Open Studio

January 19th & 20th 19:00 h

Free Entrance

sketchbook series with Rosalind Crisp & Andrea Keiz

LaborGras hosts Rosalind Crisp and Andrea Keitz in a new collaboration. A first development of this collaboration will be seen at the Open Studio.

Where does the performing space begin and end? A dancer and a video artist criss-cross the frontier between audience and stage - 'dancing' the in-between.

A further Development of this collaboration will take place in Paris at the Atelier de Paris-Carolyn Carlson on Thursday February 2nd, 18:00 h. For more Information please visit: http://www.atelierdeparis.org/ or http://www.omeodance.com/

Rosalind Crisp, after early training in classical and contemporary dance, Rosalind studied release, BMC® and Contact Improvisation at the EDDC in Arnhem, Holland.  She created the Omeo Dance studio in Sydney as a site for her choreographic research for over 10 years, receiving a  number of awards and a choreographic fellowship from the Australia Council, 1999-2001. Since 2003 her company is based in Paris where she is a choreographic associate of the Atelier de Paris - Carolyn Carlson and teaches and performs throughout Europe.

Andrea Keiz, while finishing her studies as a biologist in Göttingen, Andrea Keiz started an education as a teacher for dance improvisation. Through that she got involved in Contact Improvisation as well as in other improvisational work, release based technics and body work. After a few years of working in different constellations in different countries, she started to work with video as a tool related to movement. Since 2000 she is working in the field of video documentation of contemporary dance in Berlin. Until 2011 mainly in collaboration with Mime Centrum Berlin, where she was also involved in developing the database for the archive. In addition to that, she is doing documentation of festivals, contributing video documentation in educational processes as well as life video work and photo in performance. Since 2011 she is part of the stuff of HZT Berlin, supporting students in questions around video and mentoring individual work. How to use video as a media which can possibly transport more of a dance then simply a reproduction of an image is a constant arising question.