“THEY RETURNED EVERY DAY AT THE SAME TIME TO THE SAME PLACE” IS A PROPOSAL FOR A DANCE THAT HOWEVER CAPTURED BY INTERNET BASED REPRESENTATION SEEKS TO BE RIGOROUS WITH DANCE’ INHERENT ABSTRACTION – ITS ABILITY TO JUST COMMUNICATE – AS WELL AS ITS PROPENSITIES BEYOND THE OCULAR. IT DOES SO BY AN INVITATION TO PARTAKE IN TWO PARALLEL FORMS OF ACCUMULATION THAT FURTHER ACTIVATES TWO MODALITIES OF PERFORMATIVITY. OVER 26 DAYS – FROM 5TH TO 30TH MARCH 2021 – A SERIES OF EQUALLY MANY DANCES WILL UNFOLD NEXT TO THE ACCUMULATION OF AN ABÉCÉDAIRE, REFLECTING ON HOW DANCE COMMUNICATES AND THEREFORE BECOMES A PLACE FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF AIMLESS CONTEMPLATION.

THIS PROPOSAL FORMS A CONVIVIALITY WITH THE WORK OF VISUAL ARTIST IAN WILSON, AS WELL AS WITH THE WELL-KNOWN ABÉCÉDAIRE, THAT CLAIRE PARNET CONDUCTED WITH GILLES DELEUZE IN THE 80S. ALTHOUGH SHARING ECOLOGIES THERE IS ALSO A TENSION CREATED IN RESPECT OF THE PERFORMATIVITIES ACTIVATED. WHEN WILSON’S WORK AMONG OTHER THINGS CAN BE SEEN AS A CRITIQUE OF INSTITUTIONS, THIS PROJECT ADDRESSES PRESENCE, THE PROMINENCE OF THE OCULAR AND FORMS OF SPECTATORSHIP. SIMILARLY, WHEN PARNET’S ABÉCÉDAIRE FORMS AN INTIMACY WITH DELEUZE AS A PERSON THROUGH HIS PHILOSOPHICAL LANDSCAPE, THIS PROPOSAL CONSISTS OF A SERIES OF REFLECTIONS WHERE DANCE OPERATES AS A DEPARTURE POINT.

Episode 6 - Choeography

MODERN BALKAN JAZZ ORCHESTRA
ALEX SIMU (Romania) - band leader/conductor/ arranger 
BORISLAV PETROV (Bulgaria) - drums/co-leader 
VANIA VALKOVA (Bulgaria) - vocals/gadulka  
ELENA EKICHINA (Russia) - flutes/vocals 

trumpets: 
TOBIAS REISACHER (Germany) - lead trumpet/flugel horn 
JAN DEKKER (Holland) -trumpet/flugel horn 
WIEBKE PAHRMANN (Germany) - trumpet/fflugel horn 
DOLAN JONES(UK) - trumpet/flugel horn 
COOS ZWAGERMAN (Holland)- trumpet/flugel horn 

saxophones: 
FLORIS VAN DER VLUGHT (Holland)- alto/soprano 
sax/flute/clarinet 
MAARTEN HOGENHUIS (Holland) - alto sax/soprano sax/flute 
JARED WELSH (Canada) - tenor sax/flute 
PAWAN BENJAMIN (USA) - tenor sax/flute 
TINI THOMSEN (Germany) - baritone sax/bass clarinet 

trombones:
MICHAEL RORBY (Sweden) - lead trombone 
JOS VAN DEN HEUVEL (Holland) - trombone 
NATHANIEL ADKINS (USA) - trombone 
JULIANE GRALLE (Germany) - bass trombone 

rhythm section:
TONY ROE (Holland) - piano 
SYBEREN VAN MUNSTER (Holland) - guitar 
MACEJ DOMARADZKI (Poland) - double bass 

DIMITAR LIOLEV (Bulgaria) - alto sax 

LEX TANGER (Netherlands) - studio recording, mixing and mastering 

Primăvara - Springtime

Arrangement of a traditional Romanian folk song. Playing the Modern Balkan Jazz Orchestra led by Alex Simu
Piano solo: Tony Roe
Tenor solo: Jared Welsh

5 Jiana

Is Donald Trump actually a CIA asset with implants in his small hands or are our brains just wired for paranoia - or both! Rob Brotherton, author of Suspicious Minds, explains how our cognitive biases push us to see Conspiracies everywhere. Plus a look back to when the CIA weaponized Abstract Expressionism (one of the greatest real conspiracies of all time).

A light touch and a slight nudge

DOBRUJA REMIXED

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بتغني لمين

The Sound of Now - Live in Amsterdam
Alex Simu - Contrabass clarinet
George Dumitriu - Viola

Music is the instrument. The world is the stage. Life is our score.
Sound of now strives on delivering in the present, an instant perspective of their music to the audience, through infusing a strong dosage of improvisa- tion. Gentle rhythms, bass clarinet lines, viola textures, supported by sparse guitar chords, all embellished with electronica and a touch of ancient eastern folklore.
The two Romanian-Amsterdam based musicians, skilled both in poly-instrumental playing as well as computer live electronica, have worked together for more than 15 years. A cinematic panorama comes from a thorough experience in soundtrack composition for an array of internationally acclaimed films.

The sound of now Live in  Amsterdam

Bozo cu Tavi-flamenco fata noi

album: exerciţii pe ritm de pace
www.norzeatic.ro

norzeatic- haz de ne-has

Revolutia

We are sharing a series of audible workshops, as part of our user-friendly guide series. 

With text mainly inspired from Peter Godfrey-Smith's "Other Minds - The Octopus, The Sea and The Deep Origins of Consciousness", we invite you to listen, try-out, dream, or whatever inspires you whilst listening to this track. 

If you want a PDF version of this score, please do not hesitate to email us at: ludic.collective@gmail.com

~
Sound: Robert Dahlqvist in collaboration with Tavi Scurtu and Ludic Collective

The Arms of an Octopus (A User-Friendly Guide)

Ludic is an interdisciplinary collective of artists with backgrounds in scenography, neuroscience, sound, dance, performance arts, design
and psychology.  We present the idea of each participant as a co-producer
of mutually created situations. Musicians can dance, scenographer can choregraphe, and scientists can be visual artists. 

We create performances, installations, somatic workshops, soundscapes, sense and nonsense.

Ludic has conducted projects at: Seoul Dance Center (Seoul, KO); National Dance Center Bucharest (Bucharest, RO); KyivDanceResidency (Kiev, UA), ArtHub (Bucharest, RO); HALA FiX (Iasi, RO); CloudDansLab (Den Haag, ND), Konstepidemin (Gothenburg, SWE); Summerhill School (Suffolk, UK), etc.

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