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Agony Art | Saturday 23 June @ 7.00pm

Agony Art — Wed, 30 May 2012 19:22:45 +0000

Name: Agony Art
Item price: event invitation
Location: London

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Agony Art | Saturday 23 June @ 7.00pm

Play Light Down by Dama in collaboration with Kostis Kilymis
paper predicted by Tara Silverthorn
Crossings by Katsura Isobe & Fumi Tomioka
Laugh & Cry by Evangelia Kolyra

performance starts 7.00pm | bar available from 6.30pm
tickets: £5 (on the door) to enable artists cover costs 
AT 
Chisenhale Dance Space 
64-84 Chisenhale Road, London E3 5QZ

technical support by Ian Stickland

for more information go to: http://agonyart.tumblr.com/

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Agony Art | Sun 20 May @7.30pm

Agony Art — Fri, 04 May 2012 02:08:32 +0000

Name: Agony Art
Item price: event invitation
Location: London

Description:
Agony Art | Sun 20 May @7.30pm

RARA EXCHANGES
with Rosalind Crisp, Andrew Morrish, Reynaldo Young & Antigone Avdi

performance starts 7.30pm | bar available from 7.00pm
tickets: £5 on the door
AT
Chisenhale Dance Space
64-84 Chisenhale Road, London E3 5QZ

more at: agonyart.tumblr.com
agoneart@aktivix.org

about the artists

After early training in classical and contemporary dance, Rosalind Crisp studied release, BMC® and Contact Improvisation at the EDDC in Arnhem, Holland.She created the Omeo Dance studio in Sydney as a site for her choreographic research for over 10 years, receiving a number of awards and a choreographic fellowship from the Australia Council (1999-2001). Her company is based in Paris where she is a choreographic associate of the Atelier de Paris – Carolyn Carlson(2004-2012) and teaches and performs throughout Europe.  My work has been evolving, since 2005, in the context of a project I call d a n s e. This is a way of working with the body that sits within and is informed by post-modern questionings about the body, improvisation and composition that have been developing, particularly in the United States, since the 1960s. For a long time I improvised alone in the studio in order to produce materials for future pieces. d a n s e began when I was no longer interested in movement as such, but in the way I was producing it. Then I felt that this new process had its own autonomy. I came up with the first scores for d a n s e simply by naming what it was I was doing, and that even now are still foundations for the work.

Andrew Morrish began performance improvisational work, part time, with Al Wunder’s ‘Theatre of the Ordinary’ in Melbourne in 1982. In 1987 he co-founded the improvisational movement theatre duet ‘Trotman and Morrish’ with Peter Trotman. Together they performed 14 self funded seasons in Melbourne in addition to numerous other one-off performances (including the Greenmill Dance Festival, Melbourne in 1994, 1995 and 1997). They also performed in the United States, most notably in the New York Improvisation Festival in 1995 and 1997. In 1999 they performed in ‘Antistatic’ at the Performance Space (Sydney) and in ‘Dancers are Space-eaters’ at PICA (Perth). In 2000 he moved to Sydney and based his teaching and solo performance practice at Omeo Dance Studio. In 2002 he relocated his work in Europe and now teaches and performs extensively in France, Nederlands, Germany, Switzerland and the U.K.

Reynaldo Young is an award winning composer, arranger, guitarist, teacher and workshop leader. He has written concert pieces – many of which have been performed worldwide – as well as music for dance, theatre, and video; he is also an active player in the free-improvisation scene in the UK and Europe. As founder and director of the ‘cardboard citizens new music ensemble’ – the UK’s only homeless people’s professional avant-garde music group – he has written, directed and performed contemporary and improvisatory music with mixed ensembles of professional and non-professional musicians. In 2005 Reynaldo was appointed Musical Director of the Cardboard Citizens theatre company. He lives in London.

Antigone Avdi was born in Thessaloniki, Greece, where she studied and worked as an architect. As a child she attended classes in ballet (RAD syllabus), but in 1993, having completed her postgraduate architectural studies, she began her professional training in contemporary dance at LCDS, in London, where she still lives. Now, as well as performing, Antigone is involved in the devise of new work and curates Agony Art at Chisenhale Dance Space. She has worked amongst others with Rosemary Lee, Rahel Vonmoos, dANTE OR dIE, Carla Onni, YELP danceco., Frauke Requardt, Rachel Gomme, Naked Fish Productions, Cie.Felix Ruckert, Stephan Koplowitz.

for more workshops and performances see andrewmorrish.com | omeodance.com

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Agony Art | Sat 14 April @ 7.30pm | Chisenhale Dance Space

Agony Art — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 22:21:20 +0000

Name: Agony Art
Item price: event invitation
Location: London

Description:
Agony Art | Saturday 14 April @ 7.30pm

with Rahel Vonmoos & Seke Chimutengwende

Rahel is an independent dance artist who makes her own and collaborative work for many years. The piece performed at Agony Art will be called I want to sleep or another portrait (nr. 4) or an experiment in 3 parts. For this event Rahel is interested in the way that pre-planning might fail and how chance can fail too. There will be projection in the space.

Seke has been practising performing solo improvisation since 2006 in a variety of contexts from theatres to clubs to dance studios to people’s living rooms. Seke usually works with movement and text and generally performs without any pre-planned structure or theme, preferring to find both in the moment of performance.

technical support by Ian Stickland

performance starts 7.30pm | bar available from 7.00pm
tickets: £5 on the door
AT
Chisenhale Dance Space
64-84 Chisenhale Road, London E3 5QZ

about the artists

Rahel Vonmoos has worked among others with choreographers Rosemary Butcher, Philippe Gehmacher, Charles Linehan and Iztok Kovac (film on improvisation) and with Ricochet Dance Productions. She collaborated with video artist Ruth Schlaepfer (Switzerland), creating video/dance installations performed in art galleries and has participated in several collaborative projects with company Pool (Zurich) and Trisha Bauman (Paris). Her works shall I sit here and and again will be performed as part of Spring Loaded 2012on May 19th at The Place. Her last collaboration A Light Conversation with American dancer/choreographer Wally Cardona was seen in Dance Umbrella 2009 and has toured in Europe and The US from 2008-2011. Rahel is a BMC practitioner and holds an MA in Body in Performance. She teaches for ID, GDA and is a guest lecturer for Somatic Practice at LCDS. She has taught many companies in London (DV8, Protein, Random and others) and abroad (Daniel Larrieu, Molteni and more) and at various festivals internationally. Rahel is Swiss/British, a mother of two and lives in London.

Seke Chimutengwende studied dance at Lewisham College and London Contemporary Dance School. Since 2004, Seke has performed internationally with Alias Cie, DV8 Physical Theatre, The Fabulous Beast, Lost Dog, Dog Kennel Hill Project, Laila Diallo, Punchdrunk, Zephyr in Zanussi, Rick Nodine, Karl Jay Lewin, Rannva Karodottir, Tino Sehgal, Ruby Worth, Jose Vidal and Vangelis Legakis. In 2011 he performed in the exhibition Pioneers of the Downtown Scene:New York the 1970’s at the Barbican Art Gallery in three early works by Trisha Brown and in a reinterpretation of Gordon Matta-Clark’s Open House. Seke has been practicing and performing his own solo improvisation work since 2006, performs ensemble improvisation with Neat Timothy and co-curates Stranger Than Fiction, a monthly platform for improvisation in performance in London. Seke teaches improvisation on a freelance basis at various institutions and dance companies internationally. Seke has recently been awarded a grant by the Arts Council of England to create and tour his new choreography “Mr Lawrence” in 2012.

for more go to: agonyart.tumblr.com

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Agony Art | Sat 24 March @ 7.00pm | Chisenhale Dance Space

Agony Art — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 20:23:54 +0000

Name: Agony Art
Item price: event
Location: London

Description:
AUDIO + VISUAL = AUDIOVISUAL
an evening of works by
Claudia Robles Angel, Javier Alejandro Garavaglia and Simon Katan

tickets: £5 on the door & a donation bar!
AT
Chisenhale Dance Space
64-84 Chisenhale Road, London E3 5QZ
www.chisenhaledancespace.co.uk

Claudia Robles Angel

Audiovisual Poem #2 – (2012)
This is an improvised piece for live video and sound. The audio materials are based on the human voice and body sounds whilst the video parts consist of close‐up images of different surfaces. Depending on the type of concert or venue, there are moments when the sounds and images can be modified by the introduction of bio-data via a GSR interface (Galvanic Skin Response), which measures the performer’s skin moisture. The performance is mainly inspired by Sound Poetry.

Bewegung in Silber – (2002)
This A/V composition won the second prize at the competition Hoeren und Sehen 2003, organized by the ZKM in Karlsruhe and the Institute fuer Neue Musik in Darmstadt (both in Germany) and was inspired by Gaston Bachelard’s book Water and dreams.

Javier Alejandro Garavaglia

DJ (1): about Riffs and Noises – (2003)
The ambiguity of dealing with samples and the manner in which the audience may or not disguise the origin of these sounds, is something that can be considered between “DJing”, electronic improvisation and computer music. Computer generated and live-produced noise (the audience is welcomed to cough or do any kind of audible events during the performance) are also included in the conception of the compositional and transformation materials, in a way (I guess) Cage would have liked.

farb-laut E – VIOLET – (2008) for Viola and real-time electronics in 5.1 Surround spatialization.
The work explores a very close combination between sound and colour, where darkness and light play an important role. This piece was commissioned by the Internationales Klangkunstfest farb_laut (Berlin, October 17th to November 15th, 2008) and was premiered during that Festival.

Simon Katan

Cube with Magic Ribbons
My new audio-visual composition for live performance. The piece partly draws on the visual paradoxes of M.C.Escher but is also inspired by the impossible spaces found in the two dimensional graphics of early computer games such as Asteroids and Pacman. I created it using a custom visual sequencer, Sound Circuit, which I built in OpenFrameworks. The sound is from SuperCollider of course!

God Over Djinn
A computer visual and synthesised sound composition that draws on our intuitive understanding of the physical world, as well as playing with ambiguities between scale and perspective in two-dimensional representation to create seemingly infinitely nested worlds of colliding objects.

technical support by Ian Stickland
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Agony Art | Saturday 25 February 2012 @ 7.00pm

Agony Art — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 09:56:09 +0000

Name: Antigone Avdi
Item price: event invitation
Location: London

Description:
Agony Art
Saturday 25 February 2012 @ 7.00pm

I Am Not An Animal!!!
Inspired by the phrase “I Am not an Animal” featuring in the main scene of David Lynch’s
movie “The Elephant Man”, Tasos Stamou and Vicky Kyriakoulakou collaborated on
a allegoric fairy tale of sound and movement.

álos lutea
A “collage” of texts and conditions that ask the spectator to contemplate on the state of dearth
and thus, the dimensions of nature _ our nature;
directed & performed by Danae Loukaki.

tickets: £5 on the door & a donation bar!
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Chisenhale Dance Space  64-84 Chisenhale Road,  London  E3 5QZ

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Agony Art

A. Papapostolou — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 22:53:50 +0000

Name: Antigone Avdi
Item price: event anouncement
Location: London

Description:
Join us on the first journey of Agony Art’s Ark.

Let’s take control of situations we don’t like!

We are ready to experiment and get lost…

Agony Art is an evening of works by like-minded artists and friends, at Chisenhale Dance Space, for friends, friends of foes and friends of foes of friends!

For one night we all share the same place and occasion… and strive towards making change happen!

Come and see some exciting new work and share a drink with us!

Projector / Conjector by Mamoru Iriguchi, Press es es by Danai Pappa and sketch 1.3.13 by Reynaldo Young & Antigone Avdi.

Agony Art
Saturday 26th March, @ 7.30pm
Chisenhale Dance Space – tickets: £5 on the door
64-84 Chisenhale Road
London
E3 5QZ

Tel: 020 8981 6617

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Greeks Got Talent in Britain – Dimitri and Lagi Dance Act

Anastasios Papapostolou — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 21:21:29 +0000

Name: Nick
Item price: Funny
Location: London

Description:
A few weeks ago a dance act took by storm the British media and made it all around the world with the help of youtube and the likes. We are talking about the Greek-Cypriot dancers who happen to be father and son in real life and made the critics of “Britain’s got talent” to laugh so much that they finally gave them three positive answers and sent them to the next phase of the show. Dimitri and Laggi Demetriouare very talented and of course very funny. Demetris, who sports a tattooed map of Cyprus on his stomach, and Lagi, came in with no shirts on, and proceeded to do a rendition of Riverdance even Michael Flatley would have felt envious of. Cowell told the pair: “This was one of my favourite acts ever”.

You can see their performance here :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gHvATmUsSg

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New MA in Modern Greek Studies at King’s College

Anastasios Papapostolou — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 08:17:58 +0000

Name: Roderick
Item price: news
Location: London

Description:
This is a one-year taught programme which offers the opportunity for in-depth study in any one of three disciplines: history, literature, or sociolinguistics, or in an interdisciplinary combination, all with specific reference to Greece and the Greek-speaking world, and concentrating chiefly on the last two centuries.

It is the only programme in the UK, and one of the few in the world, that provides this level of teaching in the field of Modern Greek studies within a one-year format. King’s College’s Maughan Library houses the premier collection of Greek publications in the UK; additional unique facilities for
research in these fields are available at the the British
Library the National Archives, and, at
King’s College itself, the Centre for Language, Discourse &
Communication and the Centre
for Hellenic Studies .

From 2009 the programme allows students to specialise formally in any one of its four discipline-based pathways. The MA Modern Greek Studies now leads to any one of the following degrees:

MA Modern Greek Studies:
history

MA Modern Greek Studies:
literature

MA Modern Greek Studies:
sociolinguistics

MA Modern Greek Studies:
interdisciplinary

Modern Greek language is offered as an associated skill where necessary. The program in all its pathways offers students the possibility to prepare for further academic research, but it is also a coherent and stimulating
program for those who do not wish to proceed further.

*Entry requirements*
You must possess an Upper Second degree from a UK university, or a GPA of 7.5 from a university in Greece or Cyprus, or an equivalent qualification. A BA in any Arts and Humanities subject is an appropriate qualification
provided a) that it falls within one of the disciplines listed above and b) includes or is accompanied by some previous subject-specific study in the field. For all students, a competent working knowledge of Modern Greek is
required.

If your first language is not English, you must satisfy the current requirements of the School of Arts and Humanities, which can be found at

http://www.kcl.ac.uk/graduate/apply/lang.html

*Application procedure*
It is possible to apply online via the College’s Graduate Study webpages.
You should include a brief statement of your reasons for applying for this programme, and if this is not evident from the title of your first degree, the extent of your knowledge of Modern Greek studies in your discipline and your competence in Modern Greek. If we are in doubt about your suitability for the programme we will invite you for interview, if practicable (it is sometimes possible to hold interviews in Greece or Cyprus), or ask you to respond by email or phone interview to a number of questions. You should also take the opportunity to ask any questions of us that you may have. We try to respond to all applications quickly.

*Deadlines*
There is no fixed deadline for applying for these programmes, although in practice if you apply later than early May you will reduce your chances of being accepted and you will be too late to take advantage of arrangements
for accommodation made through the Accommodation Office or to enrol for the Pre-Sessional English course. If you are applying for funding there are much earlier deadlines, dependent on the particular source of funding applied for.

*Funding*
There are opportunities for funding offered by the
Collegeand
specific to these programmes
of study .
* *
*For further information, please visit:*
*http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/depts/bmgs/*

Professor Roderick Beaton
Head of Department
Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies
King’s College
Strand
London WC2R 2LS
UK

http://www.kcl.ac.uk/byzmodgre/staff/beaton.html

tel. 0044 20 7848 2517
fax. 0044 20 7848 *2545*

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New Play “Bodega Lung Fat”

Anastasios Papapostolou — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 03:06:13 +0000

Name: Mary
Item price: announcement
Location: London

Description:
For all of you that saw our last play CHICKEN, “Bodega Lung Fat” starring actor George Georgiou promises to be just as hot!
Sampson has seen better days. Once gainfully employed, he’s been making ends meet lately with the help of his old friend Wheelchair, who owns a local Brooklyn bodega. Today, things got a little worse. A stranger from the South Side, a Hasidic Jew named Menachem, paid a visit.

As worlds collide in this darkly comic story, what began as a regular day in Sampson’s life may quickly turn into one of the worst he’s ever had.

For those of you yet to see an Inner City Production – come get inspired and support the most dynamic, relevant and young theatre company around.

11 March 2009 – 28 March 2009 (HE Studio) WWW.HACKNEYEMPIRE.CO.UK B.O: 0208 985 2424

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Kathara Deftera Lunch

Anastasios Papapostolou — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 23:06:04 +0000

Name: Anna
Item price: event
Location: London

Description:
The Hellenic Centre, 16-18 Paddington Street, W1U 5AS, hosts a Kathara Deftera Lunch a traditional vegetarian lunch to celebrate the beginning of Lent. Tickets £20, concessions £18. Proceeds in aid of the Hellenic Centre. Further information and bookings on 020 7487 5060.

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