Feb
28
2010
This week I’m going to be mostly concentrated on watching great documentary films at the festival ZagrebDox… Thus, this post is strongly connected with its programme… Camilla Nielsson will present within the programme her latest film ‘Cities on Speed – Mumbai Disconnected‘… and as an intro to moviecholic atmosphere here is her award winning documentary from 2007 ‘The Children of Darfur’…
Photo above: Excerpt from the film The Children of Darfur
Photo bellow: Georgina Cranston (c) taken from UNICEF
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Feb
26
2010
Thanks to the fact that I’m following Icelandic composer Olafur Arnalds on Facebook I got the link to 26 minute BBC footage of Wayne McGregor‘s choreography ‘Dyad 1909 (In The Spirit Of Diaghilev)’ from 2009… I like them both, McGregor and Arnalds…
Random Dance Company: Dyad 1909 (In The Spirit Of Diaghilev)
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Feb
22
2010
Ooh la la… another interesting interview taken during Device_art 3.009… Mika Miyabara and Tatsuo Sugimoto are media artists from Japan who have been working on visual interactive projects since 2001.
Bounce Street exhibited on Device_art 3.009
photo taken from flickr: Movie Cards Project (c)
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Feb
20
2010
While I blogged about ‘barbwired‘ project I have stumbled on video… more like a sketch by Vimeo user tikul. I’m hoping that tikul won’t be angry on me because I’m posting now ‘straitjacket ‘butoh’ dance/’ video here…
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Feb
19
2010
Nicodama is one of the latest project by Japanese media artist Ryota Kuwakubo that was exhibited during Device_art 3.009 in October.
Nicodama by Ryoto Kuwakubo
Photo bellow by centralasian (cc)
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Feb
19
2010
Synergies among objects, bodies and entities are getting more and more interest among performers, choreographers and wearable technology creativez…
Ewelina Aleksandrowitz & Andrzej Wojtas
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