WORKSHOP WITH CANDOCO DANCE COMPANY

 

Kalamata Municipal Stadium
21.7.2016 / 12:00-14:00

WORKSHOP WITH CANDOCO DANCE COMPANY

Led by: Megan Armishaw & Toke Broni Strandby

Join dancers from the leading contemporary dance company of disabled and non-disabled dancers for a two hour practical workshop. Candoco company dancers will take participants through contemporary dance technique followed by creative tasks based on their current work; Beheld by Alexander Whitely and Notturnino by Thomas Hauert.

This workshop is open to disabled and non-disabled individuals aged 18+. No dance experience is required, just an interest and desire to move!

Candoco Dance Company is the company of disabled and non-disabled dancers, founded in 1991. We commission productions, created by world class choreographers for national and international touring and deliver an extensive learning programme to provide broad access to the highest quality of dance.

SIOBHAN DAVIES DANCE / THE RUNNING TONGUE
A FILM INSTALLATION BY SIOBHAN DAVIES AND DAVID HINTON

 

Kalamata Megaron – Studio
21.7.2016, 13:00-22:00

Siobhan Davies Dance/ The Running Tongue
A film by Siobhan Davies and David Hinton

Directors
Siobhan Davies and David Hinton

Imagery devised by the following dance artists:
Gaby Agis, Frank Bock, Seke Chimutengwende, Katye Coe, Nicola Conibere, Siobhan Davies, Robin Dingemans, Simon Ellis, Fred Gehrig, Alexandrina Hemsley, Wendy Houstoun, Annie Lok, Henry Montes, Charlie Morrissey, Freddie Opoku-Addaie, Florence Peake, Lauren Potter, Efrosini Protopapa, Deborah Saxon, Eleanor Sikorski, Matthias Sperling, Alexander Whitley

Animators
Magali Charrier, Noriko Okaku

Additional Animation
Tony Comley, Rachel Davies

Sound Artists
Chu-Li Shewring, Raoul Brand, Zhe Wu

Randomisation and Coding
Robert Prouse

Running woman
Helka Kaski

Running woman filmed by
Max Abbiss-Biro

The Running Tongue is a film installation made by Siobhan Davies and film director David Hinton in collaboration with 22 dance artists.
The work takes as its starting point the image of a running woman. She travels through a familiar London cityscape and witnesses a succession of curious scenes. Defying the usual conventions of cinematic form, the film is edited live in real time by a custom-programmed computer which makes its own decisions about how to order the narrative. This means that the work can run forever and never quite play the same way twice. The changing order of events and different juxtapositions of sound and picture continuously offer up new ways to read the images and stories.

Siobhan Davies
An iconic figure in British dance, Siobhan Davies has been associated with the historic London Contemporary Dance Theatre, which heralded the renaissance of contemporary dance in the UK in the 1970s. Along with choreographers Richard Alston and Ian Spink, she established Second Stride; in 1988, she formed her own company, Siobhan Davies Dance. Siobhan Davies Dance has been recognised not only for the quality of its work, but also for the way in which the dancers’ own artistic research makes for an integral part of the creative process. Siobhan Davies’ cooperative philosophy has grown through regular partnerships with other artists and choreographers, seeking exchange and joint exploration as a key element in artistic investigation. Her personal quest to expand the concepts of choreography led her to experiment with various art forms (dance, visual arts, film) and, since 2012, she has chosen to produce works for non-theater spaces, such as art galleries, exclusively; her pieces have been performed in major contemporary art museums: Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), Whitechapel Gallery (London), Glasgow Museum of Modern Art.

David Hinton
The British filmmaker David Hinton, twice awarded a BAFTA, is an acclaimed documentary director. Having received numerous prizes (Prix Italia, Emmy, IMZ Dance Screen Award), he has worked for TV art programmes (ITV), made documentaries on artists for the South Bank Show and films on themes ranging from Dostoyevski to China’s Cultural Revolution. His dance film collaborations with choreographers include Dead Dreams of Monochrome Men and Strange Fish (DV8 Physical Theatre), as well as TV programmes for Adventures in Motion Pictures, Alvin Ailey Company and the Royal Swedish Ballet.

Duration: This is a durational film installation, there is no start and finish

SIOBHAN DAVIES DANCE / ALL THIS CAN HAPPEN
A FILM BY SIOBHAN DAVIES AND DAVID HINTON

Kalamata Dance Megaron – Terrace
21.7.2016 / 22:00

Siobhan Davies Dance / All This Can Happen
A film by Siobhan Davies and David Hinton

A SIOBHAN DAVIES DANCE Production

• Narrator: John Heffernan
• Sound Design: Chu-Li Shewring
• Film Editor: Danny McGuire
• Additional Editing: Matthew Killip
• Executive Producer: Franck Bordese
• Archive Producer: Martha Wailes
• Stills Researcher: Lucie Sheppard
• Additional Stills Research: Piera Buckland, Zoë Dickin
• Dubbing Mixer: Peter Hodges
• On-line Editor and Colourist: Torquil Dearden
• Title Design: Marc Marazzi
• Production Team: Nina Baker, Robyn Cabaret, Eva Martinez, Alison Proctor, Rob Prouse

Adapted from The Walk by Robert Walser with the kind co-operation of Robert Walser Foundation and Société Suisse des Auteurs (SSA), Switzerland. Translated by Christopher Middleton with permission from Profile Books and Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC. With funding from Arts Council England and the Siobhan Davies Commissioning Fund
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All This Can Happen marks the first collaboration between the awarded choreographer Siobhan Davies and the filmmaker David Hinton. Based on Robert Walser’s The Walk (1917), a novelistic account of what happens in a writer’s head while he is taking a walk, the film is a reflection on everyday life and encapsulates the two artists’ common artistic pursuits.
The film is made entirely out of found photographs and early archival film footage, mostly drawn from the archives of the British Film Institute which are manipulated and re-configured to reveal what is often lost to sight in the everyday. With a sensitive and piercing glance, it illustrates how the two artists perceive the world. The film has been screened in more than 20 countries.

Siobhan Davies
An iconic figure in British dance, Siobhan Davies has been associated with the historic London Contemporary Dance Theatre, which heralded the renaissance of contemporary dance in the UK in the 1970s. Along with choreographers Richard Alston and Ian Spink, she established Second Stride; in 1988, she formed her own company, Siobhan Davies Dance. Siobhan Davies Dance has been recognised not only for the quality of its work, but also for the way in which the dancers’ own artistic research makes for an integral part of the creative process. Siobhan Davies’ cooperative philosophy has grown through regular partnerships with other artists and choreographers, seeking exchange and joint exploration as a key element in artistic investigation. Her personal quest to expand the concepts of choreography led her to experiment with various art forms (dance, visual arts, film) and, since 2012, she has chosen to produce works for non-theater spaces, such as art galleries, exclusively; her pieces have been performed in major contemporary art museums: Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), Whitechapel Gallery (London), Glasgow Museum of Modern Art.

David Hinton
The British filmmaker David Hinton, twice awarded a BAFTA, is an acclaimed documentary director. Having received numerous prizes (Prix Italia, Emmy, IMZ Dance Screen Award), he has worked for TV art programmes (ITV), made documentaries on artists for the South Bank Show and films on themes ranging from Dostoyevski to China’s Cultural Revolution. His dance film collaborations with choreographers include Dead Dreams of Monochrome Men and Strange Fish (DV8 Physical Theatre), as well as TV programmes for Adventures in Motion Pictures, Alvin Ailey Company and the Royal Swedish Ballet.

Duration: 50΄