2010年初，歆舞界-表演实验室受到亚欧文化基金会与中国舞蹈家协会的邀请，参加“BOWING”舞蹈影像项目，并参加泰国曼谷PATRAVADI THEATRE-Pre-fridge艺术节的演出。

 

    此项目是2007年亚欧文化基金会与中国舞蹈家协会合办的第五届”点对点“亚欧舞蹈论坛的继续发展，以泰国曼谷为驻地，由五位分别来自中国、马来西亚、英国、丹麦、比利时的艺术家共同合作，进行舞蹈影像的创作与研究，一同前往泰国学习当地的传统艺术，开设工作坊与当地艺术家进行交流，并参加Pre-fridge艺术节，进行作品的展演与交流，深入亚欧舞蹈艺术家之间的合作交流。

 

    欢迎所有关注当代舞与歆舞界-表演实验室的朋友们，如果在曼谷或介绍给在曼谷的朋友们，请大家来参与我们此次的演出交流活动，谢谢大家支持与关注！

 

     最后，特别感谢亚欧文化基金会对此项目的全部资助与帮助，中国舞蹈家协会对工作室参与此次交流项目给与大力的支持与经费的资助，同时感谢北京舞蹈学院的支持！ 

 

时间：2010年1月16日19：30——22：00

地点：泰国曼谷PATRAVADI THEATRE，69/1 Soi Wat Rakang,Arun Amarin Road，Siriraj,Bangkok,10700,Thailand

门票：300泰铢，100泰铢（学生）

演出具体信息：

Bowproject Blog:
http://bowproject.wordpress.com/  

歆舞界-表演实验室相关相册：
http://photo.blog.sina.com.cn/category/u/1397518843/s/221208  

豆瓣-当代舞者小组：

http://www.douban.com/group/topic/9285420/

豆瓣-同城活动： 

http://www.douban.com/event/11410826/

 

 

BOW PROJECT

The Bow project is supported by the Asia Europe Foundation as a follow up project of the 5th Asia Europe Dance Forum.

SHI JING XIN is supported by the China Dancer Association.

 

WHO ARE WE?

The Bow project is a cross cultural collaboration between five artists from Asia and Europe. The artists work in Dance, Film and Music and met in Beijing in 2007 during the cross cultural exchange project Pointe to Point, the 5th Asia Europe Dance Forum of the Asia Europe Foundation. 

The Bow project was born out of this artist meeting in China and is about exchanging and renewing ideas about movement, from within and across cultures.  

 

GLOBAL EXPERIENCE

With works from Faroe Islands, United Kingdom, New York, Malaysia, Belgium and Beijing we present a program of dance, film and music from around the world. The five artists have brought from home a piece of work which is presented here in Patravadi Theatre in a mixed bill in the first half of the program. 

 

THE ARTISTS

Shi Jing Xin (China) is a lecturer in Choreography and Dance at China Beijing Dance Academy. Born in Lanzhou she grew up in Shanghai and studied in Beijing. Ms Shi graduated from the Department of Choreography at the Beijing Dance Academy in 2003, and obtained a Masters degree in 2006. From 2005 to 2006,She received a two-year scholarship from the French Cultural Centre in Beijing where she had an opportunity to go to the choreography center in Paris to participate in a composition workshop that was organized by Susan Buirge. In 2007 Shi Jing Xin was a participant of Chinese artist in 5th Pointe to Point, an artist exchange initiative of the Asia Europe Foundation. In 2008 Ms Shi is one of the dance director of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games opening ceremony.In 2009 She receive support from France cultural center in Beijing goes to Japan join a research project “Plateforme” for contemporary dance and ritual dances of Asia ,organize by Japan Research Center PLATFORM.

During her study, she participated in local theatrical performances, ballets, operas, drama, concerts and other art forms in exploring innovation. What is most important to her as a choreographer is to be engaged in traditional dance while creating a new language of dance. In 2009 Shi Jing Xin founded XIN-ACT-LAB an independent performing art company based in Beijing.

 

Piece Title:Xia Xie Bo Wa-White/A dance for the God - 8.min (excerpt of “Peace plan into Tibet” 2009)

Choreographer/Dancer Jingxin Shi

Music :Urna - Tenggeriin Shivuu (Heavenly Bird)

Costume Designer: Chen Wang

Mask Designer: Jian Huang

Light Designer: Tingting Zhao，Dong Han

Video Director: Jingxin Shi, Ning Bai

Video Sport：Qu Yan Wu

Photographer: David(Shen Zhen),Weitang Liao(Hongkong)

Edit: Ning Bai

Media: Dance performance and Video

One arrives in this world

A bright light illuminates the path.

One searches for her faith

Timid, confused, incredulous, crazy and passionate.

One must continue to walk forward and not turn back.

This piece is about a person - a devout dancer who moves her body to please herself and her God. Each and every time she starts and finishes, she feels the sincerity of life.

 

 

Rannvá Káradóttir ( Denmark) is a Faroese visual dance artist based in Copenhagen and London. Since graduating from London Contemporary Dance School in 2004, she has been working in England, Germany, Canada, Denmark and her home country Faroe Islands, with projects to date including stage works, dance-film, improvised performances, site specific pieces and integrated video and installations. Rannva is currently taking an MA in Performance Design at London University of Arts, Central Saint Martins. Her latest dance short – film Memotekid was made in collaboration with visual artist Marianna Mørkøre, and is currently been screened internationally.

 

 

Title: Memotech / Memotekið - 5.58 min.

Director: Rannvá Káradóttir, Marianna Mørkøre

Dancers: Matilde Wendelboe Dresler, Kristina Sørensen Ougaard

Music: Jens L. Thomsen

Media: Dance film

 

Memotech / Memotekið (2009) is an black and white experimental short film shot on super 8 and explores the contrast between minimalist movement and the overwhelming landscape of the Faroe Islands.

 

 

Cathy Seago (UK) is the director of the interdisciplinary dance company Evolving Motion, receiving awards in support of choreographic research and performance since 1998 in the UK, the US and Southeast Asia.  Evolving Motion have recently been Resident Artists at the Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre, Malaysia (09), The Blue Elephant Theatre London (08), ODT Singapore (07).  Recent works have toured in the South East of England and London, supported by the Arts Council England and in Edinburgh, Paris, Taiwan and Singapore.   Cathy Seago guest teaches, creates new work and sets repertoire internationally and is currently a Lecturer in Choreography and Dance at The University of Winchester.

 

Title: Concept excerpts from DUOD

Music: Christopher Benstead

Costume: Rosalind Noctor

Video Art: David McCormick

Media: Dance performance

 

DUOD is a 60 minute in the round performance piece touring in the UK from March 2010.  DUOD dances the dynamic arc of intimacy and conflict in a transformation from cocoon to flight.  The DUOD story unfolds at the feet of the audience seated at the rim of a towering 8 ft skirt.

 

 

Mei-Yin Ng (Malaysia) was born in Malaysia.  She moved to NYC and studied primarily at the Merce Cunningham Studio, Trisha Brown Studio, and Movement Research. She has worked with the contemporary theatre group Remote Control Productions/ Michael Laub, touring in the 1996-97 production “Planet Lulu” in major festivals throughout Europe and Scandinavia. She founded MEI-BE WHATever in 2002 as a collective field for collaboration and experimentation of contemporary technologies and movement,  MEI-BE WHatever  has presented work at festivals, museum and theatres around US and Internationally.

Ms. Ng has received commissioned from the Merseyside Dance Initiative in Liverpool and Dance New Amsterdam in NYC. She was a selected participant in the 2004 Multimedia Forum of the Monaco Dance Forum, the 2007 5th Pointe to Point Asia- Europe Dance Forum, an artist-in-residence at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center (2006-07) and Dance New Amsterdam ( 2009-10), recipient of a  2009 New York State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Program,  New York Foundation for the Arts 2004 Choreography Fellowship  and 2009 Individual Artist Fellowship.

 

Piece Title: Cinderella Toe Jam

Choreographer/Dancer Mei-Yin Ng

Music by: “Scott Williams” by Savaged young Beatles, “Love Enchanted” by Daniel Johnston

costume by: Mei-Yin Ng

Media: Dance

 

Short introduction:

.  . the popular fairy tale of 'Cinderella' .  .  . the historical practice of binding women's feet in ancient China .  . .   the transformations of lives, feet, movement.

Cinderella Toe Jam explores restriction through the body, resulting in movement that reveals a bizarre and unexpected beauty.

 

 

Emmanuel Bally (Belgium) earned a first prize at the Conservatoire Royal de Musique of Liège in classical guitar and continued through a postgraduate diploma.  He obtained a degree in Chamber music.  He works as a composer, improviser, performer and teacher with a range of genres and musical groups in Leige and Brussels and has worked as a puppeteer at the Toon Theatre.  He plays regular concerts with groups which include bathyscaphe 2, Bay Lee project, Adam's Dream A.Klénès Quartet and his own group Wang Wei Quartet which he founded in 2006 and which integrated Cambodian Hip Hop dancer Yphun Chiem in a residency at the Theatre des Doms Avignon.  Emmanuel Baily’s work focuses on building a bridge to unite ancient western music with the infinite subtleties of movement within the Chinese poetic language.  Wang Wei Quartet was created in 2006: Xavier Rogé (drums), Laurent Meunier (saxophones), Marine Horbaczewski (cello) and Emmanuel Baily (guitar and composition)

Piece Title: choral III variations

Credit: Music by Emmanuel Baily 

Media: Music

 

 

 

INTERVAL 15.MIN

 

BOW

The performance of the Bow project is the result of a three weeks residency for the five artists in Thailand. Before arriving in Bangkok, the artists have prepared to develop this performance project which culminates in the premiere of the BOW at the Patravadi Theatre and which will subsequently form part of the Dance Film Bow.  All artists are familiar with working across borders both in creative and geographical terms. 

At the cross over of creative disciplines, we are motivated by notions of bowing; metaphorically, culturally and physically.  From this integration of ideas and approaches, we have created Bow; an inter-textural and multi-lingual dance performance with live music from the music group Wang Wei Quartet (Belgium)      

 

Title: BOW

Devised, Developed and Performed by: Cathy Seago, Shi Jing Xin, Mei-Yin NG

Music by: Emmanuel Baily and the Wang Wei Quartet

         Film: Rannva Karadottir

        

An intertextual dance and music performance where the artists move across genres and connect through a collective performance, gathering their individual experience of this journey though the wide range of cultures and practices represented. 

 

During the evening the documentary Amazing Grace, made by Ans Kanen and Jan de Bruin during Pointe to Point 5th Asia Europe Dance Forum will be shown.

 

 

DOCUMENTARY FILM – AMAZING GRACE

 

Pointe to Point 5th Asia Europe Dance Forum documentary film.

 

Piece Title:  Amazing Grace

Directed by:  Ans Kanen

Produced by: Jan de Bruin

Artists: Dance (Asia)

Hartati (Indonesia), Jethro Pioquinto (The Philippines), Mei-Yin Ng (Malaysia), Shi Jin Xin (China), Tae Sang Lee (Korea), Wang Mei (China)

Artists: Dance (Europe)

Arco Renz (Germany), Catherine Seago (UK), Olivier Gabrys (France), Rannva Justinussen (Denmark), Ula Sickle (Poland), Vincenzo Schiavulli (Italy)

Artists: Music (Asia)

Tomoko Momiyama (Japan), Young Gyu Jang (Korea), Wu Na (China)

Artists: Music(Europe)

Artur Vidal (Spain), Benoit Gazzal (France), Emmanuel Baily (Belgium)

Artistic Advisors

DANCE
Susan Buirge (USA/France), Wen Hui (China)

MUSIC
Fabrizio Cassol, (Italy/Belgium), Joyce Koh (Singapore)

Artistic Observers

Jan Goossens (Belgium), Seong Hee Kim (Korea), Dong Jiang ( China)

 

Katelijn Verstraete

Asia-Europe Foundation – Project Manager Cultural Exchange

 

Fannie Wong

Asia-Europe Foundation – Trainee Cultural Exchange

 

Feng Shuang Bai

China Dancers Association – Director

Hou Xiao Feng

China Dancers Association – Head of International Laison Department

Daphne Zhang

China Dancers Association – Assistant

 

 

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