J’ai pleuré avec les chiens (TIME, CREATION, DESTRUCTION) performed in Bergen during the Oktoberdans festival, is Canadian choreographer Daina Ashbee’s first ensemble dance piece.
Emerging critics
Carol Stampone & Rita Maria Muñoz Farias – Gemini or the dream catcher
Gemini Horoscope for October 21 2022: “Today, your nervous system is being refurbished; it's about time. Expect some sudden fatigue. The best thing, in fact, would be if you could rest, as your body requires a concentration of energy to do the work.”
La Caresse du Coma ft. Yolo – A Performative Search for a Kind of Happiness
In La Caresse du Coma ft. Yolo, artists Anne Lise Le Gac together with musician and performer Loto Retina create a quasi-shamanic experience through fictional and theatrical means.
Ensaio para uma cartografia - Is this Feminism?
The anecdote unfolds something like this: At the premiere of his Bolero, Ravel was surprised and somewhat annoyed by the enthusiastic acclamations his piece had received, crediting its success to the obsessive quality and sexual undertones of the work.
Monument 0.10: The Living Monument – Furiously Slow Journey into the Darkness of Colour
Created for the Norwegian National Company for Contemporary Dance Carte Blanche by choreographer and costume designer Eszter Salamon, Monument 0.10: The Living Monument opened the 14th edition of Oktoberdans International Dance Festival Bergen (Norway).
Dark Dynamite – A landscape of wonder and hidden pain
Rosalind Goldberg’s world premiere Dark Dynamite at the dance festival Oktoberdans in Bergen, Norway explores the body’s health in adult’s lives.
A Room by the Sea - A coffer full of sighs
A Room by the Sea by Yeh Ming-Hwa was presented at Oktoberdans Festival 2022 in Bergen. The choreographer takes momentary dives into the stories of female icons from dance history.
The body confirms: you are here. The mind wants to travel
The body gives simplicity, resistance, or surprise. The mind enables understanding, confusion, or poetry. The emotional responses appear on the way through triggers and memories. Interacting or choreographing evokes all of these parts together.
Going with the flow
A stream of words and thoughts about the KoresponDance festival happening in Žďár nad Sázavou in July 2022.
Heart Connection: a letter to Maria Nurmela
Dear Maria Nurmela, I watched the piece Closer to the Wild Heart, which you choreographed and performed, at this year’s KoresponDance festival in Žďár nad Sázavou. To my surprising delight…
KoresponDance, Where Performing Corresponds with Participating
There are two dance productions that made me realise that the KoresponDance festival is not only about presenting the newest developments in dance and choreography.
Regarding the unforeseen - On the dramaturgy of the unpredictable during KoresponDance
- I don’t know where I am. Can you only use this phrase when heading somewhere?
A soft voice is guiding me. She never panics. She has no physical body but still has been in more places than you can ever imagine.
Spatial geographies in a special festival edition Move Fest 2021
Rarely have I put my head back so often during a festival visit. My eyes tried to follow the movements of the performers as closely as possible, but in the case of this festival, they really took on acrobatic challenges...
Three girls
Three girls sitting on the ground. Three girls exploring their memories. Surrounded by emptiness. Indulging in the impulses of their bodies. Rapid, then fluid.
red against blue and
soft against rough clashing views
of tin and greenery
hideous tubes and sumptuous plants
arranged in a bizarre scenery
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