Peter Sparling is Thurnau Professor of Dance at the University of Michigan and active independent dance artist. As former principal dancer with the Martha Graham Dance Company, chair of the U-M Department of Dance from 1988-93 and Artistic Director of Peter Sparling Dance Company from 1993-2008. This performance was recorded at the Coda Oslo International […]
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At the last Coda festival in 2009 one of the stand out performances was from the Finnish dance maker and dancer Terro Saarinen and this year this is no different. Mr Saarinen isn’t back but Ervi Sirén is along with her all female company with the work ‘VIITA’. This is a pure dance piece with […]
The national dance company of Norway was once again in attendance at the Coda Dance Festival in Oslo for 2011. This year brings a very unusual work from the stable of Israeli dance maker Sharon Eyal. The costumes and the lighting design make this work look very old school but the movement and the sound […]
Peggy Jarrell Kapplan, a New York based photographer, has been taking portraits of dance makers since the 1970’s. From Trisha Brown to William Forsythe there is barely a choreographer she has not captured on her (film based) camera. The Coda Oslo International Dance Festival is hosting an exhibition of the photographers work with many participants, […]
Film – Dance to be Murdered by premiered during the Bergen International Festival in 1988. Over 20 years later, the production will now be presented with the original cast. Alfred Hitchcock’s Music to be Murdered by provides the underlying impulse for a meeting between dance, text, music and film. Dancers: Solveig Leinan-Hermo (Stellaris DansTeater), Anne […]
Back in the day Ohad Naharin was responsible for creating one of our favourite pieces of dance, that piece of dance being ‘Axioma 7’ performed by Rambert when Christopher Bruce was in charge. These days Mr Naharin is the AD of Batsheva in Israel and ‘Horra’ is a very different kind of work. What we […]
Lightening is an intriguing work by choreographic legend Deborah Hay, made for top-name freelance dancers from Finland, including Jyrki Karttunen. The choreography was first given as a sketch to the dancers who through their performance create the choreography. Dancers: Joona Halonen, Anne Hiekkaranta, Jyrki Karttunen, Vera Nevanlinna, Nina Viitamäki. This performance was recorded at the […]
The latest work for seven dancers by choreographer Stephanie Thiersch and media artist Angela Melitopoulos focuses on mimicry: imitating, adapting to a structure, disguising, becoming invisible, turning up and stepping out of line. Dancers: Viviana Escalé, Inés Hernandez, Mu-Yi Kuo, I-Fen Lin, Victor Launay, Nicolas Robillard, Valenti Rocamora-Tora. This performance was recorded at the Coda […]
Trio A consists of a 5-minute sequence of movement that was initially presented as The Mind is a Muscle, Part I (1966) at Judson Church. There it was performed by Yvonne Rainer, David Gordon and Steve Paxton simultaneously but not in unison. Since then the dance has taken on myriad forms, from execution by a […]
Some, if not most of you, may never have been subjected to an hour long piece by infamous composer John Cage, he of the Merce Cunningham collaboration. Well, we, here in TheLab™, went through that experience this past Tuesday with a performance of ‘Empty Moves [Parts I & II] from Ballet Preljocaj. Check it out […]