8-12 dec : Winlab Festival 2008

Improvisation research lab for dancers and musicians with Kirstie Simson and

with Ute Kanngiesser, Wen Chin Fu, John Russell, Jules Maxwell, Sylvia Hallett, Roger Turner, Guillaume Viltard - music / Christos Strinopoulou, Xenia Themeli, Kathy Crick, Lucia Walker, Seke Chimutergurende, Monique Kroepfli, Gaby Agis, Cindy Cummings, Jia-Yu Chang, Vangelis Legakis, Robert Anderson, Tali Zavilevich, Angharad Harrop, Jayne Lee - dance / Helen Petts – film

+informal evening performances each evening during this week from Tuesday to Friday, 6.30-7.15pm

videos now available on http://www.youtube.com/helentonic

Lê Quan Ninh on music and dance improvisations. Dance doesn’t need any music. Experiencing distances and playing with different speeds in traversing them, is rhythm. Therefore we can consider rhythm as an order of distance as opposed to an order of time.
It is enough to desire a space where we hear the distances and see the beats, where pace is a sound and silence a movement. From one paradigm to another, from a continuity to a surface, one hears dance. Nothing needs to be added as it’s already thundering.
Yet it’s always surprising to realise that the musical phrase contained by and spreading through a movement, doesn’t have the same ’sonority’ for the one who creates it and the one who perceives it.
It is music, indeed, but more as a consequence of other necessities. The body, moving from one state to another, sings in spite of itself. 

Siobhan Davies Studios

85 St George’s Road

London, SE1 6ER

+44 (0)20 7091 9650

http://www.independentdance.co.uk/what/activities/winlab.htm