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Saturday, 11 December 2010

Nanine Linning "Synthetic Twin"

Last Thursday, December 9, I paid a visit to Theater aan het Vrijthof, to see the performance "Synthetic Twin". After seeing "The Endless Songs of Silence" during the Nederlandse Dansdagen in October 2010 (Dutch Dance Days), I became a fan of Nanine Linning.

Photographer: Kalle Kuikkaniemi

This talented Dutch choreographer made with "Synthetic Twin" her debut as Artistic Director of Tanztheater Osnabrück.

Synthetic Twin reflects our daily life in the form of a Siamese twin. The extreme desire to tear apart from someone while the desire to merge is a recurring dilemma in our lives. These people who are actually two in one fascinate Linning. But are you one if you have two heads, and your body gives home to two worlds of thought?

For Synthetic Twin, Nanine Linning worked with fashion designer Iris van Herpen, with whom she also worked for “The Endless Song of Silence” and the opera “Madama Butterfly”. This young upcoming fashion talent in the international fashion scene won the Dutch Fashion Award 2010 last November.

Photographer: Kalle Kuikkaniemi

The stage set and the giant video projections are by stage designer Jan Boiten, with whom she previously created successful productions like “Bacon” and "Endless Song of Silence”.

Synthetic Twin is a conceptual performance where the era of Baroque is crossed by the hard and fast world of today. The whole thing is a visual and musical spectacle with some striking images. With her multidisciplinary signature Nanine Linning blends necessarily different art disciplines into a unique and new theatrical language in collaboration with prominent artists from visual art, video, design and fashion.

picture by Branko Popovic

See also this link: "The Endless Songs of Silence"

The show continues to play in several cities in the Netherlands.
TIP: April 7, the performance is scheduled in Theater Heerlen.

For more information: www.naninelinning.nl

Trailer:

The Dancers

picture by Branko Popovic
Meri Ahmaniemi, Emilie Assayag, Christina Bauer, Mallika Baumann, Francesca Imoda, Viviane Frehner, Tommaso Balbo, Gustavo Gomes, Jesse Hanse, Kyle Patrick, Erik Spruit, Niels Weijer

Tuesday, 30 November 2010

Lamija Suljevic s/s 2011 collection

Few weeks ago Stockholm based (born in Bosnia) fashion designer Lamija Suljevic presented her new collection for 2011. Stunning work again.

http://www.lamija.se/

Photography by Emma Jönsson Dysell

Check out her previous collection: http://brankopopovic.blogspot.com/2010/10/lamija-suljevic.html

She worked with illustrator, Annelie Carlström.

Take a look at Annelie's work: http://www.anneliecarlstrom.se

Antoine Peters - The world is flat

New collection and a pop song with an accompanying video clip, Antoine Peters showed in this way s / s 2011 collection last summer, The World Is Flat. He launched his collection with a pop song and a popvideo on Diane Pernet's blog "A Shaded View On Fashion".
Watch the great shoes by designer, Jeslke Peterson.

Most you have probably allready seen it but still I wanted to show it.

Looks like a Keith Haring artwork that comes to life.

Thursday, 25 November 2010

The ins and outs of the hole in your head by Emke Idema

The ins and outs of the hole in your head
(De ins en outs van het gat in je hoofd)

Emke Idema finds eating weird.
We stop things in a hole in our heads and then they disappear.
That we do that every day and not find it strange. And we still sit down together as we do and we call it fun.
Emke also finds that eating people are moving.
To find out why exactly, the last two years she did small experiments and made movies, photos and drawings.
With the selection of images Emke shows us the weird from normal, the lonely of being togther, the dirty of tasty and tasty to dirty.
Together with the audience she tries to figure out what our eating habits say about how we live.
A quirky and sometimes intimate search for the ins and outs of the hole in our head.

Her way of being and playing in the combination of a topic that we all are really to familiar with makes this a very amusing performance.
She involves the audience in the story and takes you into her unique world. Very entertaining performance of a likeable theatermaker and once again a cosy evening in Het Huis van Bourgondië. After seeing the performance eating will never be the same again. If you have the opportunity to see it, go!

24 - 27 November Maastricht Huis van Bourgondië
30 Novmber, 1 & 2 December Arnhem
9 December Almelo
22 - 27 February 2011 Maastricht Festival CEMENT

concept & play: Emke Idema
production by Huis van Bourgondië

Check out some video's from the research: http://www.youtube.com/user/emkeidema

Het Huis van Bourgondië is the home of theatre and performance in Maastricht. At Het Huis van Bourgondië young promising theatre directors get the chance to make their first performances. http://www.huisvanbourgondie.nl/en/

Wednesday, 24 November 2010

Lucy McRae and Robyn

Robyn in collaboration with Lucy McRae for her latest video. Just great!

Check out Lucy's site:
http://lucymcrae.blogspot.com/

The making of

The Making of Robyn's 'Indestructible' Music Video with EXTRA FOOTAGE from Lucy McRae on Vimeo.

This 'Making Of' video showcases a project that started over two years ago generating dynamic textiles made from liquid, air and vapor. 1.2 kilometres of transparent plumbing tubing was knitted with fishing wire to skin Robyn's body. 40 litres of glycerol pumps through over a kilometre of tube, powered by drill pumps that connect to valves releasing air intermittently between the liquid. Gradient colors pulse through the tubes at different speeds, the effect is a living, breathing dynamic skin that traverses the landscape of the body.

Robyn album cover: http://lucymcrae.blogspot.com/2010/10/robyn-album-cover.html

Marina Abramović, Robert Wilson, Antony, Willem Dafoe starring in The Life and Death of Marina Abramović

I got a ticket for Sat 16 Jul - 19:30!!!!!!!!

Manchester International Festival and Teatro Real Madrid present the world premiere of a startling new piece for the stage: The Life and Death of Marina Abramović, a biography of the godmother of performance art, re-imagined by visionary director Robert Wilson.
The show features scenes from Abramović’s life and career, from her Serbian childhood to her work as a performance artist. Featuring original and traditional music, including songs written and performed by the incomparable Antony (Antony & The Johnsons), this ground-breaking show brings together the worlds of theatre, art and music to thrilling effect.
The Life and Death of Marina Abramović is a once in a generation cultural event, starring Marina Abramović, Willem Dafoe and an international cast of actors and performance artists.

for more INFO:
http://www.mif.co.uk/event/robert-wilson-marina-abramovic-antony-willem-dafoe-the-life-and-death-of-marina-abramovic/

Photo credit: Antony Crook

D-day, design auction in Maastricht

21 November 2010 Timmerfabriek Maastricht
http://www.d-daydesignveiling.nl

The star of 28th Belgrade Fashion Week: Ivana Pilja

Ivana Pilja, the rising star from Serbia, was awarded with two awards at the 28th Belgrade Fashion Week! The Elle award for the best collection, and the Boris Nikolic award which includes free participation at Belgrade Fashion Week in April 2011 and not the forget the 2000 euro's.

Congratulations Ivana!

Her new collection will premiere at the next Belgrade Fashion Week ( April 2011). I'm so looking forward to see the new work.