vaniagala: HEADCLEANERS

Friday, May 08, 2009

HEADCLEANERS

Novo cd Headcleaners

http://www.myspace.com/headcleaners

Alexandre Simões e André Pires apresentam o projecto Headcleaners com o álbum
“Do What You Will”.

“Compõem, produzem e tocam toda a parte instrumental, misturam a electrónica com a acústica, criando ambientes musicais diversos mas interligados estilisticamente, os instrumentos mais usados são os teclados, baixo e bateria; as flautas e saxofones surgem invariavelmente em todos os temas, umas vezes como atmosfera sonora outras como instrumento solista. Música feita de contrastes subtis de sonoridades electro-acústicas onde a simplicidade harmónica joga com alguma liberdade melódica nas interpretações das cantores e dos cantores, cada canção tem uma voz diferente”
Para este disco, a dupla usou textos de Emily Dickinson, Vânia Gala, Yeats, Fernando Pessoa, Jack Kerouac e Ribeiro Couto, na voz foram convidados Marta Hugon, Filipe Melo, Inês Trigo de Sousa, Chiara Picotto, Manuel Wiborg, Ana Lúcia Palminha e Kalaf.

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Vania Gala

Vânia Gala is a choreographer and researcher based in London. She holds a BA in Dance from EDDC (European Dance Development Center, Arnhem) and Master of Arts in Choreography with Distinction (Trinity Laban). She is a PhD candidate at Kingston University and a PASS studentship awardee. Gala’s research, choreographies and "conversational performances" explore the critical potential of opacity and withdrawal in choreography in the present time. Latest performative interventions include the give&take series at Tate Modern and Mesa para Práticas de Cabeça para Baixo ou de Pernas para o Ar at Museum of Modern Art Calouste Gulbenkian (2019). Collaborations as performer have involved Les Ballets C. de La B., Constanza Macras and Sonia Boyce. She has collaborated as a choreographer with visual artists Sonia Boyce, Harold Hoffeh and Griot theatre company.. Commissions include “Cooling Down Signs” a Pan- European commission by Beyond Front@ performed at Dance Week Festival (HR), D.I.D (AT), Front@ Festival (SI), Bakelit (HU). In 2019 she was awarded Best Choreography Award by Theatre Guide Awards (Portugal) for her collaboration with GRIOT. Her choreographic work has been performed in Angola, Portugal, Norway, Germany, Ireland, UK, Russian Federation and Austria. In 2005 she was awarded with “Best Female Performance” at the Dublin Fringe Festival, was part of Aerowaves Festival at the Place, London and of the 1st Triennial of Luanda (Angola). In 2007 she performed at the 1st African Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Vânia Gala has supervised MA and MFA dissertations (practice-based, practice-as-research and fully written) and has taught practice released based technique, Composition Modules and Choreography. Prior to Trinity Laban Conservatoire for Music and Dance she taught undergraduate modules at Northampton and Kingston Universities.