Program

PERFORMANCES / LECTURES open for public


Wednesday, 15th of April:

Solo performance: «Buckets and Other Things» by Tim Darbyshire (Australia) at 19h
Duration: 20 min.

Buckets and Other Things
about CYCLES AND REPETITION
about OBSCURE FIGURE/S
about STOPPING
about GOING
about LISTENING
about INVENTING
about DISTORTION OF THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS
about PLAYING WITH ORDINARY THINGS AND SITUATIONS
about TRANCE AND MEDITATION
about REFLECTION
about THE WORKER
about MONOTONY
It is SAD
It is SILLY

Tim Darbyshire hails from Australia. He is educated at Queensland University of Technology and woke up with a Bachelor of Creative Industries (Dance). He has worked in France and Portugal within the collaborative framework of Sweet and Tender Collaborations. Here he has been developing a solo work entitled Buckets and Other He continues to develop as a choreographer and performer – working primarily in Europe and Australia.

The discussion after
Discussion based on the work being presented and the questions they evoke.



Thursday, 16th of April:

Performative lecture: «My Everyday Favourite Lecture», by Mariella Greil (Austria), at 19h:
Duration: full-length: 3x 20 min, Recycling video footage of: Werner Herzog, Valie Export, Bruce Nauman

And is not human life in many parts of the earth governed to this day less by time than by weather, and thus by an unquantifiable dimension which disregards linear regularity, does not progress constantly forward but moves in eddies, is marked by episodes of congestion and irruption, recurs in ever-changing form, and evolves in no one knows what direction?" (W.G. Sebald)

Referring to Henri Lefebvre’ s claim of interconnectivity of theory and practice Mariella Greil will develop a performative lecture" in collaboration with a stage designer at Dance House.
The performative lecture will be built around the repetition of favorite activities. Greil will explore the way in which the perception of repetition is temporary and aim to interweave the practice of bodily discourse with theoretical negotiations.
Some generic questions that relate to the frame of the "living dansens hus" that Mariella Greil wishes to touch up on with this work is:
Why have artists chosen to make the material of their everyday lives their artworks? What are the qualities of the everyday? How is art being refigured here and what is its relation to life?

mariellagreil.net
myspace.com/mariellagreil
mariellagreil.blogspot.com
www.flickr.com/photos/meins/sets/72157601723931669/


The discussion after
Discussion based on the work being presented and the questions they evoke.



Extending Mouvement Resaerch by Thami Hector Manakhela and others

Presentation of the Living House projectblog (http://livinghouseoslo.blogspot.com/) by Koen Vandendriessche and Marianne Baillot. And writing up conclusions about the first days.




Friday, 17th of April:

Solo performance, CARNE, by Micheline Torres (Brazil) at 19 h

CARNE (FLESH), is a performance that is related to the flesh and its manipulation, the sexuality and its manipulation, and about meanings and functions originated by this.

CARNE is the first work of a larger project called My Body is my Politics. The project consists of two pieces: CARNE and I Promise, it’ s political. The first work, CARNE, has been shown several places in Brazil, France and Portugal (in the frame of SKITe/Sweet & tender Collaborations Porto 2008). The second work, I Promise, it’ s Political had a first working period with the dancer Mia Haugland Habib and was presented as a work-in-progress at Fragments d’ Experience (SKITe/Sweet & Tender Collaborations Porto 2008).

Micheline Torres studied Stage arts at Rio University (UNIRIO) and Philosophy at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)
After 12 years dancing in the Lia Rodrigues Dance Company, Micheline Torres started in 2007 a solo career as an independent artist. Her first work: the performance Carne (FLESH).

The discussion after
Followed by a discussion on representation of body in relation to different cultural contexts. How do culture, our everyday life and our surroundings shape how we look at ourselves and the images we relate to?


AFTER THE PERFORMANCE WITH MICHELINE TORRES

AT THE FOYER
”Sensory loop space” by Georg Hobmeier, Annesofie Norn and Susanne Berggren. The audience will be picked up

"Unisone" by Thami Hector Manekehla and group

”Blog booth” by Koen Vandendriessche and group



Saturday, 18th of April

«Saturday actions into da night!»


”Performance dinner” Artists invite the audience
19:00 STUDIO STAGE


Performance lecture / Contemplative performance:
«Meet Me at the Stairs», by Min Kyoung Lee (South-Korea)
21:30 CARPARK BY BELLONA
Duration: 25 min.

"With Meet me at the stairs Min Kyoung Lee confronts her audience with several short «essays» that take form in storytelling, dance and music. Through this diversity she raises the question of what the audience or the performer expects. With «Meet me at the stairs» instead she examines together with the audience the nature of the exchange in theatre." (Antonia Lotz, curator)

Min Kyoung Lee was born and grew up in Seoul, Korea. She studied Philosophy at Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul, before starting her dance training at Unitec Institute of Technology in Auckland, New Zealand. Since graduation in 2003, Min has been working as a performer and dance/performance maker in New Zealand and Europe.


FOYER
”Blog booth” Koen Vandendriessche




Sunday, 19th of April

A discussion on performing arts and context introduced by Montserrat Payró (Mexico) 19 h

Talking about the work on founding, preparing and producing the big cultural event Prisma in Mexico for the summer 2009. (www.prisma-forum.org, www.esideas.com)
Prisma: An international forum where artists, promoters, curators, critics, researchers, scholars and organizations from all over the world will meet to think art from within to re-imagine our world.
Various contexts, different realities, multiple codes, values, methods, and aesthetics. An intercultural effort which implies crossing barriers and escalating limits. A framework that allows for recognizing differences and yet, enables equitable interaction.
The topics that will be addressed at PRISMA include diverse aesthetics and methodologies for the creation of contemporary art; new codes: the artist-spectator relationship; media and technology; migration and transculturalism in the arts; audience development strategies; alternative artistic education and production models; the arts as a social and political tool; best practices and new cultural public policies.
PRISMA is not a Festival. The Forum format implies promoting alternative ways of relationship and self-education using diversity as a catalyst. It is an artist-centered initiative where participants from a wide range of disciplines, trajectories and experience will have the chance to meet and learn from each other.

Montserrat Payró is a Mexican dancer, choreographer with a diverse background and experience in interdisciplinary work. Founder and Director of Dharma, which work has been presented in the principal stages of Mexico as well as in international festival in her country, such as: Festival Danza Extrema, International Encounter of Soloists and Duets.
Creator and Director of PIAA (International Program for Artistic Advancement), which has invited artists such as David Zambrano, Akira Kasai, Andrew Harwood, Johanne Madore, Pierre Przysiesniak to teach in Mexico.



Monday, 20th of April

Opening the house for the public 18 h – 22 h.
Inviting the public to an insight in the work of the residency for these artists.

Discussion on stage arts educations in Norway: (inside the program)
How does educational institutions in Norway prepare their students for the working reality of artists today dealing with: collaboration, crossover collaborations, networking, flexibility, decentralization etc.

Panel:
Camilla Eeg (talking about the structure of the Stage art academy in Fredrikstad.),
Mariella Greil (talking also about Sweet & Tender as an example of an artistic project with networking features),
Representative from LANDING talking about the Norwegian new interesting network called LANDING (www.landing.no),
Representative from Norwegian educational dance institutions.



Tuesday, 21st of April

Opening the house for the public 18 h – 22 h.
Inviting the public to an insight in the work of the residency for these artists.