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Maximum 24 participants / Numero de vacantes: 24
Waking up our creative juices through writing, drawing, singing, stretching, using colour and connection.
Despertando nuestros jugos creativos a través de la escritura, pintura, canto, elongación, usando colores y conectándonos con nuestro interior.

In this workshop we will move between a brief stretch, some drawing, some writing, using our voice and using colour, with moments of reflection in small groups. No prior experience of writing, art, movement or singing is needed. It is for each of us to do these practices in our own way. There is no pressure to produce anything marvellous or show it. This is simply a way to support ourselves to be creative, in the knowledge that others are making things at the same time. We will touch practices lightly, though we may wish one day to return to something we begin to create in these sessions. This is not about being an artist, it is simply about creating and how that experience can nourish us. And it is about nourishing our creativity.

En este workshop, jugaremos con diferentes herramientas creativas que nos permitirán despertrar nuestra Creatividad: Despertar neustro cuerpo elongándonos, pintando, usando nuestra voz y los colores, transitando la experiencia,en pequeños grupos de creación y reflexión, y con el grupo en general.No se necesita experiencia previa en ninguna habilidad artística. No se espera ningún resultado y por ello no hay presión para que esto se produzca..Se rtata simplemente de una forma de ayudarnos y sosternernos grupalmente, para desarrollar nuestra creatividad. Abordaremos las prácticas livianamente de manera de abrir puertas que tal vez algún día querramos retomar para crear algo a partir de lo que surgió en esta s sesiones.No se trata de ser un artista sino de ser creativos comprendiendo como el intercambio grupal puede nutrirnos. Se trata, entonces, de nutrir nuestra creatividad.

DATE/FECHA: Saturday 5 June 2021

UK TIME: 19:00-20:15 + find your local time

COST: 5 / 10 / 15 euro or pay what you can.

DURATION: 1 hour 15 m, with 20m informal chatting afterwards for those who wish to stay on.
DURACION DE LA SESIÓN: 1 hora 15 minutos, seguido por 20 minutos de charla informal para aquellas y aquellos que deseen permanecer conectados y compartir la experiencia.

LOCATION: Zoom – you will receive the zoom link once you have booked in

NUMBER OF PLACES/ NUMERO DE VACANTES: 24

LANGUAGE: English & Spanish

Helen Chadwick was in Cardiff Lab Theatre with Jill Greenhalgh and took part in the first Magdalena Festival with her solo A Gift For Burning and singing workshops in Cardiff in 1986.
“At the heart of my work is song. With teams of collaborators I create concerts, recordings, song-theatre performances and site-specific choral events.”

Natalia Marcet
In 1999, invited by Ana Woolf, I attended the Magdalena Festival in New Zealand. I had just left treatment for bulimia, because they had told me that it was a risk for my health to take a job as storyteller and to develop my artistic work. I took the risk, met the Magdalena Project, and it was the beginning of the rebirth of my life as an actress, musician and theater pedagogue in vulnerable communities, as a corporal and vocal researcher, and as a storyteller. This helped me to transform the diaries of my experience with bulimia into the performance Gordas, directed by Ana Woolf, which is at the heart of my new healthy artistic way.

Helen Chadwick
https://helenchadwick.com

Natalia Marcet
@NataliaMarcet (facebook)

UpStage and Cyberformance

UpStage and Cyberformance #1

Helen Varley Jamieson
& Vicki Smith

9 June 2021 ◊ UK TIME: 9:00 ◊ LOCATION: UpStage

FULLY BOOKED

Create and present cyberformance using UpStage

UpStage is an online venue for cyberformance (live online performance). Remote players collaborate in real time, using all kinds of digital media including images, animations, audio-visual streams, live text, live drawing and more, to present live performances for online or hybrid online/proximal audiences.

This workshop will introduce the platform and its tools, and give an introduction to devising and performing online. No previous experience or special technical skills are required – just a web browser and internet connection.

DATE: 9 June 2021

UK TIME: 9:00 UK time – find your local time

COST: 5 / 10 / 15 euro or pay what you can.

DURATION: 90min

MAXIMUM PARTICIPANTS: 12

LOCATION: UpStage – you will receive an email with the UpStage link once you have booked in.

LANGUAGE: English

Helen Varley Jamieson is a pioneer in the field of cyberformance (live online performance) and is one of the founders of UpStage.

VIcki Smith is a multi-disciplinary artist creating participatory works with a local global environmental focus. She is a co founder of UpStage.

UpStage
https://upstage.org.nz
https://mobilise-demobilise.eu/
https://vimeo.com/channels/upstagefestivals

Vicki SMith
artecology.net

Helen Varley Jamieson
https://www.creative-catalyst.com/

UpStage and Cyberformance

UpStage and Cyberformance #2

Helen Varley Jamieson
& Christina Papagiannouli

Monday 14 June 2021 ◊ UK TIME: 20:00 ◊ LOCATION: UpStage

FULLY BOOKED

Create and present cyberformance using UpStage

DATE: Monday 14 June 2021

UK TIME: 20:00 UK time – find your local time

COST: 5 / 10 / 15 euro or pay what you can.

DURATION: 90min

MAXIMUM PARTICIPANTS: 12

LOCATION: UpStage – you will receive an email with the UpStage link once you have booked in.

LANGUAGE: English

Helen Varley Jamieson is a pioneer in the field of cyberformance (live online performance) and is one of the founders of UpStage.

Christina Papagiannouli has worked with UpStage for more than 10 years in the context of her E-Theatre project.

UpStage
https://upstage.org.nz
https://mobilise-demobilise.eu/
https://vimeo.com/channels/upstagefestivals

The Etheatre Project
https://etheatreblog.wordpress.com/

Helen Varley Jamieson
https://www.creative-catalyst.com/

Taranta Atelier

Maristella Martella

19 & 20 June 2021 ◊ UK TIME: 17:00-19:00 ◊ LOCATION: Zoom

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A workshop dedicated to the ancient and powerful traditional dances and rituals in Southern Italy.

An online version of Maristella Martella’s Taranta Atelier, a workshop dedicated to the ancient and powerful traditional dances and rituals of Southern Italy. Maristella will work with participants over two days (two hours per day) uisng Zoom.

DATE: 19 and 20 June 2021

UK TIME: 17:00-19:00 – find your local time

COST: 10 / 20 / 30 euro or pay what you can.

DURATION: 4 hours (2 hours per day for 2 days)

MAXIMUM PARTICIPANTS: 20

LOCATION: Zoom – you will receive an email with the zoom link once you have booked in.

LANGUAGE: Italian and English

Dancer and choreographer Maristella Martella carries out a theatrical and dance research on the phenomenon of Tarantism and Mediterranean dance and rituals, and their contemporary interpretation.

More info about Maristella’s work:
http://www.maristellamartella.it/
http://www.tarantarte.it/

More info about Maristella’s work:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqyvAY9bZPg

Creatividad, Inmunidad y Reinvención

Luciana Martuchelli

DATE: 21-23 June 2021 ◊ UK TIME: 19:00-21:00 ◊ LOCATION: Zoom ◊ LANGUAGE: Español

Como podemos mirar nuestro actual estado de limitación espacial y aislamiento de una manera provocativa, como una oportunidad de dar espacio a la imaginación, autopercepción y expresión creativa?

How can we look to our current state of limited space and isolation in a provocative way, as an opportunity to give place to imagination, to self-perception and to creative expression?
Participants will work with Luciana Martucelli for six hours (two hours per day over three days) to create scenes and small performances.

DATE: 21, 22 & 23 June 2021

UK TIME: 19:00-21:00 – find your local time

COST: 10 / 20 / 30 euro or pay what you can.

DURATION: 120min x 3

MAXIMUM PARTICIPANTS: 16

LOCATION: Zoom – you will receive an email with the link, once you have booked.

LANGUAGE: Spanish

Luciana Martuchelli is an actress and the director of TAO Filmes and Cia. YinsPiração in Brazil. Creator of the Magdalena Festival SOLOS FERTEIS.

Luciana Martuchelli es actriz y la directora de TAO Filmes y Cia. YinsPiração en Brasil. Creadora del festival Magdalena SOLOS FERTEIS.

More info about Luciana’s work:
www.instagram.com/lucianamartuchelli
www.instagram.com/taofilmes

Creation in Confined Spaces

Jana Korb

Tuesday to Thursday 22-24 June 2021 ◊ UK TIME: 9:00-13:00 - ◊ LOCATION: Zoom

Thursday 24 June 2021, the workshop will start one hour earlier - UK TIME: 8:00-noon

In this workshop, we will research and improvise in limited and unlimited space; we will work on spatial objects on the ground and in the air (chairs, tables, etc.).
In the physical space: We will be working with up to 8 participants at Antagon TheaterAKTion, Frankfurt/M, Germany.
Online: We will work via Zoom with up to 12 participants. Please make sure, your internet connection is good enough for video exchange.
Note: on Thursday 24 June, the workshop will start one hour earlier, so that we can attend the festival opening at 12 noon UK time.

Photos: Vojtěch Brtnicky

DATE: 22, 23 and 24 June 2021

UK TIME: 9:00-13:00 – find your local time.
NOTE: on Thursday 24 June, the workshop will start one hour earlier, so that people can come to the festival opening.

COST: 10 / 20 / 30 euro or pay what you can.

DURATION: 4 hours x 3

MAXIMUM PARTICIPANTS: 12

LOCATION: Hybrid: Zoom – you will receive the zoom link once you have booked in – and antagon, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

LANGUAGE: English

INFORMATION FOR PARTICIPANTS
• The workshop is aimed at any physical performers and actors.
• Training clothes – long sleeves and legs. If possible we will be working barefoot.
• If you can, please bring any spatial object that you are interested in: e.g. chair or any kind or furniture, bicycle, bin, box, wheelbarrow…
• Online: you need a space of min. 3m x 3m to be able to move freely with your object.

Jana Korb creates aerial theatre and narrative circus, mainly producing performances in public spaces – and searching for a circus of the future.

More info about Jana’s work: www.luftartistin.de

find your local time for the workshop

Angry Women Workshop

Annie Abrahams

Wednesday 23 June 2021 ◊ UK TIME: 15:00-16:30 ◊ LOCATION: Zoom

Participants must be available for a 15min performance on either or both 25 June at 16:30 (UK time) and 26 June at 19:00 (UK time)

FULLY BOOKED

90 min workshop for maximum 18 participants,
culminating in a 15min performance on Friday 25 June and Saturday 26 June (plus Q&A).

During the workshop we will engage in experiments to make us more aware of the possibilities of the medium we are using. No rehearsals. With female anger as the subject the webcam will be used as a facilitator for a collaborative practice that will function as a learning place for “being with”.

Participants need headphones and a plain background, and must be available for one or both of the performances:
25 June at 16:30 (UK time) – find your local time
26 June at 19h (UK time) – find your local time

DATE: 23 June 2021

TIME: 15:00-16:30 (UK) – find your local time

COST: pay what you can.

DURATION: 90min

LOCATION: Zoom – you will receive an email with the zoom link once you have booked in.

LANGUAGE: English. Annie also speaks French and Dutch fluently and is ok with German. Participants will be asked to use their mother tongue during the performance.

Annie Abrahams has an art practice that meanders between research and performance. In her carefully scripted art, she tends to reveal ordinary human behavior and develops what she calls an aesthetics of trust and attention.

More info about Annie’s work: https://bram.org/angry/women

Below an excerpt from a recording of a previous “Angry Women” performance.

Yoga Day1 - 8am UK time

Thursday Yoga

with Suzon & Zed

Thursday 24 June 2021 ◊ UK TIME: 8am ◊ LOCATION: Zoom ◊ LANGUAGES: English, French, Body

Daily meditation, relaxation, stretching, breathing and laughing, with Suzon and Zed.

Please join us for one session or every day of the festival! Everyone is welcome, regardless of level of experience in yoga. Wear comfortable clothing and have a free quiet space of about 2 metres square around you.

booking for each session

DATE: Thursday 24 June 2021

UK TIME: 8:00 – find your local time

DURATION: 45 minutes

LOCATION: Zoom – you will receive an email with the zoom link once you have registered.

LANGUAGE: English, French, and body language

Booking for each session: https://onlinefestival.themagdalenaproject.org/dailies

Suzon Fuks is a multidisciplinary artist with a background in performing, visual and digital arts. Her movement practice is influenced by the Feldenkrais Method, Kalaripayattu, and Yoga. She is also a Reiki Master.

Zed Zeldich is the dragKING alter ego of artist Zoe Gudovic. He is getting ready for the festival and the challenge of turning up every day to stretch, mediate and meditate!

Zed Zeldich: https://vimeo.com/502125256
Suzon Fuks: http://suzonfuks.net

https://gather.town/app/JPA3NHFQiiUxObSk/Magdalena

ObservaStory 24/7 Day1

ObservaStory

Thursday 24 June 2021 ◊ TIME: 24/7 ◊ LOCATION: Gather Town

join us

The ObservaStory celebrates The Magdalena Project’s story with a series of documentaries and videos about past Magdalena festivals. it’s also a place to chat, network and connect with others.

In the ObservaStory you can sit around the fire and chat with a group of people, sit at one of the garden tables and speak privately with up to 6 people, or just explore the various videos.

You can explore at any time, before, during and after the festival events.

How to

The ObservaStory has been created in the online social meeting platform Gather.town. Currently, Gather.town only works reliably on a laptop or desktop using a Firefox or Chrome browser. There is limited functionality on mobile devices (phones and tablets).

Enter the ObservaStory

Click on the link and you will arrive at a page where you can enter your name and customise your avatar.
Once you have done this, click “next”. Your browser may ask you for permission to access your camera and microphone – click “allow”.
At this screen you can check that your webcam, microphone, and speakers are working.
You will then be taken to a short tutorial which explains how to move around and interact with objects.

Once you finish the tutorial you will find yourself in the ObservaStory! The map is big so do have a look around. To speak to somebody simply walk up to them and you should see their video feed and be able to hear them.

To find other people in the ObservaStory, click on their name in the participants list and click “follow” to automatically follow them or locate on map to be shown a path to them.

To watch a video press x. To exit from a video mode press x.

There is more basic information on the Help page of this website.

DATE: Open 24/7 throughout the festival, 24 – 27 June 2021.

LOCATION: https://gather.town/app/JPA3NHFQiiUxObSk/Magdalena

LANGUAGES: videos in the ObservaStory are in English, Spanish, Poruguese and other languages.

The ObservaStory has been conceived and curated by Dr. Christina Papagiannouli, who is Research Fellow in Performance and Interactive and Immersive Technology at the University of South Wales (UK) and a member of the Bodies:On:Live organising team.

Video List

The following videos are available for you to explore in the ObservaStory – watch them on your own or with others. You can also access the videos from these links.

‘Magdalena’ documentary film, 2013, produced by Jill Greenhalgh and Sarah Penrhyn Jones.
https://vimeo.com/73296438
For further details see: https://www.themagdalenaproject.org/en/content/magdalena-documentary-film

AT:HOME:LIVE Speakers

Jill Greenhalgh – https://youtu.be/OSfztWasMzw
Julia Varley = https://youtu.be/vZMxe-QBDIM
Geddy Aniksdal – https://youtu.be/kJ5_c-Gg4-s
Brigitte Cirla – https://youtu.be/7dvsXjhsMQU
Cristina Castrillo – https://youtu.be/nJAJCAAHyZE
Bruna Gusberti = https://youtu.be/0nTSPnp39aA
Dijana Milosevic – https://youtu.be/LwGWB3TnUj8

BURNING ISSUES meets Magdalena München [Interview], 2020. Alina Buchberger (Kampnagel Hamburg) interviews Helen Varley Jamieson. Interview von Alina Buchberger (Kampnagel Hamburg) mit Magdalena München im Rahmen der Konferenz BURNING ISSUES meets Kampnagel 2020
https://youtu.be/JiHfDv9_3GM

TRANSIT IX – HOPE IN ACTION 2019: Theatre, Women, Will. Odin Teatret, Denmark. 12 – 23 June 2019. https://vimeo.com/333213397
For further details see: https://www.themagdalenaproject.org/en/content/transit-ix-hope-action

MESTIZA CHILE 2018: Resistance and Memory. Santiago y Valparaíso, Chile. 30 October – 9 November 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsfpeamT_1A

MESTIZA CHILE 2018 Testimonies: https://vimeo.com/78109195
For further details see: https://www.themagdalenaproject.org/en/content/mestiza-chile-2018

INTERNATIONALES FRAUEN* THEATER-FESTIVAL 2018. Protagon e.V., Frankfurt. 27 – 30 September 2018. https://vimeo.com/297747505
For further details see: https://www.themagdalenaproject.org/en/content/internationales-frauen-theater-festival

TANTIDHATRI 2016: International Women’s Performing Arts Festival. Rangashankara, Bangalore. 17 – 21 February 2016. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZg0kmH489E
About Tantidhatri 2016 – Interview with Parvathy Baul https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yca4BLsxI1U
For further details see: https://www.themagdalenaproject.org/en/content/tantidhatri-2016

MULTICIDADE 2015: International Festival of Women in the Performing Arts. Rio de Janeiro. Video by Karima Shehata. 31 October – 7 November 2015. https://vimeo.com/145045425
Jadranka Andjelic presents MULTICIDADE 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HV1P1HSMo&feature=emb_logo
For further details see: https://www.themagdalenaproject.org/en/node/2204

MAGDALENA3Reinventions 2014: Where to Continue the Dignification process? Heróica Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, México. Telón de Arena, Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Colegio de Chihuahua y Universidad Autónoma de Cd. Juárez. 31 March – 6 April 2014, https://vimeo.com/97397439
For further details see: https://www.themagdalenaproject.org/en/node/2022

MESTIZA CHILE 2013: Point of Departure. The first Magdalena festival to be held in Chile. It was inspired and motivated by the strength of the network and the energy of every woman within it. Santigao, Chile. 6 – 12 May 2013. https://vimeo.com/69973734
For further details see: https://www.themagdalenaproject.org/en/content/mestiza-chile-2013-0

MAGDALENA 2a GENERACION 2011, Argentina, Documentary by Fiore Corona. A 30-minute documentary has been made by Fiore Carona, about the 2011 Encuentro Internacional Argentina, organised by Magdalena Segunda Generacíon and held in Junín, Buenos Aires and Dolores, Argentina.
https://vimeo.com/38692257
For further details see: https://www.themagdalenaproject.org/en/content/documentary-magdalena-2a-generacion-festival-2011

TRANSIT VI, DENMARK 2009: Women on the Periphery, Odin Teatret, Holstebro, Denmark. Video by Adriana de Andrade & Luciana Martichelli. 6-16 August 2009.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18SCZswDeRc
https://vimeo.com/6179865
For further details see: https://www.themagdalenaproject.org/en/transit-vi

MAGDALENA PACIFICA 2002: Festival Internaciónal de Teatro Calí, Pacifica Cali, Colombia. A festival hosted by Teatro La Mascara in Cali and Bogota, 21 September – 5 October 2002.
https://vimeo.com/27900862
For further details see: https://www.themagdalenaproject.org/en/content/magdalena-pacifica-colombia-2002

The Opening

DATE: 24 June 2021 ◊ TIME: 12 noon UK ◊ LOCATION: Zoom ◊ LANGUAGES: English, Spanish

Opening of Bodies:On:Live

with

Parvathy Baul and other guests to be announced

DATE: Thursday 24 June 2021

TIME: 12 noon UK – find your local time

LOCATION: Zoom

LANGUAGES: English, Spanish

Parvathy Baul is the most recognised woman Baul performer in the world. She is a practitioner, performer, storyteller, painter and teacher of the Baul tradition from Bengal, India. She has performed in over forty countries, including World Music Centre, NYC; and Festival of World Sacred Music Fez, Morocco. http:/parvathybaul.com