dance video MIMESIS I II, DIEGESIS I, II

date

13.02.2012 - 26.02.2012

open daily from 12:00 to 17:00

location

SUB-URBAN VIDEO LOUNGE

downstair the cafe Urban Espresso Bar east

Botersloot 44A, 3011HH  Rotterdam, the Netherlands
tel +31 (0)10 2130768

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direction                Xoán Anleo
co-direction, choreography     Sato Endo
camera                  Bas Noordermeer, Xoán Anleo
montage                Roberto Martín, metrocurt

about

MIMESIS and DIEGESIS is a series of films with improvised movements. A concentrated unity of movement, film and space.

The movements break through time with their rhythm, their intensities, transforming the ephemeral intoenergy flux. Any movement is fugitive and fragile. Stop the instant, immobilize time, continuous/ discontinuous focusing the representation of the body in an interlude to capture the invisible: The body catches the instant, becomes conscious of the fleeting time, of the impression left by the body. An ultrafast time subjected to an immediacy in which everything is quantified by unities of time. Life passes in an eternal present which blurs the reality and cultivates the appearances.

Nowadays, society lives in the era of representation, and identifies itself with the image’s triumph. The body’s representation goes further than mimetic conduct, it cannot be a copy or a representation of the reality like a mere reproduction. Art should not and cannot remain in mimesis, it should always overtake it.

This work is about the abstraction of the form, a synthesis in movement. Art regarding the body, as it is presented, transcends the interpretation, it is the abstraction of the reality, a way of non-conceptual knowledge. Art would refract society and it would not be a mimetic reflection of it.

Xoan Anleo link:
xoananleo.com

live event TRACES AND RESONANCES

date

Monday February 13th, 2012
20:00 door open
20:30 start

location

Roodkapje
Meent 119 - 133, Rotterdam
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sound / cello             Nina Hitz

movement / dance    Sato Endo

space design             Noriko Mitsuhashi

about

A suprising set of improvisation performances by Nina Hitz and Sato Endo. Suprising because it’s uncertain who else will join the performance and what the outcome will be... Come and drink a beer, and enjoy an exciting co-operation between the cellist and the dance artist.
This time Noriko Mitsuhashi is invited as the guest. She constructs a space that frames the relationship between the two performers. In this playground sound and movement respond to each other - and that might result in another viewing situation for the public.

Noriko Mitsuhashi link:
http://www.artholic.net/

Ohne Titel 2#

dates

January 20th(premier),21st and 22nd, 2012
20:00

location

HAU 3
Tempelhofer Ufer 10, 10963 Berlin, Germany

tickets

www.hebbel-am-ufer.de or +49 (0)30 2590 0427

info

about the work

Ohne Titel is a series of pieces that Nicola Unger is developing around 'Seeing'. She takes loose inspiration in experiments with optical illusions and baroque stage design. What does central perspective do with us?  How can projections alter our experience of space, our feeling of distance and nearness?

For La Porta's – untitled (1) – Nicola worked with a small model and projections.  The next versions will be executed in big scale.  Untitled (2) will be shown January 2012 at the HAU in Berlin; untitled (3) in February 2012 at the Productiehuis Rotterdamse Schouwburg.

Idea/Video/Comic drawings: Nicola Unger
Stage set design/ Light: Marion Tränkle
Music/ Composition: Harald 'Sack' Ziegler
Performer: Ola Maciejewska and Sato Endo
Brown charcoal drawing/Hand object: Bärbel Haage
Prduction: Katja Kettner

production

HAU(Hebbel Theater am Ufer)
Productiehuis Rotterdam (Rotterdamse Schouwburg)

dance video MIMESIS III and DIEGESIS I

premier                  November 25th, 2011
at                           Video Danza Ba (Buenos Aires International Festival of Video Dance)
in the program       De la lógica


direction                Xoán Anleo
co-direction, choreography     Sato Endo
camera                  Bas Noordermeer, Xoán Anleo
montage                Roberto Martín, metrocurt

about:
(original text in Spanish - scroll down for English translation)

Los movimientos atraviesan el tiempo con su ritmo, sus intensidades, transformando lo efímero en flujos de energía. Todo movimiento es fugitivo y frágil. Detener el instante, inmovilizar el tiempo, continuo/discontinuo fijando la representación del cuerpo en un intervalo para captar lo invisible: El cuerpo atrapa el instante, tomar conciencia de un tiempo fugaz, de la huella dejada por el cuerpo. Un tiempo ultrarrápido dominado por la inmediatez en la cual todo se cuantifica en unidades de tiempo. Se vive en un eterno presente que desdibuja la realidad y cultiva las apariencias. La sociedad actual vive la época de la representación, y se identifica con el triunfo de la imagen. La representación del cuerpo va más allá de conducta mimética, no puede ser una copia, una representación de la realidad  como la mera reproductividad. El arte no puede ni debe quedarse en la mimesis, siempre debe y pretende rebasarla En este trabajo se trata  de la  abstracción de la forma, una síntesis en movimiento. El arte en tanto cuerpo presentado  trasciende a la interpretación, es la  abstracción de la realidad, una forma de conocimiento no conceptual. El arte refractaría a  la sociedad y no sería un reflejo mimético de ella.

   The movements break through time with their rhythm, their intensities, transforming the ephemeral intoenergy flux. Any movement is fugitive and fragile. Stop the instant, immobilize time, continuous/ discontinuous focusing the representation of the body in an interlude to capture the invisible: The body catches the instant, becomes conscious of the fleeting time, of the impression left by the body. An ultrafast time subjected to an immediacy in which everything is quantified by unities of time. Life passes in an eternal present which blurs the reality and cultivates the appearances.

   Nowadays, society lives in the era of representation, and identifies itself with the image’s triumph. The body’s representation goes further than mimetic conduct, it cannot be a copy or a representation of the reality like a mere reproduction. Art should not and cannot remain in mimesis, it should always overtake it.

   This work is about the abstraction of the form, a synthesis in movement. Art regarding the body, as it is presented, transcends the interpretation, it is the abstraction of the reality, a way of non-conceptual knowledge. Art would refract society and it would not be a mimetic reflection of it.

      

documentation TRACES AND RESONANCES

November 14th, 2011
Performed by Nina Hitz (cello),  Gabriëlle Barros Martins (sound objects and voice) and Sato Endo

Video impression by Florian Cramer 
Sato Endo - Nina Hitz - Gabrielle Barros Martins from fcr on Vimeo.


The 2nd performance of the improvisation series at Roodkapje, Rotterdam. 
This time we worked with the sound and the view of the street seen through the gallery window as well as those inside the gallery. 
We did so because we had the idea of becoming a part of the landscape outside, inside or those united into another.
Our attitude was observing, listening, being a part of the environment, tasting the sensation that occurs in response to actions / sounds that we made.

Sunday Afternoon WORM Classic

date:
Sunday November 6th
14:30 open
15:00 start
duration 1 hour
(There is a baby-sitting service available.)

location:
WORM
Boomgaardsstraat 71, 3012 XA Rotterdam
route (also in English)
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program:
1 SYNC, Act of God, e-bas en e-viool,electronica, beeld
2 Jan Svankmayer, film, JS Bach - Fantasia in g mall (1965)
3 Endo/Cramer, performance voor dance and light objects
4 JS Bach, sonata in a voor viool solo (1720)

artists:
Jan Bas Bollen: e-bass/electronic (SYNC)
Alison Isadora: e-viola/electronic (SYNC)
Sato Endo: dance
Florian Cramer: Super 8
Anneke Haaften: viola

about the performance:
The conceptualist Florian Cramer and the dance artist Sato Endo combines improvised, subtle and authentic movements with the analog light source: Super 8. Cramer's response to Endo's movement will be registered on the film and projected with a delay.


more info about the concert

new live event series Traces and Resonances

A new live performance series or a monthly salon by the cellist Nina Hitz and Sato Endo

dates
Monday, October 10th, 2011
Monday, November 14th, 2011
Monday, February 13th, 2012
Monday, March 12th, 2012
Monday, April 16th, 2012

20:00 door open
20:30 start

location
Roodkapje
Meent 119 - 133, Rotterdam
google map

about:
A suprising set of improvisation performances by Nina Hitz and Sato Endo. Suprising because it’s uncertain who else will join the performance and what the outcome will be... Come and drink a beer, and enjoy an exciting co-operation between the cellist and the dance artist.


Nina and Sato serve as accompanists to the third performer = the space. Their attitude is observing, listening, being a part of the environment, tasting the sensation that occurs in response to actions / sounds that they have made.

Nina Hitz:
was born in Switzerland, is currently living in The Netherlands and finished her graduate studies in Baroque cello at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. A very active, questing spirit who
consistently seeks the unknown in life and in music, in addition to baroque music, Hitz is active with experimental music, improvisation and theatrical performances.
www.myspace.com/ninahitz