Featuring Brazilian artist Thiago Granato and the collaboration between Dance is ancient, Milvus Artistic Research Center and Dans i Blekinge, the program for our last event of the season, from dance practice to performance, conversations and party, is an invitation to delve into how we care for dance and the poetics of trance.
Price: Completely free of charge thanks to the support of Malmö stad, Region Skåne and Kulturrådet
Age restriction workshop: Adults (from 16 yo)
Age restriction performance: Recommended from age 10 and up
Language workshop & talks: English
Language performances: none
Info: come for the whole day and evening, or at the beginning of each programme point
Note: the performance includes loud music
PROGRAMME
15.00 - 17.00 · Technosomatics workshop
Technosomatics is a unique dance practice that delves into the connection between club dancing to techno music and the body's chakras and endocrine glands. Developed and shared globally by Frédéric Gies since 2014, this practice offers a transformative experience. Booking recommended
17.00 - 17.30 · Mingle & Buffet
Mingle and enjoy our buffet in the foyer.
17.30 - 18.30 · ‘Care for dance’ presentation
Rebecca Yates, Rachel Tess and Frédéric Gies present their on-going investigation and collaborative project “Care for dance”. “Care for dance” is an ongoing investigation into how we create, host, support, produce, and disseminate dance. In the beginning of 2024 an alliance was formed between Dance is ancient director Frédéric Gies, Dans i Blekinge artistic director Rebecca Yates, and MARC director Rachel Tess, who noted the need for a space for critical discourse and solidarity amongst artist-driven platforms in the south.
18.30 - 19.00 · Mingle & Buffet
Mingle and enjoy our buffet in the foyer.
19.00 - 20.00 · Trança by Thiago Granato (performance)
In Trança, to the soundtrack by the São Paulo based DJ and music producer Márcio Vermelho, Thiago Granato invites us to a tactile excursion where sound and movement intertwine on vertiginous surfaces and temporalities. Through a choreography of hands, Thiago Granato accelerates transformation processes where different forces are translated into signs, promoting an investigation on the body's power to create contexts that shape new ways of life. The piece is part of a larger body of work entitled CHOREOVERSATIONS, a research on different imaginary collaborations between dead and living choreographers, as well as those not born yet.
Concept, direction, choreography and performance: Thiago Granato / Invited choreographers (interlocutores): Cristian Duarte e João Saldanha / Direction assistance and co-creation: Sandro Amaral / Original track and sound designing: Márcio Vermelho / Costume adviser: Paula Ströher
20.00 - 21.00 · Artist talk
Frédéric Gies, Rachel Tess and Rebecca Yates converse with Thiago Granato and the audience, around Thiago’s Trança and the topic of ‘Care for dance’.
22.00 - late · Party !
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Photos : Haroldo Saboia
About Thiago Granato
Photo: Jan Fedinger
Thiago Granato is a Brazilian choreographer currently based in Berlin. His performances have been presented in different countries as Brazil, Israel, Spain, Portugal, Austria, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Italy, France, Holland, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Lebanon and Korea. From 2013 to 2014, he was a fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, where he developed his ongoing choreographic research project, CHOREOVERSATIONS. This project explores imagined collaborations between Thiago and deceased, living, and future choreographers. Kundalini Yoga has been a foundational practice in his creative process as a dance maker and choreographer, preparing the body for somatic approach to movement research.
About Dans i Blekinge
Dans i Blekinge's vision is a Blekinge where professional dancers want and can live and work, where dance is a natural and integral part of the performing arts environment, utilizing its geographical location for artistic exchanges nationally and internationally. It aims to create a dynamic space for production and participation, serving as a platform for the dissemination of dance art and its presence, where artists and audiences can share influences, ideas, and inspiration. Rebecca Yates is the artistic director of the organization.
About MARC
Photo : Kajsa Rolfsson
Milvus Artistic Research Center (MARC), under the direction of Rachel Tess, is located in Knislinge. It offers an environment for artistic research outside the context of the big city. MARC invite artists within the fields of choreography, dance, and visual artists with a relationship to performance to participate in residencies at the center year-round. Through the residency program, it provides a platform where performance practices, working modes, and methodologies are questioned, and new work is created and shared between artists and audiences.
About Dance is ancient
Photo : Thomas Zamolo
Dance is ancient is an initiative for artistic creation and for the development of public encounters in the field of dance and choreography under the direction of Frédéric Gies. It is an artist-led organization , a production and touring structure for Frédéric Gies work , an audience-focused context and curating organ for presenting own and guest performances and a platform for the transmission and production of both practical and theoretical knowledge in the field of dance through workshops, discussions, mentorship and research.