From the WhatsonSA Magazine, Capetown, South Africa: « In his communication with the audience and one on one (in my brief interactions with him), he comes across as very open and unguarded, a quality which is extremely rare, specially from a ground breaking artist. I see Foofwa as a fearless innovator of dance and am grateful to have experienced these performances live. »
> Read the complete article « Reflections on Foofwa d’Imobilité »
A new video created for La Bâtie-Festival just came out. On peut pas être tranquille le dimanche?!, a music dancerun, was shot in one day in several cultural places in Geneva, with Séni running and playing trombone, Foofwa dancerunning, and Pascal Dupoy videotaping on roller. A real call to vitality and creativity!
> Watch the video « On peut pas être tranquille le dimanche?! »
A video was filmed capturing a new improvisation with Alan Sondheim, Vea Lucca and Foofwa d’Imobilité on Mount Tremper, Friday Friday August 6th 2010.
> Watch the video « Improvisation on Mount Tremper »
M
ade August 4-7 2010 during Foofwa’s residency at Mount Tremper Arts, « Youtubing Michael Pina & Merce » is a new trial video on legacy and life after death. It is the first trial of a project using material found on youtube and other internet sites with Michael Jackson, PIna Bausch and Merce Cunningham, and with that material, then creating a new kind of dialogue between the three of them.
> Watch the video « Youtubing Michael Pina & Merce »
In several excerpts from interviews in the MwM Film Library, Merce both reminisces, and inspires anew! In addition, see marvelous rare film of Merce Cunningham teaching class in Chicago in 1961, and dynamic, never before seen footage of Merce teaching Advanced Technique Class almost 50 years later. MCDC dancers Jennifer Goggans, Andrea Weber, and Foofwa d’Imobillite look back on learning from Merce…
> Watch the video » The Cunningham Challenge: Doing the Impossible »
A new creation commissioned to Foofwa d’Imobilité, Au Contraire (an inspiration from the universe of Jean-Luc Godard), was premiered with success at the Festival d’Avignon (19-25 July 2010). Photos of the show are now on the site – see the Au Contraire page.
Au Contraire (after Jean-Luc Godard), a new creation commissioned to Foofwa d’Imobilité, will be presented from July 19-21 & 23-25 (18h) at the Festival d’Avignon.
> info & tickets at festival-avignon.com
See how the « Merce-Art Forever! » videos were installed at the Holland Festival in Amsterdam (8-11 June 2010).
(Photos/video of the installation with visitors and the complete videos are on the « Merce Art Forever! » page).
On May 29, 2010 the « Performance for 3 Avatars » was presented and filmed at the Rolex Learning Center in Lausanne, Switzerland. The performance will be presented again in July at the Festival de la Cité in Lausanne.
Watch the video of « Performance for 3 Avatars » at Rolex:
Performance pour 3 avatars is the synthesis of three works: Media Vice Versa, a quartet made in 2002; BodyToys, a trio created in 2007; and Second Live Series, videos made from 2008 to 2010. These three dances are all connected to the studies of the digital body and the questions surrounding the real and the virtual. With one dancer representing each piece, it’s like a strange conversation between three avatars, adaptable to a context (at the Rolex Learning Center of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne on May 29 2010, and at the Festival de la Cité in Lausanne on July 6, 7 and 8 2010)
New video excerpts have been added for the following Live Productions:
LaréduQ – Chore – The Making of Spectacles
BodyToys – Benjamin de Bouillis