Holobiont collective, _on_line__ 

Interactive dance performance for families with children aged 5-10 y.o. 

We are inviting you to take part in this unusual family performance online. We will use our floor and some crayons to dance and have fun together!

The performance will be held online. Online booking via a Google form available till September 30th, Thursday. The number of participants is limited. 

Detailed information concerning participation in the performance will be given directly to the participants.

About the performance:

Running, walking, standing, sitting, laying, rolling, jumping. With family, peers or alone. Vertically, horizontally, on the ground and in the air. Listening to the music tact or to one’s own rhythm. What drawing will remain on paper in response to different type of movement? 

The _on_line__ performance explores the issue of the traces left by movement. By dancing together, the participants will create huge scale drawings to transform them later in many different ways. Such constructed event can become a creative experience to tighten the bond between kids and their caretakers. It makes also a unique occasion for unusual art encounter. 

choreography: Holobiont collective (Aleksandra Bożek-Muszyńska, Hanna Bylka-Kanecka)

co-creation and performance: Aleksandra Bożek-Muszyńska, Dana Chmielewska, Paweł Grala 

technical realization: Łukasz Kędzierski

light design counseling: Joanna Leśnierowska

music/collage: Józef Buchnajzer

graphic design: Michał Łuczak 

promo picture: Jakub Wittchen 

production: Art Stations Foundation by Grażyna Kulczyk 

project’s partner: Społeczne Przedszkole Lipowa Alejka 

project co-financed from the budget of the City of Poznań 

thanks to Arno Stern and Segni Mossi collective 

manager: Karolina Wycisk / Performat Production

www.artstationsfoundation5050.com

www.holobiont.pl 

Holobiont collective was established by two artists: Aleksandra Bożek-Muszyńska and Hanna Bylka-Kanecka. Their creative interest is in interdisciplinary, multi-generational projects. Combining experimental dance, visual arts and music, the artists create interactive performances and offer  workshops for families with children. The work of the collective is based on the assumption that every participant of the performance – regardless of age and experience – is a fully competent recipient of the performing arts. Their performances include roundABOUT (2017), Moonland (2018), _on_line__ (2018) and Where shapes have necks (2019).  

If you would like to participate in the performance, please fill out the registration form in the following link:

9 October, Saturday, 13:00 GMT+4 

Interactive performances will be held online, with the Zoom meetings.

About the workshop:

During our practical and theoretical workshops, we will conduct choreographic and motion / movement activities as well as discuss a selection of texts. From the bodily perspective, we will attempt to create a movement and choreography practice founded on the sense of community, listening to one another, and experiencing one’s body as well as on the strength derived from the bodily organicism and biology. From the intellectual perspective, we will attempt to create a vision of a new system, of new strategies of building an image of a woman’s body and its treatment.

During the workshops, the group will read and discuss feminist and eco-feminist texts by among others Mona Chollet, Sarah Ahmed, Stacy Alaimo, and Emilie Hache. Tasks conducted in the course of the sessions will be dependent upon the relation between theory and practice. Choreography is understood broadly: as strategies and ways of relating thoughts and bodies in motion in a given educational, artistic, or social context. 

Together, we will take a close look at care in the context of our individual work with our own bodies and creation of horizontal interhuman relations. We will discuss, visualize, and envision what the world and politics, if based on relations founded on care, could look like. We will make a concerted effort to establish a community of women and specify our aims in the social context: how to increase the visibility of women artists, women mothers, and other people with tutelary responsibility. With the assistance of choreographic tools, we will search for relations grounded in respect and care for oneself and the entire group. 

Fusing theory and practice, the workshop meeting will enable us all to notice the social dimension of choreography. This experience can be of significance to all the participants “right here, right now”, but it can also become the driving force behind further individual and collective activities conducted in a wider social and political context. 

We invite everyone identifying as women, regardless of their age. 

Participation in workshops is free of charge. Prior dance and movement experience is not necessary.

If you are interested in the workshop, please send your contact information (full name, email, phone number) at circeplatform@gmail.com 

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Choreographers and teachers:

Renata Piotrowska-Auffret – choreographer and artist; in her works she uses tools of experimental dance, performative arts, dramaturgy, and theatre. Piotrowska-Auffret contemplates the contemporary world by deriving her inspirations from intimate experiences, real and fictional, embedded in a given social context. She is interested in the perversity of relations between the historical and contemporary body politics, between the public and the private, as well as between text and movement.

She was a priority artist in the frame of Aerowaves Twenty17 and Aerowaves Twenty19. Since 2014, she has started a series of Private Pieces – performances putting at stake female body politics, oscillating between the private and the public. As she describes her works: “I am a female artist, I am a woman, I am a mother – so the polarization of the body touches me directly. I always have a personal and autobiographical urgency to do the work.” As a result of working with politically involved themes, the private pieces have already been created.

Within the Private Pieces series, she has created: Death: Exercises and Variations (2014), The pure gold is seeping out of me (2017) and Flatland of Limp Muscles (2019). Her most recent piece is Danse Macabre (2021). 

Since 2019 she is researching in the notion of care in a context of motherhood and artistic practices. She participated in Parent Hood conference organized by Dansehallerne and created podcasts Dare to care for Gand Re Union. Since 2020 she is developing her first curatorial project Institute of Care.

Piotrowska-Auffret is a holder of the Exerce Master Choreographic degree at the Institut Chorégraphique International (International Choreographic Institute) in Montpelier and a graduate of the Theatre Academy in Białystok. 

www.renatapiotrowska.com

Aleksandra Bożek-Muszyńska — choreographer and performer, improviser, business coach and Russian language interpreter. For many years she has been leading regular classes in contemporary dance and improvisation, gymnastics for seniors, as well as creating her own choreographies. She is a scholarship holder of the Alternative Dance Academy 2015-2017 (Art Stations Foundation by Grażyna Kulczyk, Poznań), Intensive Course at School for New Dance Development (Amsterdam) and a beneficiary of the Global Practice Sharing Program at Movement Research (New York). A graduate of the one-year Experimental Choreography II course organized by Centrum w Ruchu (Centre in Motion) in Warsaw. Her works were presented, among others, in Berlin, Budapest, Philadelphia, New York, Warsaw, and Vienna. In 2017, together with Hanna Bylka-Kanecka, she co-created the Holobiont Collective, which runs interdisciplinary multigenerational projects based around workshops and performance. In her practice, she explores the boundaries between performing and facilitating, between naivety and simplicity, and between finding patterns and breaking them. Excitement and pleasure play an important part of her work.

www.olabomu.com

www.holobiont.pl

Date: 4,5,6,7 October, 2021

Online.

Circe – Experimental Platform for Dance and Theatre announces an open call to participate in the online workshops:

Living Archive – A creative workshop with Studio Wayne McGregor. Workshop participants will also have the chance to see Wayne McGregor’s performance.

About the workshops:

Living Archive – A creative workshop with Studio Wayne McGregor

This online creative programme is centred on award-winning British choreographer Wayne McGregor’s work Living Archive, which was created using an A.I choreographic tool developed in collaboration with Google Arts and Culture Lab.
Participants will have the opportunity to learn excerpts of Company Wayne McGregor’s repertoire and material derived from ten solos created as part of the development process for the A.I choreographic tool. They will also be able to use the A.I tool to develop their own material and gain insights into McGregor’s creative practice.
The programme will be delivered by a dancer from Company Wayne McGregor.

About the performance:

In collaboration with Google’s Arts and Culture Lab, Studio Wayne McGregor developed the Living Archive — an artificially intelligent choreographic tool, trained on hundreds of hours of video from choreographer Wayne McGregor’s extensive back catalogue, as well as solo material created on each of the current company.

From what it learned about the individual physical styles of an array of bodies dancing McGregor’s choreography, the system was able to respond to any new movement phrase by suggesting multiple original possibilities for the next phrase. Through swift real-time dialogue between wo/man and machine, the Living Archive unleashed the creative movement potential stored at molecular level within former works, amplifying the spectrum of possibility for choreographic decision-making and bringing dancers of the present into contact with traces of their predecessors.
A variation on the Creation theme that inspires Thomas Adès’ In Seven Days, the unique movement vocabulary and visual language for Living Archive: An AI Performance Experiment was generated solely with this strange and elemental new body. Ben Cullen Williams’ design for the work manipulates abstract visualizations of the AI generated choreography into a suspended video installation which explores ideas of dance as code and vice versa.

Co-commissioned by The Music Center and Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Produced by Studio Wayne McGregor.

Company Wayne McGregor
Direction – Wayne McGregor
Choreography – Wayne McGregor, in collaboration with the dancers
AI choreography tool developed in collaboration with Google Arts & Culture Lab
Music – Thomas Adès ‘In Seven Days’
Video Installation – Ben Cullen Williams
Lighting Consultant – Lucy Carter

Originally danced by Joshua Berwick, Jordan James Bridge, Rebecca Bassett-Graham, Camille Bracher, Izzac Carroll, Maria Daniela González, Chien-Shun Liao, Jacob O’Connell and Kyle White

About the company:

Studio Wayne McGregor is the creative engine for choreographer and director Wayne McGregor CBE, and the home of his life-long enquiry into thinking through and with the body. It is a nexus of partners who explore movement, artistry, thought and partnership. With Wayne at its centre, this collaborative network encompasses dancers, writers, composers, producers, software engineers, visual artists, scientists and more.

The project is supported by Tbilisi City Hall.

Territories of intimacy – choreographic workshop for women |

Renata Piotrowska-Auffret

About the workshop:

In the frame of our meetings we will also talk about horizontal human relations and politics of care.

During practical and theoretical workshop we will be doing choreographic and movement practices and develop discussions based on chosen texts. We are going to look together at the modes of appropriation and deconstruction of female victim representations and emancipatory dimension of a witch figures.

From physical perspective, the participants together with artist Renata Piotrowska-Auffret, will create a movement and choreographic practices based on the sense of being together, listening and experiencing your own body and the power which can be awaken from the body biology. The group will work with phenomenas of victim figure and witch figure – its historical and contemporary symptoms. Choreographer Renata Piotrowska-Auffret will propose as a starting point to practice in movement, chosen tasks and scenes from her last piece „Flatland of limp muscles”. It will be materials such as: a dance inspired by archives of historical Dance of the Chosen choreographed by Nijinsky from a ballet „Rite of Spring“, touch practice, „hexing the state“ – from sensation to over expression movement and sound practice, „between shake and pogo“ trance dance.

From intellectual perspective, the group will try to create a vision of a new system, new strategies of building female body representations and its treatments. Participants will analyze four subjects: women’s independency, politics of reproduction, aging female body, body of a women and earth with its natural resources. Every day of a workshop the group will read a text related to one of those core issues from above.

During workshop the group will read and discuss texts from cultural theory, among them feminists and eco-feminists texts written by: Mona Chollet, Emilie Hache, Silvia Federici, Tithi Bhattacharya.

All the tasks which will be realized during the workshop, will be based on and dependent from a relation between practice and theory. Choreography in that workshop is understood in a wide sense, as strategies and modes of relations between body and minds, movements and thoughts in given educational, artistic and social context.

Such a laboratory meeting, which joins practice with theory, will give a chance to see social dimension of choreography. This workshop experience might be not only an important „her and now“ experience but also a trigger to further individual or collective activities in a broader social and political context.

The effects of the workshop will be a video presentation with the fragments of the practice and publication of discussed vision of a new state / change / future. It will have an online form with texts, fragments of discussions, description of practices, drawings, photos and other forms. It will be available for free online.

Bio:

Renata Piotrowska-Auffret is a choreographer and artist; in her works, she uses the tools of experimental dance, performative arts, dramaturgy and theatre. Since 2014, she has started a series of ‘Private Pieces’ – performances about female body politics. Within it, she has created: „Death: Exercises and Variations” (2014), „The pure gold is seeping out of me” (2017) and „Flatland of limp muscles” (2019). She was a priority artist in the framework of Aerowaves Twenty17 and Aerowaves Twenty19.
renatapiotrowska.pl

The workshop is the part of the project led by Performat Foundation (PL) and Circe Platform — Experimental Platform for Dance and Theatre (GE) titled “Polki. Choreografie społeczne / The Poles. Social Choreographies / პოლონელები. სოციალური ქორეოგრაფია”

Co-financed under the Multiannual Program NIEPODLEGŁA 2017-2022, as part of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute grant program “Cultural Bridges”
www.culture.pl

Co-financed by Tbilisi City Hall, Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport of Georgia and Creative Georgia.

Dates: 3,10,17,31 October, 7 November
Hour: 12:00 pm (GMT+4)
Workshops will be held in ZOOM

Working language: English
Number of participants: 16

Workshop is the open type,
To participate please fill in the form before 1 October: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1vHN-LM-NnVSLPz5UCFcy9h814EHdBIICCcceOiwX1V0/edit

Gaga is the movement language developed by Ohad Naharin throughout many years, parallel to his work as a choreographer and artistic director (1990-2018) of Batsheva Dance Company. Gaga originated from Naharin’s need to communicate with his dancers and his curiosity in the ongoing research of movement.

Gaga classes are predicated on a deep listening to the body and to physical sensations. The instructions are deployed to increase awareness of and further amplify sensation, and
rather than turning from one prompt to another, information is layered, building into a multisensory, physically challenging experience. While many instructions are imbued with
rich imagery, the research of Gaga is fundamentally physical, insisting on a specific process of embodiment. Inside this shared research, the improvisational nature of the exploration
enables each participant’s deeply personal connection with Gaga.

Gaga provides a framework for discovering and strengthening the body and adding flexibility, stamina, agility, and skills including coordination and efficiency while stimulating the senses and imagination. The classes offer a workout that investigates form, speed, and effort while traversing additional spectrums such as those between soft and thick textures, delicacy and explosive power, and understatement and exaggeration. Participants awaken numb areas, increase their awareness of habits, and improve their efficiency of movement inside multilayered tasks, and they are encouraged to connect to pleasure inside moments of effort. The language of Gaga is in a continual process of evolution, and the classes vary and develop accordingly.

How to Apply:

Gaga/dancers is open to professional dancers and dance students.

Participants have an opportunity to attend one class with preferable teacher and / or all three classes.

To participate please send a short cover letter and resume to circeplatform@gmail.com;
in the subject line please write: Gaga/dancers
Deadline: 7 September
Working language: English
Attendance is free

Classes will be held in ZOOM

Teachers biographies:

Omri Drumlevich

Omri Drumlevich was born in Kibbutz Ramat Rachel in 1992. He danced with Mehola Jerusalem and studied at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. Omri participated in Batsheva Ensemble’s Excellence program. He joined the Batsheva Ensemble in 2010 and Batsheva Dance Company in 2012

Bobbi Jene Smith

Bobbi Jene Smith is from Ames, Iowa. She is an alumnus of the Juilliard School, North Carolina School of the Arts, and the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School. From 2005-2014 she was a member of the Batsheva Dance Company under the artistic direction of Ohad Naharin. She has worked and collaborated with a variety of artists around the world including Ohad Naharin, Sharon Eyal, Celia Rowlson-Hall, Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More and Martha Clarke. She is a certified Gaga teacher and has taught the repertory of Ohad Naharin in schools and universities around the U.S. since 2005. She is in constant process with her three most recent works, A Study on Effort, Harrowing, and Arrowed.

Adi Zlatin

Adi was born in Jerusalem in 1983. She began dancing at the age of 6 at the Jerusalem Conservatory and trained with the renowned teacher Hasia Levy-Agron. At the age of 12, Adi joined the Hora Jerusalem dance group. In 2001, she graduated from the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance high school.
Adi joined the Batsheva Ensemble in 2001, and in 2004, she became an official member of Batsheva Dance Company. While dancing with Batsheva, Adi participated in many of choreographer Ohad Naharin’s projects and was fortunate to work with Sharon Eyal as well. In 2012, Adi won the America Israel Cultural Foundation scholarship and the prestigious Yair Shapira award. As of 2019, she is still a performing dancer with Batsheva and continues to be part of Ohad Naharin’s research of Gaga.
Adi is a certified Gaga instructor and teaches in Israel and around the world.

The project is supported by Tbilisi City Hall, Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport of Georgia and Creative Georgia.

https://www.gagapeople.com/en/

Teachers: Omri Drumlevich, Bobbi Gene Smith, and Adi Zlatin

Dates: 11,12,13 September
Hour: 19:00
Duration: 45 minutes

Description:

Many people would have perceived personal awareness during this precarious time…
Listen to the shallowness and depth of your breath, the fulfilled sound around you, and find an accumulation of the dust. Carve it into your body so that you don’t forget the moment when your relationship with your body and surrounding is abundant.
Warm-up for the permeable body, and awake sensitivity of inner and outer. We will jump into improvisation with elements and themes. Dance through your membrane to connect with distanced others.

Free attendance

The workshop is an open type, with no specific requirements. Maximum number of participants: 10
Working language: English
To Apply: send a short cover letter and resume to circeplatform@gmail.com;
in the subject line please write: Online Workshop

Deadline: 17 July

bio:

Yuko Kaseki is director, choreographer, Butoh dancer, performance artist, improviser and teacher, based in Berlin since 1995. She studied Butoh dance and Performing Art in HBK Braunschweig with Anzu Furukawa and danced in her company Dance „Butter Tokio and Verwandlungsamt” in 1989-2000.�In 1995, Yuko Kaseki and Marc Ates founded the dance company cokaseki. She has been involved in various international projects with performers, musicians and visual artists. Solo and ensemble performances, collaborations, and improvisations are performed throughout Europe, Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Malaysia, Thailand, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Argentina, Australia, Russia, India, Burkina Faso and the USA. These works are accumulations of poetic and vivid images that incorporate the spirit of Butoh, and her performance aims to reflect the outsider’s existence.

The project is supported by Tbilisi City Hall

Dates: 20, 26 July
Hour: 19:00
Duration: 90 minutes

Workshops will be held in ZOOM