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Mette Edvardsen
Mette Edvardsen (1970, Lørenskog) is a choreographer, dancer and performance artist from Norway, but who lives and works in Brussels, Belgium. Collaboration with les ballets C de la B Since 1996, Mette Edvardsen has her home base in Brussels, Belgium, where she started working as a dancer and performer for the choreographers Hans Van den Broeck (1996-2000) and Christine De Smedt (2000-2005) when they were still connected to les ballets C de la B. She was a performer in ''(They feed we) Eat, eat, eat'' (Hans Van den Broeck / les ballets C de la B, 1996), ''Au Progrès'' (Hans Van den Broeck / les ballets C de la B, 1997), ''La sortie'' (Hans Van den Broeck / les ballets C de la B, 1999) and ''9 X 9'' (Christine De Smedt / les ballets C de la B, 2000). She also assisted director / choreographer Hans Van den Broeck on ''Lac des singes'' (Hans Van den Broeck / les ballets C de la B, 2001). These productions toured internationally. She also contributed to ''1, 2, 3 / Propositions'' (2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brussels
Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest), is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the capital of Belgium. The Brussels-Capital Region is located in the central portion of the country and is a part of both the French Community of Belgium and the Flemish Community, but is separate from the Flemish Region (within which it forms an enclave) and the Walloon Region. Brussels is the most densely populated region in Belgium, and although it has the highest GDP per capita, it has the lowest available income per household. The Brussels Region covers , a relatively small area compared to the two other regions, and has a population of over 1.2 million. The five times larger metropolitan area of Brusse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lynda Gaudreau
Lynda Gaudreau is a Canadian choreographer, installation artist, educator and artistic director living in Quebec. She was born in Sept-Îles, Quebec. She studied art history and philosophy at the University of Ottawa, the Université de Montréal and the Université du Québec à Montréal. Gaudreau trained in jazz dance and classical dance. Her first choreographed work to gain recognition was ''Des Centaines de fois mon coeur'' in 1991. She appeared in the Festival international de nouvelle danse held the following year. She launched her own company Compagnie de Brune in 1992; they appeared in dance festivals throughout Europe an, in 1994, received the ADAM prize at the . Gaudreau is known for her exploration of human anatomy as shown in her works ''Anatomie'' (1996) and ''Still Life No. 1 '' (1996).From 1999 to 2007, she produced the four-part series ''Encyclopœdia'' which combined dance, exhibition, video and text. In 2005, she began a new multi-media project ''Clash''; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norwegian Female Dancers
Norwegian, Norwayan, or Norsk may refer to: *Something of, from, or related to Norway, a country in northwestern Europe *Norwegians, both a nation and an ethnic group native to Norway *Demographics of Norway *The Norwegian language, including the two official written forms: **Bokmål, literally "book language", used by 85–90% of the population of Norway **Nynorsk, literally "New Norwegian", used by 10–15% of the population of Norway *The Norwegian Sea Norwegian or may also refer to: Norwegian *Norwegian Air Shuttle, an airline, trading as Norwegian ** Norwegian Long Haul, a defunct subsidiary of Norwegian Air Shuttle, flying long-haul flights * Norwegian Air Lines, a former airline, merged with Scandinavian Airlines in 1951 * Norwegian coupling, used for narrow-gauge railways * Norwegian Cruise Line, a cruise line * Norwegian Elkhound, a canine breed. * Norwegian Forest cat, a domestic feline breed * Norwegian Red, a breed of dairy cattle * Norwegian Township, Schuylkill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norwegian Choreographers
Norwegian, Norwayan, or Norsk may refer to: *Something of, from, or related to Norway, a country in northwestern Europe *Norwegians, both a nation and an ethnic group native to Norway *Demographics of Norway *The Norwegian language, including the two official written forms: **Bokmål, literally "book language", used by 85–90% of the population of Norway **Nynorsk, literally "New Norwegian", used by 10–15% of the population of Norway *The Norwegian Sea Norwegian or may also refer to: Norwegian *Norwegian Air Shuttle, an airline, trading as Norwegian **Norwegian Long Haul, a defunct subsidiary of Norwegian Air Shuttle, flying long-haul flights *Norwegian Air Lines, a former airline, merged with Scandinavian Airlines in 1951 *Norwegian coupling, used for narrow-gauge railways *Norwegian Cruise Line, a cruise line *Norwegian Elkhound, a canine breed. *Norwegian Forest cat, a domestic feline breed *Norwegian Red, a breed of dairy cattle *Norwegian Township, Schuylkill County, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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1970 Births
Events January * January 1 – Unix time epoch reached at 00:00:00 UTC. * January 5 – The 7.1 Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (''Extreme''). Between 10,000 and 14,621 were killed and 26,783 were injured. * January 14 – Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian Civil War. * January 15 – After a 32-month fight for independence from Nigeria, Biafran forces under Philip Effiong formally surrender to General Yakubu Gowon. February * February 1 – The Benavídez rail disaster near Buenos Aires, Argentina, kills 236. * February 10 – An avalanche at Val-d'Isère, France, kills 41 tourists. * February 11 – '' Ohsumi'', Japan's first satellite, is launched on a Lambda-4 rocket. * February 22 – Guyana becomes a Republic within the Commonwealth of Nations. March * March 1 – Rhodesia severs its last tie with the United Kingdom, declaring itself a republic. * March 4 — All 57 m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wiener Festwochen
__NOTOC__ The Wiener Festwochen (Vienna Festival) is a cultural festival in Vienna that takes place every year for five or six weeks in May and June. The Wiener Festwochen was established in 1951, when Vienna was still occupied by the four Allies. The opening of the Wiener Festwochen is an open-air event with free admission held in the square in front of Vienna’s City Hall. Each year the festival attracts about 180,000 visitors. Directors of the festival include: *1951-1958: Adolph Ario *1959: Rudolf Gamsjäger *1960-1964: Egon Hilbert *1964-1977: Ulrich Baumgartner *1978-1979: Gerhard Freund *1980-1984: Helmut Zilk *1984-1991: Ursula Pasterk *1991-1996: Klaus Bachler *1997-2001: Luc Bondy / Klaus-Peter Kehr / Hortensia Völckers *2002–2013: Luc Bondy *2014–2016: Markus Hinterhäuser *2017–2021: Tomas Zierhofer-Kin *2019-present: Christophe Slagmuylder, whose term ends in 2024 See also *List of opera festivals This is an inclusive list of opera festiva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penelope
Penelope ( ; Ancient Greek: Πηνελόπεια, ''Pēnelópeia'', or el, Πηνελόπη, ''Pēnelópē'') is a character in Homer's ''Odyssey.'' She was the queen of Ithaca and was the daughter of Spartan king Icarius and naiad Periboea. Penelope is known for her fidelity to her husband Odysseus, despite the attention of more than a hundred suitors during his absence. In one source, Penelope's original name was Arnacia or Arnaea. Etymology Glossed by Hesychius as "some kind of bird" (today arbitrarily identified with the Eurasian wigeon, to which Linnaeus gave the binomial ''Anas penelope''), where () is a common Pre-Greek suffix for predatory animals; however, the semantic relation between the proper name and the gloss is not clear. In folk etymology, () is usually understood to combine the Greek word (), "weft", and (), "face", which is considered the most appropriate for a cunning weaver whose motivation is hard to decipher. Robert S. P. Beekes believed the name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matteo Fargion
Matteo is the Italian form of the given name Matthew. Another form is Mattia. The Hebrew meaning of Matteo is "gift of god". Matteo can also be used as a patronymic surname, often in the forms of de Matteo, De Matteo or DeMatteo, meaning " escendantof Matteo". Given name Matteo * Matteo Bandello, Italian novelist * Matteo Berrettini (born 1996), Italian tennis player * Matteo Bisiani, Italian archer * Matteo Maria Boiardo, Italian Renaissance poet * Matteo Carcassi, famous guitarist and composer * Matteo Fedele (born 1992), Swiss footballer * Matteo Ferrari, Italian football player who currently plays for Montreal Impact * Matteo Goffriller, renowned 18th-century Italian cello maker * Matteo Guendouzi, French football player * Matteo Guidicelli (born 1990), Filipino actor, model, and singer * Mateo Kovačić, professional footballer * Matteo Lane (born 1986), American comedian * Matteo Mantero (born 1974), Italian politician * Matteo Messina Denaro, Italian criminal. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eleanor Bauer
Eleanor Bauer is an American choreographer and dancer. Early life and education Eleanor Bauer studied at the Idyllwild Arts Academy (1997–2000) in California and subsequently the NYU School of the Arts (2000–2003). After completing her bachelor's degree in dance, she choreographed and danced in different places in New York, including Danspace Project, The Kitchen, Symphony Space, LaMaMa ETC, Joe's Pub, Judson Church, Joyce SoHo, Dixon Place, OfficeOps, and Ur, The Dance Palace. In 2004, she went to Brussels to study at the dance school P.A.R.T.S., where she completed the Research Cycle (2004–2006). She currently is a PhD candidate in Choreography at the Stockholm University of the Arts. Career Choreography Bauer's work is at the intersection of choreography, dance, text, music and performance. Her productions vary in size and used media, and focus on questioning categories, production methods and ways of thinking performance. In her work, she utilizes the strict ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manon De Boer
Manon de Boer (1966, Kodaikanal, India) is an Indian-born Dutch video-artist. Biography She studied at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam and at the Rijksacademie in Amsterdam. Since 2006 de Boer is part of the Brussels production and distribution platform Auguste Orts. She was also the co-founder of this platform. She lives and works in Brussels. The experience of time pervades the work of Manon de Boer. This is an extended experience of time, firmly anchored in the conditions of creation that incessantly produces a present and presence and resists a normative, functional and productive concept of time. Manon de Boer mainly works within the audiovisual realm. In connection with her films, she works increasingly with sculpture, installation and in 2021 she made a performance, Ghost Party (1) together with Latifa Laâbissi. Her work has been exhibited internationally, at the Venice Biennale (2007), Berlin Biennale (2008), São Paulo Biennial (2010), Kassel Documenta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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