Profile of a Mobile clubber: Nadia Bertrand

Nadia is a visual artist in transit in Vancouver. She found a electronic piano in the garbage, hooked it with headphones and used it to make her own music to dance on.

On the way there, Julie and Nadia found various object to make a temporary installation, lamp and chairs, transforming the closed fountain of the Richards and Davie park in a cosy living room.

I like the idea of building temporary installations for our Mobile Clubbings. It gives a meeting point for the dancers and is, like the dancing bodies, suddenly changing the space, just for a moment.

On the picture: Nadia on the way, taken by Julie Lebel

Mobile Clubing Today from 5 to 5:15

Join us today for a Mobile Clubbing event from 5 to 5:15 at the corner of Davie and Richards (at the park).

You are invited, invite your friends.

Studio Showing 27th 2006 at 6:30pm Scotiabank Dance Centre Vancouver

Studio Showing 27th 2006 at 6:30pm It's free, come and see!

Jarislowsky studio (3rd floor), Scotiabank Dance Centre

Works in progress include:

Julie Lebel - Ensemble Thinking improvisation, excerpt of Relevé de terrain, and a new solo for Miriam Colvin
 
Robyn Campbell: Hover a collaborative solo premiered in London, performed by Robyn Campbell, choreography by Amy Voris, composition by James Buchanan and scenography by Susannah Henry. For pen and ink illustrations of the choreography see http://www.jamesmedia.net/jmpage.aspx?jmpg=hoverone
 
Foolish Operations is the umbrella organization for Julie Lebel and Robyn Campbell's crazy art projects. www.foolishoperations.blogspot.com
>Photo: Nadia Bertrand, feature Robyn Campbell and Julie Lebel

Thanks to Miriam Colvin from Smithers, Nadia Bertrand (visual artist in transit these days via Vancouver) and Lynsday Sayers (Osteopath with a passion for dance) and foolish operators Julie Lebel and Robyn Campbell for their generous contribution to the development of Ensemble Thinking improvisation.

Mobile clubbing on YouTube!

Check out this clippet of delight, a view of Liverpool Street Station (London England) filled with dancing people on October 11, 2006. Find everybody (find Waldo!) from commuters to families to all ages dancing up a station storm.

Click here for the direct link.

What foolish fun!

Mobile clubbing, our inspiration overseas

Mobile clubbing is new to Canada but has been running with wild success in England.

Most simply, mobile clubbing is turning up at a pre-arranged public place on mass where you begin to dance to the sound of your own personal stereo.

To read some accounts of mobile clubbing in England, click here for "iPod flashmobbers dance in their hundreds", how hundreds of people descended on Liverpool Street station for the biggest ever turnout for the latest internet craze - mobile clubbing.

Click here for an article about how "iPod-crazed youths invade London station"