Next Week!! Flower of the Season 2010-Dance performance at Electric Lodge

[Sarah Vox]

Flower of the Season Summer 2010 - Body Weather Laboratory presents
Another Skin

Choreography
Christine Quoiraud (BWL France)

Dance
Joyce Lu
Eric Losoya
Helena Noh
Kim Nakakura
Margaret Kemp
Albert Hernandez
Christine Quoiraud

Thursday August 26, 8:00PM
Friday August 27, 8:00PM
$20 General, $15 Students, Seniors
RSVP: bodyw...@gmail.com

Electric Lodge
1416 Electric Ave.
Venice 90291
info:310.823.0710
Free parking at the electric Lodge

The creation and production of Flower of the Season Summer 2010 was made possible by a grant from
the Department of Cultural Affairs Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Arts Commission and the Electric Lodge

Electric Lodge <http://www.electriclodge.org/> Body Weather Laboratory <http://www.lightningshadow.com/>

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Flower of the Season 2010 Fellow Dancer/Choreographer

Christine Quoiraud (France)
studied contemporary dance with Myrjam Berns and Viola Farber.
1981, she met Min Tanaka in France. She started her Body Weather training in Europe,
1985, in order to train personally with Min Tanaka in Body Weather work. She became a member of his Mai-juku dance company. Member of Tanaka's Body Weather Farm in Hakushu.
She takes part in the last workshop of Tatsumi Hijikata at Asbestos kan in Tokyo.
1990, she returns to France, starts developing her teaching based on Body Weather.
1995, she starts a series of dance workshops with Frank van de Ven (Body Weather Amsterdam), called BODY LANSCAPE.
1999, she is awarded the Villa Medici by the French Government Ministry of Foreign Affairs for her research on WALK AND DANCE: BODY/LANDSCAPE. She performs a long walk around the world in 2000 to continue her investigation of landscapes and scales of experiences, walking alone great distances, giving group workshops outdoors (Yugoslavia, California, Spain, Great Britain and France), meeting scientists, artists and nomads with whom she walks. The investigation questions the concept of territory in art and in dance.
2002, she collaborates with Hamish Fulton in a group walk on the field Chamarande and surrounding terrain near Paris, inviting 23 young artists to join and participate in the nine day group walk which is documented in the Filigranes Edition Walk Dance Art c°.
2001 to 2007 she conceptualized and realized nomadic art camps.  In Morocco (2005-07) she had a series of projects for international community, in  the desert and city surrounding, giving opportunity to young European artists to develop existence in desert without any tracing object. In exchange they were invited to give workshops to 8 schools in the southern valley of Tafilalet.
Acknowledged by French cultural affairs, she is invited to train teachers of young children in pedagogy. She links that proposition with ontological and political matter through arts and the question of survey.

In 2002, 03 and 04 her dance, performance and choreographic works develop as much in theaters and institutions as in walks of ephemeral realities.  In 2002, she got a research grant from DMDTS France for Duodiptyque: a walk of 1000 km through France from north to south and east to west to question the relationship between dance, choreography and repertoire.

Since 2006, after a residency in Rabat, she is in residence of South of France.

Christine Quoiraud and Body Weather Laboratory Los Angeles

Beginning in 1993, Christine has been invited by BWL Los Angeles to teach and perform in Los Angeles. These sojourns have had a strong mutual influence and resulted in Principe d'Incertitude, 1996, Il ne sera pas délivré de duplicata, 1998, The city is always bigger than you think, 2000, and was given the Lester Horton Dance Award 2000 with Oguri.

 

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