Critical Practice - Made in Yu - Second Cycle - Amsterdam

For the second cycle of the Critical Practice - Made in Yu edition, the following participants have been selected:

• Ida Daniel (Bulgaria)
• Kristof Farkas (Hungary)
• Shir Hacham (Israel)
• Livia Andrea Piazza (Italy / Germany)
• Aisling Marks (UK / Netherlands)
• Stina Nyrberg (Sweden)
• Ana Schnabl (Slovenia)

The names are listed in alphabetical order.

The schedule of gatherings and group work structures, within the second programme cycle (April 2015 – April 2016) is as follows:

Belgrade, 6 – 11 April 2015
program focus: a seminar & reading group with Ana Vujanović 7 – 10 April
host: Marijana Cvetković of Station Service for contemporary dance

Skopje, 23 – 27 October 2015
program focus: LocoMotion – Festival for Contemporary Dance and Performance (24 – 30 October) 24 – 26 October
host: Biljana Tanurovska Kjulavkovski of Lokomotiva – Centre for New Initiatives in Arts and Culture

Belgrade, 27 October – 1 November 2015
program focus: Kondenz – Performing Arts Festival (24 – 31 October) 28 – 31 October
host: Marijana Cvetković of Station Service for contemporary dance

Amsterdam, 9 – 12 December 2015
In the frame of Bâtard Festival, the participants are meeting in Amsterdam this time.

Bâtard Festival - which for the first time in its twelve years of existence will not only take place in Brussels, but will land in Amsterdam as well. On the 3rd of December they kick off in Beursschouwburg (BXL) with three Bâtard-evenings and on the 9th of December they continue with four Bâtard-evenings in Veem House for Performance (AMS).

The Bâtard-evenings stand for the hybridization of expectations and receptions, of presentation and reflection. The following artists are presented: Clément Layes, Critical Practice Group, Daniel Blanga-Gubbay, Dittrich Frydetzki | Dreit | Flegel | Froelicher | Grief | Melzer | Worpenberg, Hana Miletic, Hamza Halloubi, Jaha Koo, Louis Vanhaverbeke & Oneka von Schrader, Nathan Fain & Maria Rößler, Scripted Reality.

host: Veem House for Production
www.veem.house/en/batard-brussels

Bâtard Festival 2015, Closing the space between us
From 3 to 5 December in Beursschouwburg, Brussels
From 9 to 12 December in Veem House for Performance, Amsterdam

Bâtard Festival Brussel and Veem House for Performance present Closing the Space Between Us, the first joint edition of Bâtard Festival in Amsterdam since its twelve years of existence. One festival in two cities, in both cities one space only.

We open our house like a fort holding in the tumult, like a protest occupation. This year’s Bâtard is to be a safe space for dangerous ideas, an important space in which smaller spaces - the artworks and propositions - entrench themselves and begin to build an infinity of forms and thoughts. For us, the cohabition of many places in this one space as a way to create the conditions for temporary articulations and intimate or rough collisions. One shared multi-space to physicalize the shared mental space of the festival. One space where fictive and real spaces with their specific symbols and sensations congregate to become one single experience.

One space as a political situation. One space as a metaphor as much as a geographical location. One space in which there can be some ‘them’ and some ‘you’, but there is mostly an ‘us’. One space in which the space between us all is closing.
A space where we only seem to be in more need of the last weeks...

**PROGRAMME**

Start programme 7 pm

Wednesday December 9th
Lolling and Rolling - Jaha Koo
Phi & Laurine - Sander Breure & Witte van Hulzen
The Palm of Your Hand - Vera Tussing

Thursday December 10th
STAYING ALIVE - Cie Public in Private / Jasna L. Vinovrski
Letter to Aura - Hamza Halloubi
TITLE - Clement Layes

Friday December 11th
UNSER ARM GEGEN UNS / OUR ARMS AGAINST US - Scripted Reality ( Jacob Bussmann , Bettina Földesi , Ruth Schmidt, Tilman Aumüller)
Lecture - Daniel Blanga-Gubbay
Your Facades are Peeling off like Red Onions - Hana Miletic

Saturday December 12th
Right Is the Might of the Community - Nathan Fain and Maria Roessler
City Rising - Metahaven
Steppengesänge - Dittrich Frydetzki / Dreit / Flegel / Froelicher / Grief / Worpenberg

Follow the project here:
http://criticalpractice-madeinyu.info/