Stoll & Wachall duo enjoying visual kinetics

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008

Back to the Platform of Young Choreographers! I still have some unfinished thoughts on stuff I saw back than…
While I was at the presentation of video installation with excerpts of dance piece MISCHAderFALL, choreographed by Bernard Baumgarten and re-mixed by video artists Stoll & Wachall because of the atmospheric mood and drone sounds I had [...]

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 Jan Fabre: insects are the oldest computers

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

Jan Fabre is an example of a renaissance man… it’s hard to catch all fields of contemporary art he had influenced over the last three decades…
His performers are ‘true blue’ oriented towards ideas and processes he’s creating with them. It’s a mutual interaction above all, an interaction which creates new physical, emotional and mental spaces. [...]

Martha Cooper aka kodak girl: street art can’t be stopped

Sunday, September 14th, 2008

There are several interesting connections among ethnologists / anthropologists if they happen to be also photographers: being artistically hooked up to dance (in all forms), having a passion for street art (graffiti or murals), and interest in music (in all forms, too!).
(Oh, I forgot also one thing: collecting vintage stuff – old photo gear or [...]

Dancer Kettly Noël: personal demons or cruel truth?! Cruel truth

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

Kettly Noël is one of those impressive performers who can leave a very sharp mark in your personal memory because she’s wiling to deal with roots only to come out with something very concrete… like a mental razor…
Dancer and choreographer Kettly Noël came from the Creolian city Port au Prince in Haiti but has decided [...]

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 [...]