i really like this sound artist or autodidact as he refers himself - Zimoun.
i just ‘met’ him so i really don’t know much about him more than that he creates these wonderful sound sculptures and installations. he also created the band NÅ in which he played el bass and composed. not sure if they still play. brilliant! the drummer is great!
check out http://www.myspace.com/zimounna

Zimoun will be showing his work in Scandinavia - Stockholm and Bergen in November this year. more info on http://zimoun.ch/

take a moment of your time and go. then tell me about it!

the evening has arrived canberra.

this is the whole scene, me improvising to the text performed by maitland. i always enjoyed this part of the performance. this kind of work - text and movement is what we are interested in exploring further.

at this point...

i am reading 4.48 psychosis by sarah kane. i have only just started. it takes you through the experience of her body and mind in her deep depression.
something quite beautiful (and sad) she says when she is trying to explain how she feels

…it’s not a metaphor, it’s a simile, but even if it were, the defining feature of a metaphor is that it’s real.

i am reading 4.48 psychosis because a friend, performer and poet wants to make a work based on this play. i met maitland schnaars in ‘the bridging project’.
we enjoyed working together so we decided that we would do so again.

maitland is the founding member of corazon de vaca with theater director and writer julián fuentes reta from spain. they have created several works and have a fascination about sarah kane’s plays. they performed phaedra’s love in 2007.

coming from different training and experience we wanted to explore these diverse vocabulary and create a new work.

sarah neville, director of ‘the bridging project’ is a choreographer who, as she puts it on her website instigates inter-disciplinary practices and invests in multi-platform processes and production outcomes .
we quickly found that we wanted to have space and time for a creative development.

so we applied for a four week residency in stockholm at dansens hus (house of dance) but ah - no luck.
we are applying for other swedish and australian dance platforms.

the group are us three and visual artist mia holton and my swedish friend and dance artist madeleine karlsson.

some links:

http://www.corazondevaca.com
http://sarahneville.com/
http://www.dansenshus.se

i came across this beautiful clip - Danse Serpentine by Loie Fuller.
´Fuller combined her choreography with silk costumes illuminated by multi-coloured lighting of her own design.´
´Fuller became the embodiment of the Art Nouveau movement. Her Serpentine Dance was filmed in 1896 by the pioneering film-makers Auguste and Louis Lumière.´

brilliant!

dance development project

i am currently working on a creative development of a new performance/installation work in collaboration with artist meg millband. we started this project early this year but with me going to perth etc has put the project on hold. now we are in the right time to continue from where we left it.

in may this year we submitted a grant application to the artsACT. successful applicants will be announced at the end of this month.

so.. meg and i are currently taking part of this ‘dance development project’ which is facilitated by ausdance act. its aim is to support local independent dance artists in their practice and creative process. the 5 week project involves mentoring by liz lea, studio space and open forums for other dance practitioners. the forum will allow us to share the process and progress of the work and involve them in our practice to encourage dialogue.

we found this ‘development..’to be a good occasion to work intensively on our project and also to meet and take part of other dance practitioners work in the ACT.

so what is our project?

the performance/installation is looking at textures and metaphors in material and movement. we will be exploring the relation between physical manifestation of memories and how material evolves through time.

our project is entitled ‘embedded’

Excerpt of The Bridging Project by Physical Theater Company - Corazon de Vaca. Directed by Sarah Neville, performed by Maitland Schnaars (text by Julian Fuentes Reta) and Adelina Larsson (dance), Caitlin McLoughlin and Taciano Cavalcante. This project was supported by the Department of Culture and the Arts and Deckchair Theatre Umbrella Program.

We shot this during the Screen Dance Lab in Sydney 2008. David Corbet and I were in the process of Cribrosa (cribrosa.tumblr.com) when we came across this space.
This clip is shot with an 3ccd mini dv cam. We went back with Justine Kerrigan to film with an HDV cam. We are currently working on the footage.
The Lab was mentored by David Hinton in support by Critical Path and Reel Dance.

part of our ongoing practice in improvisation and dance for screen.

proximity

this clip is a single take shot of an improvised performance (for the camera) by myself and david corbet.

the music is trans siberian by nest

this is me. I had an MR angiography done to be able to examine the vertebral arteries. The MRA was performed with the contrast material which was injected in a vein in my arm. It was pretty claustrophobic! Couldn’t help to feel slightly anxious when locked in a ´hannibal lecter helmet´with loud hammering noise for more than 25 minutes. I was told not to move.. and being a dancer…well, that’s not my nature! but what a great pick eh! totally worth it!

this is me.

I had an MR angiography done to be able to examine the vertebral arteries.
The MRA was performed with the contrast material which was injected in a vein in my arm.

It was pretty claustrophobic! Couldn’t help to feel slightly anxious when locked in a ´hannibal lecter helmet´with loud hammering noise for more than 25 minutes. I was told not to move.. and being a dancer…well, that’s not my nature!

but what a great pick eh! totally worth it!