Promo Video Alban Elved Dance Company
The purpose of this lecture:
WHAT I DO
I want to change the world & free our thinking
I want to leave a mark
I want to communicate, analyze, comprehend
does that make me an activist?
Topics: socially relevant: schizophrenia, politics, women's rights, human rights, personal issues, home,
family dynamics, children's pieces, death,
CATEGORIZATIONS OF MY WORK
'Dance'
Choreography
Film
Interdisciplinary
Performance art
Tanztheater
Physical theatre
visual art
digital art/animation
technologically infused/mediated performance/theatre....
PHILOSOPHY and Method/Approach
CHOREOGRAPHY and INTERDISCIPLINARY CREATIVE WORK
Developing a new work is a process of love that is endlessly rewarding to me.
I am enchanted by visceral and fierce kinetic expressions,
by spaces that offer transformation,
and by materials that resonate within the characters and the story.
I love for the space/set design to leave room for the players, so that intricately interwoven relationships and strong personalities can develop and merge with the environment, the lighting, the sound and the costumes to something
intimately connected and meaningful.
Role/stand in society
As dancers/choreographers we have an impact on our society and I emphasize the importance that our work bears, not only on individual and private lives, but on our society.
Dance/Art is an influential tool as it facilitates a platform for intelligent, emotional and critical exchange and learning, as well as the development of complex social networks.
I am a detail-oriented, investigative and philosophical director, basing my work on a search for uncovering layers of the subconscious.
What is art?
PERFORMANCE ART
our lives are interdisciplinary
so is our art
it just reflects on our lives
art is another sense, another category by itself often mistaken for activism, entertainment.
It bears all these elements within it, but it is it's own thing.
It's something our brains do.
Talk about Simon: he draws
ask 'what is this?' as I show the drawing.
he follows some rules in his mind, the painting is going to be what it needs to be, not 'oh is it a tree, or look it's a ship'
its ART
you just know what it needs to be, and it is helpful if you can channel this knowledge into words. But ultimately, you don't have to. That's why you make art.
You say it through art.
We learn to find that inner eye that recognizes what it needs to be and we find the trust in ourselves.
Intellect and instinct are at work in equal measure, an ongoing exchange between creativity and analysis.
When I start engaging with audiences, bridging over into involving them, interacting with them it turns to performance art.
WIKIPEDIA: Performance art is a performance presented to an audience within a fine art context, traditionally interdisciplinary. Performance may be either scripted or unscripted, random or carefully orchestrated; spontaneous or otherwise carefully planned with or without audience participation.
My definition: art artwork or installation with a performance component, a living , breathing element, an element of change or human unpredictability. usually politically or socio-critically motivated. meant to make people think and challenge norms. it does not require that the performer be a virtuoso of any particular performative field, dance, etc. but rather the presence and nature of the human being as a real actual person is at the center of the work.
By placing a live human being into a still image we bridge over into another part of our brain that recognizes threat, or actual real life situations, rather than an abstraction or something we can remove ourselves from. By having the human being involved we demand more attention, bring the work/message into the here and now.
'waking people up'
Nikki De StPhalle
Marina Abramovich
fluxus
happenings
history... google it, check it out
The purpose of this lecture:
- so you know who I am and what I do
- food for thought and inspiration for a piece/performance that we will create in April
- I walk my path, and I want to inspire you to walk yours. To create something that is really you. Overcoming fear take time. I am still struggling with self censorship, etc.
- to start a discussion that is meaningful and helpful to you as artists and people at this point in your lives
- I invite you to ask questions or start conversations throughout.
WHAT I DO
- Choreographer, sound artist
- Dancer
- Scene Designer, Lighting Designer, Director, Costume Designer,
- Dramaturg (research and development of plays or operas. Its modern-day function was originated by the innovations of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, an 18th-century German playwright, philosopher, and theorist about theatre. )
- visual artist, sarus festival
- video/film artist
- carpenter/construction worker
- rigger
- puppeteer (sarus bird)
- massage therapist
- educator, faculty at Salem College, guest artist residencies
- student
- director of a non-profit organization
- grant writer/administrator (prolific choreographer, grant cycles and drive over 70 works in 20 years)
- maker
- doer
- graphic designer
- website host
- festival organizer
- summer school organizer
- performance artist
I want to change the world & free our thinking
I want to leave a mark
I want to communicate, analyze, comprehend
does that make me an activist?
Topics: socially relevant: schizophrenia, politics, women's rights, human rights, personal issues, home,
family dynamics, children's pieces, death,
CATEGORIZATIONS OF MY WORK
'Dance'
Choreography
Film
Interdisciplinary
Performance art
Tanztheater
Physical theatre
visual art
digital art/animation
technologically infused/mediated performance/theatre....
PHILOSOPHY and Method/Approach
CHOREOGRAPHY and INTERDISCIPLINARY CREATIVE WORK
Developing a new work is a process of love that is endlessly rewarding to me.
I am enchanted by visceral and fierce kinetic expressions,
by spaces that offer transformation,
and by materials that resonate within the characters and the story.
I love for the space/set design to leave room for the players, so that intricately interwoven relationships and strong personalities can develop and merge with the environment, the lighting, the sound and the costumes to something
intimately connected and meaningful.
Role/stand in society
As dancers/choreographers we have an impact on our society and I emphasize the importance that our work bears, not only on individual and private lives, but on our society.
Dance/Art is an influential tool as it facilitates a platform for intelligent, emotional and critical exchange and learning, as well as the development of complex social networks.
I am a detail-oriented, investigative and philosophical director, basing my work on a search for uncovering layers of the subconscious.
What is art?
PERFORMANCE ART
our lives are interdisciplinary
so is our art
it just reflects on our lives
art is another sense, another category by itself often mistaken for activism, entertainment.
It bears all these elements within it, but it is it's own thing.
It's something our brains do.
Talk about Simon: he draws
ask 'what is this?' as I show the drawing.
he follows some rules in his mind, the painting is going to be what it needs to be, not 'oh is it a tree, or look it's a ship'
its ART
you just know what it needs to be, and it is helpful if you can channel this knowledge into words. But ultimately, you don't have to. That's why you make art.
You say it through art.
We learn to find that inner eye that recognizes what it needs to be and we find the trust in ourselves.
Intellect and instinct are at work in equal measure, an ongoing exchange between creativity and analysis.
When I start engaging with audiences, bridging over into involving them, interacting with them it turns to performance art.
WIKIPEDIA: Performance art is a performance presented to an audience within a fine art context, traditionally interdisciplinary. Performance may be either scripted or unscripted, random or carefully orchestrated; spontaneous or otherwise carefully planned with or without audience participation.
My definition: art artwork or installation with a performance component, a living , breathing element, an element of change or human unpredictability. usually politically or socio-critically motivated. meant to make people think and challenge norms. it does not require that the performer be a virtuoso of any particular performative field, dance, etc. but rather the presence and nature of the human being as a real actual person is at the center of the work.
By placing a live human being into a still image we bridge over into another part of our brain that recognizes threat, or actual real life situations, rather than an abstraction or something we can remove ourselves from. By having the human being involved we demand more attention, bring the work/message into the here and now.
'waking people up'
Nikki De StPhalle
Marina Abramovich
fluxus
happenings
history... google it, check it out
WHAT I LIKE:
Exploring the precipices of human emotion, I am drawn to friction, confrontation and vulnerability. I do not fear beauty. I avoid illustration. I crave a deep look into the soul of a work and I need absolute honesty within each work. With that, art can change our hearts.
I pursue the creation of works from a starting point of authenticity, rather than the application of choreographic tools/templates.
I am interested in visceral and kinetic voices that trace the changeable electricity of thought and sensation that underlies human interaction and interpersonal relationships. My work is athletic and detail oriented and so are my classes.
I teach choreography as a complex arrangement of options which are identified as located somewhere in between the visual arrangement of energetic lines created by bodies in space and the underlying motivations/expression, hence: the psychology of movement.
We study body language and interpretation skills.
My emphasis lies on the exploration of honest, real expression and interaction.
We develop tools for the aspiring choreographer to find a direct connection to his or her inner motivation and to channel those ideas into a form that is understood by the audience. We analyze and apply a number of choreographic tools, such as theme and variation, improvisation, sub texting, script/character analysis, story-boarding and many others.
SCENE DESIGN
Scene Design is another voice in a play/piece, an important and powerful tool. The scene sets the environment that the actors/dancers live in, it is a work of art, a metaphor, a translation, a visual and haptic expression of the play's soul. The set is not an illustration, but a psychological rendering of a state of mind.
Beginning with play analysis, we move to drafting ideas and building models to scale. Lighting and costumes are part of this process. We spend a lot of time discussing the purpose and impact of each element, whether it is redundent, necessary or foreign, etc to the idea of the play, and to the particular staging of a play; so for one play we can have many interpretations and many set designs.
AERIAL DANCE
Rope & Harness/bungee cord
CUSTOM APPARATUS
video of pier
CALL FOR ARTISTS: SARUS FESTIVAL JULY 6-10, 2016
Exploring the precipices of human emotion, I am drawn to friction, confrontation and vulnerability. I do not fear beauty. I avoid illustration. I crave a deep look into the soul of a work and I need absolute honesty within each work. With that, art can change our hearts.
I pursue the creation of works from a starting point of authenticity, rather than the application of choreographic tools/templates.
I am interested in visceral and kinetic voices that trace the changeable electricity of thought and sensation that underlies human interaction and interpersonal relationships. My work is athletic and detail oriented and so are my classes.
I teach choreography as a complex arrangement of options which are identified as located somewhere in between the visual arrangement of energetic lines created by bodies in space and the underlying motivations/expression, hence: the psychology of movement.
We study body language and interpretation skills.
My emphasis lies on the exploration of honest, real expression and interaction.
We develop tools for the aspiring choreographer to find a direct connection to his or her inner motivation and to channel those ideas into a form that is understood by the audience. We analyze and apply a number of choreographic tools, such as theme and variation, improvisation, sub texting, script/character analysis, story-boarding and many others.
SCENE DESIGN
Scene Design is another voice in a play/piece, an important and powerful tool. The scene sets the environment that the actors/dancers live in, it is a work of art, a metaphor, a translation, a visual and haptic expression of the play's soul. The set is not an illustration, but a psychological rendering of a state of mind.
Beginning with play analysis, we move to drafting ideas and building models to scale. Lighting and costumes are part of this process. We spend a lot of time discussing the purpose and impact of each element, whether it is redundent, necessary or foreign, etc to the idea of the play, and to the particular staging of a play; so for one play we can have many interpretations and many set designs.
AERIAL DANCE
Rope & Harness/bungee cord
CUSTOM APPARATUS
video of pier
CALL FOR ARTISTS: SARUS FESTIVAL JULY 6-10, 2016