Dutch Art Institue / MFA ArtEZ & Raw Material Company
Work In Progress / Learning Pieces
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| 14 May 2012, 16–20 Raw Material Company Sicap Amitié 2 Dakar, Senegal Practice-theatre…a performance project tutored by Ian White in collaboration with Emma Hedditch and Jimmy Robert, curated by If I Can't Dance I Don't Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution and coordinated by Tanja Baudoin. The project seeks to explore how ‘theatre’ can be understood from the position of artistic practice, to experiment with how such a set of interpretations might be of use within it. The project considers, occupies, and enacts aspects of theatre and its operations—to consider the positions from which we speak, how we act, and what, through different frames, speaking and action might be. The trip to Senegal begins with a working period at the Ecole des Sables, a dance company and school for African dance, located in the coastal village of Toubab Dialaw. Here the students will work on developing a model of ‘theatre’ as the group has come to understand it through their work together and develop a series of ‘performances’ through which this model might be demonstrated. With: Mercedes Azpilicueta, Rosie Heinrich, Anna Hoetjes, Eden Mitsenmacher, Lara Morais, Ane Ostrem, Eric Philippoz, Vanja Smiljanic, Marija Sujica, Witta Tjan, Sander Uitdehaag, and Mariana Zamarbide. Utilizing the landlines of Café Flinck and Café Berkhout in Amsterdam, their telephone will be receiving our incoming calls, audioworks, interviews, and sounds, connecting the local customers with Dakar. In cooperation with De Appel Curatorial Programme's exhibition and public interventions:www.threeartistswalkintoabar. Special thanks to Helmut Vogt and Koyo Kouoh. Framework : Gabriëlle Schleijpen Production: Jacq van der Spek  |