MOTIONHOUSE / ECHO COLLECTIVE / LAURA ARIS

DANTE (music clip)

We are transported into a dream-like state where we do not run but dance. The original music composed by Echo Collective takes us on a journey through landscapes where time disappears, and we are drawn into nature.

By Motionhouse / Jamie Lee & Stanislav Dobak
Directed by Jamie Lee
Director of Photography by Stanislav Dobak 
Music by Echo Collective
Starring Laura Aris
Production assistant Louise Tanoto
Camera assistant Kevin Tieku
Special thanks to La Ferme du Château de Corroy

Founded by Neil Leiter and Margaret Hermant, Echo Collective is a diverse group of classically trained musicians based in Brussels, Belgium. In addition to its own compositions and projects, the group collaborates with modern composers and bands on concerts, tours, film scores, recording sessions, and original compositions.

Motionhouse is a non-profit organisation founded by Jamie Lee and Stanislav Dobak, dedicated to telling stories through art creations.

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ZAGREB DANCE COMPANY /LAURA ARIS

Geometry of Breath / Geometry Daha

We are nature, our fingertips pointing towards portals of the spiritual, the incorporeal, the infinite.
We are the collective body, an ancient body, a heavenly body.
We are permeable. Eternally becoming.
We are.

We are together now, creating a new code, a cryptic, spontaneous, and absolutely necessary code. The perpetual movement and the ever-connecting energy oscillates, rises, and falls...It expands and contracts, flows, curls, and collides.

Scientific data became the catalyst for extending the habits of the imagination into poetic realms. Modern science tells us of an extraordinary range of interrelationships. Now more than ever, it is clear that we are parts of a whole. We cannot ignore the fact that the sea around us is the same, and our foundations are shared. As far as long as there is Us.

Laura Aris

GEOMETRY OF BREATH

Direction & choreography: Laura Arís Álvarez
Created with and performed by Margareta Firinger, Andreja Jandrić, Luna Lilek, Endi Schroetter, Linda Tarnovski, Karlo Topolovec
Asst. Choreographer: Petra Valentić
Original music: Nenad Kovačić, Miro Manojlović
Texts: Mauricio Guzmán "Partículas (Antología)",  Luka Bosanac "Fairytale teasing”, Laura Arís Álvarez
Costume design: Ana Fucijaš
Costume design asst: Tina Spahija
Light design: Saša Fistrić
Photography: Jelena Janković
Graphic design: Vladimir Končar
Costume sewing: Božena Spahija
Dramaturgical support: Katarina Pejović
Translator: Mirna Čubranić

Production and artistic direction of ZPA Petra Glad Mažar, Petra Valentić
Public relations: Ivana Lulić
Production: Zagrebački Plesni Ansambl / Zagreb dance company
In coproduction: ZKM - Zagrebačko kazalište mladih / Zagreb Youth theatre
Partner: Mediteranski Plesni Centar / Mediterranean Dance Center
With the support: Grad Zagreb - City of Zagreb, Ministarstvo kulture i medija RH - Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, A/CE Acción Cultural Española / PICE

Special thanks to La Faktoria Choreographic Center, Pamplona.

Opening night: September 10th, 2022.

“The final piece that they showed to the Zagreb audience can be "read" on countless different levels, from the fact that geometry is literally present in everything, which is clearly reminded of the light created by Saša Fistrić all the way to which human emotions intertwine and melt, which is excellently shown by the stage use of costumes of the dancers, the costume designer Ana Fucijaš created hoodies in which two moving bodies fit at the same time. And just like in dramatic performances, for which the old Chekhov rule applies, "the gun that hangs on the wall in the first act must fire in the last”, here too the stones that the dancer throws on the stage in the first scene of the work at its end offers interesting scenes in which the arrangement of the stones that the dancers place around the scene recalls rows of soldiers, but also children in a joyful procession of flowers, showing that everything in life is limited by the way we humans use it, just as the associations to what we see are conditioned by our experiences, but also by the moment in which we live.”

Bojana Rodovič, VL hrvatska 12/09/2022

“Human existence on the Earth is marked by paradox from the beginning to the end. We live as if we would live forever, side by side with the fact that death is inevitable. We are all unique and at the same time a part of an inseparable whole. The more we know, the more we are aware of how little we know. True freedom demands discipline. We bring children into this world knowing it is full of threats to life. The biggest fall can bring about the greatest ascent. Pledged to gravity, we aim at the-heights.

Paradox is also one of the basic laws of nature. Isn't the spring awakening and growth the biggest miracle we witness every year anew? For how is it possible that a thin, fragile leaf of grass can break through the ground which is hardened to concrete by winter and cold? And grow up into the air, defying gravity? How is it possible that something so fragile can conquer something that is seemingly immeasurably stronger than itself? It is a true miracle. But what is the outcome of that magnificent feat? The leaf of grass is fragile and vulnerable to external attacks. Its life can end at any moment.

Paradox is at the root of every existence.

Hence the GEOMETRY OF BREATH. Seemingly two incompatible terms, but at the same time the basic elements of life. Geometry is in everything: in the light, in all animals and plants, in our anatomy and the universe itself. Breath is the source of all living things; prana, the life force of energy.

Bodies in movement prove that paradox at every moment. Fed by breath, they constantly establish constellations: water and air currents, vibrations of the ground, diffusion of light, rotation of planets. Energy flows in countless different shapes.

Like every community, bodies in movement always learn anew how to be themselves and how to be together. To penetrate the secret of fractal, the idea that the smallest particle has the same qualities as the biggest whole. Bodies in movement always present a possibility of synergy; a possibility to create a whole which is greater than the sum of its parts.

Bodies in movement are like a sand mandala. When they reach the point of synergy, the point of creating a greater value, they fall apart and continue their journey towards a new synergy. What remains is in the eye and the memory of the observer, inevitably changed by that experience.”

Katarina Pejović

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Marta Coronado

Noche Barroca

Premiered on 27 Oct, 2022, at Museo Universidad de Navarra (ES)
55 min

Noche Barroca is a dance project of Marta Coronado where improvisation marks the point of union between three performers, and sensual, dynamic and dramatic baroque music (all female voices) is the common thread and the main reason for this friendly encounter.

The choreographer shares the stage with two dancers of different ages and artistic paths: Laura Aris (1977) and Clarissa Costagliola (1997). Each artist brings their vision of movement giving rise to a dialogue where the individual dance language is represented.

It is presented as an exploration of the different improvisation approaches and use of musicality of the three performers: Laura Aris Álvarez, who has a vast international trajectory (former dancer of Ultima Vez/Wim Vandekeybus, Lanònima Imperial, General Elèctrica d’espectacles); Clarissa Costagliola, from the first generation of students of La Faktoria Choreographic Center; and Marta Coronado, a dance maker from Navarre, and former dancer of the Rosas directed by Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker.

ARTISTIC CREDITS

Direction: Marta Coronado
Choreography: Marta Coronado, with the collaboration of Laura Aris and Clarissa Costagliola
Performed by: Laura Aris Álvarez, Clarissa Costagliola, Marta Coronado
Dramaturgy: Beniamin Boar
Music:

Antonio Vivaldi

         La fida Ninfa RV714: Dolce fiamma, Dimmi pastore
         Motet O qui Coeli Terraeque RV631 – Aria (Largo)
         Farnace RV711: Sinfonía – II. Andante - Allegro

Georg Friedrich Händel

           Alcina HWV34: Tornami a vagheggiar
           Serse HWV40: Act1 – Ombra mai fu

Johann Sebastian Bach

          Concierto para Violín en La menor
          BWV1041 – II.Andante

Scenography: Fermín Blanco
Lighting: Fermín Blanco
Costumes: MG
Production: Marta Coronado

MARTA CORONADO

She studied dance at the Escuela Oficial de Danza del Gobierno de Navarra and danced in the company Yauzkari. After finishing her studies at the PARTS school in Brussels, she began working in 1998 in the Rosas company of Anna Teresa De Keersmaeker, where she remained until 2018. In 2002 she received the BESSIE award (New York Dance and Performance Award). From 2011 she co-directs Rosas repertory pieces at La Opéra de Lyon, the Paris Opera and PARTS. She teaches at renowned international and national schools and festivals. Her choreographic work began in 2009; she was invited to create at La Salle Singapore, Fueradeleje and Dantzaz Konpainia. In 2011 she co-created the collective House of Bertha, and in 2013 she was part of the project PHD in one night. In 2018 she created El Silencio de las Flores. She was a guest choreographer at La Opera La Monnaie for the opera Orfeo and Manjun and a choreographic assistant for the recreation of West Side Story on Broadway (New York). In 2019 she founded and co-directs the Faktoria Choreographic Center in Pamplona and created the show Nebula in 2020.

Laura Aris has been the choreographer’s assistant and movement coach of several performances directed by Ivo Van Hove with choreography by Wim Vandekeybus. Salome (2017), Elektra/ Orestes (2019), Age of Rage (2021).

AGE OF RAGE (2021)

In Age of Rage, Ivo van Hove tells a primordial story of how revenge haunts and wrecks successive generations. This performance is in line with earlier large-scale social productions such as Roman tragedies and Kings of War.

This time the history of the Trojan War and the royal Atrid family is the starting point. Ifigeneia in Aulis, Trojan Women, Hekabe, Agamemnon, Elektra, and Orestes are edited into one story. Age of Rage shows the mechanisms, inevitability, and hopelessness of a circle of violence.

Credits

after Euripides and Aischylos
direction Ivo van Hove
translation Gerard Koolschijn
adaptation Koen Tachelet, Ivo van Hove
dramaturgy Koen Tachelet
choreography Wim Vandekeybus
scenography and light Jan Versweyveld
kostuums An D’Huys
compositie Eric Sleichim

cast Achraf Koutet, Aus Greidanus jr., Chris Nietvelt, Gijs Scholten van Aschat, Hans Kesting, Hélène Devos, Ilke Paddenburg, Janni Goslinga, Jesse Mensah, Maarten Heijmans, Majd Mardo, Maria Kraakman, and Selin Akkulak
dancers Bai Li Wiegmans, Katharina Ludwig and Emma Hanekroot
music performed by BL!NDMAN [drums] Hannes Nieuwlaet, Yves Goemaere, Ward Deketelaere

assistant director Daniël 't Hoen, Rosemintje Verpaalen – Weijts, Konstantinos Vasilakopoulos (intern), Lisaboa Houbrechts (intern)
assistant dramaturgy Simone van der Steen (intern)
assistant scenography Bart Van Merode, Django Walon, Renée Faveere (intern)
assistant video Coen Bouman, Arjen Klerkx
assistant music George Dhauw
assistant choreography Laura Aris Álvarez, Rob Hayden
assistant costumes Rosa Schützendorf
head of the technical department Reyer Meeter
production leader Inge Zeilinga,Michiel van Schijndel
head of the artistic bureau Ulrike Bürger Bruijs
Assistant Production Eva Sol
technical producer Joost Verlinden
technical staff Sebastiaan Kruijs (first stage manager), Kevin Cuyvers, Paul van der Zouwe, Pepijn van Beek, Emile Bleeker, Erwin Sterk, Timo Merkies, Dennis van Scheppingen, Ruud de Vos, Danne Hekman, Mark Thewessen, Manon van den Nouland, Zinzi Kemper, Tim Vleugel, Sander van Elteren and Wim Wildenbeest (intern)
costume department Wim van Vliet (head), Farida Bouhbouh, Renske Kraakman
hair & make-up David Verswijveren, Mirjam Venema
tailor Claudia Pellegrini, Karianne Hoenderderkamp
singing coach Mirjam van Dam
set construction Fiction Factory
photography Fabian Calis
graphic design Sara Fortuin
catering Ingrid Mulder and Esther Doesburg
publicity Iris Istha
with thanks to Bart van den Eynde, Marije de Bruin, Wouter van der Hoeven, Marcel van Lent ‘fine shoe repair’, and huisartsenpraktijk Rivierenbuurt

coproducer Holland Festival; Bl!ndman; La Villette, Paris
private producer Helga Lasschuijt and Dirk Raes, Gabriella de Rooij and Hendrik Jan ten Have, Marius de Vos and Gary Carter, Anna Wouters and Esther Kwaks
with support from Ammodo
realized with the support of the Johannes Vermeer Award

'It is the story of years of war and how its consequences as an ineradicable cancer have a profound and long-lasting effect on families and society. But also a story about violence today and about  radicalization. 

We see how faced with major problems, leaders turn to murder and revenge rather than deliberation. A royal family that runs the country but never comes to a vision or approach for a better future. A dark,  grand, and universal story.'

IVO VAN HOVE

The press said

'Terrifyingly beautiful dance and music make Age of Rage more than just a bloodthirsty spectacle.' - Trouw ★★★★

'A rare physical and passionate performance.' - De Groene Amsterdammer

'The physical commitment of the actors, who play, play music, sing and dance in the mud is awe-inspiring.' - De Volkskrant ★★★

'Dark master marathon' - AD ★★★★

ELEKTRA /ORESTE (2019)

Laura was the choreographer’s assistant and movement coach of Elektra/Orestes, a performance directed by Ivo Van Hove with choreography by Wim Vandekeybus. A production of Comedie Francaise in Paris, France, in collaboration with Athens & Epidaurus Festival, in Greece.  

Premiered on April 27th of 2019 at Comedie Francaise, Richelieu, Paris.

Artistic team

Translation Marie Delcourt-Curvers
Stage version Bart Van den Eynde et Ivo van Hove
Mise en scène Ivo van Hove
Scénography et light designer Jan Versweyveld
Costumes An D’Huys
Original music and sound concept Eric Sleichim
Choreographic work Wim Vandekeybus
Dramaturgie Bart Van den Eynde
Director’s assistant Laurent Delvert
Scenography’s assistant Roel Van Berckelaer
Choreographic work’s assistant Laura Aris
Costumes’s assistant Sylvie Lombart
Light designer’s assistant François Thouret
Sound assistant Pierre Routin

With the actors of Comédie-Française: Claude Mathieu (Coryphaeus), Cécile Brune (chorus), Sylvia Bergé (chorus), Éric Génovèse (Phrygian slave), Bruno Raffaelli (old Mycenaean man), Denis Podalydès (Menelaus), Elsa Lepoivre (Clytemnestra / Helen), Julie Sicard (Chorus), Loïc Corbery (Pylades), Suliane Brahim (Electra), Benjamin Lavernhe (Mycenaean man), Didier Sandre (Tyndaerus), Christophe Montenez (Orestes), Rebecca Marder (Hermione), Gaël Kamilindi (Apollo).
And the actors of L' Académie de la Comédie-Française: Peio Berterretche (Aegisthus), Pauline Chabrol, Olivier Lugo, Noémie Pasteger, Léa Schweitzer (Chorus)
and live music interpreted by Adélaïde Ferrière, Emmanuel Jacquet, Rodolphe Théry - Trio Xenakis, Othman Louati, Romain Maisonnasse, Benoît Maurin (percussions)

More info about Comédie Française

SALOME (2017)

Laura Aris was dance coach and choreographer's assistant for the Richard Strauss masterpiece Salome, directed by Ivo Van Hove, with choreography by Wim Vandekeybus and conductor Daniele Gatti (Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra) at Dutch National Opera & Ballet in Amsterdam. 

Premiered June 2017.

CREDITS

Conductor Daniele Gatti
Stage Director Ivo van Hove
Set and Lighting Designer Jan Versweyveld
Costume Designer An D'Huys
Video Designer Tal Yarden
Choreographic work Wim Vandekeybus
Dramaturg Jan Vandenhouwe
Assistant choreography and movement’s couch of Malin Byström (Salmone) Laura Aris
Orchestra Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Herodes: Lance Ryan, Herodias: Doris Soffel, Salome: Malin Byström, Jochanaan: Evgeny Nikitin, Narraboth: Peter Sonn and Attilio Glaser, Ein Page der Herodias: Hanna Hipp, Fünf Juden: Dietmar Kerschbaum, Marcel Reijans Mark Omvlee, Marcel Beekman, Alexander Vassiliev, Zwei Nazarener: James Creswell, Roger Smeets, Zwei Soldaten, James Platt, Alexander Milev, Ein Cappadocier: Michael Wilmering.

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The press said

“The most impressive part of the production is the work of the choreographer, none other than the Flemish Wim Vandekeybus, famous for his mischievous pieces.” - Concertnet

“Vocally, the cast is convincing and Malin Byström's take on the role is sure to leave its mark. The singer has a beauty that is totally in keeping with the character she portrays. She is remarkable in the 'Dance of the Seven Veils', where you are convinced that a real dancer is performing before you.” - Resmusica Sylvain Rouvroy

Press reviews

concertonet.com
bachtrack.com
resmusica.com
olyrix.com
plateamagazine.com
wanderersite.com

ÁLVARO ESTEBAN & LAURA ARIS

CUALQUIER MAÑANA

 ©Elías Aguirre ©Jelena Jankovic ©Andi Bančic ©Germanmaton ©Salomon R. Plaza
©Vèrtex Deltebre ©Günter kraemmer ©Mai Ibargüen ©Lucia Baldini

Cualquier Mañana (At Any Given Morning) is the result of a collaboration between two independent artists, brought together under the framework of The Anatomy of Broken Things —a concept developed by Laura Aris out of a personal curiosity. This exploration has led her to create other projects under the same theme with various artists.

An intimate duet about the natural sadness of broken things.

Any given morning, light breaks through the cracks—now scattered, no longer intact. Once, they fit together, like the sky holds the sea, but now the spaces linger. They no longer fit as they once did.

A physical journey into the present, realising that the past cannot return.

I trace the lines we once drew, though time has worn them thin. Each memory, like a whisper, fades from within.  

In delicate balance,
when a couple of words,
a gesture, a snap, a shift,
a casualty or a coincidence,
when a simple whisper can tip the scales.
Sometimes our reference points disappear,
leaving only guts,
the visceral"

Created and performed by  Álvaro Esteban and Laura Aris
Original music by Roger Marín
with the support of HKAPA and Ultima Vez

The press said":

"Only two mature and well-versed performers can endow so much richness to each of their movements on stage, from their brutal stage presence to the meticulousness of their transitions from one step to the next."
—Luis Alberto Sosa Berlinga, Sep 28, 2022. Achtung! Dance, stage. Madrid.

“The star of this year's festival was Laura Aris Álvarez, a renowned Spanish dancer and choreographer who held a workshop and performed with a solo and a duet. She has been on the European dance scene for more than twenty years. And why it was obviously seen in the duo Cualquier Mañana, who played with her younger colleague Álvaro Esteban.
—Tomislav Čadež, Jutarnji Kultura, Svetvičenat International Festival, Croatia, 2017

"On the stage, they demonstrated that their conceptualisation and proposal as artists are translated to the body and their performance capacity. At Any Given Morning displays in front of us the deep dialogue of a couple.”
—El Apuntador, Review of Performing Arts Quito , Ecuador, 2019


"Esteban and Aris use every fibre of their bodies to produce expression. We would have gladly seen more. "
Dietmar Kanthak, Boon, Germany, 215

"Esteban and Aris are two wonderfully unsettling creatures as big as when two dancers harmonise.”
—Nicole Strecker, Boon, Germany, 2015

about ÁLVARO ESTEBAN

After years of working under the baton of different choreographers, companies and several choreographers, Álvaro begins to discover his personal movement supported by self-awareness techniques and meditation, giving emphasis to the development of awareness, all physical, emotional and energetic sense. Today, beside of been still part of the companies Cia. Daniel Abreu (ES) and CocoonDance (DE), he is looking forwards to new projects, following a work line that influences different configurations of the body, in it is absent - present , leading him into collaborations with other artists.
Álvaro co-created "Cuadra-T ” together with Natxo Montero, Finalist at the Choreographic Competition of Madrid 2008. Also co-created "Entomo" together with Elias Aguirre, a multi - awarded piece still on tour and with more than 100 performances worldwide.

More about Álvaro at vimeo or facebook

VITALY KIM / DAR / ÁLVARO ESTEBAN / LAURA ARIS

CUALQUIER MAÑANA FILM

 Cualquier Mañana film is an audiovisual production of DAR-Dance Academy Russia in collaboration with Kim.Video, after the dance duet created by Álvaro Esteban and Laura Aris in 2014, with original music score of Roger Marín. 

CREDITS

Title: Cualquier Mañana
Year of production: 2017
Country of production: Russia/Spain
Concept, choreography and performance by Laura Aris, Álvaro Esteban
(under the framework of “The Anatomy of Broken Things”)
Film director Vitaliy kim
Music and sound design by Roger Marín
Vocals by Manuela Kant
Drums by Ricard Monné
Costume arrangements by Heidi Ehrhart
Filmed and edited by KIM.VIDEO company
Vitaliy Kim, Evgeniya Kim, Nadejda Kohanova, Tatiyana Bronishevskaya
Production by Dance Academy Russia Galina Fedorova Viacheslav Nikolaev Anna Efimova Karina Shcherbakova Violetta Shamsutdinova Ekaterina Merkulova Tatiana Sorokina Ksenia Eismont Regina Starovoitova Alla Lyashchuk
In collaboration with Art Area, Kinostudia Lennauchfilm, Tkachi
With the support of Embassy of Spain in Russian Federation | Embajada de España en Moscú - Federación de Rusia.
Special thanks to HKAPA- Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Sarah Oliver, Eugeniya, Arseniy and little Leon Kim.

Technical aspects / Aspectos técnicos
Original format / formato original: DPS format weighs 56 GB or Full HD
Running time / tiempo duración: 20:58
Format — DCI
Codec — JPEG2000
Resolution — 1998 x 1080 (Flat)
Frame rate — 23.9760
Bit rate — 100 Mb/s
Audio settings:
Codec — Linear PCM
Channels — 6 (5,1)
Bit Depth — 1536 Kb/s
Sample rate — 48 kHz

ABOUT VITALY KIM

Vitaly Kim is a director, choreographer and film-maker from St.Petersburg. He is the head of STAGE DFT Company (DANCE FILM THEATRE), the main goal of which is the creation of dance films and performances, and moreover the promotion of dance film as a unique genre of art in Russia.

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ABOUT DAR - dance academy russia

Dance Academy Russia (DAR) is an educational center, based in St.Petersburg, Russia. DAR provides for high quality dance education and creation opportunities in St. Petersburg, worldwide and through its online courses. DAR organizes international project DASS, building connection to communities, institutes, companies and festivals in the area of Dance and Theater arts abroad and Festival DAR in Russia with pedagogical, performing and stage experience exchange between Russian dancers and foreign teachers and choreographers.

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Y-SPACE & GUEST

 IMPROVISATION LAND 48

Since 1998, Y-Space maintains a platform named “Improvisation Land”. It exists for artists of different media to meet and have an improvisational jam from time to time. In gathering artists from around the world and across the areas of dance, installation art, music, lighting design and visual arts, artists interact spontaneously - beyond the usual practice of choreographed performances. Being unpredictable could be risky, but it could also be a surprise. 
 

Artistic coordination & curation by Victor Choi-wo Ma
Created and performed by Laura Aris, Victor Ma, Katie Yau, Mandy Yim
Live music by Ocen Chan, Edmung Leung, Sacia Pellegrini
Video design by Adrian Yeung
Text documentary by Dora Lai
Administration by Candy Cheung
Photography by Ka Lam
Video documentary by Cheung Wai Lok Shing
Produced by Mandy Yim
 

About Y-Space

Dance artist Mandy Yim and Victor Choi-wo established Y-Space in 1995 in Hong Kong. The aim is to explore the infinite possibilities of performance through dance and to search for new dance languages and ways of performing. After 19 years, Y-Space is still dedicated to developing it's roots in local culture as it works with and supports international visions. Y-Space has cultivated spaces for creativity in local communities and schools, and they have a loyal public following.  International invitations and tours have taken Y-Space to 18 cities in 12 countries.

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IMPROVISATION LAND 48

Desde 1998, Y-Space creó una plataforma llamada "Improvisation Land" para unir a artistas de diferentes disciplinas y organizan sessiones de jamm juntos. Reunen a artistas de todo el mundo, de áreas de danza, música, diseño de iluminación, instalación o artes visuales, y los invitan a interactuaría espontáneamente, más allá de la práctica habitual de una representación coreográfica. Ser impredecibles puede ser arriesgado, pero también puede convertise en sorpresa.

SOBRE Y-SPACE

Los bailarines-creadores Mandy Yim y Victor Choi-wo establecen Y-Space en 1995 en Hong Kong. El objetivo es explorar las infinitas posibilidades de comunicación a través de la danza, y la búsqueda de nuevas lenguas y formas de actuación. Después de 19 años, Y-Space se ha dedicado a desarrollar discursos arraigados en su cultura, como también con influencias internacionales. Y-Space ha cultivado espacios de creatividad en escuelas y la comunidad local, así ha conseguido crear un público fiel a sus actividades y eventos. Y-Space ha recibido Invitaciones que le han llevado a visitar 18 ciudades en 12 países.

MICROACTIONS HONG KONG

GUERILLA PROJECT / CHAI WAN MEI / KARIN WEBER GALLERY

            ©Takao Komaru ©Aaron Tang ©Mandy Yim ©Karin Weber's gallery

In 2014, Laura was guest artist at Guerilla Project during the Art Basel - Hong Kong international exhibition at Chai Wan Mei, and she was guest artist at Karin Weber gallery in central Hong Kong.

MicroAcciones is a dance intervention project taking place in museums, art galleries or other, specific locations out of context from the theater. Initially created together with Jorge Jáuregui, MicroAcciones have been going on since 2011.

For Chai Wan Mei’s Art Guerilla Project, Laura Aris presented several new MicroAcciones. Some of them were part of the existing oeuvre, others were created specifically for the Industrial City - located in specific corners, elevators, or corridors of the building - still more were totally improvised, traveling through different locations.

Through physical interaction, performers addressed the specific architecture and design of the building, the art works exhibited, and the people visiting the place.

GUERILLA PROJECT / Chai Wan Mei
Concept and direction by Laura Aris
Performance by Laura Aris, Stéphanie Janaina, Edmund Leung
Technical support by Aaron Tang
Production by Chai Wan Mei in collaboration with Leslie Van Eyck
Thanks to Sara Olivier    

KARIN WEBER GALLERY
Performance by Laura Aris, Edmund Leung
Production by Alice Rensy
Thanks to Stéphanie Janaina and Sara Olivier

ABOUT STÉPHANIE JANAINA

Stéphanie is a French - Mexican dancer and producer with great interest in visual arts. She currently studies Visual Arts at Centre Saint Charles Université Paris 1 - Sorbonne, France and is engaged in many different artistic and pedagogical projects in Mexico.

Learn more about Stephanie at www.stephaniejanaina.com

ABOUT Edmund Leung

A liv­ing, breath­ing entity with major com­po­nents made of water, car­bon, min­er­als and other com­pounds. Atom­i­cally sta­ble, able to con­tem­plate the vast­ness of the uni­verse while smil­ing in the float­ing air, that is me, and also…Album producer / musician / ex-guitarist / song writer and vocal of Huh!?

More about Edmund at www.facebook.com/theinterzonecollective/
The Train - a Hangpan solo video
The Interzonecollective live video
Qualia (listen to the songs of Interzonecollective)
 

THIBAULT GREGOIRE

Portraits of dancers 'OFF"

©Thibault Gregoire

More about Thibault at www.thibaultgregoire.be

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THIBAULT GREGOIRE

Portraits of dancers 'OFF"

Más sobre Thibault www.thibaultgregoire.be

LA MACANA & EMBER

COLA DE GALLO

©Luis Castilla ©Gorka Bravo ©Miguel Ballestin ©Robert Madsen ©Lekus Leku

Cola de Gallo is a collaborative project created in 2010 by EMBER (Laura Aris & Jorge Jáuregui) and LA MACANA (Caterina Varela & Álexis Fernández).

The title, Cola de Gallo, is a literal Spanish translation of the word "cocktail." In this context, it embodies an artistic metaphor— an almost spontaneous, short-term creative process where immediacy brings together our raw, primal essences, fresh and unexpected. Driven by a shared curiosity to explore the universe we could create together, the result has been a blend of encounters across Galicia, Barcelona, and Bilbao.

‘Artistic cocktail of four performers who stand out for their strength and energy with an exceptional technical quality.’

Mes de Danza, October 2010, Seville (ES)

Created and performed by Laura Arís, Alexis Fernández, Jorge Jáuregui, Caterina Varela
Original music by Roger Marín
light design Double Track by Octavio Mas
Produced by Ember & La Macana

Together, they also created an evening-length composition featuring two duets and one quartet, titled DOUBLE TRACK (56’).

About LA MACANA

La Macana is a Spanish dance company founded by Caterina Varela and Alexis Fernández in 2009, based in Galicia (Spain). In their international career, they collaborate with different European artists and theatres, creating an eclectic and unique work with autobiography as its primary source of inspiration.

More about LA MACANA More about EMBER projects (Laura Aris/Jorge Jauregui)

(ESPAÑOL)

COLA DE GALLO

“…Cóctel artístico de cuatro intérpretes que destacan por su fuerza y energía
con una calidad técnica excepcional”
Mes de Danza, Octubre 2010 Sevill

Cola de Gallo es la traducción literal de la palabra cóctel. El nuestro es un cóctel artístico. Un proceso corto, casi espontáneo, donde recogimos desde la inmediatez las esencias primeras, frescas y repentinas. Resultado de encuentros entre Galicia, Barcelona y Bilbao. Un deseo mutuo por explorar el universo que se crea con esta fusión.  

SOBRE LA MACANA

La Macana es una compañía de danza española fundada por Caterina Varela y Alexis Fernández en 2009 y sede en Galicia. Más información www.lamacana.es

GERMÁN JÁUREGI & LAURA ARIS

Y DEL RESTO NO SÉ NADA

©María Zendrera ©Miguel Bellestín ©Trayectos ©Krea ©Sismògraf    

Y del Resto No sé Nada was a commissioned work for the festival Dies de Dansa in Barcelona in 2008. The choreographic material was originally created by Laura Aris and Germán Jáuregui for the Belgian dance company Ultima Vez, where both were members. Some of their choreographic material was used in the performances Sonic Boom and Puur as directed by Wim Vandekeybus.
Thanks to Wim and the Company for their permission and support.

Created & performed by Laura Aris Alvarez, Germán Jáuregui Allue
also performed by Jorge Jáuregui Allue
Music by 16 Horse Power, and an original track composed by Nubla

ABOUT Germán Jáuregui

Germán Jauregui is a Spanish director, choreographer, dancer and pedagogue based in Brussels. In 1998, he joined the company Ultima Vez/Wim Vandekeybus and worked as a dancer, movement assistance and rehearsal director. Since 2007, he has developed his own work, creating the pieces “Sunset on Mars” (2009),  “Confession” (2013) and“Isaac y Diola” (2016) together with the choreographer Antia Diaz.

More information about Germán is available at www.facebook.com/german.jauregui

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Y DEL RESTO NO Sé NADA

Una mujer pierde el sentido y reta a un hombre a recogerla a tiempo, antes de que se estrelle contra el suelo. Esta acción se repite una y otra vez. Podrán a prueba la confianza entre los dos, su voluntad, su resistencia, su perseverancia. Se ayudan, dependen del otro, comparten una misma carga. En definitiva, una historia de amor.

Y del Resto No sé Nada fue un trabajo de comisión para el festival Dies de Dansa en Barcelona en 2008. El material coreográfico fue creado originalmente por Laura Aris y Germán Jáuregui para la compañía belga Ultima Vez, donde ambos eran miembros. Parte del material coreográfico fue extraído de los espectáculos Sonic Boom y Puur, dirigidas por Wim Vandekeybus.
Gracias a Wim y la Compañía por su permiso y apoyo.

SOBRE GERMÁN JÁUREGUI

Germán Jauregui es director, coreógrafo, bailarín y pedagogo residente en Bruselas. En 1998 se incorpora a la Compañía Ultima Vez / Wim Vandekeybus y trabaja como bailarín, asistente de movimiento y repetidor. Desde 2007 desarrolla su propio trabajo, creando las piezas Sunset on Mars (2009),  Confession (2013), Isaac y Diola (2016) junto a la coreógrafa Antia Diaz.

Más sobre Germán www.facebook.com/german.jauregui