irritatie, vertedering, angst, wilde dromen!

Een koude winter nacht Hemel die wemelt van de sterren
de knoppen in de bomen die op springen staan
een laatste sneeuwvlok
een bries door je haren….
alles maar dan ook werkelijk alles is dansbaar.

En dat is zo fijn….

Veilig, in contact met je fysieke lichaam, bewust verbonden met de grond onder je en de ruimte boven je.
smelten, verzachten, oplossen, van gefixeerd naar vloeiend
zodat er ruimte ontstaat om open te vouwen
zodat de lucht en het licht vol naar binnen kunnen stromen, schouders kunnen zakken en kaken zich ontspannen;
klaar om de dans die bij jou aanklopt naar binnen te laten stromen, springen, dansen, rollen…

Ook zo zo nieuwsgierig naar de volgende beweging?

Je bent van harte uitgenodigd om mee te dansen.

Wanneer We starten 16 Maart en dansen ieder 1e en 3e vrijdag van de maand van 20.00 – 21.30 uur
Je bent welkom vanaf 19.30 en de muziek start om 19.45 uur.
Waar Dansstudio Cloud, Constant Rebequeplein 20 B, Den Haag
Kosten losse les – 15 euro, alle 8 de lessen – 105 euro

Voor meer info en om je op te geven, stuur even een mailtje.

dansgroet

Hester Slagman

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Warrior of the Dance and Singing – whole day workshop

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Dance, Martial arts & Theater: Eva Bergerová
Voice & Kora, Live music: Dymphi Peeters

Come and dive with us in the ocean of conscious creation!

“It is our mission to empower you to express yourself from the inside out in front of loving eyes by means of dance, theater, martial arts and voice improvisation. We believe that spirituality and creativity are connected”

SUMMARY:
Goal of the workshop: The opening of the creative energy in everybody by a combination of dance, (martial arts), voice improvisation and theater.

DESCRIPTION:
Do you want to express yourself? Feel to dance, use your voice and create? Do you want to live a creative and free life? Then come and taste it.

You will experience a short performance and after that, you are going to dive into the experience of expressing the creativity in your own dance and voice.

You will get a new concept of Ritual theater (Creation and Expression, Dance and Singing) called “Step out of the Story”. We use conscious Theatrical, Dance, Singing and Martial Arts techniques and Improvisation.

Who is a Warrior? It’s the part inside us, which is always in the present moment. Everybody has a Warrior inside! Through the Warrior we are learning to be conscious, we express the energy of life, of freedom, courage and authenticity.

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE WITH DANCE AND SINGING NO MUST
If you already gained experience in your life in dancing and singing and martial arts it is great, but no must. We believe everybody has an artist inside! This day is about expressing yourself from the inside out in front of loving eyes. We believe that is the greatest gift we can give ourselves and the other.

ABOUT EVA:
“When I was 37 I became a professional Dancer and Choreographer. Until this time, in the romantic city of Prague, I was leading a Drama theater company, where I used to direct performances, guide dramaturgy and keep the company going, growing and expanding. There was a time, we had two theater houses and around 50 people working there. Our performances were seen by around 200 000 people.
– I practice Chinese Martial arts for more than 20 years now and teach it for 5 years.
– I directed more than 20 performances. One of them went on for 12 years.
– I am a Dj and a Ceremony leader
– I love to perform Dance and I love to improvise on the stage and in life.”
More info: www.evabergerova.eu

ABOUT DYMPHI:
The Dutch Dymphi Peeters is a meditative world music voice artist, who accompanies herself on the African kora.
Her roots lay in the East European Folk music and she gained experience in flamenco, voice expression, improvised music and also opera. Originally Dymphi studied Educational Science and Technology which she is combining with her ongoing spiritual researches and experiences. But life took her on the path of music, where her heart truly lies. In general Dymphi loves to develop and expand her horizons. Dymphi is the kora player of the Mehmet Polat Trio and she performs relaxation concerts with kora and vocals and gives workshops voice improvisation. With her new band Dragonfly she improvises live music for a community of dancers of Ecstatic Dance Utrecht.
More info: www.dymphipeeters.nl

DATE: 14-4-2018
TIME: 10:30-17:00h (doors open 10:00h)

link to FB event

SPACE: CLOUD danslab: De Constant Rebecqueplein 20b, 2518RA Den Haag
PRICE: 85,- incl. btw (has to be paid in advance to reserve your place)
LUNCH: A simple lunch with soup and salad is included in the price. If you like to take extra things you are welcome to do so yourself.
LANGUAGE: English but can be translated into Dutch

RESERVATIONS: Please send a mail to: dymphi.peeters@gmail.com, or if you have any questions: 0644676082

 

 

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Residency KXKXA | Malik Nashad Sharpe

15-22 December

KXKXA is emotion is internet is feminist is feelings is the city is economy is drastic is being emo is shady pink is salt in the wound is love is broken is adventurous is grotesque is dramatic is lost is empty is terrible is black is black is black is black is black is black is black is love is crass is horrific is happening is hopeful is dreaming maybe is terrorism is gun-happy is sad is father is mastery is cleansing is ritual is creating is deepening is destructive is destroying me is destroying is destroying every little thing and every large thing is concubine is mistress is deep is intangible is garbage

About Marikiscrycrycry a.k.a. Malik Nashad Sharpe
Marikiscrycrycry is the performance project of London-based choreographer and artist Malik Nashad Sharpe (b. 1992, New York). They make emotional choreographies that are less like descriptors of themes and more like worlds in themselves. Their work deals primarily with the social imprints and inflections left on the body, existentialism, the necessity to proliferate pro-Queer and pro-Black aesthetics under neoliberal hegemonies, choreography as an expanded formal proposition, and allostatic load. Originally making work in DIY contexts across New York City, their choreography considers aesthetic production and situational politics as radical forms of production. They consider choreography as a tool to suggest ulterior and subversive critiques of an otherwise phobic and unaccommodating world.

maliknashadsharpe.com

 

 

 

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Workshop | Egyptian Dance with live music | Laura de Gaspari

14 January 2017
13:00 -17:00
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Workshop Egyptian/ Arabic dance with Laura De Gaspari and Sattar AlSaadi (Arabic Ney, Oud and percussion).

We will work on the principles grounding and fluidity in Egyptian dance supported by live rhythms and lyrical notes of the flute and lute.

Registration and payment 
Early bird 50 euros till 7th of January
After the 7th it will be 58 euros.

Registration and info: lmdegaspari@gmail.com

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MounaMay Buikdansschool | Bellydance classes

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Tuesdays | 19:00-20:15: Bellydance classes Beginners
Tuesdays | 20:15-21:30: Bellydance classes Intermediate & Advanced

Would you like to join the Bellydance classes?
Have you always wanted to learn how to Bellydance? Or are you an experienced dancer and
do you want to improve your technique? Or are you just curious what Oriental
dance actually is and if it would be something for you?
Visit the website www.buikdansschooldenhaag.nl and register for a trial class online and find
out yourself. If you already took classes with MounaMay Bellydance School before, you are
welcome to sign up for a new course.

About MounaMay Buikdansschool
MounaMay Bellydance School provides weekly bellydance classes and started in 2008. You
can join classes of various levels, from beginner to advanced for adults as well as children.
The classes on Tuesdays are at Cloud Dancelab. The classes on Mondays and Thursdays are
at the Koorenhuis. All dance classes are in Dutch as well as in English. Aside from weekly
dance classes MounaMay Bellydance School also provides bellydance workshops, private
lessons and group performances. All classes are provided by Mouna (Loraine Mailissa) with
her 2 assistants Varsha and Natasha.

To give you an impression watch this video of Mouna ; MounaMay Group at the Theater
aan het Spui in The Hague.
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Embodied search

These series of 6 workshops will focus on the four basic emotional movements.

Giving: moving oneself toward the other.
Getting: moving other toward oneself.
Removing: moving other away from oneself.
Escaping: moving oneself away from other.

These basics movements are strictly connected to the bodily felt sensation. Through dance improvisation and exploration questions and emotions about oneself in relationship to oneself and others will possibly arise.

How this exploration can connect us to a better way of creatively express while dancing?
How can dance serve us to a better expression of our feelings in daily life?
These questions will be at the core of the movement exploration.

Workshop duration: 2 hours per session
Number of sessions: 6 plus informal sharing the 16th June. Participants presence is not
compulsory for all 6 sessions but very much suggested.
Price: Cloud students €10, other participants € 20 per session.
6 session discount: Cloud students € 55, € 115.

Open to all movement lovers and dancers.
Dates: 20th January, 25th February, 25th March, 22nd April, 19th May, 16th June (session/sharing)

Claudia Scaringella MA student of Dance Movement therapy,
First class BA Choreography and Dance.
scaringelladance.com

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Butoh performance Master Natsu Nakajima + group improvisation

Natsu Nakajima, one of the oldest female Butoh dancers, Tatsumi Hijikata’s first female dancer, a founding member of Butoh movement in Tokyo, gives a series of workshops, butoh lectures and performances in Budapest, Barcelona, Berlin and Hague in September and October 2017.

We are very honored to have this unique short performance of Natsu Nakajima in CLOUD/danslab. Her performance will be followed by a group improvisation by some of the dancers of the Butoh workshop which takes place from 18-22 October in CLOUD/danslab.

“For me, Ankoku Butoh is not a school but a journey and a place where I learn about the invisible. At the moment of the birth of dance I experience the union of mind and body and transcend my tiny self to feel a great power, great love”.
Natsu Nakajima

Doors open 19:00
Entrance: 5 euro
Reservations by mail: cloud.danslab@gmail.com

 

ABOUT NATSU NAKAJIMA
Natsu Nakajima (b. 1943 Sakhalin, Japan) has been one of the most prominent figures in Butoh dance since its foundation in Tokyo in the 1960s, and one of its foremost pioneers abroad. Training under both Hijikata Tatsumi and Kazuo Ohno, Nakajima went on to establish her own dance company, Muteki-sha, in 1969, with whom she has been performing and choreographing internationally since the early 1980s. Her highly acclaimed performance of ‘Niwa’ at LIFT ‘83 (London) marked the beginning of this international touring career, and led to performances at festivals such as FIND (Montreal), the Nancy Festival, and the Sydney Biennale.
In addition to her performance and choreographic work, Nakajima has over thirty years of experience as a teacher, and has been one of the forerunners of dance for the disabled in Japan. www.geocities.jp/mutekisha/index1-e.html

Contact: cloud.danslab@gmail.com
www.cloudatdanslab.nl

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Improved space: studio renovation

Over the past seven months the studio has been renovated with the support of Gemeente Den Haag and Fonds1818.  A brand new dance floor has been placed. Come and feel it, it’s a delight to dance on! Also new mirrors and an improved audio system have been installed. In collaboration with the DCR, we are making steps towards CLOUD’s visibility from the street side and soon we will be able to totally blind the space whenever needed (for specific presentations and video-projections that require darkness)

We welcome you to  have a look during one of the presentations or classes that take place in CLOUD, to experience what the space has to offer you!

With many thanks to Gemeente Den Haag and Fonds1818!

   

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CREATIVE HUBS EXCHANGE

“Usually, the public comes, watches something and then they leave. But in the 21st century they no longer want to watch something, they want to be part of something, make an experience.”
Marina Abramović, 2016

 Creative Hubs Exchange @ CLOUD/Danslab:

3rd October 2017
with Meyer-Chaffaud

11th October 2017
with Fazle Shairmahomed, Sophia Bulgakova, Aish Pagnes,

27th October 2017
with Meyer-Chaffaud, Teun Vonk, Aron Birtalan and Natela Lemondhava

Do you want to be part of this exciting creative process?
sign up via: creative.hubs.exchange@gmail.com

With the start of this project we are engaging a dialogue  between the action and the audience and ultimately between the audience among itself. The project aims to provoke an aesthetic art experience, inspire and stimulate intellectual reflection about audience’s freedom and free will and raise question about identity and the act of engaging or not engaging in the course of an action .

With Meyer’s statement – the audience as active co-creator- the initial starting point claims that the audience members needs perspectives and tools within its own creativity to challenge its cognitive perception as a group and as individual.

We like to engage a conversation about expectation from the audience member point of view and how the audience member would like to be engaged and challenged in a performance.
We would like to formulate question like “Is the presence of the audience already sufficient to be a co-creator?” How as audience member I deal with my desire and fear during a performance? What makes ultimately a remarkable performance? This will be a very small moment of our research towards the production of this project but we are looking forwards to design this session in three phases: a small showing of material, engage interactive physicality with the group and conduct a conversation with the aim to gather ideas that could eventually be develop later in the process.

HUBS IMMERSIVE festival
3 & 4 November 2017

www.hubsfestival.com

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Resident Roberta Stepankova teaching at CLOUD

MOVEMENT / INTROVERSION / IMAGINATION OF THE BODY

Roberta offers 2 dance classes, on Tuesday evening of 19th and 26th of September from 18.00 to 19.30, contribution € 7. All movers are welcome!!

The dance class is a proposal to realize one´s individual dance while following the propriate bodily wisdom, the movement ensuing from one´s nature and intimacy. The outer perspective of the fundamental bodily principles is used as a tool to support learning from within. To work in this way means to let oneself be guided by the inner process while progressively building the alertness to the minor outer changes. At the same time, through this deep concentration and attunement to one´s self, the parallel unpronounceable pre-conscious processes can unfold and nurture our imagination, our dance. The inner is then continuously articulated and at any moment transformed by the outer. So the whole being takes care of its various levels of becoming.

for more information on Roberta’s work: please check her website: http://robertastepankova.com/