Activities
Project management
The project has been coordinated by a steering committee that took decision on artistic and technical issues. This committee was composed of a project manager, a financial director and one representatives of each of the co-organisers and the associated partner. Six meetings were held during the project, which ran from [...]
more...Creative process
The artistic team – Georg Reischl & Christiaan Richter and Iván Pérez & Benjamin Scheuer together with the conductor Wim Boerman who coached the two young composers – started in September 2011. In a one-year process, even before entering the studio, choreographers and composers exchanged ideas and concepts related [...]
more...Seminars
The rehearsal process of internationally mixed crossover 55/2 was framed by several reflective and theoretical interventions. First, a series of seminars introduced relevant issues of the artistic work and the overall project. Three seminars (one in each of the participating countries) has taken place at the beginning of the project, [...]
more...Music and Dance
Part of the project was to strengthen the understanding about the specifics of composing for dance and working with a live orchestra during the performances. For this reasons the dancers and choreographer visit the orchestra at their “home” while rehearsing. The perception of how the live music differs from the [...]
more...Music composition
Two young composers, Christiaan Richter and Benjamin Scheuer, contributed their creations to this artistic process. On an extended tour through three countries the dancers performed the new creations with orkest de ereprijs (NL). During the first artists meeting in Arnhem (September 2011) an extended time was spent on finding the [...]
more...Rehearsals in Cologne and Arnhem
In the beginning of the rehearsal period both choreographers paid attention to mainly two aspects: to get to know all the dancers and to build a group. Hours were spent on exercises to reveal and question the knowledge of each participant about dancing, inducing possible links or confrontations in a [...]
more...Final rehearsals
The final rehearsals in Valencia were dedicated to assembling all participants – dancers, musicians, composers, choreographers – and getting the pieces ready to go on stage. The artistic team negotiated on the relation between music and dance, sound and image, hearing and seeing. They were becoming aware of the acoustical [...]
more...Production
Following the main structure of the project, 3 production teams were established to support all the activities and duties of the project. Each partner was in charge of organizing the different tasks planned and to put into action. The local production teams were in charge to prepare meetings supporting the [...]
more...Communication plan
Internationally mixed – crossover 55/2 was continuously accompanied by a coordinated communication plan on local, national and international level. To coordinate activities a PR coordinator for the whole project (Inga Haschke (GER)) worked together with the PR coordinators of the partners involved (Heike Sauer (GER)/ Guillermo Arazo (ES)/ Vanessa Sloot [...]
more...Website
As part of the communication plan internationally mixed crossover 55/2 was accompanied by a website: www.internationally-mixed.eu The website connected to the project was established on the base of the CI of the project linked to the websites of the partner institutions. Furthermore links to social media such as facebook and [...]
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