Wandering about dance

experiments in dance

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 12:25:51 +0100

French biologist-turned-choreographer Xavier Le Roy, […] talks about his leap from science to dance. He revisits his performances, such as Le Sacre du Printemps (2007), and explores the difference between collaborative and solo work [guardian.co.uk]

a video interview at the guardian, looking at the notion of performance as an experiment with the audience.

Yet another exercise

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:26:00 +0100

This exercise is by my friend, called Xen.

It is in fact the begining of this solo male sarabande replanted onto Folies d’Espagne music. In this exercise is easy to see clever way they choreographed their dances in 18. century.

Thanks Lada for her comments which clarified this exercise for me.

BaroqueDance.info "Matt's Baroque Dance Pages"

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:53:31 +0100

BaroqueDance.info "Matt's Baroque Dance Pages":

Of course you know this pages, don’t ya?

Her Morning Elegance / Oren Lavie Reposted from facebook.

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:25:36 +0100

Her Morning Elegance / Oren Lavie

Reposted from facebook.

Tango and CI workshop in Prague

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:21:03 +0100

Javier Cura was in Prague and I visited his workshop about tango and CI.

Not so much tango in fact - it was in fact mainly about CI and physical theatre. How to put expressivity into such intimate dance like CI so it can speak to audience more easily. We just took CI as empty vessel and tried to put something into. That was interesting. On the other hand there was too much just playing and little less focused work that I would like. And CI part was bit rushed and did not really brought anything new.

Summed up - nice people, interesting theme, few bugs. Next time I am coming again.

Colloquium of the institue of dance science of HAMU

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:12:00 +0100

Every once a while HAMU will organize one or two day meeting of students and dance scientist to present their ongoing research and to meet and talk.

I was not able to contribute this time, but I was there. Here are some highlights:

Petra Dotlačilová spoke about polemics between Angiolini and Noverre. It was interesting to hear about other point of view (other than Noverre’s which is well known). If you never read Noverre’s Letters sur la Dance then do so.

Kateřina Černíčková had sobering remarks about dance culture in rural areas. It looks like original village folk dance is finally dead in Czech Republic.

Libuše Hronková had perhaps strangest talk making connection between dance improvisation and cognitive linguistic. I say wicked. it was genuinely interesting but as a theme for diploma thesis very dangerous. It is very easy to make mistakes in metodology and very, very carefull presentation is required.

Another video. This is interesting performance by two of Czech...

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:16:19 +0100

Another video. This is interesting performance by two of Czech best baroque dancers.

PhD

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:59:37 +0100

Hello!

After too long time I am finally defended my thesis so I am PhD now!

Yay!

Que Ma Joie Demeure

Sun, 18 Jan 2009 23:29:34 +0100

Hey, I just found short excerpt from my beloved performance Que Ma Joie Demeure by Béatrice Massin!

Que ma joie demeure
by maneb40

Photo

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:32:35 +0100

Baletománie

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 20:59:24 +0100

So for the second time I visited dancing collage from national theatre called Baletománie.

I must admit that I am not brave enough to unleash full power of my critisism and I do not want to do it because dancing was basically good. It was “Shut up and dance!” feeling. As long as there was dancing it was great, good or OK. But when they start to speak It was just pure embarrasment. This performance was better than the first because (1) baroque dancing was better (it was good first time as well, though) and (2) there was little less speaking.

Enough about this. There is plenty of good critique on the web, for example here.

This is music for the exercise below. Try it. :o))

Sun, 11 Jan 2009 14:07:52 +0100

This is music for the exercise below. Try it. :o))

New exercise - Sarabande

Sun, 11 Jan 2009 14:01:00 +0100

So I wrote down another exercise, this time it is slow one danced to sarabande music. Should any of you try it please remember the sarabande suspension. It is only from the right leg and it should be repeated from the other leg. And yes it is without port de bras… for now. As always if you see any error in the notation - let me know!

Update: There was a mistake in the notation, now it should be OK. Thanks Lada!

I am dancing with Mareike now for more than a year. Photo by...

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 23:37:00 +0100

I am dancing with Mareike now for more than a year.
Photo by Hana Sládková

Keep dancing!

Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:52:11 +0100

Keep dancing!

Delay

Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:52:00 +0100

Hello,

I am consumed by my new work, by my study and by dancing. Hopefully more free time is ahead for me to sum up everything new.

danciti: Claudia Rogge - Fubiz™

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:31:50 +0100

danciti:

Claudia Rogge - Fubiz™

Folk dance class at HAMU

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 09:27:38 +0100

Folk dance class at HAMU

CI jam again…

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 21:52:06 +0100

CI jam again…

CI jam, Prague

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 15:52:36 +0100

CI jam, Prague