Weisslich Vol.10 was an evening of two back-to-back shows that mixed experimental dance and choreography, sculpture-performance, and new work for flute and trombone. The shows were collaboratively developed with guest co-curator Teoma Naccarato.
Programme
Show 1
- Paul Clift, radotements avec citation (trombone) – performed by Jon Roskilly
- fragment 1 – devised by Emilie Gallier and Lotte van Gelder
- III (video/installation) – installed and performed by John MacCallum and Teoma Naccarato
- fragment 2 – devised by Emilie Gallier and Lotte van Gelder
- improvisation (flute) – performed by Richard Craig
- fragment 3 – devised by Emilie Gallier and Lotte van Gelder
–interval–
- George Aperghis, RUINEN (trombone) – performed by Jon Roskilly
- III (breath trio) – devised by John MacCallum and Teoma Naccarato, with guest performer Michael Baldwin
- Mark Reiner, Phlegethon (sculpture of cling film, metal hangers, water, fire) – installed and performed by Michael Baldwin, Richard Craig, Emilie Gallier, Louis d’Heudieres, and David Pocknee
Show 2
- Paul Clift, radotements avec citation (trombone) – performed by Jon Roskilly
- III (video/installation) – installed and performed by John MacCallum and Teoma Naccarato
- improvisation (flutes) – performed by Richard Craig
–interval–
- performance – reading room devised by Emilie Gallier and Lotte van Gelder
–interval–
- George Aperghis, RUINEN (trombone) – performed by Jon Roskilly
- III (breath trio) – devised by John MacCallum and Teoma Naccarato, with guest performer Michael Baldwin
- Mark Reiner, Phlegethon (sculpture of cling film, metal hangers, water, fire) – installed and performed by Michael Baldwin, Richard Craig, Emilie Gallier, Louis d’Heudieres, and David Pocknee
Curatorial Insight
Read our pre-show reflection and introduction, “Better Know – Weisslich Vol.10”
Photos
Rehearsal/Workshop
Shows
All photos courtesy Dimitri Djuric
Biographies
Teoma Naccarato is a choreographer of pretext and context. Through the critical appropriation of surveillance and biomedical technologies in work for stage, installation, and page, she thrives on the intersection of value systems between disciplinary cultures. Recent creations along these lines include III, Experience #1167, Synchronism, Beneath the pavement, an ocean, and Gently between us. Teoma is engaged in a long-term practice-based research and creation project with composer John MacCallum, involving multiple performances, workshops, and publications. She completed an MFA in Dance and Technology at the Ohio State University in 2011, and has since enjoyed appointments as a Visiting Professor in Dance at Concordia University, Sam Houston State University, and Florida State University. She presently lives in London, where she is pursuing a practice-based PhD at the Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE) at Coventry University.
Richard Craig studied flute at the RSAMD (now the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland) with Sheena Gordon and later with Richard Blake. After graduating with honours, he continued his studies at the Conservatoire de Strasbourg, France, with Mario Caroli. Richard has performed with groups such as ELISION, Musikfabrik, Klangforum Wien, The Estonian Radio Choir, the RTÉ Orchestra and Das Experimentalstudio Ensemble, which has taken him to international festivals such as Maerzmusik Berlin, Wittener Tage für Neue Musik, the Venice Biennale, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, the Festival D’Automne in Paris and the Lincoln Center Festival New York. Equally active as a soloist, Richard has given recitals throughout the world performing new work and presenting his collaborations, working alongside musicians such as Rohan de Saram and Roberto Fabbriciani. At the centre of Richard’s work in contemporary music is the development of new repertoire for the flute, and he is involved in commissions with both with established composers and the younger generation. As an chamber musician, Richard has performed with Distractfold Ensemble, the winners of the 2014 Kranisteiner prize, and is a member of the Spanish ensemble SMASH.
Emilie Gallier is choreographer, artist researcher, teacher and director of the PØST Cie. Her work probes ways to expand boundaries. It shows recurring subjects of imagination, sensation and thought; and of relation between spectator and performer. The core of Emilie’s work lies in her understanding of choreography as the writing of movement, and the relation to (a) spectator(s). Choreography can take place in multiple contexts that she is keen to investigate. Driven by an interest for protocols, she searches new sets of relation that may allow reversing patterns, turning expectations upside down. Her vision dances within her concerns that are spectatorship, limits of systems of thought, the movement of writing and writing movement, the movement of reading, reality, sensation, imaginary.
Jon Roskilly works across Europe as a trombonist specialising in contemporary classical music. He has performed in multiple countries with leading new music ensembles including Klangforum Wien, London Sinfonietta and Ensemble Garage, at festivals including Wien Modern, Zeiträume Basel and the Darmstädter Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, and has given world-premiere performances of works for ensemble and for solo trombone. His passion for performing new music has led him to work extensively with young composers, giving workshops and working one-on-one to help them to understand and write for this versatile and somewhat undervalued instrument. Jon has a particular interest in using movement, his voice and electronics to widen the expressive range of the trombone even further. He is also active as a composer, and has had compositions and arrangements performed at the Roundhouse London as well as in Basel and at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse für Neue Musik.
John MacCallum is a composer based, since 2004, in Oakland, California. His work is heavily reliant on technology both as a compositional tool and as an integral aspect of performance. His works often employ carefully constrained algorithms that are allowed to evolve differently and yet predictably each time they are performed. MacCallum studied at the University of the Pacific (B.M.), McGill University (M.M.), and UC Berkeley (Ph.D., Music Composition), following which he was awarded a postdoc for several years at the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT). Currently, MacCallum is a postdoctoral researcher with the Extreme Interaction (EX-SITU) research team at Inria Saclay/Université Paris-Sud/CNRS.
Lotte Van Gelder is an artist and excellent nicknamer.
Mark Reiner’s Phlegethon is a sculptural installation-performance for cling film, aluminium, water, metal stands, and fire. In Phlegethon, several sculptures are assembled, consisting of twisted cling film attached to metal hangers hanging from the ceiling. The cling film is ignited and as it burns slowly, pieces of it drip into metal troughs of water underneath. Each drip creates a sweeping sound as it moves through the air, a high fizzing sound as it hits the water, and the multiple sculptures create a varying texture out of these drops of material.
Venue
Weisslich Vol.10 was developed during a week long residency in East London’s Guest Projects.
Guest Projects is an initiative conceived by Shonibare Studio to offer the opportunity for artistic practitioners, of any artistic discipline (dance, visual arts, music), to have access to a free project space for 1 month.
Alongside Regent’s Canal, Guest Projects at 1 Andrews Road E8 4QL, provides an alternative universe and playground for artists. It is a laboratory of ideas; a testing ground for new thoughts and actions.
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Dossier
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