Every Moving Body

DANSCAMDANSE 2009 III International Dance Film Festival

2009-08-20T15:04:00.000-07:00

25-26-27 november 2009 - Art Cinema OFFoff - Ghent - Belgium.

DANSCAMDANSE is an international film festival focusing on the interaction
between dance and visual media: the different ways dance is a formal subject
of film, or a source of inspiration. The festival aims to be the voice of a
continuously growing number of choreographers and visual artists‹a focused
opportunity for exposing new dancefilms creations and a platform for
reflection on these themes.

DANSCAMDANSE festival deals with the special relationship between dance and
the moving image, between the physical aspect of dance and the pure quality
of projected light. This relationship can flourish from both directions‹in
one way as a presentation of mainly choreographic works recorded/produced
for the camera or, on the other hand, as an interpretation of dance,
translated into a film.

The festival is a chance to join cross borders between dance and film,
creating a stage for different ideas and visions to reach one another.

This 3th edition focuses on uncompromising, unconformistic Experimental
Dancefilms
in a broad perspective (only single screenformat).

DANSCAMDANSE is interested in new, original and personal ideas that can
arouse interest and exchange. The festival is not a competition but,
instead, a meeting for promotion, inspiration and new discoveries.

DANSCAMDANSE is an initiative of the MahaWorks
Organisation in collaboration with Art Cinema OFFoff and Flanders
International Film Festival-Ghent-Belgium.

MahaWorks
DANSCAMDANSE
Zandberg 1
9000 Ghent
Belgium

more info
website: www.danscamdanse.be
email: info@danscamdanse.be
tel: +32 (0) 9 330.03.72
!Deadline September 25th!

Font:dance-tech.net

Dance around the world

2009-08-20T14:52:00.000-07:00

Font: Boston.com

We humans are natural dancers. Dances can be celebrations, or for praise, or for an audience - or just a simple act of letting the rhythm move your body. Dancers can communicate ideas, preserve cultural identities, strengthen social bonds, or just have a lot of fun. Collected here are recent photographs of us, human beings around the world, professional and amateur, in motion for all of the reasons above and more.

Font: Boston.com

100 years- Theatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro

2009-07-19T17:26:00.001-07:00

Theatro Municipal's anniversary celebrated with ballet on the streets of Rio.

"Intermission" - A dancer between auditions in NY.

2009-07-19T16:59:00.000-07:00

This is one day story of a dancer running trough the city attending some auditions. Between each audition, she finds herself resting, stretching, thinking, concentrating, stretching...

Genial Moonwalk- Check in out!

2009-07-04T12:11:00.000-07:00

This is an amazing idea. Up can upload a personal video doing Michael Jackson's famous Moonwalk and this website puts all together as a eternal sequence.

It's simple and funny. What are you waiting for send you own moonwalk?

http://www.eternalmoonwalk.com/michael-jackson

Open letter to Pina Baush by Marie Morrow.

2009-07-04T11:58:00.000-07:00

This letter was wrote by Marie Morrow, friend of a friend. It's a beautiful letter about love and life. I saw a lot of my personal feelings in Marie's words. And I would like to share them with you.

"Every now and then something happens in the world of art that is so unforgettable one can do nothing but think “this person got everything in line and really let her genius shine”. That is how I felt when I first saw a Pina Bausch Tanztheatr Wuppertal show three years ago in Paris, France. It felt like I was watching someone who had a direct line to everyone on Earth’s thoughts, emotions, ideas, God, and then was able to place these messages onto dancers bodies in a language that anyone anywhere could understand.

I had just finished a very long and rigorous acting program in New York, and had fled to Paris with my best friend to learn to breathe again and find some footing. What I found was Pina Bausch. After waiting in line for two hours to see if I could get a last minute ticket (all her shows sell out) my friend, Stuart, and I were the last to be seated!

I watched and learned and I still call this moment a turning point, forever now referring to my life as Post Pina Bausch. I believe that everyone is extremely brilliant in their own way, and it’s just a matter of finding the exact thing you are to flourish in. And that night I saw what my future was to be. In the way she blended perfectly acting and drama, with modern dance. Like she was using two very beautiful and complimentary languages to tell one story. It was elegant, and brave. Emotional, vulnerable, joyous, and tortured, all at once. But never overly dramatic or trite. Just honest and courageous. It was exactly what I wanted to be, even before knowing that I wanted to be it.

People talk about having a calling – or a vocation. The feeling that God, or the divine, whomever, had a set plan for them specifically to do something and it would be exactly right for not only them, but the world in general.

Pina Bausch’s calling to be a brilliant choreographer and artist was so mighty, it radiated from her work, making viewers believe that they themselves were also in the exact right place and doing exactly what they should be doing. At least, that’s how I felt when I watched.

I’ve seen her perform many times now since that first show when everything inside of me changed. And I’ve probably spent probably every day since that first show thinking about her, or a moment that she created on the stage. That was how powerful of an effect she had on me. I will probably think about her still, even after this good bye.

There are two things that stick out the most in my memory and that I plan on keeping in my heart forever.

One was that she believed a dancer really became who they are once they turned thirty. She called it dancing “on the whole foot”. She was famous for using dancers who were older and more interesting dramatically, then say a perfect prima ballerina. (A dancer usually retires around 27 when the cartilage in the knees or back or hips become too worn down). But, she was more interested in sharing and exploring the human condition, then how many tour jete’s a dancer could do.

Seeing as I will be thirty in exactly one year, this news was fantastic to me. I found dance late – around age 20 – and have always regretted it. It broke my heart with happiness when I heard Pina explain her inspiration and faith in the older dancer.

The other memory that I think of regularly is a section from her piece Rough Cuts. It haunts me still to this day. A young woman holds an enormous flower made of paper, she holds it up and lights it on fire with a little lighter. It flames and she stares at it for a moment with wonder and satisfaction. A man next to her holds a bucket of water that she finally extinguishes the burning flower in with out acknowledging him at all. She lights another flower and another, the man following her all the time. She is enraptured in the destruction of the flower, the man is enraptured in her…. She starts to run in a circle extremely fast around the stage, around and around… arms outstretched, at top speed, and yells. Clearly, strongly, not in pain, nor in glee. Just a yell at the top of her lungs. As if to say “I am here. I am here!” Fearless.

Not many people know of Pina Bausch, but those who did, understand what a tragedy it is for the planet to have say goodbye to her. She left quiet a print on those she was able to touch. Last year she won the Goethe Prize – she is the first woman to be given the honor.

Her list of accomplishments is so long, I couldn’t begin to describe them all here now. All I can say is, she was my hero. She still is. I will always refer to my life in art in terms of Post Pina Bausch, and Pre Pina Bausch.

And I will, for her, try to run at top speed, arms outstretched wide, yelling at the top of my lungs.

Thank you Pina, for showing me that I am here. Thank you for making something from the bottom of your heart, so that I may find the bottom of mine. I love you.

Rest in peace, Pina Bausch." Marie Morrow.

Website under construction

2009-07-01T08:51:00.000-07:00

Hi, everybody

While my website is under construction, you can follow my recent works at this link:

web.mac.com/paulalobo/nydance/studio.html

Bye!

Pina Bausch II

2009-06-30T18:43:00.000-07:00

The director of the Wuppertal Tanztheater said Tuesday that Bausch had passed away unexpectedly earlier that morning. The choreographer had just last week been diagnosed with cancer, but had continued with her work up until her death.

Attesting to her global stature, tributes are coming from the world of politics as well as the arts.

"Unlike almost any other, she broke out of traditional structures in dance, modernized classical ballet and coined her own idiosyncratic style," said a statement released by German Vice-Chancellor Frank-Walter Steinmeier.

"She was the biggest choreographer in the world," said Paris-based US choreographer Carolyn Carlson. "She made a revolution, she was a revolutionary. She was absolutely unique."

Bausch formed the successful Wuppertal Tanzheater in 1973, turning the Ruhr Valley town into an international dance mecca.

Though Bausch tended to avoid the limelight, she became known to many people outside the dance world with her appearance in Pedro Almodovar's Oscar-winning film "Talk to Her." The film also pays homage to her work.

Bausch's oeuvre explores memories, questions of identity and the difficulty of human understanding. Frequently, she thematizes the difficulty of relations between the sexes. Men and women can flirt tenderly at one moment, then fling each other violently across the room the next.

"It is about life and about finding a language to describe life," she said. The choreographer, on the whole, usually avoided pinning down or labeling her creations, preferring to let her audiences make up their minds.

In 2007 she was awarded the Kyoto Prize - one of the top prizes in the culture and arts field - in recognition of her work in breaking down the boundaries between dance and theater, and pioneering a new direction for theatrical art. She was the first woman to receive the accolade in the category art and philosophy.

Breaking with convention

Bausch's works leave a vivid visual impression

Bold and visually arresting, her first works were roundly criticized by traditional ballet fans. She became notorious for having her company dance on dirt, on leaves, in ankle-deep water, as well as for bringing them into direct contact with the audience.

But she began to attract attention abroad with her performances at the World Theater Festival in Nancy, France, in 1977. This was the start of a flourishing international career.

The grande dame of modern dance was famed for her collaborative way of working. She would start by directing a barrage of questions at her dancers, who would respond with words, gestures, and improvised dance. "I'm not interested in how people move, but what moves them," she once famously stated.

Bausch was strongly influenced by Kurt Jooss, a pioneer of German expressionist dance, with whom she began studying at the age of 14. He was to have a strong influence over her work. The psychological ballets of Anthony Tudor, whom she encountered during a scholarship at the Juilliard School in New York, also made a marked impression on her.

Although she led her company for over 35 years, she didn't talk of retiring. Upon receiving the Kyoto Prize less than two years ago, the choreographer said she still had "an awful lot of plans."

jg/kjb/dpa

Editor: Michael Lawton

Font:DW-World.de

Big lost for the Dance World: Pina Bausch 1940-2009

2009-06-30T17:01:00.000-07:00

German news is sadly reporting that Pina Bausch has died at the age of 68. According to the news reports, Ms. Bausch was diagnosed with cancer less than a week ago, although there is no confirmation that the cancer was directly related to her death. My deepest sympathies to her friends and family.

Font: Tendu TV.

Book Recommendation

2009-06-29T17:08:00.000-07:00

" The Body" William A. Ewing

"Why is it today that the human body is at the centre of so much attention?... Why are so many writers, artists, photographers so profoundly concerned with the subject?... The body it is being rethought and reconsidered by artist and writers because it is being restructured and reconstituted by scientists and engineers.... Mass-media entertainers like Madonna or Michael Jackson have used photography to promote carefully engineered representations of androgyny or sexual and racial ambiguity. Politicians and ideologues of all persuasions have used photography to put forward visions of perfect bodies as emblems of their own conceptions oh a heathy body politic....Photographs record moments of athletic triumph and preserve the fleeting art of the dance... War reporters find in photographs of broken bodies the most efficacious route to the emotional engagement of their readers...In short, where the human body is concerned, the powers of photography can be questioned, but never denied"

Juilliard- Senior Dancers Graduation 2009

2009-06-28T13:10:00.000-07:00

Juilliard's senior dancers celebrated their graduation performing on May 18th.

3 months shooting dance in NY

2009-06-28T12:46:00.000-07:00

In the beginning of this year, I decided to quit my job in fashion photography and go to NY to shoot and study dance photography. It was the most right decision ever. After studying with Lois Greenfield and Joe Sinnott at School of Visual Arts; and shot for several schools and dance companies like famous Juilliard, Isabel Gotzkowsky and Friends, Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company, Dance Puleio, among other works, I really learned and produced a lot. I've never felt so right. I'm excited and passionate about dance photography. The best feeling. The best job. The best love. Hope you will like to see a little bit of this journey at Everymovingbody.

Dance shots in NY III

2009-04-20T00:33:00.000-07:00

Isabel Gotzkowsky and Friends rehearsing @ 92Y Studio, april 09.

Dance shots in NY II - Photos Paula Lobo

2009-04-17T00:55:00.000-07:00

Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company performing at SOPAC on April 09.

Dance shots in NY I - Photos Paula Lobo

2009-04-17T00:44:00.000-07:00

Isabel Gotzkowsky dance class at Dance New Amsterdam on March 09.

Baby-Class

2009-02-18T19:39:00.000-08:00

Lívia again. Now at Nina's first ballet class. Beautiful movements, beautiful body. My favorite ballet dancer!

Não para não!

2009-01-31T10:08:00.000-08:00

A exposição "Detalhes" fica no Café Lunático até o dia 23/03.
Rua Visconde de Carandaí, nº 6, Jardim Botânico (entrando na rua Lopes Quintas, é a primeira a esquerda).
Apareçam lá!!
Beijos!

Algumas palavras e algumas imagens

2009-01-31T08:53:00.000-08:00

Texto da Exposição “Detalhes”

"A plateia de um espetáculo vive condenada ao confinamento. Mas, e se subíssemos ao palco? Como seria ver a ação em todos os seus detalhes? Como seria tocar no figurino do artista? E se você pudesse observar as veias saltadas no pescoço do cantor, o suor brotando na têmpora do bailarino, os contornos perfeitos da maquiagem do palhaço? São tantos os detalhes belos e esquisitos e únicos de que somos privados pela distância entre palco e platéia. Em todo espetáculo, escorre entre os dedos um segundo espetáculo.

Atrapalhados pela distância e pelo limitado alcance de nosso olho, não capturamos os pequenos segredos, os pequenos momentos. Ficamos de fora do espetáculo dos detalhes.

Aqui apresento-lhes quatro acrobatas do Ballet Aéreo Pé no Ar. Apresento-lhes seus pés, mãos, pescoços, coxas, antebraços, unhas, panturrilhas. E, quando se despedirem para ir embora, espero que digam: - Foi um prazer, finalmente, conhecê-las."

Paula Lobo

ALGUMAS IMAGENS DA EXPOSIÇÃO

Fotos da Abertura da Exposição "Detalhes"

2009-01-31T08:19:00.000-08:00

Foi a primeira vez, foi trabalhoso, foi especial e foi inesperado.

Foi rápido, foi suado, foi carinhoso e foi delicado.

Foi bom demais, foi calor, foi voando e foi um tipo de parto.

Foi o primeiro filho, foi aguardado, foi divertido e, o melhor de tudo, foi apaixonado.

Obrigada pela presença de vocês! Queridos amigos, parceiros, inspiradores.

I love you.

Em Breve - Exposição "Detalhes"

2009-01-26T20:53:00.000-08:00

Tenho o enorme prazer de convidá-los para minha exposição "Detalhes", dia 30/01, às 19h no Café Lunático, Rua Visconde de Carandaí, 6 - Jardim Botânico.

"Detalhes" retrata em imagens P&B ensaios da Cia de Ballet Aéreo Pé no Ar, formada por Joy Rodrigues, Ana Ribeiro, Julia Lima e Vera Carvalho.

Até lá!

Bastidores - Apresentação Bel Dance

2009-01-26T12:06:00.000-08:00

Enquanto nã0 começa...

Auto-Retrato

2009-01-26T12:00:00.000-08:00

A dor e a delícia se ser o que é

2009-01-26T11:57:00.000-08:00

No ensaio da Bel Dance 2

2009-01-26T11:44:00.001-08:00

Ensaio no Teatro Odylo Costa Filho. Aos pouco as meninas vão chegando, os olhinhos brilham. Uma euforia, um ti ti ti, tudo por causa dele. O palco.

Começa. Aquece o corpo, alonga a perna, arruma o coque, amarra a sapatilha. Dança, conserta, melhora, ajeita, sua, muda, repete, troca, escorrega, abaixa, levanta. No final, tudo dá certo.

No ensaio da Bel Dance

2009-01-26T11:38:00.001-08:00

Tal mãe, tal filha. Um encontro de gerações. Helena Andrade, Heleninha e Paula. A vida dedicada à dança ou a dança dedicada à vida?

Pernas

2009-01-23T16:13:00.000-08:00

Pernas pra que te quero?

Escola de Dança

2009-01-23T14:32:00.000-08:00

Escola de Dança Maria Olenewa. Sapatilhas rosas,

collants pretos e meninas muito talentosas.

Uma amiga bailarina

2009-01-23T12:48:00.000-08:00

Esta é a Lívia Marquez ex-bailarina do Teatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro, fazendo aula na Dalal Achcar. Não importa quanto tempo tenha passado, tudo continua lá: a postura, a leveza, a flexibilidade, as indefectíveis e lindas pontas dos pés... Resumindo, eu sou fã!

2009-01-06T13:56:00.000-08:00

As meninas do ballet aéreo Pé no Ar inventaram um novo aparelho de acrobacia que foi premiado pela Funarte. "Flor" foi apresentado no espaço cultural Sérgio Porto em julho de 2008. A apresentação de cerca de 3 minutos foi emocionante.

Na aula de acrobacia

2009-01-06T13:41:00.000-08:00

Acrobacia aérea nas aulas do Lunático e no Parque da Cidade. Crianças, não tentem fazer isso em casa!

:-)

A primeira vez

2009-01-06T13:17:00.000-08:00

Ballet Bel Dance em dezembro de 2007.

Do you wanna dance?