vaniagala: 2015

Sunday, November 08, 2015

No Time for Ambition by Vania Gala Politics, Institutions and Performance Conference Green Park, Athens

Link to Video below:

No Time for Ambition

Sunday, September 13, 2015

No Time for Ambition

Institutions, Politics and Performance Conference

28th Sep. 18.30pm Green Park - Athens

Thursday, July 30, 2015

(Un)occupy the body: Towards a Dispossessed Live presence on Stage Session 3

(Un)occupy the body
Session 3
by Vania Gala
in
"Danse as experience"
Seminaire International des Doctorants du CRAL - EHESS Paris

Monday, June 22, 2015

Practice of (in)visibility Conference

Things go (un)noticed
Lecture/performance by Vania Gala
at the practice of (in)visibility conference
Critical Studies Research Group 4th International Conference
26th June 2015
11:45-13:15 Dance studio
University of Brighton, Grand Parade
http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/research/research-events/research-exhibitions-and-events2/the-practice-of-invisibility-4th-international-critical-studies-conference

Monday, June 15, 2015

Things go unnoticed - at the practice of (in)visibility conference

Seminaire International CRAL/EHESS RECHERCHE DANS LES ARTS - (un)occupy the body Vania Gala

Sunday, May 24, 2015

Staying (A)live

Staying (A)live.... through words, here it is: The Venice Biennale Angolan Pavilion catalogue, includes a text by Vania Gala

Monday, April 13, 2015

Staying (A)live

Upcoming my written contribution: Staying (A)live
for the Angolan Pavillion in the 56th Venice Biennale...

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.