Cambodia’s leading contemporary dance organization Amrita Performing Arts invites Arco Renz to mentor emerging Cambodian choreographer’s in the framework of the 2016 Contemporary Dance Platform in Phnom Penh.
The Contemporary Dance Platform is a bi-annual program in which Amrita Performing Arts commissions three emerging choreographers to create new works.
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Arco Renz is invited to teach and mentor at the KoreoLab Bandung for emerging Indonesian choreographers. The lab is taking place at the NuArt Sculpture Park, Bandung, Indonesia.
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After Cry Jailolo, Arco Renz continues his collaboration with Eko Supriyanto as dramaturg for the creation of Balabala (working title).
Created with five young women in Jailolo, Indonesia, Balabala will premiere in November 2016.
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In this residency, Arco Renz, Nuria Guiu Sagarra and Phu Pham start working on a new group work that integrates persevering vibration as foundation of dance.
This new work will be a choreographic score that can be interpreted, experienced and shared in different, personal ways by different groups of performers and people from diverse backgrounds.
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Arco Renz facilitated the ChoreoLab Southeast Asia that took place in May 2015 in Kuala Lumpur.
The platform invites 15 emerging choreographers of the Southeast Asia region to collaborate for nine days at the Rimbun Dahan Arts Center. The participating choreographers are from Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines.
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KRISIS is a performance developed with six graduate students of the ISI Padangpanjang (National Indonesian Performing Art School), West-Sumatra, the heartland of Minangkabau culture.
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TABUROPA is an international theatre and dance project on the topic of taboos that was conducted by Kobalt Works in collaboration with partner companies from Portugal (Teatro Praga), Poland (Association of Theatre Practicioners, Warsaw) and Germany (Futur 3, Cologne).
In workshops, public rehearsals, performances and lectures, the artists explored the cultural, historical and everyday significance of taboos in their countries.
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This solo is an encounter between the Korean-French dancer Jung-Ae Kim and Arco Renz, commissioned by the SACD in the frame of Le Vif du Sujet.
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Les Madrigaux is an opera created by Arco Renz based on Monteverdi’s Madrigals at the Festival d’Art Lyrique d’Aix en Provence in France.
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P.O.P.E.R.A. is a site-specific installation-performance that proposes a radically different and physical experience of the the lyrical voice.
P.O.P.E.R.A. is a vibratory massage given to the audience by the voices of four or up to fifteen opera singers. Based on choreographed spatial patterns, the singers move through a completely dark room, alternatively getting very close to the skin of the audience or projecting from distance.
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