m&de 2006 participants

We are delighted to announce the selected artists for m&de@dartington 2006

Maja Bugge (Norway)	Imogene Newland* (UK)
Paul Bull (UK)	Kyra Norman (UK)
Augusto Corrieri (UK)	Lorin Edwin Parker (USA)
Anna Huber (Germany)	Efrosini Protopapa* (UK)
Eva Karczag (USA)	Erik Speth (USA)
Alice Kemp (UK)	Susanne Thomas (UK)
Niklas Laustiola (Sweden)	Mario Verandi (Germany)
Keith McIntyre (UK)	Emma Welton (UK)
Alina Mikhaylova (Russia)	Christian Wolz (Germany)

Maja Bugge (Norway)
I am a Norwegian sound- and performance artist based in Oslo. I did five years of classical training playing the cello at the conservatory of Oslo (1994-1999). In 2001 I moved to England and did a MA in contemporary music at Dartington College of Arts. The MA at Dartington focused on the interdisciplinary nature of my work as a musician and performer, exploring a performance practice which simultaneously generates musical, physical and visual material. I have over the last years worked for various professional theatre and performance companies in Norway. This spring I am doing a sound/performance work as the artist in residency at the Festival of North Norway. The work is a site-specific piece set in a Hotelroom and will reflect on patterns of traveling today. This is the first time I am working purely with recorded sound. I will bring my cello and some recording equipment to Dartington and are very much looking forward to seeing you all there in April!

Paul Bull (UK)
Paul has an extensive range of experience in all fields of performance sound – theatre, contemporary dance and modern music. His first experience of contemporay dance was seeing Ballet Rambert at the Royal Northern College of Music performing "The Tempest" to Arne Nordheim's electronic score whilst a student of Biology in 1978.

Whilst at Leicester Haymarket in the early 1980s, he worked closely with the Dance Advisors of Leicestershire who introduced him to minimalism via Gavin Bryars, Steve Reich, Philip Glass and Michael Nyman. During his time at Leicester, he worked with Gavin Bryars on producing the musical soundtracks to several theatrical productions. His first real freelance job in 1990 was touring sound engineer with Siobhan Dacies' "Different Trains". he often works a ssound consultant to The Kosh and since 1998 has touring the Uk and Europe with Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company.

He has collaborated with Frances M. Lynch in 1996, and since then has toured Europe with her 1x Electric Voice. During that time, he has also worked on several VOCEM evt projects including Rashomon (IRCAM in Paris, Almeida Opera and most recently a GRM concert at Radio France in Paris), First Class Evening Entertainment (Hoxton Hall) and Songs of Love and Desire (bac). Other music projects have included Heiner Goebels’ No Arrival, No Parking , Navigation lll (Almeida @ Kings Cross during LIFT 2001), Errollyn Wallen’s multi-media production of Jordan Town. In 2005, Paul ran away to join pianocircus.

As a theatre sound designer, Paul has worked on the ATG touring production of Picasso’s Women, The Wrestling School’s tours of He Stumbled and A House of Correction, Blackbird and The Danny Crowe Show at The Bush Theatre and Oxygen at the Riverside Studios.

In addition to his sound skills, Paul also acts as a lighting designer and may know more than he cares to let on about regarding video projection.

Augusto Corrieri (UK)
Augusto makes performance and written works around themes of absence and perception. His new solo "vanishing acts" combines elements of dance, text, and music composed by Falling Sheep. He also practices improvisation (instant composition) in both music and movement.

Anna Huber (Germany)
After completing her dance education in Zurich, Anna Huber worked with different choreographers and directors in Switzerland, Austria and Germany, most recently with Jo Fabian and Helena Waldmann. Since 1989 she has lived and worked in Berlin. Anna Huber began her own choreographic research during her engagement at the Staatstheater Cottbus (1992-94). This resulted in the internationally acclaimed solos “in zwischen räumen“ (1995), “brief letters“ (1996), “unsichtbarst“ (1998), the group piece “die anderen und die gleichen“ in 1999, as well as the duo “l´autre et moi“ with the Taiwanese Lin Yuan Shang. In 2001 she developed “Stück mit Flügel” together with the pianist Susanne Huber and “two,too”, a duet with the Czech dancer Kristyna Lhotáková. Since 2002/03 she has been developing the site-specific project "umwege" in collaboration with the percussionist Fritz Hauser. 2004 she created "wolkenstück" for 5 dancers and 2 musicans as well as her solo "hierundoderhierundoderhierundoderdort". In 2005 she choreographed "trois de pas", a trio for the Theater St. Gallen. Anna Huber tours internationally with her pieces. She received the Ellys Gregor-Förderpreis of the Mary Wigmann-Society, Cologne in 2001 and in 2002 she was awarded the distinguished Swiss theatre Hans Reinhart-Ring, and her work was granted the “Tanz der Dinge" critic-jury prize. In 2005 she was offered a six-month studio grant in London funded by the Swiss cultural foundation Landis & Gyr.

Eva Karczag (USA)
Dance maker, dancer and educator. For the past three decades has practiced, taught and advocated explorative methods of art making. Performs solo and collaborative work internationally, many of her collaborations involving links across the arts. Her performance work and her teaching are informed by dance improvisation and mindful body practices (including T'ai Chi Ch'uan and Qi Gong, the Alexander Technique (certified teacher), Ideokinesis, and Yoga). Since 1972, she has been a member of leading groups in the field of experimental dance, including the Trisha Brown Dance Company (1979-86) and Strider (1972-75). She has taught dance at major colleges throughout the USA, Australia, and Europe, including on the faculty of the European Dance Development Center, (EDDC) Arnhem, The Netherlands (1990-2002). She has a Master of Fine Arts degree (Dance Research Fellow) from Bennington College, VT, USA (2004). Through both her performing and teaching she aims to communicate her love of full-bodied dancing and her interest in the practice of being in the moment.

Alice Kemp* (UK)
Currently an MA music student at Dartington College of Arts since embarking on the taught MA programme in Contemporary Music at DCA, I have been involved in countless fruitful collaborations and solo work including sounds and experimentation for and with the Body Cartography Project (Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad) who have performed with this music in Finland, Japan and the USA.

Various texts, digital and representations of non digital artworks and photo articles can be found at the online gallery which is the Lazarus Corporation. All works by Alice Kemp appear under the name Germseed. http://www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/v4/germseed

Niklas Laustiola (Sweden)
I arrived in London from Sweden in1994 to train at Laban Centre, after a year I left for Rambert School where I graduated in 1998. In 1998 I joined Random Dance Company. I danced for Wayne McGregor for 4 1/2 yrs. During my time with Random I choreographed a piece for National Youth Dance Company and a piece for Resolution! at The Place. I left Random to pursue choreography in 2002 and made a group piece with film and live music for Resolution! a ballet "en pointe" for ROH2's Outside In season and a piece for the 2nd year students at London Studio Centre. In 2003 I received the Bonnie Bird New British Choreography Award and in June 2004 I showed my first Arts Council supported triple bill at The Place. Most recently I performed a solo in Dance Umbrella 2005 as part of the new Brief Encounters initiative. After 11yrs in London I've now returned to Sweden to have Stockholm as my base. My work lies somewhere between abstract and narrative, I work in a very visually oriented way, including at times, both film and text. At the moment I feel a pull towards more performance art related work.

Keith McIntyre (UK)
Keith McIntyre studied Drawing and Painting at the Dundee College of Arts at a time when the Scottish Arts Council were pioneering a new Writer in Residence scheme. The discourse generated across subject disciplines in the Dundee studios helped shape a practice that has crossed many boundaries in the visual and performing arts.

Drawing remains a core element and increasingly he has been exploring new synergies between graphic fine art media, theatre and dance. He has been visual art director on a number of collaborative projects including ‘Jock Tamsons Bairns’ (Tramway Glasgow, opening event for 1990 European City of Culture); ‘Legend of St Julian’ (Traverse, Edinburgh Festival); ‘Songs for the Falling Angel’ (Lockerbie Requiem); ‘Rites’ (Scottish Chamber Orchestra); ‘Mfalme Juha’ (Parapanda Arts Lab. Tanzania + East Africa tour); and, ‘New Constellations for Wind, Reed and Drawing Instruments’ (BALTIC and Sage Gateshead.)

Most recently he has just completed a tour of ‘HEID’, a new multi-media project with Glasgow based Sounds of Progress. He has now started on a new SOP commission for the Scottish National Theatre scheduled for June 2006.

Keith McIntyre’s paintings, drawings and prints have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions throughout the world ( inc. Glasgow, Edinburgh, London, New York, Havana, Berlin, Milan) and his work is represented in many public and private collections.

Since1993 he has been living and working in the Newcastle / Gateshead region. He is a Reader in Art and Interdisciplinary Practices at Northumbria University.

Alina Mikhaylova (Russia)
Dancer-Performer Alina Mikhaylova (1970) lives St.Petersburg, Russia. She has produced various solo pieces and projects, worked in cooperation with artists of different fields as well as being a member of several committees organising festivals and events. She teaches improvisation and yoga at the Ars Vita studio in St.Petersburg and is co-founder of the non-profit cultural organization «Co-laboratory» working in the field of New Dance development in Russia. Her focus is strongly on improvisation and movement reseach. Her projects were awarded by Open Society Institute (Soros), 2002 and Arts Link Independent project, 2005.Since 2004 she works extensively with one of the most interesting Russian musician Vladimir Volkov. In 2006 she is collaborating with two Finnish artists-dancer Pia Lindy and performer- videoartist Sini Haapalina in a long term- project MovingDeTail which focuses on dance, improvisation and performance.

Imogene Newland* (UK)
Since completing her BA (Hons) degree in Contemporary Music at Dartington College of Arts, Imogene has been employed as both a musician and choreographer. Most recently she worked as piano teacher and accompanist in the Tonlistarskoli Austur-Heraðs, Egilsstaðir in the East of Iceland. Formally she was employed as choreographer for Stages Stars Scotland, and laterally at Mentaskoli and Bruahus. Professional work as oboist includes a Channel Four recording for the docu-drama The Real Captain Bligh. An appearance with Icelandic State Television (RUV) included a broadcast on New Year’s Eve 2004. Imogene’s work seeks to fuse the disciplines of live piano performance and contact improvisation. Performances to date include 1993 (July 2003), Come Not in That Form (November 2003) and Spuna (April 2005).

Kyra Norman (UK)
Kyra Norman is a dancer and filmmaker based in Bristol, UK. She graduated from Laban, London with a degree in Dance Theatre in 1998. In 2003 she completed an MA in Visual Performance (Time-Based Media) at Dartington College of Arts. She regularly presents her work locally and nationally, and performs and makes films with several other artists and directors. She is currently pursuing three lines of work:

• dance/ choreography - particularly improvisation into performance

• filmmaking - creating her own screen-based dance work and directing and editing documentaries for other artists and organizations

• producing live events that integrate screen-based content: creating new contexts for artists and audiences

• During M&DE 2006, Kyra will be focusing on her practice as a filmmaker and connecting this with live, interdisciplinary and collaborative modes of creating work.

Lorin Edwin Parker (USA)
Currently resides and works in the Los Angeles, CA area specializing in the creation of performance art, sound and music composition, sculpture and interdisciplinary arts. He is also renowned as an instrument builder and designer of interactive technology. Lorin has a background as a professional audio engineer, bassist (contrabass and electric), synthesist and thereminist. Parker has worked with a variety of artists including, Andre Vida, Clay Chaplin, Mark Trayle, Gregory T.S. Walker, Rich O'Donell, Jay Stuckey, Jacob Feinburg, David Leikam, Lewis Keller, E. Kim and Phillip Stearns.

Lorin currently teaches "Creative Electronics Workshop" at the California Institute of the Arts, where he has also led workshops in experimental instrument design. He has also served as an instructor in composition, design and art / technology theory throughout the community.

Parker's aesthetic is an anachronistic confluence of the cultural and technological past, present and future. He draws extensively from Victorian and Edwardian culture and design, blending his historical tilt to re-contextualize modern technology and arts.

Parker has studied with Gregory T.S. Walker, Mark Trayle, Sara Roberts, David Rosenboom, Nicolas Collins and Pauline Oliveros. He also wishes to thank Paul DeMarinis and Michael Pissaro for their critical contributions. He currently studies composition with David Rosenboom at the California Institute of the Arts.

Efrosini Protopapa* (UK)
A Greek dance artist working in London since 2002, I am now choreographer and artistic director of Lapsus Corpi, a performance group set up in 2003. My work combines text, sound, and scenography with movement to best serve the concept of each performance. Concurrently, I am doing a choreographic practice-based PHD at Roehampton University, looking at issues from the fields of dance, theatre and aesthetics / philosophy of the arts. Additionally, I teach dance composition and choreography, practice dance writing, design scenography and assist in the research and production of other choreographers’ works.

Erik Speth (USA)
Raised in Southern California where I have studied many things such as French Horn, Computers and dance. I have been trained in Classical and Contemporary Ballet, Jazz and Modern dance. For five years I have instructed dance for both private, studio and dance companies. Three years technical assistant building computers, web sites, managing web marketing to search engines. Two years Video Teaching Assistant for CalArts School of Dance training and assisting in video taping and live editing dance productions, dubbing, and teaching students camera work, live and digital editing as well as scheduling and managing a 12 person crew. I am also currently in a contemporary modern dance company Ledges and Bones Dance Project, LABdp. LABdp is a group of artists creating an ongoing laboratory for the creation of unconventional contemporary dance choreography, high-risk, hyper-physical movement and multi-media collaboration.

Susanne Thomas (UK)
German born Artistic Director Susanne Thomas trained at London Contemporary Dance School and Middlesex University. Her artistic career began in Fashion Design and Visual Arts – this background informs her choreography and artistic collaborations. She was an Associate Artist at The Place, London in 1998/99 and received awards from Carl Duisberg Gesellschaft (Germany), London Arts Board and the Arts Council of England. Susanne Thomas was nominated for the prestigious Jerwood Choreography Award in 2000. In 1994 Susanne founded seven sisters group with a team of independent artists whose disciplines include dance, theatre design, fine art, music and video.

Mario Verandi (Germany)
I have primarily been working with new technologies as an aid to exploring and expanding the boundaries of music and sound. A distinct characteristic of my work has been the exploration of the musical, poetic and evocative potential of concrete and environmental sounds and their incorporation into musical compositions including acoustic instruments and computer processed sounds. My output includes electroacoustic music pieces, pieces for instruments and pre-recorded sounds, audiovisual compositions, pieces involving live-electronics and acoustic instruments, sound installations as well as music and sound design for dance, theater and film. More information on www.marioverandi.de Contact: marioverandi@hotmail.com

Emma Welton (UK)
'Emma Welton performs on violin and electric violin and is a member of the contemporary music ensembles [rout], Icebreaker and Black Hair. She has an eclectic musical background, having spent some years playing in numerous ceilidh bands, an Indian music band and a jazz quartet (on double bass). Following a Masters course at York University, where she studied composition with Nicola LeFanu and violin with Mieko Kanno, Emma has specialised in the performance of new music but enjoys occasional forays into other musical worlds. Recent engagements have included performances at New York's Lincoln Centre Festival and London’s Almeida Theatre and Queen Elizabeth Hall with Icebreaker and with [rout] at the Brighton Dome and the Cutting Edge Series, London. Emma can be heard on Icebreaker's CD 'Cranial Pavement' (2005, Cantaloupe Music) and [rout]'s CD 'ONE' (2005, Divine Art Ltd). A particular interest in the working and performance methods of music theatre and dance has led to collaborative work with a number of composers including John Kefala Kerr and Paul Whitty. Emma also teaches the violin and runs the British Music Information Centre’s Cutting Edge Tour.'

Christian Wolz (Germany)
Christian Wolz is a vocal artist, composer and a physiotherapist. He combines new styles of singing and language with the musical structures of medieval and non-European cultures to form a new means of communication for avant-garde art, hereby applying electro-acoustic means. Originally intended as tools for assistance, things such as microphones and effect processors become unique musical instruments. His way of working uses both methods of composition and improvisation combined into one. The result is a huge room of association where communication is developed as a deep, emotional and pristine form of conveyance. Since 1991 Christian Wolz created numerous concerts, vocal performances, sound installations, radio plays, Cds and multimedia-performances. In 1995 he founded „Wolz – New Music Theatre“ and collaborated with various musicians, choreographers and directors. He created compositions for dance companies and theatre productions. He performed in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Netherlands, Poland, Belgium, Luxemburg, France and Greece. Information: www.citoma.de wolz@citoma.de