[OPEN CALL] EKSCENA WORKSHOPS: Frédéric Gies (Berlin) + André Lepecki (New York) / Zagreb

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After very successful start of the program in 2008 with EPDS master workshops and guest performances by Lito Walkey and Jonathan Burrows, ekscena is pleased to bring you the notice of our program for winter season 2009 with the realization of the following EPDS and guest performances by newly established TRANSWARP foundation.

The upcoming winter shedule includes master workshops and guest performances with Frédéric Gies and André Lepecki, artist-in residence program with Isabelle Schad and also artist-in-residence program with Ivana Mueller planned for spring-summer 2009.

Program for winter 2009 and details on workshops and teachers, you can find below.

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Reservations for the workshops are accepted till Februaray,08th 2009. To register, please send a brief CV to: mail-to-eks@mi2.hr Registration fee for each workshop is 100kn and is a guarantee for your participation in the workshop. For any further questions, please contact program coordinators or write us an email.

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EPDS / TRANSWARP 2008/2009 Program Coordinators: Selma Banich, Sandra
Banic Naumovski, Maja Marjancic, Zeljka Sancanin and Zrinka Uzbinec

EPDS and TRANSWARP 2008/2009 program is supported by Zagreb City Council.

EPDS program and TRANSWARP foundation are a part of the ekscena's working
platform. ekscena's working platform is supported by CeKaO Zagreb.

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WINTER 09

Frédéric Gies // Berlin
Dance (Praticable)
09 -14 / 02 / 2009
EPDS – MASTER WORKSHOP

Frédéric Gies is choreographer and dancer. He is part of the collective Praticable. His recent pieces are "Dance (Praticable)" (solo version in 2006, group version in 2008), "Still Lives" in collaboration with Manuel Pelmus, Bruno Pocheron <http://www.isabelle-schad.net/> and Isabelle Schad <http://www.isabelle-schad.net/> (2006) and "The Breast piece (Praticable)" in collaboration with Alice Chauchat<http://www.theselection.net/dance> (2007).He is currently working on a new project: "Album (Praticable)". His work focuses on the politics of representations of the body and is grounded in body practices and researches on the origins of movement. For further informations: www.praticable.info

Workshop with Frederic Gies // Dance (Praticable)
The workshop will consist in the transmission of an excerpt of the score of "Dance (Praticable)", a piece that can be danced in solo, or in goup. The activity that generates movement and choreography in the score is based on particular body practice and way of initiating movement. Thus, an important part of the time will be focussed on this practice. Interpreting the score allows the interpreter to become co-author of the choreography. The excerpt will be performed by the participants at the end of the workshop. The score is available online at:www.dancepraticable.net

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14 / 02 / 2009 // 20:00 Gallery SC
TRANSWARP – Guest performance
Dance (Praticable) // Frederic Gies

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André Lepecki // Rio de Janeiro-New York
GROUNDS OF PERFORMANCE II : clatter, delay, object
02 – 05 ili 09 – 12 / 03 / 2009
EPDS – MASTER WORKSHOP

GROUNDS OF PERFORMANCE II investigates in 3 days, 3 under-theorized topics / elements that have characterized performance art in its propositions for an alternative aesthetics and an alternative politics of the body:
clatter, as an eruption of the concrete;
delay, as a short-circuiting of presence;
and object, as an accumulator of time.

Workshop will consist of several different approaches towards the topic and will be based on readings such as :philosophy (Bergson, Deleuze); art history (Fried; Krauss); performance studies (Fred Moten); psychoanalysis (Wilhelm Reich; Freud; Lacan).

André Lepecki is a curator, dramaturg, writer, and co-creator based in New York City. BA in Cultural Anthropology, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, MA and PhD degrees from NYU (Performance Studies). Currently he is Associate Professor in Performance Studies at New York University, where he teaches courses on critical theory, continental philosophy, performance studies, dance studies, and experimental dramaturgy. In the 1980s and ‘90s, Lepecki was dramaturg for choreographers Vera Mantero, João Fiadeiro, Meg Stuart, and Damaged Goods. He contributes regularly for several art publications in the US, Brazil, and Europe, including TDR: the journal of performance studies, Art Forum, Performance Research, Contact Quarterly, Theaterschrift, and Nouvelles de Danse, among others. He has co-directed video-installations with Bruce Mau and Rachael Swain, created a performance series with Eleonora Fabião, and curated dance events in Berlin. He is author of Exhausting Dance: performance and the politics of movement (Routledge 2006) and editor of the anthologies Of the Presence of the Body (2004), The Senses in Performance (with Sally Banes; 2006), and Planes of Composition: Dance, Theory, and the Global (with Jenn Joy; forthcoming Seagull Press 2009). He has recently edited an issue of Performance Research "On Choreography" (March 2008), and is a member of the editorial boards of Performance Research, Dance Theater Journal, Inflexions and E-mispherica. His current research focuses on the relationships between dance, philosophy and sculpture. He has received grants from the Gulbenkian Foundation, the Luso-American Foundation, the Rockeffeler Foundation at the Bellagio Research Center, and in the Spring of 2009 he will be a Resident Research Fellow at the International Research Center Interweaving Performance Cultures at the Freie Universitat, Berlin. He is currently "Permanent Fellow" and the curator of the festival IN TRANSIT at Haus der Kulturen der Welt between 2008 and 2010.

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