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Magpie - Katie Duck and Alfredo Genovesi at Studio seven and the orgelpark Amsterdam, the Netherlands
July 16, 2012 to August 24, 2012
Workshops Katie Duck and Alfredo Genovesi 2012 July 16 to August 19 Magpie improvisation summer course Amsterdam studio seven (timetable on the site) €500 During the first four weeks of this…See More
Katie Duck posted a blog postImprovisation Summer course and workshop in Amsterdam for musicians and dancers
These summer activitys still have sapces July 18 to August 20 2011 Improvisation music dance Summer course Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Five week course August 23-27 Collective workshop Oregelpark Amsterdam Dance teachers …See More
Katie Duck posted an eventDuck projects - Zaal 100 sereis Amsterdam Crimes and Rock Casualties at Zaal 100 Amsterdam
February 18, 2011 from 9pm to 11pm
Duck Projects Zaal 100 Amsterdam 6 EU entrance - Crimes and Rock CasualtiesA monthly series held at the zaal 100 under the direction of Katie Duck and Alfredo Genovesi. First set is run by a visual performance direction - second set is run by a music direction. Each event are improvisations by the players and performers around the theme of a Crime and a Rock…See More
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- February 25, 2012
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- About Me (human/individual)/interests, work..short bio/ THis is the most important. It is the only way to know that you are not a SPAMBOT!Be generous!
- Born in Oxnard California (1951), Katie Duck is a dancer, choreographer and teacher. She began performing in plays and musicals as a teenager, attended the University of Utah as a modern dance major and then joined the Salt Lake City Mime Troupe touring in the United States and Europe. (1973-9).
She left the United States in 1976 to live in Amsterdam, Holland and toured throughout Europe as a performer in solo productions, in productions with Carlos Traffic, Jango Edwards (friends roadshow) and in improvisations with Amsterdam music artists Ernst Reijseger (cello), Tristan Honsinger (cello), Sean Bergen (sax) and Michael Moore (sax). She changed her name to Katie Duck while touring her first solo in Europe “duck play” in 1976.
In 1979, she moved to Italy where she formed the company GROUPO. Photoes of Gruppo by Annelies Wolf She toured through out Europe with her one-hour productions Rutles, The Orange Man, Brown eye Green eye and Mind the gap and participated in free lance improvisation collaborations with Julyen Hamilton, Kristie Simpson and Steve Paxton among others. In 1986 she accepted a senior lecturer position at Dartington College of Arts teaching for the theater department as head of the choreography course. In 1991 she accepted a part time post at the Hogeschool voor de kunsten (AHK) dance departments in Amsterdam teaching movement research, improvisation, composition and technique.
Throughout her career she has worked with music artists who share her passion for live time performance and the integration of music, text and dance within compositions for performance. She has performed in duet and in ensembles with music artists Han Bennink, Andy Moore (the EX) and many others. Katie created the Company Magpie Music Dance Company in 1995-2005 in Amsterdam to reflect her work with improvisations musicians. Magpie toured in Europe, the USA, Asia and Scandinavia and received national funding from 2002-2006 for tours within the Netherlands from the Nederland fonds voor the podimkunsten. In 2006 she evolved Magpie into an umbrella organization, Magpie Umbrella.
Katie has initiated numerous dance and music improvisation on-going events in her three bases Holland, Italy and England. In her current base Amsterdam. Her initiatives include a yearly Improvisation festival at the Frascati Theater (1994-9), a monthly improvisation series at the Fijnhout Theater (1992-3), the Muiderpoort Theater (1994-9), The Melkweg Theater (2000-2001) and OT301 Cultural center (2002-2006).
By 1988 she discovered the internet evolution and created an international focus group for email announcements, a youtube presence with her home videos and continues to encourage artists to build their internet presence as part of their creative work.
Presently Katie holds yearly a nine week improvisation summer course, and three five day workshops (Xmas Holiday workshop, July workshop and The Collective workshop orgelpark) in Amsterdam and a three week winter course in Dartington England under the title Magpie Umbrella. She has ten year with the AHK theater school in Amsterdam (part time teaching post) in Amsterdam as tutor and stage coordinator for the SNDO choreography department and improvisation teacher for the Modern Dance department. She tours internationally as the director of Duck Projects alongside her workshops in Asia, the USA, England, Scandinavia and Europe.
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Improvisation Summer course and workshop in Amsterdam for musicians and dancers
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 6:57am 0 Comments 0 Likes
These summer activitys still have sapces
July 18 to August…
doing interviews
Posted on April 13, 2008 at 9:00pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
Got this from a friend...Marlon's interview with me i...........interviews are a wank........interviewing is the pretense that the artist has something profound to say .........in a time when art as we have known it has already become extent.......interviews live in a dream world of the past........ we dive into each others world......... alone in a high art world with our rich friends.........and pretentious attitudes......something made important that actually is not.........the dish towel… Continue
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