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28. February 202328. June 2023

Constellation Lucinda Childs

An expanded season of programming on the work of Lucinda Childs, encompassing performances, film screenings, lectures, talks and an exhibition of her scores.

Born in New York, Lucinda Childs started her career at the Judson Dance Theatre in 1963. In 1973, she formed her own company, with which she has created over 50 works. Since 1981, she has choreographed more than 30 works for major companies, such as the Ballet de l’Opéra national de Paris, Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo, the Ballet de l’Opéra de Lyon, the Pacific Northwest Ballet, the Berlin State Ballet or Baryshnikov’s White Oak Dance Company, and for theatres such as the Los Angeles Opera, the Deutsche Oper am Rhein or La Monnaie in Brussels. Her choreographies are known for their minimalist movements and complex transitions, transforming the slightest movements into intricate choreographic masterpieces.

28 February:

Screening of the film LA GRANDE FUGUE (2017), by Marie Helène Rebois

2 March:

Lecture Lucinda Childs, Page in Hand, by LOU FORSTER

2-11 March:

Exhibition Lucinda Childs, Nothing Personal 1963-1981.

Curated by Lou Forster, mobile exhibition by CND Paris

2-4 March:

Film screening LUCINDA CHILDS

Written and directed by: Patrick Bensard

2-4 March:

Lucinda Childs and Philip Glass: DANCE

Interpretation BALLET DE L’OPÉRA DE LYON

3 March:

POST-PERFORMANCE CONVERSATION with Lucinda Childs

Moderated by journalist and dance history teacher, Bàrbara Raubert

3-4 March:

Dance On Ensemble, Works in Silence

4 March:

Screening Cèl·lulaLAB – CALICO MINGLING (1973)

Open presentation of the transmission laboratory of the piece by Lucinda Childs for non-stage spaces and for 8 dancers. Led by TY BOOMERSHINE within the programme CÈL·LULA_LAB.

4-5 March:

Ruth Childs, Judson Program: Pastime (1963), Carnation (1964) & Museum piece (1965)

26. November 202214. July 2023

Open Sketchbook by Đorđe Balmazović/Škart
at Cofestival

The Open Sketchbook exhibition consists of drawings made during the observation process of the Silver Gold project development, executed by an intergenerational dance and choreographic collective. The materials are part of a procedural work and are a visual response to the kinetic situations of contemporary dance practice.

Dragana Alfirević, the initiator of the Silver Gold project, invited visual artist Đorđe Balmazović to follow the process as an outside observer, but his role soon turned into that of a documentarist and co-creator. With a gaze that intersects the visible with the sensual, the artist has thus begun to transform dance into kinetic figures, bringing them into a field beyond their fleeting immediacy. In this way, images of dance in dance itself were created, as the hand that is drawing itself moves and at the same time folds, curiously searching, exploring, deciding, and last but not least, with its presence, supporting the bodies in movement. This exhibition is a kind of homage to dance, and at the same time it is dance itself.

Đorđe Balmazović is a member of Škart group, founded in 1990 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. In the 1990s, the collective produced poetry fanzines and distributed them in street actions. In 2000, Škart founded two groups – the Horkeškart Choir and Orchestra and the Women’s Embroidery Group. Since 2012, the collective has been running workshops for children, migrants and the elderly.

Curator: Bojana Piškur

25. November 202214. July 2023

COFESTIVAL 2022
International festival of contemporary dance

CoFestival 2022 can be divided into three thematic strands. The first one deals with choreographic material through collective or subjective time (Moritz Ostruschnjak, Michiel Vandevelde, Mateja Rebolj and Magdalena Reiter, Alma Söderberg with Cullberg), the second one observes the body and life through the prism of virtual and digital landscapes (Yuske Taninaka, Aleksandar Georgiev with his team, Barbara Matijević and Giuseppe Chico), while the third transforms the contemporary moment into a poetic image that inevitably flows out into the wild (Věra Ondrašíková and her collective, Mala Kline).

This edition of CoFestival will be accompanied by a discursive programme with talks, book presentations, a film programme and the launch of a new publication marking the tenth anniversary of the festival.

23. November 20224. July 2024

Along the Urban Pathways of the History of Slovenian Dance and Theatre

With Rok Vevar, part of Cofestival 2022

In recent years, Slovenia has also witnessed a tremendous growth in tours of the capital through the prisms of different communities or cultural-historical highlights, in which visitors learn about the stories hidden behind the walls of buildings and institutions, our past and present, on a two-hour walk.

This year’s guided tour will not be special in this respect, as participants will once again learn about the many architectural landmarks of the city and historical facts related to the development of Ljubljana and Slovenia, along with interesting stories, but on this occasion the focus will be on contemporary dance and theatre.

On this walk we will get to know the venues of the first contemporary dance schools in Ljubljana, the period of its coexistence with ballet; we will try to clarify the causes and consequences of their separation, the venues and struggles of extra-institutional artistic practices, the establishment and development of the alternative and the most significant festivals as well as other gathering places as major pillars of social life. Rok Vevar, the guide, will be reflecting on this tour around Ljubljana through the prism of uncovering an overlooked part of history, highlighting in particular the role of women artists and their unwavering stance when confronted with the numerous obstacles of a masculine-centric world.

Rok Vevar is a theatre scholar, writer, researcher, curator and historian of contemporary dance, who has been a multifaceted presence in the field of contemporary Slovenian performing arts for more than two decades. He is the initiator and founder of numerous festivals and initiatives, as well as the Temporary Slovenian Dance Archive (2011) and, last but not least, the author of the monograph Ksenija, Xenia: Ksenia Hribar’s London Dance Years 1960–1978, in which he focuses on the early period of the artistic career of this dancer and choreographer, who is considered one of the central figures of Slovenian contemporary dance history.

24. October 202228. October 2022

Works in Silence at Kondenz Festival 2022

The Dance On Ensemble performs Lucinda Childs’ “Works in Silence” as part of Kondenz Festival 2022 by Station Service for Contemporary Dance.

With a post-show audience talk facilitated by the Critical Practice and mentorship programme “Made In Yu”.

24. October 202227. June 2023

Studies of Elementary Compositions: About the Work of Lucinda Childs

Rok Vevar, theoretician and dance archivist from Ljubljana, introduces the choreographic oeuvre of Lucinda Childs with a retrospective look at her Judson Dance Theater period (1962-1964), with some extensions up until 1968, in order to understand where her work was heading to after she returned to the stage in 1973 and made the pieces that are part of the Works In Silence (1973-178).

Part of Kondenz Festival of Contemporary Dance and Performance, Belgrade

13. September 202228. September 2022

Works in Silence
With an introduction by Rok Vevar

Dance On Ensemble & Lucinda Childs

In the last two decades, we have witnessed numerous restagings, reconstructions or historical stage studies of the repertoire from various phases of contemporary dance. Some were put up by the authors themselves, others by those who were moved by the works of art in one way or another. The restagings of choreographic works by the American choreographer Lucinda Childs are certainly among the more successful. In recent decades, they have aroused exceptional interest among generations of artists who were not even born at the time of their creation. Because audiences in different parts of the world never get enough of them and because they are always a great challenge for dancers, works from the oeuvre of Lucinda Childs steadily return to world stages and are born anew.

19.30 – lecture (free entry)
Rok Vevar: Introduction to the choreographic principles of Lucinda Childs

22. June 202228. September 2022

CoTeaching Exchange
Nomad Dance Academy at Codarts

A team from Nomad Dance Academy Slovenia visited Codarts to work with the Bachelor Dance Teacher course, exploring and sharing the principles of co-teaching.

This exchange followed an earlier meeting in Slovenia when a delegation from Codarts travelled to Nomad Dance Academy last November.

During this exchange, the teachers discussed and experimented with team-teaching/ co-teaching and created a dance piece together with students, which was performed in the school canteen.

While Nomad Dance has already been practicing co-teaching for several years, this way of teaching is just starting to develop at Codarts. The exchange was all about sharing experiences, formats and methods, with the aim of thinking about how the benefits of co-teaching can be usefully transferred to students and other teachers.

14. May 20224. July 2024

Longevity in Dance
Elixir Festival 2022 on Digital Stage

Sadler’s Wells Digital Stage presents Longevity in Dance, an eclectic mix of bold, playful and poignant films that challenge perceptions of dance and age.

The programme features commissions by internationally acclaimed artists, Charlotta Öfverholm, Nahid Siddiqui, José Losada Santiago and showcases new films by award-winning choreographer and director Eleesha Drennan, Sadler’s Wells Company of Elders and a fly on the wall documentary about iconic dancers Malou Airaudo and Germaine Acogny.

This beautiful collection looks at what makes us spark, the passing of time, our connection with nature, and the legacy we pass on. It’s a celebration of life through dance, and the inherent desire to keep on dancing.

9. May 202229. June 2022

Printemps du Conservatoire de Paris with Codarts Rotterdam

For the first time, the CN D welcomes the Spring programme of the choreographic ensemble of the Paris Music and Dance Conservatory (CNSMDP) and its guests, Codarts Rotterdam and the Escola supérior de Danza of Lisbon Polytechnic Institute. The programme features Whereabouts Unkwown by Jiří Kylián, danced by students of the CNSMDP and Codarts.