Neon Productions - Spring News

Neon’s new collaborative team revealed!

We’re thrilled to announce Neon’s artistic team for ‘The Intention’:

Choreography & Concept: Adrienne Hart
Original score: Nils Frahm |  Anne Müller
Dancers: Jennifer Essex | David Lloyd
Costume Design: Anke Bruns
Lighting Design: Nico de Rooij

Inspired by the novel ‘The Invention of Morel’ by Adolfo Bioy Casares, ‘The Intention’ is a new 30-minute stage work made possible thanks to the support of
Arts Council Southwest, Dance Digital and Swindon Dance. ‘The Intention’ will be created during residencies at both Swindon Dance (UK) and Dock11’s Eden (Germany). Company classes will be open to professional dancers, dates and times to be announced soon.

Contemporary Dance Opera premieres in Norway

 Photos by Stefan Daub
 
In late 2010 the Berlin based media artist duo SpringerParker invited Neon’s Adrienne Hart to choreograph their contemporary dance opera ‘There Are Places In Our Heads One Can Travel To’. Since 2008 SpringerParker have been travelling around the region of Finnmark in a motor caravan.
During several artistic explorations they’ve been observing the region, while collecting images, sounds and stories for their archives
– memories that are now transformed into a Contemporary Dance Opera about the landscape, the environment and the people.

‘There Are Places In Our Heads One Can Travel To’ premiered in Kirkenes, Norway as part of the Barents Spektakel festival on the 5th February 2011.  

Concept/images/music: SpringerParker (Germany).
Opera singer: Lilly Jørstad (Norway).
Musicians: Bram Stadhouders (guitar), Bob Heuvelmans (harp) (Holland).
Choreographer: Adrienne Hart (Great Britain).
String quartet: Viktor Orri Árnason, Bjarni Frímann Bjarnason, Louis Bona, Karl Jóhann Bjarnason (Iceland).
Ballet-dancers from the State Musical Theatre of Karelia (Russia):
Semen Ruban, Vladimir Varnava, Eduard Demidov and Anatolii Skuratov.

Produced by Pikene på Broen and SpringerParker.

To find out more about the project and the collaborative process check out SpringerParker’s online log book here:
http://www.memoria-norway.com/33-0-Logbook-Reise-5.html

Photo by Michael McArenko

Check out behind the scenes photos from rehearsals in Petrozavosk, Russia and more over on Neon’s Facebook page:  
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Neon-Productions/33367450235

‘Inpulse’ Commission

Dance Digital the regional dance agency based in Chelmsford invited Adrienne to work with Inpulse, Herfordshire’s Youth Dance Company, this February. Adrienne has created a new 5-minute work for the youth dance company, to be performed on 23rd March 2011 as part of SpringBlast in Chelmsford.

For more information please visit: http://dancedigital.org.uk/2010/11/springblast-2011/

Exeter YDA Commission

Swindon Dance YDA dance and film commission (2010). Photos by Mark Pepperall

 This April will see Adrienne and film collaborator Alice Powell working with the Exeter students from the Swindon Dance Youth Dance Academy (part of the nationwide CAT scheme designed to offer professional dance training to young people). We’re delighted to be invited by YDA to spent an intensive week with their Exeter programme in resident at Dartington Hall. Both Adrienne and the dancers will be blogging throughout the week-long intensive.
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Swindon Dance asked Neon to put together a showreel for the Swindon Dance Youth Dance Academy late last year.

You can check out the showreel here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYSBDRG-qGo

For more info:
http://www.swindondance.org.uk/YDA/youthDanceAcademy.aspx

Digital Stages

Adrienne has been invited to be part of a discussion panel at the new festival DIGITAL STAGES.
DIGITAL STAGES is a festival dedicated to digital media and live arts, taking place from 22 to 27 April 2011 across venues in East London.

DIGITAL STAGES will showcase performances across disciplines that incorporate digital media (dance, theatre, performance and visual art) and will offer discussion panels, talks and practical workshops. Bringing together artists and scholars from the UK, USA, Russia, Canada and Germany, DIGITAL STAGES will trace the history of digital media and live art while also placing a spotlight on young artists thereby mapping out the trajectory of its development for the future.

Adrienne will participate in the panel discussion How Has Digital Changed Your Art?
From 1pm on Wednesday 27th April at  
Queen Mary University, London.

For more info: 
Website: http://www.digitalstagesfestival.co.uk
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Digital-Stages/176776712337059

...and finally


Nils Frahm & Anne Müller
‘7fingers’

A little taster of what to expect from Neon’s upcoming collaborators Nils Frahm and Anne Müller. With their first collective release Nils Frahm and Anne Müller have built a world where modern classical and electronica collide creating an ‘intoxicating and delicious’ collection of songs. ‘7fingers’ is out now on Erased Tapes. Available on CD, vinyl and digital download this record is currently receiving some great press from the UK music mags.

‘The combined talents of wunderkind pianist Frahm and Anne Müller here produce a subtle, seductive
chamber music sporadically interleaved with electronic glitches’ **** – Mojo

Erased Tapes is also home to Peter Broderick’s ‘Music for Falling From Trees’ (Neon’s 2009 commission) and Olafur Arnalds ‘Dyad 1909’
(originally commissioned by Wayne McGregor | Random Dance in 2010).  
 
http://erasedtapes.com