Program of the Day // 22.7.16
SIOBHAN DAVIES DANCE / THE RUNNING TONGUE
A FILM INSTALLATION BY SIOBHAN DAVIES AND DAVID HINTON
Kalamata Megaron – Studio
22.7.2016, 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
BEHELD AND NOTTURNINO / CANDOCO DANCE COMPANY
Kalamata Dance Megaron – Main Hall
22.7.2016 / 20:00
CANDOCO DANCE COMPANY
Beheld & Notturnino
Beheld
Concept, Choreography & Direction: Alexander Whitley
Dancers: Megan Armishaw, Joel Brown, Tanja Erhart, Adam Gain, Jason Mabana, Laura Patay, Toke Broni Strandby
Lighting Design: Jackie Shemesh
Set & Costume Design: Jean-Marc Puissant
Costume Realisation: Sasha Keir
Set Realisation: Jessica Dixon and Amanda Barrow
Lighting Design: Jackie Shemesh
Music: Nils Frahm, reworked by Rutger Zuydervelt
This piece is co-commissioned by Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance and supported by The Idlewild Trust.
Thanks to Nils Frahm, Sylvie Launay, Harriet Moss, Harriet Wybor and to all
Candoco Dance Company International Lab 2015 participants.
Beheld, a choreographic piece for seven dancers who explore the space around them. A former classical dancer, now an acclaimed choreographer, Alexander Whitley explores, for the first time, the abilities of disabled and non-disabled dancers in a challenging piece of highly demanding, virtuosic style, which expands into new dimensions. Set to music by the pioneer contemporary piano virtuoso Nils Frahm, remixed by sound artist Rutger Zuydervelt.
The British choreographer Alexander Whitley has swiftly become known for his strikingly physical and virtuosic choreography. His new commission for Candoco Beheld, is set to music by composer Nils Frahm and features powerful duets and breath-taking ensemble dancing with huge swathes of fabric. He established Alexander Whitley Dance Company in 2004; he also choreographs for leading companies, such as the British Royal Ballet, the Birmingham Royal Ballet, as well as Rambert and Balletboyz dance companies. He has been twice nominated for Outstanding Performance by the Critics’ Circle National Dance Awards, as well as for the South Bank Sky Arts Breakthrough Artist Award in 2004. He is a Sadler’s Wells New Wave Associate (London).
Duration: 30'
Notturnino
Choreography: Thomas Hauert
Dancers: Megan Armishaw, Joel Brown, Tanja Erhart, Adam Gain, Andrew Graham, Jason Mabana, Laura Patay και Toke Broni Strandby
Assistant to the Choreographer: Liz Kinoshita
Lighting Designer: Chahine Yavroyan
Costume Designer: Natasa Stamatari
Audio from Tosca’s Kiss (1984) by Daniel Schmid, T&C Film
This piece is co-commissioned by Live at LICA with additional support from
Platform, Islington and Greenwich Dance
Thank you to Denis Laurent at ZOO; Kevin O’Hare at the Royal Opera House;
Suzanne Lee, Naomi Blanche and CJ Dyson at Platform
Notturnino by the acclaimed choreographer Thomas Hauert was inspired by the documentary Tosca’s Kiss, which follows the lives of retired opera singers. Based on choreographic structures that support improvisation, every performance is a unique experience that evokes the fragility of existence. Memories and fragments of operas as interpreted by the aged singers in the documentary became the sonic material for weaving a choreographic piece that invites viewers to reflect on their own sensitivities and memories.
The Brussels-based Swiss dancer and choreographer Thomas Hauert is an internationally acclaimed artist, recognised for his inventive and exploratory spirit. Twice winner at the International Choreographic Encounters Seine-Saint-Denis, in 1998 he founded ZOO dance company; his pieces have been performed in over 200 theatres in 29 countries. His choreographic research focuses on improvisation and explores the limits between freedom and restriction, order and chaos, form and the formless. ZOO dance company is resident at Charleroi Danses.
Established in 1991, Candoco Dance Company is the company of disabled and non-disabled dancers. The group commissions pieces from internationally renowned choreographers, thus compiling a top-quality repertoire, while providing educational programmes that make dance accessible to everyone.
Duration: 35'
SIOBHAN DAVIES DANCE / ALL THIS CAN HAPPEN
A FILM BY SIOBHAN DAVIES AND DAVID HINTON
Kalamata Dance Megaron – Terrace
22.7.2016 / 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΄