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Presentation | 3X3Generations | June 10

CLOUD is proud to present the edition  of 3X3Generations #3
on June 10th at 20:00.
Please check our: Facebook event

Nine performers, three from each generation, from advanced amateurs to professional dancers are creating an open composition
This blind-date encounter start in the afternoon with a workshop.

LINE-UP: Elena Sgarbi, Josse Vessies, Fazle Shairmahomed, Bahar Farshchi, Jozef Sloots, Johan Wijlage, Elena Iachininoto, Rachel de Wolff and Alina Fejzo.

Moderator: Eline van Ark.

Doors open at 19:30 at DCR
Start at 20:00
Entrance fee € 5

Many thanks to Dansdrift and CLOUD/Danslab
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Presentation | The Invisible Dancer | Eline van Ark

Saturday 23 May, 20:00, free entrance

The Invisible Dancer is a sensorial dance performance that will be experienced with closed eyes. Since September 2013 Eline van Ark researched the concept of listening to dance, and the possibilities that it brings. Now she developed a piece to imagine dance and feel the movement of the dancer, without seeing it.
During the creative process of The Invisible Dancer, Eline collaborated with people with a visual impairment, residents of the Amsterdam Transvaal neighborhood, and (dance) artists. With their feedback, knowledge and experience as a base, Eline created this piece. Now she would like to share it with you, and hear how you experienced the dancing in the dark. A choreography about blind trust.


About Eline van Ark
Eline van Ark is a choreographer, dancer, teacher and organizer. Work of Eline is sensorial, interactive, and conceptually simple yet strong. In The Invisible Dancer, the sounds of the dancer will activate your imagination. Sound becomes tangible and movements get under your skin. Do you dare to surrender to the tangibility of the dark? Will you find your safety within the invisibility?
Close your eyes to see beyond the shape of dance, and discover how deep the experience can go.

Choreography: Eline van Ark
Dance: Aida Guirro Salinas
Advice: Diane Elshout

Many thanks to: Moving Arts Project, Generale Oost, DansBrabant, CLOUD at Danslab, Visio, and all participants of the open rehearsals!
This project is financially supported by: VSBfonds, Landelijke Stichting voor Blinden en Slechtzienden, Stichting Blindenhulp, Ars Donandi + Russell-ter Brugge fonds, Tugela85, Moving Arts Project.

Website: http://deonzichtbaredanser.wordpress.com/

 

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Workshop | Sounding Movement | Eline van Ark

23 May, 14:00-18:00, €20,-

See Facebook event
Registration: elinevanark@gmail.com

In 4 hours we will make a journey through the world of dancing sound and sounding dance. We will be listening to bodies moving, and be the listening bodies.

We will move the sound we just created,
Create movement with sound,
Create space with silence.

We will listen to our inner sound,
Find rhythms and musicality,
And its memory.

We will work with the breath,
As a physical expression,
And a means of communication.

We will find a voice in the invisibility.

The material of the workshop roots in the research of Eline’s project The Invisible Dancer, in which she creates a dance solo for an audience with closed eyes. During the creative process of The Invisible Dancer, Eline collaborated with people with a visual impairment, residents of the Amsterdam Transvaal neighborhood, and (dance) artists. Together with them, she researched the possibilities of listening to dance. With their feedback, knowledge and experience as a base, Eline creates the piece.

About Eline van Ark
Eline van Ark is a choreographer, dancer, teacher and organizer. Work of Eline is sensorial, interactive, and conceptually simple yet strong. In The Invisible Dancer, the sounds of the dancer will activate your imagination. Sound becomes tangible and movements get under your skin. Do you dare to surrender to the tangibility of the dark? Will you find your safety within the invisibility?
Close your eyes to see beyond the shape of dance, and discover how deep the experience can go.

Read more about Eline and the Invisible Dancer

This project is financially supported by: VSBfonds, Landelijke Stichting voor Blinden en Slechtzienden, Stichting Blindenhulp, Ars Donandi + Russell-ter Brugge fonds, Tugela85, Moving Arts Project.

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Presentation The Invisible Dancer by Eline van Ark

The Invisible Dancer started last year as a residency at CLOUD. After two weeks of researching sound-dance with Mojra Vogelnik Skerlj, together with a group of visually impaired people, choreographer Eline van Ark presented the research in the studio of CLOUD and during the CLOUD Winterfestival.

Now Eline is continuing her Invisible project in the studio Tugela85 in Amsterdam, where she creates a dance solo for Aida Guirro Salinas, that can’t be seen, but has to be listened to. The whole audience is blind / blindfolded. Eline researches the possibilities of this set-up, watching dance with closed eyes, together with visually impaired people, and this time also with people from the neighborhood and (dance) artists. By opening up the working process to perspectives and knowledge of others, she’ll get a glimpse into how people experience this audio-dance, what the possibilities are, and what is needed to hear the dancing body.

The first results of this second phase of the project will be shared the 22nd of February. Aida will show a sketch of the sound-dance, which we will exchange our experiences about. And Eline will talk about the process and discoveries until now. Why listen to dance? How can you hear the physicality of dance, the moving body? And how can you transmit the musicality of dance through sound, without it becoming a bodily concert? And what is the added value of listening to dance? All these questions were discussed during the research, and will now be shared with you.

And of course we’ll close off with a drink and a bite!

When: 22 February, 15:00
Entrance: €5,-
Location:  Lokaal85, Tugelaweg 85, Amsterdam Oost

Visit the website and like the facebook page for more info and to stay updated about the project.

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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.

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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.

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Workshop in De Nieuwe Regentes door Eline van Ark

Zondag 22 December geeft Eline een workshop in De Nieuwe Regentes in Buurtbruis II, een workshopmiddag met kunstenaars en makers uit de buurt. Voor iedereen is er wel wat bij en eind van de middag kun je kiezen tussen twee films. Voor 5 euro inclusief een drankje (we hebben die dag ook glühwein en warme chocomelk) kun je aan een workshop meedoen. Wees er snel bij, het aantal plaatsen is beperkt. Alle workshops zijn geschikt voor alle niveau’s, ook beginners.

Eline’s workshop ‘Bewegende Geluiden’ is een workshop ontwikkeld in samenwerking met Barbara Ebner tijdens hun project RADAR, waarin de dansers luisteren naar en reageren op de geluiden van het publiek. Eline en Barbara hebben een methode ontwikkeld waarin ze op verschillende manieren luisteren naar geluiden, en deze geluiden in beweging vertalen.

In de workshop gaan we deze verschillende manieren van luisteren verkennen, en daarmee de geluiden als motor voor beweging laten werken. Hierdoor gaan we dansen met geluid, tussen geluid, in geluid, worden we bewogen door geluid en creeren we geluid met en voor bewegingen. Voor iedereen die de wereld wel eens van een andere kant wil bekijken, en wil gaan spelen met wat er is, hier en nu.

meer info over Eline en Barbara’s RADAR project op http://cccompass.wordpress.com/

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CLOUD, Residents

Residency: Eline van Ark

The Invisible Dancer is an artistic research about listening to dance.

The aim is to create a dance solo that will not be seen, but only listened to. For the mapping of the audible area of dance we got help of a group of blind people and people with poor eyesight. After exploring and experimenting we’ll build a solo that will trigger the fantasy of the audience, to create their own imaginary dance based on what they hear Mojra doing.

Eline worked a week in September, and had a couple of sessions with blind people and people with poor eyesight in the months October, November and December.

 

The presentation triggered an interesting discussion, if you have 30 minutes, it’s well worth listening:

 

 

For a little taste of the working process, have a look at this video:

 

Great session today, with Anita, Emilie, Jessica, Thomas and Mojra Vogelnik-skerlj:

CLOUD, Residents

Residency Barbara Ebner

From 11/06 to 22/06/2012

Originally coming from south Germany, Barbara is an artist, freelance dancer, choreographer and teacher. During her dance and choreography studies at ArtEZ Arnhem, she developed a strong interest in collaborative work. She is working in a close dialog with colleagues, other art forms and fields outside of the arts with which a connection might seem farfetched in the first place. Together they are looking for a shared level of abstraction which enables the senses to join forces in the experience of art and life.
Her main fascination simply keeps on being movement, the body and the language that becomes alive with both together. The subtle and intimate qualities of performance in the present moment made her investigate more and more in the field of improvisation and instant composition – at the heart and potential of creative processes.


As choreographer and dancer/performer she is working in various often interdisciplinary projects and collectives mostly in the Netherlands in and around Arnhem; currently with Komma4, Poezie Plus, Walking Faces and CCCompass (a collective founded with Eline van Ark). Furthermore she is co-founder of LABSCAPE Barefoot Experiments, an interdisciplinary improvisation platform – since 2011 organizing a once a month experiment space for artists and everyone interested. In addition to that she is sharing her fascination and enthusiasm for improvisation and instant composition in her teaching, where she often works on bridging both contemporary technique and improvisation. Currently she is giving workshops and Improvisation/Composition at the Fast Track MBO education and the ArtEZ dance academy, Arnhem.