30.01.2018 : February + March 2018: save the dates!
Dance Is Ancient
– March 3
at Inkonst, Malmö
– March 24
at festival Zürich Moves, Zürich
Walk+Talk
– February 18
at Skogen, Gothenburg
01.09.2017 : Fall 2017 dates
Some more dances this fall:
Dad & Son
Sept 8
at festival My Wild Flag, Weld, Stockholm,
Walk+talk+talk
Sept 9
at festival My Wild Flag, CCAP, Stockholm
Technosomatics / one-on-one sessions
Sept 30
at Mossutställningar, Stockholm
Good Girls Go To Heaven, Bad Girls Go Everywhere
Oct 25
at Festival Kondenz, Belgrade
Walk+talk
Nov 17+18
at Dock 11, Berlin
08.08.2017 : Norbergfestival 2017 memories
Dance is ancient at Norbergfestival was such a great experience! Performing in a music festival was a new experience, which I truly hope to have again in the future. The crowd was amazing, dancing all night long and bringing such a wonderful energy in the room! I am also very grateful to the festival crew and all the volunteers, who created the perfect context for it to happen! Here are some pictures, to give a taste of how it looked like and how it felt.
13.06.2017 : NEWSLETTER JUNE 2017
picture: Thomas Zamolo
This summer will not be less full of dance and techno beats than last winter and spring! I will show again two of my collaborations with the DJ Fiedel (Berghain/Ostgut ton) and the visual artist Anton Stoianov:
Good Girls Go To Heaven, Bad Girls Go Everywhere (2014) and Dance Is Ancient (2016). Presenting again Dance Is ancient is particularly exciting, as it will be the first time I will show my work in a music festival. I will also make a new version of Walk + Talk (project initiated by Philipp Gehmacher), very different than the one I presented in Stockholm in december 2013. Pivotal changes occurred in my work since then, and this new version will be the occasion to map them. I will also give Technosomatics workshops and perform in Cristina Caprioli’s piece A Line_up. Being part of Cristina’s new work is a thrill, even more as it’s the first time in seven years that I am dancing in someone else’s work. I hope to see you there!
Performances
June 23 / Walk + Talk / initiated by Philipp Gehmacher / Malta Festival, Stary Browar / Poznan, Poland
July 1 / Good Girls Go To Heaven, Bad Girls Go Everywhere / Frédéric Gies with Fiedel and Anton Stoianov / Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle / Warsaw, Poland
July 27 / Dance Is Ancient / Frédéric Gies with Fiedel and Anton Stoianov / Norbergsfestival / Norberg, Sweden
Workshops
June 26-30 / Technosomatics workshop / Stary Browar / Poznan, Poland
July 2 / Technosomatics workshop / Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle / Warsaw, Poland
Performing in other works
August 25+26 / A Line_up / Cristina Caprioli / Tanz Im August / Berlin, Germany
04.10.2016 : COMING SOON! DANCE IS ANCIENT
03.10.2016 : RIBBON DANCE in COPENHAGEN
So far my work brought me to France, Germany, Finland, Croatia, Brazil, Spain, Netherlands, Serbia, Egypt, Sweden, UK, Belgium, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Estonia and Poland. Ribbon dance brings me to Copenhagen for first time.
RIBBON DANCE
at Dansehallerne, October 8, 21.00
in the frame of the conference Fiction/Reality
Ribbon dance, with music by Fiedel, ready-made ribbon by Anton Stoianov and lights by Thomas Zamolo.
Special thanks to: a techno and dance lover called Slaven Rupic, dancers from Senegal whose names remain unknown, a dancer from the US called Trisha Brown
16.06.2015 : Dance (Praticable) + Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere
Dance (Praticable) + Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere in Poznan
in the frame of the exhibition Let’s dance in the Malta Festival
Dance (Praticable), June 19 at 19:30
Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere, June 20 at 21:00
16.03.2015 : Premiere: At the bottom left corner + Ribbon dance
At the bottom left corner + Ribbon dance
Frédéric Gies & Anna Pehrsson with Fiedel
March 28 at 19:00
March 29 at 18:00 (!)
at Weld
At the bottom left corner
Dance: Frédéric Gies and Anna Pehrsson
DJ: Fiedel
Lighting design: Thomas Zamolo
Tights: Such a Sally
Ribbon dance
Dance: Frédéric Gies
DJ: Fiedel
Research collaborator: Carla Bottiglieri
Ribbon ready made: Anton Stoianov
Lighting design: Thomas Zamolo
Thanks to: Ulrika Berg, Philip Berlin, Cristina Caprioli
Special thanks to: a techno and dance lover called Slaven Rupic, dancers from Senegal whose names remain unknown, a dancer from the US called Trisha Brown
Frédéric Gies and Anna Perhsson invite you to a 2h44min evening of dance, infused with the contagious beats of the techno set created by Fiedel for the occasion. During this evening, Anna and Frédéric will dance their At the bottom left corner, and Frédéric his Ribbon dance.
Both dances, which are dances of the in-between (in-between bodies, objects and histories) make manifest in two different yet connected ways the drives and forces that set off bodies or things in movement and the movement potential to self-generate, like a motor activated by its own energy. Although they inevitably communicate something else, these dances don’t seek to communicate anything but themselves and the subterraneous currents that traverse them.
Ribbon dance is part of Frédéric Gies research project “Bad girls practices: un-writing dance, the body and the choir”, which he currently develops at DOCH-UNIARTS.
05.12.2014 : The dancer as agent collection
The online version of The dancer as agent collection, for which I wrote the essay Living the tribe, leaving the tribe is published now on oralsite.be.
This collection is an unwrapping of The Dancer as Agent conference (DOCH Stockholm, November 2013). Launched in December 2014, it creates a context in which the contours of agency that emerge from dancers’ artistic practices can be bounced off, wandered through, felt, fit and shared.
Credits
Editors: Chrysa Parkinson and Jeroen Peeters
Editorial assistance: Julien Bruneau
Lay-out: Julien Bruneau and Jeroen Peeters
Videos and stills: Mauri film
Drawings: Brynjar Abel Bandlien
18.11.2014 : Bad girls practices: the 0.00% seminar #1
22 NOV, Stockholm University of the Arts
Bad girls practices: the 0.00% seminar #1
Bad girls practices: the 0.00% seminar #1 is an invitation to spend seven hours together in the same place: Stockholm University of the Arts, Linnégatan 87, Stockholm. During these seven hours, Frédéric Gies will present the outcomes of his research project Bad girls practices: un-writing dance, the body and the choir. He will host the event together with Anna Efraimsson and Peter Mills. There will be dance, techno, talks, food and probably many other things. Of course, nobody is obliged to stay during the whole time, but coming at the beginning is good.
This event, conceived as a new step within the research project, will start at 11:00 with “Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere”, a 3 hours 38 minutes experiment that Frédéric Gies prepared with the DJ Fiedel (resident in Berghain) and the visual artist Anton Stoianov.
Etymologically, choreography means writing the circle dance, the choir dance. If one understand the choir dance as the choir, as what we do together, as what we do as a community, then there is a political issue at the core of the task of choreographing. Interestingly enough, the word made its first appearance in 1700, during French absolutism, to name a dance notation system created by Raul Auger Feuillet, who made his career at the Royal Academy of Music in France. The research project Bad girls practices: un-writing dance, the body and the choir seeks for ways to address the issue at the core of the word choreography in relation to specific aspects of the current political context. It seeks for way to approach choreography as an un-writing practice.
During the one year process of this research, Frédéric Gies collaborated with:
– Carla Bottiglieri: dancer, BMC practitioner and phd student at the Dance Department of Paris 8 University.
– Peter Mills: choreographer, former student in the MA in choreography at DOCH-SKH
– Anna Efraimsson: curator and producer, senior lecturer in choreography with a specialization in curatorial practices at DOCH-SKH