Delirium Back to Greece!

Video excerpt here : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGWuFq435ng

Delirium Tremens will be presented on December 28-30 at the Center of Theatrical Research of Thessaloniki /Greece, and on January 20-21 at the Olvio Theatre in Athens.

The premiere of Delirium Tremens was on April 23d, 2010 at the National Choreographic Center of Tours, in France.

Conception, performance : Dimitri Tsiapkinis
Video creation : Maud Martin
Costumes : Rose-Marie Melka
Lighting design : Jean-Philippe Filleul
Production & Communication : Art Minds
Co-Production : National Choreographic Center of Tours
Subsidy : Greek Ministry of Culture

Delirium Tremens is a quest for a new optimism in response to the anxieties of a troubled new century. With humor and gestural poetry, this solo questions individualism and narcissism by using clichés from the movie industry.
« Cultural exoticism, Hollywood images, and the incoherence that seems to govern our actions, dreams and thoughts, become here raw material. Letting ourselves be touched by who we are without judgment (?) and share what resonates inside with others. In this solo one can see video images on TV, cinema characters realizing tests of madness, explosive energy, semi-improvised monologues, and sensitive dances.» [D. T.]
The images on the TV monitors are the only elements of the stage design. A mix of intimate scenes and the omnipresent mass media.

Dimitrios Tsiapkinis received a grant from the Greek ministry of Culture for the production of Delirium Tremens, with his newly established company The Lotus Fracture. (ΡΗΞΗ ΟΚΛΑΔΟΝ)

Attachement

[Photo by (CC) : Doug Geisler]

Attachement makes us evolve with the world? Complementary to the cold calculations of the rational mind? Reason and passion?

“…the vision of soul given by anima is more than just one more perspective. The call of soul convinces; it is a seduction into psychological faith, a faith in images and the thought of the heart, into an animation of the world. Anima attaches and involves. She makes us fall into love. We cannot remain the detached observer looking through a lens. In fact, she probably doesn’t partake in optical metaphors at all. Instead, she is continually weaving, stewing, and enchanting consciousness into passionate attachments away from the vantage point of a perspective…”

(James Hillman, Anima)

Andy Emler's Jazz Megaoctet & Bernardo Montet performance!

Photo by : Dimitri Tsiapkinis


Andy Emler's Jazz Megaoctet with Bernardo Montet and his dancer's perform in Thélème auditorium in Tours / France on Saturday 13th of November 2010.

Crouch, touch, Engage is a composition by Andy Emler and it will be performed by 9 musicians and 4 dancers.

Musicians : Andy Emler (piano, compositions, direction), Laurent Blondiau (bugle, trompette), Laurent Dehors (saxophone ténor, clarinette basse), Thomas de Pourquery (saxophones soprano et alto, voix), Philippe Sellam (saxophone alto), François Thuillier (tuba), Claude Tchamitchian (contrebasse), Eric Echampard (batterie), François Verly (marimba, percussions)

Dancers : Tal Beit Halachmi, Dimitri Tsiapkinis, Bernardo Montet, Marc Veh

Produced by the CCNT, Jazz à Tours, the Petit Faucheux, the François-Rabelais University and the Royaumont Foundation.

Info : http://www.ccntours.com

Rose Elinor Dougall...

Guitars and voice that get you high! :-)

States of dance...

[Sabrina, Joe, Bavy, Thierry warming up during Dimitri Tsiapkinis' & Moeketsi Koena's workshop in Antananarivo, september 2010]

When teaching dance what do we transmit?
Do we transmit forms or forms of consciousness?
Relating to one's "own" movement; becoming the object of one's imagination; becoming semi-lucid subject of abstract gestures; elaborating a poetic self; surfing on one's sense of blood flow; asking space for...nothing.
May the dance be with you! :-)

Christoph Mueller | Escape Into Life

Christoph Mueller | Escape Into Life: "Artist Statement:

Christoph Mueller:
“I came to the solution in the last years of studying that you can try any style or whatever . . . the thing that makes your artwork interesting is when you find out what’s inside of you. Who you are. What gets you going. All that kind of stuff. That’s where it becomes real art. Or at least something that I think is worthy of doing.”"

New dance season at the CCNT

Tomorrow saturday we present at the CCNT the new danse season. There will be also the projection of the dance film "Promenades sur Loire", of our happening with Bernardo Montet in 2007, at the Loire river.

Info : ccntours.com

Ryoji Ikeda: Test Pattern, Sónar 2010, Barcelona

Floating in sonar caves...

Delirium Tremens in Greece!

Delirium Tremens (demo version / with greek subtitles ) from Dimitrios Tsiapkinis on Vimeo.

Delirium Tremens will be presented on June 4&5 at the Sofouli Theatre in Thessaloniki/Greece, and on June 9-12 at the Roes Theatre in Athens, during the dance festival of the Greek Choreographer's Association.

The premiere of Delirium Tremens was on April 23d, 2010 at the National Choreographic Center of Tours, in France.

Conception, performance : Dimitri Tsiapkinis
Video creation : Maud Martin
Costumes : Rose-Marie Melka
Lighting design : Jean-Philippe Filleul
Production & Communication : Art Minds
Co-Production : National Choreographic Center of Tours
Subsidy : Greek Ministry of Culture

Delirium Tremens is a quest for a new optimism in response to the anxieties of a troubled new century. With humor and gestural poetry, this solo questions individualism and narcissism by using clichés from the movie industry.
« Cultural exoticism, Hollywood images, and the incoherence that seems to govern our actions, dreams and thoughts, become here raw material. Letting ourselves be touched by who we are without judgment (?) and share what resonates inside with others. In this solo one can see video images on TV, cinema characters realizing tests of madness, explosive energy, semi-improvised monologues, and sensitive dances.» [D. T.]
The images on the TV monitors are the only elements of the stage design. A mix of intimate scenes and the omnipresent mass media.

Dimitrios Tsiapkinis received a grant from the Greek ministry of Culture for the production of Delirium Tremens, with his newly established company The Lotus Fracture.

Emotional intelligence

Photo by Jean-Jaques L. : http://2jl.deviantart.com/

Enough with the assumption that we are all sick! Maybe it's normal that we are all "neurotic"!
Let's focalise on what it means to be happy and how to transmit it to others! I know...it's hard work most of the time. But what if we can become more and more happiness experts?
Here some tests to see your current happiness scores : http://www.authentichappiness.sas.upenn.edu

Awareness...

This is a real picture of a solar eclipse (summer 2009)!

Closer to the sun...closer to the moon...closer to who we are...closer to each other!
Let's cultivate awareness...Source : telegraph.co.uk