In Medias Res: The heavens can still fall on our heads

Premiere, production 2012

Saturday February 11 at 8:30 pm, MJC Roguet

Saint-Cyprien, 9 rue de Gascogne, 31300 Toulouse, France

Info and reservations: 00 33 5 61 77 26 00 http://www.mjcroguet.com

Concept, choreography, multimedia: Anne Holst, Jean-Marc Matos

Created with and danced by: Coline Baudouin, Clément Garcia

Additionnal contribution for the music: David Fieffé

Production 2011

Project in collaboration with duo  Scenocosme

(Grégory Lasserre and Anaïs met den Ancxt)

An interactive dance performance for two dancers

full documentation / contact for touring

Next venue:

30 March - Festival Electrochoc – Les Abattoirs – Bourgoin Jallieu (near Lyon)

Recent presentations:

7 November – 3:00 pm – Center for Digital Creation Le Cube – Issy Les Moulineaux

fotos on Flickr

17 November – 7:00 pm – Alénya (Perpignan) – salle Antonio Machado – project Convivencia Pyrénées Méditerranée

2 October – 8:00 pm – La Caldera – Barcelona (CorpusMedia 2011)

3 – 4 Septembre – Abbaye de l’Escaladieu – “Digital horizons” – Hautes-Pyrénées

5 August – Cité de l’espace – Astralia space  – Toulouse

21 May – Lieu Commun – Toulouse (CorpusMedia 2011)

20 May -  Theater Marcel Pagnol – Villeneuve-Tolosane

April 5 – Théâtre de la Digue – Toulouse

March 19 and 20 – Poitiers

Le 6ème Souffle de l’équinoxe

Choreography: Anne Holst & Jean-Marc Matos (Compagnie K. Danse)

Interactive scenography, sound, lights: Scenocosme (Grégory Lasserre & Anaïs met den Ancxt)

Dancers: Aude Miyagi & Julien Lecuziat

Tactile Sensations is a dance performance that investigates the meaning and intimacy of touch and its social construction: the connection to memory and human attachment, emotion, desire, rejection.

How and why do people touch each other? How is touch initiated between people? What is the meaning of touch?

This performance stages the sensitive relationship between a man and a woman.

The overall theme is enhanced by the interactive experience of producing and altering the sound and lights via the digital treatment of data coming from the contact between two bodies.

The exchange happens when the two dancers touch each. This investigation of touch within the performance is augmented and made more clearly perceptible to the audience by adding the aural and visual sense in that each moment of touch (dancer-dancer) – according to the various meanings of the touch graded according to which part of the dancers body touches or is touched – produces a specific sound and variations in lights. This augmentation of the sense of touch by associating sound and light thus induces, enhances and stimulates the senses and makes the audience acutely aware of the multiple meanings of bodily human interaction which in daily life nowadays are often suppressed, subconscious or ignored.

Production 2011

Project in collaboration with duo  Scenocosme

(Grégory Lasserre and Anaïs met den Ancxt)

An interactive dance performance for two dancers

full documentation / contact for touring

Next venue:

30 March - Festival Electrochoc – Les Abattoirs – Bourgoin Jallieu (near Lyon)

Recent presentations:

7 November – 3:00 pm – Center for Digital Creation Le Cube – Issy Les Moulineaux

fotos on Flickr

17 November – 7:00 pm – Alénya (Perpignan) – salle Antonio Machado – project Convivencia Pyrénées Méditerranée

2 October – 8:00 pm – La Caldera – Barcelona (CorpusMedia 2011)

3 – 4 Septembre – Abbaye de l’Escaladieu – “Digital horizons” – Hautes-Pyrénées

5 August – Cité de l’espace – Astralia space  – Toulouse

21 May – Lieu Commun – Toulouse (CorpusMedia 2011)

20 May -  Theater Marcel Pagnol – Villeneuve-Tolosane

April 5 – Théâtre de la Digue – Toulouse

March 19 and 20 – Poitiers

Le 6ème Souffle de l’équinoxe

Choreography: Anne Holst & Jean-Marc Matos (Compagnie K. Danse)

Interactive scenography, sound, lights: Scenocosme (Grégory Lasserre & Anaïs met den Ancxt)

Dancers: Aude Miyagi & Julien Lecuziat

Tactile Sensations is a dance performance that investigates the meaning and intimacy of touch and its social construction: the connection to memory and human attachment, emotion, desire, rejection.

How and why do people touch each other? How is touch initiated between people? What is the meaning of touch?

This performance stages the sensitive relationship between a man and a woman.

The overall theme is enhanced by the interactive experience of producing and altering the sound and lights via the digital treatment of data coming from the contact between two bodies.

The exchange happens when the two dancers touch each. This investigation of touch within the performance is augmented and made more clearly perceptible to the audience by adding the aural and visual sense in that each moment of touch (dancer-dancer) – according to the various meanings of the touch graded according to which part of the dancers body touches or is touched – produces a specific sound and variations in lights. This augmentation of the sense of touch by associating sound and light thus induces, enhances and stimulates the senses and makes the audience acutely aware of the multiple meanings of bodily human interaction which in daily life nowadays are often suppressed, subconscious or ignored.

The k project a “danse-multimedia” project supported by the “Grand Toulouse”

choreographic piece made by Anne Holst and Jean-Marc Matos with children from the cities of Colomiers, Mondonville and Cugnaux

Saturday November 19, 12:00 am, Pavillon Blanc, Colomiers

Tuesday December 6, 7:00 pm, Community Hall, Mondonville

Wednesday December 14, 7:00 pm, Paul Eluard Theater, Cugnaux

Fotos

Workshop Inter(actions) at the french Institute Léopold Senghor, Dakar, Senegal

October 24, 25, 26, 2011

Workshop around Isadora, a software for real time treatment of images and sound, as adapted for installations, live performances, etc.

Video by Karen Dermineur

It adresses dancers, actors, technicians, designers, etc. Demonstrations and body experimentations with an interactive camera.

Project made possible with the financial support of the “Conseil Régional Midi-Pyrénées” and the partnership of the french Institute of Dakar.

photo credits: Karen Dermineur

A creative workshop. An encounter between dance and programmed art with the interactive set of the  Gameplay performance

Museum Es Baluard, Palma, Mallorca, as part of the euroregional platform CorpusMedia, Balearic Islands,

October 13-14, 10am-2pm, 4pm-7pm, Aljub

October 14, public presentation, 8:00 pm, Aljub  

See video on YouTube

Photos workshop

Excerpts of sequences

Productions 2006-2011…

K. Danse offers specially designed workshops which use the interactive set of the  Gameplay performance. It addresses beginners and professionals, adults and children, etc. any person involved in digital arts and live performance.

A few recent and past dates and spaces:

Scenofest Festival (Prague Quadrennial),  Prague, Czech Republic, 25 June 2011

Centro Cultural El Matadero, Huesca, Aragon, Spain, 12 February 2010

MDJ Villeneuve-Tolosane, 25 January 2010

Theater la Fabrique, CIAM, University of  Toulouse the  Mirail, 24 and 25 November 2009

Ariela Vidach’s dance company, DiD Studio, Milano, Italy, February 2009

Center of Arts, Enghien Les Bains, October 2008

VAD Festival, Girona, Catalonia, Spain, October 2007

University of  Casablanca, Morocco,  January 2007

Festival « Le temps d’aimer la danse », Cultural Multimedia Center, Biarritz, 8 and 9 September 2006

Cultural Multimedia Center, Le Carré d’Art, Nîmes, March 2006

Center of Digital Production le Cube, Issy Les Moulineaux, December 2005…

“Digital performance” euro regional platform

http://corpusmedia.k-danse.net/en/

Edition 2011: May, Lieu Commun (Toulouse), June (Studio Cie Yann Lheureux, Montpellier), September-October (La Caldera, Barcelona), October (Es Baluard Museum, Palma de Mallorca, Balearic Islands)

Site specific version of the performance in the public space

Production 2009-2010

2010 presentations:

November 19, new version, Maison Salvan, Art-Science, Labège (near Toulouse)

complete dossier / Photo HD

17-23 April, residency, National Center for Live Performance Writings, La Chartreuse, Villeneuve-Lès-Avignon (near Avignon)

Production 2009-2010

Interactive dance performance.

Echo Room questions the domination of the other and the structure of relationships between men and women.  The choreography draws on the dialectics of the body which is inherited and socially constructed on the one hand, and lived and free to make choices on the other. The uncontrollable is juxtaposed with the controlled and imposes itself like an echo of the past.

Echo Room deals with the simultaneous perception of various states of one given reality embodied in a man-woman relationship through the use of physiological sensors. It questions the relationship between movement, physiology and psychological structures through a danced duo to be experienced by the audience in three spaces.  Each space emphasizes either the live dance; the physiological reactions-interactions of the dancers through sound, shape and colour; or the mental space of the dancers through reactive sound and video. This is achieved by treating information collected by sensors attached to the dancers which measure their physiological reactions: muscular tension, breathing, and heartbeat which allows for another real-symbolic-past-future space/time interpretation of the dance that we see unfolding before us.

In the site specific version the audience is invited to circulate in three separate spaces, inside of a given location. In the stage version the audience can experience the three spaces simultaneously either in the house or around the dancers on the stage itself as images and sound are projected on screens suspended on stage and on the walls of the house.

As part of CorpusMedia 2009, euro regional platform ”Digital Performance” and the “Pôle Art-Science-Danse” 2010.

Venues:

Maison Salvan Art et Science, Labège, 19 november 2010

Residency at the National Center for Live Performance Writings, La Chartreuse of Villeneuve-Lès-Avignon, 17-23 April 2010.

Project presentation: 21 april     lettre la chartreuse

Center for Digital Creation, Le Cube, Issy les Moulineaux (near Paris), 15 November 2009

14 Nov 2009, workshop on “dance and physiological capture”

Festival Empreintes Numériques, 29 April 2009

“Art Gallery” version Centre Culturel Bellegarde, Toulouse

Maison Salvan Art et Science, Labège, work in progress, december 2008 (as part of the CorpusMedia 2008 event)

Downloads:

Complete description.pdf |  Photo HD

(photos by Raphaël Kann)

Production 2010

Contemporary dance and multimedia performance for three female performers,

adaptable for any stage and site specific outdoor public space.

Complete description / Photo HD / video excerpts

Presentations: in the context of CorpusMedia 2010,

- 21 May, Théâtre Marcel Pagnol, Villeneuve-Tolosane

- 29 May, Mix’Art Myrys, Toulouse

- 19 June, “Mouvements sur la Ville” Festival, l’Atelier, Montpellier

- 16 July,« Llunes d’Es Baluard » Festival, Palma de Mallorca, Balearic Islands

Choreographic trio inspired by Hélène Cixous’ The Laugh of the Medusa and Australian poet Diane Fahey’s feminist poetry, Genesis 3:16 un-occults woman as a concept and exposes classical representations: women stuck in mythological stereotypes in the interest of power, women having to express according to dominant male discourse, women who cannot explore their black continent because “black is dangerous”. By associating dance, text, song, music, images and symbolic objects in a journey towards a feminine being-in-the-world, another vision is allowed to emerge.

Performers: Aude Miyagi, Anne Panjwani, Julie Pichavant

Music: David Fieffé

Video: Guillaume Bautista

Costumes: Aude Miyagi

Light design: Jean-François Langlois

Concept: Anne Holst

Artistic and choreographic directorship: Anne Holst, Jean-Marc Matos

Project description

Genesis 3:16 is part of a series of several recent pieces which deal with the theme of the relationships between the gender: Echo Room (2009), Nuit Ecran (2007), Lovely User (created for the Monik Festival, Odyssud, Blagnac, 2005).

With music, text and movement the performers embody these visions to give the audience an entertaining interpretation of the tensions between them.

Duration: 50 mn.

photos

(photos: Karine Labrunie)