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Integral video coverage of the keynote that Howard Rheingold presented on April 2nd 2013 at Utrecht University. The keynote was part of a special event focusing on Howard Rheingold’s ideas on media literacy and his book Net Smart, organized by Mediawijzer.net (the Dutch media literacy network), together with the research program Cultures & Identities and [...]

Previsto para finales de 2013, Fuera de escena, es un nuevo documental de Alejandra Aguirre en colaboración con Danza Contemporánea de Cuba. Intentar responder a qué es un bailarín es, desde el inicio, un pretexto para nuevas interrogantes y sobre todo para construir una historia en torno al universo danzario, pero de forma más concreta en torno al bailarín -si acaso cabe demarcar ciertas diferencias. Qué es un bailarín no es más que el punto de partida a nuevas interrogantes relacionadas con el cuerpo, el instinto, la identidad, la profesión, la escena, el “artista” y su realidad. Testimonios, modos de vida, procesos de montajes, reflexiones, quejas y aspiraciones; forman parte de esta película grabada entre Cuba, España y Alemania.

Maaike Bleeker: Thinking Through Theatre Published in Deleuze and Performance. Edited by Laura Cull, Edinburgh University Press, 2009 Maaike Bleeker. “You Better Think!. Het denk-theater van Ivana Müller en Carly Wijsz/Ryszart Turbiasz” in: Theater Topics 2: De Maker als onderzoeker. Edited by Maaike Bleeker, Lucia van Heteren, Chiel Kattenbelt and Kees Vuyk. Amsterdam University Press, [...]

Anne Balsamo offers several lessons about culture and innovation based on her experiences as an educator, a design researcher, and entrepreneur.

Performative dialogue “On Time” between Bojana Kunst & Ivana Müller; presented in the context of a residency at Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, Paris, France, november 2011 and as a part of Performance Studies International (PSI) Conference, Athens, Greece, november 2011

MocApp allows you to view & sequence motion capture data in the .htr format. The app builds a simple stick figure from the joint structure of the take.

Mass Ornament (2009) single-channel video installation
Natalie Bookchin’s new video installation, Mass Ornament, choreographs hundreds of YouTube dance videos to create an dazzling artwork that also questions contemporary isolation and connection via screens, cameras and technology.
In Mass Ornament a mass dance is constructed from hundreds of clips from YouTube of people dancing alone in their roo

Motion Bank is a four year project (2010-2013) of The Forsythe Company providing a broad context for research into choreographic practice. The main focus is on the creation of on-line digital scores in collaboration with guest choreographers* to be made publicly available via the Motion Bank website. Both these unique score productions and development of related teaching applications are being undertaken with and relying on the expertise and experience of key collaborative partners.

As we expect more from technology, do we expect less from each other? Sherry Turkle studies how our devices and online personas are redefining human connection and communication — and asks us to think deeply about the new kinds of connection we want to have.

The 18 minute “Connecting” documentary is an exploration of the future of Interaction Design and User Experience from some of the industry’s thought leaders.

An excerpt from the feature documentary, Artists in Exile: A Story of Dance in San Francisco. This clip highlights Contraband, a highly physical multidisciplinary dance company active in the Bay Area from the 1980′s -1990′s.

This clip highlights Anna Halprin, a post-modern dance and performance pioneer active in the Bay Area from the 1950′s through today.

As warm, syncretic and eclectic as Brazil itself, the Museumnacht evening at the Oude Kerk offered art from Brazil and the Netherlands that deals with the idea of ritual in its most open sense. New, traditional and invented rituals for happy healing and more, made this an evening to listen, feel, see and enjoy. FULL BRAZILIAN AND OTHER RITUALS was part of the Brazil Festival Amsterdam.

FLAM is a platform for diverse performance practices and approaches. FLAM focuses on the live gesture as defining an extended territory of performance art that goes beyond the body, and exposes it to a variety of different media and environments: sound, text, image, digital media, sculpture, painting and the city as a scene of action.

Forum of Live Art (FLAM) is a platform for diverse performance practices and approaches. FLAM focuses on the live gesture as defining an extended territory of performance art that goes beyond the body, and exposes it to a variety of different media and environments: sound, text, image, digital media, sculpture, painting and the city as a scene of action.

The long form trailer for “Lakou Mizik” a multi-media celebration of Haitian music and culture.
Support the voices of Haiti – Support Lakou Mizik at: lakoumizik.com

Lina Srivastava is a social innovation strategist combining culture, activism and storytelling. On February 12, she gave a Medea Talk on narrative platforms for social change.
Lina Srivastava is a social innovation strategist, combining culture, activism, and storytelling. She is the creator of the “transmedia activism” framework and has provided strategic project design to a group of social impact organizations, including UNESCO, MobileActive, Shine Global and BYkids. On February 12, she will give a Medea Talk about narrative platforms for social change.

Views On Dance: Xavier Le Roy and Boyan Manchev in conversation at HZT Berlin
05.12.2012 I 18:00 Uhr

The CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY AND DIGITAL PERFORMANCE at Brunel University, London, invites you to: Daniel Ploeger “Thinking Critical/Looking Sexy” January 30, 2013 Cultural theorist Rob Cover (2003) has suggested that the unstable character of relational contexts in postmodern culture results in all nudity potentially signifying sexuality. Accordingly, I suggest that the presentation of naked bodies [...]

From 6 to 9 July 2012 the Festival DIES DE DANSA held its 21st edition with many contemporary dance companies in different venues of Barcelona. We thank to dancers their participation as well as to collaborators and organizations that helped making this artistic and human event happen. Thanks also to all the team and especially to the public, without whom the festival would have no sense!