dance projects
julean simon - wax
It turned out to be my favorite collaboration to work with dancers...
050924
laborgras impro#3
DVD perform050923 33min, perf 050924 57min,
rehearsal 74min
dance: graziadei, meierkord, reulecke, staeldi - licht: dielmann - simon:
musik
050920
-nda -
DVD min chapters, 2005 Berlin
Ingo Reulecke, Lena Meierkord (dance), Simon (music, video)
free dance part de deux interactiong with sparce piano-like sound-snippets.
051217
(dreizehn) Schauer
DVD, 27min, 13 chapters, 2005 Berlin
Ingo Reulecke (dance), Julean
Simon (music/video)
After projects with more dancers we did this duo-piece. Actually
we planned for this performance an even smaller room (open cube), to
intensify the confrontaion with the walls. "schauer" (shower)
refers to the location we finally chose for this project, but it may
refer also to the feeling this term denotes: clusters of sounds rieseln
onto the shoulders of the dancer. At that time i have been in a phase
of trying to adapt the piano-sound and -gestus to a wind-instrument (see
also 33 short piano pieces and grand() for ARCO Madrid). This is mainly
a challenge of specializing a tounging-technique, there is not much modulation
you can do once the tone is generated. So I combined several voices to
get something like a "prepared
piano" voice-setup.The piece is also about tempo, which also correlated
to a plan of Ingo to do a piece on Nancarrows music.
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060218
the sintra session
DVD, 25min, 7chapters, 2006 Sintra/Portugal
Ludger Lamers - mooves, Julean
Simon - grooves
This was a spontaneous session with no practice, whatsoever. He attended
a concert I had at the Goethe-Institute in Lissabon and talking afterwards,
we decided to perform in this nice garden in Sintra
090708
nmi09 (DVD) - dance performances:
6.7.09 christian "mio" loclair - julean simon - 20min
7.7.09 joy christine alpuerto ritter - julean simon - 36min
8.7.09 joy christine alpuerto ritter - julean simon - 18min
9.7.09 christian "mio" loclair - julean simon - 16min
finally i found breakdancers in berlin, a long pursued plan... worked like a charm from the first minute. sometimes even too much synchronized. integrates nicely with the music. particularly since they also think in terms of contemporary dance. mio actually is a popper, i.e. a bit more static with frequent outburst. joy comes up with more contemporary dance mooves. i enjoyed these performances a lot.
