Raw Dates #7

Raw Dates #7

19/03/2022
Doors at 20:00
Event starts at 20:30
iii workspace
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Raw Dates is an interdisciplinary improvisation series in iii’s program organized by Wen Chin Fu and Riccardo Marogna. Raw Dates aims to open a playground for a group of performers/improvisers to present unexpected and mixed ‘blind date’ lineups in the broadest multi-disciplinary sense. Lineups will be social and artistic experiments at work. The audience is presented with a work-in-progress scenario; the process of real-time creation. All process, no expectations. The curators, performers and the audience themselves are invited to take their chances, risks, and trust the results.

For this edition we came up with a sort of ‘chain experiment’, inviting a performer and asking her/him in turn to invite another one and so on… the result will be a surprising raw ‘blind date’, featuring Harald Austbø (cello, voice, beatboxing), Onno Govaert (drums), Ludmila Rodrigues (performer), Fazle Shairmahomed (dance).

Lineup: 

Harald Austbø (cello, voice, human beatbox)

Onno Govaert (drums)

Ludmila Rodrigues (performer)

Fazle Shairmahomed (dance)

Bios

Harald Austbø began classical cello at the age of nine and later came into contact with improvisation through Ernst Reijseger. He has a Bachelor in Acting (Antwerp Theater School) and a Bachelor Cello-Jazz (Conservatory of Amsterdam). He toured and composed for various music theatre productions (Orkater, Via Berlin, De Nwe Tijd, Wunderbaum) in the Netherlands and Belgium and plays in various jazz, improvisation and theatre groups. He played on  North Sea Jazz, Moers festival, 12 points Dublin, Buenos Aires jazz festival, Jazzfietstour  and many other national and international venues and festivals. Current bands are: The Ambush Party, Susies Haarlok, Chris Corstens Kwartet. Felicity Provan Quintet. Austbø also has a solo performance  with cello,  singing and human beat box.

Ludmila Rodrigues investigates the entanglement of social interaction, cognition, affect, trust and sensory experience. She operates as an artist, scenographer, workshop leader and sometimes performer, at the intersection of architecture, dance, and ritual. Her choreographic objects and spatial interventions become an interface to activate the senses and explore relations of vulnerability and agency. Through these performative situations Rodrigues interrogates how art can create a place beyond the conscious domain, engendering affective and social transformation.

Originally from Rio de Janeiro (Brazil, 1979), she is based in The Hague since 2009. She holds a degree in Architecture and Urban Planning by the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ, 2007), a bachelor by the ArtScience Interfaculty (KABK, 2013) and a master degree by the Art Senses Lab (PXL-MAD, 2018). Rodrigues has shown works at Cinekid – Amsterdam, GoteborgsOperan – Gothenburg, Space Media Festival – Taipei, FILE – São Paulo and TodaysArt Festival – The Hague.

Fazle Shairmahomed creates decolonizing rituals, performance art, and dance. Their work is rooted in ancestral work and intersectional activism. Through the urgency of community building their work creates spaces in which different communities are invited to nurture conversations around colonialism and the ways in which it has impacted our histories and the ways in which it exists today. The multi-sensorial approach in their work also challenges the ways in which we perceive the world around us through themes such as death, rebirth, ancestry, belonging, colonial histories, and healing. Since 2013 he is also one of the members of CLOUD danslab, an artist run dance studio which supports research and practice of dance, movement, and performance art in the Hague. 

The physcial work and research of Fazle is deeply rooted in ways of approaching the state of trance, through archaic movements and ritual practices mostly inspired and informed by Muslim/Sufi traditions of Gnawa, Zar, the whirling Dervish; Japanese Butoh, Surinamese Winti culture, Hindu rituals, Caribbean Bubbling, Muslim funeral practices, Vogueing, and the Club.

Fazle was born and raised in a multicultural society in de Transvaal/Schilderswijk in Den Haag, in the Netherlands, they feel very hybrid, and identifies currently, but not exclusively, as Dutch, Surinamese-Hindustani, Indo-Caribbean, Muslim, Queer, non-binary, and as a person of color.  

Raw Dates #7is presented by iii with financial support from Creative Industries Fund NL and The Municipality of The Hague.

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