Author: Thomas Johannsen

Sessionleaders wanted for February

| Thomas Johannsen

hi all,

just a small note to remind you that there are at the moment no session leaders for Februray. I heard from Leon, Makiko and Tom who are interested to lead session cycles, but they are only available from March… Please come forward with your plans and data options, so that we don’t create too big a gap.

thanks for all the good work that you make us be part of !

greetings,

Thomas

January 2012 preview

| Thomas Johannsen

After december has been a month of exploring the interdisciplinary from a dance/physical perspective, january will be a month with musical concepts that approach our mix of disciplines:

5 January 2012  –  CC #21  –  Reworking Polyphony

Monique will come back to present and work with us a further development of the work concepts she started in autumn this year with the cycle of Polyphony sessions.

12 / 19 / 26 January 2012  –  CC #22  –  Interlocking

Marije will do a cycle of three sessions based on a musical principle found a.o. in Ketjak music.

Both Marije and Monique will post soon more details about the work they are planning. Please comment on their posts if you are planning to join their sessions, so they know who to expect.

For everyone: It is time again to put some money in the pot for the ongoing hire of the studio: Please bring 20,- Euro next time you come (for any number of sessions in these 3 months).

For those who are not there tomorrow at Kristien’s session:  Have a great Christmas and New Year!

Thomas

Opening the Knowlegde Base

| Thomas Johannsen

hi people,

I opened a new section on this website: The Interdisciplinary Instant Composition Knowledge Base

A whole mouthful and an ambitious name, but in effect it is simply to gather and define the principles of instant composition that we can all agree on, in order to give focus and quality to the work we are doing in the sessions.

As last year on the old website I want to make an effort to facilitate the discussion about those principles because I believe that theory forming is very important next to the work ‘on the floor’. So please contribute!

Find the new section under the menu above right (“Knowledge Base”), or simply click here.

Thomas

CC #16: Doppelgänger

| Thomas Johannsen
Marije Nie / Thomas Johannsen
 
The first two sessions of the season :  Doppelgänger (8 and 15 September)
 
We decided to keep both sessions open to anyone, for the start-up of the season. So if you cannot make it on the 8th, you are welcome to come the 15th, and vice versa. But do let us know when you will participate, so we can make a plan according to group size and disciplines present.
 
We will work with the theme of ‘The Double/Doppelgänger’.  This is inspired by another multidisciplinary project that we are preparing for and we therefore have great interest in this theme. We had an inspiring talk today together with Makiko, and – as we were exepecting – there is ample connection with the Carpet Collective’s quest to gather and research work methods for interdisciplinary instant composition.
 
About the theme:
We are interested in the specific relationship that performers will have if you give them the task to be ‘Doppelgänger’. Which is not necessarily about copying each other, but about being intrinsically connected to each other in a certain way. This connects to earlier questions about relationships on stage we researched: Who is part of who’s world? Seperation and one thing… etc. (check out last year’s sessions on the webspace, it is lovely to read through them).
There is always imagination involved with the issue of ‘the double’, often it is dark, eerie. It has to do with wishes, dreams, fears.. a thing that went wrong, a wish that was never uttered, an aspect that was hidden and is coming out through the Double, or an accident that reveals the ‘true nature’ of something.
When looking at improvisation performance in this light, could you unveil a hidden aspect that lingers ‘underneath’ the instant composition piece that is being played, and how to trigger it to reveal itself?
 
To give some more words:
What births a doppelganger?
How can you be a doppelganger and what happens if you have one (or more)?
If there is a doppelganger is there always an original?
Which one is the dream (or both)?
The nightmare/utopia of being many as one
What makes things (exactly) the same?
 
If you want to join our little project, please comment on this post with “I’ll be there!”  🙂   so we know who to expect.
If you can’t see where to comment, click on the icon next to the date of this post (under the title).
 
Looking forward to be working with you!
Marije+Thomas