Shoe Dances in pandemic times

Hello everyone,

In case you are bored or sad that so many (all of our contracts) in the coming weeks have been cancelled, I wanted to invite you to join a collective choreographic enquiry that I have been initiating to keep both yours as well as my and our audience’s spirits up :)

It’s called ’Shoe Dances in pandemic times’ and is that simple: take your favorite shoes, boogie a bit and send me the video. I am putting all those short clips together for all our happiness!  I am publishing the shoe dances through instagram / facebook as well as on a film through my website and it’s all anonymous.

Silly little idea which hopefully brings joy :)

-> Dogs, babies etc. all welcome!

Lots of love and stay healthy,

Elisabeth

Interview about The Shoe Dances with The Barn Theatre, Scotland

Last week, Elisabeth was interviewed by Simone Stewart from The Barn Theatre in Aberdeenshire about her Shoe Dances and the development of this ongoing project.

Full interview can be found HERE.

Shoe Dances – film

As the corona virus continues to spread and the population lives and works in isolation, Elisabeth invited people via social media to create and film shoe dances with people’s favourite shoes to return them back to her.

Answers and films reached Elisabeth from all over the world, old and young, mobile and immobile, artist or not – here you can find the video of these dances – which are updated weekly!

Yes, everything is cancelled and YES, we keep our spirits up!

Until further notice all public performances and residencies of Elisabeth Schilling are cancelled. We are using the free time to research and plan future tours and pieces.

We continue to dance – and we do it on Instagram! Follow @tanzelitanz to stay informed about artistic ideas and to become creative yourself, together with Elisabeth!

Image: Simone Mousset’s ‘Their Past’

 

Bleeding Faeries all over The Place – London

LCDS FEMINIST SOCIETY PRESENTS: BLEEDING FAERIES ALL OVER THE PLACE
Next Saturday the 7th of March the LCDS Feminist Society hosts an intergenerational roundtable discussion with some dance artists discussing the idea of feminist legacy surrounding The Place and what it means to continue this legacy into the future! Elisabeth is excited to have been invited to participate in this talk.

More infos HERE.

Arrival between 12:30-13
Roundtable discussion starts at 13 in Founders Studio

This is event is FREE.

The discussion will be facilitated by Rebecca Douglas and  the speakers for this event will be Sue MacLennan, Sasha Roubicek, Lauren Potter, Grace Nicol, Alethia Antonia, Iro Costello, and Elisabeth Schilling.

New work in response to exhibition ‘Ingrid Godon / I wished’ at Museum for Applied Art, Frankfurt

In response to the exhibition ‘Ingrid Godon. Ich wünschte’, which shows works by the artist Ingrid Godon and the lyricist Ton Tellegen, Elisabeth is working with young dance enthusiasts to create a choreographic work that will be shown to the public on 27 and 28 February as part of the exhibition at the Museum für Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt a.M..

‘With dancer and choreographer Elisabeth Schilling, the young people will get to know contemporary dance and translate images, texts, feelings and thoughts into movement. Step by step, they will feel the power of their own bodies and work together with a lot of creativity to create a choreography that can be performed in the museum rooms in the afternoon.’

More about this HERE.

MOREOVER:

Dance Jewels

February 27th
6-21 pm
Dance and performance workshop for adults with dancer and choreographer Elisabeth Schilling, 29 Euro

‘In response to the exhibition ‘Ingrid Godon. I wished’  dancer and choreographer Elisabeth Schilling offers a dance and performance workshop at the Museum Angewandte Kunst. Creative and physical exercises introduce the basic approaches of contemporary dance and invite the participants* to use their own individual and creative identity as a starting point. On request, a public performance of the sequences developed can be organized in the exhibition. Participation is voluntary.’

Workshop fee: 29 Euro. Further information and registration under 069 212 38522 or create.angewandte-kunst@stadt-frankfurt.de+

 

AUDITION: HEAR EYES MOVE

Elisabeth Schilling is seeking 1 female and 1 male dancer to join her next group creation « HEAR EYES MOVE. Dances with Ligeti » – a choreographic interpretation of the Etudes pour Piano by composer György Ligeti. The work will be a quintet of dancers. Brian Ca will be choreographic assistant to the creation.

The piece is co – commissioned by Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Kunstfest Weimar, Mosel Musikfestival Germany and furthermore supported by Philharmonie Luxembourg, TROIS C-L Luxembourg amongst others.

We are looking for dancers who have a solid ballet and contemporary base, as well as improvisation skills and a diversity of movement textures and qualities. A strong stage presence as well as the ability to work within a team is vital. Ideally dancers should have an interest in contemporary classical music and strong musicality. We are interested in hearing from dancers of all ages, looks, body types and with unique movement qualities.

Important : Applicants must have a working permit in EU country. Unfortunately the company won’t be able to acquire a VISA.

Applicants must be available on all of these periods :

Rehearsals from 06th July 2020 to 07th August 2020 included, and from 2nd November 2020 to  17th December 2020 included.

More dates for international touring in 2021 / 22 in planning.

Rehearsals and performances will be paid in line with rates for international projects. This is above equity rates in the UK and Germany.

The company will cover travel expenses and provide accommodation for the full contracted period.

The company will hold auditions, in

Luxembourg: AUDITION 14th / CALLBACK 15th March 2020

Berlin: AUDITION 23rd / CALLBACK 24th March 2020

Glasgow: AUDITION 4th / CALLBACK 5th April 2020

The company won’t cover applicants travel’s expenses for the audition.

To apply please send an e-mail to audition@elisabethschilling.com, including CV (no more than 2 pages), 1 portrait, 2 dance photos, and 1 video of maximum 3minutes. Please state the city where you would like to audition in the subject of the e-mail. Deadline for applications : 29th February 2020, at 10PM.

Due to limited places according to security rules in each venues, audition will be held by invitation only.

The audition is free. There is no audition fee.

We would like to precise that all applicants will receive an answer.

For more information about Elisabeth’s work, please check www.elisabethschilling.com .

Photography: Bohumil Kostohryz

 

The symposium report is online!

‘One second it’s there…’

Movement, time, space and the art dance in galleries and museums

A response to the event by Emmie McLuskey. 

Here you can find a record and response to a day of talks, provocations, lectures and performance work instigated and produced by Tim Nunn, Elisabeth Schilling and Simone Stewart on the occasion of Schilling’s performance of ‘FELT’ at Glasgow University’s Hunterian Gallery. 

‘As with any event, it’s hard to relay or communicate an explanation or response to whole day of discussion, performance, participation and lectures in a written form.

In the programme for the day I was listed as the rapporteur, after googling what this meant ‘a person who is appointed by an organisation to report on the proceedings of its meetings,’ I tried to think what that might look like. Knowledge and the accumulation of it, is so often built into hierarchies, a written one being privileged over a v isual, a visual being privileged over a felt one etc. Documentation of performance practices posing endless problems and solutions. I wanted to attempt to record and pass on the information shared that day as best I could, a subjective perspective on what surfaced for me, my thoughts appearing throughout,
exploring formally how these knowledges intersect and depart from each other.’

EmmieMcLuskey

 

Image: Martine Pinnel

 

The TEDx Talk is online!

Elisabeth’s TEDx Talk named ‘How to Experience Art: a guide to being creative.’ is now on the TED Website and available to watch here.

Image: Dominika Montonen-Koivisto