Thanks to a cultural scholarship from the city of GDAŃSK (Zrealizowano ze środków Miasta Gdańska w ramach Stypendium Kulturalnego), the collective spent 2 weeks in Poland. For the first time, we were able to continue working with the same musicians from a previous residency !

We shared our new work, Punto, at PLAMA in the historic Zaspa neighborhood; and our residency space PIK. At PIK we created a multi-part evening that began with an audience movement workshop, then a performance and finally a gallery reception/exhibition of photos.

We also shared an instant composition workshop with local professional dancers and amateur movers, accompanied by live music.

Members and Contributors

Sarah Chien (USA) • Vicky Angelidou (GR) •  Susanna Grob (CH) • Francesca Caselli (IT) • Agata Grekorkiewitz (PL) • Alessio Bettoli (IT) • Mirko Lancerotto (IT) •

Activities

2 week Residency at PIK Pomorski Incubator Kultury
Gdansk, Poland
Oct 2022

Performance: Punto
PLAMA GAK (Gdanski Archipelag Kultury)
Gdansk, Poland
Oct 2021

Workshop/Performance/Vernisage: Punto
PIK Pomorski Incubator Kultury
Gdansk, Poland
Oct 2021

Workshop: Instant Composition (Dance and Live Music Workshop)
PIK Pomorski Inkubator Cultury
Oct 2021

Despite three postponements, ∞therside collective held their 2021 residency in Italy. We created a new evening length work, Al Momento Giusto, during a residency at Centro Sociale La Resistenza (Ferrara). We co-produced two evenings of performances at Paleotto 11 (Bologna) and ArteNativae (San Prospero) with an accompanying photo exhibit by Mirko Lancerotto. Embracing the resilient community spirit of the place and the times, we performed in village festivals, taught workshops at local dance studios, and hosted an outdoor jam for musicians and dancers. We also had the privilege of sharing an evening of collaborative practice and cultural exchange with Sicilian frame drum master, Alfio Antico.

Members and Contributors

Sarah Chien (USA) • Vicky Angelidou (GR) •  Susanna Grob (CH) • Francesca Caselli (IT) • Xavier Geerman (AW/NL) • Agata Grekorkiewitz (PL) • Alessio Bettoli (IT) • Mirko Lancerotto (IT) • Filippo Giubelli (IT)

Activities

2 week Residency at Centro Sociale La Resistenza
Ferrara, Italy
Sept-Oct 2021

Performance: Al Momento Giusto
Paleotto 11
Bologna, Italy
October 2021

Performance: Al Momento Giusto
ArteNativae
San Prospero, Italy
October 2021

Performance: Al Momento Giusto (work in progress showing)
Festivale ProLoco/Comune di Felonica
Felonica, Italy
September 2021

Teaching: ∞therside collective professional training workshop
Studio 43
Argenta, Italy
September 2021

Facilitating: Tools for the Jam, a workshop/jam for musicians and dancers
ArteNativae
San Prospero, Italy
September 2021

In response to the global pandemic ∞therside came together for weekly online practices. For 5 months, we confronted uncertainty together, maintaining collective practice, and researching “live improvised cinema” using Zoom as both a platform and a tool for improvisation. We also created a practice of asynchronously exchanging solos: each week one member recorded a short solo work in either music or movement, and all other members created their own response. The group developed tools for remote collaboration, feedback, and creative process.

Sanskar Digital Festival

Our short film, “In There/In Here” was selected for Sanskar India’s 2020 Digital Festival.

Members & Contributors

Sarah Chien (USA) • Vicky Angelidou (GR) •  Agata Gregorkiewitz (PL) • Susanna Grob (CH) • Francesca Caselli (IT) • Xavier Geerman (AW/NL) • Sokratis Votskos (GR) • Mirko Lancerotto (IT)

∞therside gathered for a 2 week creative residency at the Stavros Village Cultural Center in Stavros, Greece. Joined by local musicians, Giorgios Kalamakis and Sokrates Votskos, we studied greek folk dances and rhythms and incorporated elements of those into our work. We performed an evening length work, less is more, for 2 nights at Studio 29A in Thessaloniki and shared 3 days of workshops with local dance students there. We also toured to neighboring city, Drama to perform in their traditional amphitheater, curated as special guests for of an evening of improvisation.

This close-knit gathering of performers helped cement the collective’s core group, resulting in the creation of our (wo)manifesto organizing document and the formalization of our commitment to each other as a permanent collective.

Members and Contributors

Sarah Chien (USA) • Vicky Angelidou (GR) •  Susanna Grob (CH) • Francesca Caselli (IT) • Giorgos Kalamakis (GR) • Sokratis Votskos (GR) • Marianna Rantou (GR) • Dean Mavridis (GR) • Kyriakos Paimon (GR)

Activities

Performance: less is more
Studio 29A
Thessaloniki, Greece
September 2019

Performance: less is more (excerpt)
Drama Amphitheater
Drama, Greece
September 2019

2 week Residency Stavros Village Cultural Center
Stavros, Greece
August 2018

Teaching: ∞therside collective professional training workshop
Studio 29A
Thessaloniki, Greece
September 2019

8 dancers from 8 different countries gathered in Bratislava, united only by their shared experience of studying David Zambrano’s Passing Through work intensively the year before. We quickly discovered we were able to live, work and create together by applying the same values used to create instant compositions to our collective organizing. After a 2 week residency at Nova Cvernovka, we performed two versions of our work. First, at Štúdio 12 in Bratislava with experimental electronic music group Zoo & Aquarium, and then at T3, a reclaimed tram, turned-music-venue with percussionist Ivo Palenčár. We developed structures and scores to expand beyond Passing Through and at the end of the residency a core group of members committed to meeting again, as ootherside collective.

Members and Contributors

Michal Freriks (SK) • Sarah Chien (USA) • Vicky Angelidou (GR) •  Susanna Grob (CH) • Agata Gregorkiewitz (PL) • Paul Guenot (UK) • Valentina Azzati (AR) • Ingvild Bertelsen (NO) • Martin Kosorín (SK) •  Adam Kapjor (SK) •  Vlado Oravec (SK) •  Daniela Mužíková (SK) •  Ivo Palenčár (SK)

Supporting Institutions

Štúdio 12 •  T3 • Nova Cvernovka

32 dancers from around the world were invited to spend a month working intensively with master improviser, David Zambrano. In Sicily, they met to study and further develop his group improvisation form, Passing Through. This is the moment where the future ∞therside members met, and seeds were planted for the first meeting in Bratislava meeting.