Looking for International Partners (LIP)

Market for co-production & Collaboration

Co-organized by PAMS

(Performing Arts Market in Seoul)

& SIDance (Seoul International Dance Festival)

8 October 2005, 1:30-4:30PM

The National Theatre of Korea, Sun & Moon Restaurant

What is LIP?

Looking for International Partner (LIP) is designed for encouraging collaboration with artists and organizations in different nations. It is a very unique market as it is not for selling of  completed productions but for finding suitable artists or organizations for co-production which is in the beginning stage.

It is a market for ideas and works-in-process where the project creators present their ideas of co-production and look for international partners. Also artists, presenters and sponsors who wish to co-produce or collaborate can participate LIP and find their partners as well. After presentation, the project creators can meet people who are interested in their projects and discuss detail of the projects.

As it is a market for pre-production, there will be more opportunities for project creators to find better qualified people for their projects. Also participants can choose outstanding projects, and artists can get international exposure. It is believed that LIP will make more effective ways for cultural exchanges and create better collaborations among different nations and organizations.

LIP PROGRAM

moderator: LEE Jong-ho (Artistic Director of SIDance)

Presenters

1. Dean Moss (Choreographer, Video Artist, Director of Gametophyte, Curatorial Advisor at the Kitchen, U.S.A)

   Experimental Video and Dance Performance

   *** I am looking for Director, Dancers, Composer, Presenters

2. Susan Buirge (Choreographer, France)

   New Creation with Korean Dancers

   *** I am looking for Dancers, Co-producers, Presenters

3. WON Young-oh (Director, Theatre Company Nottle, Korea)

   Co-production of Experimental Theatre and Dance Performance

   *** I am looking for Actors(ess), Dancers, Presenters

4. Giga Hizume (Director of Sal Vanilla, Japan)

   Artist Collaboration Project 'Vanilla Sports in Korea'

   *** I am looking for Multimedia, Sound & Visual Artists, Choreographers, Dancers, Sponsors, Cooperative owners         for venue

5. Ng Siew Eng ( General Manager of Singapore Dance Theatre, Singapore)

   New Creation with Korean Choreographer

   *** I am looking for Choreographer, Presenters

There will be Q & A session after presentations.

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DEAN MOSS

         Co-production of experimental video and dance-performance

***  I am looking for  Director, Dancers, Composer, Presenters

Presenter: Dean Moss (Choreographer, Video Artist, Director of Gametophyte, Curatorial Advisor at The Kitchen, U.S.A)

The plan of co-production

Title: New Work (Tentative title)

Genre: Experimental Video and Dance Performance

Length: 30-40 min

Casting: 2 Female, 1Male (tentative)

Introduction: The work is in the early stages of development but will be an intimate portrait of an artist's [choreographer/dancer] life in transition. The video imagery will expose the memories and environment of a maturing artist's struggle to balance life, loss and creative practice. The performance is comprised of an extended solos and duets both abstract and narrative set a space of small projection screens and objects. The work will be both mythical and autobiographical in relation to its main character and the details of her actual life. The work is a multicultural and multidisciplinary collaboration which Dean Moss will co-direct and co-choreograph with the main character.  He will also design the visual and video environment for this production.

Dean Moss creates performance and media pieces that have been presented and screened internationally, including The Whitney Museum of American Art; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center; Kunst Kanaal, Holland; Paris University; New York Expo of Short Film and Video; The FNB Vita Dance Festival, Johannesburg; The Brooklyn Museum; The Danspace Project; Anthology Film Archives, and the Brooklyn Arts Exchange. Moss has received New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships in 1998 and 2005. He is a 2003 Rockefeller Multi-Arts Production Fund grantee; a 2003 Asian Cultural Council Fellow; a 2001 Artist Grant recipient from the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, and a 1999 New York Dance and Performance BESSIE awardee. In 2002 he founded the performance and media production company, Gametophyte Inc. Moss is currently on the Board of P.S. 122 and a Curatorial Advisor at The Kitchen where he served as the Curator of Dance and Performance from 1999-2004.  From 2003 to 2004, he also lectured on 'Visual Media and Performance Integration' and taught digital video editing at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music.

A hybrid interdisciplinary performance and production company, founded in 2002 by Dean Moss, Gametophyte, Inc. encourages public interest and education in the blending of contemporary visual and performance arts. Championing, through the development and presentation of performances, exhibitions, collaborations, workshops and seminars, rigorous artistic practices and innovative art projects.
 
 

Susan Buirge

       New Creation with Korean Dancers

*** I am looking for Dancers, Co-producers, Presenters

Presenter: Susan Buirge (Choreographer, France)

Co-Production Plan

Title: Horizon (Tentative title)

Genre: Contemporary Dance

Length: 60 min (Approximately)

Casting: 7 Contemporary Korean Dancers (3 Male, 4 Female)

Choreography: Susan Buirge

Music: Contemporary composer from Central Asia (original recorded music)

Introduction:  The horizon is something we all have in front of us, be it of one kind or another. The horizon is the line where earth and sky, or sea and sky, seem to meet. It is the circle where the earth's surface seems to turn all around us  the open horizon of the celestial sphere, half visible and half invisible. But the horizon can also be a limit, an obstacle blocking our perception.

The project is to take the idea of what is seemingly a common horizon and let it be a funnel for an abstract contemporary dance piece with a choreographer from France and dancers from Korea. Together, explore different ways of perceiving a horizon that we seemingly all share.

However, to include the notion of horizon as being between the known and the unknown, the music might come from some place halfway between France and Korea. It is in this spirit that I would like to undertake this adventure of the horizon as that which is beyond and that which is between France, Central Asia and Korea.

SUSAN BUIRGE is considered one of the major personalities of contemporary dance in France. After obtaining a BA degree from the University of Minnesota and a year of study at the Juilliard School in New York City, she dances with the Alwin Nikolais Dance Theatre from 1963 to 1967. Taking her distance from the master, she arrives in France in 1970, creates her own company and from her teaching develops generations of dancers and choreographers. Untiring innovator, emblematic figure, with more than eighty pieces, Susan Buirge has opened multiple paths for contemporary dance. And in particular, the materialization of certain aspects of space, very specific because of their complex detail.

  From 1992 to 1998, her work with Gagaku musicians and contemporary dancers in Kyoto led to the unique association of contemporary dance and ancient Japanese music. Five pieces were premiered, and specifically a tetralogy dedicated to the Cycle of the Seasons which takes a place of honor among the works of Susan Buirge, she who ceaselessly confronts civilizations and their history.

  Today, she directs the Center for Choreographic Research and Composition, a program for contemporary dance at the Royaumont Foundation, near Paris. The Company of Susan Buirge is in residency at the Royaumont Foundation and collaborates with the Scène Nationale of Cergy Pontoise and the Val d'Oise.

Theatre Company Nottle

       Co-production of Experimental Theatre and Dance Performance

*** I am looking for Actors(ess), Dancers, Presenters

Presenter: WON Young-oh (Director of Theatre Company Nottle, Korea)

Co-production project plan

Title: New Creation based on Woyzeck (tentative title)

Genre: Experimental Theatre and Dance Performance

Length: 70min

Casting: 3 Male, 3 Female  (actors(ress) or dancers who are physically flexible)

Introduction: It is a re-creation work using experimental theatrical language based on Woyzeck written by a German writer, Georg Buechner. This project will focus on the inner world of main characters and maximize the symbols and the metaphors, which is distinctively found in Buechner's work while minimizing the numbers of performers. It will be an experimental stage focusing on movements and body acting without distinction between actors and dancers and using minimized drama languages. It is theatrical in its origin from the text itself and will also show new performance language thorough the performers' bodies.

Founded in 1993, Theatre Company Nottle is a group of young and ambitious artists, who contribute to the preservation of Korean culture and art. Nottle has been endeavoring to find a new theatrical language and to provide audiences with an intense theatrical experience through dance, performance, music and design.

Nottle does not take the spoken word as a sole and absolute theatrical language. It seeks a new form of universal theatrical language. Using voice, contemporary dance, mime and percussion, Nottle celebrates spiritual insight, vibrant movement and the imagination. Its artistic goal is not an esoteric view or a mysterious Orientalism, but an accessible and sympathetic theatre. Wherever Nottle performs, it communicates with its audience a shared universal truth.

Nottle has toured 30 cities in 9 countries and will perform in Eastern Europe in 2006. It also has its own studio in France and participated in Avignon OFF Festival in 2001 and 2002. Nottle has been organizing International Workshops Festival every summer from 2004. Also, it will be part of the co-production with 20 artists from 7 Asian countries in Singapore 2006.

Giga Hizume

           Artist Collaboration Project 'Vanilla Sports in Korea'

*** I am looking for Multimedia, Sound & Visual Artists, Choreographers,          Dancers, Sponsors and Cooperative Owners for Venue

Presenter: Giga Hizume (Director of  Sal Vanilla, Japan)

Co-production Plan

Title:  VANILLA SPORTS in KOREA

Genre: Multi media performing art

Length: workshop 5 days / performance 1 or 2 nights, 120 Minutes

Introduction: VANILLA SPORTS is residential workshop and continuous arts collaboration project of SAL VANILLA. This project is focused on  'new type of performance' in the broad sense. Characterized by a kind of LIVE performances, not only for performing art but also multimedia, visual installation, sound art, sound LIVE and       more. The following is the guideline for this project.

1. All of participants have a 5 days workshop as preparation for this show.

2. Artists create  work based on a special space conception, which director offers  them in advance.

3. The show is constructed on 4-5 collaborative performances in 120-150 minutes. 

4. During 2 hours, it is seamlessly created with live sound, visual and multimedia installation, performing art and DJ. 

5. It's better for artists to participate twice in the 5 days workshop and perform 1 show in a year for an  interactive relationship.

6. For this project an alterative space or free space is better than a theater space.

Giga Hizume started to perform in his own style in 1989 and from 1993 to 1996, joined Dai-Rakuda-Kan and learn butoh from Akaji MARO. Then he appeared in all pieces of the group. In 1994, he formed the group SAL VANILLA. Since then Giga directed all pieces of the group and presented them in and out of Japan.  Since the establishment of SAL VANILLA, he has been acting mostly in Atelier gog where people internationally can get together, collaborate, and exchange ideas to develop human relationships. Recently Giga Hizume is positively promoting art and cultural activity. He also appears in various kind of film, music video and art event.

SAL VANILLA founded and started performing in 1994 with Giga Hizume and Shichihenge Kikuchi as a central figure. A futuristic performance unit working in Japan and abroad. Characterized by aggressive speedy body work, SAL VANILLA is looking for communication reality in this urban overloaded-information space. SAL VANILLA has created dynamical lively works of 16 for all over the world not only for Japan. Founded a free space "Atelier gog" in 1997 in Toshima-ku Tokyo, SAL VANILLA has held many collaborative art events with other artists. Now "Atelier gog" functions as a communication space for creators.

Singapore Dance Theatre

    New Creation with Korean Choreographer

*** I am looking for Choreographer, Presenters

Presenter: Ng Siew Eng (General Manager of Singapore Dance Theatre, Singapore)

Co-production project plan

Title: To be confirmed

Genre: Contemporary Ballet

Length:20-30 min

Content: To be discussed with selected choreographers

Presenter: Singapore Dance Theatre Limited, Singapore Arts Festival 2006 (to be confirmed)

The Singapore Dance Theatre (SDT) is one of the premier professional dance companies to

have emerged from the Asian-Pacific region in recent years. The SDT was co-founded by the late

Mr Anthony Then and Artistic Director, Ms  Goh Soo Khim.  The Company of 26 dancers hails mainly

from the Asia Pacific region.  It has six annual seasons in a year. The Company's repertoire ranges from

classical to contemporary ballet, from  renowned choreographers.

Ng Siew Eng is an arts veteran.  She started her arts management career with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra (SSO), the first professional arts institution in Singapore.  She was acting General Manager at the SSO and had handled portfolios ranging from programming, marketing to fund-raising. She joined the Singapore Dance Theatre (SDT) in 1993.  As General Manager, Ms.  Ng has clocked up many milestones for the Company, including bidding for and was successful in getting the commission for the Official Opening of the Esplanade Theatre on the Bay; Ballet Under the Stars series and Singapore Young Choreographers Platform, to name a few.  Ms Ng is a member of the curriculum Development Committee of the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore, was a Supervisory Director of the Music and Drama Co, Ministry of Defence; and board member of Singapore Wind Symphony.

Contacts

WOO Yeon (Planning Director, Seoul International Dance Festival)

Address: #401, Buam Bldg. 208-42 Buam-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul 110-817, Korea

Tel: + 82 2 3216 1185

Fax: + 82 2 3216 1187

Email: tosetfree@hotmail.com