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Category Archives: Inspiration
Humans Move: Bodies at Risk
Jessie Brett – Dance artist: On Saturday 20 June 2020 we did something new, we performed live from 4 countries Ethiopia, Spain, England and Wales online. It was a new experience and experiment for all of us. We were surprised that it felt like performing live, just that we couldn’t hug or meet after theContinue reading “Humans Move: Bodies at Risk”
HumaNature by Hal Smith
A duet about glaciers and climate change. I like the way the soundtrack is used as a reference to the way climate change is speeding up. There’s some nice metaphorical movement that gives an impression of the narrative without being too obvious. Hal is a dancer, choreographer, teacher and fitness instructor – currently based inContinue reading “HumaNature by Hal Smith”
Talking Dance
When dancing; how much are our minds wondering? How much of our understanding of the world is built on how we fantasized the world to be as we grew up? We are often told to be in a ‘now’ from a performative perspective, but what is this ‘now’ built of? How do we construct itContinue reading “Talking Dance”
IF I WERE A BIRD
If I were a bird..what species would it be?what colour | size | weight?how long is my tail | wings? what would I tell my fellow flock on the other side of the planet if I could fly there?what would my most beautiful dance look like? Dance-artist:Susanna Voiushina (Russia) Inspired by:Henna Räsänen (Finland)Maya Mi SamuelsenContinue reading “IF I WERE A BIRD”
KARLSØYA E MIN PLASS, IKKE KAPITALISTAN SIN DASS
Performance tonight at Karlsøyfestivalen, 19:30 Norwegian time Remix of MITT OPPRØR MOT OPPDRITT / RAGE AGAINST THE FISH FARM MACHINE and a work in progress for my piece in OUT OF URGENCY. THIS IS MY LAND KARLSØYA E MIN PLASS, IKKE KAPITALISTAN SIN DASS! Watch it here: Forsiden Photo: MITT OPPRØR MOT OPPDRITT / RAGEContinue reading “KARLSØYA E MIN PLASS, IKKE KAPITALISTAN SIN DASS”
OUT OF URGENCY: Æ elske måsen!
Da e vi i full gang med MOVING BARENTS: OUT OF URGENCY Det e mye klaging på måsen for tida, så hær kommer en dans til ære for måsen! Menneskan Menneskam
DACHA PROJECT
Susanna Voiushina & Dmitrii Melnikov (Arkhangelsk | RUS) Many of us (especially at the time of Covid) were trying to escape from big cities and move to the countryside.We are willing to live closer to nature, feeling it makes us healthier and happier.We prefer to stay in our own house with some small garden insteadContinue reading “DACHA PROJECT”
Making art for the new normal
Oakland-based band Thao and the Get Down Stay Down had planned to be on tour this Spring, but have been stuck in their homes in quarantine. Instead, they have turned their energies to making a music video for their new single. Equipped with stable wi-fi and metronomes, the band created, rehearsed and shot this videoContinue reading “Making art for the new normal”
Tomi Knuutila: Dances with Datafeeds
Information has been used in artistic practises for quite some time. For simplicity’s sake in this post I mostly talk about information (or data) visualisation and sonification (changing data to sound). This should be thought of as a smaller subset of a bigger, amorphous field of creative practices, often referred to as Information Arts, orContinue reading “Tomi Knuutila: Dances with Datafeeds”
Mindfulness
Yesterday John asked me to post some thoughts I had shared with Tanja and him via Email. They had just informed us all the residency I would present to next week had been cancelled because of coronavirus. In my Email reply to the news, I wrote: I remember a dream I had many years ago,Continue reading “Mindfulness”
FRIKAR: SKAUT
The new show from Norwegian company Frikar is touring Norway this Spring. Looks good.
Samuli Junttila – Utilizing multispectral lidar in the detection of declined trees
Dance your PhD 2019 Physics category winner by Samuli Junttila A novel technology measures the health condition of trees The World’s forests are facing novel stress due to climate change. Pest insects and pathogens are shifting towards new latitudes and heat stress is resulting in increased tree mortality and more frequent forest fires globally. RemoteContinue reading “Samuli Junttila – Utilizing multispectral lidar in the detection of declined trees”
Weather Blankets
People Are Knitting, Crocheting, and Weaving Tangible Records of Temperature Changes In an effort to make the ongoing effects of climate change more visible, needleworkers around the globe are creating temperature blankets and scarves that track local weather patterns. Earlier this month, writer Josie George began an expansive Twitter thread about the project, motivating others to share their similarContinue reading “Weather Blankets”
Hilde Ingeborg Sandvold
NOTES: For the meeting in Luleå, I was asked to make a presentation of my work, and some thoughts on what are the strategies that I follow when I make. These notes gives an insight to what happened: WHO AM I? I am a Norwegian (danish based) dance artist. I graduated from the Danish NationalContinue reading “Hilde Ingeborg Sandvold”
Marit Shirin Carolasdotter
https://dotraproductions.com/ Marit ran a dance class each morning in Luleå and gave a presentation of her work, focussing on her residencies in Japan and her current project: Humans and Soil
Louise Fontain: Uluga atorpara
Markus Öhrn & Institutet
Institutet är en svensk teatergrupp som startades 2008 i Malmö och sedan 2018 har flyttat sin verksamhet till Vitsaniemi i Tornedalen efter att den nya konstnärliga ledaren Markus Öhrn har tagit över verksamheten efter grundaren av gruppen Anders Carlsson har tillträtt som professor i skådespeleri på TEAK i Helsingfors.
Dancing on the Margins of Climate Change 