Delirium Tremens again in Greece!

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

The next performance of Delirium Tremens will be on January 20-21 at the Olvio Theatre, 3 Falaisias street in Athens /Greece. It will be in the same evening with the theatre piece 2 Stories by the company Aithrio Syrma.

The premiere of Delirium Tremens was on April 23d, 2010 at the National Choreographic Center of Tours, in France and was played in Thessaloniki and Athens after that.

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)

2011!!! :-)

Certains droits réservés par Koshyk



May space, time and consciousness continue to surprise us with new and exciting existential recipes!

May the economic crisis give us a final push to dare to change ...

May our intelligence escape from the promotion of a virtual, ready-made Happiness and create new local delights, interdependent and semi-hallucinogenic! :-)

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

Inside...

...open the window to the west,

and dissappear into the air inside you...

Kabir

Lost cultures : the Nubas of Niyaro

Tribal beauty survives through oral traditions and passionate lovers of "otherness". European and Arab war lords have crushed cultures that had chosen "mother" consciousness models rather than "father's"...here's an extraordinary video excerpt of the amazing Nuba people in Sudan! It's another planet!
Photo par : Leni Riefenstahl (!?) Do you know what this woman did for the Nazis??? Are these photos her personal exorcism against her dark past?
(I assume there was a copyright problem : blogger erased the photo of Riefenstahl...Hmmm....)

2009-09-26_Street performance in Antananarivo

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2009-09-26_Street performance in Antananarivo, originally uploaded by speedykoala. How to dance when there are thousands of street kids around?
The opening of the festival i Trôtra (pronounce the "r" the american way) is on september the 30th. I worked with young, non professional, dancers this time and it was a moving experience. Bernardo Montet worked with the professional dancers. In one of the poorest countries in the world with high corruption I have the chance to realize once more, how deeply existential dance is. The urgency to create newtopias, even ephemeral, and live them through embodiment is a state of "freedom" and a source of inspiration; inspiration to live through regimes like the one in Madagascar and have visions of a "better" world...
Freedom in greek : ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΙΑ, means openness to that which will come; openness to the unknown...
In the picture you see dancers with street kids...For more pics go here : Flickr-Madagascar

Eros & the Dragon

"Eros is born of chaos, implying that out of every chaotic moment the creativity of which we have been speaking can be born. Further more, eros will always hearken back to its origins in chaos and will seek it for its vivification. Aristophanes writes even of their mating. Eros will attempt again and again to create those dark nights and confusions which are its nest. It renews itself in affective attacks, jealousies, fulminations, and turmoils. It thrives close to the dragon."

James Hillmann

Photo (CC) by : Ed_meister (Flickr)

Bons enfants!

This Sunday we danced at Mauricio Cordero's gallery : Du Coté des bons Enfants, in Tours!
It was during the exposition of Olivier Jauzenque!

Photo by : Mauricio Cordero
(http://lesbonsenfants.bonnes-nouvelles.fr/)

More good news!

Controlling the arm trade is becoming a reality! Almost all countries voted for a treaty!
Guess who didn't want to sign? look here : Control arms

Photo by phauly

Dance in Chile

Third and last day of the workshops taught by Bernardo Montet and Dimitri Tsiapkinis in the University of Santiago / School of the Arts.
Sharing experience, mouvement and dance theories.
We also participated in a conference about Bernardo's approach to dance with video excerpts, and also about the role of National choréographic centers in France.
We conluded the conference with a dance improvisation between me and the Chilian musician Pajaro.
We were assisted by Andrea Muñoz who also captured the image of this note.
I will stay for one more week to visit Santiago, Valparaiso and Serena.
May the space be with you! :-)

Para aquellos interesados aquí es una bibliografía :
* Ken Wilber : Breve historia de todas las cosas. Barcelona. Kairós. w4.
* Le mouvement dans tous ses états. Eve Berger, 1998. Editions Point d’Appui (Français)
* el sitio web de la Danis Bois Método (Inglès, Français et portugués) : http://www.cerap.org/
* un text de James Hillman en espagnol : http://homepage.mac.com/eeskenazi/azur.html
* James Hillman : SpD94a La Cultura y el Alma Animal. Trans. Maria J. Bustamante. Caracas: Fundacion Polar. Engl. D97d.

(Para más propuestas, me contacto a través de este blog después 5 enero 2009 :-)