artatak performing arts

Juni 24, 2012 1:45 pm

Lotus Story at Pattosofiranje Festival and Art Jog

The video Lotus Story by Krisna Murti will be presented during the Pattosofiranje Festival in Smederevo, Serbia, on June 28th, 2012. From 14-18 July, it will be shown during the Art Jog art fair in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

For Krisna Murti, body gestures in the reliefs of Hindu temples are singular or repetitive snapshots of a dance. With this idea in mind, the artist created a video dance piece with the theme of the lotus flower, a sacred flower that is associated with purity, enlightment and beauty in the religions of Buddhism and Hinduism. The video shows that dance is inspiring poetry: it is body expression and movement, but also a poetic language without words.

Video: Krisna Murti
Dance: Katerina Valdivia Bruch

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April 14, 2012 10:03 pm

Wasted is an installation with a labyrinth of 12.000 white silk dresses. It is also a multimedia concert and a chance for women worldwide to participate in this art project.

In December 2009, it travelled to Cemeti Art House in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, where it was successfully received. 

Katerina Valdivia Bruch participated in the project in Yogyakarta. Her feedback to the installation was in the form of a video and photographs. Part of her video, waste I and II, was presented during Tomoko Mukaiyama’s concert at SCHUNCK* in Heerlen (Limburg), in the Netherlands.

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März 2, 2012 8:56 am

Nafas

Dance: Mila Rosinta, Kinanti Sekar Rahina, Made Dyah Agustina
Choreography: Katerina Valdivia Bruch

Using improvisation techniques, the dancers developed a piece that is based on breath (nafas), as a basic principle for life and as a natural body movement.

Katerina Valdivia Bruch was invited by Tembi Dance Company to teach contemporary dance technique. Part of the work was to create a dance piece based on the movements given in class. Nafas developed from this work.

Performed at Tembi Rumah Budaya, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
March 27th, 2010.

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Februar 4, 2012 8:30 am

Frame

Choreography and dance: Katerina Valdivia Bruch

Frame is an improvisation piece which uses a space of 2m x 2m. It is an exploration on how the body has to adapt to move in a limited space.

Performed at Tembi Rumah Budaya, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. March 2010.

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Juli 3, 2011 1:19 pm

The Great Leap Forward

Work in progress

Concept: Ingrid Hora

Choreography: Katerina Valdivia Bruch

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Juli 3, 2011 11:57 am

AURA

She was another one, she had been another one; not the one that will be, rather the one that she has always been.

Carlos Fuentes in an essay about Aura

A choreography by Katerina Valdivia Bruch

Dance: Brigitte Geier, Katerina Valdivia Bruch
Music: Tivadar Nemesi, Preslav Literary School
Lighting and costume design: Katerina Valdivia Bruch

Inspired by the books The Empire of Signs of Roland Barthes and the novelle Aura of Carlos Fuentes, this dance piece combines images from both books interpreting time in a non linear way. Starting from Ikebana and some topics of Japanese aesthetics, the dancers perform different images in a fluent sequence of movements. The piece presents an atmosphere of remembrance, overlapping past and present. Both dancers coincide in one character, Aura, as the personification of a woman who lives in a present-past time. The minimalistic sounds of Preslav Literary School and the live Hang-performance of Tivadar Nemesi intensify the multidimensional time feeling of the piece.

Presentations:

> Premiere: Cultural Centre of Smederevo, Serbia on June 27th, 2009, 11 pm

» video of the premiere

» photos of the premiere

During the Pattosofiranje Festival in Smederevo among 48 spectacles shown by artists from 8 countries (Germany, USA, The Netherlands, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic and Serbia), Aura won the audience award.
The initial version of AURA was presented at the Cultural Centre of Smederevo in Serbia.

> October 21st, 2010, 8pm at Heilig Kreuz Church in Berlin

For this occasion, the dance piece has been extended and adapted to the rooms of the church, emphazising round and spiral movements.
Lighting technician: Marco Uhlmann
With kind support of Theaterhaus Mitte

» photos of the performance

> February 25th, 2011, 10 pm at HAU 3, as part of the festival 100 Grad Berlin.

» photos of the performance at HAU 3

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Juli 3, 2011 11:46 am

Tape

Performance: Katerina Valdivia Bruch

Music: Adam Thomas

Performance in collaboration with Cara Bell Jones. Presented as part of Das kleine Field Recordings Festival, organised by Rinus Van Aleebeck.

Alberto Ukebana, Berlin, Nov. 2008

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Juli 3, 2011 11:42 am

Kedma

Choreography and dance: Katerina Valdivia Bruch

This dance piece is based on the film Kedma of Amos Gitai. It refers to the fragility and unstability felt by the navigators going by sea to Israel for the first time. The boat members are foreigners, not even the language bonds them, just the fact of being Jewish makes them get into the boat and go. Presented in Berlin in October 2007 as part of the Nah Dran series at Ada Studio.

Video: Centre Cultural de Les Corts, Barcelona, 2007

» photos of the performance

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Juli 3, 2010 11:57 am

Raku

Choreography and dance: Katerina Valdivia Bruch

This dance performance is based on the novel Thousand Cranes (1952) of Yasunari Kawabata. The choreography recreates the universe of two collectors of Japanese ceramics and the relationship they developed through a tea ceremony. The piece was also performed in Berlin in October 2007 as part of the Nah Dran dance series at Ada Studio.

Video: Casa Elizalde, Barcelona, 2006

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Juli 3, 2010 11:56 am

Inadama

Choreography and dance: Katerina Valdivia Bruch

Inadama is the spiritual force that lives in rice, which rules the growth and quality of the harvest. Japanese tradition considers that this spirit can be eaten when kami (god or goddess) of rice fields is thanked with an ingest communion of fresh fruits. Inadama is a choreography which features the work done by peasants in rice fields. Dedicated to Ernst A. Bruch Performed as part of the series of video dance screenings of the Video Art Festival LOOP at Centre Cívic Barceloneta. Barcelona, Nov. 2005

Video: Casa Elizalde, Barcelona, 2006

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Juli 3, 2010 11:53 am

AURA

A choreography by Katerina Valdivia Bruch

Dance: Brigitte Geier, Katerina Valdivia Bruch

Music: Tivadar Nemesi, Preslav Literary School

Inspired by the books The Empire of Signs of Roland Barthes and the novelle Aura of Carlos Fuentes, this dance piece combines images from both books interpreting time in a non linear way. Starting from Ikebana and some topics of Japanese aesthetics, the dancers perform different images in a fluent sequence of movements. The piece presents an atmosphere of remembrance, overlapping past and present. Both dancers coincide in one character, Aura, as the personification of a woman who lives in a present-past time.

Performed at the Cultural Centre of Smederevo, Serbia, June 2009.

AUDIENCE AWARD at the Patosoffiranje Festival.

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Juli 3, 2010 11:51 am