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founded by michael klien and davide terlingo
edited by jeffrey gormly (editor [at] choreograph [dot] net)
 
 

Distant images of a place

by Amira Aranda

 

Architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience
Roland Barthes, The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies

Through the project Invisible Cities, Mexican artist Miguel Angel Madrigal shows architecture no longer as a space where we can be in physical presence but a concept that can also be inhabit visually. Developing alternative places that begin, grow and change inside another building, he recalls characteristics of other constructions while keeping an autonomous essence.

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published 22 April 2013

Framemakers: Book of Recommendations pdf available

by jg

 

Choreography (n.): order observed…, exchange of forces;
a process that has an observable or observed embodied order
Choreograph (v.): to recognize such an order
Choreography (v.): act of interfering with or negotiating
such an order

Published by Daghdha Dance Company in 2007, this small book has become quite influential in developing how dance artists and academics think about choreography (see Erin Manning’s recent ‘Always More Than One’ for example).

Full text of Framemakers: Book of Recommendations

The text complements much of the writing on choreograph.net, in particular those essays which were originally published in the Framemakers ‘big book’ : Choreography as an Aesthetics of Change

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published 24 April 2013

 

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by our readers

 

26th International Competition for Choreographers Hanover 2012
on June 23rd and 24th, 2012

“This is the most interesting, well organised, progressive choreographic competition in central europe with an international reputation. It is a privilege to have been part of this renowned competition, a platform of artistic exchanges. The support of the Ballett Gesellschaft Hannover for the world of dance is paramount!”
Richard Wherlock, Director Ballet Basel.

http://www.ballettgesellschaft.de

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published 21 February 2012