Kitt Johnson, Adi Salant, Mute Comp, Sara Gebran & Charlotte Schioler (Denmark)-(DAB members);
Mute Comp Kobenhavn www.dansenhus.dk
http://www.danstidningen.se/index.php?pageId=21&subId=60&PHPSESSID=9f806b1659038f24744f14d9459e6fa6
Adi Salant http://www.danstidningen.se/index.php?pageId=21&subId=226
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Sara Gebran
Copenhagen Denmark www.public-e.dk
in http://www.danishperformingarts.info/253000c citation:
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A Feminine Warrior
Sara Gebran, Venezuelan/Danish/Lebanese choreographer, performer. Born
1964 in Venezuela, resident in Denmark since 1996. Graduated in 1992 as a dancer
from the Instituto Superior de Danza, Caracas, and began working as a
choreographer in 1993. She is the artistic director of the company Public Eye.
Artist Profile
Sara Gebran’s work is performance art – a melting pot of dance, gestural
expressions and sounds, combined with a rawness and an unpolished edge, full of
explosive energy. Gebran’s works are loaded with social and political subjects,
mixing seriousness with satire and sarcasm. She introduces provocative thoughts
to the spectators, provokes them and contradicts them in constant challenging
interaction with the spectator, indirectly as well as directly. Gebran explores
movement in relation to sound and space, taking off in the dancer’s individual
expressions and their physicality. She builds up her work out off fragmented
scenes, movements and rhythms, resulting in “…a different way of choreographing
carried through with femininity and raw-power”. – Weekend Avisen (DK). She has
been described as “…a post-modern, psycho-Pina spin on American TV’s Charlie’s
Angels”. She received the international price of the Bergnolet/Scandinavian
Platform with She Shrinks in 1999. She is now touring in Europe and the Middle
East. She currently teaches professional dancers and dance students in Denmark
and abroad.
Current Productions
Il n'y as pas de pommes au paradis
(2006)
Based on components from Waiting for Godot, The Anticrist, El Desbarrancadero
of Fernando Vallejos, and a number of religious rituals, assembled in an
irrational pattern. The idea of paradise, as described to us by different power
structures, rules and norms, is examined, as well as the possibility of breaking
from it.
Language: Spanish and English. Could be done in Arab and French.
Review Extracts
“The volcanic Venezuelan Sara Gebran with sharp humour…”
Le Figaro (FR), Frontiers, June 2004
“An invitation to close combat – just bring it on… Gebran plays with political
and personal boundaries … Gebran’s strength is that she can be amazingly
audacious with the sweetest smile. ... This sort of political dimension is much
needed in the dance milieu’s otherwise so silent public, ‘lost in abstraction.’”
Politiken (DK), Frontiers, April 2004
"...Gebran, whom the gentlemen Buñuel and Dalí might have found amusing if they
had met, is reminiscent of a bizarre Beckett-figure [...] a clown of
multiculturalism [...] She confronts the audience with an otherness that opens
for reflection. In some ways the aesthetic resemble the "beauty warriors" solos
created by Jan Fabre for strong women, but Gebran is less sophisticated, more
politically direct and feministic. The performance creates an appetite for more.
A woman who makes apple-sauce out of cultural codes and the concept of gender is
woth exploring."
Svenska Dagbladet (SE), Il n'y as pas de pommes au paradis, March 2006
International Tours
2007
February & September/November:
”Exchanging memories of movements” a research project with arab and scandinavian
dancers, the local artist and audience, aiming to involve the audiences in
creative exchange with the performers. It consist of three parts. Part one:
February 2007, a month residens and exchange at Dramatiska Institute and Weld
performance center (Stockholm/SE)
March/April: Recidency in Rio de Janeiro with 20 choreogrphers from
Europe and Latinamerica, to create new works followed by tour in Barzil Barzil
at the end of the period.
April/May: Il n'y as pas de pommes au paradis tour in the Middle
East (Beirut, Amman, Tunis, Jerusalem, Ramallah). Combined with teaching dance
workshops.
June: Symposium Bard, Dance Across Borders, ll n'y as pas de pommes au
paradis (NY/USA)
September: Scandinavian tour of ”Exchanging memories of movements”
2006
November 18-21.: Tour Il n'y as pas de pommes au paradis at
Panorama Festival in Rio de Janeiro and San Gonzalo in Brazil.
August: Prem
August: Premier of ”LAA MA ´FI” (No there isn’t) a performance for 3 Arab
dancers for ”Images of the Middle East” (Copenhagen/DK)
May: 3 weeks research in Tunis, Damascus and Beirut. Supported by DCCD,
in relation to the summer project LAA MA´FI for ”Images of the Middle East”
(Copenhagen/DK) and for the research project ”Exchanging memories of movements”
for 2007.
Grand Theatre of Gröningen (Gröningen/NL)
Baggårdteatret (Svendborg/DK)
Moderna Dansteatern (Stockholm/SE)
Dance Festival Kiosk.ShotCuts (Hamburg/DE)
Show Case (Copenhagen/DK)
Venezuelan festival solos and duets (Copenhagen/DK)
2005
Sophiensaele (Berlin/DE)
The Danish Institute (Damascus/SY)
Théâtre Duchamp (Rouen/FR)
Festival Dream Shot (Antwerp/BE)
Theatre WARD EL SHAMS, Beirut (Beirut/LB)
BIT Teatergarasjen (Bergen/NO)
2004
Festival Uzès Danse (Uzès/FR)
Fools 25 – 25th Anniversary of Copenhagen International Theatre (KIT)
(Copenhagen/DK)
Festival Danza Málaga (Malaga & Ronda/ES)
Festival Danse à Aix-en-Provence (FR)
Kit http://www.kittjohnson.dk/ !!!!!
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Kitt Johnson - Presentation Kitt Johnson is a loner. Through her wide-ranging work with the language of choreography, a unique sense for space and stage effects plus her sublime body control, she has created a personal expression and sureness of style. This has placed her as one of the most respected Danish choreographers. Both in Denmark and internationally there is great interest for her distinctive artistic universe. Kitt Johnson is known as a major solo performer, although her work covers a wider spectrum. She has worked extensively with site-specific projects throughout Europe and, in recent years, has created a series of ensemble works, which have challenged her artistic vision. Kitt Johnson is artistic director of the company X-act. Since 1992 she has, with X-act, worked with the Swedish composer and musician Sture Ericson. Since 1997 other artists have been connected to the group, among these the light designer Mogens Kjempff and costume designer Charlotte Østergaard - both Danes - and the Greek born visual artist, performer and writer, Theofanis K. Melàs. Background Kitt Johnson was born in 1959. After 12 years of practicing elite sports, and a bachelor's degree in Sports from the University of Odense, she started dancing as a 24 year old. She took part in numerous workshops in Denmark as well as abroad within the fields of modern, new dance, contact improvisation, martial arts, German expressionistic theatre and butoh. As a dancer, performer and choreographer Kitt Johnson has worked with Mark Tompkins (F), Nobert Stockheim (D), Sacha Waltz (D), Anita Saij (DK) and Yumiko Yoshioka (D) among others. |
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in http://www.kittjohnson.dk/filer/d/prt/prt_lemonkeepers.html
Sara
http://www.danishperformingarts.info/21c000c
http://www.intermezzo.as/dancediffusion/filer/mailinglist.html
citation:
According to French newspaper Liberation, dance from the North spellbound the audience with the following programme; Kitt Johnson - "The Mirror", Ari Rosenzweig - "Aetude" - Mute Comp. - "Waterloop". These performances were also be featured at Dansecenen's 10th. anniversary Dance Marathon 11th. - 13th. September.
Kitt Johnson's North American debut with "Stigma" at the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival in July marked a successful week of the reintroduction of an old "Pillow" tradition: The mixed programme (together with Vincent Mantsoe). The welcome of the Pillow community as well as the public and the press contributed to an overwhelming experience.
Website:
Village Voice Review of "Stigma"
At Summerdance in Santa Barbara Ari and Hagit Rosenzweig felt no less welcome. The stage was set for an inspiring and productive week with several performances and culminated with the presentation of a new work called "Grejs". "Grejs" was also performed and received with enthusiasm at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles together with Rosenzeig's other works "Jerry", "Jingele o Maidele" and "Aetyde".
Welcome
A warm welcome is extended to Sara Gebran, whose company Public Eye is now participating in the dance diffusion initiative. Sara's present tour repertory consists of the highly acclaimed performance "Butcher's House". "Butcher's House" is a journey through storytelling, mixing reality and fiction, humor and sarcasm, sadness and happiness, gender identities and sexual orientation, cultural diversity and stereotypes.
Also available for touring is "Cross Me". This short piece (a political dance piece that uses humor to criticize the Middle East war invasion and portrays our reaction to the post war situation, through our guilty, lazy charity support of the Red Cross) is the first of four pieces being created this winter. The pieces can either be included in mixed programmes or put together for a full evening.
Kitt Johnson / X-act on Tour
In connection with the Danserotation tour of Denmark Kitt Johnson is touring with the award winning performance "The Mirror" together with composer and musician Sture Ericson and light designer Mogens Kjempff. The dates are: 24th. September at Viborg Teater, 30th. September at Teaterhuset in Odense and 8th. October at Entré Scenen in Århus. Should you want to see a performance at one of these venues, please let me know.
Website:
Information about "The Mirror"
http://www.kittjohnson.dk/filer/d/prt/prt_lemonkeepers.html
Sara
http://www.danishperformingarts.info/21c000c
http://www.intermezzo.as/dancediffusion/filer/mailinglist.html
According to French newspaper Liberation, dance from the North spellbound the audience with the following programme; Kitt Johnson - "The Mirror", Ari Rosenzweig - "Aetude" - Mute Comp. - "Waterloop". These performances were also be featured at Dansecenen's 10th. anniversary Dance Marathon 11th. - 13th. September.
Kitt Johnson's North American debut with "Stigma" at the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival in July marked a successful week of the reintroduction of an old "Pillow" tradition: The mixed programme (together with Vincent Mantsoe). The welcome of the Pillow community as well as the public and the press contributed to an overwhelming experience.
Website:
Village Voice Review of "Stigma"
At Summerdance in Santa Barbara Ari and Hagit Rosenzweig felt no less welcome. The stage was set for an inspiring and productive week with several performances and culminated with the presentation of a new work called "Grejs". "Grejs" was also performed and received with enthusiasm at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles together with Rosenzeig's other works "Jerry", "Jingele o Maidele" and "Aetyde".
Welcome
A warm welcome is extended to Sara Gebran, whose company Public Eye is now participating in the dance diffusion initiative. Sara's present tour repertory consists of the highly acclaimed performance "Butcher's House". "Butcher's House" is a journey through storytelling, mixing reality and fiction, humor and sarcasm, sadness and happiness, gender identities and sexual orientation, cultural diversity and stereotypes.
Also available for touring is "Cross Me". This short piece (a political dance piece that uses humor to criticize the Middle East war invasion and portrays our reaction to the post war situation, through our guilty, lazy charity support of the Red Cross) is the first of four pieces being created this winter. The pieces can either be included in mixed programmes or put together for a full evening.
Kitt Johnson / X-act on Tour
In connection with the Danserotation tour of Denmark Kitt Johnson is touring with the award winning performance "The Mirror" together with composer and musician Sture Ericson and light designer Mogens Kjempff. The dates are: 24th. September at Viborg Teater, 30th. September at Teaterhuset in Odense and 8th. October at Entré Scenen in Århus. Should you want to see a performance at one of these venues, please let me know.
Website:
Information about "The Mirror"
http://www.intermezzo.as/dancediffusion/filer/mailinglist.html
Charlotte Schioler site:
Charlotte Schioler (Denmark)
charlotte schioler , her site plus www.on-line-dance.tv
site and photos (c) www.on-line-dance.tv maginel paris 2006