This week choreographer and dancer Harriet Latham and I have started our collaboration in which we research site specific improvisations via dance and film.
An impression from our first London based session
Photo’s by © ANNE• 2016
Miku and I are delighted to announce that
ONES will be shown at Swallowsfeet Festival 2016
Photo by © ANNE• 2015
Miku and I want to say many thanks to all the wonderful people that came to see ONES in October and a big thank you to Deptford X, Deli X, Abeerance and Jobcentre for having us! It was wonderful to meet you all and hear your responses. You made it a super experience!
We are very excited to tell you that we are working on our second part of the proposed triptych ONES, which will make it’s appearance around March 2016.
Not only will we keep crossing the 9 hour time difference in this project, but we also have added a new country to the mix: China!
Keep in touch by following the process on our blogs and by following us on Facebook & Twitter.
Here are some snap shots from ONES 2015 by © ANNE• 2015.
This October the first part of ONES will be shown @Deptford X festival!
Come and join us across borders from Japan to United Kingdom
from 1-4 October 2015
between 6-9 pm @ Deli X, London
ONES
2 women
2 countries
2 disciplines
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1 installation
ONES is a collaboration between Dutch visual artist Anne Verheij and Japanese choreographer Miku Tsuchiya, in which film and dance are explored across various urban sites in London.
ONES engages the spectator through juxtaposing two films created out of the same footage, capturing the individual’s rhythm amidst the pulse of the restless city.
Concept | film | montage: Anne Verheij
Performance | montage: Miku Tsuchiya
Sound design: Jack Goodwin
Photo by © ANNE• 2015
Very exciting news:
Tomorrow we’ll have our first presentation of Een stukje Nu.
In the presentation of Een stukje Nu live music, dance, spoken word and film come together in a journey through time, guided by the personal stories of residents from nursing home Het Schouw.
Back in the day everything used to be better and we are forgetting the present.
In the encounter we remember who we are.
Concept | choreography: Kathrin Gramelsberger
Music: Felix Hildenbrand
Performance: Mher Brutyan
Text: Sjaan Flikkert
Film: Anne Verheij
Thanks to Noorderparkkamer and verpleeghuis Het Schouw.
Photo by © ANNE• 2015
From the start of this project Miku and I have said that it would be an experiment, where we would discover what happens if you give two collaborators from two different disciplines the same material, which has been created together, to edit an individual film of the exact same length, using the exact same soundtrack.
Since we are each editing at the moment from individual perspectives without communicating about the process, we are bound to have two very different films that will come together through location, sound, style and performance.
Miku is a choreographer who explores the space with her whole body, merging it in to the environment. As a visual artist, I explore the space through a camera lens and frame, putting my body outside of the environment to let my eyes make a composition of the different elements within it. Therefore, our methods of exploring the various locations will have been different and thus it will affect our editing processes.
This by far is the most fascinating and thrilling part of the project so far, because we can’t predict the exact outcome. I’m very excited to see the differences and similarities between how Miku and I see, think and explore when we are not creating together in person.
ONES
2 women
2 countries
2 disciplines
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1 installation
Photo by © ANNE• 2015
Over the last weeks Miku and I have been in conversation with our composers Cassie Kinoshi and Jack Goodwin to come to three separate soundtracks. Both composers have very different styles and backgrounds, which makes for an intriguing input for our editing process. At the beginning of April they received our selected sounds, film stills and impressions. From there they each took the sounds to a new level where the sounds were stretched, distorted and shaped into a rhythmic soundtrack.
Since their soundscapes are simultaneously our timelines in order for Miku and I to edit our films to independently, it will be a real experiment to see how their work influences our editing process.
Miku and I are now in the process of choosing specific footage from each location to start this editing process. The aim for us is to both have the same footage to edit with, but not to communicate on how we are going to edit it before or while we are editing.
The planning was to start this process back in April, but due to serious computer malfunction we had to postpone this process to June.
We will keep you posted on this exciting project of which we are planning a showing of work in progress in the beginning of July!
ONES
2 women
2 voices
2 countries
2 disciplines
2 intuitions
2 rhythms
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1 installation
Photo by © ANNE• 2015
OF(f) COURSE is a new research project in collaboration with Kathrin Gramelsberger. It stems from my graduation piece ‘On An Empty Stomach’, for which I received distinction at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, London.
Spread through multiple locations in London Kathrin and I went looking for movement and rhythm. I examined various ways in which I can compose my digital canvas to achieve a digital collage painting. My central focus point is rhythm, which I research through elements of light, lines, textures, repetition and movement. Kathrin has gone in search of the movement and rhythm in the location and how they affect her own movements.
Follow the research that extends between London and Amsterdam right here.
Photo by © ANNE• 2015
Most exciting news!
We have started to collaborate with two amazing composers to take our recorded sounds to the next level: a soundtrack.
Composer Cassie Kinoshi (On An Empty Stomach) has agreed to make a soundtrack for our third location.
Sound designer Jack Goodwin (Teokorus) has agreed to create the soundtrack for our first location.
2 women
2 voices
2 countries
2 disciplines
2 intuitions
2 rhythms
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1 installation
Photo by ©ANNE• 2014
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