Foolish Operations

We have moved!

2007-04-18T16:48:00.000-07:00

Please visit our new website at

www.foolishoperations.com

thanks!

Next Mobile Clubing: Wednesday March 14 lunch time: 12:30

2007-03-06T21:45:00.000-08:00

LOCATION: Richards and Davie, North West corner, at the park.

You are invited, invite your friends.

Let's try in day time!

Mobile clubbing is where a (small) group of people meet together in a
public place and put on earphones and over the course of a set period
of time just dance to a personal stereo. Each person listens to
whatever music they want to (each different), and they dance. People
do this in London, and it's lots of fun.

These are the only instructions;
- arrive at location at a given time
- start dancing to your personal stereo to the music of your choice
- spread out in space as that will prevent us from being asked to leave

It will be great!

Join us!!

Mobile Clubbing Monday Jan 22nd at 5:30 Granville Island: Triangle Square!

2007-01-18T23:22:00.000-08:00

LOCATION: Granville Island Triangle Square
5:30 to 5:50, Monday January 22nd.

It was raining, of course! We are in Vancouver after all! But it was my first rainy Mobile Clubbing, shared it with two new mobile clubbers and a great photographer who documented the event. All the Granville Island lights were reflected in the water, it was abit slippery, calling for fun dance moves!

December 5th 2006 from 5:05pm to 5:25pm.

2006-11-27T11:17:00.000-08:00

LOCATION: Granville Loop Park, Granville and 5th Avenue, North-East corner.

It's a very interesting venue. It has a fountain with cement features, covered bus stop, tennis court, playground and pedestrian underpass. Feel free to dance wherever you want.

You are invited, invite your friends.

Profile of a Mobile clubber: Nadia Bertrand

2006-10-31T20:30:00.000-08:00

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

2006-10-30T10:45:00.000-08:00

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

2006-10-21T12:54:00.000-07:00

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!

2006-10-19T22:56:00.000-07:00

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

2006-10-19T22:33:00.000-07:00

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"

Mobile Clubbing in Vancouver

2006-09-07T12:59:00.000-07:00

Mobile Clubbing operation number 3, still exploring different sites with limited invitations. We are contacting a number of participants by advanced invitation (by email or by phone) to explore with us sites that are most interesting. This was July 22 2006 in the park behind City Hall.

Mobile Clubbing? The new black.

2006-07-28T16:19:00.000-07:00

Black may be back, but mobile clubbing is new.

Well, it is to Vancouverites, who are fashionably late, lagging luxuriously on the beach as urban trends slice through the cobbled roads of older, more cobbled cities.

Mobile clubbing:
Arrive at location at the given time
Start dancing to your personal stereo to the music of your choice

You have your reasons.

We certainly have ours.

This guy can't get enough, and we can't either...

2006-07-28T16:10:00.000-07:00

More foolish operations from Matt Harding, the unknown dance guy taking the world by storm.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1461873531734801891

Don't get jealous, get even. Dance around the block, clock, flock, rock, hollyhock, or stock (keep it at a rolling boil) by yourselves or in company. We'll keep you company, with westcoast mobile clubbing. Wait for the signal here.

Mobile clubbing around the planet

2006-07-28T15:50:00.000-07:00

Watch out for this guy who is traveling around the world. Mobile clubbing in action. Join the movement - dance where you are.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1609134961558581805

Foolish Operations

2006-07-28T15:43:00.000-07:00

Foolish Operations publicly endorses the following foolish (but far from inane) persons and projects. We privately endorse many others.

* Julie Lebel and L'echelle humaine.
See differently, don't use your eyes. Julie is a fearless and foolish general. She's now operating out of Vancouver.
http://www.echellehumaine.ca/eh/mieux_voir.html

* Marc Goossens and his DA...NCE: DA price of asparagus in the kingdom of belgium, sports, tv and scieNCE
Well worth the view. Besides, he's a mighty cool operator.
http://www.ccbe.be/daprice

* Salt Spring Island Currency
Here in Canada, just off the West Coast, on Salt Spring Island, there's a legal currency created by Islanders. It is redeemable only on Salt Spring, and it is actually backed by gold. Since 2001, Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, with a population of about 10,000, has issued its own alternative currency. It's good lookin' cash!
http://www.bestofsaltspring.com/products.asp?cat=17