perpetual mvmt<>snd

teaching fall 2010, vermont

emily — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 00:20:15 +0000

Emily + Bilwa will be teaching several classes in the fall semester 2010 in their new home of Brattleboro, VT. Hope you can drop in…

Movement Improvisation for Performance
Tuesday 7:00 – 8:30pm (August 31 – December 14, 2010)
$10/class if registered for semester, $13/class drop-in
In this class, form is a foundation for freedom. We will learn methods for dancers to develop solo and ensemble improvisation for performance. With our bodies we will ask questions like: What role does memory play in improvised decision-making? Can we organize ourselves using our senses rather than our intellects? Why do observers perceive the same event differently? We will experiment with improvised exercises and scores designed by improv pioneers, and consider performative presence and the audience’s experience. This class is intended for intermediate/advanced dancers, but no previous improvisation experience is necessary. The class also features live electronic musical accompaniment.
Location: Luminz Studio, 74 Cotton Mill Hill, 3rd Floor, Brattleboro, Vermont
(802) 254-9200, luminzstudio.com

Beginning Modern Dance Technique
Thursday 6:45-8:00pm, September 16, 2010 – January 13, 2011
$165 per semester; $15/drop-in
This class will provide a foundation in contemporary dance technique. It draws from release technique, yoga, Axis Syllabus, experiential anatomy, and contact improvisation. We will learn pathways for moving into and out of the floor, loading and taking weight with the arms, as well as methods for spinning, jumping, rolling, and using breath as a movement generator. Beginning with a complete warm-up and moving through floor exercises, each class will end with a longer phrase that will be revisited over several sessions in order to allow for growth into the movement material. This class is intended for dancers who are new to contemporary technique. It also features live electronic musical accompaniment.
Location: Brattleboro School of Dance, 22 High Street, Brattleboro, VT
(802) 254-6884, brattleboroschoolofdance.com

Yoga: Stretch & Strengthen
Saturday 10 – 11am, September 18, 2010 – January 16, 2011
$165 per semester; $15/drop-in
This class will provide a rigorous but relaxing yoga practice that focuses on stretching while strengthening. Beginning with pranayama (yogic breathing), moving through a series of vinyasa and standing and balancing poses, and culminating in a full body relaxation, this class will leave you energized and ready to move.
Location: Brattleboro School of Dance, 22 High Street, Brattleboro, VT
(802) 254-6884, brattleboroschoolofdance.com

Open-level Movement Improvisation, September 18, 2010 – January 16, 2011
Saturday 12:30 – 1:30pm
$165 per semester; $15/drop-in
This class is based on a series of improvised exercises and scores and will allow students to develop skills for solo and ensemble movement improvisation. We will work with framing, flocking, unison and complex unison, and memory scores. We will also focus on ways to use sound and visuals as inspiration for movement choices. Each class will begin with a guided warm-up. This class is intended for all dancers and no previous improvisation experience is necessary. It also features live electronic musical accompaniment.
Location: Brattleboro School of Dance, 22 High Street, Brattleboro, VT
(802) 254-6884, brattleboroschoolofdance.com

perpetual mvmtsnd in berlin

emily — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 12:00:23 +0000

bilwa and emily collaborated with christian schroeder and daniela lehmann on private investigator’s dream machine, a live-feed camera, movement, and sound performance, as part of the group show in electricity we trust. pid machine was originally developed by dance artist mariella greil and video artists synes elischka and christian schroeder.

perpetual mvmt<>snd performed as part of spencer sweeney’s exhibition teatr laboratorium:

expansion/contraction // improvised mvmt/snd/vsls
emily sweeney/mvmt // bilwa/lptp/lctrncs/vsls
daniela lehmann/mvmt // antje velsinger/mvmt
klaus janek/dbl bss/lctrncs // meredith bove/mvmt
michael mcjilton / vsls // sandra lolax/mvmt
cyrena dunbar/mvmt // florian tuercke / snd > via skype

// plus //
Bruno S. !!! of Herzog’s Kaspar Hauser and Stroszek !!! plays piano, accordion, glockenspiel and handbells or nothing at all! and The Original Noseflute Orchestra!!!
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Time: 8:00pm – 11:00pm
Location: Teatr~Laboratorium, VW (VeneKlasen/Werner), Rudi-Dutschke-Str. 26, Berlin
Check this Sh*t out! Love, Spencer

watch video interview with spencer from monopol magazine

breathscape—inhabited installation in the SUMU space at gallery titanik (turku)

emily — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:15:45 +0000

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BREATHSCAPE
an inhabited installation

Emily Sweeney: performance, video, set
Bilwa: sound, video, set
Johanna Porola: costume

What does my body say to your body? What does your skin hear? What do my movements say to your muscles? What does my breath say to your lungs?

Breathscape is an inhabited installation that integrates body-sounds and videos with live performance to investigate the impact of new media technologies on somatic experience. Breath, muscle movement, and touch—basic, universal elements of physicality—become common points of reference around which audience and performer consider the ways our bodies hold images, ideas, and memories in both live and virtual contexts. Breathscape seeks to draw observers’ attention to their own kinesthetic navigation of technological environments, providing a space for meditating on the body’s changing communicative powers in the emerging virtual realm.

opening: March 4, 2010, 18:00 – 20:00

On view March 5 – 12, 2010
Tuesday – Friday, 12:00—18:00
Saturday – Sunday, 12:00—16:00

the rashomon effect workshop + performance—kutomo (turku)

emily — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 12:00:58 +0000

The Rashomon Effect
improvisation workshop at Kutomo
w/ Emily Sweeney + William Bilwa Costa

The Rashomon Effect is designed to integrate artists from multiple disciplines and explores collaborative memory, reproduction, repetition, and subjectivity. It is concerned with inter-media translation and cultivates a fruitful environment for learning about other artists and their practices. It is a laboratory that asks participants to examine their own sensory perceptions and how they translate information through their work. The Rashomon Effect is open to dancers, musicians, theatre artists, visual/media artists, writers, etc.

workshops:
sat 6th feb 15:00-18:00
sun 7th feb 12:00-15:00
sat 13th feb 15:00-18:00
sun 14th feb 12:00-14:00

performance / reception:
sun 14th feb 15:00

workshop fees:
40€ / whole workshop
25€ / 1 weekend

tickets to performance / reception: 5€
registration / reservations at: info@ehka.net

KUTOMO Kalastajankatu 1 B 20100 Turku
busses 4, 40 Kauppatori-Amiraalistonkatu, last station or bus 1 Kauppatori-Satama, WTC station

www.arte.fi
www.ehka.net

performance installation: a performance installation—fluxee-klubi @ tehdas teatteri (turku)

emily — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 12:00:45 +0000

performance installation: a performance installation

There is an event in the space made up of bodies, text, video, and sound. It is improvised—generated in real time with no definite trajectory. Each moment is a decision. Each decision is influential and autonomous. The convergence of these elements and decisions is an installation.

Emily Sweeney and Bilwa, a dance/music duo from the U.S.A. who work together as perpetual mvmt<>snd, are currently in residence in the SUMU space at Gallery Titanik. They are joined by their collaborators Mariella Greil and Werner Moebius, both of whom are from Austria and currently working in London.

january 30, 2010—fluxee-klubi @ tehdas teatteri (turku)

evening of improvised movement + sound—b galleria (turku)

emily — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:00:27 +0000

emily sweeney /mvmt/ /usa/

mariella greil /mvmt/ /austria/

maria nurmela /mvmt/ /finland/

bilwa /snd/ /usa/

werner moebius /snd/ /austria/

kimmo modig /snd/ /finland/

january 29, 2010—b galleria (turku)

guapo esmeralda—incounter. sound – video – text, campbell works (london)

emily — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 12:00:51 +0000

InCounter Sound – Video – Text

A night of live sonic art, performance and video at Campbell Works. Edgy instrumental improvisation, live electronic mixing, found-sound clashes and spoken word performance are interspersed with videos about language, communication and the construction of narrative within moving image

Live performances:
Anne Bean, Richard Wilson and Susie Honeyman
Melanie Clifford & Melissa Castagnetto
Stephen Cornford
Guapo Esmeralda
Holly Pester
Tone Poem

Videos:
Noah Angell
Steven Ball
Ellakajsa Nordstrom
Laure Prouvost
Stefan Riebel
Paul Rooney
Erica Scourti
Lisa Stansbie
Neil Taylor

Wall text:
Emily Candela

stones—secondo piano (rome)

emily — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:00:34 +0000

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pa-f experiments—bilwa and amelia mcqueen

emily — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:00:29 +0000

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Bilwa and Australian dancer Amelia McQueen conducted some experiments working with live-feed projection and improvised movement and sound at pa-f in St. Erme, France. They gave an informal showing for pa-f residents on November 7, 2009.

either/or, or and—rhythmik-kongress (vienna)

emily — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:00:38 +0000

„entweder oder oder und“ (either/or, or and)
dance: mariella greil + emily sweeney
live electronics: werner moebius
violoncello, voice, analogue electronics: audrey chen

NEITHER

to and fro in shadow from inner to outer shadow

from impenetrable self to impenetrable unself
by way of neither

as between two lit refuges whose doors once
neared gently close, once away turned from
gently part again

beckoned back and forth and turned away

heedless of the way, intent on the one gleam
or the other

unheard footfalls only sound

till at last halt for good, absent for good
from self and other

then no sound

then gently light unfading on that unheeded
neither

unspeakable home

-Samuel Beckett

performed at theater akzent in vienna as part of the european rhythmics congress
october 5, 2009

drops will flood—fluten (vienna)

emily — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 12:00:19 +0000

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photos by Dominik Greil + Bilwa

performance: emily sweeney
sound: bilwa
visual design/installation: emily sweeney + bilwa

after water—after tremendous weight—air, space, light
after water—thirst
after water—its memory remains heavy on limbs, in lungs, flooding our ears
after water—we are free; we are parched

drops will flood is a performance installation exploring the dichotomy inherent in all freedoms: drowning meets thirst, lightness leads to emptiness. we negotiate to find balance.

presented in the wasserturm favoriten as part of fluten WORK:SPACE
september 25, 2009

ein work:space für KünstlerInnen aus verschiedenen Medien
13. – 26. 09. 2009 im Wasserturm Favoriten
Windtenstraße 3
1100 Wien
Im Zentrum steht, was Brian Massumi kreative Ansteckung (creative contagion) nennt – eine Zusammenschau verschiedener Medien in der Architektur des Wasserturms.
Durch den Austausch experimenteller Arbeitsansätze wird ein offenes System verbreitet, das affirmativ-kritische Arbeitsmodalitäten erprobt und reflektiert. Ein Format das sich zwischen Labor und performativer Ausstellung ansiedelt.

WORK:SPACE for artists working in various media
At the center of attention is what Brian Massumi called creative contagion, a synopsis of various media meeting the architecture of the watertower.
Through exchange of experimental approaches, we diffuse an open system that tests affirmative-critical work modalities. WORK:SPACE is formatted somewhere between lab and performative exhibition.