Cyberpunker dancing on sharp vibes: Mr. Hiroaki Umeda

Friday, May 30th, 2008

Hiroaki Umeda is a multitasking artist… he enjoys dancing, choreographing, making videos, messin’ up with light & stage design, mixin’ soundz, writing a blog, working on site specific projectz, enjoying the nature… and he is definitely not a ghost in the shell but a real man!

Photo: Shin Yamaga (c)

laï laï laï laï… yes yes yes yes… more more more more…

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

Oh, you don’t know how much I like theatre companies that have a multilayered approach to the art (and life too)…
I’ve never thought that urban and slightly linguistically disoriented but totally poetic bard (a combination of Homer arisen from asphalt and mid 70s’ version of Bonnie Prince Billy adapted for the theatre stage) might tell [...]

Lisa Bufano – the Spiderwoman

Saturday, May 24th, 2008

I’ve mentioned dancer Lisa Bufano in my ‘first of the first blog posts’ here… but only as my remark that she is cool… well, let’s make a small scan of her art profile and work… without using the word cool, because that’s an inevitable fact!

Photo: Naomi Robbins (c)

What dance could be… in DV8 and David Toole’s vision…

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

I remember quite clearly when I saw the first performance by CandoCo. Dance Company, now it’s exactly 10 years from the event… it was the ‘Out of Here’ dance piece which was choreographed by Annabel Arden, Jos Houben jointly with the company members, and then a classical ‘Phasing/Sour Milk/Shadow’ by choreographers Jamie Watton, Javier De [...]