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Choreographer Lucy Guerin… oh, yeah… Her dance piece ‘Love me’, which is actually a triptych was really something special; it was on schedule almost at the end of Dance Week Festival, just right in time to lift me up…

Very powerful technology based performance, but at the same time grounded with strong choreography. Dancers Kyle Kremerskothen, Kirstie McCracken, Byron Perry and Stephanie Lake simply fulfilled Guerin’s idea on modern society and relations we get into.

Lucy Guerin Inc (c)

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After being such good performers of mime, it’s time to end series of mime classes under the guidance of Mike Wenzel.

Today you are gonna train some Mime routines, and at the same time, you will learn how to distinguish mime from an old form of street culture, and that’s clownery. I leave gentlemen Pierrot and Harlequin for some other time…

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After blogging on dance and technology, let’s get back to the body…  an essential bodily theatre… contemporary dance inspired by Butoh…

Pál Frenák‘s choreography ‘Mennono’, which I saw on Dance Week Festival, gave me an opportunity to check again how Hungarians are doing physical theatre and stage philosophy… and I usually just plunge into it… letting my mind to flow with the artwork…

Photo: Compagnie Pal Frenak (c)

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Kinetic sculptures and robotics could be also perceived in perfomative aspect, not only as installations communicating within the object itself and the creator – sculptor, engineer, passionate geek.

Therefore, I’ve picked up Peter William Holden‘s installations and cinematix approach where he tend to re-interpret the space, objects, movements, music and choreography of ‘wired’ objects; making the idea of robotics pretty poetic.

Arabesque by P. W. Holden taken from Ars Electronica

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This is a second part of interview with M.B. Solano. Read the first part: Interview with Marlon Barrios Solano: Dancers moved by Technology

Photo: Amelia by LaLaLa Human Steps (c)

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In the history of dance only few dancers and choreographers were considered as sort of tech related investigators…

With the expansion of new media art, the wider use of Internet, user friendly applications, multi-functionality of modern age, and the whole DIY scene that has grown up so fast; dancers and choreographers realized that technology could be a new challenging platform for them.

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