vaniagala: May 2013

Sunday, May 26, 2013

Cooling Down Signs
Premiere at Dance Week Festival Zagreb
26.5.2013. | 21:00 | ZPC
27.5.2013. | 21:00 | ZPC

Photo Ksenija Spanec

choreographer: Vânia Gala
performers: Teresa Noronha Feio, Varga Boglarka, Maja Kalafatić, Maria
Sound Mikhail Karikis
Light Design: Bojan Gagić
Costumes: Josipa Tokić
production: Beyond Fronta Bridging New Territories, Creation Beyond Fronta 4: Croatian Institue for Movement and Dance (HR), Flota (SI), Progressione (HU)
supported by The City of Zagreb Office for Culture, Education an Sport, Ministry of Culture of republic of Croatia

Tickets pre-sale: 35k

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.