| >>Villager Documentary Project |
2 May to 3 May, 2010
Organizer: Caochangdi Workstation/ Living Dance Studio
The year 2010 marks the 5th year of the Villager Documentary Project. Let us see what these four villagers, who have yet to put down their DV cameras, are up to in 2010.
They have completed their third feature-length films, My Village 2008, and these will premiere at Caochangdi’s May Festival; their fourth films, My Village 2009, are in the editing process; their fifth feature-length films, My Village 2010, are currently in production.......
   
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| >>New Works in Documentary Film: Private Cinema |
2 May to 3 May, 2010
Organizer: Caochangdi Workstation/ Living Dance Studio
I hope you'll forgive me for giving this section of the program the same name as one of my new films: “Bare Your Stuff” I’m also slightly embarrassed to say that there are two of my own films in this program; it’s a little like planting my own seeds in my own backyard.
   
Private Cinema :Wu Wenguang‘s film Bare Your Stuff and Treatment, Odette Scott’s film Falling From The Sky and My Chinese Men, Li Ning's film Tape, Li Youjie's film Placenta.
 
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| >>Filmmakers in Focus: Hara Kazuo(Japan) |
27 April to 1 May, 2010
Co-programmers: Wu Wenguang, Abé Mark Nornes
Work Partner: Zhang Yaxuan
Co-organizer: Iberia Center for Contemporary Art
Support: The Japan Foundation, Beijing, DOEN FOUNDATION, The Netherlands
 Kazuo Hara has been making scandalous films about scandalous people since 1972. He describes his work as "overstepping the boundaries set by society in order to approach my subjects in close-up."
Born in 1945, Hara Kazuo made his debut with Goodbye CP (Sayonara CP, ?1972), which shocked audiences with its frank portrayal of cerebral palsy. Two years later, Hara again sent a shock wave through the Japanese film community with Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974?(Kyokushiteki erosu koiuta 1974, 1974).
   
Hara Kazuo's film: Sayonara CP 、Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974 、The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On 、A Dedicated Life .
  
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| >>Documentary Workshop : Vadim Jendreyko ( Switzerland) |
5 May to 9 May, 2010
Organizer: Caochangdi Workstation/ Living Dance Studio
CV Vadim Jendreyko – A u thor and D i rector
Vadim Jendreyko was born in 1965 in Germany and grew up in Switzerland.
He attended the Basel School of Applied Art and the Düsseldorf Art Academy. After that, he worked two years as assistant director, camera assistant and editing assistant in film and theater productions. He realised his first film in 1986. Since 1986 he works sporadic as Lightdesigner fortheater productions.
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| >>Jean Perret's Workshop |
From The Documentary To The Cinema Du Reel
Ways To Step Out of The Audiovisual Main Stream
Time and date: 15:30 to 18:30, May 7 to 9
Location: Library
Themes and Questions that should be raised :
Necessity to enlarge de documentary field and to invent new territories. Diversity as resistance to the main audiovisual flow.
The single shot : question of the frame in the space and the time. |
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| >>CCD Workstation: New Stage, New Creation Project 2010 |
2010 marks the initiation of CCD Workstation and Living Dance Studio’s “New Stage, New Creation Project,” a project to support independent dance and theater artists. This project arose out of the Young Choreographer’s Project, a continuing project now in its 5th year, which has already presented work by 38 choreographers and theater artists on CCD Workstation’s stage during May and Crossing Festivals......
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| >>CCD Workstation: Young Choreographers Project 2010 |
????? Caochangdi Workstation (CCD) and Living Dance Studio initiated the Young Choreographers Project in 2006, and 2010 sees the project move into its 5th consecutive year. In the past four years, the project has received a total of 82 applications from applicants in cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Guangzhou, Nanjing, Chongqing, Yinchuan, Anshan, Xi’an, Tianjin, Xiamen, and Wuxi. Of those, 38 were selected to receive funding, and their original works were presented in CCD’s May Festival. This was the first stage of the project......
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| >>CCD Workstation: Crossing Festival 2009 |
30 September to 10 October, 2009
Organizer: Caochangdi Workstation/ Living Dance Studio
Co-organizers: Beijing Storm, BORNEOCO/ CultureXpress, The Netherlands
 This is the 5th year that the Crossing Festival will be taking place at the Caochangdi Workstation. Five years is about the time it takes for an infant to develop into a child: to learn to speak and walk on its own. The problem is, are we able to speak our own words yet? Can we really walk on our own? And in the future, will we be able to continue speaking, and walking? There are? no one can guarantees here, for the reality that surrounds us is just too brutal. This is not the same brutality that we faced several years ago, when we had no freedom to express anything. But now that we’re more open, we turn around to find ourselves surrounded by the realities of entertainment, pragmatism, and material benefit. Freedom of expression, once a society-wide issue, became an individual’s struggle.
This year, the “Performance Space” aspect of our Crossing 2009 Festival presents a joint production between our Beijing Living Dance Studio and the Swiss group CapriConnection. Both groups are dealing with the topic of Mystery, using “medicine” as a starting point for inspiration. Before starting to work on the pieces, the two groups sat down together and dialogued about the topic, discussing and investigating.
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| >>CCD Workstation: Crossing Festival 2008 |
Date: 24 September to 12 October, 2008
Venue: CCD Workstation, Beijing
Organizer：CCD Workstation/ Living Dance Studio
Co-organizers: Beijing Storm, BORNEOCO/ CultureXpress(The Netherlands）
 In 2008 Caochangdi Workstation and Living Dance Studio present the fourth annual Crossing Festival, held in Beijing from 25 September to 12 October. This is an independent festival whose purpose is to advocate and further develop China’s independent contemporary dance and theater, and documentary film and experimental video. It was founded by Caochangdi Workstation & Living Dance Studio in Beijing in 2005, and is co-organized by Borneoco / CultureXpress in The Netherlands.
In the program for 2008, we have continued to...
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| >>Filmmaker in Focus: Peter Liechti, Switzerland |
Born in St. Gall in 1951, PeterLiechti completed his studies at the Zurich University of Artand Design with a diploma as a secondary-school drawing teacher and subsequently freelanced as a graphics and drawing instructor. He spent 1981–82 in Crete, where he devoted himself to painting and writing. He embarked on his first film experiments and film performances in 1983. ......
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| >>Workshop:POWER ON/OFF / conducted by Luca Camilletti, Laboratorio Nove, Italy |
 Venue:CCD Workstation:
Time & Date:
24 to 28 June 2008, 6pm to 10pm
LUCA CAMILLETTI, a many-sided artist involved in the field of the performing arts, with extension to music and photography, developing itineraries of investigation that involve various levels of perception and attention to the stage considered as a horizontal organisation of the various elements of the arts.
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| >>Caochangdi Workstation: May Festival 2008 |
Time & Date: April 26-May 5, 2008
 Venue:Caochangdi Workstation
Caochangdi (CCD) Workstation is an independent art space dedicated to contemporary dance and theater, and documentary film and experimental video. Three years ago CCD Workstation and Living Dance Studio began May Festival, an annual festival intended to provide young independent artists with a space to create and share.
This year we are proud to present a full program of new work...
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| >>Workshop/ Audition, Angie Hiesl und Roland Kaiser |
Date:13:30-15:00, 22 Sept. & 14:00-19:00, 23 Sept., 2007
Venue: Caochangdi Workstaion, Beijing
China-hair-connection (work title)
Interdisciplinary:performance and installation project by Angie Hiesl und Roland Kaiser 2007/2008
The German director, choreographer, performance artist Angie Hiesl and the performance and visual artist Roland Kaiser plan to realise the performance and installations project china-hair-connection (work title).
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| >>Caochangdi Workstation May Festival (2007) |
 
Date: 29 April to 6 May, 2007
Location: Caochangdi Workstaion, Beijing
This spring of 2007,Caochangdi Workstation is delighted to present it’s second May Festival. As in the previous year, the festival consists of two parts: Performance Space and Film Forum. In Performance Space, fourteen young choreographers from Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou and Guangzhou will be presenting their most recent works as participants of the second Caochangdi Workstation’s Young Choreographer Project...
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| >>Documentary Programme:Graduation Film Works of Beijing Film Academy |
Date: December 8- December 10, 2006
Curator: Hu Liubin
Screen: 《My Dear》(Director:Gu Yaping);《The Affair of Three Cities》(Director:Chung Chuan)《Dancing in the City》(Director:Fan Jian);《The School at City Fringe》(Director:Wang Changjiang);《The Blind Singers of Taihang》(Director:Tian Miao);《Paediatric Department》(Director:Wang Hao);《A Travel of Thousands of Miles》(Director:Luo Shasha)《A Girl from the Children's Village》(Director:Hu Liubin).
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| >>Crossing:Dance Festival,2006 |
Date: 1 to 16 October, 2006
Venue: Nine theater（TNT theater, Post-SARS Mini theater）
Organized by：Nine theater
Executive Organizer: Living Dance Studio
Co-producer: Borneoco (The Netherlands)
Sponsors:Beijing Storm,DOEN Foundation(the Netherlands),Goethe-Institut China,Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to China
Performance: heroine, (Kobalt Works, Belgium); STAU, (anoukvandijk dc,The Netherlands); Report on Giving Birth,(Living Dance Studio, Beijing);Outlanders,(Living Dance Studio, Beijing and Antje Pfundtner, Germany) ;Tongue’s Memory of Home ,(Zuhe Niao, Shanghai)
Young Choreographers Project: On Bus #300 to Carrefour,(Feng Ying Experimental Modern Dance Studio); Locker,(J-town.Film & Performance Lab); House,(Wang Ya'nan Studio)
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| >>May Festival 2006 |
Date: April 30-May 6, 2006
Organizer: Caochangdi Workstation, Beijing Storm
Curators: Wu Wenguang, Wen Hui
Support:DOEN Foundation(the Netherlands); Borneoco(the Netherlands)
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Caochangdi Workstation
Caochangdi Workstation Art Center is a Beijing independent art space involving performance art, documentary film/video, and video art. It was founded by filmmaker Wu Wenguang and choreographer Wen Hui in April, 2005. Its existence was made possible through the support of Beijing Storm; Kampnagel in Hamburg; Zuercher Theater Spektakel in Zurich; Borneoco in the Netherlands; Asian Culture Council in the United States; and many friends and supporters both at home and abroad.
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The year 2010 marks the 5th annual May Festival at Caochangdi Workstation. The soundtrack to this year’s festival is the sound of demolition. The reverberations have been resounding since last year. With only the brief prelude of a bulldozer’s rumble, Caochangdi could also vanish into thin air, as if it had never existed at all.? 
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This year marks the 4th continuous year of Caochangdi’s “May Festival”. As before, the festival will feature two main components: Performance Space and a Film Forum.
