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We Live Here 2015 - the fifth anniversary

The summer academy WE LIVE HERE marks its fifth anniversary! The platform for artistic encounters initiated by Nicole Beutler, Marijke Hogenboom and Andrea Bozic marks its fifth anniversary! WE LIVE HERE 2015 provides residencies for four different Lab’s of artists and thinkers, offering them a possibility to develop and deepen their ideas with the participating practitioners. Next to the different Lab’s there will be HOW DO YOU WORK? conversations with artists present in Julidans, and lectures and presentations open to the public.

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One: Strongly driven by a need to keep exploring the boundaries between disciplines and challenge the fixed models of art production, we have invited TILT (choreographer Andrea Božić, visual artist Julia Willms & sound artist Robert Pravda) and their guests to research their interest in space from in-disciplinary perspectives working on SPECTRA – the world as an artwork.

Two: To stimulate exchange, we propose the laboratory WE WORK HERE in which artists from different backgrounds will share their work(practice) and ideas for the future, hosted by choreographer Nicole Beutler and theorist/dramaturge Konstantina Georgelou (ArtEZ, Utrecht University).

Three: The work session DRAMATURGY AT WORK, which can be seen as a follow up/continuation of WE WORK HERE, is an initiative by Konstantina Georgelou, choreographer/lecturer Efrosini Protopapa (Roehampton University) and performance-maker/dramaturge Danae Theodoridou (Groningen University) that will deal with developing and sharing artistic practices: on the creation of working frames in dramaturgical processes.

Four: Interested in the exchanges between performance, mediation and publics, theatre scholar and artist Pedro Manuel, communication designer Barbara Alves and curator Inge Koks designed the work session THE QUALITY OF PARTICIPATION, investigating alternative forms of publicness, mediation and locality, by imagining ways to invite the unknown in.

Next to the different Lab’s there will be plenty of moments open for public: HOW DO YOU WORK conversations and presentations with directors Quirine Racké and Helena Muskens, cultural programmer Radna Rumping (Non-fiction), art historian Michael van Hoogenhuyze, performance scholar Joe Kelleher (Roehampton University) and an open session of the lab DRAMATURGY AT WORK..

Furthermore, WE LIVE HERE participants lunch and dine together and visit several performances in Julidans and Over het IJ Festival.

Next to the different Lab’s there will be plenty of moments open for public: HOW DO YOU WORK conversations and presentations with directors Quirine Racké and Helena Muskens, cultural programmer Radna Rumping (Non-fiction), art historian Michael van Hoogenhuyze, performance scholar Joe Kelleher (Roehampton University) and an open session of the lab DRAMATURGY AT WORK. More information and the full programme: www.we-live-here.com

WE LIVE HERE is an initiative of Nicole Beutler, Marijke Hoogenboom and Andrea Bozic and the 2015 edition is produced by NBprojects in collaboration with Tilt and the Performance Arts in Transition research group (de Theaterschool). We are linked to Julidans Festival and supported by Studio DOK, the Performing Arts Fund (FPK) and the Amsterdam Arts Fund (AFK).

Day for Night: Total Eclipse of Equinox Sun - special viewing

A special viewing in Amsterdam in partnership with 'ARE YOU ALIVE OR NOT? Looking at ART through the lens of THEATRE' organised by the Studium Generale Rietveld Academie at de Brakke Grond, within the frame of the day curated by David Weber Krebs: On Enclosed Spaces and Great Outdoors. Hosted by Julia Willms. For more information and full programme, click here

For more information about the performance click here or follow the event on FB here.

Day for Night: Total Eclipse of Equinox Sun

For the 20th of March, the beginning of spring in the Northern Hemisphere and autumn in the Southern, I have prepared a special spectacle titled Day for Night (Total Eclipse of Equinox Sun). The piece features a total eclipse of the Sun that will turn day into night at the moment of the same length of day and night in the whole world. The eclipse of the sun will interrupt this equilibrium of light and darkness.

The performance is a once in a 500 000 years event.

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Day for Night is the fourth performance in the series of my collaborations with the night sky titled: Night Sky: Further Investigations Into Choreography, part of the larger cycle of collaborations with the weather titled Telling Future. For this dance, three celestial bodies will align in a straight line. The full blood-red Moon will pass between the Earth and the Sun, temporarily disrupting the coming of the light.

The premium seats for the performance are at the North Pole. As the sun rises at the horizon for the first time after six months of darkness at the North Pole, the Moon covers the Sun and day becomes night again.

The performance will affect all our senses: the temperature falls, insects and birds stop making sounds, the tides get more extreme and the landscape changes dramatically in only a few moments. We are in the Moon’s shadow and we see the Moon’s dark side. Dreams and secrets emerge in the dark.

Seats for the performance in the Moon’s shadow are unlimited but visibility depends on your area. Seats are available with up to 90% degrees of visibility in North Africa, Europe, western Asia, the Pacific, East Asia, Iceland and Greenland. The Netherlands, where we are based, will enjoy the spectacular 87% visibility.

For seats distribution, viewing instructions, trailer and more information:

http://choreographyinvestigations.blogspot.nl/

https://www.facebook.com/events/764620186979454/

Enjoy the reboot!

An Intergalactic Evening With Tilt at Kruisruimte in Endhoven

We are making a white box version of Intergalactic.

Join us for An Intergalactic Evening With Tilt: Undoing What We Know

10 and 11 April 2015 at 20.00

Kruisruimte

Gen Bothastraat 7E, 5642 NJ Eindhoven

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After touring the performance Intergalactic through a number of black box theatre spaces internationally, in April we are working on the white cube version of the performance in Eindhoven. We are taking the white whole cube space as artwork. We are happy to have Kasper van der Horst working with us for the white cube version of Intergalactic.

The evening will include a trajectory of the whole Intergalactic constellation:

Performance Intergalactic (An Attempt to Overcome the Binary)
Manifesto A World
A composition for the global orchestra The Smallest Sound at the Biggest Distance

And afterwards, a talk and drinks!

A World 2015

Dear friends

We wish you a great 2015 with lots of love and inspiration.
In this season of fresh beginnings, resolutions and future projections, we would like to contribute with an artwork: a 10-minute meditation for your own room with a view to the outside.

1. Find a quiet room with a view to the outside, preferably to a street or another populated public space.
2. Make yourself comfortable and reserve 10 minutes of uninterrupted time for the session.
3. Click on the link below to play A World.
4. Listen to A World either on your headphones or directly from your device.
5. As you listen, look at the world outside of your window.

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6.. You can repeat the procedure at different places of your choice and as often as you like.
7. Click HERE to play A World now.

For more information about A World, click: A World

Happy New Year!

Best wishes,

Andrea, Julia and Robert | Tilt

A World at Radio Futura

We contributed to the Radio Futura session about utopian ideas for the future with A World in the form of a radio broadcast to listen to in your own room with a view to the outside. Listen to 3 hours of contributions (A World starts at 2:33):

A World at Radio Futura

or here:

Frascati Radio Futura

Aurora: A Choreography for the Sun and the Earth

We are opening the new season with a spectacular new performance in collaboration with the Sun:

Aurora: A Choreography for the Sun and the Earth

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The performance is a dramatic choreography of forces, a duet featuring the Sun and the Earth. It started on Monday with the first of the two powerful blasts of radiation from the centre of the Sun, followed by a second on Wednesday. The performance will culminate tonight, as the blasts collide with the Earth's protective magnetic shield. The performance features a colourful celestial choreography of these forces on our night sky as the blasts envelop and embrace the Earth.

Aurora: A Choreography for the Sun and the Earth opens tonight, 12 September 2014 simultaneously worldwide in a number of countries further North and South on the globe. We are happy to be able to present the performance as far down south as the Netherlands where we are based, especially for the occasion of the season opening.

Aurora: A Choreography for the Sun and the Earth is an immersive durational spectacle for two celestial bodies and an observer that deals with the questions of drama, control, authorship, personal responsibility and engagement in space-wide events.

This is the third performance in the series of collaborations with the night sky titled Further Investigations Into Choreography, part of the larger cycle of collaborations with the weather titled Telling Future.

To view the trailer click here

Entrance fee: free

Viewing instructions:
The performance is visible to the naked eye.
Best viewed outside of populated areas, in complete darkness.
Once there, look North (on the northern hemisphere) or South (the southern hemisphere) and low down on the horizon. The performance has a faint and slow beginning.

Disclaimer:
We would like to apologize for the possible power and communications disruptions the performance might cause.

Find a location near you:
If you live on the northern hemisphere click here
If you live on the southern hemisphere click here
For more information for the Netherlands click here

Credits:
Concept and choreography: Andrea Božić in collaboration with the Sun, the Earth and the weather
Dramaturgy: Julia Willms
Produced by: Tilt

For more information about the other projects in collaboration with the weather and the night sky, click here

Happy new season!

Andrea

WE LIVE HERE 2014: Mapping Spaces

We are proud and happy to present the WE LIVE HERE: Mapping Spaces, 2014 edition. As in the previous three editions, WE LIVE HERE will once again be gathering together a temporary community of professionals from the performing arts, visual arts and beyond, offering a space for encounters – a space to work and think together.

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Opportunities for reflection and experimentation are rare in the current climate of efficiency and market-driven economics, but ever since our first academy in 2011 we have been creating an alternative platform for artistic encounters, providing space and time to exchange, work and think together. Now it’s 2014 and in recent months we have found ourselves, and the independent scene as a whole, strengthened by many political changes that have caused a shift towards official recognition of the independently operating artist by Amsterdam’s political establishment. Partly in response to these ongoing developments we have decided to focus this year’s WE LIVE HERE on mapping the city, connecting places and activities, exploring ways of engaging with each other’s artistic activities and strengthening links between them.

The summer academy takes a slightly different form each year, shaped as it is by our interest in artistic exchange and our active response to the political situation, both inside and outside the field. This year we are inviting a small number of artists and makers for a continuous working session, during which we’ll regularly open our doors to interested visitors. The approximately twenty participants will spend four days together, exchanging models of working together, visiting locations in the city that provide alternative ways of living and working and participating in unexpected encounters and conversations which will surely happen in the “in-between” spaces.

Click here for the full programme: http://www.we-live-here.com/

WE LIVE HERE is an initiative of Nicole Beutler, Marijke Hoogenboom and Andrea Bozic and the 2014 edition is produced by NBprojects in collaboration with Tilt and the Performance Arts in Transition research group (AHK), and co-curated by Inge Koks. We are linked to Julidans Festival and supported by Studio DOK, the Performing Arts Fund (FPK) and the Amsterdam Arts Fund (AFK).

Transmission in Theater der Zeit

Andrea Bozic wrote a text titled Transmission about the process of working on the cover of Rainer's Trio A, at the invitation of Sandra Noeth and the team of the Tanzquartier Wien, where we performed After Trio A as part of the SOLO? Festival, The Body and its Doubles. It is published in the March issue of Theater der Zeit in German. The English version of the text will be published on this website soon.

COME TOGETHER: Beauty, Bauhaus & The Beast

A festival of similarities and differences

Three Amsterdam-based choreographers Nicole Beutler, Andrea Božić and Keren Levi are organising the interdisciplinary festival COME TOGETHER: Beauty, Bauhaus and the Beast on 15, 16 and 17 May 2014. We have lived and worked in Amsterdam for many years and have come together increasingly to create space for exchange and reflection through art. This is the first time we present our work together. The three-day festival takes place at the Frascati Theatre and the Flemish Cultural Centre De Brakke Grond in Amsterdam.

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At the festival COME TOGETHER: Beauty, Bauhaus and the Beast, we present our works alongside each other and invite the audience to experience the multiple perspectives in a single context. In the space between the three performances – their similarities, shared fascinations and differences – a fourth performance will come into being: a Zeigeist performance the audience is invited to discover themselves.

The festival presents three performances Intergalactic (An Attempt to Overcome the Binary) by Andrea Božić, Robert Pravda and Julia Willms | Tilt, The Dry Piece by Keren Levi | Neverlike and 4: STILL LIFE by Nicole Beutler | NBprojects & Theater Malpertuis and an elaborate further programme:

Thursday 15 May

20:00 – 21:00 4: STILL LIFE Frascati 1
21:30 – 22:30 INTERGALACTIC EXPO zaal, DE Brakke Grond
23:00 – 24:00 Paper ensemble Frascati 3

Continuous: Installation “A World” at Frascati 3 and The Smallest Sound At The Biggest Distance by Robert Pravda | Tilt

Friday 16 May

19:00 – 19:30 LOOKING THAT YOU LOOK, an introduction by Andrea Božić Frascati 3
20:00 – 21:00 INTERGALACTIC EXPO zaal, Brakke Grond
21:30 – 22:30 DRY PIECE Frascati 1
22:30 – 01:00 Party with DJ Alec Smart Frascati 3

Continuous: Installation “A World” Frascati 3 and The Smallest Sound At The Biggest Distance Robert Pravda, Tilt

Saturday 17 May

18:00 – 18:45 Talk with the makers Frascati 3
19:00 – 20:00 soup and bread (for 3 euro) Frascati café
20:00 – 21:00 THE DRY PIECE Frascati 1
21:30 – 22:30 4: STILL LIFE Frascati 1
23:00 – 23:30 No | me concert Frascati 3

Continuous: Installation “A World” Frascati 3 and The Smallest Sound, the Biggest Distance Robert Pravda, Tilt

Click here to have a look at the Beauty, Bauhaus and the Beast trailer!