SNDO-SiteSpecificBody

Week 4 - Transparency

2009-05-03T03:36:00.000-07:00

Week 4
Transparency as a trigger for creating a final work
The transparent body, the transparent space, the transparent process, the transparent materials

Tuesday the 7
Introduction to the concept into the group. A short brainstorm over the concept and also the understanding of the same concept in several layers’ in terms of the bodywork, the space, the process and the materials and strategies to intervening the space. The idea will be that they bring their own view drawing from all the experiences and experiments we were doing the last 3 weeks.

In 2 groups you will discuss the concept and you will develop your own strategy to work with this concept being sure you cover ALL the elements we mentioned:
Body, Space and Process

Think of:
Transparency as a metaphorical extension of the meaning f.e a "transparent" object is one that can be seen through.
How we make transparent the relation between body and space? Can we?
How we can augment the sensation of transparency by manipulating the space with certain materials?
How we can make a process transparent?

The idea will be to create groups and develop max a 15 minutes pieces in 2 groups where everybody collaborate and give insight to the process of dance making.

2 groups/
1. 6 dancers
2. 5 dancers
Two moments for showing: Wednesday (first time) right after the group will get feed back, second time (thursday) is the final showing and a final feed back.

Week 3 - Stage design with Objects - Indoors at DOK studios

2009-05-03T03:21:00.001-07:00

Week 3 - Stage design with Objects - Indoors at DOK studios

2009-05-03T03:18:00.000-07:00

Assignment: wed 1
You have 30 minutes to collect several objects and bring them into the studio. The objects you will collect need to have these characteristics be very rigorous about it.
The object needs to have the same color
The object can be repeated (many of the same)
The object can have diversity in size, texture

For choosing the objects think in:
- layout of a multiplicity of those object in relation to a specific space.
- think about a durational intervention that causes the object to be layed out in this specific way.
- the arrangement of the objects in space. What ordering, destruction, modulation strategies are possible?

Week 3 - First Session KNSM island

2009-05-03T02:58:00.000-07:00

Choreographic score / open air KNSM island

Students make their own documentation/interpretation of the architectural score for the facades in a residencial complex in KNSM island

Week 3 Introduction to spatial staging of object in serie - Outdoors
Assignment tue 31
We will make a walk around the KNSM island to work in the public space with concepts as: multiplicity, difference and repetition and combination, variability.
Key issues. Preparation for spatial staging. Seriality, the object, multiplicity, whole-to parts relation, materiality, modulation and combination, variability
References: visual art e.g. Donald Judd (minimal art), architectural reference, design strategies for KNSM island (masterplan and facadestructure), choreographical scores and scores in arquitecture.

Week 3 - Final Presentation Outdoors/ Film

2009-04-22T12:32:00.000-07:00

Week 2 - Outdoors Sessions - Final Presentation

2009-04-22T12:15:00.000-07:00

Group of Karina, Olivia and Julia
Point of view for the audience: Bridges around Oude Schans

Group of Vincent, Elpida, Alice and Thibault
Intervention to the bridge over Oosterdok.
Point of view for the audience: Back side of NEMO

Bridge: Audience point for observing the event

Some impressions of the final presentation of the work done by Adriano,Uros, Setareh and Eva
Location: Next to Klimhal at the Dijksgracht, Amsterdam

Week 2 - Third Session Indoors work for the location piece

2009-04-22T12:03:00.000-07:00

Some impressions of the indoors re work of the piece of Uros, Eva, Adriano and Setareh.
The work was re located in studio 809, further will be back into the original location

Week 2-Second Session March 25, 2009

2009-03-30T04:58:00.000-07:00

Rehearsing...
think in how the scale of the event will affect the choreographic decisions you will make.
We had 3 locations, 3 groups:
Group: Vincent, Alice,Thibault and Elpida
Group: Eva,Uros, Adriano and Setareh
Group: Julia, Karina and Olivia

Week 2-First Session March 24, 2009

2009-03-30T04:46:00.000-07:00

Public Space – Urban Scale
This will be a group assignment. Working in groups of 4 you will find a specific spot that allow the observer to look from distance. While looking for this new situation (temporal-spatial) the group has to think in the point of view of the observer. Decisions have to be made considering the scale of the actions and the spot from where the audience will observe the event.
The group will prepare a short presentation of the spot founded. The presentation also includes the justification of the place from where the audience will observe the event. Think in the kind of material (drawings, papers, models) that can help you as a tool to explain your choice and also make a draft over the kind of experience you are looking for the observer.
Key issues
Scale and distance. relation of urban space and physicality related to bigger theatrical spaces. Think about what gets noticed as a meaningful move or a gesture looked from certain distance. What kind of performative strategies suguest your location but also from a distant point view.

Theater... where,when,how?

2009-03-26T13:02:00.001-07:00

Interventions...

2009-03-26T02:08:00.000-07:00

Week 1-Fourth Session March 19, 2009-Urban Intervenions/Physical Interventions

2009-03-25T14:21:00.000-07:00

Urban Intervention – Physical Intervention
Location work...
Intervention...
Think about how to frame the situation so that the audience experiences the space differently than first time. What can of physicality suggest the location you found?
Key issues:
The notion that spaces are subject to change - a physical intervention can do that-. Identification of tools, choreographic strategies for change the perception of space. Framing of a situation for audience.

Mapping...

2009-03-25T10:45:00.000-07:00

From the outset, maps have surveyed and inscribed territories in order to take possession of them, to occupy and colonize them...

Adriano

Olivia

Uros

Setareh

Eva

Thibault

Vincent

Some of the subjective vision over founded places...

Week 1-Third Session March 18, 2009- Recall and Mapping

2009-03-25T10:34:00.000-07:00

Recall and Mapping
Revisit the experience you had at and with your “location”. Recall.
Use and adapt for this “recall” a shared technique of performance and architecture: Mapping.
Mapping is a way of determination of the space in terms of size and visual-acoustic-haptic parameters, but also in terms of approach, from where and how do I/YOU experience the situation. Mapping is some kind of visualization, but in opposition to an architectural scale drawing it leans more towards the selective, towards what is subjectively important. In that sense it relates more to cartography
This “map” is a subjective recall of the situation.

Week 1-Second Session March 17, 2009-Found Spaces-Urban Encounters

2009-03-25T09:59:00.000-07:00

Observation...What kind of spaces do attract me?
Key issues: What is the relation of body and space, a broader field that had been explored widely by choreographers and architects likewise. Recently, there is also a range of collaborative work concerned with stage design and performance.
Focus for the session: the stage of urban space, “staging observation”, urban space as the arena for the spectator, Urban space as shared space. An exercise in observation -consciously and manipulative. Walking through the city with open eyes and allowing a different view (point), talking serious once own intuition and fascination with particular spaces and situations. Found Spaces.

Spaces founded...

Week 1-First Session March 16, 2009 - Blindfolded eye...

2009-03-25T09:52:00.000-07:00

Experiencing being blind for a couple of hours...

Experiencing space without any visual information
The blindfolded eye "a person is blind to the extent that he must devise alternative techniques to do efficiently those things he/she would do with sight if he/she had normal vision".
Reflection after:
How you map the space even not being able to see it?
How you described the experience?
How you describe the space visited and based on what?
How experiencing the space being blind can generate sensitivity toward the physical space
Perception of time