Headcount
Two old friends talk together about their bodies the night before one goes for major surgery – desires and violations that they’ve experienced, adaptations and defences they’ve constructed. A secret is revealed, pitting their long-held beliefs against private experience.
Written for Zoom during lockdown, Headcount was a way to think about how women of my generation navigated the long arc of social changes.
Written by Karla Ptáček,
performed live by Roz Borley and Karla Ptáček.
DATE: Saturday 26 June 2021
UK TIME: 12:15 – find your local time
DURATION: 15min
LOCATION: Zoom – you will receive an email with the zoom link once you have booked in.
LANGUAGE: English
Karla Ptáček is either very serious or entirely frivolous.
More info about Karla’s work: www.artificialstage.com
Future:Proof
Future:Proof
Saturday 26 June 2021 ◊ UK TIME: 13:00-15:00 ◊ LOCATION: Zoom ◊ LANGUAGES: English, Portuguese, Spanish
What is the way forward from this current crisis?
What new ideas can we take with us, and what must we let go of to move forward into an uncertain future? Are we leaving anyone behind?
Panelists: Christina Papagiannouli, Cheng Nien Yuan, Naná Sodré
Moderator: Elizabeth de Roza
DATE: Saturday 26 June 2021
UK TIME: 13:00-15:00 – find your local time
LOCATION: Zoom – you will receive the zoom link once you have booked in
LANGUAGES: Portuguese and English. Translations: Portuguese-English, Spanish-English
Dr. Christina Papagiannouli is Research Fellow in Performance and Interactive & Immersive Technology at the University of South Wales, where she also lectures performance and new media. Her monograph ‘Political Cyberformance: The Etheatre Project’ was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2015.
Cheng Nien Yuan is a Singaporean performance scholar and dramaturg. She completed her PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Sydney in 2020 and is currently a researcher at the Intercultural Theatre Institute, Singapore.
Naná Sodré is a black Brazilian artist who believes in the theatre she makes and in the affirmative actions she promotes within her group “O Poste”. She asserts that relying on intuition and ancestrality is an empowering way for the work of women.
Naná Sodré uma artista preta brasileira que acredita no teatro que faz e nas ações afirmativas que promove junto ao seu grupo O Poste. Defende que apostar na intuição e na ancestralidade é um caminho fortalecedor do trabalho das mulheres.
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
Christina Papagiannouli
https://etheatreblog.wordpress.com/
Nana Sodre
Links about the performance A Receita and actress:
https://jconline.ne10.uol.com.br/canal/cultura/artes-cenicas/noticia/2017/08/05/nana-sodre-uma-forca-cenica-conheca-a-trajetoria-da-atriz-299526.php
http://agendaculturaldorecife.blogspot.com/2017/08/nana-sodre-comemora-20-anos-de-carreira.html
http://4parede.com/a-receita-de-um-grupo-e-de-uma-atriz/
https://g1.globo.com/df/distrito-federal/o-que-fazer-no-distrito-federal/noticia/2018/07/27/festival-de-teatro-solos-ferteis-apresenta-espetaculos-no-df-com-foco-nas-mulheres.ghtml
Social Media of the group O Poste and the actress:
Festival de mulheres pretas PretAção: https://youtu.be/QdVHQp72VZo, https://youtu.be/0ZP6VksFOM4, https://www.themagdalenaproject.org/pt-br/node/3426
Vídeo link of the performance A receita (online): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mNnJI7CmmYVIyTKxx-8VnaM-3GPNiP98/view?usp=sharing
Facebook: Naná Sodré do O Poste Sodré / O Poste Soluções Luminosas
Instagram: @nanasodreoficial @oposteoficial
Headcount
Headcount
Karla Ptáček
Saturday 26 June 2021 ◊ UK TIME: 15:30 ◊ LOCATION: Zoom ◊ LANGUAGES English, Spanish
Two old friends talk together about their bodies the night before one goes for major surgery – desires and violations that they’ve experienced, adaptations and defences they’ve constructed. A secret is revealed, pitting their long-held beliefs against private experience.
Written for Zoom during lockdown, Headcount was a way to think about how women of my generation navigated the long arc of social changes.
Written by Karla Ptáček,
performed live by Roz Borley and Karla Ptáček.
DATE: Saturday 26 June 2021
UK TIME: 15:30 – find your local time
DURATION: 15min
LOCATION: Zoom – you will receive an email with the zoom link once you have booked in.
LANGUAGE: English
Karla Ptáček is either very serious or entirely frivolous.
More info about Karla’s work: www.artificialstage.com
Apapacho, Vórtice y Celebración
Apapacho, Vórtice y Celebración
Saturday 26 June 2021 ◊ UK TIME: 16:00 ◊ LOCATION: Zoom ◊ LANGUAGES: Spanish, English
Artists: Violeta Luna, Eugenia Cano, and Verónica Moraga & Antonieta Muñoz (Mestiza Chile)
Moderator: Karin Ahlström
DATE: Saturday 26 June 2021
UK TIME: 16:00 – find your local time
LOCATION: Zoom – you will received an email with the zoom link once you have booked in.
LANGUAGE: Spanish, with English translation
Violeta Luna is a San Francisco-based performance artist. Her works reflect and inquire upon the relationship between theatre, performance art and community engagement.
“I will speak about the strategies of ‘apapacho’ (to embrace or caress with the soul) built at a distance due to the pandemic; of the bonds of sisterhood woven through performative languages between countries, artists, and their communities.”
Violeta Luna es una artista de performance con sede en San Francisco. Sus obras reflexionan e indagan sobre la relación entre el teatro, el performance art y la participación con la comunidad.
“Voy a hablar sobre las estrategias de ‘apapacho’ (abrazar o acariciar con el alma) construidas a distancia debido a la pandemia; de los lazos de hermandad tejidos por medio de lenguajes performativos entre países, artistas y sus comunidades.”
Eugenia Cano: “Theatre, as life, is a celebration.” How can we regain theatre through virtual medias? Three different plays during the lock down period.
Verónica Moraga and Antonieta Muñoz dreamt of a Magdalena in Chile and created the Mestiza, extending the net-work, generating opportunities for women to speak with their own voices, gaining spaces and maintaining those already conquered, in order to continue creating other realities through performing arts.
“We will talk how we have managed to meet and connect with other Latin American women throughout the pandemic, talking and giving visibility to the stories of this, our territory through each woman-artist participating. We will talk about women’s strength when working collaboratively. We feel and see performing arts as a vortex where we converge convinced that art has the power to transform reality. Today in this journey we approach an investigation that involves creative women from 7 countries in South America.”
Verónica Moraga y Antonieta Muñoz sueñan un Magdalena en Chile y crean el Mestiza, extendiendo la red, generando instancias para que las mujeres hablen con su propia voz, ganando espacios y manteniendo los ya conquistados, para así seguir creando otras realidades desde las artes escénicas.
“Hablaremos como hemos logrado encontrarnos a lo largo de esta pandemia en conversatorios y encuentros virtuales, con mujeres de América Latina, hablando y dando visibilidad a las historias de nuestro territorio atravesadas por la mirada de cada mujer artista presente. Hablaremos de la fuerza que proyectamos y tenemos las mujeres cuando trabajamos colaborativamente. Sentimos y vemos las artes escénicas como un vórtice donde confluimos convencidas de que el arte tiene el poder de transformar la realidad. En este recorrido, hoy nos acercamos a una investigación que involucra a mujeres creadoras de 7 países de Sudamérica.”
Moderator: Karin Ahlström
Violeta Luna
www.violetaluna.com
Verónica Moraga y Antonieta Muñoz – Mestiza Chile:
http://mestizachile.org
https://www.instagram.com/festival_mestizachile
https://web.facebook.com/mestiza.chile
http://mestizachile.org/videos/testimonial2018
http://mestizachile.org/videos/promocional2018 (watch it below)
Eugenia Cano:
IXTAB KALIPATOS – https://youtu.be/u2Hx0PDEvNY
https://vimeo.com/113090700
https://youtu.be/LIwt-PIEYQA
Angry Women
Angry Women
Annie Abrahams & Workshop Participants
Saturday 26 June 2021 ◊ UK TIME: 19:00 ◊ 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: Amaranta Osorio, Anja Borowicz, Brenda Plumey Morales, Emmanuelle Gibello, Mansi Thapliyal, Sarah Hart, Shelly Quick and Susan Lamb.
DATE: Saturday 26 June 2021
UK TIME: 19:00 – 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
Headcount
Headcount
Karla Ptáček
Saturday 26 June 2021 ◊ UK TIME: 19:30 ◊ LOCATION: Zoom ◊ LANGUAGES: English, Spanish
Two old friends talk together about their bodies the night before one goes for major surgery – desires and violations that they’ve experienced, adaptations and defences they’ve constructed. A secret is revealed, pitting their long-held beliefs against private experience.
Written for Zoom during lockdown, Headcount was a way to think about how women of my generation navigated the long arc of social changes.
Written by Karla Ptáček,
performed live by Roz Borley and Karla Ptáček.
DATE: Saturday 26 June 2021
UK TIME: 19:30 – find your local time
DURATION: 15min
LOCATION: Zoom – you will receive an email with the zoom link once you have booked in.
LANGUAGES: English, Spanish translation
Karla Ptáček is either very serious or entirely frivolous.
More info about Karla’s work: www.artificialstage.com
Jeux de Massacre
Jeux de Massacre
Christina Papagiannouli & E-Theatre
Saturday 26 June 2021 ◊ UK TIME: 20:00 ◊ 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: 20:00 – find your local time
DURATION: 30min
LOCATION: UpStage – you will receive an email with the link once you have booked in.
LANGUAGE: English
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://etheatreblog.wordpress.com/portfolio/jeux-de-massacre/
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/
Yoga Day4 - 8am UK time
Last Day Yoga
with Suzon & Zed
Sunday 27 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.
DATE: Sunday 27 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
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
ObservaStory 24/7 Day4
ObservaStory
Sunday 27 June 2021 ◊ TIME: 24/7 ◊ LOCATION: Gather Town
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.
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.
https://gather.town/app/JPA3NHFQiiUxObSk/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.
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
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Jill Greenhalgh – https://youtu.be/OSfztWasMzw
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Julia Varley = https://youtu.be/vZMxe-QBDIM
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Geddy Aniksdal – https://youtu.be/kJ5_c-Gg4-s
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Brigitte Cirla – https://youtu.be/7dvsXjhsMQU
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Cristina Castrillo – https://youtu.be/nJAJCAAHyZE
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Bruna Gusberti = https://youtu.be/0nTSPnp39aA
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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
Mobilise/Demobilise
Mobilise / Demobilise
UpStage, Teater InterAkt andSchaumbad - Freies Atelierhaus Graz
Sunday 27 June 2021 ◊ UK TIME: 9am ◊ LOCATION: UpStage
Mobilise/Demobilise is an artistic response to a world of increasing conflict, crisis and emergency. Human mobility and the impact of mobile technologies are explored through a series of networked performances, as Covid19 lockdowns and travel restrictions force us to live more and more of our lives online.
This is a work-in-progress presentation. Mobilise/Demobilise wlil present a series of cyberforamnces in October as part of the launch of the rebuilt UpStage platform.
DATE: Sunday 27 June 2021
UK TIME: 9am – find your local time
DURATION: ?min
LOCATION: UpStage – you will receive an email with the zoom link once you have booked in.
LANGUAGE: English, with some German and Swedish
Mobilise/Demobilise is an international collaboration between UpStage, the online cyberformance venue, Teater InterAkt (Malmö, Sweden) and Schaumbad – Freies Atelierhaus Graz (Austria), funded by Creative Europe.
Participating artists include:
UpStage: Helen Varley Jamieson, Vicki Smith
Teater InterAkt: Sara Larsdotter Hallqvist, Cecilia Nkolina, Jesper Miikman
Schaumbad: Eva Ursprung, Anita Hofer and Cym.
Teater InterAkt
http://www.teaterinterakt.se/
Schaumbad Freies Atelierhaus Graz
http://schaumbad.mur.at/
UpStage
http://www.upstage.org.nz/
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/