Stage migrations
Experimental practice research laboratory
This permanent creation and research laboratory was designed, first, to compile a wide array of individual ideas about research from reflections on individual praxis, methodologies, instruments and different work habits. It has also organised a series of encounters between creators, giving them the opportunity to share their working processes with each other and the public.
The laboratory is based on the potential offered by this process, as opposed to presenting a final finished event or performance. It follows the principle that the instability and porosity of processes produce an excellent space in which to discuss and reflect on tools, procedures and working methods. Specifically, it intends to take a practical approach to the clearly social dimension of the performing arts, having established that the stage, beyond its fictional nature, always creates a particular situation: that of being together and sharing a space and time.
Throughout the course of the laboratory, different strategies to work with the overriding theme of the relationships between viewers and creators are studied. The laboratory structure includes panel discussions to foster reflection on the processes, tools and results of each of the workshops.
The activities will take place at Matadero Madrid and Museo Reina Sofía.
Program
Workshop with Zeynep Günsür
Date: 8 to 11 June 2011
Place: Nouvel Building, Study Centre
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Admission: Reserved for Performing Arts Practices and Visual Culture Masters degree students
Panel discussion with Gustavo Ciriaco and Lorenzo Rocha
Date: 10 June 2011
Place: Nouvel Building, Auditorio 200
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Admission: free of charge with seating on a first-come, first-served basis.
Panel discussion with Zeynep Günsur
Date: 11 June 2011
Place: Nouvel Building, Protocol Room
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Admission: free of charge with seating on a first-come, first-served basis.
Participants
Alice Chauchat is a choreographer and performer. She is the co-director of Les Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers.
Gustavo Ciríaco is a performer, choreographer and co-author with A. Sonnberger of Here whilst we walk (In-presentables/2006) and Neighbors (En Tránsito/2009).
Samo Gosaric is a writer and creator in the field of the performing arts. He is currently examining and reconstructing performances from the 1960s and 70s from former Yugoslavia and Southeast and Eastern Europe.
Zeynep Günsür is an independent artist, who has collaborated with different artists. She works as a board member of an independent dance network (DBM) and founding member of ACPAI (Association of Contemporary Performing Arts Initiation).
Claudia Müller is an artist with projects in dance, performance and video. Questions like absence/presence, reality/fiction, the peripheries of traditional artistic spaces and the relationship between art and the everyday are constant interests in her work. Lorenzo Rocha is a Mexican architect. His main interest is the reactivation of spaces through social use. He is the director of the journal [ESPACIO].
Paz Rojo is a collaborator and dancer in the project The Half, together with choreographer Diego Gil and dramatist Igor Dobricic, and teacher at the School For New Dance in Development, Amsterdam.
Ricardo Santana studied acting (R.E.S.A.D Madrid) and dance creation and production (S.N.D.O, Amsterdam). He has collaborated with Paz Rojo, Vicente Colomar, Oscar G. Villegas and Mónica García.
Idoia Zabaleta is a choreographer. Her main field of study is new dance techniques and improvisation. Since 2008, she and Juan González have been (literally) building and leading the AZALA creation space, located in a rural area in the Basque Country.
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