CLARK (Warp Records, UK)

Sound Composition & Installation | Tilted Fawn | Melanie Lane (D)

CLARK, born in London, has worked with music and sound for over 10 years. He records for the label Warp (UK), for whom he has released 5 albums and 6 e.p.'s. His records are released with international success and his live sets have toured throughout Europe, Asia, Australia and the United States. His work with LOOPING choreographer Melanie Lane (D) started last year with a score for HELD.

Whilst his work for Melanie Lane is traceable back to the artist who has contributed this body of work music for Warp, the music created for HELD and LOOPING production TILTED FAWN simultaneously offers a radical departure, and a new fresh sense of space.

It is a bold, uncompromising and radical departure from his usual “known” work, and represents the first in a series of liberated, fully committed sonic explorations into the world of performance art.

WEB: http://www.myspace.com/throttleclark

Doreen Markert (D)

Since 2007, Doreen Markert works freelance behind the scenes of contemporary dance productions - focusing on Public Relations, Fundraising and Management. Additionally, she is a project manager in the Department for Digital Media and Education at the University of Potsdam, Germany. Both fields are knotted through her interest in social media, collaborative settings, networking, open education and changing work methods and life styles in the contemporary global village.

Between 2007 and 2009, Doreen has been a PR manager for performing arts productions at Tacheles Berlin, there working for Christoph Winkler, wee dance company, NORDWIND FESTIVAL, Régine Chopinot, HelsinKISSBerlin Festival, Howard Katz, Tomi Paasonen, Melanie Lane and others. At the same time, she realized specific PR campaigns for Nomade~s|Japanese Contemporary Dance, Giacomo Calabrese, Norman Douglas & Co., Anna Melnikova and Grinberg Method Berlin.

Meeting American choreographer Clint Lutes in 2008 sparked the beginning of an inspiring working partnership that has culminated in mutual productions and projects. Moreover, Doreen joined LUCKY TRIMMER in 2008, taking charge of PR and Management for this choreographic platform initiated by Clint Lutes.

In 2010, TanzWerkstatt Berlin elected Doreen for the LOOPING project of the European Commission, working as cultural manager for Melanie Lane’s new production “Tilted Fawn” which will be presented at TANZ IM AUGUST in Berlin and elsewhere. Furthermore, Doreen is coordinating all six LOOPING productions in terms of public relations activities for TANZ IM AUGUST 2010.

Kontakt: doreen_markert [ @ ] yahoo.de
http://enthusiasticencounters.wordpress.com

Melanie Lane's Biography

Melanie is a choreographer/dancer currently based in Berlin. After graduating from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, she travelled to Europe working with a number of choreographers and companies such as Club Guy and Roni (Holland), Tino Seghal (Berlin), Jan Pusch (Hamburg), Kobalt Works (Belgium) and Tanztheater Osnabrueck.

Since 2005 she has been an Artist-in-residence at Dock 11 studios Berlin and has created a number of works collaborating with artists such as musician Chris Clark, video duo Photone and Film makers Eva S.Aridjis and Timo Schierhorn. In 2009 she has taken part in choreographic projects at the Festival Collines, St.Etienne as well as with Antony Hamilton in residence at Radialsystem, Berlin.

She has established a working partnership together with choreographer/visual artist Morgan Belenguer, producing two creations RIDDLE and HELD in which they have developed an ongoing investigation utilising objects, film and architecture in space.

Melanie has most recently completed two research and development projects with Sydney Dance Company members and in Perth with independent artist Paea Leach, as well as creating a new work for the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts.