MOV POST - Movasse no FID 15 anos

What kind of interactions are being promoted by social networks like Facebook? Would it be possible to create a network that focused on body movement for communication.

Mov Post is a continuation of a project called Videocartas, from the dance collective Movasse-Coletivo de Criação em Dança, that resulted in the Imagens Deslocadas performance (Rumos, Itaú Cultural 2006/2007). The idea for the final performance was to create different ways for the dancers to communicate with each other, through video and without words or physical meetings.

However, something interesting happened. These video-letters, which had been thought of only as a byproduct of the creative process, ended up providing interesting material, rich for exploration, due to the infinite possibilities presented in its creation and open-ended format.

With the project MOV POST - Movasse no FID 15 anos, the collective aims to create a social network using short videos called Mov Posts, this time using Facebook to facilitate the exchange of communication. Therefore, body movement and its relationship to space will again be the focus of these exchanges.

One of the the goals of the project is to bring dance closer to people, making them realize how movement is present in their lives; and to question the idea that these actions can only exist in conventional spaces or within more established formats, like the theater, videodance or performance.

Once posted on the internet, the five Mov Post Matrices - initial set of videos made by the collective - participants will be able to create their own Mov Posts, called Derivatives. Mov Posts should be at most 1 minute in length, and provide a reply or a comment to any other Mov Post, Matrix or Derivative, already shared on the network. To facilitate this exchange, Mov Posts should always be posted and shared on the Mov Post profile on Facebook.

The project starts on August 20th, 2011, with the posting of a video that introduces the ideas of the project and also provides instructions on how to participate.

Participants can contribute videos until October 22nd, 2011. Shortly after this date, a multimedia installation will be built to showcase the initial results of the project. The installation will consist of computers showing some of the videos and comments posted on the project’s Facebook profile.

Movasse – coletivo de criação em dança
Dancers: Andrea Anhaia, Carlos Arão, Cibele Maia (invited), Ester França e Fábio Dornas
Video editing: Chico de Paula e bailarinos
Production: Cibele Maia e Silvana França
FID - Fórum Internacional de Dança - with Ester Monteiro, Andrea De Azevedo Anhaia, Richard Guillet, Dorothé Depeauw, Daniele Nakashima, Carlos Arão Martins, Fábio Dornas, Thiago Hersan, Alice Botelho, Mov Post, Carla Lobo and Kícila Mirielle de Sá.



written by Movasse

Can We Talk About This - DV8 Physical Theatre

We would happily talk about this forever
*****

REVIEW ... Sydney Opera House
by Rebecca Saffir
Time Out Australia | Friday Aug 26 2011

Every so often, a performance comes along that not only reconfigures the limits of the form, but also redefines and rearticulates how we see the world. It is not hyperbole to say that DV8’s newest work Can We Talk About This?, getting its world premiere season in Sydney, is one such work.

Combining the company’s signature extrapolation of everyday gesture into deeply intricate dance and movement with interview transcripts from over fifty individuals, organisations and broadcasts, director and choreographer Lloyd Newson and his company probe against the comfortable edges of social attitudes towards Islam in the West. Can We Talk About This? proceeds from Newson’s concern that there is a ‘liberal blind spot’ when it comes to discussing the very real potential of incompatibilities of Islamic and Western value systems, particularly as this has been experienced in Britain. From Salman Rushdie and The Satanic Verses to the satirical cartoons of Mohammed published in a Danish newspaper; from the introduction of Sharia law councils in the UK to the issue of forced marriage, Newson sets diverse opinions alongside each other with revelatory consequences.

The dancer/actors – and they really are as much of one as the other – move and speak constantly, their exquisite choreography often played out in tandem but rarely in partnership. They bounce off, roll towards, press against and step around each other, but no one is looking each other in the eye. This, Newson seems to say, is precisely the problem. When it comes to this divisive and sensitive issue, we can’t meet each other’s gaze, can’t engage in meaningful dialogue. The continuous nature of the work, each section rolling fluidly into the next, implies that unless something changes soon, we will dance around this problem forever, leaving real human casualties on both sides of the debate.

Can We Talk About This? is not full of solutions but full of questions, decidedly empathetic to the gaping chasm that currently exists in discussion. It is an invitation to discussion and a firm reminder of its necessity. Without a doubt, it is one of the most important works of our age. Go.