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park by shila anaraki - WTP#04 june 2012 @ beursschouwburg © giannina ottiker
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park by shila anaraki - WTP#04 june 2012 @ beursschouwburg © giannina ottiker
park by shila anaraki - WTP#04 june 2012 @ beursschouwburg © giannina ottiker
park by shila anaraki - WTP#04 june 2012 @ beursschouwburg © giannina ottiker
park by shila anaraki - WTP#04 june 2012 @ beursschouwburg © giannina ottiker
park by shila anaraki - WTP#04 june 2012 @ beursschouwburg © giannina ottiker
park by shila anaraki - WTP#04 june 2012 @ beursschouwburg © giannina ottiker
park by shila anaraki - WTP#04 june 2012 @ beursschouwburg © giannina ottiker
park by shila anaraki - WTP#04 june 2012 @ beursschouwburg © giannina ottiker
park by shila anaraki - WTP#04 june 2012 @ beursschouwburg © giannina ottiker
park by shila anaraki - WTP#04 june 2012 @ beursschouwburg © giannina ottiker
park by shila anaraki - WTP#04 june 2012 @ beursschouwburg © giannina ottiker
park by shila anaraki - WTP#04 june 2012 @ beursschouwburg © giannina ottiker
park by shila anaraki - WTP#04 june 2012 @ beursschouwburg © giannina ottiker
park by shila anaraki - WTP#04 june 2012 @ beursschouwburg © giannina ottiker
park by shila anaraki - WTP#04 june 2012 @ beursschouwburg © giannina ottiker
park by shila anaraki - WTP#04 june 2012 @ beursschouwburg © giannina ottiker
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PARK
SHILA ANARAKI
Last updated : 03/10/2012PRINT THIS PAGEOutline
Think of a body in stand-by mode, a short-circuited thought, a human brain processing at a frequency of 5 GHz...In PARK, six computers form a communication network that provides six performers with real-time instructions. PARK confronts the human body with a digital logic. It plays on the border between human presence and absence in technology and embodies a puzzle in which this presence and absence outline each other. With playful precision we investigate strategies for embracing, resisting, adapting, disrupting or short-circuiting these technical surroundings. Who infiltrates what, and what infiltrates whom? PARK inhabits a peculiar network, which sputters, crackles and flickers.
For PARK, Stefan Prins asked Shila Anaraki to create a performance based on his composition 'Infiltrationen', for 4 electric guitars and a live-electronics performer. Central to this composition is the notion of technology infiltrating the conditio humana on several levels.
Credits
created by: Shila Anarakibased on a composition of Stefan Prins
developed in dialogue with Adva Zakai
music: Stefan Prins, Zwerm
realised and performed by: Shila Anaraki, Stefan Prins & Zwerm (Toon Callier, Bruno Nelissen, Kobe Van Cauwenberghe, Johannes Westendorp)
scenography & light: Simon Siegmann
dramaturgical advice: Lars Kwakkenbos
sound: Roel Das (ChampdAction)
a Zwerm production
co-production: Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt, deSingel, ChampdAction, workspacebrussels
supported by: wpZimmer, Pianofabriek kunstenwerkplaats, Cohort
with the support of the Flemish Government
Dates
15/06/2012 - 16/06/2012 / Beursschouwburg
14/05/2012 - 31/05/2012 / Les Brigittines
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biographies & linksSHILA ANARAKI – dancer-performer-choreographer
German dancer and choreographer Shila Anaraki (1976) followed her dance studies at the Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten and the Rotterdamse Dansacademie. She has intensively worked with theatre directors and choreographers in Germany, Holland and Belgium (Heike Langsdorf&Ula Sickle, Wanda Golonka/Schauspiel Frankfurt, Les Ballets C. de la B, Adva Zakai, Jo Fabian Department, Company Vivienne Newport, Kris Verdonck, Armel Roussel/Utopia2 and others).
Shila advised artists such as Johanne Saunier (Charleroi/Danses), Heike Langsdorf&Ula Sickle and Adva Zakai in their creations, and taught Master classes at the Piet Zwart Instituut Rotterdam to the MA Fine Arts, Queen’s University Belfast and the Foundation for International Education in London.
In recent years, an important part of her work has been dedicated to the contemporary music field. She is cofounder and collaborator of the Letter Piece Company and InterInterInter, an interdisciplinary group of musicians, composers, performers and bookprinters. She worked as a performer or assistant with composers David Helbich, Matthew Shlomowitz, Paul Craenen, Paolo Pacchini, Cathy van Eck, Alvin Curran and George Aperghis. The interdisciplinary, confusing nature of these collaborations often leads to hybrid works, in which the conventional roles of the dancer or musician fade or are given up completely.
More info: http://shilaanaraki.blogspot.be
The tension between his activities as a composer and performer/improviser (prepared piano, liveelectronics and his interest in contemporary technology and the way it influences the “conditio humana” in today’s society are two essential aspects in Stefan Prins’s musical output.
After graduating as an engineer at the age of 23, he started studying piano and composition fulltime at the Royal Flemish Conservatory in Antwerp, where he obtained his Masters degree in Composition with Luc Van Hove magna cum laude. Concurrently, he studied Technology in Music at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels with Peter Swinnen and Sonology at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. Additionally he studied “Philosophy of Culture” and “Philosophy of Technology” at the University of Antwerp. In september 2011 he starts a PhD in composition at Harvard University, under the guidance of Chaya Czernowin.
He received several important awards in Belgium and abroad, such as the “Kranichsteiner Musikpreis für Komposition” (Darmstadt, 2010), “Staubach Honorarium” (2009, Darmstadt), Impuls Composition Award (Graz, 2009), “Week of the Contemporary Music” (Gent, 2006, 2nd Prize), “KBC Aquarius Composition Award for Young Composers” (Brussels, 2001). His compositions have been played in Belgium and abroad by a.o. Klangforum Wien, Champ d’Action, Nadar Ensemble, Nikel Ensemble, Ensemble Mosaik, Zwerm Electric Guitar-quartet, Agartha, Wet Ink Ensemble, Ensemble Pamplemousse, Chamber Orchestra of Belgium, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Tom Pauwels, Matthias Koole and collectief reFLEXible, of which he’s also a founding member.
He collaborates regularly with Champ d’Action and is also closely involved with the Nadar Ensemble, both as a composer, live-electronics-specialist and member of its artistic board.
More info: http://stefanprins.be/eng/index.html
ZWERM – electric guitar quartet
The Belgian / Dutch electric guitar quartet ZWERM was founded in 2007. The starting point of the four musicians of ZWERM is a shared interest for new music: composed, improvised, experimental and performative. The awareness of the similarities between these different elements and the challenge of presenting them in a meaningful way is very important. The electric guitar has proved to be the instrument of twentieth century 'low culture' and underground music. Only recently it has found its way to composed music. The gap between these two fields is still big, however. ZWERM operates between these fields. Connecting, using and abusing traditions. ZWERM navigates between all the styles and concepts that constitute the unstable landscape of contemporary music.
Musicians: Johannes Westendorp, Bruno Nelissen, Kobe Vancauwenberghe, Toon Callier. Since 2008 ZWERM is professionally supported by the Antwerp based centre for contemporary music Champ d’Action.
More info: www.zwerm.be