Performers 2011 - 2012

Frank van de Ven

Frank van de Ven: Frank van de Ven is a dancer and director who spend his formative years in Japan working with Min Tanaka and the Maijuku Performance Company. In 1993 he founded with Katerina Bakatsaki ‘Body Weather Amsterdam’ as a platform for training and performance. Since 1995 he conducts with Milos Sejn (Academy of Fine Arts Prague) the interdisciplinary Bohemia Rosa Project, connecting body and landscape with art, geology and architecture.

Interest in practice and theory led to working with other dancers and theorists in extracting concrete strategies for dance from the theories of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari evolving around the question ‘How to make yourself a Dancing Body Without Organs’. Together with Peter Snow (Monash University) he performs the Thought/Action Improvisations. An ongoing collaboration exists with musician Daniel Schorno, artistic director of Steim in the ‘Noughts’ project. He is a regular guest teacher at the SNDO (School for New Dance Development, Amsterdam).

Fragment op YouTube van BEDICTIO AQVAE Performed by Milos Sejn, Frank van de Ven and Günter Heinz
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