O danceWEB scholarship programme 2023 will take place from 5th July to 9th August 2023 as part of the ImPulsTanz - Vienna International Dance Festival and will be artistically accompanied by Clara Furey in dialogue with Lara Kramer and Caroline Monnet.
Applications are now being accepted via the online application tool, and the application deadline is 15th December 2022 .
Make sure you have read the ENROLMENT INFORMATION carefully before starting the enrolment process.
Access the application form >>HERE.
Statement by Clara Furey (CA)
I'm excited to expand our horizons together.
I'm interested in the different constellations of listening that we can develop through physical practices.
Let's fill our brains and souls and avoid exhaustion! Find ways to be energy generators for each other, be supportive of each other, tune in, synchronise, de-synchronise, enhance, interfere with each other and learn together.
I hope we come with everything we love and everything we have in conflict so that we can unfold our multiplicities, our complexities and shine.
Let's get porous! A porosity that I hope will be seen and felt in the exchange between all of us.
Bio
After completing her musical training at the Paris Conservatoire, Clara Furey trained as a dancer at the École de danse contemporaine de Montréal and worked with choreographers such as George Stamos, Damien Jalet and Benoît Lachambre. An artist accustomed to collaborative work (Untied Tales with Peter Jasko, presented at the Venice Biennale in 2016, Ciguë with Éric Arnal Burtschy, Night Will Come with Michikazu Matsune), Furey created her first solo work as artistic director in 2017 with Cosmic Love, a collective piece with minimal gestures, exploring the voids and invisibilities in the interactions between body, music and space.
As a choreographer and performer, Furey is interested in changing the codes within various art forms through an interdisciplinary dialogue. In 2017, she performed When Even The 90 times alongside a sculpture by Marc Quinn as part of the Leonard Cohen exhibition at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal. She is the choreographer of Rather a Ditch (2019), a solo piece written for Céline Bonnier centred on the permeability of bodies, in response to Steve Reich's album Different Trains.
His work has toured to various festivals, including the Venice Biennale, Les Rencontres Chorégraphiques in Paris, the TransAmériques Festival in Montreal, ImPulsTanz in Vienna, Performance Mix in New York City, the Fierce Festival in Birmingham and in different countries such as Lithuania, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Spain, Holland, Belgium, Germany, Azerbaijan and Bulgaria.
With Dog Rising, Furey concludes her exploration of tension and immobility, releasing previously contained energies in a performance focused on persistence, groove and pleasure. She insists on the repetition of infinite loops through an extreme physical journey, a mesmerising, haunting and penetrating spiral.
Lara Kramer (CA)
Lara Kramer Statement
Together can we discover a place to host a relational practice? Among this changing and mobile landscape where we find ourselves present. How do we transmit our marks and intentions through our heart, body, spirit and voice? I'm excited to offer invitations to fly, dream, play, ignite, be curious and surrender to the generosity of our imagination. Let's centre our agency as we experiment and invent through boundless space, exploring what echoes and transforms. How can we open our senses to mobilise with abundance and humility?
Biography Lara Kramer
Lara Kramer is a performer, choreographer and multidisciplinary artist of mixed Anishnaabe, Oji-Cree and settler heritage based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. Her choreographic work, research and fieldwork over the past fourteen years have been based on intergenerational relationships, intergenerational knowledge and the impacts of Canada's Indian Residential Schools.
Her creations in the form of dance, performance and installation have been presented in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Martinique, the United States and the United Kingdom. Her practice includes sound, video and visual art.
Lara's work expands her relational practice to express and represent embodied experiences such as memory, loss and recovery. Her works challenge the Canadian narrative of the colonial project of reconciliation and use storytelling as a form of resistance.
She has received several awards, recognitions and prizes for her work as an emerging and established artist. Lara was named a human rights defender by the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre in 2012, following the national tour of her work Fragments, a performance based on her mother's stories and her experience as a survivor of the Indian Residential Schools of Canada.
In 2018, Lara was presented with the prestigious Ashley Fellowship from Trent University, as well as receiving the Jacqueline-Lemieux Award for recognising artistic excellence and distinguished career achievement in dance. She collaborated closely with Peter James and sound artists Jassem Hindi on their work Windigo, 2018, exploring the destruction and deconstruction of sculptures/objects, relationships between body and land and memory as music. In 2019, the installation and performance This Time Will Be Differentcreated with Emilie Monnet and co-produced by the TransAmeriques Festival, denounces the status quo of the Canadian government's discourse on indigenous relations and criticises the "national reconciliation industry".
Lara Kramer is an Associate Artist FROM THE CENTRE DE CRÉATION O VERTIGO - CCOV since 2021.
