Alex Reuben
Newsreel 1
Sunday 27th November - 8pm
NEWSREEL 1 is the first in an inspiring and life-affirming series of films. The feature length film is a poetic recording of social, cultural and political events from the streets of London, the most diverse city in the world. Without titles or voice-over, ex-dj Reuben’s skilled sound recording and fluid camera work expertly reveal the beauty of spontaneous natural movement, going back to the days when news was shot in the streets and put straight into the cinema with an immediacy, viscerality and community feeling that only cinema can create.
"A strikingly contemporary journey through the streets of London" (Sukhdev Sandhu, The Telegraph)
NEWSREEL 1 is commissioned by Sadler's Wells & supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
Alex Reuben has a background as a DJ and in art and design. His filmography includes the acclaimed Routes: Dancing to New Orleans (selected in the Top 20 Films of the Decade by Geoff Andrew, BFI/Time Out & Top 5 Cinematic Moments of the Year by Jason Wood, Little White Lies); Line Dance (nominated for Best British Short, Brief Encounters), A Prayer From The Living, Big Hair (Best Choreography, Portobello Film Fest), Que Pasa (Choreographic Captures Prize), Mistakes (Best Newcomers Nomination, Dance on Screen) and Colin’s Wings (Critics Choice, Time Out). Alex's work has been supported by the Arts Council of England, Channel 4 TV, MJW Productions, Sadlers Wells and The Place. www.alexreuben.com
(Photo: Arnold Circus Sharing Picnic, produced by Home Live Art).
Space for Change is delighted to host a director's Q&A after the screening of NEWSREEL 1 on Sunday 27th November.
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"A strikingly contemporary journey through the streets of London" (Sukhdev Sandhu, The Telegraph)
NEWSREEL 1 is commissioned by Sadler's Wells & supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
Alex Reuben has a background as a DJ and in art and design. His filmography includes the acclaimed Routes: Dancing to New Orleans (selected in the Top 20 Films of the Decade by Geoff Andrew, BFI/Time Out & Top 5 Cinematic Moments of the Year by Jason Wood, Little White Lies); Line Dance (nominated for Best British Short, Brief Encounters), A Prayer From The Living, Big Hair (Best Choreography, Portobello Film Fest), Que Pasa (Choreographic Captures Prize), Mistakes (Best Newcomers Nomination, Dance on Screen) and Colin’s Wings (Critics Choice, Time Out). Alex's work has been supported by the Arts Council of England, Channel 4 TV, MJW Productions, Sadlers Wells and The Place. www.alexreuben.com
(Photo: Arnold Circus Sharing Picnic, produced by Home Live Art).
Space for Change is delighted to host a director's Q&A after the screening of NEWSREEL 1 on Sunday 27th November.
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Velvet Zoe Ramos
The Feast: A banquet of Crude Empathy
Saturdays 26th Nov + Saturday 3rd December
_Velvet Zoe Ramos' artistic expression evolves around imagination, memory and how
we understand the pain of others. These topics always immerse as a
narrative, combined with current social and political issues.
Most of her installations have a performative aspect. She becomes the narrator and set-up a visual stage. The scenarios often present the daily survival in poor stricken countries, a region affected by humanitarian crisis or social issues in the first world. Audiences become either onlookers or participate. Their action or non-action refer to the human condition of the witness and the bystander.
Her aim is to work towards an approach on how to present tragedy and hope without exploitation and idealization. Both conditions inform her objective barriers to jumpstart an emotional and intellectual engagement as well as enforcing her own artistic reference. velvetzoeramos.com
Most of her installations have a performative aspect. She becomes the narrator and set-up a visual stage. The scenarios often present the daily survival in poor stricken countries, a region affected by humanitarian crisis or social issues in the first world. Audiences become either onlookers or participate. Their action or non-action refer to the human condition of the witness and the bystander.
Her aim is to work towards an approach on how to present tragedy and hope without exploitation and idealization. Both conditions inform her objective barriers to jumpstart an emotional and intellectual engagement as well as enforcing her own artistic reference. velvetzoeramos.com
Katsura Isobe & Fumi Tomioka
Crossings
Saturday 26th Nov + Saturday 3rd December
Crossings is a project inspired by busy
crossings in a big city such as London and Tokyo. The work is
site-sensitive, therefore, the environment forms the performance and it
is different every time. At Space for Change, the performance will happen in loops outside Parlour Gallery on Saturdays daytime and within the exhibition on the evening of Saturday 3rd December.
Crossings has been supported by Space @ Clarence Mews and Newington Dance Space. http://crossingsdance.blogspot.com/
Fumi Tomioka and Katsura Isobe are independent dance artists wondering how performance can reveal some nature of a site, objects and persons that we tend to pass by without noticing in everyday life. Both of them are interested in exploring performance outside conventional theatre settings. They first performed together at Bethnal Green Gradens, then Hair and Jerome Hairdressers as part of Spontaneous Combustion Urban Guerrilla Dance Festival by ARtCH in July 2011. Having completed MA Choreography at Middlesex University in 2011, Fumi loves improvisation and is interested in the use of text and sound in her performance. Katsura holds an MA Scenography [Dance] from Laban, and her practice is drawn from Somatic approach, focusing on the sensory body and its own intelligence. Improvisation is Katsura's way to investigate the world and her works involve collaboration with other artists from another disciplines. http://katsuraisobe.net/
Crossings has been supported by Space @ Clarence Mews and Newington Dance Space. http://crossingsdance.blogspot.com/
Fumi Tomioka and Katsura Isobe are independent dance artists wondering how performance can reveal some nature of a site, objects and persons that we tend to pass by without noticing in everyday life. Both of them are interested in exploring performance outside conventional theatre settings. They first performed together at Bethnal Green Gradens, then Hair and Jerome Hairdressers as part of Spontaneous Combustion Urban Guerrilla Dance Festival by ARtCH in July 2011. Having completed MA Choreography at Middlesex University in 2011, Fumi loves improvisation and is interested in the use of text and sound in her performance. Katsura holds an MA Scenography [Dance] from Laban, and her practice is drawn from Somatic approach, focusing on the sensory body and its own intelligence. Improvisation is Katsura's way to investigate the world and her works involve collaboration with other artists from another disciplines. http://katsuraisobe.net/
Sophie Nathan
Death of The Party
Saturday 26th November
Through her practice, Sophie asks two questions: “What do I believe in?” and “What power do I, as an individual, have?” Constantly trying to reach thought through action, she aspires to create utopian event/space to answer these questions. She uses the interdisciplinary nature of her art practice to experiment with alternative forms of living, employing participatory action-events to test these forms; which are then documented and archived to create a library of potential and possible worlds.In the guise of the Post-Capitalist Party, she recreates traditional political events with a bias towards collectivity, inclusion and democratic processes of creativity. The PCP plays with notions of what a political party actually does, or should do. They’ve held a street carnival that has popped up in a disused car-park, a political meeting held while making sand castles, a swap-shop using a high-street chain as its venue and canvassed opinions on a home-made battle-bike trailer.
Her live-art practice is concerned with what feels “right”, played out through imagination, game-play and pretense; always ensuring immediacy, inclusion and openness, in an attempt to make real, that which we perform. The project questions the role of artist as facilitator of social and political change, and tests these democratic and utopian aims." www.sophienathan.com
Her live-art practice is concerned with what feels “right”, played out through imagination, game-play and pretense; always ensuring immediacy, inclusion and openness, in an attempt to make real, that which we perform. The project questions the role of artist as facilitator of social and political change, and tests these democratic and utopian aims." www.sophienathan.com
Immigrants & Animals
Lost Dance V
Saturday 26th November
_Lost Dances is an ongoing series of short, site-responsive dances made with whatever resources have been at hand, made
over a short time period and performed just once. These dances seek to
push for a model of performance-making that does not aspire to expand,
to grow in size, to go on tour but rather to call the focus of the
performers and viewers into the moment, the given environment, the
subtlety and detail of movement and experience... immigrants and animals
are developing a practice of noticing.
Lost Dance V will be a one-on-one performance. www.immigrantsandanimals.com
Purveyors of bedroom dancing as performance practice, immigrants and animals is the name given to the changing group of women working with Jamila Johnson-Small to make dances since 2010.
Lost Dance V will be a one-on-one performance. www.immigrantsandanimals.com
Purveyors of bedroom dancing as performance practice, immigrants and animals is the name given to the changing group of women working with Jamila Johnson-Small to make dances since 2010.
Jo Scott
The Mark of Affect (Sunday 27th November) &
Cover - a live intermedial instalation (Saturday 3rd December)
Jo Scott is a PhD student at Central School of Speech and Drama, whose practice based research is an investigation of liveness in intermedial performance. As an international school educator, Jo has taught all over the world and in a variety of contexts, from Singapore to the UK and many places in between. In her current reincarnation as a research practitioner, Jo is developing her own solo practice through the exploration of a live intermedial performance medium, where the performer is also the activator and manipulator of sound, image and text and object, constructing a fragmented composition of all of these elements in real time and in the presence of the spectators.
At Space for Change Jo will perform two different pieces: "The Mark of Affect" and "Cover- a live intermedial instalation".
On Sunday 27th November, the raw material for the piece is ‘marks of affect’ offered by a variety of individuals, all of which represent a trigger for or expression of a strong feeling. Torn from their original form and context, these ‘marks’ are reassembled live in the time and space of performance. Dislocated slivers, tastes and glimpses of affect coalesce into shifting constellations of sound, image, text and movement, which evoke, rather than expose their origin.
On Saturday 3rd December, the durational intermedial installation will involve the live mixing of images, objects, sounds and texts associated with a number of popular pieces of music. The audience will be invited to offer their own song suggestions, which the performer will then weave into the fabric of the installation in a variety of ways, making the work responsive and allowing it to shift and change through this interaction.
At Space for Change Jo will perform two different pieces: "The Mark of Affect" and "Cover- a live intermedial instalation".
On Sunday 27th November, the raw material for the piece is ‘marks of affect’ offered by a variety of individuals, all of which represent a trigger for or expression of a strong feeling. Torn from their original form and context, these ‘marks’ are reassembled live in the time and space of performance. Dislocated slivers, tastes and glimpses of affect coalesce into shifting constellations of sound, image, text and movement, which evoke, rather than expose their origin.
On Saturday 3rd December, the durational intermedial installation will involve the live mixing of images, objects, sounds and texts associated with a number of popular pieces of music. The audience will be invited to offer their own song suggestions, which the performer will then weave into the fabric of the installation in a variety of ways, making the work responsive and allowing it to shift and change through this interaction.
Stuart Vallance
Wondermenttable
Sunday 27th November
_The Wondermenttable is a hybrid musical instrument and the first
realised artefact of a conceptual series called The Wonderments. Built
during a Digital Music and Sound Arts course at the University of
Brighton in Summer 2011, this instrument merges acoustic and digital
elements and is a response to the increasing use of rapidly evolving
high-technologies in live music. Performances are short, but intense,
journeys exploring the beautiful possibilities of hybridized live music
on a so far untrodden path.
Stuart Vallance is a Musician, Sound Designer and Wondermentalist currently residing in Brighton, UK.
Stuart Vallance is a Musician, Sound Designer and Wondermentalist currently residing in Brighton, UK.
_Bruna Capozzoli
Luz (Light)
Sunday 27th November
_Light is about the possibility of love between two seminarian guys. This situation brings uncomfortable subjects at the scene, like punishment, torture, sexual abuse. But where is God after all? This short film is more than just a story projected on the screen: it is the resistance for the freedom in doing art. A genuine commitment to creating new ways to interchange human's passions. www.luzofilme.com.br
Born in Brazil, Bruna Capozzoli is a young filmmaker with ten years of experience in the area of Drama. Her background in theatre gives her a constant concern with the group and with the sacred artistic labor which provides a very particular way of looking at her first film. After concluding an acting theatre course at Macunaíma´s Theater School (Sao Paulo), she was accepted at the Campinas State University, Unicamp, achieving a BA in Drama (Acting). She graduated with honors as a Director and actress in the method technique at the Actor´s Studio SP Brazil and also concluded the course of Digital Cinema at the Cinema School. Bruna joined in ten theatrical performances and participated as actress and filmmaker in more than 15 short-films.
Born in Brazil, Bruna Capozzoli is a young filmmaker with ten years of experience in the area of Drama. Her background in theatre gives her a constant concern with the group and with the sacred artistic labor which provides a very particular way of looking at her first film. After concluding an acting theatre course at Macunaíma´s Theater School (Sao Paulo), she was accepted at the Campinas State University, Unicamp, achieving a BA in Drama (Acting). She graduated with honors as a Director and actress in the method technique at the Actor´s Studio SP Brazil and also concluded the course of Digital Cinema at the Cinema School. Bruna joined in ten theatrical performances and participated as actress and filmmaker in more than 15 short-films.
Evangelia Kolyra [in collaboration with Hannah Pickett]
Rule
Saturday 3rd December
_Through the interplay between two
dancers, the work explores via a physical dialogue the notion of communication.
A competition that includes alliance
emerges via a set of rules that power the action. Inspired by the economic and social changes
of our days, the work is a reflection of human behavior in multiple situations.
It is a game during which the power constantly shifts and changes hands and
intensity.
Evangelia Kolyra is a Greek born choreographer and dancer based in London. Her current choreographic interests focus mainly on movement stimulus, physicality, detail, and the psychology of human experience. She presents work both in UK and Greece and aims to develop a cross-disciplinary and highly collaborative practice. evangeliakolyra.com. Hannah Pickett has trained at Laban Centre of Advanced training and she is currently at the final year of BA Dance Studies at Roehampton University. She has participated in various works having worked amongst others with Lost Dog, Hofesh Shechter’s Dance Company, and Wayne McGregor’s Random Dance.
(Photo by Miltos Dikaros.)
Evangelia Kolyra is a Greek born choreographer and dancer based in London. Her current choreographic interests focus mainly on movement stimulus, physicality, detail, and the psychology of human experience. She presents work both in UK and Greece and aims to develop a cross-disciplinary and highly collaborative practice. evangeliakolyra.com. Hannah Pickett has trained at Laban Centre of Advanced training and she is currently at the final year of BA Dance Studies at Roehampton University. She has participated in various works having worked amongst others with Lost Dog, Hofesh Shechter’s Dance Company, and Wayne McGregor’s Random Dance.
(Photo by Miltos Dikaros.)
_Dani Barsoumian [in collaboration with Mariana Camiloti & Antonio de la Fe]
HIDE
Saturday 3rd December
A reflection about communication. How do we hide? What do we reveal?
Dani Barsoumian is an artist from Brasil, interested in communicative processes. With a dance and performance art background, she works in the edges of diferent art forms with special interest in movement/ action. Antonio de la Fe is an independent dance artist from Las Palmas, Gran Canaria based in London since 2006. He interested in live art and improvisation.Mariana Camiloti is an independent dance artist originally from Brazil currently based in London. She is interested in creative collaborations, improvisation and installations. The performance will also count with the participation of Benoit Gouttenoire and Manou Koreman.
Dani Barsoumian is an artist from Brasil, interested in communicative processes. With a dance and performance art background, she works in the edges of diferent art forms with special interest in movement/ action. Antonio de la Fe is an independent dance artist from Las Palmas, Gran Canaria based in London since 2006. He interested in live art and improvisation.Mariana Camiloti is an independent dance artist originally from Brazil currently based in London. She is interested in creative collaborations, improvisation and installations. The performance will also count with the participation of Benoit Gouttenoire and Manou Koreman.