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As last year, here are the most popular and interesting contemporary dance intensive of 2018. Some of them happening very soon or almost selling out. So, have a read and hurry up before it’s too late.
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For those who are concerned about keeping on training and developing during the summer break, I would suggest joining Kibbutz Summer Intensive. For the others who, like me, aren’t really into summer workshops and would rather go and refresh their minds in a beautiful corner of the world, I would still recommend it. Eclectic and international, Kibbutz Summer Intensive takes place in Kibbutz Ga’aton, Israel. It is a very unique place, full of history, which I think would be worth visiting for every dancer and dance student. More than training, the Kibbutz Summer Intensive offers a special journey about dance.
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At MIP® there is no other motive than to grow. There is no contract, scholarship or award to win at the end of the program. Instead, it’s the experience and what’s learned from that experience that’s earned. Nowadays more programs have emerged attempting to emulate something similar, which proves the program’s originality and innovativeness, but MIP® continues to keep its ear to the ground and listen to needs and changes of our ever-evolving community.
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If we want any sort of live performance art that values the work more than making money, that invites conversation without having to pay for it, there must be another way to allow us artists to live, to make, to collaborate, to attend performances, to fuel conversations, to create change. What we need is time. What we need is sustainability.
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Top Ten Auditions of 2017
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This piece, #whitenoise – A Neologism, is about America’s current political state and our fixation on the news. News stories played from Dalton’s phone. Newscasters speaking of Donald Trump and North Korea played over the speakers. Even people in the crowd were talking about the presidency while Dalton painstakingly readied the stage.
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From the start, it’s clear that Waltz aims to highlight distinctions amongst the all-female ensemble, particularly in their movement qualities. In the many moments of unison ensemble work each dancer submits their own distinctive translation of the choreography; conveying the idea “woman” with her own arms, hands, head, feet, gaze, and so on.
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Dancing Femmes is a series that wishes to explore the views of performing artists that happen to be born in a female body. Dancing Femmes focuses on how being female can affect your career.
Dancing Femmes portrays a spectrum of women´s experiences , from the newest to the veterans. Getting to know their work, their ideas, their aspirations, their struggles, their emotions… as a woman.
May 18th-21st The Sophiensaele in Berlin hosted “The Every Body Festival” focused on dance artists whose work challenges the conventional notion of the dancing body and what it can be. Jen Rosenblit, an American choreographer based in New York and Berlin, was one of the artists invited to present work in the festival.
“What if there is no future, what if we swivel on the same spot, mistaking it for change?”
I was strolling on facebook a couple of weeks ago when I saw Tom’s post promoting the event he was organizing: Ballet United Gala. The poster described it as a «unique evening of ballet performed by young dancers» showcasing pieces from well-known choreographers such as Benjamin Millepied, but also some pas de deux from the classical repertoire. The performance would take place in Cadogan Hall, London, the 19th of July.
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A list of some amazing contemporary dance programs happening this year, some new, some re-occurring and all happening in different parts of the world!
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What happiness is cannot be condensed in one sole answer, mainly because there isn’t a universal way to it but there are infinite. Renowned choreographer Didy Veldman presents ‘The Happiness Project’ as the cover letter to introduce her own new company Umanoove.
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Corrections, as dancers you need to deal a lot with them. Constructive criticism or a straight comment, helpful or confusing you, somehow you need to find your way of incorporating the given correction into your dancing. Understanding how to process the information in the right way may depend on the manner someone corrects you.
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This past March, dance communities from different latitudes came together in humble sorrow when two remarkable dancers passed away. Their death was surprisingly synchronized as if they were choreographed. Trisha Brown, who was born in 1936, died on March 17th in Washington, U.S.A., and Sonia Sanoja, born in 1932, died on March 26th in Caracas, Venezuela.
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As part of “An Artistic Identity Swap” between Les Brigittines and beursschouwburg, Meytal Blanaru performed her deeply researched solo, Aurora, on April 20, 2017, which had originally premiered in 2014.
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German Jauregui Allue is a man who does not know what he would have done with his life if it wasn’t art. He was born in Bilbao, in autumn. In the late nineties he moved to Brussels to start his career as a member of ‘Ultima Vez’,…
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Mockumentary deals with death, love, limbo, sex, and ritual – often calling on the audience to question their own purpose within the work as well as the world. It continually questions the idea of God, taking the viewer on a journey of revelations.
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To give you an idea or our traffic and the auditions that were viewed the most, we have listed the 10 most popular auditions of 2016, from 1st April to 31st December.
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Choreographed by Ryan Heffington, Hostage is a very informative performance that illustrates the science of HIV through dance. The dance
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Sara Mapelli – self identified as a Bee Queen and as a healer, dancer, artist, builder of structures and bee keeper
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