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Body human and not human

Presentation

Experience the way of improvisation. Create an atmosphere forwarding the capacity of a global, sharp and collective concentration. Approach one’s own, environing bodies, space and time as an environment. Use installations to make those environments more concrete. Develop sensations, detach and strengthen them comparing to the original surrounding world.
Start the new creation of cie. Mamacallas that will deepen the research of the previous creations Figures in a Landscape and EXTRACTION.

FR On évoluera dans des mouvements et une danse très plastiques et on construira des univers physiques inhabituels, comme tout droit sortis d'un roman de science-fiction. L'espace sera envisagé comme un champ de création davantage que comme une scène. On travaillera avec des installations plastiques dans cet espace.

On abordera le corps comme un milieu ou un environnement de façon à ouvrir des voies pour des couplages imaginaires et de sensations entre la machine, l'objet et les matières et matériaux, le vivant et l'humain. Le rapport au sol est privilégié et la verticale sans cesse interrogée et reconstruite.

Il est question d'une danse qui n'est ni expressive (basée sur la personne) ni interne ou ritualiste mais consciente du monde présent et qui plonge dans un univers d'intense concentration.

Grâce aux corps et dans les corps on cherchera a ouvrir et tracer de nouveaux chemins, de nouveaux récits.

Une forte inspiration pour cet univers provient de l'esthétique du sculpteur Henri Moore.

Pierre Nadaud (FR/CZ) with from time to time Zdenka Svíteková (SK)

From 4.01.2008 each Monday and Friday from 10:00 to 12:00

Druna – náhorní planina, Křemencova 10, Prague 1

Druna - a highland

With Zdenka Svíteková, from 27.8. to 31.8.2007, Liptovský Mikulaš, Slovaquia

In the context of simmer school Letná Tanečná Škola 2007, organised by Sučasněho Tanca

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Dance on horizontal axis

Présentation

FR « Ouvrir le monde à l’horizontal », les dynamismes entre la verticale et la terre, le sol devenant paroi et les partenaires prises et supports.

Workshop ouvert aux danseurs, movers, personnes voulant développer leur sensibilité et intelligence corporelle (utile pour les personnes pratiquant l’acrobatie ou un art martial).

On s’appuie à la fois sur l’isolation dans le mouvement et sur un fort ancrage au sol. Il s’agit de multiplier les dimensions et directions de mouvement du corps et d’acquérir une attention aiguë aux résonances et conséquences des appuis : développer une aisance dans les chemins de la verticale au sol, acquérir des directions et ouvertures corporelles nouvelles, enrichir la communication entre l’espace interne du corps et l’espace externe.

Le travail est basé sur des exercices en partnering et s’appuie beaucoup sur le toucher. Il développe une grande assurance et foi dans la "physicalité" et l’histoire de chaque corps, sa force de présence et d’expression.

Pierre Nadaud (FR/CZ) with from time to time Zdenka Svíteková (SK)

Next in March an May

Druna – náhorní planina, Křemencova 10, Prague 1

Druna - náhorní planina

26.01.-27.01. 2008 from 12:00 to 15:00

Micadanse, Paris, France

Micadanse / Paris / France

from 13.11. to 15.11. 2007 from 13:00 to 16:00 - Presentation 16.11. at18:30

Druna – náhorní planina, Prague

Druna - náhorní planina

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From the performance EXTRACTION

Presentation
From the reality given by our bodies we will create a universe of unusual sensations, a universe of ever-changing bodies that experience the aquatic or prenatal life.
This kind of work develops a big assurance and faith in the physicality, its force for the presence and expressivity.
This universe in continuous and full, its choreography stays deeply connected with instantaneous of improvisation which allows us to reach a deep state of concentration and forget ourselves/the rational planning.

More about the workshop
Based on the materials and types of concentrations explored in EXTRACTION the participants will develop a relationship of immersion into their own body, into the bodies as well as the space surrounding them. Those relations will create a coherent universe where the choreography is a process more than a program.

The first phase of the work will focus on the physical research based on liquids, unstable materials and sensorial variations. The aim is to understand the immersion as a fundamental condition for being able to open to the word: immersion into one owns body (body-environment or body –cosmos where micro and macro elements interlace with each other), immersion into the space of the body that is always full (ground surface, body of the other, small and large masses filling the space). This dimension calls for an imagery associated to aquatic organisms and prenatal period. It allows exploring the relation of the body and its mass, its volume and its relation with the ground. Multiple ways of erecting from the floor will appear.

The second phase will shift the focus to the duration and sonic universe as well as to the relation with the space of the stage. The theme of fullness deepens further into the theme of continuity and simultaneity. The space of the stage is approached as a continuous space where variations and transformations are generated by folding and sliding surfaces. The time evolves as continuous and is modulated by varying the intensity more then accentuated or given by tempi. The participation of Skupina© accompanies and supports this approach which allows an absolute simultaneity between movements and sound.

Pierre Nadaud (FR/CZ) and Zdenka Svíteková (SK)

13.02. and 14.02. 2007

Druna – náhorní planina, Prague

Druna - náhorní planina

Mamacallas

modified 06.02.2008

Photo Michal Selinger

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