Tallinna Ülikooli Kunstide Instituudi Koreograafia osakonna sümpoosioni etendusõhtu:

REBECCA ALSON-MILKMAN, SANDRA CHATTERJEE, HANA VAN DER KOLK, ANA FLECHA, TEE KUUBIS

Rebecca Alson-Milkman

Biography
Rebecca Alson-Milkman is committed to presenting provocative dances about current political and social issues in intimate settings in order to promote conversation and change in our familial, local and national communities. Her work is grounded both in the symbiotic relationship between process and product and in her collaborations with other artists.
A 2009 recipient of a Hothouse residency at UCLA and a 2007 recipient of a Silo Residency from DanceNOW/NYC, Rebecca has had her work produced in a variety of festivals and venues in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco including Deli Dances at Times Square, estrogenius at Manhattan Theatre Source, University Settlement, Access Theater, Highways Performance Space, Anatomy Riot, Under the Radar at High Energy Constructs, Studio at REDCAT and STREAM/fest at CounterPULSE. Rebecca has performed in works by Stephan Koplowitz, Yvonne Rainer, Denise Uyehara, Taisha Paggett, Carol McDowell, Cid Pearlman and Ana Maria Alvarez. Her bodywork, dancing and choreography are deeply influenced by her continuing studies with Barbara Mahler. She holds a B.A. in Dance and Sociology from Wesleyan University and an M.F.A. in Dance and Choreography from UCLA.

Project Description
The Surveillance Solos employ a combination of farce and stark honesty to question, in a world where so much information is easily accessible, just what can be considered private or intimate, and how quickly small deviations from "normal" behavior become suspicious. This excerpt, Surveillance Solo No. 4: Christine Suarez, imagines surveillance invading the innermost circle of privacy, positioning Christine's ex-husband as informant. As the male informant/agent reports on the mundane actions of Christine's morning routine, she moves in an ever-tightening spiral around him, performing folk-dance footwork and functional gestures. When she is out of the house, she inhabits a broader range of movement punctuated by her own internal rhythms and teeming emotion. Her actions are reported upon by a female agent who comes to identify with her subject's movements even as she informs on them. Christine's dancing through a projected profile alternately emphasizes and disappears pieces of her biography.

Sandra Chatterjee

Biography
Cultivating an aesthetic that reflects the nomadic qualities of her life, Dr. (ucla) Sandra Chatterjee combines her interests of choreographing, writing, and organizing arts-related events/platforms. Sandra holds a PhD in Culture & Performance (University of California, Los Angeles - UCLA), where she also taught as a visiting scholar. She also completed a diploma in "Kultur und Organisation" in Vienna. She is a cofounder of the Post Natyam Collective, a transnational network of independent choreographers/scholars, working in body based performance, video, and scholarship. In her scholarship, which has most recently been presented at "Re-Searching Dance: International Conference on Dance Research" (World Dance Alliance Asia/Pacific) in New Delhi and by ALF/CSCS, Bangalore (2009), she continually strives to intersect research, theorization and artistic practice. Sandra's training in Kuchipudi provides a foundation from which to create choreography, also drawing on her training in Bharatanatyam, Polynesian dance, modern/postmodern dance, and yoga. She received the Hawaii State dance Council's Choreographic Award and Cultural Preservation Award. Her professional experience includes solo performances in classical Indian dance as well as contemporary performance. She has, among others, worked with choreographers and artists Liz Lerman, Pichet Klunchun, Guillermo Gomez-Pena, and collaborated with Eko Supriyanto (Indonesia), Aditee Biswas (India), P.Senthilkumar (Austria). Her work (collaborative and solo) has been performed in Germany, the UK, the Czech Republic and India, e.g. at the prestigious THE OTHER FESTIVAL, Adhyaya and NATYA/STEM, Bangalore, at Neues Haus der Kammerspiele and Theatron, Munich, at Chandra-Mandapa-Spaces, Chennai, at Völkerkunde Museum, Vienna, and at Tanzhaus NRW, Düsseldorf.

Project Description
Using one dancer's body, video-projections, fragments of narrations and snap shots of the body, Self-portrait as Exotic releases female identity into fragments of movement and video, critically reflecting an exotifying gaze. Through a collage of video-projections, shadows, and varied movements vocabularies, tensions and oppositions, such as live-projected, south asian-european, viewer-viewed, will be played with. Self-portrait as Exotic has the choreographer/performer's experience as an "Indian dancer" of Bengali-German origin, living and dancing in Munich as a starting point. However, the piece unfolds as a coming together of fragments of stories, literature as well as autobiographical anecdotes. The presentation will be a coming together of speaking from the choreographic process, theorizing themes, and performing work-in-progress excerpts of movement, projection and text.

Hana van der Kolk

Biography
Hana van der Kolk was New York based (2001-2005) and Los Angeles-based (2005-2010) and is currently transient. Her choreographic projects combine elements of conceptual practice with the techniques of postmodern theater and choreography and take place in a wide range of sites. She is highly influenced by choreographer Deborah Hay whose dances she has
been learning and adapting since 2000. These solo adaptations, her collaborative adaptations with Layard Thompson and Jesse Johnson, as well as her own works have been presented in New York, New England, South Carolina, Berlin, Amsterdam, and throughout Southern
California. Hana has worked as a collaborator and consultant with many artists including Robby Herbst (reinterpretation of Alan Kaprow's Household, Museum of Contemporary Art/Outpost for Contemporary Art, Los Angeles), My Barbarian (The Case of the Stairs, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and The Fourth Wall, MOCA, Los Angeles), and Jesse Aron Green (Ärztliche Zimmergymnastik, The Tate Modern, London and the 2010 Whitney Biennial). She has performed in the work of Emily Mast, Rebecca Pappas, Dan Froot/Dan Hurlin, Cid Pearlman, and Bread and Puppet Theater. She was recently in residence at Sassafras in rural Tennessee and is currently in residence at AS220 in Providence, RI working on The Third Thing, a series of performance works about, for, and in collaboration with pairs of people with real life intimate relationships. Hana holds an MFA in choreography from UCLA and is a regular guest faculty member at the School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. More at www.hanavanderkolk.com.

Project Description
Once More, Again, One (solo) explores the boundaries between collective encounter and traditional performance, day-to-day states of mind and states of altered awareness, popular music/dance and minimalism, and audience and performer. Featuring music/text by Lisa Lisa and the Cult Jam, Prince, Daft Punk and others, Once More draws from aspects of popular American (and global) culture to evoke familiar, even cliché narratives, while formal investigations of duration and repetition play with and against these cliché to examine intimacy, presence, and the cultivation and sharing of joy.

Ana Flecha

Biography
Ana Flecha has been presenting work for over a decade, recently receiving support from Dancer's Group and Theatre Bay Area, and the Cultural Council of Santa Cruz County. Ana was the 2008 Artist in Residence at the Four Eighteen Project in Santa Cruz where she presented My American Dream, a multi media dance theater piece about American culture and identity. In the Spring of 2009 Ana performed with Kevin O'Connor in his piece The Sunlight Zone, in California and Ontario, Canada, and she recently presented material from a new collaboration titled Anas in Porto Alegre and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She has performed with Cid Pearlman Performance Projects, Shah and Blah Productions, Frey Faust, Nita Little, Karl Schaffer, Therese Adams, Sharon Took-Zozaya, and was one of the original members of Mir & a Co. aerial dance. Ana teaches classes based in Frey Faust's Axis Syllabus as well as contact improvisation locally and internationally. In March 2010 she co-directed the first Nomadic College month long training intensive based in the Axis Syllabus in Canoa Quebrada, Brazil, as well as teaching in Rio de Janeiro and Natal. Ana attended Tisch School of the Arts for dance at New York University, receiving her bachelors degree in 1995, and spent four years as part of the Chelsea Repertory LAB Company after graduation, performing and creating new work.

Project Description
The Red Queen, a multi-media solo originally excerpted from the evening length piece My American Dream, reflects on the mask of busy-ness in the lives of modern Americans. The woman in this piece is engaged in an ongoing race against time by the multi-tasking trappings of her daily schedule, which leaves her exactly where she started. Her metered drive is endlessly bracketed by the natural rhythms that govern the environment beyond her cubicle. The title of this piece is borrowed from the evolutionary theory that there is change but not necessarily progress, that progress is an invitation for defeat, and that existence does not get any easier. Evolutionists borrowed this term from the Red Queen in Alice and the Looking Glass, who runs like the wind but never gets anywhere.

Tee Kuubis

Biography
Tee Kuubis (Tea/Do Cube) was created in spring 2005 by the students, teachers and alumni of the Department of Choreography, Tallinn University. The theatre helps to produce the performances of its members to show in public, offers technical support and searches for co-operations to have fresh experiences and processes. We have produced several dance performances mainly in contemporary dance, Estonian folk and stage dances (2/3 of our performances), medieval and renaissance dances. We are especially known for our site-specific thinking - we concentrate on space and time of every performance and try to "feel" the context. For site-specific projects the theatre was awarded the prize of the Breakthrough 2006 at Philip Morris Estonian Modern Dance Award distribution on 29 April 2006. Now already for more than 5 years tens of different projects/pieces and about 600 performing experiences have been organized and brought to the public. Theatre works on a project bases and has had the cooperation with Tallinn University, Estonian Concert, Estonian Open Air Museum, Historical music band Rondellus, Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn Art House, Enterprise Estonia, Kanuti Gildi SAAL, E-Theatre, Tallinn City Council and many other local institutions. Our members have been in the directing team of the big Estonian Dance Celebration already from the year 2004. We have also visited the dance festivals in Greece and Romania in the years 2007-2009.

Project Description
Performance project "Eestla" The project was started in October 2009 to create a piece about Estonians as we feel ourselves in these days not as Estonians are named like for some time already. We do not think we are cold, sad and hurt. But we really are a bit ignorant. Is it because our reality is different and we still have too much work to do for our own homes? Or because we are used to survive? Or because we are lazy to analyze? Or because we are "kilplased" in our origin? Premiere of "Eestla" took place in November 2009 in Munich, Germany.

Sümpoosioni ajakava: http://www.saal.ee/event/203/

Toimub: Tallinna Ülikooli Kunstide Instituudis / Lai 13 & Kanuti Gildi SAALis / Pikk 20
Registreerumine: N 13.05 10:00-12:00, Kanuti Gildi SAAL, Pikk 20, Tallinn
Lisainfo ja eelregistreerimine: Heili Einasto heiein @ tlu.ee või Cid Pearlman cid.pearlman @ fulbrightmail.org
Foto: L.Wu
Toetajad: Kultuurkapital, Tallinn Ülikool, Kanuti Gildi SAAL, U.S.A saatkond Tallinnas
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