Camille Mutel luvz butoh

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

About two weeks ago I saw several interesting young dancers and choreographers at the Platform of Young Choreographers within the selection by Les Transfrontalier Festival.

Photo: Paolo Porto (c)

A chat with Jasmina Prolic: Dancer on Sound Wires

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

Jasmina Prolic’s latest project ‘Julie(t)- duet in absentia’ deals with technology versus body interrelations… elusive moments and impulses between sexes…
The performance she choreographed and performed was collaboration with multimedia artist Hubert Pichot, known for his project ‘Try Me’ Rolling Chair Jockey - RCJ which he had introduced at the iMAL’s OpenLAB Projects in Belgium three [...]

Interview with Robert Hylton: I think, I’m a dance junkie!

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

Robert Hylton is an ‘urban classicist’… being continuously tainted with the virus called street art in its most refined sense…
As a youngster he was involved in the UK’s underground Hip Hop scene (break dance and popping techniques included), then jazz dance&stylez, and after a while he realized that contemporary dance might work for him too [...]

blog you hard… blog you soft… blog you akram khan…

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

Akram Khan has this interesting approach in his work: choreographing and dancing through mistakes…
Once he said that when people ask him something like: “What do you want to say with your performance?” His answer always remains the same: “No, I don’t have anything to say, I just do!” …and that’s something that thrills me completely… [...]

Interview with Matija Ferlin: Breaking the forms of movements, soundz, images… with attitude.

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

…and what brought my curiosity to this young and ‘multi-tasking’ dancer?! It was the sound thing, see. This is how I first spotted Matija Ferlin. More precisely, his subtle taste for electronica, then the Montreal’s post-rock gang around Constellation Records and Public Recordings… and I was totally convinced that something pretty cool and creative lies [...]

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)

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)