Performance festival
27 & 28 of September. ReMo Studio Osdorp
What
An intensive weekend festival: a performance laboratory that brings together the fields of movement research, contact improvisation, experimental choreography, acroyoga and Thai massage. This gathering aims to offer participants a global understanding of the creative processes around the performing arts while showing the capacity for hybridization and communication between disciplines, as generators of new dramaturgies and other ways of creating and relating. This intense two-day meeting, located in a privileged green area of Amsterdam, invites participants to generate an autonomous and versatile discourse. Through the didactic experiments, they will take them on a journey through different work methodologies and proposals that enhance the collective ability of space holding and intuitive narratives.
Classes and workshops:
Mime - performative art,acting through being present, playing, body language analysis and theater creation .
Acroyoga - acrobatic technique, bone stacking and transitions
Acro dance - partner dance flow with acrobatic lifts
Contact improv - soft partner dance flow using counterweight and momentum
Contemporary dance - floor dance technique and sequencing
Voice, text and materials… narratives and translation mechanism between body & materials
Movement research & visual language …imagination, visualization and manifestation tools
Storytelling with bodies in space - composing stories through emotional postures
Composition and choreography - spatial tension, movement display and space architecture
Thai massage - relaxation technique using body manipulation and gravity
Our vision
This meeting invites to generate a consensus of ‘ways of doing and caring’ while promoting the democratization of the creative process from collective sensibility and responsibility to individual needs and visions.
Investigating through a multidisciplinary artistic approach and embodiment, allows us to widen the possibilities of manifestation and creation; for this, we seek to cross the borders and the position of the participants beyond their visions and disciplines of origin; inviting them to generate an autonomous and versatile discourse.
When
The festival will take place on the weekend of 13 and 14 September from 10am to 10 p.m. at ReMo studio, located in a green area in the west of Amsterdam, which includes indoor studios, semi-covered spaces, large green lawns, a huge swimming pool and 3000m2 of greenhouses. All these spaces will be available for the participants to investigate and show their works at the end of the gathering.
Program - day schedule
During the festival the program will be divided into morning and afternoon sets.
Morning will focus on technique and different disciplines, offering a buffet of possibilities to prickle the senses and the creative spark for the afternoons in which the research, creation and composition will be central.
At the end of the festival in an organic and dynamic way, the participants will formulate ideas and showcase decisions in places of their choice. A celebration with performances, offerings and micro showings extended into a party .
The journey ends with a closing circle of feedback and relaxation through a guided session of thai healing massage .
Schedule:
Saturday
10.00 -13.00 - dance floor technique and acroyoga
13.00 -15.00 - lunch potluck
15.00 -17.00 - mime and visual language
17.00 -17.30 - break
17.30 -19.30 - storytelling and creation
19.30 - 20.30- soup
20.30 - 21.30 - thai massage
21.30 - 22.00 - departure.
Sunday
10.00 -13.00 - contact improvisation and acro dance
13.00 -15.00 - lunch potluck
15.00 -17.00 - movement research and composition
17.00 -17.30 - break
17.30 -19.30 - 1 min showcasing and party
19.30 - 20.30 - soup
20.30 - 21.30 - feedback and closing circle
21.30 - 22.00 - departure.
The festival is organised and facilitated by:
Inez Almeida
Raul Saldarriga
Javier Murugarren
Teacher bios :
INEZ ALMEIDA
She is an Acroyoga teacher, Mime actress,Theatermaker and Thai massage therapist. She has been drawn to movement since she can remember and has explored many different forms and styles.
Her movement journey started at the age of 9 in the Ballet Conservatory of Lisbon where she studied for several years.
Inez has a Bachelor in Mime from the Theatre University of Amsterdam, she is a certified teacher in both Acroyoga international and Acroyoga Montreal school and holds also a certificate in healing Thai yoga massage from sunshine network. She has been working as a freelance traveling extensively in several continents with her artistic work, and has been teaching Acroyoga intensively throughout the past few years in many communities in Europe.
She has worked with several directors within theatre, dance and film such as Nicole Beutler, Jakop Albhom , Boukje Schweigman, Martin Veldhoen to name a few.
She believes in sharing with an open heart, creating space for connection, trust and intimacy.
Check out:
IG: clapyourwings.acroyoga
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JAVIER MURUGARREN
He received a bachelor degree in Dance and Choreography in 2008 at the School for New Dance Development (SNDO) and he was a research student at Amsterdam Fashion Institute (AMFI) in 2010/11.
His practice is based on choreographic experimentation, connecting movement with textiles, sound and language. He uses the textile apparatus to weave connections with materials and stories, both personal and grand narratives. His work is strongly rooted in "reuse", the reinterpretation of old objects, waste and concepts.
For the past 15 years, he has been creating performance works and developing a pedagogical practice that connects the body with the material; merging natural environment practices with choreographic research through the investigation of textile and natural materials, gait dynamics and visual perception. He connects movement practices with the development of his own brand of upcycled clothing, while collaborating with other artists creating costumes and installations for their work.
His performance works have been exhibited in venues such as: Royal Palace, Frascati theatre, Tropenmuseum, Stedelijk museum (Netherlands), Saatchi Gallery and V&A Museum (Britain), Palais de Tokyo (France), GOMA & Acacia Evenings (Australia), Casa Encendida (Spain), Idans (Turkey), Ozora (Hungary), Kaleidoscope (Malaysia).
He co-directs ReMo studio, an independent performing and textile arts space in Amsterdam