Not Festival: lovelier, the second time around

Day 4. September 19th, 2013.

Today: Classes and Workshops at Statens Scenekunstskole. Performances and Conversations at PB43

To buy tickets for today's performance click here: http://billetto.dk/mixed4

More information about all the activities at http://www.laramalvacias.org 

• Contemporary Dance Classes. Taught by Ursula Robb (former dancer of Rosas - Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker).  9:30 to 11:30
• Improvisation Class. Taught by Anika Borkan. Open to all levels. 12:00 to 14:00.
• Experiential Anatomy. Taught by Jeremy Nelson. Open to all levels. 12:30 to 14:30.
• Workshop: Umbilical Chord Workshop Daniel Schorno: 'Umbilical Chords' - or treading a playful path in dealing with issues of sound, movement and interactivity in Music & Dance'. 14:45 to 17:30. 

• Lecture Presentation: My Body is Every Body by Carolina Bäckman.”My Body is Every Body is an attempt to use dance as a tool to discover and present a relationship between historical and present time”. 17:00 to 17:45. PB43. 
• Lecture: “Mary Wigman” by Michael Netschajeff. 18:00 to 18:45. PB43. 
• Lecture Performance by Luis Lara Malvacias /3RD CLASS CITIZEN……”Me an Idiot”. (work in Progress). 19:15 to 20:00. PB43.

 • NOT FESTIVAL PERFORMANCES 4: 20:30 at PB43. Performances include choreography, video, sound and performance art works by: Ursula Eagly & My Lindblad. Dance / DANCE FORCE 40+. Dance /  Daniel Schorno Live Sound Performance / Video. (TBA).
 

The installation “Public Privates” and screening of videos from the Hong Kong video project "translation(s)" continues.

Not Festival: lovelier, the second time around

Day 5.  September 20th, 2013.
Today:  Classes, Workshops, Performances and Conversations at Statens Scenekunstskole.

To buy tickets for today's performance click here: http://billetto.dk/xavierleroy

More information about all the activities at http://www.laramalvacias.org 

• Contemporary Dance Classes. Taught by Ursula Robb (former dancer of Rosas - Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker).  9:30 to 11:30.
• Voice and Text class taught by Mads Hammer Larsen. 11:30 to 13:15
• Workshop: Umbilical Chord Workshop Daniel Schorno: 'Umbilical Chords' - or treading a playful path in dealing with issues of sound, movement and interactivity in Music & Dance' 14:00 to 17:00


NOT FESTIVAL PERFORMANCES 5. “self unfinished” by Xavier Le Roy.
19:00 at Statens Scenekunstskole.

  “A chair, a desk, a soundtrack, that doesn't start. A dancer in a shirt uses strong sound effects to imitate a robot. Indeed an understandable, even
  conventional idea, that is until  Xavier Le Roy' s (1963, France) play turns into a gripping mental space. Head over heels, the dancer' s body is transformed in a real time into a series of hallucinogenic morphological aberrations, representing images of body that reconfigures itself based to unwritten laws and a disquieting, inhuman rhythm. It undergoes long stases, makes infinite movements and begins to crawl abruptly. In addition to the torsion carried out in the "spectacle de danse" (dance performance), Xavier Le Roy taps into a new field where scientific and social data is transferred and imprinted in imaginary representations of the body."  Francois Piron in the journal des arts of Connivence, 6th Biennale de Lyon.
THE PERFORMANCE WILL BE FOLLOWED BY A CONVERSATION / TALK WITH XAVIER LE ROY ABOUT HIS WORK. Moderated by Monna Dithmer.  20:15

Not Festival: lovelier, the second time around.

Day 6. September 21st, 2013.
Today: Classes, Workshops, Performances and conversations at Staten Scenekunstskolen. 

To buy tickets for today's performance click herehttp://billetto.dk/fabianbarba    

More information about all the activities and fees at http://www.laramalvacias.org

• Contemporary Dance Classes. Taught by Jeremy Nelson. All levels. 10:00 to 12:00.
• Acrobatics Class. Taught by Esther Wrobel. All levels.12:15 to 13:45.
• Collective Brunch (bring your own). Brunch. 13:45 to 15:45. Meet, talk, socialize and network with other Not Festival participants and guests.
• UNVEILED/BLOCK 2: WorkinProgress. 15:45 to 17:15.
A block of ½ hour per person (including performance and feedback) will be given to Not Festival participants’ (teachers, performers, artists, students, etc.) to show work in progress and get feedback. The idea is to start a dialogue that could benefit their process. The participation in this activity is on a first-come first-served basis. FREE.
 
• NOT FESTIVAL PERFORMANCES 6: “A Mary Wigman Dance Evening” by Fabian Barba.

Fabian Barba. Image by Helmut Hergarten

19:00  at Statens Scenekunstskole.
  “In a thin-strapped dress Mr. Barba wafted his wrists girlishly. With his face and body shrouded in red fabric, tight around the neck like a napkin ghost, or wielding a pole within his costume to make it billow, he suggested what Martha Graham might have seen in Wigman. And the costuming raised other questions of history and authenticity. Did Wigman actually wear, as Mr. Barba did, a hoop dress of see-through mesh? Through that mesh Mr. Barba’s hairy chest was visible, but gender bending did not seem to be the point. His fidelity laid bare the monotony in Wigman’s work. His precision underlined its foursquare connection to the music, whether repetitive piano figures or gongs.” Brian Seibert. The New York Times.
THE PERFORMANCE WILL BE FOLLOWED BY A CONVERSATION WITH FABIAN BARBA  ABOUT THIS WORK. 20:15 

Not Festival: An atypical point of view, if you allow me. October 22nd to 27th, 2012.

For classes, workshops and general 
information on the NOT FESTIVAL 
activities, visit: http://laramalvacias.org/NF2012ClassDesc..html
 Remember to reserve a place by e-mailing:   
notfestival@gmail.com.
cheers.

                 NOT FESTIVAL TEAM.

Not Festival: An atypical point of view, if you allow. October 22nd to 27th, 2012.

The Not Festival: An atypical point of view, if you allow me will take place from October 22nd to 27th, 2012. It will serve as a platform for experimentation, creation, presentation and open dialogues. It consists of a series of performances and installations, jams, screenings, lectures and discussions of topics that are relevant to contemporary dance, performance and art today, as well as contemporary dance classes and workshops. All the activities will be created, developed and presented at Dansehallerne.
                                             
It is a kaleidoscopic new media artistic object created by Luis Lara Malvacías. It is ephemeral, erratic and nomadic. Through the use of old and new technologies and media, it embraces the ideas of global artistic collaboration and the cross-cultural, interdisciplinary, DIY attitudes. It exists outside the realm of the establishment, which implies generally non-existing financial support. However, its inclusive nature allows it to move inside and outside of institutions and at the same time to avoid the institutional restrictions. This political “object” aims to fight the standardized and systematized commodification of the arts. Thus, it is NOT a FESTIVAL.

The event also questions the boundaries and definitions of the generally accepted roles of the “presenter” and the “presented”. Participant artists are encouraged to play an active role in managing and facilitating it, and to use their creativity not only in their own work but also in the creation of the event itself. For instances, My Linblad and Gry Raaby , two Copenhagen-based choreographers/ dancers are helping to coordinate and organize a team of other Copenhagen-based artists. The Dance Department of the  Statens Scenekunstskole has agreed to be part of this and to help to co-produce part of the event, as this will be of great benefit for its students. In every edition of the Not Festival a conceptual framework is offered to the participants and it is embedded in the title chosen for each occasion. The title chosen for the Copenhagen edition, Not Festival: An atypical point of view, if you allow me, is open to the artists’ own interpretations. 

Among others, activities include contemporary dance classes taught by Jeremy Nelson; Movement and Sound taught by Brussels based composer  Matteo Fargion ( long time Jonathan Burrows' collaborator); Controlling sound and video in performances with Junxion software, lead by Amsterdam based sound artist Ivo Bol; Improvisation and composition workshop by Lucy Suggate; and Feldenkrais workshop taught by New York based teacher/choreographer Jimena Paz. The exhibitions, performances and lectures involve local and international artists.

There are many ways in which people can get involved and participate. They can take the classes and workshops, show a work in progress or show an old short piece during the evening performances or create one in the space facilitated by the Not Festival, they can participate in the lectures or come to see the performances and screenings. There are many more ways to be part of the Not Festival. For a full program of the activities or for more information on classes and workshop fees, discounts for participants, etc. please feel free to contact notfestival@gmail.com or lmalvacias@aol.com. All the information is available at www.laramalvacias.org and in http://www.facebook.com/pages/NotFestival/156871124451577

NOT FESTIVAL: DAY 1

DAY 1:

Fees: Individual Classes: Dk60 / Films screenings: Dk30 / Dk120 for the whole day activities with the exception of the workshop CREATIVE CONTROL (Workshop fee for the whole week: DK500).

• Movement Improvisation and Composition Class.  "Making something out of nothing". Taught by Lucy Suggate. 9:30 11:30 Open to all levels. (Upstairs Studio).
Jeremy Nelson by Susanne Lencinas.

• Contemporary Dance Classes. Taught by Jeremy Nelson.
12:30 – 14:30. (Store Carl)

• UNVEILED/BLOCK 1: WorkinProgress. 14:45 to 16:15. A block of  ½ hour per person will be given to Not Festival participants’ (teachers, performers, artists, students, etc) to show Work in Progress and get feedback. The idea is to start a dialogue that could benefit their process. The participation in this activity is on a first-come first-served basis. (Lille Carl). FREE

• Workshop: CREATIVE CONTROL: Controlling sound and video in performances and installations with Junction. Lead by Amsterdam based sound artist Ivo Bol.  16:30 to 19:30. This workshop for musicians, dancers, VJ's and installation artists will be about working with the JunXion software to control sound and video using cameras, USB game controllers and Wii remote. It involves learning the technology and using it to create a performance to be presented as part of the Not Festival activities. (Lille Carl).
Image: Virgil Wong

• Portrait Of The Artists With Black Framed Glasses. First Session: 19:30 to 20:30. Skype Artists Talk and Collective Dinner. 5 artists who work in different artistic disciplines ( dance, installations, performances, new technologies, graphic design, science, photography, etc) will be invited to talk about their work through Skype. The artists live in Hong Kong, Vienna, Ontario, Copenhagen, Illinois, Honolulu and New York and create work that includes community, public spaces, education, environment, technology and in many ways intersects with social and political issues. People attending the talk will be asked to bring food to be shared during the talk. (Foyer). FREE


• GÉNERO ABIERTO 1. Screening of contemporary short films and videos. Open genres. 20:45 to 22:30. (Store Carl).

NOT FESTIVAL: DAY 2

DAY 2:                  

Fees: Individual Classes: Dk60 / Dk120 for the whole day activities with the exception of the workshop CREATIVE CONTROL (Workshop fee for the whole week: DK500).
Lucy Suggate by Es Terni Festival

• Movement Improvisation and Composition Class. "Making something out of nothing". Taught by Lucy Suggate.
9:30 – 11:30. Open to all levels. (Store Carl)

• Contemporary Dance Classes. Taught by Jeremy Nelson.
12:30 – 14:30. (Store Carl)

• UNVEILED/BLOCK 2: WinP. 14:45 to 16:15.  A block of  ½ hour per person will be given to Not Festival participants’ (teachers, performers, artists, students, etc) to show Work in Progress and get feedback. The idea is to start a dialogue that could benefit their process. The participation in this activity is on a first-come first-served basis.  (Lille Carl)

• Workshop: CREATIVE CONTROL: Controlling sound and video in performances and installations with Junxion. Lead by Amsterdam based sound artist Ivo Bol. 16:30 to 19:30. This workshop for musicians, dancers, VJ's and installation artists will be about working with the JunXion software to control sound and video using cameras, USB game controllers and Wii remote. It involves learning the technology and using it to create a performance to be presented as part of the Not Festival activities.  (Lille Carl).

                                                                                                       Zoran Poposki by WONG, Kai Yu
• Portrait Of The Artists With Black Framed Glasses. Second Session: 16:30 to 17:30. (Foyer).

• Open Jam. 18:00 to 19:30. (Store Carl).

• Lecture: "What is a performative space". 20:30 to 21:30pm (Foyer).  TBC