Curso de verano en la Cantera – Mexico City, Mexico

Análisis Cinético de Movimiento
Duración: 2 Hrs. / 10 dias (total 20 hrs)

Horario: 18:30 a 20:30 horas

Fecha: del 12 al 23 de julio
Costo: $1,500
Con Eun Jung Choi

Más informatión: http://www.lacanteraestudiodedanza.blogspot.com/

Eun Jung Choi bailarina de origen coreano que junto con Guillermo Ortega fundó Da Da Dance Project en Nueva York, una compañía de repertorio de duetos inspirada en el movimiento Dada, y ahora brinda el taller Análisis cinético en movimiento del 12 al 16 de julio de 18:30 a 20:30 horas. Costo $1,500.00

Review by Hector Garay (in Spanish)

http://hectorgaray.wordpress.com/2010/05/18/da-da-dance-project/

Otro de los grupos internacionales que se presentó en el Festival Avant Garde en Mérida fue el grupo originario de los Estados Unidos: Da·Da·Dance Project. Un punto a destacar es la calidad de los dos intérpretes que conforman el grupo y que uno de ellos es un bailarín mexicano: Guillermo Ortega Tanus, el otro integrante es la bailarina Eun Jung Choi. Su participación en el festival me provocó reflexiones sobre la interpretación en dueto. Conocemos más o menos las implicaciones que tienen los dúos en el ballet y su posibilidad de mostrar el virtusosismo de los bailarines. Sabemos que las intenciones del contemporáneo van por otro sendero, pero si pueden establecer fieles lazos de comunicación en bailarines que trabajan en pareja.

El trabajo en pareja en el escenario es el más comprometedor de todos y casi siempre se apela a él para mostrar lo esencial de temáticas y formas. En el teatro grandes luchas se dan en parejas que muestran su intimidad. y son eñ otur de force de las obras.  La comunicación entre los intérpretes es fundamental para transmitir al público la intención de la obra. La comunicación se basa en la relación que establece la pareja,  esta puede ser armónica, pero por lo general suele se antagónica. La tensión dramática es la más evidente para percibir estados de ánimo e historias.

Guillermo y Eun Jung establecen un juego complejo y cautivador en Getting UP, coreografía de Luke Gutgsell. A la vez es confrontación y a la vez es seducción de un par de seres. Mitad rivales mitad cómplices. Y así en juego de mitades, la primera mitad de la coreografía es sin música o la música es el silencio, y la segunda parte está dada por la atmósfera provocada por una canción que nos recuerda un aire romántico.

Pero en donde muestran la sabiduría que han adquirido como artistas de la escena estos integrantes de Da Da Dance Project es en los movimientos corporales. Deciden por la compenetración de los cuerpos que se tocan constantemente a ras de piso. Así se trasladan através del escenario, así se comunican ente sí. Y así van transmitiéndonos una serie de matices que nos conmueven. ¿Se trata de amantes? Probablemente, pero de esos que tienen que ver con el desencanto de un sociedad que alrededor nuestro pinta las paredes de gris. Como si tuvieran la necesidad de respirarse uno a uno se tocan y hablan, lo logran a travñes de una original forma de moverse. En la intimidad, los personajes se atreven a la cercanía elocuente, al toque sensual de frentes y no de sexos. En este movimiento se va dando un tono general de la obra, un tono contenido, el volcán a punto de ebullición.

La presencia de Da·Da·Dance Project en Mérida en el Festival Avant Garde fue un encuentro muy grato. Ojalá la relación con nuestro país se pueda dar con más frecuencia. Además de sus presentaciones impartieron un curso y montar obra nueva a un grupo local de Mérida. Ojalá los veamos pronto.

Chew the Fat! @ the StudioSeries

ARTIST BIO:

Ali Fischer, a native Kentuckian, has been dancing for the last 16 years. In 1995, after receiving a B.A. in fine arts from the University of South Florida, Ali’s dance career began in Salt Lake City, UT where she worked with Repertory Dance Theater. Since then, she has worked for numerous choreographers across the country such as Nancy McCaleb, Allyson Green, John Malashock, Stephen Brown, The Lower Left Collective, Lynne Wimmer, Lindsey and Jason Dietz Marchant, Elsa Valbuena, Eun Jung Choi, and Jamie Jewett. Ali currently resides in Queens, New York where along with making dance, she also is a professional of the healing arts using massage therapy, craniosacral therapy, and yoga to complete her movement practice.

Curt Haworth is an expatriate Californian who lived in New York City for twenty years before moving to Philadelphia in 2009. He holds a BA in Creative Writing from UC Santa Cruz and a MFA in Dance from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.  He has an eclectic movement background ranging from athletics to modern dance and release techniques, to yoga, contact improvisation and ballet.  His work has been shown in Philadelphia at: the Annenberg Center, The Painted Bride. The CEC, and various Fringe venues; and in NYC at: The Danspace Project, LA MAMA, DNA, Symphony Space, Movement Research at the Judson Church, IFNY, Dixon Place, PS122, Metamorphosis, DanceNow, New Dance Alliance; as well as at: Rockland Community College, Bennington College July Program, and Tanecne Divadlo in Bratislava, Slovakia. He was a Movement Research Artist in Residence in 2001-2002.  Curt performed with Lisa Race’s Race Dance from 1993-2000, and toured internationally with David Dorfman Dance from 1990 to 2002, while creating over 15 original roles.  He has taught regularly at Movement Research and DNA (formerly Dance Space Center) in NYC. He has taught and set work as a guest artist throughout the United States and Europe and is currently an Associate Professor at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.

In highschool, Gregory Holt learned how to build human towers and has been experimenting in movement ever since. With a strong interest in research and shared authorship, he has collaborated with many provisional, virtual, and conceptual groups. He does on-going work with Green Chair Dance Group, in residence at Mascher Space Co-op.

Bronwen MacArthur danced as a freelance artist with New York and Copenhagen (Denmark) based companies including those of Bill Young, Donna Uchizono and Tim Feldmann, among others. Bronwen formed MacArthur Dance Project in 2007 and her choreography has been performed in NY, New England, Russia and France.  MDP is featured in a documentary titled “Coming to Grips” produced and directed by Emmy-nominated filmmaker Lori Petchers which was recently presented at the Hartford International Film Festival and Dance New Amsterdam in NY.  MDP and its collaborative work have been supported by the LEF Foundation, NEFA’s Regional Dance Development Initiative, the New Haven Mayor’s Community Arts Grant, Vermont Performance Lab and the Summer Stages Dance/Baryshnikov Arts Center Artist Project.  Bronwen has served as guest instructor at Connecticut College and co-taught, with Emily Coates and Joseph Roach, in the Theater Studies department at Yale University.  Bronwen moved to Philadelphia last summer.

J. Makary’s first dance film debuted at the American Dance Festival in 2006. Since then, she has developed projects influenced in equal measure by video art, classic and experimental cinema, and contemporary dance. Her work has been exhibited at NEXUS/foundation for today’s art, the Slought Foundation, and I-House in Philadelphia, and Zodiak Center for New Dance in Helsinki, Finland, among others. As part of her artist-in-residence appointment with Landmarks Exhibitions: Contemporary Projects, J. recently shot “Paloma and Raúl in San Serriffe,” an experimental 16mm film featuring two dancers and two actors. The film and a sculptural installation are on view at Powel House, an 18th-century mansion in Philadelphia, until April 4, 2010.

Oscar J. Molina: 2008 – 2010 Graduate Film Student at Columbia University and Temple University.  2007 – 2008 Curator and Director, No Borders International Film Festival, Medellín, Colombia.  2004 to 2006. Director and Curator. Film Program, Centro Colombo Americano in Medellín,  a Colombia and U. S. Binational Center. And during the same time, Director and Editor, Kinetoscopio journal, longest-running cultural publication in the history of the country and the only journal dedicated to film and film making in Colombia.  1998 – 2004. Director, producer and screenwriter for documentaries and cultural, educational, informational, and institutional films for regional and national TV stations, Secretary of Education of Antioquia, University of Antioquia, Colombian Ministry of Culture, Mayor’s Office of Bogotá,  Human Rights Colombian Office, and Bogotá’s Archive, among others.  Some of his films has been selected and awarded by La Habana Latin American Film Festival, Cuba; the Audiovisual Products International Festival, FIPATEL, France; Simón Bolívar National Journalism Award, the top journalism award in Colombia; Mexican Human Rights Festival (Contra el Silencio todas las Voces); Bogotá Film Festival, Bogotá; Cartagena International Film Festival, Cartagena de Indias; Rosario Film Festival, Rosario, Argentina; Latin American Documentary Festival, Mexico City; Next Frame Student Film Festival, among others.

Guillermo Ortega Tanus is the co-director of Da·Da·Dance Project, a duet repertory company which has been presented at many International venues and Festivals, performing works by Elise Knudson, Helena Franzén, Gerald Casel, Eun Jung Choi and himself since 2008.  As a choreographer, he strives to invent original movement vocabularies for each dance he makes. He often combines theatricality with visual metaphors. Apart from Da·Da·Dance Project, he has presented solos at Dixon Place, Newsteps Series, Merce Cunningham Studio, and Tlacochimaco in New York, and Foro Experimental, Fuego Nuevo, Los Talleres de Coyoacán, La Casa de Las Bombas in Mexico.  Currently he is a resident artist at nEW festival and a recipient of the “National Fund for the Culture and the Arts, Student Scholarship”. www.guillermoortega.net

MOVEMENT LAB at PhillyPARD

MOVEMENT LAB

June 29th and July 1st
Technique Classes $7

PhillyPARD (Performance Arts Research & Development)
1720 Mt.Vernon St
Philadelphia – PA 19130
ph: (215) 717-6117
Website: http://www.mt-vernondancespace.com/classes

“Movement Lab’s” goal is to serve as a vehicle for dancers and movers to evaluate muscular/structural potential and limits. Through this exploration, we will find ways to move more freely and expressively. The Lab is focused on finding cognitive playfulness in a movement practice, which in turn allows us to be more dexterous and agile. This class is designed to activate our intellectual curiosity, imagination, and creativity. A self-exploratory and self-explanatory approach is the central component to this class.

There will be a set of exercises that will be taught each day. The importance in this class is not about repeating the choreography with precision. The choreography exercises simply provide structure for which we can practice moving and gather new information for ourselves and our body as we consciously move.

OVER-NITE SENSATION: January 10, 2010

Photo: Alan Kolc

January 10, 8PM

OVER-NITE SENSATION – Winter Edition

hosted by Bowerbird

Plays and Players Theater

1714 Delancey Place, Philadelphia PA

Eun Jung will be improvising with Alban Bailly at this event. Other artists will include:

Leah Stein / Toshi Makihara

Michele Tantoco / Carlos Santiago

Melisa Putz / Jesse Kudler

Meg Foley / Chris Forsyth + one more

nEW Festival Artist-in-Residence: January 4-10

Photo Credit: Bill H.

Guillermo will continue developing …eb oT during the residency this time. Also he will start a new project, Family Portrait. Please come join us at Meet the Artist/See the Work series on Sunday, January 10 from 4 to 7.

January 10, 4-7PM
Meet the Artists/ See the Work
University of the Arts, Terra Building, Studio 405
211 S. Broad Street, Philadelphia

Film: Bailamos? (2009)

Credits: Oscar J. Molina / Malia J. Bruker (Film and Media Arts Department, Temple University)
Dancers/Actors: Eun Jung Choi and Guillermo Ortega


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