The multi-annual project BEYOND, that kicked off in February 2009, nurtures a growing educational and artistic network that is inspired by the ongoing dialogue between the International Choreographic Arts Centre (ICK) and several Asian artists and institutions. With the aim to investigate the relevant concepts of Tradition and Innovation in contemporary art fields, BEYOND inspires an examination of the physical memories of the body in different cultures. On the one hand BEYOND addresses the creative and educational aspects of dance through workshops in which distinct body preparations and dance creative processes are combined. On the other hand, BEYOND positions and investigates the body as an intercultural space that is shaped by different physical experiences, socio-cultural backgrounds, perspectives of the world as well as by a particular ‘knowledge that is embodied’ in dance.
Every year residencies of two to three weeks take place in Amsterdam and in one of the cities in which the Asian partners are founded. During these residencies the morning blocks consist of workshops taught by different Asian and European artists and teachers, related to the theme of Tradition and Innovation, with a special focus on the preparation of the body and on creation processes. All workshops are open to the public. Examples of workshops of the last residencies are: workshop Indian martial art Kalarippayattu by Ajeesh Kannanthara, workshop Synchronous Objects by Norah Zuniga, workshop ‘ Making the body all eyes’ by Phillip Zarrilli and a workshop in the Japanese martial art Budo by Akira Hino.
In the afternoon a selected group of dancers and/or young makers works on a creation process that can sometimes develop into a full performance, but is mainly aimed at the development of the dancers and makers and the enrichment of their experiences within this specific context.
The first edition in 2009 was specifically aimed at the exchange with partners from South Korea, in 2010 the exchange took place between ICK and mainly Chinese partners, in 2011 the focus is on India.
BEYOND is a project of the International Choreographic Arts Centre (ICK) in collaboration with Ganesa Productions (Seoul), Seongnam Arts Centre (Seoul), Bo:m Festival (Seoul), Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts (Bangalore), Borneoco (Amsterdam), CCD Workstation (Beijing), Jin Xing Dance Company (Shanghai), Arts Council Mongolia (Ulaanbaatar) among others.
Jungmi Han (South Korea) Kapila Palihawadana (Sri Lanka),
Kathleen Delaney (Italy/USA) Kiran Kumar
(India/Singapore/Hong Kong)
Marta Sponzilli (Italy) Matteo Graziano (Italy)
Maureen Law (China) Olalla Lemus (Spain)
Munguntsetseg Munkhbadrakh (Mongolia)
A new format of
BEYOND came into life in 2011. Affected by the worldwide economic crisis
BEYOND can no longer travel to different countries and host in free bases dancers and makers from Asia within its structure. Willing to keep the theme of Tradition and Innovation and the important network the previous editions of
BEYOND created,
BEYOND 2011 proposed a new format where young makers from different countries could participate.
Developing further its innovative format with workshops and creative lab programs, the 2011 edition of BEYOND was inspired by India with the theme of Interaction. “How is interactivity affecting a creative process?”, “What is interactivity and how do we deal with it within our own bodies?” and “How is new media augmenting relationships within choreography and performing arts?”, were the main questions within the program that provided participants with an interesting inside into the relationship between human and computer interaction.
A mix of Indian martial arts and performative traditional forms together with innovative developments of interactive software for performance making, have been the main guidelines of BEYOND. Chris Ziegler, Emio Greco, Saskia Kersenboom, Norah Zuniga Shaw, BADco and others taught the workshops and guided the creative processes.
Saskia Kersenboom (NL)
Saskia Kersenboom studies with temple dancers and musicians in Tamilnadu since 1975. Several publications, including her PhD dissertation speak about this collaboration. Her background in classical ballet, Theatre studies, Indian languages and Cultural Anthropology, alerted her to the sharp, analytic approach of these performing arts as well as to their affinity with the work of Emio Greco | PC.
Saskia has performed and taught Dasi Attam (an earlier version of the globally known Bharata Natyam) in Europe, America and India. She received several Fellowships in India to study and tour there. Between 1987 and 1990 she was Fellow at the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam; in 1995 the Foundation for non-Western Music invited her perform throughout The Netherlands with her Indian orchestra At present she is Associate Professor of Theatre Studies at Amsterdam University and works as Director of Paramparai Foundation on the Intangible Heritage of ritual music and dance, in collaboration with the Indira Gandhi National for the Arts, New Delhi.
Shyne Tharappel Thankappan (IN)
Shyne Tharappel Thankappanhas studied more than 20 years with master EPV Vasudeva Gurrukal, in Kaduthuruty, Kerala (IN)on his style of Kalari: CVN Kalari, and holds an advanced degree in Kalarippayattu. After his study with his master he was chosen by Zingaro to come to Europe as a performer taking part in a big world tour named Triptiqe. Now he hasyears of experience in teaching dancers as well as performing with them, and with horses, and is participating in world martial arts demonstrations like the Martial Arts Festival in Bercy-Paris. He is currently giving class in the Vadakkan Arrapukayan Kalluyartistyle inParis every day of the week and through that represents his master in France.
www.epv-kalari-paris.com
Chris Ziegler (DE)
Chris Ziegler (*1963, Karlsruhe, DE) is new media artist and director since early 1990‘s of numerous international collaborations of interdisciplinary projects in the field of new media with the performing arts. He holds a Diploma in Architecture, studies Media Art. Since 2009 he is Visiting Assitant Professor at „Interface Cultures“ Department of the Art-University Linz, Austria.
He started his carreer 1994 at the Center for Art and Media ZKM Karlsruhe with multimedia projects for Frankfurt Ballett and Goethe Institute for international artists and festivals. He is a researcher in dance and new media. His interactive film installations, multimedia performances and scenographic works are presented at festivals internationally with exhibitions and Performances other than at ZKM Karlsruhe at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, KIASMA Museum Helsinki, YCAM Performance Center Yamagucchi Japan.
He had several teaching position in the US, Singapore, Germany and Australia and was Associate Artist in the EU‘s Dance Apprentices Network Across Europe (D.A.N.C.E.) collaborating with Europe‘s leading choreographers Frédéric Flamand, William Forsythe, Wayne McGregor and Angelin Preljocaj. Currently he is Associate Artist at the ZKM | Karlsruhe and Researcher at the Amsterdam School for the Arts (AHK) and the international choreographic center in Amsterdam (ICK Amsterdam).
www.movingimages.de
Norah Zuniga Shaw (USA)
Norah Zuniga Shaw is an artist based in the U.S. whose work centers on choreographic knowledge as a locus for interdisciplinary and intercultural creativity. “Synchronous Objects,” her most recent collaborative project with William Forsythe and Maria Palazzi, was launched online and at the Wexner Center for the Arts in 2009 and featured in the N.Y. Times and Communication Arts. With a commission from ISEA2010 Zuniga Shaw presented “Synchronous Objects, reproduced,” an art installation that re-imagines its screened based antecedent in space and time. Zuniga Shaw is currently presenting on both works as part of a global tour produced by the Goethe Institute. She continues to create new installation and stage works and to lecture on her research and teach workshops at such venues as SIGGRAPH, PACT Zollverein, Chicago Humanities Festival, Spring Dance Utrecht, Harvestworks, and Sadler’s Wells. She is Associate Professor and Director for dance & technology at the Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design.
BADco. (HR)
BADco. is a collaborative performance collective based in Zagreb, Croatia. The artistic core of the collective are Pravdan Devlahović, Ivana Ivković, Ana Kreitmeyer, Tomislav Medak, Goran Sergej Pristaš, Nikolina Pristaš, Lovro Rumiha and Zrinka Užbinec.
As a combination of four choreographers / dancers, two dramaturgs and one philosopher, plus the company production manager, since its beginning (2000), BADco. systematically focuses on the research of protocols of performing, presenting and observing by structuring its projects around diverse formal and perceptual relations and contexts. Reconfiguring established relations between performance and audience, challenging perspectival givens and architectonics of performance, problematizing of communicational structures – all of that makes BADco. an internationally significant artistic phenomenon and one of the most differentiated performance experiences.
Johannes Birringer (UK)
Johannes Birringer is a choreographer and artistic director of AlienNation Co (www.aliennationcompany.com), and co-founder of a telematic performance collective (ADaPT). He has directed numerous multimedia theatre, dance, and digital performances in Europe, the Americas, Japan and China; collaborated on site-specific installations, and exhibited work at film and video festivals. Author of Theatre, Theory, Postmodernism (1991), Media and Performance (1998), Performance on the Edge (2000), Performance, Technology and Science (2009). Founder of Interaktionslabor (http://interaktionslabor.de), and co-director of DAP-Lab, Brunel University, where he is Professor of Performance Technologies.
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