vaniagala: January 2014

Friday, January 31, 2014

Cooling Down Signs - Zagreb

Cooling Down Signs
at Zagrebi Plesni Center
Zagreb, Croatia
1st February 20:00

choreography: Vânia Gala

http://www.plesnicentar.info/en/performances/611-cooling-down-signs-2-2014

Friday, January 24, 2014

Cooling Down Signs

Cooling Down Signs
at Bakelite Arts Center, Budapest
30th January 20:00
Park Theatre

choreography: Vânia Gala
With: Teresa Noronha Feio, Varga Boglarka, Maja Kalafatić, Maria Duenas Lopez, Anis Habibović
light design: Bojan Gagić
costume design: Josipa Tokić
sound: Mikhail Karikis

production: Beyond Front@: Bridging New Territories, Creation Beyond Fronta 4: Croatian Institue for Movement and Dance (HR), Flota (SI), Progressione (HU)

http://www.bakelitstudio.hu/hirek/2014-01-16/857/PREMIER_Vania_Gala_Cooling_down_signs_(A_beletorodes_tunetei).html

Thursday, January 23, 2014

35 Days of Nothing to Say

Last day of residency of "35 Days of Nothing to Say" at Dance 4, Nottingham
Next Informal Show tomorrow
Date(s): 23rd January 2014
Time(s): 4:30 pm
Dance 4 Studio

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.