IETM Valencia: Newsround Session
Hello everyone,
I am pleased to say that almost 50 people applied for our Newsround session at IETM Valencia.
You will find the selected projects below. They will be presented at the session on Friday 4th November (10:00 - 12:15) at Las Naves – Espai Mutant.
In the meantime feel free to get in touch with the presenters if any of the projects seems interesting to you.
The core of the Performing Arts Research Centre project is the Residencies Program. The Centre offers creative residencies for companies, artists, groups or performing arts researchers who engage in new creations, a mix of languages, collective creation and artistic risk.
In the main space, projects requiring height, with special attention to circus, will be prioritized. The Sala Caldera will host medium and small-format creations.
The centre ensures its commitment to provide a minimum of one residency per call, at zero cost. In addition, the Institut d’Estudis Baleàrics supports the international residencies.
The call is addressed to creators, collectives, national or international performing arts companies who engage in new creations, a mix of languages, collective creation and artistic risk.
One of the objectives of the centre is to bring the creative process to local creators and the general
public. Thus, the resident will be requested to perform an open session, hold a symposium, workshop, pre-release or similar event at any point during their residency, in the C.I.N.E. center.
I am presenting a technology-art project called Sounding Motion. The SoMo project aims to create an interdisciplinary platform for investigation which lies around the specific Sounding Motion –method (SoMo) that integrates aspects of the contemporary dance and the "computed body"-paradigm by means of new interfaces for musical expression (NIME).
The SoMo -method uses sensor technology to create a soundscape from the movements of a dancer. The method allows the dancer to create her immediate and improvised composition/soundscape out of her movements. It empowers the dancer to define not only how she moves but also how she sounds and communicates sonically while moving. With this help, the SoMo -method allows to highlight body awareness and self-reflection in improvisation practice and performance.
We are using simple and inexpensive components to make the method accessible and possible to use in different contexts and for different purposes.
Developing and researching the SoMo -method is the core of all work.The method itself unites artists from different fields; performance, music, sound engineering and technology and it’s applicable to visual arts and wearables in costume design. The core working platform creates a hub of knowledge, that is shared within the group and open source. To create a thriving environment, we invite interested artists from across disciplines to join our investigation and ask them to contribute their experience to the common knowledge of art and technology.
At IETM I am looking for information on similar projects and similar minded artists who we could team up and partner with because sharing the knowledge and practices is how we develop this further. I’m also looking for presenters, venues and residencies interested in hosting a workshop, performance or lecture related to this project.
Unlimited is a unique commissioning programme based in the United Kingdom, aimed at disabled artists and delivered in partnership between Shape Arts and Artsadmin. Our goals are to embed work by disabled artists within the cultural sector, reach new audiences and shift perceptions of disabled people. With partners Arts Council England, Creative Scotland, Arts Council Wales, British Council and Spirit of 2012, Unlimited plays a significant and strategic part in the commitment of funders to combat discrimination, disadvantage and prejudice, and to address the dearth of disabled creatives in the cultural landscape.
Unlimited International will be commissioning new work made in partnership between disabled artists based in England and Wales and disabled artists living outside of the UK. We are seeking international allies in order to support the selected artists through co-production, residencies, presentation and mentoring.
I'll be presenting the TTP, Associació Professional de Teatre per a Tots els Públics. A non-profit association that joins professional companies from Catalonia who perform theatre, dance, music, circus, street arts and puppets for children and young people. We'd like to find other organizations interested in exchange knowledge and the situation of the theatre for children around Europe and the world.
Budgets are become increasingly smaller, and the role of the Arts is becoming more all-encompassing regarding the ‘solving’ of deep rooted social issues. How are we, as artists able to ensure honest, impactful engagement when working in a community setting, with funding structures that are short term and encourage large numbers of participants?
Prime Cut have a number of Commnunity Engagement projects that we are delivering, and we are interested in meeting, learning from, collaborating with other practitioners, sharing models and methodologies of meaningful engagement with marginalized communities, presenting unheard stories and providing a platform for the voices and experiences of those under or misrepresented.
L’âge de la tortue is a team that designs and implements art projects in the fields of visual and performing arts. L’âge de la tortue is an NGO founded in 2001 in Rennes (Brittany, France), with an horizontal governance, and active in the field of European cooperation since 2009.
Based on current critical thought within our contemporary society and respecting cultural rights, L’âge de la tortue sets out to question our relationship to political and societal representations to challenge our view of the world. The methodologies applied, which will take the form of interdisciplinary laboratories led by artists working on a long term basis within communities, will feed into the production of the outcomes. These laboratories shall be comprised from different art disciplines, think tanks, and contributing laboratories with individuals and teams in their particular territory.
Considering the deregulation of looks and the intersection approaches as a major social issue today, L’âge de la tortue defends a transversal approach to artistic creation in connection with actors from diverse backgrounds to question our representations on migration, urban transformations or the place of women. As such, L’âge de la tortue is part of a logic of cooperation and complementarity considering partnerships and works with arts and cultural organizations, as well as with universities and research laboratories in the humanities and social sciences, social structures, local authorities and communities.
Established in the district of Le Blosne in Rennes, said as a popular neighbourhood, L’âge de la tortue develops its projects from a micro-local level in coordination with other territories in Europe. L’âge de la tortue calls on international actors to think about political and societal issues and challenges of European integration, considering the European level as a joint action scale while taking into account its various intervention territories.
Since 2009, the organization initiates and carries European cooperation projects including 3 projects which received funding from the European Commission (Citizenship and Erasmus+ programs), involving France, Spain, Portugal, the British overseas territory of Gibraltar, Poland and Romania.
Joining IETM network and plenary meeting for the first time, I want to introduce the organization I represent to IETM members.
Firstly, we are eager to meet new partners, especially from the arts and cultural sector, in a process of sharing experiences and good practice, including on the development of artistic projects in a contributory, cooperative and multidisciplinary approach.
Secondly, in the current development of our cooperation project "The Encyclopedia of migrants", an experimental artistic project that aims to bring together in an encyclopedia 400 life stories of testimonies of migrants involving 8 European cities of the Atlantic coast of Europe, we wish to share this initiative and make accessible to a great audience this encyclopaedia to be published under Creative Commons license including digital and version available in 4 languages (French, English, Spanish and Portuguese).
Paloma Fernández Sobrino
paloma@agedelatortue.org
0033 671637770
L’âge de la tortue is a team that designs and implements art projects in the fields of visual and performing arts. L’âge de la tortue is an NGO founded in 2001 in Rennes (Brittany, France), with an horizontal governance, and active in the field of European cooperation since 2009.
Based on current critical thought within our contemporary society and respecting cultural rights, L’âge de la tortue sets out to question our relationship to political and societal representations to challenge our view of the world. The methodologies applied, which will take the form of interdisciplinary laboratories led by artists working on a long term basis within communities, will feed into the production of the outcomes. These laboratories shall be comprised from different art disciplines, think tanks, and contributing laboratories with individuals and teams in their particular territory.
Considering the deregulation of looks and the intersection approaches as a major social issue today, L’âge de la tortue defends a transversal approach to artistic creation in connection with actors from diverse backgrounds to question our representations on migration, urban transformations or the place of women. As such, L’âge de la tortue is part of a logic of cooperation and complementarity considering partnerships and works with arts and cultural organizations, as well as with universities and research laboratories in the humanities and social sciences, social structures, local authorities and communities.
Established in the district of Le Blosne in Rennes, said as a popular neighbourhood, L’âge de la tortue develops its projects from a micro-local level in coordination with other territories in Europe. L’âge de la tortue calls on international actors to think about political and societal issues and challenges of European integration, considering the European level as a joint action scale while taking into account its various intervention territories.
Since 2009, the organization initiates and carries European cooperation projects including 3 projects which received funding from the European Commission (Citizenship and Erasmus+ programs), involving France, Spain, Portugal, the British overseas territory of Gibraltar, Poland and Romania.
Joining IETM network and plenary meeting for the first time, I want to introduce the organization I represent to IETM members.
Firstly, we are eager to meet new partners, especially from the arts and cultural sector, in a process of sharing experiences and good practice, including on the development of artistic projects in a contributory, cooperative and multidisciplinary approach.
Secondly, in the current development of our cooperation project "The Encyclopedia of migrants", an experimental artistic project that aims to bring together in an encyclopedia 400 life stories of testimonies of migrants involving 8 European cities of the Atlantic coast of Europe, we wish to share this initiative and make accessible to a great audience this encyclopaedia to be published under Creative Commons license including digital and version available in 4 languages (French, English, Spanish and Portuguese).
Paloma Fernández Sobrino
paloma@agedelatortue.org
0033 671637770
LA DOMADA - COMPAGNIA DELLA QUARTA
LA DOMADA is a choreographic project started in 2013, as a collaboration between Compagnia della Quarta and Casa delle Donne, a national association focused on gender violence.
Taking the cue from Shakespeare's “The Taming of the Shrew”, the project overturns the original point of view to put a focus on gender violence. The cruel and unjustified side of violence arises to draw the frame in which narration, significance and message find their balance, melting into a constant dialogue to find new causes of reflection.
Casa delle Donne's team, bringing their strong professionalism and “on the field” experience, gave a crucial contribution through a continuos work based on confrontation and in-depth analysis with both choreographers and dancers; they helped to lead the project to artistic solutions that could bring a strong condemnation message, without being misleading, always trying to avoid dangerous “boomerang effects”.
LA DOMADA looks for a strong impact on the audience as a starting point for a reflection on an issue that is relevant not just on a social point of view, but ethical, civilian and intellectual as well. We aim to build a common place in which eradicate violence to make place for respect for life.
The project backs up collateral events and activities, such as workshops, T&L sessions, conferences, promoted by local associations active on the gender violence issue wishing to join us bringing their competences and experiences. This is how we intend the performance itself, as a trigger to promote concrete actions.
The project was staged in Turin, Bologna and Madrid, thanks to a collaboration with Danza 180°, and a coproduction partnership with Harrobia/Eskena Centro de Innovacion en Produccion Escenica.
Fabrizio Molducci
fabrizio@compagniadellaquarta.it
The international project CAMP EUROPE is dealing with the migrant and refugee crisis in relation to the function of Concentration Camps in historically crucial periods and the current bio-political agenda. The intention is to explore, discuss and critically project in the present European situation, the dangers of the indefinite use of the State of Exception - which the Camp as a Law represents - to human rights and our democratic values.
The Project will be developed through research and residencies in various European territories and will climax with the homonymous interdisciplinary performance, the publication of a book/catalogue and a relevant international forum in Athens.
OTA, Opera Theater Amsterdam is an operacompany based in Amsterdam.
OTA creates physical operatheatre on the heartbeat of society. With visual performances we reflect on the world around us, using Opera as our language.
We like to look at the outsider. About them, but especially with those outsiders we create performances that move. Literally, from a love of physical theater and group choreography. Figuratively, because we connect the personal, often very eventful histories of our players to the drama of opera.
Our players, professionals and amateurs, have a personal relationship with the subject of the performance. Together we put iconic characters from opera in a new setting and context and we offer the public a broader look at the people around them.
OTA has the ambition to build a community of players representing people from all walks of life, both professionals and amateurs.
Last september we premiered Tegenstanders | een Requiem (The Opponents | a Requiem). An opera in which we worked with the opponents in the asylumdebate, next to refugees and veterans of war.
For our next project, Apenkooien (Monkeybusiness), an opera about those in conflict in settling down in common society, we would like to work with citynomads, illigal immigrants and exentrics.
Monkeybusiness is about a special community living in the woods. Half man, half bird, half-free, half kept on where they are. They want to move, not knowing where, without the security if there is a place to go. Without clarity about what they'll find somewhere else.
It is acrobatic operatheatre about power and rules.
The history of Odysseus as a source of inspiration for a parable about the drama of people who want to settle versus people who don't want to settle in common society.
Music by Claudio Monteverdi, Ali Farka Touré and Cheb Khaled.
We would like to get in touch with likeminded artists who already have had experience in creating a community of professional and nonprofessional artists. Where the maingoal is to create an outstanding artistic performance with emphasis on the proces in getting there.
We would love to share our experiences with those who are interested to work in this manner.
What is PROJECTE INGENU?
We are preparing our newsround to introduce PROJECTE INGENU as new member of IETM. PROJECTE INGENU means something similar to naive project. We are a theatre research group of actors and actresses that work to discover (or recover) new (or forgotten) expression ways focused on the actor as the centre of the scenic poetry: ancient chorus, scenic ritual, dance, voice and body connections… We believe old resources can help us to create contemporary performances. We also think that the art of the actor is a way to inspire other human dimensions (art as a vehicle, in Grotowski’s terminology). We understand the audience as any person interested in our philosophy, not only who pays the ticket of a show. That’s why we try to incorporate audience in any phase of our work: open rehearsals, workshops with non professionals actors, with teenagers, roundtables, masterclasses… Nowadays we are working on a theatre festival or meeting (maybe called theatre in progress) to reorganise our activity and to build an interchange space. The purpose of the festival project is to program workshops, masterclasses and artistic residencies, not finished shows. Every activity in this festival must be related to the research around the actor and his art and techniques.
Prototype Status is a contemporary dance company based since 2008 in Switzerland.
As the artistic director and choreographer, I’m interested to merge the field of performing arts with the field of visual arts. In coproduction with the Biennale of Visual Art Festival Images Vevey since 2012, my recent works have been developing in a form, which could be defined as “perfomative or choreographic installations”. That’s the case of UNDERGROUND (2012) or more precisely MIRE (2016), my last production, which you can see at the Swiss Dance Days in Geneva next February.
My main question remains how to approach other potential partners, like museums, exhibition spaces or visual art festivals? How to establish better connections and develop stronger bridges to reinforce exchanges between these different institutions and the field of theatre?
Jasmine Morand
GLiMT is a Danish company that combines physical theatre, contemporary circus and dance to create new and challenging performances that raise important questions about our society.
We are currently developing a performance with the title "What is left" - which explores what if left after someone dear has passed away.
"What is left" is a combination of interactive installation, concert, performance and dance. Central to the project is the idea of starting a conversation - talking about death and the loss of a loved one, not for the person who has passed away, but for those who are left behind.
We would like to start an open dialogue:
- About different ways to initiate this kind of conversation with the audience. How do you set it up? How do you make sure everyone feels comfortable, feels heard, feels they have a voice and a place in the conversation?
We would love to talk to anyone with or without experience in this field - any views and inputs are useful, and we look foward to hearing your thoughts.
Behold! Les Ecuries is a production office based in Switzerland. We offer a range of service to our foals, from production to promotion, working mainly with theater, music, theatrical music, musical theater and maybe theoretical music sometimes, who knows.
Our foals can be young or old, tiny or big, ugly or beautiful, we will always provide personnal boxes, with special attention regarding their needs. We collaborate right now with the theater directors Emilie Charriot, Gian Manuel Rau and several musician as Ensemble Rue du Nord, Pierre Audétat, Stade and some more.
So, now, you, the one who've read so far and don't understand this word of "foal", thinking "she is crazy" or "she is mixed up with a horse meeting and she don't belongs here"! Maybe we could help you at the newsround meeting where a part of the secret will be revelead to the astonished audience. Hoping to see you there or maybe just later, at the sound & musical theater working session.
watch a video to know what it looks like? http://www.ina.fr/video/AFE00001019
I will be introducing CORPOSAMENTE festival.
Corposamente is a performing art festival held during the first or second weekend of August (depending on rain) for it's an open-door venue at Palazzo Grossi, Castiglione di Ravenna, Italy.
Although the festival's history begins in 1999, for two years now we pursued and connected with European festivals to help develop artistic routes for artists, volunteers and to create the best possible program for our public. This is our first time in IETM, we are here to listen, learn, see and meet. We would also like to share information on a new annex to the festival: "The 3D visual mapping contest" in its second edition.
Nice to meet you!
Hi, I work at L’Armada Productions.
I invite you to watch our presentation video below.
L'Armada Productions is a french organization specialized in artistic proposals for chilren and their family: pop music (pop, rock, electro, rap) and visual arts shows, workshops, family events and even a radio show… We try to think and develop different tools to accompany early learning, to help the construction of critical minds and also bring musical diversity.
L’Armada Productions produces and tours projects in France and abroad.
I am here because i’d like to open and create exchanges, share experiences, and enhance the reflection about :
- The consideration of this audience in your country.
- The innovations you observe or you would like to see concerning this audience
- How to manage, create, imaginate new projects regarding the economical treats
- How could we collaborate and develop projects together
Festival Deltebre Dansa is a unique event held in an exceptional place, Deltebre, in the Ebro Delta (Catalonia, Spain), attracting 160 contemporary dancers and circus artists from around the world. The Festival offers the unique experience of immersion in an intense artistic activity.
For 15 days workshops and masterclasses are lead by international artists. There is also an extensive programme of activities for beginners. In addition, the Festival presents a diverse, avant-garde performance programme.