vaniagala: January 2016

Sunday, January 17, 2016

Paper, Soap, Tiger, Whisky, Theatre OPENING Villa Arson

Opening 31 janvier - 30 avril 2016
VERNISSAGE SAMEDI 30 JANVIER A 18H

January 31st - April 30th
OPENING : SATURDAY JANUARY 30TH AT 6:00 PM

Commissariat : Sophie Orlando

The first exhibition of the year is dedicated to British artist Sonia Boyce, a proponent of collaborative practices including music, performance, video and installation. During a residence on the spot Sonia Boyce has produced, in collaboration with choreographer Vania Gala, hip-hop singer Astronautalis and the students of the school, a performance at the heart of the Villa Arson's brutalist architecture. A film has been produced and edited. An installation with videos and drawings components will then form an installation. The exhibition focuses on the links between jazz-scat (vocal jazz) and the Dada inheritance of bodies in movement. The exhibition curator is art historian Sophie Orlando, a researcher and Associate Professor at the Villa Arson. She has been conducting research on Black Artists in Europe since 2006.

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.

vaniagala

Saturday, January 23, 2016

Tiger Paper Soap Whisky Theatre

Sunday, January 17, 2016

Paper, Soap, Tiger, Whisky, Theatre OPENING Villa Arson

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