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Night Flying Project

How can an image ever be understood if it is what calls us to imagine? 

(George Didi Huberman ‘Confronting images’)


The project is to project.

In a 3D canvas images perform for (not only) a human gaze that imagines itself as an audience. The materiality of these images shapes, looks out, elaborates and confuses itself until something unfolds in front of our all eyes.

 ‘Night Flying Project’ can be understood as a staged research where moving bodies try to understand themselves as images, that are both object and subject of a constant observation. Dealing with the condition of being already discovered, they become never trusting, always desiring, longing bodies, the ones that are producing, waiting, waiting and still producing at the same time, as much as they are already produced under the external gaze. Can these images see beyond what we assume to see in them and can they give us a glimpse of what this might be?

We demand the audience to participate: participatory watching, observing, seeing as an activity, a meeting with an individual but also with a material.

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Credits

Choreography: Toni Steffens

Performance:  Ana van Tendeloo, Timon de Ridder, Pilvi Kuronen

Advice: Michele Rizzo, Ivan Mijacevic

Music: New Order, Depeche Mode, Real life, A-ha

Set desing: Toni Steffens

Light advice: Wout Panis, Martin Kiffarnik

Thanks to: Lisa Skwirblies, Bruno Listopad, SNDO3, Haraldur Prastarson, Igor Dobricic

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Photo credit: Nellie de Boer

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( Pilvi Kuronen, Ana van Tendeloo)

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(Timon de Ridder)

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( Timon de Ridder,Ana van Tendeloo, Pilvi Kuronen)

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Comflictidy 
A Comflictidy may be a residing, state or thing at the intersection of commodity, conflict and comfort. Stimulated by the need to generate a space to escape, comflictidies typically produce a reflectional echo, recalling the conflicts they partially stem from. Confronted by that echo, usually presented in temporary, mental blockages of the user, a sort of  psychic and somatic dead-end sensation occurs, similar to a foggy wall, both dazing the user’s perspective and at the same time, hinting at the pre-conditional root discomfort or conflicts. On an advantageous note, most Comflictidies potentially operate both as an experienced limitation, and at the same time offer a place to rest, hesitate or contemplate. Comflictidies are not particularly enjoyable places, but function as a provisory shelter from live challenges too big to understand or too dynamic to move along with. Comflictidies can occur within artistic practices, in spatial design, in escapism, therapy sessions and in the finalising moments of procrastination. Comflictidies have been referred to as a double sided sword bending in retrovers, where the user is not just holding but simultaneously balancing on it, like on a thin line, unable to find proper quiet or precise insight of how to move on ( Metaphor).

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Night Flying Project

Movement

delineations

Unfamiliarities

PAST-Present-future

February + March: teaching Movement Research, BA choreography, SNDO, Amsterdam
16th of March: performing at the Finissage, the seeds of Memory by Mercedes Azpilicueta, together with Toni Brell and Antonella Fittipaldi, Fries Musem, Leeuwaarden
April: teaching Movement Research, BA and MA of choreography, ISAC Brussels
18 +19 of May: Higher Xtnd, by Michele Rizzo, PS1, MOMA, New York City
March-June : teaching Movement Research, BA theater pedagogy,  at Technical University Osnabrück
26 of July: Higher Xtnd, by Michele Rizzo, VAC Vilnius
September/ October: teaching Movement research, BA choreography, SNDO, Amsterdam
28th of September: Higher Xtnd, by Michele Rizzo, Porto ( tbc )
5th of October: sketch presentation after working with Pauline de Groots archive, founder of SNDO, together with Elisa Zuppini and Fransien van der Putt, Nederlandse Dansdagen, theater aan het Vrijthof Maastricht
15+16 of November: performing the Archive,presentation after working with Pauline de Groots archive, founder of SNDO, together with Elisa Zuppini and Fransien van der Putt, Plein theater, Amsterdam
end of November : workshop on drawing x movement, Crèche Amsterdam (more details to be announced)
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