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Dance researcher in practice and theory
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Posted 3 Sep 2010
Music dancerun video created for La Bâtie-Festival
A new video created for La Bâtie-Festival just came out.
On peut pas être tranquille le dimanche?!, a music dancerun, was shot in one day in several cultural places in Geneva, with Séni running and playing trombone, Foofwa dancerunning, and Pascal Dupoy videotaping on roller. A real call to vitality and creativity!
> Watch the video "On peut pas être tranquille le dimanche?!"
Posted 10 Aug 2010
Improvisation on Mount Tremper
A video was filmed capturing a new improvisation with Alan Sondheim, Vea Lucca and Foofwa d'Imobilité on Mount Tremper, Friday Friday August 6th 2010.
> Watch the video "Improvisation on Mount Tremper"
An improvisation by Alan Sondheim (violin, curacumbas, electric our), Vea Lucca (songs) and Foofwa d'Imobilité (dance) at Mount Tremper Arts Festival, New York on Friday August 6th 2010.
Posted 9 Aug 2010
Youtubing Michael Pina & Merce
Made August 4-7 2010 during Foofwa's residency at Mount Tremper Arts, "Youtubing Michael Pina & Merce" is a new trial video on legacy and life after death.
Thank you Aynsley Vendenbroucke and Mathew Pokoik!
> Watch the video "Youtubing Michael Pina & Merce"
"Youtubing Michael Pina & Merce" is the first trial of a project using found material of Michael Jackson, PIna Bausch and Merce Cunningham on youtube and other internet sites, and creating a new kind of dialogue between the three of them. (See also "
Pina Jackson in Mercemoriam" in the live productions' section of www.foofwa.com)
Posted 29 Jul 2010
New Mondays with Merce (with Foofwa)
In several excerpts from interviews in the MwM Film Library, Merce both reminisces, and inspires anew! In addition, see marvelous rare film of Merce Cunningham teaching class in Chicago in 1961, and dynamic, never before seen footage of Merce teaching Advanced Technique Class almost 50 years later. MCDC dancers Jennifer Goggans, Andrea Weber, and Foofwa d'Imobillitè look back on learning from Merce...
> Watch the video "The Cunningham Challenge: Doing the Impossible"
Posted 27 Jul 2010
Photos of "Au Contraire"
A new creation commissioned to Foofwa d'Imobilité, Au Contraire (an inspiration from the universe of Jean-Luc Godard), was premiered with success at the Festival d'Avignon (19-25 July 2010). Photos of the show are now on the site - see the Au Contraire page.
Posted 13 Jun 2010
"Merce-Art Forever!" video installations
See how the "Merce-Art Forever!" videos were installed at the Holland Festival in Amsterdam (8-11 June 2010).
(Photos of the installation with visitors and the complete videos are on the "Merce Art Forever!" page).
> Watch video
Here is an example of how the "Merce-Art Forever!" video interviews could be installed. Here at the Holland Festival, part I (with Merce) and part III are shown with four chairs and four headphones for each column.
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