ITINERANT ARTS RESIDENCY
Via creative play around the world the art playground aims to present possibility and transformation, responsibility and risk, the hidden spark inside everyone and its revealing to create a better day for all.
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SYMBOLOGY MOVING THROUGH: SYROS
(2018) ARTIST RESIDENCY A 3-week artist residency at Akropoditi Dance Center in Syros, the capital island of the Cyclades, Greece. The residency explores revealing the hidden through symbology, elements of communication that allow people to go beyond what is known or seen. With the objective to encourage viewers/participants to expand their awareness of subtle energetic exchanges happening in their self, their environment and universal connections, DMo utilizes symbology as quick references or anchors to awareness of these diverse aspects of our being. Intertwining the DMo living art playground view, symbology cards will be attached around the town in local spaces, as well as throughout the studio, where there will also be a Creative Symbology Wall Chart with 22 symbols connected to exercise experiments, created by DMo. DMo will also present an open lab to the community, along with a TAP XP finale presentation. The residency encourages, provokes and exposes thoughts and feelings that allude to one's authenticity - which is a uniting essence - with active ways to experience life more creatively and fully. |
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Akropoditi Dance Center LOCATION Iroon Polytechneiou 84, 84100 Ermoupoli, Syros, Greece |
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THEATRICAL DEVELOPMENT: BASSANO
(2018) ARTIST RESIDENCY GUEST Invited as a guest artist during dancer/choreographer and ReiMoves founder Monica Brunello's artist residency at CSC in Bassano Del Grappa, Italy. Given the task of creating a prelude to the performance-in-progress being developed during the residency. What was created was Prelude, a short physical theatre piece that acts as a prelude to the dance performance From Earth We Grow. |
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Centro per la Scena Contemporanea (CSC) LOCATION Bassano del Grappa, Vicenza, Italy |
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SPELLBOUND: VILLA DE LEYVA
(2018) STUDIO STAY Extended the chance to experience Colombian culture, landscape and energy, DMo lived and mused between the richly historical locations of Bogotá and Villa de Leyva, situated in the Boyacá Department, and worked on new designs for The Art Playground. From the local studio in Villa de Leyva, DMo had the opportunity to discover the art and artists of the area, explore the semi-desert terrain and its ancient and mystical history, and then feel the thriving vibrancy of the capital city. |
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Atelier Lilú joyas LOCATION Carrera 9 # 14 - 57, Bogotá - Villa de Leyva Boyacá, Colombia |
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SENSORIZED: TAMIL NADU
(2018) COMMUNITY STAY Exploring the Tamil Nadu region, visiting a number of communities and schools in diverse towns of the region, talking with teachers, meeting and addressing students, visiting home villages. Also undertaking a collaborative mural project with the children of the Lourdes Servite School in Chidambaram, which initiated the #SpeakYourVoice Challenge. |
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Frati Servi di Maria LOCATION Various schools and communities in Tamil Nadu, India |
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CREATIVE PROCESS R&D: PINKAFELD
(2016) ARTIST RESIDENCY A two-week Creative Process Research and Development Residency at D.ID Dance Identity’s Choreographic Center in Pinkafeld, Burgenland, Austria. Working with a group of students from the Music and Art University of Vienna (MUK), this residency gave DMo the chance to explore the creative process from a dancer’s point of view, utilizing material developed from past research and experience. Together they explored topics of inspiration, physical creation, spatial awareness (including space in terms of the various senses), purpose in practice, blockages and the blurring line of art and life. The residency culminated in a choreographed piece that was then shared by the students as an impromptu performance in a busy intersection of Pinkafeld. |
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D.ID Dance Identity LOCATION Pinkafeld, Burgenland, Austria |
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CREATIVE RESEARCH: BASSANO
(2016) ARTIST RESIDENCY A one-week Creative Research Residency at Centro per la Scena Contemporanea in Bassano del Grappa, Italy. DMo conversed with dancers, filmmakers and theatre performers, attended workshops, and utilized studio time to explore the creative process and its delivery and experience as sensed by others. Those involved ranged from seasoned professionals to newcomers, from able bodied participants to those with special needs. DMo was also able to partake in Dance Well classes, dance classes created for people with Parkinson’s disease. Key topics of interests were: differences in display of inhibitions; identity, what it’s attached to and formed from; uniqueness in interpretation and movement of exercises; and the general capacity we have for developing, interpreting, participating in and delivering creative activity, including performance, with the intention of inclusiveness, the breaking down of barriers (particularly of the mind, both between people and within our self) and the stripping away of layers. |
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Centro per la Scena Contemporanea (CSC) LOCATION Bassano del Grappa, Vicenza, Italy |
