bipod 2006

Kettly Noel dancer and actress, was born in Haity, she moved to Maly in 1999 and started “ The Space” for dance and studies about dance theories. Parallel to her job Kettly directed different performances such as “ My

Nephew and my Niece” 2001 and “ Tichèlbè” 2002 third award in the fifth meeting for the Africa and the Indian Ocean in Madagasshkar ( RFI award for discovering dance) in addition to the unified performance“ Errance”.

Kettly Noel and Augusto Cuvilas worked on their new performance “ The Other”, which is a dance performance accompanied by music and video art that permits the play to be performed as a philosophical state that conveys the concept of meeting, diverse identity, the pressure that is conveyed through fear of the unknown, and the irony of wanting to meet “the other”.

In “perform performing”, a trilogy on the sense and senselessness of looking at dance as work, dancer Jochen Roller explores the conditions under which he practices his profession. In the work’s first part, “No Money, No Love” (which premiered in November 2002), Roller, assuming that work means earning a salary, calculates how much he earns with his work and what dance actually costs. In light of insufficient state funding, he acknowledges that one must do several other professions in order to continue working as a dancer. In “No Money, No Love,” he demonstrates to the audience how one can still rehearse and produce a dance performance during work hours. In each job - whether as an H&M salesman, a call-center agent at the German railroad, or an escort-service employee - Roller draws analogies to his actual profession of dancer. From these jobs’work conditions comes “No Money, No Love,” a performance in which a dancer performs other work to earn money. 

The latest work by Raffaella Giordano translates into movement danced in space the depth of the poetic word that resounds in time. The Italian choreographer goes back to working with and on herself, with an intimate, delicate solo performance on love and its absence. In 1980, she joined Carolyn Carlson's Company Teatro e Danza La Fenice of Venice. In 1981, she worked with Pina Bausch's Company, the Wuppertal Tanztheater, participating in the pieces Kontakthof, Blaubart and Sacre du printemps. She received the PRIZE OF THE CRITICS "DANZA&DANZA 1990 " and 1999 as best interpreter of new Italian contemporary dance. In July 1999 received the PRIZE GARDADANZA for Italian contemporary dance. In November 2000 she was awarded the UBU AWARD for casting with her creation “The matter… For a work in becoming” a critical glance at reality and for her courage and intensity of her choreographic choices in the field of theatre-dance beyond dance.

Another new experience of Galván, a personnel battle of dispossessing flamenco dance from its routines and corsets. Three chairs in the setting and nothing more. And there, without no accessory, they do all their play the three flamencos. A play that consists only of brushstrokes, of sound, and of dance. Galván already is another question, everything that he dances is classical flamenco, what occurs is that he dances in an original and surprising way. Violent are his movements, he changes the rhythms unceremoniously, he invents “remained” improbable and spectacular. And all that he does is flamenco, a flamenco that many do not yet understand. Galván continues giving giant steps toward the positive destruction of

the dance.

I do not know where it comes from, where it carries me. The only way is to be aware of it is to let myself be driven with flow towards infinity…. Dan Agbetou, after studying African Dance in Benin, his home country, he went to New York and studied modern dance and Jazz with Alvin Ailey, American Dance Theatre. He also worked in Paris with Koffi Koko, Germaine Acgony and Elsa Wolliaston, where he developed his own style of dance. IN 1991, he formed his own company, Tchekpo dance company and have created very interesting dance pieces. He is established in Germany since 1995, where he founded in Bielefeld a school of dance.

Alia Hamdan studied contemporary dance in the conservatory and the Centre Chorégraphique National de Montpellier. This is her first personal project in Beirut, where she currently lives. A performance, a sound and a video projection celebrating the recommissioning of the Holiday Inn hotel in Beirut

When I was a kid, Batman was my hero, my mom used to buy me all the Batman comics on time; she was never late, one day she couldn’t find it, she brought a white paper bag full of black pepper, I ate some of it, the taste was very spicy, I cried all day long.

How do human beings caught in extreme situations they have not chosen nor wanted, such as earthquakes, drought, war and occupation, manage to survive, physically and mentally? In a world that seems to fall apart, from Darfur to Bam, from Abu Ghraïeb to Ghaza, men and women’s capacity to endure, adapt and surpass themselves is a mystery.

This workshop will be oriented towards a work of listening. It aims at bringing the body, used to the discipline of classical and modern dance, back to a contemporary African dance, where the work drives the body beyond its limits, towards reconsidering and rethinking of itself.

Allowing the body to talk, to follow its energy and impulse, to explore its different metamorphoses within its possibilities, are the main characteristics of this ‘dance gathering’. Putting the body in relation with space, time and rhythm, It is the encounter between two universes; that of academic discipline and that of African dance.

Mazen and Emmanuelle studied with Pablo Veron, Gustavo Navera, and Chicho Fromboli... Mazen is a choreographer, dancer and teacher in Paris since 6 years, He has been invited to several international festivals around Europe, to dance and teach Tango Argentino, such as, Sweden, 2001 with Lucia Mazer (ex chicho Partner ) Oslo and Tromso in Norway 2003-2004- 2005 several times with Alexandra Archeti Greace with

Victoria Vieyra (ex Pablo Veron Partner) and Amsterdam in December 2005 during the Tangomagia Festival. for more details check www.tangomagia.com. Mazen and Emanuelle's teaching is based on musicality and listening between partners. Their experience in contemporary dance and their degrees in teaching allows them to transmit their knowledge in a simple and efficient

manner.

Jochen Roller was born in 1971 in Berlin. After initial training in ballet, he studied theater at the University of Gießen and choreography at the Laban

Centre for Movement and Dance in London. Roller lives and works as a choreographer, dancer and performer in Berlin.

WELCOME ! to the Playground, a poetic place I have created for us where all our tools, toys, things, we all bring in, are just there to be touched and to be played with. The Playground Zone is my invitation to You to create characters, to share and to combine all performing arts such as clowning,

dancing, singing, poetry, music etc. This enable Us for the main part of the workshop, the street performance! We will perform in Beirut, getting close to the people, using our clowning characters/ spontaneous energy for contact, irritation, trouble, joy, happy healing etc. Yes You, Joyin, Jump, Try, Fly...:)

Dan Agbetou, after studying African Dance in Benin, his home country, he went to New York and studied modern dance and Jazz with Alvin Ailey, American Dance Theatre. He also worked in Paris with Koffi Koko, Germaine Acgony and Elsa wolliaston. In this workshop Dan is aiming at positioning the participants in a conscience state of their movements and inner expression. Certain links of expression and interaction, within the body, will be highlighted and rediscovered, such as, the relationship between the visual body and the vocal presence of it.

Produced and directed by Celia Lowenstein The creative process of choreographer/dancer, Bill T. Jones. Using filmed material from day one of

rehearsals to performance: a unique and intimate portrait unfolds concerning one of America's greatest artists, performers and thinkers.

For over 35 years Twayla Tharp has been considered the modern mistress of complex movement and has created some of the most memorable dance pieces in living memory.

A documentary which looks at her life and work.

Deformation as an artistic strategy in contemporary performance and the issue of public visibility of disability in a conventional sense. The work explores the aesthetic perception of physical deformation and conducts intensive individual interviews with very well known artists from the fields of

performance/dance/theatre (Raimund Hoghe, Ju Gosling, Simon Versnel, Milli Bitterli, Rika Esser).