An International Conference 國際會議: 舞影‧動身心 Welcome to the first international interdisciplinary conference on body, movement and dance to be jointly sponsored by Chinese and American Universities. Scholars and artists from Asia, Europe and the Usa will come together to facilitate a stimulating intercultural exchange of cutting edge ideas and to advance research on a broad range of movement practices across the globe. The conference is dedicated to honoring the life and pioneering work of anthropologist of human movemen Dr. Drid Williams D.Phil. Oxford
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July 26th - Skype video-call from London Adriana Pegorer - 'Performing Gender: Tango in the Milongas of Buenos Aires' (re-visited and re-edited paper) abstract: Argentine Tango, which has been called the world's most passionate dance, is performed in halls called Milongas. In this paper I look at the Tango dancers in several Milongas as a micro-society, in which broader, socially accepted gendered behaviour is repeated and seldom, if ever, contested. The performance of gender roles in Buenos Aires, ritualized with miradas, cabeceo, piropos and asados, empowers stereotypes of masculinity and femininity (the basis of Tango), with its "macho" men and their mistresses. The Milonga codes and Tango dancing provides a context where such stereotypes can be performed. The focus of my investigation was to observe gendered behaviour in dancing, concentrating on the Argentinean Tango because the categorization of sexuality and gender in this dance form is particularly well defined. In this presentation, I will make some observations about social recreational activities that relate to food and courtship in Buenos Aires and investigate some parallels between the rules of Tango dancing and social roles in Buenos Aires. ________________________________ TANGO HYBRID FUSION Tango with capoeira, ballet, hip-hop, contemporary dance, contact improvisation, parody, aikido, belly dancing, jive, break dance, dance theatre, latin, flamenco, clubbing, rap, street jazz, new technologies, and more....! YOUR CONTRIBUTION IS VERY WELCOME, WITH VIDEOS AND / OR COMMENTS ********************************************************
Tango into Contact Improvisation - sat 24 May 2008 with Adriana Pegorer @ London Contact Improvisation class 11.30-13.30 jam 13.30 till 16.30 Adriana aims to integrate different dance forms, particularly Tango, Butoh and CI as each one helps to strip and inform the other's stereotypes: could Butoh be romantic instead of exaggeratingly- austere? ...could Tango be subliminal instead of –obsessively- passionate? ....could contact be a solo instead of – continuosly- partnering? During the class we will warm up with some Butoh exercises to then play with the intricacy of Tango leg work & walking patterns, moving into spiralling partnered travel & simple lifted displacement. @ Moving East Centre for Dance, Martial Arts and Complementary Medicine St Matthias Church Hall Wordsworth Road Stoke Newington London N16 8DD click here for LCI website and map ___________________________________ Dance Research Conference schedule 15 March 2008 - Roehampton University, London, UK ´Performative Gender Rituals in Milongas of Buenos Aires´ by Adriana Pegorer ___________________________________ 6 February 2008 @ 8 pm "A d a g i o, c o n b r i o"
Robin Howard Dance Theatre, Duke's Road, London, UK
  "this amorphous piece gently posed legitimate questions about
dream-like quality pulled me along" Donald Hutera
"deletes the sharp, stark images of its opening scene as it becomes a delicate, haunting lament. It is exceptionally performed, has no discernible meaning, but is truly beautiful" Amy Johnson
___________________________________ 26th January 2008: DANCE ETHNOGRAPHY FORUM 2008 @ De Montfort University, Leicester, UK including a short paper on: ___________________________________ 12 December 2007 IV Festival Cambalache Buenos Aires, Argentina Video Danza Programme includes 'Double One' (2001, UK, 6 min)
“The tango world and its partnered dance, with its established gendered division o f roles, provoked Adriana’s reflections and mobilized her into practicing diverse strategies of unruly intervention. She questioned the arguable passivity of the women’s role as followers in tango dance by displaying her abilities as an active dance partner capable of crisscrossing the gender divide as a provocative follower, as a skillful leader, and as a resourceful improviser of gender-blind partnering styles. In her double roles of participant and observer at the milonga’s, Adriana took the risk to dance her research questions in an environment that reproduces the gendered division of power by punishing active female dancers who do not wish to wait to be asked for a dance, who wish to introduce steps of their own, and who wish to change unsuitable partners whenever facing unpleasant dancing situations. Adriana intervened as an artiste provocateur by knowingly refusing to accommodate to the tango world codes, inciting local and foreign tango practitioners into discussing accepted gender roles, power relations, traditional versus transformative tango dance styles, and tango fusion in the dance floor” Report by Prof. Marta Savigliano on Adriana's participation in the course: " National Identity and Cultural Translations "
___________________________________________________________________________________ S U M M E R 2 0 0 7 - July/August Artistic Director/Choreographer Adriana Pegorer has received an award " National Identity and Cultural Translations " The course will enable students to analyse and comprehend Latin American and and Prof. Jeff Tobin at GLOSAS Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA
Adriana with Horacio Ferrer at the Academia de Tango
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Adagio con Brio
Adriana & Gaye
