X - mas BREAK

Dear All,
After a first semester with wonderful presentations and guests we will go now for a deserved break.

The next Friday Lunch Lecture will be the 18 of January 2008.

The 11 we have David Zambrano in the house so no Lunch Performances this day.
I wish to you all a wonderful X- mas and a healthy, positive and inspiring 2008... !
See you in January,
Best
SF

Before leaving for the X-mas break! This Wednesday the 19

Dear all,
This will be our last lunch performance of 2007- this time Wednesday instead of Friday- and we would like to invite you to two great presentations!

In 809
12:30
SNDO 1 + Guest students will present research results after the choreography workshop with Hooman Sharifi

In 602
13:30
SNDO 2 + Guest students will present research results after the choreography workshop with Thomas Lehmen

From 2:00
X-mas Party! in 609

Hope to see you there!

Greetings,
SF

Friday the 14 - Dancing on the Edge: Debate

Dear All,
Next friday the 14 we are hosting a debate inside the frame of the festival "Dancing on The Edge: Confronting Dance from the Middle East".

At 13:30 in Studio 602

Choreography and Artist Engagement: A Debate
Middle Eastern choreographers from the festival and ducth-based choreographers will discuss and show how they bring important social and political issues into their work. Film clips of the choreographers work will be shown and issues such as freedom of artistic expression and the effect of working and living conditions on artist's work will be discussed.

Participating middle eastern choreographers will include Muhanad Rasheed (Iraq), Mohamed Shafik (Egypt), Omar Rajeh (Lebanon), Mey Sefan/Ingo Schweiger (Syria/Germany) and Ayman Abdel Fattah (Egypt).
Ducth-based choreographers Andre Gingras and Feri de Geus will be also taking part of the discussion.
Moderator: Gabriel Smeets

Please fell free to pass this information to anyboy who might be interested in such a great theme!

See you there,
SF

Friday the 7 - Workshop Presentations

Dear all,
Tomorrow we are having two showing:
In 609 SNDO 1 + Guests
From 1:15 untill 2:30
Co- Existence
An installation performance that students of SNDO 1 and guest constructed along the workshop dedicated to research the co-existence of the media: Body, Image and Sound.
Directed by:
Ivo Bol, Ibrahim Quraishi, Roberta Marques and Maria Ines Villasmil

In 809 at 2:30 SNDO 2 + Guests
The Extreme Body
A final presentation from Renee Copraij choreography workshop. SNDO 2 and guest are presenting ther vision about extreme bodies.
Alma / Hysteria
Aloun/ Erotical Body
Melkorka/ Action Woman
Rodrigo/ Superman
Roger/ Body of God
Steph/ Ecstasy
Guest Student/Focus
Teilo/ Faith and Devotion
Tommi/ Metereophatia

See you there!
SF

Friday the 30 of November

Dear all,
Fernando Belfiore (SNDO1) wanted to invite you to a showing of a little exercise tomorrow at 1:30.
He invite everybody to meet in the foyer ( with jackets on!) since the performance will take place outside in the square in front of our building.
He will be performing himself and with collaborators: Esra Colastica, Florentina Holzinger, Pier Giorgio Milano, Magdalena Ptasznik and Michele Rizzo all students from SNDO 1.
Percussionist Andre Mello is joining the team.

Brings friends and who ever might be curious!

Stay warm!

Friday 23 of November : Vivianne Rodrigues de Brito

Dear All,
This Friday we will have as our guest Vivianne Rodrigues de Brito... come to meet us and find out about her performing experience, her fascination about video making, her vision about dance today and her ideas over teaching improvisation skills.
MTD students from 3 year are aslo hosted by us today!

Don't miss it and meet us in 609 at 1:30!

See ya...

Friday the 16 at 1:30 in 609

Go "SOLO"... Today

Dear All,
This friday, we will have an informal showing of two solos made by Teilo Troncy (SNDO2) and Roger Salas (SNDO2) during the choreography workshop directed by Renee Copraij.
Bring your lunch, friends and curiosity and meet us in 609 at 1:30 pm.

Cheers!

Friday the 9 -The Frontis Piece: Work in Progress

Angela Linsen our guest today!

Angela Linsen artistic leader of the MTD (Modern Theater Dance Department) will be performing today an excerpt of the choreography "The Frontis Piece" a solo directed by Jan Ritsema and a part of a trilogy she is preparing for next year together with 2 others solos from Angels Margarit and Paul Selwyn Norton.
After we will have an informal conversation with Angela and Gabriel Smeets.

Don't miss it.. we don't get so often this opportunity of having Angela back on stage,

Time 1:30 in Studio 609

Cheers,

NO LUNCH LECTURE TODAY...

then see you next friday!
Enjoy the beauty of the Amsterdam's Autumn and week end...
best
SF

Next Friday the 26

Workshops Presentations: Ria Higler + Nora Heillman

Dear all..
After a very short brake here we are again...
This friday we are happy to announce the presentation of two workshops that were happening during the last weeks..

In 602 at 1:30
SNDO 1 and Guest: Ria Higler will be opening the door of studio 602 to have a look to her workshop together with the SNDO 1 and guests, during the last 2 weeks.

In 609 at 2:00
SNDO 3 had a residency in PAF (France) during the week 41. Together with Nora Heillman they did a choreography workshop in this amazing place. They will share with us their experience after having a week of atelier for digest and organise the work they did there..

So don't miss it, and remember to bring your lunch, friends and who ever is curious to knwo what is going on here.
Best
SF

Friday the 12

Presentation of Dance in Camera - 2007
By SNDO 2 + Guests
Location: Beeldmedia

Eileen Standley and SNDO 2 and guests are proud to present the short films made during the Dance and Camera workshop of 2007. A workshop directed by Eileen Standley and Paul Van Der Ploeg (Beelmedia Department).
Don't miss the presentation of one of the most favourite workshop of SNDO!

Enjoy it, and please pass the word,

Greetings,

Salut !

SNDO in artistic residency in PAF (France)

Dear all...
This time I am sending our news from PAF (Performance Art Forum) an amazing place in France were the SNDO 3 are doing a residency with choreographer Nora Hellman. This new alternative for artist to work and research was created by Jan Ritsema and was officially open last summer. It is/was an old convent, and right now some parts are under construction, but still this place has an amazing atmosphere. The chapel is just a kind of "oasis" in the middle of doors, stairs,corridors. This place invite you to work,to think, to to research, to collaborate and to be alone ... but over all you can just determinate by yourself your own conditions to work.
Noha,Giulo, Ji-Hae,Daniel,Pablo,Yurie and Emma together with Nora are having a very interesting time here..hopefully we can come back in the near future.

Check the Blog of the group in residency...in case you are curious to know what is going on here:

http://radicalframes.wordpress.com


And also check PAF at www.pa-f.net

More soon..

Friday the 5

In conversation with Dutch Composer Ivo Bol

Dear All,
Today we will have a conversation with Dutch composer and sound artist Ivo Bol. We will go trough his latest work and his large collaboration making music for dance, theater and film.
Time 1:30 in 609

At 2:15 Noha Ramadan (SNDO 3) will we sharing with us some excerpts of her new solo piece.

Please be there on time since both of our guest has to leave on time!

Hope to see you there,
Best

No Lunch Performances this Friday.. but SATURDAY...The Clothing Performance in Badhuisteater, September the 29 at 22:00

Keridos amigos/ dear friends:

We did it!!!!!!!

I would like to invite you to an special noite bizarre, the presentation of The Clothing Performance, an antifashion event where i will show the costumes I have been working WITH during all the summer together with my friend pato luengo.. from STRANGE trousers to wild skirts, from crazy ponchos to industrial ELEGANT dresses, from funky hats to undef ined stuff, everything made out of something that somebody didn't want anymore, actions and situactions to show what happen between a body and its costume..........RECICLOTHES, music and jewels. .......
And after the show we will open the shop, so come with your pockets full of money. Amazing party till late.
Please check out the flyer,and bring your friends...
Salud,
Javi (SNDO 4)

Next Friday 21 of September...
at
1:30 in 602

Javi-Erik-Melvin SNDO 4
in
LONELILESS

Before leaving...
Three friends meet each other before traveling far far away to the Asian continent, we wanted to call it loneliless.

Don't miss them...!

Welcome back...

Dear students, I would like to welcome everybody back to our Friday's meetings specially to our first years -new- students...hoping that soon they start to also share with us some of their experiences and discovers inside the SNDO.

To inaugurate the year we will also have Sara Wookey back. Sara is an American artist who was based in the Netherlands for some years and also was part of our staff teachers.
Her lecture is related to her actual research in Los Angeles were she is now living and working.

Friday the 14
1:30 to 2:30 pm
In 609
WALKING L.A. – (Sur)facing the city
An artist-talk with Sara Wookey
Los Angeles, CA
In this artist talk, Sara will discuss the history leading up to her current project, Walking L.A., which emerges from her two and a half years of research on walking in Los Angeles. This project has developed into various forms, such as live performance, installation, and urban intervention performances as it considers the intersection of the self/subject and the built urban landscape. The live performance work will premiere in Los Angeles in February 2008 under the artistic advice of Yvonne Rainer (choreographer and filmmaker) and Edward Soja (urban planning).

This forty-five minute talk is followed by a discussion with the audience and is open to students and professionals from the fields of dance, performance, visual art, new media, architecture, geography and urban planning.
About her...
Sara Wookey is a choreographer and multi-disciplinary artist working between the mediums of dance, performance, photography, and video who recently relocated back to the United States from Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where she was based for ten years. Her work has been presented in the Canada, Czech Republic, UK, Netherlands, Germany, Hungary, Portugal, Spain and, most recently, at the Hammer Museum, REDCAT and 24th Street Theater in Los Angeles. She has been a guest artist at, among others, The Amsterdam School for the Arts, Chisenhale Dance Space in London, The Duncan Centre Konzervator in Prague, The Ohio State University and the Wexner Center for the Arts.

http://www.sarawookey.com

Farewell Lunch

Friday 22
The last Lunch-Performance of the year...
Don't miss it

Dear all,
This Friday will be the last Lunch-Performance of this year. This will be a real farewell lunch-performance from some of our students.. soon back in to what they say "the real world".
We would like to finish this long trip in your company...

1:30 pm in 809
SNDO 2, SNDO 3 and SNDO 4
Will be in 809 doing an open improvisation session as a way of ending their course with Katie Duck: Practising of Presence. This is an initiative of Maria Stoklosa who soon - together with the rest of SNDO 4- will graduate next 30 of June.

2:15 pm in 602
Melissa Coleman (guest)
+phone - a medical experiment
Melissa will be presenting a final work for ending her period as a SNDO guest. This project was made in collaboration with Yurie Umamoto (SNDO 2)


Please come for this final one - for now-
and if we don't see you, we wish you a fantastic summer!

Warm greetings,
Maria Ines Villasmil
Lunch-Lecture Coordinator

7 Songs by Rodrigo Sobarzo


Friday the 15 - Jeroen Fabius will be coordinating the Friday Lunch Lecture this Friday
1:30 pm
Jeroen Fabius and SNDO 2

Presentation by students of the course Anthropology and
Choreography lead by Jeroen Fabius. We have observed the
documentary Shoah by Claude Lanzmann from 1984, in which
Lanzmann collects eye witness accounts about the Holocaust.
In the documentary we see only these talks and sites where
the terrible events took place, in long takes, that show empty spaces,
' guilty space' that account for the eradication of millions of individuals.
Students of the second year will react to the documentary, and
choose different modes in doing that.

2:00
Seven Songs by Rodrigo Sobarzo SNDO 1
"i wrote a performance
for my mother to acting
but she couldn't come
she was taken by a fits of rage unlike anything she had experienced
in her 57 years of life
she felt unfit not able
and she apologized
the performance was cancelled"
(casiotone for the painfully alone)

Seven songs is a seven months research (october06/may07) about video work orientated towards movement and its relation with pop(ular) music. Composed by five solos and one duet It was made out of personal characters and music lyrics.
With the participation of:
Roger S.
Christoph L
Klara A.
Jan B.
Aparna K.
Rodrigo S.

2:30
"Crying Lab" by Yurie Umamoto SNDO 2
Short video from her work during the Video-Lab Workshop.

2:50
Melissa Coleman SNDO Guest
Showing of videos over 3 Installation works
1. 'or-&-k&l) - a chance for people to have a glance into their future.

2. ..under my skin - interactive spatial-sensitive communicating suits.

3. borderline - step into the life of a girl with borderline.

Our last one: Next Friday 22 !
Please feel free to invite who ever you think will be interested to come to our weekly meetings.
best,
SF

In the frame of: The Absent Body

As an extension of the Seminar "The Absent Body" a series of lunch Lectures are also happening. We have 3 guest for the coming next fridays, so your questions and comments can also be addressed here.
Performances are also welcome!
Please send me your request.

Friday the 1 of June , at 1:00 pm!
Gerald Siegmund (Basel University). We will have a short meeting with Gerald before getting his train back to Frankfurt. So we will start at 1:00 and have him for about 45' /1 hour!
Bring your lunch, but don't miss him...

Friday the 8 of June, at 1:30
Nicole Beutler (LiSa) and leading one the workshop during the Absent Body Seminar from the 29 of Mei until the 1 of June,2007

Friday the 15 of June, at 1:30
Jeroen Fabius (SNDO) Over the Holocaust

Feel free to come and invite people who also might be interested on the theme.. everybody is welcome.

Warm greetings,
SF

ONLY TODAY!

Melkorka Magnusdottir (SNDO1) is showing a preview of the piece she is preparing for the 1 year Festival. It is a trio danced by herself and with the collaboration of Roger Salas and Rodrigo Sobarzo (SNDO1)
It will be a presentation of about 20 minutes in 609.
Don't miss it,
and hope to see you there,
Warm greetings,
SF

And next Friday the 18...
1:30
Melvin Fraenk (SNDO3) would like to do a open rehearsal of a work he is doing at the JMD (Jazz and Musical Department) where he regularly teach dance and make choreographic work.
He would like to share with us his experience as well to bring his work in the street dance field together with his choreographic work at the SNDO.

2:15
Rhada (SNDO4) will give a lecture over her final thesis from ethnology and cultural anthropology studies. She finished her thesis in 2005, but now she prepared a translation that soon will be available in the AHK library. She shortly would like to present the observed principles in connection to the used theory of habitus made by P. Bourdieu, which she had applied in her work. She tried to extract principles of learning, performing and teaching improvisation in order to see them within everyday praxes. At the same time she was observing where and how improvisational principles already take part in our daily praxes and we can later apply them to our professional praxes.

Don't miss it.. and please invite everybody you want..it is an open event and at the same time a meeting point for we all!
Greetings,
SF

Next friday the 11
1:30 pm
Amsterdam-Lebanon-Amsterdam
Pierre Yves is back from Beirut:
Dear all after being participating in the festival BIPOD (Beirut International Platform of Dance) with his last solo work, Pierre Yves (SNDO 4) would like to share with us some of his experiences and documentation as well as the environment where he presented his work.
Here one of his images...
The rest will come having Pierre Yves with us next friday at 1:30 pm.

2:00 pm
Amsterdam-Mozambique-Amsterdam
Elodie (SNDO2) will show a documentation of her experience in Mozambique during last winter...

2:30 pm
Amsterdam: With Lily Kiara...
Gabriel Nunes and Anna (SNDO3)
Will show some results after a workshop they did last week with Lily Kiara (Skiner Release).
They wanted to share it with us while still fresh...

Hope to see you there...
Greetings,
SF

Last friday lecture before going for a break...
Friday the 27

Looking forward to meet you Roberta...
1:30
Next friday the 27 we will have as our guest film maker Roberta Marques. Her last dance movie "Looking Forward" presented few days ago for the first time during the opening of the Spring Dance festival will be screened, after that Roberta wanted to share with us few mysteries behind the film and how was her collaboration with dancer Michel Sumacher.

2:30
Installation-Performance
Tomislav (SNDO1) and Melissa Colleman ( Guest) will show their installation-performance work after being experimenting this last week.
My apologies for announcing this event too early... ( for last friday)
..
The program is not ready.. so still we have space for you to come with your great ideas.. send me a mail and let us know!

Greetings .. and see ya!

Friday the 20

Dear all...
here the program for this coming friday the 20:
A lecture...
SNDO 4 "initiate" the 1 years ...
This coming friday we have a lunch-lecture on the "Dossiers".. an event promoted by Radha, Diana and Maria (SNDO4) who are soon leaving the school. They wanted to "initiate" the first years students in this matter... so they request to send an especial invitation to ALL first years... be their guest!

A dance
Alma SNDO 1 will be presenting a solo work after her last trip to Paris where she was following a workshop with a famous flamenco teacher.

An Installation
Tomislav SNDO1 is showing an installation-performance together with Melisa (SNDO guest student)

Not confirmed yet: Elodie (SNDO2) present a video documentation of her last stage in Mozambique during last winter...

Hope to see you there from 1:30 pm.
Cheers,

Some pic's...

Hello everybody...
Here some pictures from the last showing of SNDO1 after Ria's Workshop.. and a photo still from the beautiful film made by Javier and Erik in Budapest, inside a very old location...
Cheers,
and enjoy the sun...

Friday the 13: Arriving, leaving ... staying

Dear all, so far the program for this friday...

Back in town!
This coming friday we have a short presentation of Marysia (SNDO 4) after being away from the school for some months. She will do a short piece were she also is including video.

What moves you?
That was the question that Elisabeth place on the table during her aesthetics class, and Rodrigo from SNDO1 decided to present a video-piece to answer her question from his own aesthetic point of view... He will present a small duet with Tomislav (SNDO1)

Performative farewell... by Catherine
Catherine Cooper one of our guest students from Dartington is leaving after finishing her ex-change period... she would like to say good bye and present a final work before leaving!

Don't miss it!
and see you in 602 and 609
at 1:30

.. More will follow

Easter Break!

Dear all...
This coming friday the 6 is easter... we will see each other next friday the 13!
Have a happy blooming!

This coming friday the 30 at 1:30

Hello everybody!
After the inspiring talk we had last week with Ibrahim Quraishi here with me in the picture.... (again one of the most avant garde South Asian directors today! wow) and the presentation of Milan's last show, we have a coming friday already fully book, with workshop presentations of Renne Copraij and Ria Higler.
Here the menu for next friday program:
Studio 609
1:30 Students from Renne Copraij will show a final work after the workshop of the last weeks with SNDO3. MTD students are also taking part ( it will be around 45 minutes.. so fast your seat bells and enjoy).
Please let's try to start 1:30 sharp since the MTD's students have to be on time for a rehearsal ( Joao's kindly request me to present SNDO3 first also for the same reason).
Studio 602
2:20 ( aprox.) Ria and SNDO 1 will present some results after Ria workshop experience.. this will be around 15-20 minutes.
Alma request to re schedule her presentation for another day.. so we will see her work in about 3 weeks!

See you all and please feel free to invite who ever you wanted!
Cheers,
Silicone Free

Program for next friday the 30 so far...

Dear all,
Ria Higler proudly present a glimpse of the workshop she is doing right now with the first years, and Alma (SNDO1) will share with us what she was doing in Paris following a flamenco trainning...
more will follow
best
Silicone Free

Ibrahim Quraishi is our guest this coming Friday

Dear SNDO students and teachers,
As you know Jeroen was the moderator for the lunch lectures until the last Block. From now on Gabriel has invited me to take over this event and I am very pleased to take on this new task passed on to me from Jeroen's hands!.
Please let me know when do you want to present something so we can adjust the schedules and plan accordingly. Remember that this is the space for showing whatever is keeping you busy nowadays . Also teachers can use this space to show results from workshops and any other manifestation you want to do!
We are having more and more students interested in this friday event, so please keep inviting your colleagues from others departments.
For my first day moderating the fridays lectures, I am having this Friday the 23rd of March Ibrahim Quraishi as my first guest, right after Milan Loviska presents and share with us a DVD about his last performance.

1:30 talk with Ibrahim Quraishi
Ibrahim Quraishi is a conceptual artist, writer and artistic director of Compagnie Faim de Siecle since 1998, who over the last five years has created numerous site-specific installations and performances in festivals and galleries throughout Europe, Asia and US. His pieces are grounded between the interaction of visual arts forms, digital media and live performances that explores various cultural and social conflicts while consciously examining the realities of migration, dispossession and the dynamics of cohabitation within the highly rigid socio-political spheres of imagined communities.

2:15 Milan (guest student) will show a DVD of his last work

Time: 1: 30 Friday the 23 of March,
Space: Check 609 or 602

Please don't miss it!

Warm greetings,
Maria Ines