Pina Bausch

Stateless Dancer Diaries has published great article with links to videos on the work and resources of recently dead dancer and choreographer Pina Bausch.

Performance from Roberto Oliván's workshop

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Dance Video screenings on the 3rd Sunday of every month

Race & Rhythm is organizing an event to screen short dance videos the 3^rd Sunday of every month. We are currently asking for participants that wish to show their videos.

Requirements:

• Videos should be between 3 and 7 minutes long.

• The video must be a dance art based and not a documentary type, such as one angle shot of a performance.

• It has to have dance movements performed by dancers from any style of dance.

• The video is contemporary but must have a link to Spanish culture, as for example a place, an icon, an object typical Spanish, or even dance moves, clothes or music.

• Videos with music which has copyright restrictions would be discarded. We suggest to use music under Creative Common licenses and name authors.

Deadline for submitting work for the first screening is 3rd May.

info@raceandrhythm.com

First screening date - Sunday 17^th May

Renu's Rhythm

Caños de Meca is a beach in Cádiz, the meridional Andalusia, close to the Cape of Trafalgar. Renu, Natasha and I spent a few nights over there. We departed from Tarifa and arrived there for the summer's last weekend party. During those days, people were slowly leaving the place, back to their life's routines in the cities. Still in nature and delighted at night by a ceiling of millions of stars, it all seem as we were in the moon, like Natasha said once, in between the white sand dunes and the soft stroke of the Atlantic ocean. Renu had a moment of inspiration and came out with a clapping rhythm which I recorded, lighted only with a tiny torch in the middle of the beautiful night's darkness.

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Caños de Meca es una playa en Cádiz, la meridional Andalucía, cerca del Cabo de Trafalgar. Renu, Natasha y yo pasamos unas noches allí. Salimos de Tarifa y llegamos allí para la fiesta del último fin de semana del verano. Durante esos días, la gente iba lentamente dejando el lugar, de vuelta a las rutinas de la vida en la ciudad. Aún en la naturaleza y deleitadas en la noche por un cielo de millones de estrellas, todo parecía como si estuviéramos en la luna, como Natasha dijo una vez, entre las dunas de arena blanca y la suave caricia del océano Atlántico. Renu tuvo un momento de inspiración y salió con un ritmo de palmas, el cual grabé, iluminado tan sólo por una pequeña linterna en la mitad de la bella oscuridad de la noche.

Flamenco en Granada

As part of the road trip, I also stopped at Granada.
This show was near by the Albaicin. Guitarist Josele De La Rosa, singer Raúl Sacay and dancer Almudena Romero performed in this tiny place 7th Sep 2008 at cueva-pub Upsetter. After the show we ended in Eishavira, a very typical Flamenco place of Granada, having some wines.

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Como parte del viaje en coche también paré en Granada.
Este show fue al lado del Albaicín. El guitarrista Josele De La Rosa, al cante Raúl Sacay y la bailaora Almudena Romero actuaron el 7 Sept 2008 en cueva-pub Upsetter. Después del show acabamos en Eishavira, un local de Flamenco típico de Granada, tomando unos finos.

Street Flamenco/ Flamenco callejero

Invasión Danza

I would like to make a comment about this Spanish dance initiative based in Madrid. They use public spaces to perform and document choreographies of artists in the field. They have a website translated to many languages where they explain their purpose of developing new audiences for dance, and they give the opportunity to participate by sending the documentation of the performance (in public spaces, not theatres, or organiced venues) without editing, for not to be confused with a dance film or video. In fact, dance is an ephemeral art form, and nowadays, thanks to technology and network, can be seen by many, giving the opportunity to artists to show their work to a wider audience.

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Me gustaría hacer un comentario sobre esta iniciativa española con base en Madrid. Usan los espacios públicos para presentar y documentar coreografías de artistas en este campo. Tienen una página web traducida a varios idiomas donde explican el propósito de conseguir nuevas audiencias en danza, y dan la oportunidad de participar mandando la documentación de la coreografía (en espacios públicos, no teatros o eventos organizados) sin editar, para no ser confundida con "video arte". De hecho, la danza es una forma de arte efímera, y hoy en día, gracias a la tecnología y redes, puede ser vista por muchos, dando la oportunidad a artistas de mostrar su trabajo a una audiencia aún mayor.

INNERVISION video

Recently I danced in a music video called INNERVISION by Kevin Barry Partridge (c) onelox. Filmed in London, 22nd July 2008.


Click in the brown image to watch the video in YouTube.

Click in the blue image for seeing a set of still images of the video.

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Hace poco he bailado en un video de música llamado INNERVISION por Kevin Barry Partridge (c) onelox. Grabado en Londres, 22 Julio 2008.


Haz click en la imagen marrón para ver el vídeo en YouTube.

Haz click en la imagen azul para ver una serie de imágenes tomadas del vídeo.

Changing Polarity lyrics / letra

Dance film, part underwater; explores the swift between opposite thoughts and perceptions, metaphorically named as polarities.In a subjective way, this inner conflict conveys the idea that these thoughts/perceptions pass through a centre, a nucleus formed by a space where the soul exists, and where the belonging of these reactions to the soul are not defined. This existence doesn't convey a steady permanent state of thought or perception, but reaffirms its quality of being in a constant energy activity in between two polarities, as a constant readjustment between opposite energies; which can embody a pattern of stimulus-reaction defending an unmaterial origin.

The sound landscape is composed by a set of words and metaphors related to this idea and is played all through the video length. Is narrated in two languages, English and Spanish, and mixed with its reversed version.

The image shows the English version.

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Video danza, parte debajo del agua, explora la relación entre cambios de pensamientos y percepciones opuestas metafóricamente llamados polaridades. De manera subjetiva, este conflicto interno, conlleva la idea de que estos pensamientos/percepciones pasan por un centro, un núcleo formado por un espacio en el que el alma existe, y en el cual, no se define la pertenecia de estas reacciones o la materialización de estímulos al alma. Esta existencia no conlleva un estado estable permanente de pensamiento o percepción, sino que reafirma la cualidad de ésta de tener una constante actividad energética entre dos polaridades, como un constante reajuste de energías opuestas, el cual puede llegar a materializarse en estímulo-reacción y que defiende un origen inmaterial.

El sonido está compuesto de una serie de palabras y metáforas referentes a esta idea, y dura durante todo el vídeo. Está narrado en dos idiomas, español e inglés, y mezclado con la versión en orden inverso de estas palabras.

La imagen muestra la versión española.

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Links to Changing Polarity // Enlaces a Changing Polarity (Polaridad Cambiante):

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