Magali Charrier: How my hands got
to know my feet
7 May-23 June, The Place, London

Magali Charrier works with a range of media, creating a unique fusion of animation and dance film. “How my hands got to know my feet” is an exhibition of her new works, hosted by The Place. Magali spent three months as a silent observer of the daily basis activities at The Place’s dance studios, “learning” bodies and the space in which they move, and created a series of works investigating choreography and the embodied experience of dancing.

More details about the exhibition
Magali Charrier on Vimeo

Professor Vanessa’s Wondershow
23-29 April, Roundhouse, London

CircusFest 2012 is still on at Roundhouse in London. Five weeks of the best contemporary circus from around the globe, including Professor Vanessa’s Wondershow, which will take you to an immersive carnival experience of the golden era of circus, where you will walk through a lost world of original vintage circus side-shows dating back to the 1930s-1950s, featuring hair-raising aerial performances, contemporary cabaret and illusion. Tagged tweets #circusfest. (Image: David Pickens)

More info and tickets at Roundhouse website
Watch the trailer and find more about CircusFest 2012

Narya Duo

Anne-Marie is a young circus performer with a career in gymnastics and passion for hand to hand. She completed her training at the Circus School of Quebec, where she met her hand to hand partner, Diego Rodarte. At the age of 20, Diego decided to devote himself to his real passion for circus. Among the places that he was trained at are Cirko de Mente in Mexico, the National Circus School of Cuba and the National Circus of Montreal. Diego and Ann-Marie are the hand-to-hand Narya Duo and have been working on various shows, as well as with companies in Quebec and around the world among which Eclyps, Omaterra, Cirque Éloize and The 7 Fingers.

Have a look at their website

Drag Show Workshop
17 - 22 April 2012, 19:00 - 22:00, Aniline Studio, Thessaloniki Greece

If you don’t know X-Vanda, you should. Alexandros Gountinakis from Aniline Dancetheatre (aka X-Vanda) will be teaching this workshop and will show you how it’s done! X-Vanda will run through basic techniques of transformation and drag character creation, in order to create a complete performance of Drag Queens and Drag Kings (yes, for girls!) at the end of the workshop. Shoes, makeup, lights please… Price: €100 or €20/session.

More info on the f/b event page (greek language content)

Aniline Dancetheatre: Party Italiano
31 March - 8 April, Aniline studio, Thessaloniki Greece

Italy 1960. Cinecitta is in bloom. Its black ‘n’ white shine charms all over the world. What is true and what is not? The Italian family, the movie stars, a teenager fan. L’amore? A journey through memories. Music and dance, the Mafia, flash lights and paparazzis. What’s hiding behind the flawless glow of an ideal era? Just before the lights go out… And the party goes on…

Aniline Dancetheatre f/b page (greek language content)

Unnamed Soundsculpture

“Produced by onformative and chopchop the “unnamed soundsculpture” is a project by Daniel Franke & Cedric Kiefer. For the piece the artists asked a dancer to interpret a musical piece (Kreukeltape by Machinenfabriek) and recorded her motion using 3 Kinect cameras and Processing. The images were then combined to produce a 3D point cloud, which the artists used to create a digital body that is made up of 22,000 points. The resulting representation of the ‘sand soundsculpture’ is truly stunning.” Words by SHOWstudio

Watch the video and find more info about the project and the creators