vaniagala: Vânia Gala at News Agents

Saturday, July 16, 2016

Vânia Gala at News Agents - Resonance FM

Today's show with Vânia Gala hot off the press or rather out of the studio -
Experiments in news and arts with Jude Cowan Montague
The News Agents: Resonance FM
This week: Vânia Gala, choreographer and thinker reflects on politics, performance. She shares tales from her journey from Coimbra to London and beyond, giving an insight into possibilities and practice from avant-garde and professional dance. Thoughts on what is collaboration, choreography with an absence of performance, and on being a black woman growing up as an activist in Portugal. For more information see thenewsagents.blogspot.com.

Drawing by Jude Montague

Link for the show:

https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/the-news-agents-16th-july-2016/

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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.