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I was on the side of informed audience – while standing on the edge of Geysir, the master Geysir, the father of the word “geyser”, – I knew already that it “doesn’t do anything”. When Sesselja said the phrase “it doesn’t do anything” she meant that it is just there, it is hot, but […]
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I was in ICE HOT Nordic dance platform seeing „Nordic contemporary dance at its best”. On December 11 I saw 6 performances of total around 315 minutes. Mainly I came to Oslo because The keðja Writing Movement-project launched its catalogue: Expeditions in Dance Writing. Writing Movement 2012-2014, in the foyer at Dansens Hus, Oslo, on […]
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On April 3rd, 2014 I saw a solo performance WONDER by Michelle Boulé. On May 14th, 2014 I went to listen to Questions and Answers session with Under Secretary of State in Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Richard Stengel. Those two events don’t have much in common except that they are linked to the […]
Today, on May 11, 2014 at 15:00 in Bebrene/Dviete there will be a second showing of the outcomes of the keðja Wilderness Dance residences. Norwegian choreographer Ingri Midgard Fiksdal together with Pernille Holden, Ingeleiv Berstad, Eivind Seljeseth and Kristin Helgebostad were in residency in Bebrene from June 13 till July 4, 2013. This year from […]
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We are all aliens. We come from somewhere we don’t know, we go to somewhere we don’t know and we meet people we don’t know. Four young artists (Lotta Suomi, Ásrún Magnúsdóttir, Aust?ja Vilkaityt? and Lea Vendelbo Petersen) united under the title of „Foreign Mountain”, came from all those places they are from (Finland, […]
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The human chain of about 14 000 people standing in the streets of Riga in really freezing day of January 18 and passing books from the old to the new building of the Latvian National Library. Seven Chinese dancers for around and hour dancing in line close to each other in The Sami-Chinese dance […]
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With warming-up, breaking ice, trying to remember over 20 names of people from nine different countries a seminar for youth workers and dancers / choreographers “Movement as a Learning Opportunity” started on the 1st of March in Tbilisi, Georgia. The seminar is organized by “Anti-violence Network of Georgia” and takes place within the EU […]
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Even if wikipedia says that now in Tipperary live less people than in 1821 the town is real and it looks good and vivid despite the rain. And the line from the song „It’s a long way to Tipperary” I mentioned a day before is the most cliche one and it is used in […]
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Tomorrow I will go to Tipperary. My friend said that it cannot be true, there is no such a place, she was sure that it is a fictional place existing only in the song.
Tomorrow I will go to the Tipperary Dance Platform. Yes, it is a real and annual (!) contemporary dance event with exciting […]
Within the intense program of The keðjaKlaip?da encounter there was also a Writing Movement workshop led by dance scholar from Cecilia Malmstrom Olsson. And as it is in all workshops there were also some tasks. One of the tasks was to go and see a performance and take notes during the performance, i.e., immediately record […]