VelocityDC Dance Festival » site-specific http://velocitydc.org 20 Companies - 4 Days - $18! Fri, 21 Oct 2011 23:01:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Kudos to VelocityDC's "Bodies in Urban Spaces" Participants! http://velocitydc.org/2009/10/07/bodies_teamlist/ http://velocitydc.org/2009/10/07/bodies_teamlist/#comments Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:42:40 +0000 Blog Administrator http://www.velocitydc.org/?p=1320 calvaryVelocityDC would like to thank the following dancers who made Willi Dorner’s DC premiere of “Bodies in Urban Spaces” such a great success:

Adams Berzins

Adrianna Carey-Berzins

Alexandra Pinel

Elena Lyumgseva

Geoff Nelson

George Capdeville

Hedy Wyland

J.R. Russ

Jaime Potts

Jeffrey Parks

Jennifer Palmer

Mike O’Connell

Natalie Terens

Shanna Lim

Tess Riabokin

William Devon Givens, Jr.

Photo Courtesy of William Devon Givens, Jr.

Stay tuned for the official “Bodies in Urban Spaces” video by Francisco Campos-Lopez and the 2009 VelocityDC Flickr set. Want to get VelocityDC alerts? Sign up for our RSS feed today!

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As seen in the Washington Post, the DC premiere of “Bodies in Urban Spaces” turns the streets of the Penn Quarter into a dance floor. Austrian choreographer Willi Dorner and a troupe of DC dancers will be climbing, crawling and suspending themselves over passers-by on a moving “body trail” that will explore the 7th Street Corridor.

It all begins at 5:30pm at the Archives/Navy Memorial Metro Plaza at 7th and Pennsylvania Ave NW, this Friday and Saturday.

Want to see it? Meet us there or or follow us on Twitter @velocity_dc to get LIVE route updates and reports from the scene!

]]> http://velocitydc.org/2009/09/30/bodies-startpoint/feed/ 2 Open Call for Dancers http://velocitydc.org/2009/08/01/open-call-for-dancers/ http://velocitydc.org/2009/08/01/open-call-for-dancers/#comments Sat, 01 Aug 2009 04:30:56 +0000 Blog Administrator http://www.velocitydc.org/?p=1007 “Bodies in Urban Spaces”
by Willi Dorner, choreographer (Austria)
www.ciewdorner.at

Staged in Paris, London, Philadelphia and now Washington, DC, the cityscape becomes a dance floor with Bodies in Urban Spaces, created by Austrian choreographer Willi Dorner.

Bodies in Urban Spaces is a moving trail, choreographed for a group of local dancers. The performers lead the audience through selected parts of public and semi-public space, setting up a chain of physical interventions that appear quickly and only exist temporarily, allowing the viewer to perceive the same space or place in a new and different way – on the run.  “Bodies in Urban Spaces” invites residents and audiences to walk and rediscover their own city – thus establishing a stronger relationship to their neighborhoods and urban environments.

Seeking: Dancers and movement artists with experience in one or more of the following areas:

  • Freeclimbing
  • Contact and Partnering
  • Site-Specific and Outdoor dance installations

Rehearsals: All start at Archives/Navy Memorial metro plaza – 7th/Penn Ave NW

  • Sept 25                       4-8pm
  • Sept 26-27                2-8pm
  • Sept 28-Oct 1           4-8pm (mandatory)

Stipend: $100 per performer

Performances: Friday Oct 2 and Saturday Oct 3 @ 5:30pm

Interested? Email your CV to velocityDC@gmail.com


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