Looking for New Ways of Moving – Somatic Dance & Movement
[vc_row content_placement=”middle”][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”1542″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text] widening all openings to gather embodying surrounding sensations to later scatter expression of smell taste sight touch pain balance temperature organs floating limbs and head relating to space and self all translated into motion let the sensed elements alter all states of being dance the world through body […]
Performance-Installation: Actions, Objects and Places Dialoguing
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”60px”][vc_video link=”https://youtu.be/_Oz-1k2Lleg” el_width=”80″ align=”center”][vc_column_text] Conception & Performance: Romane Nagy • Camera & Editing: Lili Maheu • Music: Sofina Johnson [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text] Performance is a set of questions and concerns about how art relates to people and the wider social world. ~Jonah Westerman [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]You can experience this while watching the previous performance-installation video by a young […]
Using Objects in Movement Exploration & Creation
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”60px”][vc_single_image image=”3366″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_rounded”][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]I very often work with objects in my creation. I use objects as constraints, inspirations and/or starting points in my poems in motion. It can be: Objects I find in nature (a stick found at Diver’s Lake for Nested: Lean and Rise below ) – or thrifting (a kimono […]
Investigating the Body & its Relation with the Environment through Different Art Forms
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”60px”][vc_row_inner content_placement=”middle”][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”1542″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][vc_column_text] the word “c l o u d” my body spreads space invading cells vertigo i am no more but nebula [/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”1542″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]My creative process – fragmentation, reconstruction, transformation, connection to the world through becoming-other and embodied images is for me a mirror of the […]
Adapting my Creative Process to Here & Now
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”60px”][vc_custom_heading text=”Memories of What Once Was” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:center” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]My process used to start in the physical exhaustion of hardcore training: breaking resistances in my body, so gates would open and creativity would flow… My process was starting in what I thought was the opened…[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image=”3392″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_rounded”][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]From Min Tanaka’s Butoh I used to […]
Widening the Range of Your Connection with the World to Find Empathy
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”60px”][vc_single_image image=”3396″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_rounded”][vc_empty_space][vc_custom_heading text=”Creating Where People Are” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:center” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]Connecting through art – dance, theatre, visual arts, music – was traditionally done by bringing audience to artists-performers, gathering them in a theater, a gallery. Through all sorts of new channels, today, this connection has become multi-ways Creating and exploring my art in site-specific, […]
Building Awareness & Support through Dance
In August 2020, Holly contacted me to create a poem in motion for Overdose Awareness Day. I started exploring how performance and creative movement can help us go through certain events in our lives: creating support, awareness and empathy… It became Lifeline: a live performance and a short film. (performed in the sculpture “Standing Figure #10” […]
Restrictions as Springboards to Renew Your Creative Process
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”60px”][vc_single_image image=”3410″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_rounded”][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]A year and a half a go I started to have a sharp pain in my right hip. A pain that would stop me in my movement, would it be walking or dancing. An even worst pain at night: throbbing so deep, it would pound from my ribcage to […]