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