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Heine Røsdal Avdal
Heine Røsdal Avdal is a Norwegian dancer and choreographer working from Brussels, Belgium. Education Heine Avdal studied dance, choreography and video at the Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo (Oslo National Academy of the Arts, 1991-94) and P.A.R.T.S. (Brussels, 1995-96). During his studies at P.A.R.T.S, he choreographed solos and duos that were presented at P.A.R.T.S., Scenehuset (Oslo) and Dixon Place (New York). He worked for different companies in Norway. In 1996-97 he assisted Mikhail Baryshnikov with his solo work at the company White Oak Dance Project in New York.Biography of Heine Avdal on the website of fieldworks Collaboration with Meg Stuart / Damaged Goods Between 1997 and 2001 Heine Avdal was part of Damaged Goods (Brussels), the dance company of the American choreographer |
Brussels
Brussels, officially the Brussels-Capital Region, (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) is a Communities, regions and language areas of Belgium#Regions, region of Belgium comprising #Municipalities, 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the capital of Belgium. The Brussels-Capital Region is located in the central portion of the country. It is a part of both the French Community of Belgium and the Flemish Community, and is separate from the Flemish Region (Flanders), within which it forms an enclave, and the Walloon Region (Wallonia), located less than to the south. Brussels grew from a small rural settlement on the river Senne (river), Senne to become an important city-region in Europe. Since the end of the Second World War, it has been a major centre for international politics and home to numerous international organisations, politicians, Diplomacy, diplomats and civil servants. Brussels is the ''de facto' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oslo National Academy Of The Arts
The Oslo National Academy of the Arts (, ''KHiO'') is a tertiary institution in Oslo, Norway, that provides education in visual arts, design and performing arts. It is one of two public institutes of higher learning in Norway that teaches in visual arts and design, the other being the Bergen National Academy of the Arts in Bergen. KHiO was created by merging five former colleges, or national academies: of Arts and Crafts; Fine Arts; Opera; Ballet, and Theatre ('). History The Academy was established in 1996 through the amalgamation of five independent colleges: * The National Academy of Craft and Art Industry (''Statens håndverks- og kunstindustriskole''), founded in 1818 * The National Academy of Fine Arts (''Statens kunstakademi''), founded in 1909 * The National Academy of Theatre ('), founded in 1952 * The National Academy of Opera (''Statens operahøgskole''), founded in 1964 * The National Academy of Ballet (''Statens balletthøgskole''), founded in 1979 The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dixon Place
Dixon Place is a theater organization in New York City dedicated to the development of works-in-progress from a broad range of performers and artists. It exists to serve the creative needs of artists—emerging, mid-career and established—who are creating new work in theater, dance, music, literature, puppetry, performance, variety and visual arts. Many well-known artists, including Ivy Baldwin, Blue Man Group, Laura Peterson, Monica Bill Barnes, John Leguizamo, Lisa Kron, David Cale, Jane Comfort, Risa Jaroslow, Penny Arcade, Katy Pyle, Peggy Shaw, Douglas Dunn, Deb Margolin and Reno, began their careers at Dixon Place. Dixon Place offers 14 shows a week, 7–8 commissions a year, and more than twenty different programs across artistic disciplines, featuring work by more than 1,500 emerging and established artists each year. All artists presenting work in Dixon Place's main-stage programs receive compensation, from work-in-progress showings to artists-in-residence and c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meg Stuart
Meg Stuart (born 1965 in New Orleans) is an American choreographer and dancer who lives and works in Brussels and Berlin. Her company, Damaged Goods, operates from Brussels since 1994. Start as a dancer and choreographer Stuart moved to New York City in 1983 where she studied at New York University. She continued her studies at Movement Research (New York) where she studied several release techniques and was active in the Downtown New York dance scene. In the eighties she worked as a dancer for Nina Martin, Lisa Kraus, Federico Restrepo and Marcus Stern. For five years (1986–1992) she was part of the Randy Warshaw Dance Company. On the invitation of the Klapstuk festival in Leuven (BE) in 1991 she created "Disfigure Study", her first evening-length performance, which launched her career in Europe. In "Disfigure Study", Meg Stuart approaches the body as a vulnerable physical entity, one that can be deformed, deconstructed, and displaced but still resonates with meaning.Damaged Goo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Hill
Gary Hill (born April 4, 1951) is an American artist who lives and works in Seattle, Washington. Often viewed as one of the foundational artists of new media art, based on the single-channel work and video- and sound-based installations of the 1970s and 1980s, he in fact began working in metal sculpture in the late 1960s. Today he is best known for internationally exhibited installations and performance art, concerned as much with innovative language as with technology, and for continuing work in a broad range of media. His longtime work with intermedia explores an array of issues ranging from the physicality of language, synesthesia and perceptual conundrums to ontological space and viewer interactivity. The recipient of many awards, his influential work has been exhibited in most major contemporary art museums worldwide. Main themes and works Gary Hill's work has often been discussed in relation to his incorporation of language/text in video and installation, most evident in a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yukiko Shinozaki
Yukiko Shinozaki is a Japanese dancer and choreographer working from Brussels, Belgium. Education Yukiko Shinozaki studied classical ballet in Tokyo, and modern dance at Portland State University (Oregon), where she also obtained a B.A. In psychology. In 1992 she moved to New York, where she worked as a freelance dancer and showed her own solo work. Collaboration with Meg Stuart / Damaged Goods In 1997, Yukiko Shinozaki came to Belgium to work for Damaged Goods (Brussels), the dance company of the American choreographer Meg Stuart. She was a dancer in ''Splayed Mind Out'' (Meg Stuart / Damaged Goods and Gary Hill Gary Hill (born April 4, 1951) is an American artist who lives and works in Seattle, Washington. Often viewed as one of the foundational artists of new media art, based on the single-channel work and video- and sound-based installations of the 1 ..., 1997), ''Appetite'' (Meg Stuart / Damaged Goods and Ann Hamilton, 1998), ''Sand Table'' (Meg Stuart / Damaged Goods a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fieldworks Vzw
fieldworks is an organisation located in Brussels, which creates, produces, distributes and promotes the artistic work of Heine Avdal and Yukiko Shinozaki. History Heine Avdal and Yukiko Shinozaki met in the second half of the 90s when they both worked as dancers at Damaged Goods, the Brussels company of the American choreographer Meg Stuart. In 2002, they founded, together with sound artist Christoph De Boeck, the organisation deepblue to realise their own projects. That organisation was active until 2012. Afterwards, Heine Avdal and Yukiko Shinozaki continued with their own organisation, fieldworks. Since the second half of 2014, the business leader is Bob Van Langendonck, who came from P.A.R.T.S. Artistic work Although Heine Avdal and Yukiko Shinozaki both had a dance training, they do not create 'dance' in the classical sense of the word. In their work, they seek a connection with a wide range of art disciplines and expertises, and work with various other artists. They are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mette Edvardsen
Mette Edvardsen is a choreographer, dancer, and performance artist from Norway, who lives and works in Brussels, Belgium. Early life Mette Edvardsen was born in Norway. Dance career Collaboration with les ballets C de la B Since 1996, Edvardsen has her home base in Brussels, Belgium, where she started working as a dancer and performer for the choreographers Hans Van den Broeck (1996-2000) and Christine De Smedt (2000-2005) when they were still connected to les ballets C de la B. She was a performer in ''(They feed we) Eat, eat, eat'' (Hans Van den Broeck / les ballets C de la B, 1996), ''Au Progrès'' (Hans Van den Broeck / les ballets C de la B, 1997), ''La sortie'' (Hans Van den Broeck / les ballets C de la B, 1999) and ''9 X 9'' (Christine De Smedt / les ballets C de la B, 2000). She also assisted director / choreographer Hans Van den Broeck on ''Lac des singes'' (Hans Van den Broeck / les ballets C de la B, 2001). These productions toured internationally. She also contrib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
