From 23 may - 10 june ALKANTARA 2012 will take place, the 4th edition of the international festival for contemporary dance and performance : http://www.alkantarafestival.pt/
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From 19 - 29 April, SPRINGDANCE 2012 will take place, the 28th edition of the international festival for contemporary dance and performance. This time the programme is centred on the relationship between dance and visual arts. Choreographers have experimented with the dancing body as a sculpture and an object, visual artists have focused on performance. A festival featuring dozens of ambitious performances, by talented young choreographers as well as the big names. Plus a host of extras such as introductions, talks, dance workshops, [...] The medical definition for the term “crisis” is the turning point of a disease for better or worse. It indicates a crucial moment where a certain disease can escalade towards its end, may it be death or sudden recovery So imagine you aboard the 2012 European Crisis Cruise. Can you imagine having two options avaiable: to sink like Titanic or to miraculously achieve a certain improvement, like stability or even a “lasting 3% growth”? New text by R.Natálio here Entering the universe of METTE INGVARTSEN and her new project "Artificial nature" Rita Natálio: I've watched some of your last works and I was struck by the strong structural approach of emotional, sexual and physical contents . The structures that you create to frame your compositions create an uneasy tension between the animated psychological body and its inanimated imagery (if you think of image as a dead frame for the body, something that is always aiming for the inanimated). Can you comment [...] After the successful presentation of his previous works, and an academic background in P.A.R.T.S., one could say Daniel Linehan is a name not to forget: "Making work is always a huge struggle between different interests that arise in myself: on the one hand, I am really fascinated by formal and abstract ways of considering performance, and on the other hand, I really want to directly inject tangible, pertinent, real-world issues into my performances". CHECK OUT THE INTERVIEW IN FOCUS My love is building a building ee cummings In the first group play by young Portuguese choreographer Gui Garrido, the meaning of group is disputed as a concept of architecture. From pyramids to chains, from fortresses to clumps, “Best Beast” is a creature under construction. It moves together, it breathes together, it sings and shouts together. It is a creature of belonging together to a same mechanism, it is a creature of making the “humanity creature” move [...] Check out the text “Network, Et work“, a reflexion on the role of cultural networks in Europe. HERE The duo of choreographers Sofia Dias & Vítor Roriz was recently awarded the 10000 euro award Prix Jardin d'Europe. Check out the interview with the artists here Marlene Freitas was born in Cabo Verde. She studied at P.A.R.T.S., at E.S.D and Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Portugal. Check out the article on her work in here The photographic project of DEPARTS website is the result of a collaboration between the portuguese photographer Inês Abreu e Silva and Rita Natálio, content and design coordinator of this website.
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General Disorientation for the Arts
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ARTIST PROFILE: Interview with Mette Ingvartsen
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ARTIST PROFILE: Interview with Daniel Linehan (by Rita Natalio)
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PREMIERE IN HAU - "Best Beast" by Gui Garrido
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ARTIST PROFILE: Interview with Sofia Dias & Vitor Roriz (by Rita Natalio)
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ARTIST PROFILE: Uncanny Marlene Freitas (by Rita Natalio)
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PHOTO PROJECT OF DEPARTS WEBSITE
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We’re running our new website
After gathering the archive of DÉPARTS, we're lauching our new website where you can have a overlook of our past and upcoming activities
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Rosas Performance Space, Monty, STUK Kunstencentrum, Aktovy Zal, De Brakke Grond, Concertgebouw, Teatro Maria Matos, Kunstencentrum Vooruit, Kaaitheaterstudio’s, Dansand festival, PACT Zollverein, Tanz im August | Saturday 05.05.2012
The students of the fourth year (Generation IX) end their education with the creation of graduation pieces. This year, all students made six personal works, bewteen duet and quintet. A new geenration of young choreographers and dancers is ready for the world, presenting a broad palette of possible approaches to dance. six dufferent pieces present as many different types of composition, theatricality and movement.
The six pieces will be shown at the audiences in Belgian and international theatres and festivals, in [...]
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Praia das Avencas - Parede | Wednesday 30.05.2012
A performance/installation situated on a beach, with a sunset and a horizon line, as if it were a utopian space, an indicator of dimensions consciousness cannot possibly reach, neither in the present nor in the future. Or the “Immense Unknown”, that condemns the individual to an atomized state, reducing him to a fraction of his possibilities, subjected to the combined powers of both the economic system and global politics.
Horizon Line constitutes the next step in Ana Borralho and João [...]
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Centro Cultural de Belém - pequeno auditório | Friday 01.06.2012
“It is necessary to leave. To get outside , and encounter material reality. An outside that is not geographic, and that must not be brought into line with the classical travel stories, or with an exodus caused by the evident failing of today’s world. Moving means something else. Its aim is to take a distance, which will give us back our ability to see and simultaneously bring together asymmetrical parts, supposedly irreconcilable fragments and to force them to fit together. [...]
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PARTS | Monday 02.07.2012
This Summer PARTS organises its fourth SummerSchool - JULY 2-27, four weeks, Monday to Friday.
SummerSchool offers the opportunity to a large community of dancers to take classes with faculty members and guest teachers of PARTS. Technical classes take place in the morning; in the afternoon a choice can be made between workshops in composition and improvisation, and workshops on the repertoire of Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker.
MORNING CLASSES include ballet and contemporary dance. The teachers are Anne-Linn Akselsen, Douglas Becker, Dominique [...]
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