Since 1968, Germaine has led the development of Contemporary African Dance on the continent. But factor in his short-form work, his visionary music videos and commercials and his stunning new 10-minute art film “Strasbourg 1518,” which … Germaine and her husband Helmut Vogt set up l’Ecole des Sables (International Center For Traditional And Contemporary African Dances) in Toubab Dialaw/Senegal in 1998 to promote dance in Africa. STRASBOURG 1518 takes its inspiration from an unexplained mania that swept the city of Strasbourg in July 1518. He has since gone on to win competitions and awards in the UK and Europe and following his contribution to the Sadler’s Wells 20th anniversary commission Reckonings, was awarded an Olivier for Best New Dance Production for BLKDOG in April 2019. He was introduced to dance aged 15 through Hip Hop dance theatre experimentalist Tony Adigun, from Avant Garde Dance, which he went on to dance for. Strasbourg 1518. dansolo-20563 7 October 2020. Strasbourg 1518 was co-commissioned by Artangel and London dance company Sadler's Wells, and produced by Academy Films for BBC Films & BBC Arts. Strasbourg 1518. Sarah Crompton, The Observer, 19 July 2020. 2009 – City hosts NATO Strasbourg–Kehl summit. The film offers a subtle commentary on the captivity of Covid and the nature of mankind as an irrepressible physical being. Their practice can be defined as relational; moving across spaces, contexts, roles, and collaborations. Since 2008 Tsai-Chin has been an official member of Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch. It’s called STRASBOURG 1518 and features pulsing new music by composer Mica Levi, who worked with the filmmaker on 2014’s Under the Skin. Photo by Jean Lebreton. Not gonna lie, a few of the shots are pretty damn eerie. A young woman danced in the streets in an uncontrollable manner; soon others joined in – the number of dancers varies in the differing accounts, but there might have been anywhere between 50 and 400 dancers. Your honest feedback is invaluable to us as an organisation. I think it's because the accompanying soundtrack was the audial embodiment of ketamine. Jonathan Glazer’s short about uncontrollable dancing shows how easily the mundane can become terrifying. Follow. Nazareth Panadero (born 1955) is a dancer from Madrid, Spain. After leaving college in 2009, Botis established Far From The Norm, with an interest in experimenting with hip-hop whilst challenging conventions within dance and theatre. His most recent project as writer and director was The Fall, a six-minute unannounced intervention on BBC 2 during the evening of 27 October 2019. It is a perpetually perfect choreographed cathartic and exhausting ride through contemporary ritual, repetition and regeneration. Strasbourg’s eclectic programming of independent, studio, auteur and niche cinema, plus its broad range of side events, draws large and varied audiences each year. A24 is the film's U.S. distributor. Image: Andrey Berezin. The actual event itself, though, now that… that was exceedingly interesting to research. Bodies bending in bare rooms; wall sockets and whipping hair; angles and elbows and repeated gestures — the washing of hands, the exposing of a belly beneath a bright red top, the perpetual motion machine of a woman slipping off a loose cardigan and sliding back into it. Kaori Ito (born 1979) is a Japanese dancer and choreographer active in France. Strasbourg 1518 pairs the Under the Skin director and composer with an ensemble of world-class dancers. Ditta Miranda Jasjfi (born in Jakarta, Indonesia) began classical ballet in Paris at the age of five. He released a short film, The Fall, in 2019 on BBC Two. Nathanael Jones. Courtesy of Jonathan Glazer. Filmed during the lockdown, this new short utilizes dance as a way to talk about the current pandemic, while also offering a small history lesson. Andrey Berezin (born in Russia) has been dancing with Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch  since 1994. STRASBOURG 1518 premiered to UK viewers on BBC Two at 22:00 BST on Monday 20 July 2020. The dancing itself was a bit strange and the message of the film wasn't revolutionary, but I think the editing was very nicely done. Oleg Stepanov (born 1983) is a dancer, artist, and choreographer from the Urals (an industrial region in the east of Russia). Jamila Johnson-Small is a London born and based artist and dancer producing work under the name Last Yearz Interesting Negro since 2015. The teachings of Germaine are based on her African Modern Dance technique which forms a synthesis of Traditional Dances from West Africa (Sahel and forest area) and Contemporary Western Dances. There is no story. Jonathan Glazer’s newest short film Strasbourg 1518 is an anxiety protruding ten minutes, I must say. What there is is movement, music, mania. She is the founder of the dance company Hime and has performed for Philippe Decouflé, Angelin Preljocaj, Alain Platel, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, and James Thierrée before embarking on her own choreographic adventure through collaborations with Aurélien Bory, Olivier Martin Salvan. Short Film Review: Strasbourg 1518. – Jessica Kiang, Variety, 20 July 2020. Yes, a dancing plague. In 2013 Stepanov joined Gothenburg Opera Danskompani in Sweden where he worked with artists such as Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Alan Lucien Oyen, Saburo Teshigawara, Adolphe Binder, Uri Ivgi & Johan Greben, Constanza Macras, Anton Lacky, Hiroaki Umeda. In 1518 there was a “dancing plague” in Strasbourg. Update: Jonathan Glazer’s new short film “Strasbourg 1518” is now available to watch via the film’s website. Where Gal Godot and friends imagined a new world of unity and peace post-quarantine with a painful lack of self-awareness, Jonathan Glazer’s new short film Strasbourg 1518 expresses the hysteria, energy and catharsis that have come as a result of isolation. Glazer’s film features performers who seem to share a distant memory of the past as they are thrust forward to the present in ceaseless motion displaying a bodily routine of both exhaustion and excess stimulation. Work based on original drawing by Pieter Brueghel, who supposedly witnessed a subsequent outbreak in … A portion of the proceeds will benefit MusiCares’ COVID-19 Artist Relief fund supporting independent musicians. In related news, Glazer is currently working on a series adaptation of Under the Skin, ensuring we can all keep looking over our shoulder at the fear of being lured by an extraterrestrial stranger. Johnathan Glazer's (2020) short film Strasbourg 1518 is a kinetic embodiment of experience under the necessary but life-altering COVID19-pandemic lock-downs. Photo by Amy Gwatkin. Complete this survey, and get entered into a prize draw to win £20 M&S vouchers. Find out more: Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 20 July 2020. Artangel 31 Eyre Street HillLondon EC1R 5EWUnited KingdomTelephone number:+44 (0)20 7713 1400E-mail address:info@artangel.org.uk. He was awarded the Bonnie Bird Choreography Fund in 2015, and having two sold-out nights at Sadler’s Wells, Botis’ career was catapulted forward. What began with a few people dancing in the summer heat soon became an epidemic that seized the city for three months, with hundreds compelled to dance uncontrollably. At the crossroads of cultures and languages, she is interested in the unspoken and invisible. Botis Seva (born 1991) is a South London based dancer and Choreographer from Dagenham, East London. Photo by Claudia Kempf. She is responsible for developing  Contemporary African Dance in addition to the creation of several dance schools in France and Senegal. This was a short, and yet it still dragged. Directed by Jonathan Glazer. Somewhere between 50 and 400 people took to dancing for days. Resultant choreographies that have been staged work through questions of entanglement, alienation, and sensation. Following further studies at Folkwang Hochschule, Essen in Germany she took on the role of a guest dancer in ‘The Rite of the Spring’ for Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch in 2006. It affirms the potential of the human body as a living, breathing work of art in its own right, and stands as a paean to those who are able to master, control and manipulate their bodies in such a highly expressive fashion. Artangel use cookies to help us understand how people use this website. Five winners will be selected on 11 December 2020. Watch it here.. Listed in alphabetical order: Germaine Acogny, Andrey Berezin, Kaori Ito, Ditta Miranda Jasjfi, Jamila Johnson-Small, Nazareth Panadero, Botis Seva, Oleg Stepanov, Tsai-Chin Yu. Kaori’s practice draws upon themes such as taboos, the end of the world, death, love, and loneliness; which are vocalised in her productions to inspire the movements that she seeks to see in dance. Jonathan Glazer is an artist and filmmaker, best known for three highly distinctive feature films: Sexy Beast (2000), Birth (2004) and Under The Skin (2014). We’ve been excited to watch Jonathan Glazer’s new short film “Strasbourg 1518” since we learned of its existence just recently. There is a rich history to the film--about a dancing mania in the town of Strasbourg in the year… Moving back to Indonesia she continued training in ballet with Farida Oetoyo whilst studying Indonesian traditional dances from Bali, West, Mid and East-Java, Sumatra, Sulawesi and Jaipong from different teachers. And aside from a tiny snatch of speech that recurs glitchily on the soundtrack, there is no dialogue. Strasbourg 1518, review: Jonathan Glazer's dance short is an apocalyptic Zoom call for our times. Video: Trailer of STRASBOURG 1518. Roland Ries becomes mayor. August 9, 2020 Neil Worcester Reviews, Short Film Review 0. And now, IndieWire reports that the duo are teaming up once again for another short film called Strasbourg 1518. It took a few weeks for Glazer’s latest short to hop the pond due to BBC exclusivity. Strasbourg 1518. – Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 20 July 2020. Click here to read the full article. Last year, she reunited with Glazer on the short film The Fall. She is since considered the Mother of African Contemporary Dance, with a technique comparable to western techniques. As an artefact, it brilliantly spoke to my own feelings about the lockdown, with dance being both symptom and cure, both deterioration and therapy, both constriction and freedom. 1518 – Dancing plague. Having taken it in, I have to say it’s not an easy watch. Engraving portrays three women affected by the plague. So, here’s hoping this video is contagious. Read more: The best British films of the 2010s. Dubbed a “collaboration in isolation”, the 10-minute film gracefully oscillates between some of the “greatest dancers working today” as they perform alone in their respective homes. Photo by Donata Wenders. Update: Jonathan Glazer’s new short film “Strasbourg 1518” is now available to watch via the film’s website. Made during a global pandemic against the setting of lockdown, the film directed and conceived by the filmmaker moves beyond the restricted categorisation of a ‘lockdown film’ to explore the connection between history, memory, and movement. Since the age of five, Kaori has studied classical ballet under Takagi Syuntoku in Tokyo, and at eighteen was declared by Ryouichi Enomoto as the best young dancer and choreographer. STRASBOURG 1518 takes its inspiration from … Image: Germaine Acogny. Steeped in Japanese culture and trained in Western dance, Kaori has developed a hybrid and unique vocabulary that resembles herself. Germaine Acogny (born 1944) is a Senegalese dancer and choreographer. Photo: Jamilla Johnson Small. Jonathan Glazer and Mica Levi team up for ‘dancing plague’ film. Photo: Nazareth Panadero. We are keen to find out what audiences think of our work to learn what we can do to adapt the experience, format and subject matter for future projects. And aside from a tiny snatch of speech that recurs glitchily on the soundtrack, there is no dialogue. Image: STRASBOURG 1518 still. There’s something defiant in the movement of these dancers, especially at a time when we’re slowly being beaten to a pulp by crushing reality. After graduating in classical dance in Spain, Nazareth was trained in modern dance with Peter Goss in Paris, dancing in the Ballet Théatre Contemporain d’Angers between 1976-8 and Ballet De Poche (Paris-Grenoble) in 1979. All rights reserved. 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Posted by The Digital Fix Staff Published . – David Jenkins, Little White Lies, 20 July 2020. Since 1979 she has been a permanent member of Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, dancing in productions by Pina Bausch in addition to those produced by guest choreographers including Tim Etchells ( artistic director: Lutz Förster ) and Alain Lucien Øyen ( artistic director: Adolphe Binder ). *The title of this film is intentionally given in full upper case letters. Strasbourg 1518 takes its inspiration from an unexplained mania that swept the city of Strasbourg in July 1518. Watch it here. The film is part of BBC Arts Culture In Quarantine; bringing the arts into the homes of the nation at a time of national lockdown. Jonathan Glazer’s short film STRASBOURG 1518 features nine acclaimed dancers from around the world. This video is also available to watch on Vimeo and YouTube. With Andrey Berezin, Botis Seva, Ditta Miranda Jasjfi, Germaine Acogny. Genres: Dance Film. Photo: Tsai-Chin Yu. The following year Ditta worked in Bremer Theater with artistic director Susanne Linke and Urs Dietrich and since 2000 has been dancing with Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch. Made during a global pandemic against the setting of lockdown, the film directed and conceived by the filmmaker moves beyond the restricted categorisation of a ‘lockdown film’ to explore the connection between history, memory, and movement. – Jessica Kiang, Variety. In 2016, overall attendance reached 27 000 and the festival showed a total of 64 features and 27 short films… Books, arts and culture. Strasbourg (UK: / ˈ s t r æ z b ɜːr ... (Strasbourg massacre), 1518 (Dancing plague), 1793 (Reign of Terror), 1870 (Siege of Strasbourg) and the years 1940–1944 with the Nazi occupation (atrocities such as the Jewish skeleton collection) and the British and American bombing raids. Image: Jonathan Glazer, courtesy of the artist. Aided by a suitably jittery score from Mica Levi, Glazer’s piece gripped from the start as we were introduced to a number of individual dancers all seemingly caught up in the throes of their own ecstatic agony. Directed by: Jonathan Glazer. Prospero. With music by Mica Levi, STRASBOURG 1518 presents the dance of life and death as continuous. The seamless continuation of movement forms a timely reflection of bodies and souls possessed and connected across and beyond fixed borders of place or time. – Sarah Crompton, The Observer, 19 July 2020. A new short film reimagines a curious event in history. A s the history books would have us believe it, once upon a time in the town of Strasbourg, the locals succumbed to … Strasbourg 1518 is a short film inspired by a plague that had people restlessly dancing in the city of Strasbourg. He studied for five years at the Ural State University before going on to work in a steel plant. What there is is movement, music, mania. Cannot stress how much I adore candid yet schizophrenic dancing choreography, so I may lean with a soft spot for this short film despite it being fairly straightforward. Nathanael Jones's rating of the film Strasbourg 1518. The wait for a new Jonathan Glazer film is usually a lengthy one, but always worth it, although thankfully he has at least been releasing shorts to keep fans tied over. Registered charity number: 292976.Company registered in England and Wales, registration number: 1917570.VAT registration number: GB576909584. Her close proximity to theater dance allows her practice to reflect both her own experiences and that of others. Strasbourg 1518 was Devised & Directed by Jonathan Glazer. Strasbourg 1518 was co-commissioned by Artangel and Sadler’s Wells and produced by Academy Films for BBC Films and BBC Arts. The Center was created as a space for learning, meeting and exchange for dancers from both Africa and across the world. It’s not about the “dancing plague” any more than it is about the Covid-19 pandemic, but both provide a backdrop for something more allusive and haunting, powered by an insistent, eerie score by Glazer’s regular collaborator Mica Levi. Photo: Ditta Miranda Jasjfi. What began with a few people dancing in the summer heat soon became an epidemic that seized the city for three months, with hundreds compelled to dance uncontrollably, arms flailing, and faces turned upwards as if in a trance. The short film was Co-commissioned by Artangel and Sadler’s Wells, and produced by Academy Films for BBC Films and BBC Arts. Photo by Chausov Evgeny. The title of Jonathan Glazer's short film references a "plague" of inexplicable, uncontrollable dancing in Strasbourg in 1518, in which some people are said to have quite literally danced themselves to death. Rated the #257 best film of 2020. – Sarah Hughed, iNews, 20 July 2020. With Music by Mica Levi. Photo by Lydia Gorges. 3.5 There is a point where the editing begins to foreground itself at the expense of the performers, but eventually a balance between their rhythms is found and it's … And they should be given that the whole thing was inspired by a dancing plague. 2012 – Population: 274,394; 2014 Pope Francis addresses the European Parliament and the Council of Europe. Already, several critics and fans have called it a protest of sorts for the times, and they’re not wrong. It’s called STRASBOURG 1518 and features pulsing new music … Jonathan Glazer’s short film STRASBOURG 1518 features nine acclaimed dancers from around the world. Strasbourg 1518, director Jonathan Glazer’s (Sexy Beast, Under the Skin) latest short film, takes its title from the so-called “dancing plague,” an incident of florid mass psychosis which struck the town of Strasbourg in the 16th century.The story goes that sometime in July a young woman began dancing in the city’s streets. 2 minute read. David Jenkins, Little White Lies, 20 July 2020. Aged 23 he began taking dance classes and workshops in classical and contemporary dance and in 2009 joined the Provincial Dancers Theater in Ekaterinburg where he worked with Tatiana Baganova and assisted her in creating ‘Rite of Spring’ at the Bolshoi Theatre. France honoured her with Officier de la Légion d’Honneur. Short films The Fall (2019) Strasbourg 1518 (2020) First Light: Alexander McQueen (2020) The dancing plague (or dance epidemic) of 1518 was a case of dancing mania that occurred in Strasbourg, Alsace (modern-day France), in the Holy Roman Empire in July 1518. Tsai-Chin Yu (born 1980) is from Taiwan and graduated from the dance department of Taipei National University of Arts in 2003. Many people have been exercising in lockdown in precisely this desperate, ambiguous way. Director Jonathan Glazer has returned with a new short film. Glazer’s landmark videos for bands such as Radiohead and Jamiroquai and his ground-breaking commercials for clients including Guinness and Nike have won many awards, serving to elevate advertising into an art form. In 1989 Ditta studied modern dance in Folkwang Hochschule, in Essen, Germany, after which she began dancing for the Folkwang TanzStudio in 1993. March: Strasbourg municipal election, 2014 held. Strasbourg 1518. 4. There are no characters. Mica Levi and Jonathan Glazer, the musician/filmmaker pairing behind the remarkable 2014 film Under the Skin, have rejoined forces for a new short film airing on the BBC. A24 is streaming the short film here. There is no story. Watch it here.. This film could as well be called UK 2020 or The World 2020. Since 2016 Oleg has been a permanent member of Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch and has actively engaged in productions by Pina Bausch, whilst simultaneously creating his own stage and video productions in collaboration with other artists, in addition producing his own music. The film is now available to stream on BBC iPlayer (in the UK only) and on Mubi (in Europe only). You will witness a 10-minute fragment of something that began long ago and has no end. Photo courtesy of the artist. 2011 –- Population: 272,222. Scroll down to learn about each of the performers of STRASBOURG 1518. Strasbourg 1518 (A24) Director Jonathan Glazer has returned with a new short film. Others soon joined. Le Festival européen du film fantastique de Strasbourg begins. Join Artangel and support extraordinary new art. Artangel is generously supported using public funding by Arts Council England, and by the private patronage of The Artangel International Circle, Special Angels and The Company of Angels. In July of 1518, a case of dancing mania washed over the citizens of Strasbourg, prompting 50 to 400 people to dance for days. Nazareth has won numerous awards between 2000-2019, been featured in films including Hable con ella by director Pedro Almodovar, and has created his own works. Strasbourg 1518 trailer - A first look at Jonathan Glazer's new short ahead of its BBC première . Strasbourg 1518 Inspired by a powerful involuntary mania which took hold of citizens in the city of Strasbourg just over 500 years ago, this film is a collaboration in isolation with some of the greatest dancers working today. Botis has choreographed broadcast productions, including Studio Wayne McGregor and Robin Friend’s ‘Winged Bull in the Elephant Case’ for BBC2, and since 2019 has been guest director and choreographer at the National Youth Dance Company and NSCD’s Verve respectively. 5/5. There are no characters. READ MORE: ‘Strasbourg 1518’: Jonathan Glazer’s New Pandemic-Inspired Short To […] © The Artangel Trust. The Strasbourg European Fantastic Film Festival (SEFFF) (French: Festival Européen du Film Fantastique de Strasbourg (FEFFS)), is an annual film festival held in Strasbourg, France, that focus on fantasy, science fiction and horror films.

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