LICA
Lund International Choreography Assembly (May 15-20, 2024)
disrupts dominant narratives through global artists. Their embodied stories unearth erased histories and challenge sanitized versions of the past. Ephemeral dance becomes a tool for reclaiming silenced voices and confronting suppressed narratives. The artists explore themes of forbidden expression and collective transformation, inviting us to co-create a future informed by diverse truths.
collective amnesia
- choreographic excavation of suppressed narratives -
Denise Palmieri, Sandra Chatterjee, Rani Nair, Alex Blum, Ray Roa Alonso
Page 28, 17 maj kl 19:30
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Skissernas Museum, 18 maj kl 12:34 - 14:15
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LICA is produced by Embassy of Movement
LICA#4 genomförs i samverkan med Konstnärsnämndens internationella dansprogram, Statens kulturråd, Region Skåne, Lunds kommun, Skissernas Museum, Page 28, Riksteatern Lund, Dansalliansen, Danscentrum Syd.
LICA#4
17 maj på Danscentrum Syd och Page 28, Malmö
18 maj på Skissernas museum, Lund
* * * Denise Palmieri, Sandra Chatterjee, Alex Blum and Ray Roa Alonso * * *
Supported by and collaborators: Statens Kulturråd, Region Skåne, Lunds kommun, Skissernas Museum, Riksteatern Lund, Dansalliansen, Danscentrum Syd, Page 28
* * * * workshop by alex blum * * * *
Queer Movements and Ephemeral Memorials
Friday May 17, 2024, at 11:15 - 16:30, Danscentrum Syd, Malmö.
Guided by trans* dancer and choreographer alex blum, we invite you to join a workshop for the speculative exploration of queer movements and ephemeral memorials. We will be working with the archives of Nordic queer liberation, for instance the history of the Danish Gay Liberation Front and their activism against the so-called ‘Dance Ban’, which for decades forbade same-sex couples from dancing together in the public sphere.
Through touch-based body work, improvisation, collective mind-mapping and critical fabulation, we’ll embody a research of the queer potentials and politics of the dancing body. Everybody is welcome, but this is a space meant to celebrate lived experiences of queerness and transness, so show up with an intention to amplify queer joy.
Apply before 29 April: by sending your cv and a few words on why you want to take part: embassyofmovement ( at ) gmail.com
Subject: LICA#4, Workshop 17 maj
I mailet anger du om du är:
- Anställd av Dansalliansen
- Medlem i Danscentrum
- Frilansande konstnär (utan anställning i Dansalliansen eller medlemskap i Danscentrum)
17 maj kl 19.30 Page 28 Malmö
Performance Lecture with alex blum - at Page 28 17 May at 19.30
Trans* choreographer alex blum (DK/NL) invites us into their research archive with small queer movements towards critical fabulation. In this work sharing, alex will share excerpts and reflect upon their artistic research series PÅ TRODS, which seeks performative methods to commemorate queer movements in both history and futures.
As a series of ephemeral memorials to a past of forbidden caresses and a future of tender touches, PÅ TRODS is meant to commemorate the dance actions of the Danish Gay Liberation Front and other queer movements in spite of repression and queerphobia. The aim is to empower the dancing bodies and their political impact by asking: How do the dance actions of the 1970s live on in today's queer bodies, and what can the memory of the Dance Ban tell us about society's forbidden movements? What does queer dance and performance styles, such as voguing and waacking, offer to minoritised bodies? What do political communities with a bodily practice at the center offer?
* * * *. * * * *. * * * * Invited artists * * * *. * * * *. * * * *
Denise Palmieri
Denise Palmieri, a performance artist and curator currently based in Vienna. MA in Visual Arts and Performing Arts by the Academie of Fine Arts Vienna, in her work as a performance artist she explores the connection between experience and consciousness, examining the ritualistic and political aspects of the body and voice, while also challenging traditional approaches to knowledge production.
In 2020, Palmieri became co-president of the Austrian Association of Women Artists (VBKÖ). In her role as a curator, she addresses the theme of the "politics of care" across diverse disciplines. Her responsibilities involve fostering an inclusive artistic community among queer-feminist artists.
Sandra Chatterjee
https://www.sandrachatterjee.net/
Dr. Sandra Chatterjee (sandra.chatterjee@plus.ac.at) is a scholar and choreographer interested in involving senses that are not usually foregrounded in dance, such as smell—most recently Smells of Racism and Smells of Coexistence. She is on the research team of the project Border-Dancing Across Time (Austrian Science Fund/FWF P 31958-G) at the University of Salzburg, and is co-organizing CHAKKARs - moving interventions to facilitate intersectional anti-racist, postmigrant, and decolonizing approaches to dance. Recent publications: “Dancing out of Time and Place: Memory and Choreography in the South Asian Diaspora in Continental Europe” (In Routledge Handbook of Asian Diaspora and Development, 2021) and “Queerings and Crossings: The Post Natyam Collective’s ‘The Sins of Such Wonderful Flesh’” (with Cynthia Ling Lee and Shyamala Moorty, in The Palgrave Handbook.
PhD, UCLA
2012- 2016 as postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Art, Music and Dance studies, University of Salzburg)
Alex Blum
Instagram - @placenta___.
alex blum (they/she) is a trans* choreographer, performer, political educator, and somatic activist based between Copenhagen and Amsterdam, where they are currently graduating from the School for New Dance Development (SNDO). With their artistic work, alex researches the political economy of our senses in relation to legacies of queer resistance towards and healing from the colonial gender binary.
Raymond Roa Alonso
http://www.roadans.com/
Ray Roa Alonso is a Anglo/Filipino contemporary dance artist based in Copenhagen, who has used his work to explore themes of social connections, fluid realities, queerness, and representation. Ray is known for his strong non-linear artistic interpretation which embodies subtle provocations using movement and visual imagery. His work is evoked from personal stories emanating from colourful lived memories as a Filipino ‘balikbayan’ to surface stories of (trans-)formed identities in order to confront the audience with the affects of subtle discrimination, queer acceptance, and topical social discourse.Founding member of P-noise collective which is based in Copenhagen Denmark.
EDUCATION:
• 2010-12 Skolen for Modern Dance DK: Masters points
• 2001-02 London Contemporary Dance School: Post Graduate
• 1999-2001 Northern School of Contemporary Dance: BA Honors
LICA#3 2023 på
Skissernas Museum i Lund 27 - 29 april
Ögonblick fr 2023
TACK alla konstnärer, dansare, performers, deltagare
Ovan ser ni en kort dokumentation av ett fantastiskt arbete. Stor tacksamhet riktas till: Mia Habib, Diana Anselmo, Thais Di Marco, Raymond Roa, Emma Ribbing, Roula Samiotaki, Jerry Pedersen, Anders Duckworth, Sybrig Dokter, Escarleth Pozo, Anastasiia Krasnoshchoka, Maya Dalinsky, Eden Keflai, Maria Arkouli, Alex Blum, Sandy Ceesay, Isabella Khanamidi, Paolo de Venecia Gile, Maria Naidu, Julie Nioche, Ranya Asadi, Shreekripa Balasubramanian, Bipin Chacko, Ramprasad Ramakrishnan , Karthik Balachandran, Sravanthi Emani, Sajith Nair, Sandhya Nair, Dana Lötberg, Gabriella Voss, Shashank Acharya, Jayasri Vijaykumar, Shambhavi S Rao, Pangea Scenkonst, Amandus Pereira Kraftling, Carolina Petersson, Fronesis, Konstgruppen Ful, Moa Johansson, Nasim Aghili och Malin Holgersson
15-20 maj 2024
Lund International Choreography Assembly #4
collective amnesia
- choreographic excavation of suppressed narratives -
Denise Palmieri, Sandra Chatterjee, Alex Blum, Ray Roa Alonso
LICA#4 disrupts dominant narratives through global artists. Their embodied stories unearth erased histories and challenge sanitized versions of the past. Ephemeral dance becomes a tool for reclaiming silenced voices and confronting suppressed narratives. The artists explore themes of forbidden expression and collective transformation, inviting us to co-create a future informed by diverse truths
Programme
Page 28, 17 maj kl 19:30
www.kulturcentralen.se
Skissernas Museum, 18 maj kl 12:34 - ca 14:15
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by Embassy of Movement
LICA#4
Statens Kulturråd, Region Skåne, Lunds kommun, Riksteatern Lund, Dansalliansen, Danscentrum Syd, Skissernas Museum, Page 28, Konstnärsnämndens Internationella Dansprogram
Organiser
The Embassy of Movement is a platform based in the region of Skåne, south of Sweden. Dedicated to decolonial practices, collaborative works and participatory arts.
The Embassy of Movement is a platform based in the region of Skåne, south of Sweden. Dedicated to decolonial practices, collaborative works and participatory arts.
Ambassadors at the moment are Rani Nair, Maria Stålhammar
