27 / 10 / 2015
RESEARCH
PRESENTATION
BADco. invites all interested to take part in open training-presentation sessions within the artistic research project Antibodies.
30.10.2015 15:30 - 19:00 - in Croatian
02.11.2015 15:30 - 19:00 - in English
03.11.2015 15:30 - 19:00 - in English
Location: Center for Culture Novi Zagreb
The project Antibodies spends several months focusing on the analysis and critical-historical contextualization of the key propositions of choreographic/dance propositions of the past fifteen years of BADco.'s activity, on the exchange of these preoccupations with a younger generation of dancers, and on the experimental format of lecture-performance that could share these skills and experiences with a wider audience.
Almost all of BADco.'s choreographies have been composed starting from a problem - from "resistance" in dance, the edited body, composition of choreography as composition of deconstructivist architecture, then towards melodramatic choreography, the working body, the body of slapstick, the body as tied into its technological environment, etc. These problems have always been a part of creative and idea preoccupations of every artistic process, and so has every process assumed a search for an adequate choreographic vocabulary and compositional decisions.
This inclination of our poetics is partially also a result of a specific choreographic approach to the performing body - one that contrasts dominant tendencies that emphasize the primacy, naturalness, lightness and fluidity of dance movement over a body formed through and forming wider social frameworks organized by the movement of bodies, that is, "social choreography" as recognized in labor, social practices, cultural representation or interaction with technology. Our poetics find the physical motivation for movement in critical reflection on social conditioning of the moving body.
Antibodies have been realized through a series of laboratories during 2015: in March we spent four weeks working on analysis and transfer of choreographic propositions with dancers Matea Bilosnić, Iva Hladnik and Josipa Štulić; in July in collaboration with renown dance theoreticianBojana Cvejić whose text on BADco.'s choreographies had motivated this archeological endeavor; and in this final phase in October/November we're joined by dancer and researcher Bertha Bermudez,former dancer of companies Emio Greco | Pieter C. Scholten and The Forsythe Company.
27 / 10 / 2015
RESEARCH
PRESENTATION
BADco. invites all interested to take part in open training-presentation sessions within the artistic research project Antibodies.
30.10.2015 15:30 - 19:00 - in Croatian
02.11.2015 15:30 - 19:00 - in English
03.11.2015 15:30 - 19:00 - in English
Location: Center for Culture Novi Zagreb
The project Antibodies spends several months focusing on the analysis and critical-historical contextualization of the key propositions of choreographic/dance propositions of the past fifteen years of BADco.'s activity, on the exchange of these preoccupations with a younger generation of dancers, and on the experimental format of lecture-performance that could share these skills and experiences with a wider audience.
Almost all of BADco.'s choreographies have been composed starting from a problem - from "resistance" in dance, the edited body, composition of choreography as composition of deconstructivist architecture, then towards melodramatic choreography, the working body, the body of slapstick, the body as tied into its technological environment, etc. These problems have always been a part of creative and idea preoccupations of every artistic process, and so has every process assumed a search for an adequate choreographic vocabulary and compositional decisions.
This inclination of our poetics is partially also a result of a specific choreographic approach to the performing body - one that contrasts dominant tendencies that emphasize the primacy, naturalness, lightness and fluidity of dance movement over a body formed through and forming wider social frameworks organized by the movement of bodies, that is, "social choreography" as recognized in labor, social practices, cultural representation or interaction with technology. Our poetics find the physical motivation for movement in critical reflection on social conditioning of the moving body.
Antibodies have been realized through a series of laboratories during 2015: in March we spent four weeks working on analysis and transfer of choreographic propositions with dancers Matea Bilosnić, Iva Hladnik and Josipa Štulić; in July in collaboration with renown dance theoreticianBojana Cvejić whose text on BADco.'s choreographies had motivated this archeological endeavor; and in this final phase in October/November we're joined by dancer and researcher Bertha Bermudez,former dancer of companies Emio Greco | Pieter C. Scholten and The Forsythe Company.