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Event/Horizons 2020-2021



Event/Horizons explores the next prime number in the series -- thirteen. After the urban immersion of

J[us]t 5 in 2018, the global dance of Seven to the Seventh (2019) and the territory of exile of 1[-1] Materiality of Exile, the new project looks to the cosmos by taking its inspiration from the ‘lost’ thirteen constellation Ophiucus; the serpent bearer, the healer, and its accompanying month (November – December) which had to ‘disappear in order to accommodate the change from lunar to solar calendars.


In the project this fact serves as a creative metaphor to explore diverse modes of social constructions of the visible and invisible that define worldviews that in turn determine our engagement with ‘the world’.


The idea that the constellation is the constellation of the healer serves as an opportunity to question

the role of arts -artists and organizations- in the current challenges that we face.


How can we stand outside this implosive historical moment

in order to seek alternatives that remain life affirming in and through art?


How can art address sustainability, collaboration, cooperation and social

responsibility issues that although preexisting to our current conditions,

have become even more poignant given the fissures

(social, political, territorial and chronological)

that have once again emerged across the world?


Artists in sixteen global sites will be working in multiple

parallel cooperative and collaborative

creation processes in a two-stranded structure.


First - as an artist- led working group between October 2020 and November 2021. The main aim of this strand is to find alternative modes to nurture and exchange our practices given the challenges faced by the global-pandemic. Dialogues that used to take place by visiting performances, attending seminars, presenting work need a new platform, a platform that is multi-modal and allows for fluid hybrid presences and different time/space scales of encounters. The emphasis here is on sharing practices and an open platform to discuss issues arising from creative processes in particular contexts. The practices are not just ‘stage’ based but multiple and include pedagogical practices, social intervention practices, practices that exist remote from the ‘urban centre’, practices in contexts other than the ‘global North’.


The second strand is a public exposition to take place at the end of the thirteen month period: November-December 2021, the corresponding dates of the ‘13th month’, with a public exposition of the creative processes. This is not a festival, the word ‘exposition’ is used specifically as defined by Schwab and Borgdorff (2014) “exposition – the ways of making the [art] present”. Currently the mode is open and will be defined by the processes that will begin in October 2020.



VISION OF THE PROJECT


The project is a means to bring artists with similar and diverse concerns to work together, exploring a different kind of space to nurture our practices and build capacity for our work in the

current changing and challenging contexts.


An important aspect f the vision is to bridge distance across artists and their communities to re-establish ‘contact’ as we navigate together the shifting landscape of arts productions

within the context of the pandemic.


The project continues the commitment of the previous 'prime number' works: to seeks alternative modes to connect the local and the global, and will use remote and mobile technologies to invite communities to rethink the role of arts in the current challenges posed by an ongoing pandemic.


It is our belief that any action towards the ‘post’ needs to consider solid evidence from the artists’ experience of these months in varying scales and practices within dance. – some of us are company directors, some independent artists, large scale, medium scale, integrated companies.


Structures towards rebuilding the industry must be comprehensive and include diverse voices. The project aims to offer opportunities to build resilience for artists through collaborative enterprise nature of the project.





An international, participatory and duration collaborative event



participating artists



ATHENS, GREECE

Ana Sánchez-Colberg

Demy Papathanassiou


BANGKOK, THAILAND

Naporn Praew Wattanasakaem

in collaboration with dancers from Bangkok City Ballet


BOGOTA COLOMBIA/CALIFORNIA

Natalia Orozco,

Rene Arriaga

Juliana Borrero

Paola Escobar


BYBLOS, LEBANON

Nadra Assaf

Jimmy Bechara

& Al -Sarab Dance Company and

Alternative Dance School


CHENNAI, INDIA

Preethi Athreya


HABANA CUBA/REP. DOMINICANA

Marianela Boan


LA PLATA, ARGENTINA

Gabriel Lugo Parodi &

Futurorum, Interdisciplinary Collective

Anyelen Demichelis

Hernan Bengoa

Alejandro Lonac

Diana Rogovsky


LONDON, ENGLAND

Ivana Ostrowski


MANILA, PHILLIPINES

Rhosam Villareal Prudenciado Jr.

Mia Cabalfin


MIAMI, FLORIDA, USA


Pioneer Winter & the

​Pionier Winter Collective


Niurca Marquez


Damaris Ferrer


NEW YORK, NEW YORK, USA

Preeti Vasudevan

Thresh Dance Company


ORANGE COUNTY, CA USA

Amanda K White


REYKJAVIK, ICELAND

Harpa Kjartans


SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, USA

Joe Landini, SAFEhouse Arts


SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, USA

Dmitri Peskov


SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO

Lolita Villanua, Andanza



STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN

Tanja Tuurala


TAPEI, TAIWAN

Sunny Yang, Les Petities Choses Productions


JEJU,SOUTH KOREA/VANCOUVER, CANADA

Paula Bridget Johnson



In collaboration with:


Jih-Wen Yeh

Director, Step Out Arts, UK

.

Anna Ranczakowska

International Cultural Management

Tallinn, Estonia