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PRESENCE

Presence introduces us to an impossible image – a woman, seemingly frozen in a glacier, but still alive and moving. She has six avatars in the real world trying to remember how she/they got there. All seven are awakening from their own time capsule - becoming enlightened, so to speak.

Text is by Marcia Bjornerud from her book Timefulness, 2018: Narrator/Dancer Diane Daniel with videography by Henry Daniel

November 2021

Surrey Art Gallery - Nov. 6, 2021 A New Normal: Digital Media Arts Symposium

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCB6m40jniw

McMaster Hamilton Nov. 20, 2021 NeuroMusic Keynote Lecture and Dance Performance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDQOGc73Zss&t=113s

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbYg8uO1qilRN0fKbHMzykLezgargM4Us&si=KyAMRtLHlV_k5uwN

SFU Vancouver -Nov. 17-20, 2021 PPE Waves: New Normal? – THE TRAILER AND MORE

https://www.sfu.ca/sca/events---news/events/ppe-waves--a-new-normal-.html

Performance Talks/Artistic Conversations

Knowing in Performing – Ringvorlesungen Artistic Research an der mdw

Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Wien/University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna

WEB LINK: The Human Body Moving as Analogy for Thought Unfolding

Die neue Vorlesungsreihe "Knowing in Performing" an der mdw präsentiert und befragt die transdisziplinären Dynamiken von "Artistic Research" mit einem speziellen Fokus auf Musik und darstellende Kunst.

Semesterprogramm 2019/20

  1. April 2020 – Henry Daniel: The Human Body Moving as Analogy for Thought Unfolding

Der Vortrag von Henry Daniel bietet eine andere Art des Denkens über Performance-as-Research, künstlerische Forschung oder Research-Creation. Er bezieht sich auch auf Daniels aktuelles Forschungsprojekt "Contemporary Nomads" als eine praktische Art und Weise des Umgangs mit einer zutiefst philosophischen Frage.

PreLecture-Text von Henry Daniel Den Abstract des Vortrags finden Sie auf der Website der mdw. Feedback an Henry Daniel kann gern an knowinginperforming@mdw.ac.at geschickt werden.

nómadas

A live performance and audio/video installation, nómadas takes it inspiration from the current large-scale movements of bodies across international spaces as a type of chaotic transnational choreography that speaks to what cultural theorist Stuart Hall calls, a "contemporary travelling, voyaging and return as fate, as destiny […] as the prototype of the modern or postmodern New World nomad, continually moving between centre and periphery” (Hall in Rutherford, J. 234:1990).

nómadas is part of the larger, long term Contemporary Nomads research project, which explores the "deep fragmentation which exists between communities within as well as outside national borders, between nationalized and personalized bodies, and between social and political institutions and the ordinary people they were meant to serve." (Daniel, 2017).

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Benjamin Meaker Fellowship Presentations...

Kafka’s Report….reproduced, & other works

16 - 17 September 2016, 8:00pm
Studio D, Simon Fraser University, Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 West Hastings St., Vancouver, BC.
$7 Student/Senior // $10 SFU Staff/Faculty // $15 General

Kafka's Report...reproduced

Kafka’s Report…reproduced is based on Franz Kafka’s “A Report to an Academy” (Ein Bericht für eine Akademie), and utilizes the original German text as well as Marc Diamond’s English adaptation. This work is danced en pointe. Kafka’s report is about an ape that is captured by a hunting party somewhere in Africa and brought to Europe. After what appears to be a successful transformation to human-likeness, the ape/human is called to a defense of his accomplishments by a scientific committee. The work is also a subtle reference to George Balanchine’s 1928 ballet Apollo, in which the young Apollo receives instruction from the three muses Terpsichore, Calliope and Polyhymnia before his ascent to Mount Parnassus and the status of God. Daniel’s choreography builds on Kafka’s mischievous commentary on the state of knowledge and the status of the Academy by adding another layer to the story.

  • Choreography by Henry Daniel

  • Music by Martin Gotfrit

  • Original German text spoken by Claudia Hein.

  • English Adaptation by Marc Diamond

  • Performances by Marc Arboleda, Chelsea DesLauriers, Megan Morris, Nyssa Song, and Annabelle Wong

  • Lighting Design and Technical Direction by Kyla Gardiner

The Report (2011) is another version of this work.

Tango la femme

Tango la femme is based on a selection of music by Argentinian composer and bandoneon player Astor Piazzolla. It is made for and danced completely by four women.

  • Muerte del Ángel Dancers: Megan Morrison, Nyssa Song, Annabelle Wong

  • Music: Astor Piazzolla

  • Choreography: Marla Eist

  • Buenos Aires Hora Cero Dancer: Chelsea DesLauriers

  • Milonga En Re Dancer: Megan Morrison

  • Oblivion Dancers: Megan Morrison, Nyssa Song, Annabelle Wong, Chelsea DesLauriers

  • Music: Astor Piazzolla

  • Choreography: Henry Daniel

  • Images: Henry Daniel

  • Costumes: Karen DesLauriers

  • Lighting Design & Technical Direction: Kyla Gardiner

Presented by the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University
Funded by a SSHRC Small Institutional Grant 2016-2017

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