Croatian Movement & Dance Institute

This morning, the dance community lost one of its legends. Pina Bausch passed away at the age of 68 in Wuppertal, Germany.

FYI: Charlie Rose interviews Mikhail Baryshnikov…

For the 5th year in a row TERMINAL/00/ is staging a platform to
present, promote and discuss contemporary Balkan art, where both
emerging and already established artists from the Balkan region are
invited to display their works.

London based Choreographer Jean Abreu in association with Visual Artist John Gerrard is holding auditions to seek for a strong and expressive dancer ( male or female) to collaborate in a visual art piece involving motion capture system, animation, photography and choreography.

In 1982 the International Dance Committee of the International Theatre Institute, UNESCO, created International Dance Day to be celebrated every year on the 29th April. The date commemorates the birthday of Jean-Georges Noverre (1727 – 1810), the creator of modern ballet.

This is an opportunity to explore and play along with a variety of creative senses using media performance technology.

The programme will include daily Feldenkreis classes, dance classes, as well as the conceptual work with text, body, video/multimedia, writing and other elements necessary for the creation of a performance. At the end, the participants will be able to present the results of their work.

What is contemporary dance?  The term has emerged in a period in which the world, and the world of art, is being reordered by geopolitical upheaval. It replaces the categories of the modern, which were too attached to the Western heritage to incorporate such developments. The open term “contemporary” will be investigated in a series [...]