magdalena

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

Shifts in Practice

Friday 25 June 2021 ◊ UK TIME: 14:00-16:00 ◊ LOCATION: Zoom ◊ LANGUAGES: English, Spanish

SHIFT IN PRACTICE– a trend or a reality?

How have theatre & performance practitioners adapted, shifted and survived through the pandemic lockdowns?

Panelists: Lois Weaver, Shabari Rao and Bianca Mastrominico
Moderator: Elizabeth de Roza

DATE: Friday 25 June 2021

UK TIME: 14:00-16:00 – find your local time

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

LANGUAGES: English, Spanish

Panelists

Lois Weaver is an artist, activist, and Professor of Contemporary Performance at Queen Mary University of London. She has been a writer, director, and performer with Peggy Shaw and Split Britches since 1980. Her experiments in performance as a means of public engagement include Long Tables, Porch Sittings, Care Cafes, and her facilitating persona, Tammy WhyNot. Lois is a 2014 Guggenheim Fellow and a Wellcome Trust Engagement Fellow for 2016-2019.
http://split-britches.com

Shabari Rao is an artist, educator and researcher based in Bangalore, India. Her work focuses on the relationship between body, identity, and power, and takes the shape of performing, directing, teaching, writing, and more recently, experimental film and audio work. More details can be found at www.shabarirao.com

Bianca Mastrominico is a performance maker, a writer/director and a pedagogue. She is co-artistic director of Organic Theatre, an international award-winning performance laboratory rooted in ongoing training and research for innovative practice and pedagogy, founded in 2002. Her work is process-led and exploratory, interdisciplinary and intercultural, moving across distinct performative forms and modes of performance creation. Bianca lectures on Performance, Devising and Theatre Laboratory practices at Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh, where she is also an associate member of the Centre for Communication, Cultural & Media Studies. Her current practice research focus is on somatic practices, collaborative creation and audience participation, both live and on digital.
https://www.facebook.com/organictheatrenews
https://www.instagram.com/organic_theatre/

MODERATOR: Elizabeth de Roza is an artist-scholar, performance maker, theatre director and actor-movement trainer. As a practising artist, Elizabeth’s works range from site-specific social engagement to cross-cultural/disciplinary performances and to intense black-box physical performances. She focuses on embodied experiences, thinking and practice through making, embodied cognition and cross-cultural performance at the intersections of both decolonial and feminist theories.
www.elizabethderoza.com

Angry Women

Annie Abrahams & Workshop Participants

Friday 25 June 2021 ◊ UK TIME: 16:30 ◊ LOCATION: Zoom

Angry Women is a 15 minute multilingual improvisational online performance on anger, with a Q&A at the end.

The performance will be prepared in a 90 min workshop led by Annie Abrahams a few days before. She imagines a “choir” full of individual voices and actions where there is room for solos, duos and silence, where group dynamics will be as important as the revelation of female anger and irritations.

Performers: Alice Lenay, Amaranta Osorio, Anja Borowicz, Christine Develotte, Colette Tron, Emmanuelle Gibello, Eugenia Cano, Karla Ptacek, Mansi Thapliyal, monica de ioanni, Sylvie Roques, Chrismaria Pfeifer and Jo Morrison.

DATE: Friday 25 June 2021

UK TIME: 16:30 – find your local time

DURATION: 15min + Q&A

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

LANGUAGE: multilingual

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

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

Excerpt of Angry Women Take 2 – 12min

New Artistic Responses

Olive Nieto, Frederika Tsai, Bettina Fung

Friday 25 June 2021 ◊ UK TIME: 17:00-18:30 ◊ LOCATION: Zoom ◊ LANGUAGES: English, Spanish

Artists from Asia and the Asian diaspora discuss their recent work and how they have employed social media, online collaborative tools and offline performance labs for artistic exchange and to respond to the pandemic.

Artists: Olive Nieto, Frederika Tsai, Bettina Fung

DATE: Friday 25 June 2021

UK TIME: 17:00 – find your local time

DURATION: 90min

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

LANGUAGES: English, Spanish

Olive Nieto is a performance maker and an assistant professor at the University of the Philippines Diliman. Olive and playwright Layeta P. Bucoy collaborated to create the MonoVlog series that reflected the lives and (preventable) deaths of the Filipino people at the time of the viral videos and the deadly virus. The tandem experimented the form with the Sining Banwa community theatre in the Bicol Region and the Tanghalang Pilipino at the Cultural Center of the Philippines, and in Facebook’s live streaming service and Kumu, a Filipino app for live streamers.

The MonoVlog is an online performance and a cross between the monologue and the vlog (or video log). The MonoVlog is as an emergent form of online performance and an emergency response during the Metro Manila lockdown (the longest in the world) due to the COVID 19 pandemic.

Frederika Tsai (born in Taipei) is an interdisciplinary theatre maker, curator and dramaturg, based in Berlin/Germany.
Frederika and her colleague Ming Pong, founder and co-curator of Asian Performing Artists Lab, will talk about the Asian Performing Artists Lab (APAL), which offers Berlin-based artists with Asian backgrounds a platform for creative exchanges, collaborations and experiments. Artists apply with a project to work on, which can be in the form of an idea, a draft or a work-in-progress. They work together intensively over a short period of time, and at the end of it, present the result. The two first editions were in cooperation with Berliner Ringtheater.

Bettina Fung | 馮允珊 is a Hong Kong born, British-Chinese artist based in the UK.
Bettina’s practice encompasses live art, 2D and site-specific works that have explored and questioned subjects of legacy, belonging, futility, productivity and progress. She is driven by the expansive and immediate nature of drawing and often focuses on its performative aspect in her work. Since the onset of the pandemic with live performances on hold in the UK, Bettina started exploring ways of gathering and creating live art over the internet and experimented with Google Docs, treating it as a site for live performance. Bettina has exhibited in the UK and internationally and was the recipient of awards such as the a-n Artist Information Company’s New Collaborations Bursary in 2014 and Arts Council England’s Grants for the Arts award in 2018. With a keen interest in alternative education, Bettina was a part of Syllabus IV, an alternative peer-led artist development and learning programme delivered by six UK arts institutions, and is an Associate Member of the Asia-Art-Activism Research Network.

Olive Nieto
www.olivenieto.com
Facebook: Uleb Nieto
Sample MonoVlog in English: Presented at the ADSA Conference 2020– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1zx-UNpajo

Frederika Tsai
Videolink (from 1. edition) https://fb.watch/54XIaMwFzK/
APAL:https://www.facebook.com/asianperformingartistslab
https://www.facebook.com/tsaistagedirector/
https://www.instagram.com/frederikatsai/

Bettina Fung
https://www.bettinafung.com/
Twitter: @BettinaFWS
Facebook: http://facebook.com/BettinaFWS
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bettinafws

Mrs Blister Changes Boots

Gilly Adams

Friday 25 June 2021 ◊ UK TIME: 19:00 ◊ LOCATION: Zoom

Written and performed by GILLY ADAMS

In 2011 I spent forty days walking the Camino de Santiago in northern Spain. An agnostic’s pilgrimage? A rite of passage? An ageing person’s folly? I didn’t know. Mrs Blister became my alter ego, muttering and moaning, cursing and crying, and searching for jokes, strong coffee and plasters along the Way.

MRS BLISTER CHANGES BOOTS is an attempt to understand the power and meaning of personal odyssey and reflect on whether a long walk is at all good for the soul. In translating Mrs Blister from the stage to the online space, the story telling inevitably becomes the focus.

DATE: Friday 25 June 2021

UK TIME: 19:00 – find your local time

DURATION:

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

LANGUAGE: English

Gilly Adams is a founder member of the Magdalena who lives in Cardiff, Wales.

Meet The Magdalenas

Friday 25 June 2021 ◊ UK TIME: 20:00 ◊ LOCATION: Zoom ◊ LANGUAGES: English, Spanish

As the Magdalena Project prepares to celebrate its 35th anniversary this year, we invite you to meet and converse with the project’s founders and others who have long been part of the Magdalena network. Hear personal accounts of the project’s earliest days, learn about the motivations and challenges for various festivals and events, ask questions and discuss. The event is bookended by performances from both ends of the network’s generational spectrum – founding member Gilly Adams, and Meg Ella, who was born into the Magdalena.

Bring your own wine, tea, coffee (depending on your time zone) and join the conversation with Jill Greenhalgh, Julia Varley, Geddy Aniksdal, Brigitte Cirla, Gilly Adams, Helen Chadwick, Kordula Lobeck de Fabris, Cristina Castrillo, Bruna Gusberti, Deborah Hunt and others from the network.

DATE: Friday 25 June 2021

UK TIME: 20:00 – find your local time

DURATION: 90min

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

LANGUAGES: multi-language

Jill Greenhalgh, Julia Varley, Geddy Aniksdal, Brigitte Cirla, Gilly Adams, Helen Chadwick, Kordula Lobeck de Fabris, Cristina Castrillo, Bruna Gusberti, Deborah Hunt and others have been involved since the early days of the Magdalena network.

Website: the Magdalena Project

Something Old, Borrowed & New

Something Old Something Borrowed Something New

Meg Ella

Friday 25 June 2021 ◊ UK TIME: 21:30 ◊ LOCATION: Zoom

Meg Ella will be sharing a selection of original songs, performing live from her living room.

Written and shared online via her livestream performance series – Something Old Something Borrowed Something New – throughout the lockdowns, these songs stand as the milestones of her pandemic experience.

See video below in More section.

DATE: Friday 25 June 2021

UK TIME: 21:30 – find your local time

DURATION: 30min

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

LANGUAGE: English

Meg Ella is a Welsh multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and composer based in London, UK.

More info about Meg’s work: megella.net

Yoga Day3 - 8am UK time

Saturday Yoga

with Suzon & Zed

Saturday 26 June 2021 ◊ UK TIME: 8:00 ◊ 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: Saturday 26 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 Day3

ObservaStory

Saturday 26 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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Jeux de Massacre

Christina Papagiannouli & E-Theatre

Saturday 26 June 2021 ◊ UK TIME: 11:30am ◊ LOCATION: UpStage

In 1970, absurdist playwright Eugene Ionesco wrote Jeux de Massacre (known in English as The Killing Game or Here Comes a Chopper) – a dark comedy in which the plague ravages a small town and everyone dies. As a new pandemic overwhelms the globe and people rush to isolation and internet communication, it seems appropriate and timely to ‘translate’ this work from the stage to cyberspace. The UpStage v3 platform allowed us to collaborate remotely and adapt the play for the internet.

This work-in-progress performance re-adapts the play for the new Upstage platform, which will be launched in October 2021.

DATE: Saturday 26 June 2021

UK TIME: 11:30am – find your local time

DURATION: 30min

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

LANGUAGE: English

https://etheatreblog.wordpress.com/portfolio/jeux-de-massacre/

During the first lockdown, Christina Papagiannouli (UK/Greece) teamed up with Clara Gomes (Portugal), Helen Varley Jamieson (Germany/Aotearoa NZ), Miljana Perić (Serbia) and Vicki Smith (Aotearoa NZ) to work on Jeux de Massacre cyberformance as a creative and playful escape from the exceptional world circumstances of the pandemic.

https://upstage.org.nz/?event=jeux-de-massacre

UpStage

UpStage is an online venue for cyberformance, first developed by the globally distributed cyberformance troupe Avatar Body Collision in 2003. It is currently being completely rebuilt to bring it up to date with the latest internet technologies, and the new platform will be launched in October 2021. For more information about the rebuild, which is part of the Creative Europe-funded project Mobilise/Demobilise, please visit https://mobilise-demobilise.eu/