uj tánc gondolatok / new dance thoughts

last week Friday I realized that two of the 6 presented 1-min. extracts from the Anniversary performances at tic tac art center in Brussels echoed two dances of mine, remarkably close, and during...

http://ujtancgondolatok.blogspot.com/2024/08/echoes-vs-copy-cats.html

living in a large apartment with high ceilings is wonderful for a spacious home and can be a challenge in colder winters and chilly spring and autumn times, especially for a dancer. these days i ...

http://ujtancgondolatok.blogspot.com/2024/04/money-flow-control-durability.html

in times of acute crisis, a painkiller may be the only means to get at least a semblance of rest, even if the problem causing the pain is still as violent as ever. but at least for a moment, ther...

http://ujtancgondolatok.blogspot.com/2024/03/decolonization-reparations-kinetic.html

yesterday I had the deep pleasure of attending the performance of FLAMENCOQUEER (instagram ) from Barcelona at gallery Joey Ramone in Rotterdam for their finissage with visual artist ANNA MORENO...

http://ujtancgondolatok.blogspot.com/2023/07/worldwide-gay-and-queer-alternative.html

How conversations can go: Just this afternoon my colleague Elie Nassar and I talked about unravelling societies and breaking down of systems meant for survival. How to survive what feels like ...

http://ujtancgondolatok.blogspot.com/2022/06/art-hope-dance-movement.html

(contribution to discussion of the paper "Approaching Ballet Education Core in the 21st Century) Dear Simona Noja-Nebyla, Thank you very much for your generous invitation. As there are only 1...

http://ujtancgondolatok.blogspot.com/2022/04/a-response-to-paper-by-simona-noja.html

in many ways, revisiting and further developing "Raven" after its inception at Elaine Summers Dance & Film Co. / Kinetic Awareness® Center , 2005 and its first climax in 2009 at the National Dan...

http://ujtancgondolatok.blogspot.com/2021/10/lessons-from-raven-kassandra.html

today I finally got to work on my own spine again and noticed how a kind of 'cake' had formed around it, made of residual / habitual tension: it eased but at some level also constricted functioni...

http://ujtancgondolatok.blogspot.com/2021/06/pain-and-trauma-butoh-kinetic-awareness.html

as the first snow of the year 2021 is falling in Rotterdam right now, I am reminded again of the hundreds of refugees who are still left to die away from freezing as I am writing this post, in ...

http://ujtancgondolatok.blogspot.com/2021/01/dancing-snowflakes.html

this session was part of the overall project EXTENDED BODY - EXTENDED SELF which I am organising with Contact Zone Rotterdam as a response to the Covid19 pandemic and its consequences in the...

http://ujtancgondolatok.blogspot.com/2020/09/contact-zone-extended-body-extended.html

during yesterday's after-talk about Wittgenstein at Leeszaal Rotterdam West (dank & nogmaals warm bedankt!) Joke van der Zwaard, who kindly supported and helped this project to be realized, ask...

http://ujtancgondolatok.blogspot.com/2020/07/wittgenstein-first-results.html

while working on Wittgenstein and in the middle of social & cultural change around BLACK LIVES MATTER, I finally realise (again) the need for form and formula, to survive. these help to navigate...

http://ujtancgondolatok.blogspot.com/2020/06/needing-formula.html

today's show of DemocracyNow! (June 8, 2020) gave very inspiring examples of demands to de-fund the enormous budgets used by police in the United States of America. my immediate thought went tow...

http://ujtancgondolatok.blogspot.com/2020/06/ungrowing-from-neurotic-constrictions.html

like 'skeletal' architecture, where the columns free the walls from having to carry the building, #BRIDGINGTECHNIQUE can free the dancer from a single vocabulary (compare with maison Dom-Ino by...

http://ujtancgondolatok.blogspot.com/2020/01/bridging-technique-hypberballet.html

When the canary in the coal mine goes silent, we should be very afraid — not only because its song was so beautiful, but also because it was the only sign that we still had a chance to see dayl...

http://ujtancgondolatok.blogspot.com/2019/12/art-authorities-state-power.html

after a very long phase where works grew and still keep growing from and by interaction with set musical pieces, I am once more thrown back onto movement without this additional element. for a wh...

http://ujtancgondolatok.blogspot.com/2019/02/naked-bare-bear-pieces-music-and-other.html

after having enjoyed beyond words the enormously stimulating (!) public research by Random Collision at THEATER ROTTERDAM / MOVING FUTURES two days ago** , I keep working on a series of dances ...

http://ujtancgondolatok.blogspot.com/2019/02/male-abandon-conceivingdreaming-of.html

"TRADITION IST SCHLAMPEREI" (tradition is sloppiness) - attributed to Gustav Mahler, no source  https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Gustav_Mahler "IF IT AIN'T IMPOSSIBLE TO BEGIN WITH, AT THE...

http://ujtancgondolatok.blogspot.com/2019/02/budapest-quotes.html

translate for movement ... including emotions, body states, dealing with energy & dynamics in communicating from & with body states to one another culture is creating shortcuts, patterns that ...

http://ujtancgondolatok.blogspot.com/2018/05/understanding-culture.html

see the ORIGINAL POST BY LAURA SHAPIRO HERE responses published by kind suggestion & in communication with the author who is performing today, March 9th, 2018 * __________ what is deemed LAN...

http://ujtancgondolatok.blogspot.com/2018/03/in-response-to-laura-shapiros-post.html

after decolonization (Pelléas material / b.a.n.q.) and identity (medvetánc - degrees of (in)tangibility) i am feeling ready for a new series of dance that is freed up towards an ecological cont...

http://ujtancgondolatok.blogspot.com/2018/02/ecolodances-love-supreme-new-series.html

In Circles was started in 1996 and the original dance was conceived directly during the last months of my study at the Rotterdamse Dansacademie (now codarts) - a whirling furioso ... on Octob...

http://ujtancgondolatok.blogspot.com/2017/09/revisiting-in-circles-20-year.html

   from complexity to linear many lines, emerging in space & time many such processes happening at the same time RELATIVE HIERARCHY: here depicted as a continuum between gr...

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Here's the link to the video: https://www.facebook.com/kamomeintl/videos/1886580968249854/ And here's my response: Movement is a state (and condition) of existence, and there are as many ...

http://ujtancgondolatok.blogspot.com/2017/05/in-response-to-william-lus-latest.html

(re-written after the recent passing of Trisha Brown) recently I once again reviewed Trisha Brown 's classic SET & RESET VERSION 1 on VHS-video in its epoch-making one-take recording from 1985...

http://ujtancgondolatok.blogspot.com/2017/04/contemporary-realities-trisha-browns.html