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ALBUM, the muse at work
October 12-15, 2023 at studio brut,
Zieglergasse 25, 1070 Vienna
Premiere is on October 12th at Brut Studio
Poster Design: Is Ali
Tickets can be purchased from the Brut website.
Ticket Sale Date: September 20, 2023
Photo: Maria Kousi
Being named after a ballad, growing up in a jazz club and a BigBand, dancer/choreographer Naïma Mazic started to investigate songs that she felt drawn to dance to – endless tunes named after women, dedicated to romantic partners that are managers, producers, mothers, artists and jazz musicians themselves. ALBUM is an interaction between these songs and the music written by female composers. Shared polyrhythmic choreographies between dance and music, together with percussionist/vibraphonist Evi Filippou and a record player, tell stories of creative and reproductive labor and the patriarchal structures that distort them. The music itself is a container for the choreographic material to re-perform vocabularies of “musing”/ the archetypal ‘feminine’ (e.g. care, motherhood,…), postures and gestures from depictions of muses and “transcribing” biographical material of specific jazzmuses into dance.
Music (live or recorded) and dance exist on their own and simultaneously hold a multidimensional, flirtatious relationship. In jazz music there are innumerable interpretations of the same composition. The individual expression of the same or “The changing same” as Amiri Baraka formulates in Black Music. One can hear a history of displacement, of labor and self-fragmentation within the polyrhythmic Black American music. How can we listen closer?
Photo: Tamara Yael
What does it mean to arrange a jazz tune through dance and space?
The performers’ bodies, movements, and musicality shift from tune to tune, from A side to B side, to contain a relationship that swings from intimate to professional and inspiring to possessive. The piece unfolds as a dramaturgy of a concert, yet between nine tracks, narratives emerge, passing through New York Jazz clubs, Viennese bedrooms, and your living room. One ballad composed to seduce- the melody of another love story. Communing with the goddess, arranging scores of text, biography, and feminist utopias.
The image of the muse remains heteronormative in that she is connected to the world of male desire, but her own – perhaps queer – female desire is forgotten and she stays a silent figure that inspires and stimulates.
ALBUM proposes co-musing as a politic of care.
We celebrate the women that have been lazily mythologized, just as the nine divine muses:
We celebrate the women who have inspired songs.
We celebrate the women who have written songs.
We celebrate the women who cleaned the rooms in which songs were composed.
Photo: Hanna Naske
Interview with Naïma Mazic by Arianna Alfreds / Music Export Austria:
https://www.musicexport.at/theres-something-in-the-rhythm-you-cant-write-down-naima-mazic-part-i/
https://www.musicexport.at/an-energy-i-havent-felt-before-naima-mazic-part-ii/
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Photos by Tamara Yael, Hanna Naske, Maria Kousi
Teaser made by Damian Charles
Poster made by Is Ali
10 years LAKEStudios Festival Berlin: work-in-progress showing of ALBUM, the muse at the work
23rd of June, 19:30 at 10 years LAKEStudios Festival Berlin: work-in-progress showing of ALBUM, the muse at the work
ALBUM, the muse at work is a research and a performance with dancer and choreographer Naïma Mazic, drummer and vibraphonist Evi Filippou and a record player, based on nine of endless songs named after romantic partners of jazzmusicians or written by female composers. Shared polyrhythmic choreographies in the space between dance and music tell stories of creative and reproductive labor and the patriarchal structures that distort them. The performers’ bodies, movements and musicality shift from tune to tune, from A side to B side to contain a relationship that swings from intimate to professional and inspiring to possessive. The piece unfolds as a dramaturgy of a concert, yet between the tracks narratives emerge passing through New York Jazz clubs, Vienese bedrooms and your own living room. One ballad composed to seduce becomes the melody of another love story. Arranging scores of text, biography, feminist utopias, communing with the goddess, honoring the legacy of displacement, of labor and self-fragmentation within Black American music, ALBUM proposes co-musing as a politic of care. We celebrate the women who have inspired songs, we celebrate the women who have written songs and we celebrate the women who cleaned the rooms in which songs were composed.
Also at the Festival :
1st of July: ALL STYLEZ MUSICALITY BATTLE
2nd of July: HEAR & NOW* Jam Session for dancers and (jazz-) musicians
Sign up at more2rhythm(at)gmail.com
PREMIER OF ALBUM at brut Studio Vienna: 12th – 15th of October
13th of May, 16:30-18:00 Workshop OF(F) RHYTHM at Bears in the Park VIENNA
16th of June, 19:00 at SOUNDANCE FESTIVAL BERLIN: Duo ROOTING by Maria Coma (Music) & Naïma Mazic (Dance)
Composer/ singer Maria Coma and choreographer/ dancer Naïma Mazic are uncovering shared roots in their first few encounters for soundance festival being in concert with each other. Naïma has been developing pathways for dancers and musicians to think and communicate through a common polyrhythmic melodic language and Maria’s seeds for „Rooting“ are her most recent compositions that emerge via the human body as the instrument and the origin of musicality, particularly the voice. The touch might happen entangled or untangled, their individual roots crossing in the same soil and breaths. In this duet, each moment something will be planted in the field of the unknown. Another way to improvise under the moon.
Trailer PoLy-Mirrors the film
Look at me.
Don’t look at me.
Look diagonally up into the right corner.
Look diagonally down into the left corner.
Create a diagonal line between your right shoulder and your left hip.
Stop.
Tilt your head.
Change the position of the eyes.
Do not not look at me.
Show me your neck.
In the film PoLy-Mirrors a dialogue between a dancer and a choreographer is being explored through simultaneous reflections and isolations, within the difficulties and challenges of being a female performer and leader. The arc of the film is built on the drive and the urgency to discover new ways to reclaim and re-signify gestures of feminine diagonals, from the figure of the Virgin Mary, European renaissance art until today, and the rooted perceptions on gender expectations. The film is based on- and includes the piece PoLy- Mirrors / a re-performance of feminine diagonals by Naïma Mazic, together with dancers and jazz musicians.
Concept and director: Naïma Mazic
Concept and director: Alaa Alkurdi
Choreographer & Performer: Naïma Mazic
Cinematography/ Camera: Alaa Alkurdi
Performers: Evi Filippou, Amie Jammeh, Margaux Marielle-Tréhoüart, Elias Stemeseder
Composition/ Piano: Elias Stemeseder
Naima by John Coltrane on M-Claviton: Georg Vogel
Costumes: Maël Blau
Assistance/ Makeup & Hair: Christine Kern
Edit: Alaa Alkurdi & Naïma Mazic
Second camera: Matteo Molina
Additional sound edit: José Lopes
Production: more2rhythm
Supported by Performing Arts Forum / PAF, Porgy&Bess Jazz&Musicclub, ÖKF Paris, BMOEKS Von der Bühne zum Video, brut wien
PoLy-Mirrors /a re-performance of feminine diagonals
HEAR & NOW*Jamsession
(for dancers and (jazz) musicians)
guided with tools & methods by Naïma Mazic (and everyone present) to improvise, play and move together
07.05.2023 18:00-21:00 at Strenge Kammer, Porgy & Bess Vienna
02.07.2023 10 years LAKEStudios Festival Berlin
write an email to more2rhythm(at)gmail.com if you want to join
First Berlin HEAR & NOW * Jamsession, pictures by Hanna Naske
ALBUM
(work in progress performance)
23.06.2023, 19:30
+ Workshop OF(F) RHYTHM, 12:00
at 10 years LAKEStudios Festival Berlin
# Evi Filippou & Naïma Mazic
ROOTING
16.06.2023,19:00
SOUNDANCE FESTIVAL, DOCK 11 Berlin
# Maria Coma & Naïma Mazic
More info & Tickets
Composer/ singer Maria Coma and choreographer/ dancer Naïma Mazic are uncovering shared roots in their first few encounters for soundance festival being in concert with each other. Naïma has been developing pathways for dancers and musicians to think and communicate through a common polyrhythmic melodic language and Maria’s seeds for „Rooting“ are her most recent compositions that emerge via the human body as the instrument and the origin of musicality, particularly the voice. The touch might happen entangled or untangled, their individual roots crossing in the same soil and breaths. In this duet, each moment something will be planted in the field of the unknown. Another way to improvise under the moon.
SOUNDANCE FESTIVAL BERLIN at DOCK 11
HEAR & NOW*, danced Jazztunes
Naïma Mazic & Golnar Shahyar
7. September 2022 @ 19:00
supported by
Public Moves Workshop Of(f) Rhythm by Naïma Mazic / ImPulsTanz
MuseumsQuartier in front of the main entrance
for free
for everybody
just sign up
Kultursommer Vienna
Naima’s dream, little steps- Naïma Mazic & Golnar Shahyar
5. August 2022 / 20:00―21:00 / 14. Muthsamgasse
6. August 2022 / 20:00―21:00 / 20. Mortarapark
free entrance
Cabaret Catatonique:
Dust to Dust
is composed of five musicians, a writer,a choreographer/dancer
and a visual artist
14.09. Volos, Palia Ilektriki Theater, Greece
15.09. Larisa, MPArt (Mill of Performing Arts), Greece
Supported by the Volos Festival & Mylos Performance Arts Larisa
with Naïma Mazic, Evi Filippou, Maria Filippou, Natalia Manta, Lara Alarcón, Felix Hauptmann, Robert Lucaciu and Argenté
Ensemble uBu – Mutants of Music
with a piece by Naïma Mazic
Piano Trio & Dance
Shows September 2022
23.09. LAB Frankfurt
25.09. & 26.09. Tanzfaktur Cologne
30.09. Resonanzraum Hamburg
Choreographic / Movement Advise for Maria Coma VOCAL ROOTS
07th of October FIRA MEDITERRÀNIA MANRESA, SPAIN
PoLy-Mirrors /a re-performance of feminine diagonals will finally celebrate its Austrian Premiere from 13th-15th of January, 20:00 at brut nordwest Vienna!!
14th of January: Talk of the Artists after the Show
Concept & Choreography Naïma Mazic Choreographic/ Dramaturgical Assistance Fergus Johnson Musical Composition Elias Stemeseder Dance Yuika Hashimoto & Lucie Piot Synthesizer, M-Claviton Georg Vogel Percussion,Drums, Vibraphone und Mirrors Evi Filippou Visdual Art / Stage Design Lola Drubigny Costumes Maël Blau Dramaturgy Sara Ostertag Intern Camilla Gerstner Assistant Christine Kern Mentoring Alain Franco, Robyn Schulkowsky & Marcela Giesche Production more2rhythm/ Naïma Mazic
A co-production of Naïma Mazic / n ï m company and imagetanz / brut Wien. With the kind support of the Cultural Department of the City of Vienna MA7, BMKÖS, ACTOUT, ÖKF Berlin.
Residencies & Research at Lake Studios Berlin, ImPulsTanz, DOCK11 Eden***** Berlin, D.ID Dance Identity, workspace Brussels, Le Regard du Cygne, La Ménagerie de Verre.
POLY-MIRRORS
will be shown at the 45th LEIPZIGER JAZZTAGE
✩BODY TIME✩!!!!
9th of October 2021, 19:30 at the theatre Schauspiel Leipzig. Get your tickets now! 🙂 and check out this great interdisciplinary Jazzfestival.
Also:
5th of October Workshop by Naïma Mazic & Haggai Cohen-Milo with a performance of the students at 18:30 at Schaubühne Lindenfels
6th of October exhibition of the film PoLy-Mirrors by Naïma Mazic & Alaa Alkurdi at Altes Stadtbad
a piece by Naïma Mazic with music by Elias Stemeseder
Premiere: January 2022 @ brut nordwest, Vienna
Concept & Choreography: Naïma Mazic
Composition & Musical director: Elias Stemeseder
Performance/ Dance: Margaux Marielle-Tréhoüart and Amie Jammeh
Cembalo, Synthesizer, Fender Rhodes: Elias Stemeseder
Vibraphone, Percussion, Mirrors: Evi Filippou
PoLy-Mirrors at DOCK 11 EDEN*****
JOIN US ONLINE
OPEN Rehearsal- 19th of January- VIMEO LIVESTREAM
12:00-14:00 & 15:00-18:00
feel free to drop in and out as you like
New Workshop Trailer:
New Release Nov. 2020 :
Musikvideo of TOYTOY – choreography and concept by Naïma Mazic, performed by Franklyn Slunch Kakyire
Our latest works
infectious, Hamburg K3 Tanzplan/ Kampnagel
and
THE CHANGING SAME at Kultursommer Vienna, Summer 2020
Trailer
Naïma choreographed the new Music Video of singer and musician Lia Pale. Out now:
PREMIERE OF PoLy-FleXion and more at Living Away Fest New York 20th-26th of July 2020
23rd of July at 3 PM NY time- 9 PM Austria live performance
PoLy-Flexion online 23rd-26th of July
FILM will be presented July 2020
What would a diagonal poem be?
Audio written and recorded by Naïma Mazic:
PoLy-Flection
by Naïma Mazic (Concept, Choreography) and Daniel Rodier (Music, Editing)
n ï m company performed in New York City March 2020
with movement research at Judson Church NY
THE CHANGING SAME (Amiri Baraka)
A conversation of dancers and jazz musicians based on a shared polyrhythmical language. “Music is the making of the music.” (Fred Moten)
Naïma Mazic (dance/choreography), Jungle (dance), Gabriella Burdsall (dance), Vinicius Gomes (guitar/music), Lukas Akintaya (percussion/music), William Ruiz-Morales (dramaturgical advice), Research: Haggai Cohen-Milo, Margaux Marielle-Tréhoüart & the team of infectious
THE NEW TRAILER OF—-> infectious
What does it take for dance and jazz music to be folding in love again, today? 3 dancers and 3 jazz musicians attempt to get closer by sharing the same polyrhythmic language.
House dancers, contemporary dancers and jazz music infect each other and anybody who is watching through the immediate corporal tension of the pulsating uneven rhythms, whose embodiment gives breath to the groove which spreads from all sides, at every angle, to every degree. Dancers realize an unfamiliar improvisational independency and musicians learn how to see, touch and hear dance.
infectious is how you join the conversation that jazz has always been speaking, the cypher which has always meant everything and nothing.
(written by Naïma Mazic and Is Ali)
A polyrhythmical study by Naïma Mazic
Now also on the wonderful website of Pascal Michon RHUTHMOS
Maria Grand & Naïma Mazic
Duo Performance at Spectrum in Brooklyn
further information
newest creation
infectious
Concept & Choreography: Naïma Mazic
Dancers: Margaux Marielle-Tréhoüart, Cat Paz Jimenez & Franklyn Kakyire
Choreographic Assistance: Margaux Marielle-Tréhoüart
Musical Director: Haggai Cohen-Milo
Music & Composition: Haggai Cohen-Milo & Mateo Lugo
Musicians: Haggai Cohen-Milo (bass), Mateo Lugo (guitar) & Mareike Wiening (drums)
Stage/Costumes: Anton von Bredow, Assistance by Lili Avar
Mentoring: Anne Kersting, Matthias Quabbe, Alain Franco & Robyn Schulkowsky
Outside Eye / Inside Ear: Anaïs Mazic, Keren Kraizer and Vincent Jonsson
produced by: K3 Tanzplan Hamburg & n ï m company /more2rhythm
supported by: BKA Austria, ÖKF Berlin, Hamburgische Kulturstiftung
© infectious n ï m company / pictures by Anja Beutler
Short film: 377
Kolkatta, India from 2015 – remade
Naïma in New York 2018
