"The apprentice cast perform heroically, and any company would be glad to hire them." Judith Mackrell (The Guardian)
Read the reviews about our performance at Sadler's Wells
www.londondance.co.uk/search.asp?q=D.A.N.C.E.&submitted=-1&x=16&y=8
Last Performance of D.A.N.C.E I in London (29th and 30th of June).
Marking the end of our two year programme we will be performing in London at Sadler's Wells Theatre [memeri] by Wayne McGregor at Sadler's Wells alongside Forsythe's famous One Flat Thing, Reproduced - a devilishly difficult piece involving the dancers navigating a stage set with 20 tables at breakneck speed - and A Success Story, a new piece by Frederic Flamand based on the life of Hollywood mogul Howard Hughes. 
Wayne McGregor talks about D.A.N.C.E
"We've all had problems hiring dancers actually," explains McGregor. "Finding dancers that have the combination of an intellectual openness and a physical aptitude to do the work." They wanted to "fast-track a level of experience" for dancers who had some advanced training so that they could go into high-level companies with choreographers making technically and intellectually challenging work.
"I think increasingly lots of dancers are being taught to be self-reflective, the kind of thinking dancers who make lots of choices, but they actually haven't got the technical skills to back it up," says McGregor. "In some instances it's a reverse of the dilemma there used to be ten years ago where it was all technical aptitude and no thinking. So a demand of our dancers is that they have that kind of curiosity but they also have to have the body to be able to do something with it."
"So for example, if I was working in artificial intelligence or on something to do with memory," explains McGregor, "then those young people would be immersed in that process, and that would be supported by quite a rigorous series of workshops and sessions with philosophers or people who were thinking around the ideas of dance-making, with maybe scientists who would be thinking in a tangential way, as well as the more technical aspects."
This is where architecture comes in. "It's a point of departure for the creative process," says McGregor. "Forsythe over the last few years has developed a thing called improvisational technologies which is a methodology based on Laban principles. These have an absolute parallel with architectural schemata, this relationship between point, line, plane, volumes of space."
"Flamand is also working architecturally and is much more interested in what is the relationship between an architect and a choreographer. The philosophical debate there overtakes the practical aspects, so you can see how architecture in its general sense has lots of different applications."
Extracts from www.londondance.com
Last News: New contract with DV8 Physical Theatre
Hannes Langolf got a contract with DV8 Physical Theatre. The contract is for the new stage production 2007/08 in London. It will discuss andresearch the subject Religion, Homosexuality and Racism.It will start in August 07 and go until december 08.
DV8 Physical Theatre was formed in 1986 by an independent collective of dancers who had become frustrated and disillusioned with the preoccupation and direction of most dance.The company has produced 15 highly acclaimed dance pieces, which have toured internationally, and 5 award-winning films for television. The company is led by Lloyd Newson.
1st of June showing at the Trans-Media Akademie Hellerau
After our long trip from Marseille to Paris, from Paris to Brussels and from Brussels to holidays, we have come back again to Dresden for our last 6 weeks of the D.A.N.C.E programme.
At this moment we are preparing a showing in collaboration with the Trans-Media Akademie Hellerau (here in Dresden), an experimental centre of digital technologies. Our aim is to use the interactive sound installation they have there.
With this aim, and lead by Amy Raymond and Richard Siegal (ex-dancers in Frankfurt Ballet), we have developed our own material in different groups using as a starting point the idea of “what did you do this morning”. Through various improvisations on this matter, each group got to develop a “universal phrase” made out of the memories of the movements we have seen in the impros. This phrase has been our basic material to create duos, trios and bigger structures that will be adapted to the digital installation.
The appointment is on Friday 1st of June at the Trans-Media Akademie Hellerau (http://www.t-m-a.de/) in 3 sessions of 40 min at 5 pm, 7pm and 9.30pm.
Our Next Performance in Créteil (Paris) 28th April
On the 28th of April we will perform at la Maison des Arts de Créteil (Paris) a piece by Frédéric Flamand: “Success Story". It is a performance freely inspired by the life of Howard Hughes, an emblematic and controversial figure of the US society in the seventies.
The pitty: we will do just one performance (and have spent 8 weeks in the process!!)
The cool: we will spend 4 great days in Paris the city of fashion, love, cafés, jazz, shops, bohemia…
And afterwards to Bruxelles!
Rehearsal of "[memori] a living archive" by Wayne McGregor - Dresden (March, 2007)
"McGregor wants to explore the autobiographical memory as a powerful source of decision making and creativity. An autobiographical memory combines personal biographical memories with specific moments of experience. The ability to draw on this inexhaustible memory is doubtless a uniquely human one. Embedded in the rich personal photo album of perception are perceptive, sensory and emotional pieces of information – information which is generally invisibly encoded and memorised in the brain, "The Living Archive" exposes this data and makes the invisible visible by means of extraordinary body control and technique". (Tanzplan's review)
Copyright by Costin Radu
Last News
Eric Ernerstedt got a contract with Skånes Dansteater (http://www.skanesdansteater.se/) The Company, that will get its new director (Åsa Söderberg) in July 2007, is based in Malmö (Sweden).
Nina Louise Vallon has a contract with Prue Lang, choreographer based in Paris (ex-dancer Ballett Frankfurt) for a project with creation process during this summer and premiere in Frankfurt in September and tour starting with Melbourne Dance Festival (Autralia) in October.
Avatâra Ayuso has been invited to dance her solo i(u)ter at the Mostra del Dia Internacional de la danza en Palma de Mallorca (Spain).
Asli Oztürk got until the final in 11. Internationales Solo-Tanz-Theater Festival Stuttgart (15-18 März 2007) with ''Chidvilas'' a solo that she performed and choreographed.
Pipo Tafel is working on his film (sound composition, mixing, colour correction and mastering).
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