[workshop] FRÉDÉRIC GIES - DANCE (PRATICABLE) / deadline: 20.08.2008. / Beograd

Radionica:
28. avgust - 6. septembar / 10-16h
Jugoslovensko Dramsko Pozoriste

Pozivamo vas da se prijavite za radionicu Frederica Giesa, ucestvujete u prezentaciji  kao i da pogledate njegov solo Dance (Praticable).

Dance (Praticable) – solo verzija (izvodjenje Frederic Gies)  i grupna verzija (izvodjenje: ucesnici radionice) - 6 septembar 2008,  20:30  Jugoslovensko Dramsko Pozoriste, scena Studio

Radionica i gostovanje su realizovani zahvaljuci podrsci Goethe Instituta u Beogradu.

Organizacija: Stanica Servis za savremeni ples  www.dancestation.org/

Partner: Jugoslovensko Dramsko Pozoriste  www.jdp..co.yu/

Prijave za radionicu slati na office@dancestation.org (najkasnije do 20. avgusta)

::: About the workshop :::

The goal of the workshop is the transmission of an excerpt of the piece dance (praticable). The workshop will consist in working on the different tools that permit to read and interpret the score on which the piece is based. Mainly, we will work on a body practice that approach anatomy and physiology through movement. This practice is necessary to interpret the score. At the end of the workshop, the participants will be able to propose their interpretation of the score. 

further informations on the piece on www.praticable.info

::: About  Dance (Praticable) :::

Concept, score and choreography Frédéric Gies After a proposal of Alice Chauchat Artistic assistance Alice Chauchat Light design Ruth Waldeyer Music Madonna

The project/The piece: Dance (Praticable) is based on a score that can be interpreted as a solo or by a group. This piece, which consists in a contraband of choreographic styles produced out of a work on the bodily origins of movement, questions and destabilizes the notions of style and authorship within the choreographic field. First, Dance (Praticable) has existed in the shape of a solo and continues to exist like this.

In Dance (Praticable) by focusing on bodily origins of movement, I question the notions of authorship and style, as well as the tools of production of forms, by integrating the idea that the process which produces a form determines its meaning and its content. The body practice becomes the main tool to generate dance and choreography. The deployment and the association of very contrasted movement qualities and body states, produced by inner changes of attention, establish the structure allowing the choreography to appear.

::: CV :::

Frédéric Gies, born in France in 1973, lives and works in Berlin. His choreographic work focuses on the political implications of choreographic writing and the body representations emerging from it. Deep researches on the bodily origins of movement, finding inputs in experiential approaches of anatomy and physiology, particularly in practices like BMC®, constitute the soil of his most recent work. He develops different methods for choreographic writing out of these investigations on body and movement, changing method for each piece he creates. With his pieces, he questions their own medium, dance, as well as he deals with other topics like authorship, gender representations, community or emotions, among others, in a playful destabilization of codes and conventions.

After studying ballet and contemporary dance, he worked with various french choreographers such as Daniel Larrieu, Bernard Glandier, Jean-François Duroure, Olivia Grandville and Christophe Haleb. Since 2000, he takes BMC® workshops with Vera Orlock, Sarita Beraha, Trisha Bauman and Walburga Glatz on a regular base.

In 1996, he creates the piece Because I love in collaboration with Odile Seitz. In 1998 he starts to work in collaboration with Frédéric de Carlo. They create together various performances: Le principal défaut (CND, Paris), Le principal défaut-solo (Centre George Pompidou, Paris), En corps (CND, Paris), Post porn traffic (Macba, Barcelona), In bed with Rebecca  (Vooruit, Gent), (don’t) Show it! (Scène nationale de Dieppe), Second hand vintage collector (sometimes we like to mix it up!) (Ausland, Berlin).

In 2004, he dances in The better you look, the more you see by Isabelle Schad and starts taking part in Good Work (California Roll). In the same year he begins a series of solos: Sleeping beauties/Ultra sexy amazons (1st version in Tanzfabrik, 2nd in Ausland, Berlin) and The bitch is back under pressure (reloaded) (Basso, Berlin).

In 2006 he created Dance (Praticable) in the frame of Tanz made in Berlin. The same year, he also begins to take part in Still Lives (by Gies/ Pelmus/ Pocheron / Schad).

In 2007, he creates in collaboration with Alice Chauchat The Breast Piece (Praticable), in Tanz im August.

He is currently working on a group version of Dance (Praticable) that will be premiered in October 2008 and prepares also a new piece: Album (Praticable).