Raw Dates #2
October 7th, 2020,
iii workspace, The Hague
Doors open at 20:00,
Event starts 20:30
Entrance: €5 – €10 (sliding scale)
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This event is part of We Are Public. Please proceed to the ticket page to book a ticket with your membership card.
Performances by: Stephanie Pan (curator) Naomie Pieter, Gonçalo Almeida and Astrid van der Velde.
Raw Dates is a new interdisciplinary improvisation series in iii’s program organized by Wen Chin Fu and Riccardo Marogna.
Inspired by the Amsterdam-based Oorsprong series, Raw Dates aims to open a playground for a group of curators to present unexpected and mixed ‘blind date’ lineups in the broadest multi-disciplinary sense. The curator of the first edition will be Raoul van der Weide (founder of Oorsprong series).
Lineups will be social and artistic experiments at work. The audience is presented with a work-in-progress scenario, the process of real time creation. All process, no expectations. The curators, performers and the audience themselves are invited to take their chances, risks, and trust the results.
Curator
Stephanie Pan (vocalist, performer, maker, curator)
Stephanie Pan is a vocalist, performance artist, maker, and multi-instrumentalist currently based in The Hague, the Netherlands. At the root of her work is the notion of pure communication; finding a form of contact with the audience which is stripped of social expectations and distractions, that speaks beyond the conventional and social limitations and constructs of language. A mutating combination of theater/performance art/experimental music/improvisation/controlled chaos/pop music/classical music, her work is visceral, passionate and intense, and often explores the limits of the body and voice.
Ms. Pan received her Masters in Theatre from DasArts: Advanced Studies in the Performing Arts (AHK), and holds a BA from UC Berkeley in Music and Applied Mathematics, and a First Phase Diploma, with distinction, in Classical Singing from The Royal Conservatory, The Hague.
Naomie Pieter (choreographer, mover, activist)
Intersectional queer and anti-racist activist Naomie Pieter (1990) is the founder of ‘ Pon Di Pride’ and co-founder of ‘Black Queer & Trans Resistance NL’, as well as the founder of Black Pride NL. She is also a leading voice within the Black Lives Matter movement. Having completed her training as a choreographer at Amsterdam’s Academy of Theatre and Dance, Naomie mixes the organization of protest rallies with designing choreographies effortlessly. “Protest is a social choreography. We’re organizing body, space and time.“
More about Naomie @naomiepieter
Gonçalo Almeida (contrabass)
Gonçalo Almeida born in 1978 Lisbon, Portugal. Lives in Rotterdam, Netherlands, where he plays in a variety of projects; from modern jazz, freejazz, jazzcore and free improvisation music, having shared the stage with improvisers such has Ab Baars, Balasz Pandi, Chris Speed, Carlos Zíngaro, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Jasper Stadhouders, Jorrit Dijkstra, Martin van Duynhoven, Rodrigo Amado, Tobias Klein and Wilbert de Joode. He is founder, composer and bass player of Lama trio, Albatre, Hydra Ensemble and member of The Attic, Cement Shoes, Ikizukuri, Spinifex, Tetterapadequ, The Selva, Roji, Almeida/Duynhoven/Klein trio. He has also worked in collaboration with multi media artists such as video artists, modern dancers, poets and theatre makers, honourable mentions include Arnold Dreyblatt, Julyen Hamilton and Rita Vilhena.
Astrid van der Velde (video and cardboard artist)
Coming from a background in Art and Design in Education, Astrid’s path has led from clay to virtual reality. Nowadays she works as a videographer, Cardboarder and is one of the BlackBox managers at HKU. She builds images, both with tangible and digital materials and is passionate about teaching. As a videographer, Astrid is specialised in theatre-related products: registrations & trailers but also projections (mostly interactive) as a significant part of the performance. Astrid is also part of Cardboarders; a collaboration of creatives who claim to be able to build anything from cardboard. At festivals such as Lowlands, Nowhere and Defqon1 they host sweatshops and build large, temporary works of art together with the public. In HKU, Utrecht University of the Arts, she guides students who are eager to learn about implementing creative technology; VR, various sensors, projection mapping and stringing those together in data flow programs like Isadora.
Raw Dates is presented by iii with financial support from The Municipality of The Hague and The Performing Arts Fund NL