by | 12/04/2011

Whatever Dance Toolbox is now released!

Whatever Dance Toolbox is a set of software tools designed for the analysis and development of dance and movement. Six tools included in the suite can help dancers and choreographers devise, develop and rehearse dance, but can also be used in dance education or by non-dancers to explore movement. The suite is a product of a long-standing collaboration between BADco. and German human-machine interface developer and artist Daniel Turing, and it reflects some of the mutual concerns with the dancer-computer interaction and choreographic thinking.

Free download here!

Detailed introduction and instructions can be found in our Whatever Dance Toolbox – Manual.

For more information and to download the software and the digital copy of the Manual, or to order the print Manual and CD, click here!

BADco. "Whatever Dance Toolbox"

 

Objavljen Whatever Dance Toolbox

Whatever Dance Toolbox je paket šest softverskih alatki za analizu i razvoj pokreta i plesa. On plesačima i koreografima moze poslužiti kao pomagalo u probama i razvoju plesnih materijala, ali može poslužiti i u plesnoj edukaciji i radu s neplesačima. Izdanje je rezultat dugogodišnje suradnje BADco. s njemačkim umjetnikom i dizajnerom sučelja Danielom Turingom.

Besplatan download ovdje!

Whatever Dance Toolbox se može besplatno skinuti sa navedenog linka ili naručiti na CD-u uz tiskani priručnik na engleskom jeziku Whatever Dance Toolbox – Manual koji sadrži sve upute i detaljne informcije o korištenju alatki – više informacija, te download i narudžbe ovdje!

 

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by | 18/03/2011

Algorithmic Reflections of Choreography: From Choreography to Software and Back, 1-4 April 2011, Zagreb

Symposium, Workshops, Installations

1-4 April 2011

POGON Jedinstvo [Trnjanski nasip bb, Zagreb, Croatia]

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BADco. is inviting you to the international four-day event Algorithmic Reflections of Choreography: From Choreography to Software and Back presenting cutting-edge approaches to using software tools in choreographic work. The symposium, workshops and installations will bring together artists, technologists, educators and scholars to present and reflect on how such technological tools can help in developing, documenting, teaching choreography and what are the effects of their use on creative work. The event will include contributions by developers and artists working on tools developed by and for The Forsythe Company, Emio Greco | PC, Deborah Hay Company, BADco., Ventura Dance Company and other international dance companies.

The symposium marks the release of BADco.’s choreographic software suite Whatever Dance Toolbox, created in collaboration with the German developer Daniel Turing. It will be followed by four days of workshops and installations of The Forsythe Company and ACCAD’s Synchronous Objects, facilitated by Norah Zuniga Shaw, and BADco.’s Whatever Dance Toolbox, facilitated by BADco choreographers.

Schedule:

April 1
11:00 – 19:00        Symposium

with participation of: Stamatia Portanova (Birkbeck University), Norah Zuniga-Shaw ([Synchronous Objects], Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design, Ohio State University), Bertha Bermúdez Pascual ([Double Skin/Double Mind & Capturing Intention], ICKamsterdam – Emio Greco | PC), Amin Weber ([Motion Bank], The Forsythe Company), Daniel Turing & Nikolina Pristaš ([Whatever Dance Toolbox], BADco.), Kristin Carlson ([Scuddle], SIAT, Simon Fraser University), Pablo Ventura ([Choreographic Machine], Ventura Dance Company), Marlon Barrios Solano ([dance-tech.net]), Riikka Theresa Innanen

19:00 – 20:00        Public presentation of installations:

Synchronous Objects by William Forsythe, Norah Zuniga Shaw, and Maria Palazzi

Whatever Dance Toolbox by BADco.

20:00            Performance:

BADco.: Semi-Interpretations – Or How To Explain Contemporary Dance to an Undead Hare

April 2
11:00 – 17:00        Workshop I:

Synchronous Objects, facilitated by Norah Zuniga Shaw

17:00 – 19:00        Installations:

Synchronous Objects & Whatever Dance Toolbox

April 3
11:00 – 17:00        Workshop II:

Whatever Dance Toolbox, facilitated by choreographers of BADco.

17:00 – 19:00        Installations:

Synchronous Objects & Whatever Dance Toolbox

April 4
11:00 – 17:00        Workshop II:

Whatever Dance Toolbox, facilitated by choreographers of BADco.

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Algorithmic Reflections of Choreography: From Choreography to Software and Back is part of LABO21 – European Platform for Interdisciplinary Research on Artistic Methodologies, a partner project of BADco. (Zagreb), BUDA Arts Center (Kortrijk), Laboratorium (Antwerp) and University of Circus and Dance (Stockholm). With the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union.

The symposium, workshops and installations are supported by Goethe Institut, Ministry of Culture of Republic of Croatia, Office for Education, Culture and Sport of the City of Zagreb, Croatian Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Realized in partnership with POGON – Zagreb Center for Independent Culture and Youth.

Media partner: dance-tech.net

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Symposium, April 1, 2011

11:00 – 12:45

  • Stamatia Portanova, Birkbeck University,
  • Norah Zuniga Shaw [Synchronous Objects], Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design, Ohio State University,
  • Bertha Bermúdez Pascual [Double Skin/Double Mind & Capturing Intention], ICKamsterdam – Emio Greco | PC,

13:00 – 15:00

  • Amin Weber [Motion Bank], The Forsythe Company,
  • Daniel Turing & Nikolina Pristaš [Whatever Dance Toolbox], BADco.,
  • Kristin Carlson [Scuddle], SIAT, Simon Fraser University,
  • Marlon Barrios Solano [dance-tech.net],

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lunch break
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16:30 – 17:30

  • Pablo Ventura [Choreographic Machine], Ventura Dance Company,
  • Riikka Theresa Innanen.

17:30 – 18:30
general discussion

18:30 – 20:00
presentation of installations Synchronous Objects and Whatever Dance Toolbox

20:00
performance by BADco.: Semi-Interpretations – Or How to Explain Contemporary Dance to an Undead Hare

See biographies and abstracts of symposium participants here!

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by | 15/02/2011

BADco. Semi-interpretations… @ La MaMa, New York, 12.03.2011

La MaMa presents Perforations Festival New York, a live arts festival featuring some of the leading contemporary performing artists from the Balkan region, including BADco.’s

 

SEMI-INTERPRETATIONS or how to explain contemporary dance to an undead hare

12.03.2011 22:00 @ Club La MaMa, 74A East 4th Street, New York City

 

Composition and modulation: Nikolina Pristaš
Notes and blackboxing: Goran Sergej Pristaš

Semi-inspired by the work of: Joseph Beuys, Francois Delsarte, Franz Kafka, Steven Shaviro, Bruno Latour and Graham Harman

More information about the production: http://badco.hr/works/semiinterpretations/

Tickets are $15 for general admission/$10 for students and seniors.
Tickets can be purchased through La MaMa’s box office at 212-475-7710, and online at www.lamama.org

BADco. "SEMI-INTERPRETATIONS or how to explain contemporary dance to an undead hare", 2010

La MaMa predstavlja Perforacije New York, festival izvedbenih umjetnosti koji predstavlja vodeće umjetnike Balkana, uključujući predstavu BADco.

 

POLUINTERPRETACIJE ili kako objasniti suvremeni ples nemrtvom zecu

12.03.2011. 22:00 @ Club La MaMa, 74A East 4th Street, New York City

 

Kompozicija i modulacije: Nikolina Pristaš
Biljeske i blackboxing: Goran Sergej Pristač

Poluinspirirano radovima: Josepha Beuysa, Francoisa Delsartea, Franza Kafke, Stevena Shavira, Brune Latoura i Grahama Harmana

Vise o predstavi: http://badco.hr/works/semiinterpretations/

Karte po cijeni $15 ($10 za studente i umirovljenike) na blagajni kluba La MaMa, ili na telefon 212-475-7710, te online: www.lamama.org

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by | 15/02/2011

BADco. @ 54. La Biennale di Venezia, 04.06. – 27.11. 2011

By invitation of the curators’ collective What, How & for Whom/WHW the Croatian exhibition at the 54th Venice Biennale taking place 4th June to 27th November 2011 will present the work of conceptual artist Antonio G. Lauer (a.k.a. Tom Gotovac) and performing arts collective BADco.

BADco. at the 54th Venice Biennale

4th June > 27th November 2011

As part of the Croatian exhibition at the 54th Venice Biennale BADco. will present a site-specific installation and intervention under the working title Responsibility for Things Seen, the first phase of a multi-segment project we will conclude with a premiere at the Zagreb Youth Theater in early 2012. The central concern of the project is the issue of mediated responsibility, relating to events we witness in images and different modes of spectating. The Venice installation, conceived as theater by other means, will construct the field of friction between the power of images to engage our collective imagination, to open or shut the horizon of the future, and different modes of spectating – opening a potential space of critical and transformative work of spectating.

We are inspired by the fact that our work will be presented alongside the work of Tomislav Gotovac, an artist with whom we share an intuition that there is a continuity between seeing and creating, and an interest for the internal material organization of the artistic reality – what the artist had called “the steel mash”.

The exhibition organized by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia will be realized in collaboration with Croatian film clubs’ association and Zagreb Youth Theater, exhibition design will be lead by architect Ana Martina Bakić, while visual materials will be designed by member of WHW collective Dejan Kršić.

BADco.

 

Na poziv kustoskog kolektiva Što, kako i za koga/WHW hrvatsku će na 54. venecijanskom bijenalu, što će se održati od 4. lipnja do 27. studenoga 2011., predstaviti rad konceptualnog umjetnika Antonia G. Lauera (a.k.a. Toma Gotovca) i izvedbene skupine BADco.

BADco. na 54. venecijanskom bijenalu

4. lipnja do 27. studenoga 2011.

U sklopu hrvatskog sudjelovanja na Venecijanskom bijenalu BADco. će postaviti site-specific instalaciju i intervenciju radnog naslova Odgovornost za sliku. Riječ je o prvom segmentu višedjelnog umjetničkog i istraživačkog rada koji planiramo zaključiti premijerom predstave u Zagrebakom kazalištu mladih početkom 2012. godine. Središnja preokupacija rada je pitanje posredovane odgovornosti, odnosa prema događajima kojima svjedočimo u slikama i različitim načinima gledanja. Venecijanski će postav, kao svojevrstan teatar drugim sredstvima, graditi polje tenzije, sraza izmedju moći slika da vežu nasu kolektivnu imaginaciju, da otvaraju i zatvaraju horizont budućnosti, i različitih dispozicija gledanja otvarajući jedan mogući prostor za kritički i transformativni rad gledanja.

Nalazimo veliki poticaj u činjenici da će naš rad biti predstavljen uz rad Tomislava Gotovca, umjetnika s kojim djelimo intuiciju da postoji kontiunitet između čina gledanja i čina stvaranja i interes za unutarnju, materijalnu organizaciju umjetničke zbilje – onoga što je umjetnik nazivao “čeličnom mrežom”.

Izložba na poziv Ministarstva kulture Republike Hrvatske će biti realizirana u suradnji s Hrvatskim filmskim savezom i Zagrebaškim kazalištem mladih, na postavu će surađivati arhitektica Ana Martina Bakić, a oblikovanje vizualnih materijala radit će član kolektiva WHW Dejan Kršić.

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by | 07/02/2011

DANCE WORKSHOPS: Algorithmic Reflections of Choreography: From Choreography to Software and Back (2-5 April 2011, Zagreb)

Open Call for Dance Workshops

Workshop I: Synchronous Objects (teacher: Norah Zuniga Shaw, 2-3 April 2011)

Workshop II: Whatever Dance Toolbox (teachers: choreographers and dramaturges of BADco., 4-5 April 2011)

Who can apply: If you are a dancer, choreographer or technology developer looking to acquire practical experience of working with software tools in creating movement and choreography, you can apply to participate in either one or both of the workshops within the “Algorithmic Reflections of Choreography: From Choreography to Software and Back” event.

What is the context: Preceding the workshops on 1 April there will be a one-day symposium bringing together international artists, technologists, methodologists and educators who have been working on developing software tools in the context of choreographic work of The Forsythe Company, Emio Greco | PC, Deborah Hay Company and BADco. The symposium and workshop mark the release of BADco.’s choreographic software suite Whatever Dance Toolbox, created in collaboration with the German developer Daniel Turing.

More on individual workshops and teachers you can find below.

How to apply and when is the deadline: The deadline for applying is 1 March 2011. The number of participants is limited to 15 for each workshop.

You can apply by sending an e-mail to: lovro [at ]badco [dot] hr, stating your interests and including a short bio describing your background.

Both workshops are free of charge. Please note that we cannot cover your expenses, but we are happy to help you find convenient travel arrangement and affordable accommodation.

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More on the workshops:

Workshop I: Synchronous Objects (teacher: Norah Zuniga Shaw, 2-3 April 2011)

Co-creative director with William Forsythe for Synchronous Objects, Norah Zuniga Shaw leads workshops for dancers and interdisciplinary groups focusing on the choreographic visualizations as catalysts for new creativity and collaboration. Participants experience the deep structures and creative scoring ideas contained within William Forsythe’s masterwork A One Flat Thing, reproduced through movement and drawing exercises. Themes that are addressed include rule-based art making practices, integration of analytical and creative practices, and connections between computing ideas and dancing ideas. In addition to generating moving ideas, participants are given tools for analyzing performance throughout the workshop, and using these observations and documents as jumping off points for new creation.

Norah Zuniga Shaw is an artist and researcher whose work centers on choreographic knowledge as a locus for interdisciplinary and intercultural creativity. She is director for dance & technology at the Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design (ACCAD). Shaw’s most recent project with William Forsythe and Maria Palazzi, Synchronous Objects, has received numerous honors including features in the New York Times and Communication Arts.

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Workshop II: Whatever Dance Toolbox (teachers: choreographers and dramaturges of BADco., 4-5 April 2011)

Choreographers and dramaturges of BADco. will guide you through a practical, problem-driven process through their accumulated experience in developing and working with Whatever Dance Toolbox. The workshop will focus in particular on three aspects of its application in dance and choreography: generating and analyzing individual dance material, generating and analyzing the choreography that transpires between the dancers’ bodies, and analyzing the split attention produced by the Toolbox. All workshop participants will receive a free copy of WDT to continue working with the tools.

BADco. is a performance collective based in Zagreb, Croatia. The artistic core of the group is: Pravdan Devlahović, Ivana Ivković, Ana Kreitmeyer, Tomislav Medak, Goran Sergej Pristaš, Nikolina Pristaš and Zrinka Užbinec. A combination of four choreographers / dancers, two dramaturgs and a philosopher, BADco. has been systematically focusing on the research of protocols of performing, presenting and spectating. Over the last decade it has created over 15 performances that have been featured all across Europe and beyond.
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Algorithmic Reflections of Choreography: From Choreography to Software and Back is part of LABO21 – European Platform for Interdisciplinary Research on Artistic Methodologies, a partner project of BADco. (Zagreb), BUDA Arts Center (Kortrijk), Laboratorium (Antwerp) and University of Circus and Dance (Stockholm). With the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union.

The symposium, workshops and installations are supported by Goethe Institut, Ministry of Culture of Republic of Croatia, Office for Education, Culture and Sport of the City of Zagreb, Croatian Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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by | 07/02/2011

SYMPOSIUM, Workshops, Exhibition 01.-05. April 2011 – Algorithmic Reflections of Choreography: From Choreography to Software and Back

SYMPOSIUM: Algorithmic Reflections of Choreography: From Choreography to Software and Back (1 April 2011, Zagreb)

– followed by four days of workshops and installations of The Forsythe Company’s Synchronous Objects and BADco.’s Whatever Dance Toolbox - click here for more info on the workshops!

Open Call for Presentations

Who can apply: If you are a dancer, choreographer or an expert working with choreography interested in developing or reflecting on the application of software tools in choreographic work and teaching, we are inviting you to present your insights and research interests, and participate in the debates, at our symposium “Algorithmic Reflections of Choreography: From Choreography to Software and Back”.

When and where: The symposium will take place on 1 April 2011 in Zagreb, Croatia.

What are the topics: The purpose of the symposium is to bring together in a not-too-formal setting international artists, technologists, methodologists and educators who have been working on developing software tools in the context of choreographic work in order to discuss following issues:

  • how can such technological tools support the creation process;
  • what effects can they have on dance performances;
  • what knowledge can they produce and transfer;
  • how can they be used in documenting/archiving/preserving dance works;
  • can we detect traces of digital environments in choreographies that were not made with technological tools.

The symposium will include contributions by developers and practitioners working on tools developed for The Forsythe Company, Emio Greco | PC, Deborah Hay Company and BADco.

The symposium marks the release of BADco.’s choreographic software suite Whatever Dance Toolbox, created in collaboration with the German developer Daniel Turing. It will be followed by four days of workshops and installations of The Forsythe Company’s Synchronous Objects, facilitated by Norah Zuniga Shaw, and BADco.’s Whatever Dance Toolbox, facilitated by choreographers and dramaturges of BADco.

How to apply and when is the deadline: We are looking for contributions of various formats, including but not limited to short presentations, demonstrations and participation in the debate. If you want to participate in the symposium, please send us a short note stating your topical interests, discussion points, format, etc. and a short description of your background. While we cannot cover your expenses, we can help you find convenient travel arrangement and affordable accommodation, and we will do our best to address your interests and provide an insightful debate.

All proposals should be sent in by February 20th to:

tom [at] badco [dot] hr

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Algorithmic Reflections of Choreography: From Choreography to Software and Back is organized by BADco. BADco. is a performance collective based in Zagreb, Croatia. The artistic core of the group is: Pravdan Devlahović, Ivana Ivković, Ana Kreitmeyer, Tomislav Medak, Goran Sergej Pristaš, Nikolina Pristaš and Zrinka Užbinec. A combination of four choreographers / dancers, two dramaturgs and a philosopher, BADco. has been systematically focusing on the research of protocols of performing, presenting and spectating. Over the last decade it has created over 15 performances that have been featured all across Europe and beyond.

Algorithmic Reflections of Choreography: From Choreography to Software and Back is part of LABO21 – European Platform for Interdisciplinary Research on Artistic Methodologies, a partner project of BADco. (Zagreb), BUDA Arts Center (Kortrijk), Laboratorium (Antwerp) and University of Circus and Dance (Stockholm). With the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union.

The symposium, workshops and installations are supported by Goethe Institut, Ministry of Culture of Republic of Croatia, Office for Education, Culture and Sport of the City of Zagreb, Croatian Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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by | 10/01/2011

WORKSHOP Recapitulations 24.-28.01.2011 @ POU Zagreb

BADco. invites you to take part in our choreographic workshop!

Recapitulations

24.-28.01.2011 10:00-14:30 @ POU Zagreb, Ulica Grada Vukovara 68, Zagreb

Leading the workshop: Ana Kreitmeyer, Nikolina Pristaš, Goran Sergej Pristaš and Zrinka Užbinec

In our ten years of work, throughout a series of theater productions, BADco. has alternated thematic scopes, dramaturgical approaches, dance procedures and technological processes. And yet, in this continuous production of the divergent, some strategies in the making of our productions and some operations in their performance have stayed constant and have gradually sedimented into knowledge BADco. conveys through workshops. The workshop Recapitulations will focus on the choreographic procedures, production of dance and analysis. We will spend a week investigating: different ways the body and the (virtual) objects relate, the possibilities of choreographic exhausting of that relationship, the settling in of dance into a world of objects and the analysis of the whole process. Extension of objects in the body, introduction of objects’ qualities into the body, traces, configuration of attention, inertia, parallel logics in the body – are only some of the ideas we will cover in the workshop.

Recapitulations workshop is for dance professionals and those who wish to experience and reflect on the process of creating a choreography.

Participation is free of charge. Apply by 21.01.2011 to:
nikolina@badco.hr

In collaboration with ekscena.

BADco.

BADco. vas poziva da se prijavite na koreografsku radionicu!

Rekapitulacije

24.-28.01.2011. 10:00-14:30 @ Centar za kulturu POU Zagreb, Ulica Grada Vukovara 68, Zagreb

Voditelji radionice: Ana Kreitmeyer, Nikolina Pristaš, Goran Sergej Pristaš i Zrinka Užbinec

Tijekom deset godina djelovanja BADco. je iz predstave u predstavu mijenjao tematske okvire, dramaturške pristupe, plesne procedure, tehnološke procese. Međutim, u toj stalnoj proizvodnji drugačijega neke strategije u stvaranju predstava i operacije u izvedbi predstava pokazale su se konstantnima i postupno su sedimentirale u znanja, koja BADco. posreduje u svojim radionicama. Radinica Rekapitulacije fokusirat će se na koreografske procedure, proizvodnju plesa i analizu. Tjedan dana bavit ćemo se različitim vidovima odnosa tijela i (virtualnih) objekata, mogućnostima koreografskog iscrpljivanja tog odnosa odnosno udomaćivanjem plesa u svijet objekata te analizom cjelokupnog procesa. Ekstenzija objekta u tijelu, izdvajanje objektnih kvaliteta u tijelo, obilježavanje objekta, translacija i transpozicija njegovih točaka u prostoru, tragovi, konfiguracija pažnje, inercija, paralelne logike u tijelu – samo su neke od ideja koje bismo voljeli obraditi ovom radionicom.

Rekapitulacije su namijenjene plesnim profesionalcima i onima koji žele iskusiti i reflektirati proces nastajanja koreografije.

Sudjelovanje na radionici je besplatno. Prijavite se do 21.01.2011. na e-mail:
nikolina@badco.hr

Ostvareno u suradnji s ekscenom.

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by | 08/12/2010

Deleted Messages 09.12.2010. @ POGON Jedinstvo, Zagreb

Podsjećamo da u ovom tjednu možete pogledati tri predstave u sklopu naše retrospektive!

Predstava Deleted Messages nije igrala u Zagrebu od 2005., a putovala je Litvom, Letonijom, Poljskom, Slovenijom, Švedskom, Crnom Gorom, Italijom, Rumunjskom, Ukrajinom, Srbijom, Turskom, Velikom Britanijom i Danskom!

Nije li vrijeme da i vi zakoračite u brisane poruke s nama?

06 Deleted Messages 09.12. POGON Jedinstvo 20:00

07 Liga vremena 10.12. POGON Jedinstvo 20:00

08 Solo Me 11.12. POGON Jedinstvo 20:00

BADco. "Deleted Messages", photo: Tomislav Medak

Niste još bili u dvorani POGON Jedinstvo? Klikni za kartu!

Cijena pojedinačne ulaznice 40 KN (za pet predstava retrospektive 150 KN).

Ulaznice možete kupiti u knjižari Vuković & Runjić u Teslinoj 16 i na blagajni prije predstava.

Rezervacije i ostale informacije:
Lovro Rumiha, lovro@badco.hr, 098494059

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by | 25/11/2010

Poluinterpretacije… & Točka sabiranja 27.-28.10.2010. @ MSU, Zagreb

Povodom 10 godina BADco., samo u subotu i nedjelju 27.-28.10.2010, dvije predstave za jednu ulaznicu u Muzeju suvremene umjetnosti!

POLUINTERPRETACIJE ili kako objasniti suvremeni ples nemrtvom zecu u 20.00

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Točka sabiranja u 22.00

Cijena ulaznice 40 KN za obje predstave.

Ulaznice mozete kupiti u knjižari Vuković & Runjić u Teslinoj 16 i na blagajni prije predstava.

Rezervacije i ostale informacije:
Lovro Rumiha, lovro@badco.hr, 098494059

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by | 22/11/2010

BADco. Point of Convergence 26.-28.11.2010 @ MSU, Zagreb

BADco. continues the celebration of our 10 years together with the premiere of a new choreography by Ana Kreitmeyer and Zrinka Uzbinec!

Point of Convergence

world premiere:
26.11.2010 20:00 @ Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb

additional performances:
27.-28.11.2010 22:00 @ Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb
(note different time!)

Point of Convergence is a choreographic experiment persisting in the excess where communication in dance and about dance oscillates between what can and what cannot be stated: insisting on choreographic means – structuring the intensity of communication’s noise – producing the specific conditions of dialogue in dance and dialogue on dance. To understand one another, it is necessary to negotiate the terms of understanding.

The authors Zrinka Užbinec and Ana Kreitmeyer implement this negotiation of the terms of understanding, an understanding that is yet to come to understanding, through a series of mutations of dance expressions. A simple initial choreography is communicated to each other through a series of dance negotiations, understandings and misunderstandings through which newly established gestures lose their meaning, and casual glances and signs of a hand become intensities that are changing the context, transforming meanings into an excess.

During this process of “rough” translation the dance expression of one is exposed to a constant and continuous dance interpretation of the other, creating a choreographic situation that is no longer located on the bodies, but between the two bodies. Attempts at negotiation, at translation, misconstructions, explanations one did not request, disagreements, an attempt at coexisting. The point of convergence is left to the spectators’ gaze where, in the illusory distance, two parallel lines intersect at infinity.

Team of Negotiators: Ivana Ivković, Ana Kreitmeyer, Tomislav Medak, Nikolina Pristaš, Goran Sergej Pristaš, Zrinka Užbinec

Choreography and performance: Ana Kreitmeyer and Zrinka Užbinec

Light design: Alan Vukelić
Costume design: Silvio Vujičić
Sound design: Jasmin Dasović
Producer: Lovro Rumiha
Support: Pravdan Devlahović

We thank the participants of the lab 10 days 1 unity.

Project was made in: Culture Centre Novi Zagreb and Zagreb Centre for Independent Culture and Youth – POGON.

Project is supported by: Zagreb City Office for Education, Culture and Sport, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia
Tickets per performance 40 KN, for five BADco. performances 150 KN.

Tickets available at the Vukovic & Runjic bookshop, Teslina 16, Zagreb.

Reservations and other information:
Lovro Rumiha, lovro@badco.hr, +385-(0)98494059

BADco. "Point of Convergence", 2010

 

 

BADco. nastavlja veliku proslavu 10 godina rada jos jednom premijerom! Nova koreografija Ane Kreitmeyer i Zrinke Užbinec!

Točka sabiranja

praizvedba:
26.11.2010. 20:00 @ Muzej suvremene umjetnosti, Zagreb

reprizne izvedbe:
27.-28.11.2010. 22:00 @ Muzej suvremene umjetnosti, Zagreb
(različito vrijeme!)

Točka sabiranja koreografski je eksperiment zadržavanja u suvišku gdje komunikacija u plesu i o plesu oscilira između iskazivog i neiskazivog: inzistirajući na plesnim sredstvima – strukturirajući intenzitet komunikacijskog šuma – proizvoditi specifične uvjete sporazumijevanja u plesu i sporazumijevanja o plesu. Da bi se sporazumjelo bit će potrebno pregovarati o uvjetima razumijevanja.

Autorice Zrinka Užbinec i Ana Kreitmeyer to pregovaranje o uvjetima razumijevanja, razumijevanja koje tek treba doći do sporazumijevanja, provode kroz seriju mutacija plesnog izraza. Jednostavnu početnu koreografiju komuniciraju jedna drugoj kroz plesne pregovore, sporazumijevanja i nesporazume tijekom kojih tek uspostavljene geste gube značenja, a povremeni pogledi i znakovi dlana postaju intenziteti koji mijenjaju kontekst, pretvaraju značenja u suvišak.

U procesu “hrapavog” prevođenja plesni izraz jedne tako ostaje izložen stalnoj i neprekinutoj plesnoj interpretaciji druge stvarajući koreografsku situaciju koja više nije locirana na tijelima, već između dvaju tijela. Pokušaj pregovaranja, prevođenja, promašaj, objašnjenje koje nismo tražili, nesporazum, pokušaj subivanja. Točka sabiranja je u oku gledatelja, u iluzornoj daljini gdje se dvije paralelne linije sijeku u beskonaćnosti.
Pregovarački tim: Ivana Ivković, Ana Kreitmeyer, Tomislav Medak, Nikolina Pristaš, Goran Sergej Pristaš, Zrinka Užbinec

Koreografija i izvedba: Ana Kreitmeyer i Zrinka Užbinec

Svjetlo: Alan Vukelić
Kostimi: Silvio Vujičić
Zvuk: Jasmin Dasović
Producent: Lovro Rumiha
Podrška: Pravdan Devlahović

Zahvaljujemo: sudionicima laboratorija 10 dana 1 jedinstvo

Projekt pripreman u Centru za kulturu Novi Zagreb i Zagrebačkom centru za kulturu i mlade POGON.

Projekt podržan od Gradskog ureda za obrazovanje, kulturu i sport i Ministarstva kulture RH

Cijena pojedinacne ulaznice 40 KN (za pet predstava BADco. retrospektive 150 KN).

Ulaznice mozete kupiti u knjižari Vukovic & Runjić u Teslinoj 16 i na blagajni prije predstava.

Rezervacije i ostale informacije:
Lovro Rumiha, lovro@badco.hr, 098494059

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