vaniagala: June 2016

Tuesday, June 21, 2016

22nd June 2016
RESEARCH PRESENTATION Wednesday 18H30 PM

Laban Studio theatre

Forum for artistic practice
1001 Things Study III by Vânia Gala
with Teresa Feio

"1001 Things Study 3" investigates the role of the non-human as a form of advancing new presence(s) on stage and its relevance in the present time. We have come to think of choreography as the art of the human, where the human is the performer but what if we open up to the possibility that presence is not a privilege of the human that things can perform as well. What if we open the invitation for things to perform?

Thursday, June 16, 2016

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Kingston University
Postgraduate Research Conference

15th June 2016
10:00-11:30 (JG 5006)
Session 1
Panel: Subjectivity, The Sublime and Presence
Isabel Milar, Eugene Kim and Vânia Gala
Chair Vânia Gala

Friday, June 10, 2016

Gone Missing: the potential of absence in choreography

by Vânia Gala

at (In)visible Cultures Conference

14th June 2016

10:30 B5 Auditorium

Panel 9 From Theory to Practice: creativity, design and education

Culture, Media and Creative Industries (CMCI) Department of King's College London

Gone Missing: the potential of absence in choreography

by Vânia Gala

at Liminaridades, Género, Tradução e Performance
13th June 2016

09:30 Auditório Piso 0

Panel Performance
Instituto de Letras e Ciências Humanas | CEHUM Univerisdade do Minho | Braga

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.