Interview with Beatriz Calvo-Merino, part 2: Science and Dance, Brain and Movement

February 24, 2011

This is the second part of the interview with Beatriz Calvo-Merino. Read the first part here: Interview with Beatriz Calvo-Merino, part 1: Dance + Neurons = Dance Neuroaesthetics

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Photo above: Beatriz Calvo-Merino by Tom Medak (cc)
Photo bellow: Sylvie Guillem, photographer unknown

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Interview with Beatriz Calvo-Merino, part 1: Dance + Neurons = Dance Neuroaesthetics

February 23, 2011

Dr. Beatriz Calvo-Merino for the end of topics and series of interviews regarding dance, movement,  science and technology driven by neurons, muscles, bones, and ideas.

She gave a lecture titled ‘Dancing in the brain: the neuroaesthetic of performing arts’ during coldly December in Zagreb, as a part of the Cognitive of the Performative programme by the Centre for Drama Art aka cdu.

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Photo above: Beatriz Calvo-Merino, by Tom Medak (cc)
Photo bellow: Human Brain, taken from sharpbrains.com

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Body cinema: Steve Paxton – selected videos

December 7, 2010

Steve Paxton‘s video selection tonight in Body cinema screenings… to shake our frozen necks and ‘ready for the winter hibernation’ bodies…

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Photo above: Steve Paxton in The Beast taken by Julieta Cervantes (c)
Photo bellow: from MFS as base for improvisation – water

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Patrick Veillet’s bony resistless sculptures – gallery

November 1, 2010

Another wearable sculpture gallery! This time I’ve picked up Patrick Veillet‘s skeleton, bony and awesome accessories…

Patrick Veillet’s fashion style evokes different underground worlds, which I thought belong to the realms of cinematography and literature… nakedness treated as clothing, clothing treated as micro powerful installation…

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Patrick Veillet: Sculptures a Porter – Spinal, Version 4, Squelette
Photo : Jean Baptist Mondino (c)
Material: vinyl, ossein (the collagen of bones)

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