Call out for the workshop of Maria Hassabi (USA): By Way Of Images
Application criteria is regular attendance on all days of the workshop and a readiness to participate in the public presentation on 6th October 2012 at 9pm in Dance Theater Ljubljana. Please, email applications and additional information by September 25th, to [email protected]
In this workshop we will explore everyday mannerisms and tasks. Beginning with a simple warm up, we will focus our attention on the body and the representations it creates in space. By suspending movements in time, and viewing them as images, each individual will gather material to work with. In order to find a deeper way of being in our bodies and go beyond initial pre-conceived interpretations, we will incorporate the body’s breath, its weight, the noise it creates, the muscular strain, tension in extended duration. These will be our tools to push physical limits as a way to find the body moving beyond its representations, allowing it to be alive and evolving.
WHEN & WHERE
APPLICATION
All interested parties are asked to submit upon application a brief description of their motivation for participating in the workshop and short description of their work activities. Number of participants is limited.
Application criteria is regular attendance on all days of the workshop and a readiness to participate in the public presentation on 6th October 2012 at 9pm in Dance Theater Ljubljana.
Please, email applications and additional information by September 25th, to [email protected]
APPLICATION FEE
The fee for 7 days workshop is 30 €.
Organisation: EMANAT Institute
in collaboration: The Association for the Promotion of Women in Culture – City of Women and Dance Theatre
Ljubljana
Financially supported by Municipality of Ljubljana - Department for Culture
This project is funded, in part, by The Suitcase Fund of New York Live
Arts as part of the East/Central Europe Cultural Partnerships Program,
with support from the Trust for Mutual Understanding.
MARIA HASSABI
Maria Hassabi is a director/choreographer/performer. Her works are
filled with iconic images that put forth—then move beyond—their initial
connotations. With aesthetic precision, extreme physicality and extended
duration she creates live installations that push limits of live
performance.
Over the past decade Maria Hassabi has created seven
evening-long works: LIGHTS (2001), Dead is Dead (2004), Still Smoking
(2006), GLORIA (2007), Solo, (2009), SoloShow (2009) and Robert and
Maria (2010) as well as seven short-form pieces. Her works have been
presented at venues such as Performance Space 122, The Kitchen, Dance
Theater Workshop, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Danspace Project, CCS
Bard Galleries at Bard College, Ballroom Marfa, in Texas, Portland
Institute for Contemporary Art, TBA festival, Museo Soumaya in Mexico
City, Kaaitheater Brussels, deSingel Antwerp, ImPulsTanz Vienna,
In-Presentable Festival Madrid, TSEH-Springdance/Dialogue Moscow, Musée
Géo Charles in Grenoble, France, and European festivals in
Bosnia-Herzegovina, Cyprus, Greece and Portugal. In 2009, her works
were also included in Crossing the Line, the fall festival of the French
Institute Alliance Francaise (FIAF) and the Visual Art Performance
Biennial, Performa 09.
Born in Nicosia, Cyprus, Maria Hassabi
moved to the United States in 1990 to study at California Institute of
the Arts in Los Angeles, where she received a BFA in Performance and
Choreography. In 1994, she relocated to New York City and continued her
studies in various "release" techniques and The Alexander Technique.
Throughout her career she has had ongoing collaborations with renowned
artists from various disciplines. She was a member of Chamecki/Lerner
Dance Company from 1998-2005 and has performed with several contemporary
choreographers in New York.
Maria Hassabi has been an
Artist-in-Residence at Arizona State University, at LEXDance Under the
Radar Residency Program, ImPulsTanz, Vienna, Austria, DANSLAB, Den Haag,
Netherlands, Kaaitheater, Brussels, Belgium and has had several
creative residencies at Performing Arts Forum in St. Erme, France. Her
work has received funding from the National Performance Network Creation
Fund, The Brown Foundation, Inc. of Houston, the Manhattan Community
Arts Fund, supported by the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs and
administered by the LMCC, Foundation 2021, the Jerome Foundation and the
2011 MAP Fund. She is a recipient of the Foundation for Contemporary
Arts, 2009 Grants to Artists Award and is a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow in
Choreography.
Maria Hassabi lives and works in NYC.
