SUNDAY, 20.10 19.30
New Riga Theatre

Tickets: NRT
Price: 2, 3, 4 and 5 Ls
Duration: `45 min.

Multimedia exhibition in the hall: "Mini@tures on the web"
Discussion after the show.

"Mini@tures" dance & new technologies
Mulleras Dance Company, France

Mini@tures (1998-2001) dance & new technologies A pluralistic choreographic concept... A round trip from the real to the virtual, from multimedia to the stage, where dance plays with new technologies. A fusion of new dance, electronic music, video-art, and web-design.

Mini@tures is a choreographic concept designed in the form of VERY short films ... shorter than short, where movement opens itself to new paths (internet & multimedia) to return punctually onto the stage, nourished by these new offerings.

The project displays several phases:

-Phase 1 & 3

Multimedia and web works / 100 dance video-clips created for the web and cdrom, to be discovered in free access on the web www.mulleras.com

-Phase 2

On-stage performance / 4 dancers + 1 video screen, re-creating and extending the web works, in a graphic and interactive live act.

On the net, CD-ROM, video, or on stage, mini@tures is short. Always. Sometimes strange, sometimes funny, sometimes tender... A new dimension, which plays with time/space. A nomadic dance, in the conquest of new territories to be claimed. A free concept, for a free audience...

Magali Viguier-Mulleras & Didier Mulleras, french choreographers, based their dance company in Béziers (South France) in 1986. They actually work in their own studios, the CED center, where they create and teach. They both have had a rich and pluralistic training (dance, music, theater) close to artists such as Vendetta Mathea (N-Y), Anna Mittelholzer (Graham Cie), Darrel Davis & Derek Williams (DTH N-Y), Redha, Charles Cré-Ange ...

Since 1988, they have presented 23 shows on stage, and toured worldwide for various festivals and venues.

Didier had earlier a musical training (piano, voice, percussions), then toured in various bands playing Jazz and brasilian music. Since 1990, he composes the original musics for all the company's stage works, in an eclectic melting pot of synthetic and acoustic sound.

In 1998, they launch their website www.mulleras.com, owing to their stage director Nicolas Grimal, to guest the "mini@tures" project, and their works about Dance & New Technologies. More than 55.000 persons connected on their website, from 70 different countries, have discovered the 100 short films created for Internet. The project received the special price of the Jury at Festival CYNET 2000 in Dresden (Germany).

With a rich and unanimous international media cover since 2000, the company is touring "mini@tures - phase 2" show and screen works, in Europe and around the world: Germany, Spain, Italy, France, Monaco Dance Forum, DanceScreen 2000, Milan, Berlin, Russia, Luxembourg, Festival da Fabrica - Porto (Portugal), Festival Danza Estate Bergamo (Italie), Festival Video Estavar, Institut Fran?ais de Kiev (Ukrain), Blue Stage HKW Berlin, Mostra Video Dansa Barcelona, Netd@ys Bruxelles, Dance On Camera New-York, Senef Festival in Seoul - Corea, EMAF Festival Osnaebruck Germany, Video Dance Festival Uruguay, MIC Auckland New Zealand, NTIL Festival HomoAlibi 3.0 in Riga - Lettonia..

In 2002: the "mini@tures" project, achieved, will keep on touring worlwide, with the help of AFAA - Paris (Portugal - Italy - Brasil Tour: Cultural Center of Bélem in Lisbon, Festival da Fabrica - Porto, Téatro Viriato - Viséu, FabbricaEuropa in Firenze (Italy), Itau Cultural in Sao Paulo (Brasil) and will be permanently available on the web, in free access.

2002-2004: Mulleras Dance Company will create and launch its new project "INVISIBLE", coproduced in France by LE CARGO - Grenoble: a three-years process, a new creative universe, for web, multimedia and stage...
Magali and Didier Mulleras are part of the new generation of artists who do not wish to remain subjugated to established styles, as much in the writing of movement as in the places of representation.

Their creative process using multimedia, notably internet, is today appreciated as a new path to be taken. Their curious look at the world allows them to confront their dance to the technical improvement of this millenium, showing a new dance in ever-changing settings.

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