Residency nyamnyam
as part of the program Miranda
Residency — nyamnyam
- Monday January 13 to Saturday January 18, 2025, ICI—CCN and at Site archéologique Lattara Musée Henri Prades
- Monday March 10 to Saturday March 15, 2025 at Studio Yano, ICI—CCN Montpellier Occitanie
Summary note by nyamnyam :
" Cinemàtica is a research project that is evolving into a performative installation that focuses on the genealogy of movement(s) from perspectives that incorporate the temporal, choreographic, spatial, relational, social, filmic and supernatural. Cinematica is also “a remarkable synthesis of the movements of work and everyday life”, a theory developed by Raymond Duncan, brother of the dancer Isadora Duncan at the beginning of the 20th century. In Cinematica three separate journeys in time are intertwined, united by the search for the ghost of dance; an ‘intermediate’ space between audience and performers where the installative and the performative takes shape through live music, video, poetic narration and movement.
The approach to Raymond Duncan’s legacy is more speculative than epistemological and attempts to discover what lies behind his philosophy, ideals and practices. Throughout critical research, his motivations are approached by interpreting Raymond's ideas and practices in order to reveal his "modus operandi". He believed that the importance of work was the development of the worker, not production or profit. Therefore, he paid much attention to how bodies could create other ways of interacting with "machines" or technologies (understood in the broad sense), prioritizing care and well-being. Duncan's ultimate goal was to "represent life", convinced that the synthesis of work, art and physical movement could promote the development of human beings.
Although Isadora Duncan's choreographic work is known and considered the precursor of modern dance, there is little written or studied about the life and work of her brother with whom Isadora traveled and worked. The interest in the figure of Raymond Duncan was born from our relationship with the Isadora and Raymond Duncan Dance Research Center (Vyronas - Athens), located on the remains of what in 1903 was designed to be the Temple of Dance for the Duncan family, an intermediate space where textiles, ceramics, cheese, carpentry, sandals, publications, painting, poetry and dance were intertwined with everyday life. In a way, it could be what we now call an eco-community.
The work of Isadora, her brother Raymond and the rest of the Duncan family is linked to and inspired by ancient Greek archaeological sites. Beyond texts and philosophy, the iconography of vases, the letters of the tombstones and sculptural representations, located in the main European museums, helped them generate a visual language from which Isadora and Raymond developed their choreographic work. "
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A project by Ariadna Rodriguez and Iñaki Alvarez / nyamnyam
Performers: Iker Zapata, Elena Carvajal, Dani Moreno Roldán and Estel Boada
Music and sound design: Dani Moreno Roldán
Light and Space design: Anat Bosak
External eye: Anne Lise Le Gac and Rosanayaris (Rosana Sánchez Rufete and Aris Spentsas)
Support on the choreographic research: Katerina Andreou
Team ICI—CCN: Anne Kerzerho, Anne Fontanesi
Team Site archéologique Lattara - Musée Henri Prades: Diane Dusseau
Team nyamnyam: Helena Febrés (Producció executiva i desenvolupament), Alessandra Simeoni (Desenvolupament i distribució internaciona), Olga Alvarez (Communication)
© Pictures Sebastià Masramon (except portrait)
The “Cinématique” project is a research and artistic creation initiative led by Ariadna Rodriguez and Iñaki Alvarez from nyamnyam.
In collaboration with ICI—CCN and the master exerce inside the program MIRANDA 2024 "Support for Research and Creation 2024” - Université Paul Valery Montpellier.
Production: Coop Ny Ny SCCL
Coproduction: El Canal - Centre d'Arts Escèniques (Catalonia, Spain), FiraTàrrega (Catalonia, Spain), ICI—CCN inside the program MIRANDA 2024 "Support for Research and Creation 2024” - Université Paul Valery Montpellier with the support of Life Long Burning, financed by the European Union
Support of: Fundació Joan Brossa-Centre de les Arts Lliures (Catalonia, Spain), La Mutant (Catalonia, Spain), ICEC (Generalitat de Catalunya)
↳ This residency is also part of the European project PLANT, and several research and creation centers in Europe, CRL - Central Elétrica à Porto, Isadora and Raymond Duncan Dance Research Center à Athènes, and a first collaboration with Site archéologique Lattara - Musée Henri Prades.
Résidence de recherche — nyamnyam / MIRANDA (1/2)
ICI—CCN et au Site archéologique Lattara Musée Henri Prades
Résidence de recherche — nyamnyam / MIRANDA (2/2)
Studio Yano, ICI—CCN Montpellier Occitanie