con·sens·us

greeting guardian(s) - a score / proposal

2011-04-04T00:20:00.003+02:00

seeing a surveillance camera (especially in a public place), look into it and wave at the person looking at you at that moment!
score © 2007 by Thomas Körtvélyessy.

note April 3rd, 2011
here's a corresponding video of visual artist Stefan Hoffmann printing in Phoenix Brighton, UK

SMILE! from Stefan Hoffmann on Vimeo.

breathing con·sens·us | Delfshaven Dans!

2010-10-01T17:09:00.005+02:00

Yesterday Thomas Körtvélyessy did a breathing con·sens·us on the Heemraadsplein in Rotterdam, Netherlands as part of the community-dance project Delfshaven Dans! which he does together with Damaris Verduijn and Kaat Nouwèn
Everybody got the chance to start together and tune into each other's breathing, trusting that in time the group would be moving together. It became a wonderfully poetic moment, complemented by a beautifully simple score of Kaat involving small origamied paper-boxes. The Heemraadsplein became filled with beautifully sensitive and touching people, each participant interpreting the score in her/his way.

There have been many moments of con·sens·us in this project, whether consciously or sub-consciously and it was very interesting to follow how they were dealt with by different people at different times.

video recorded & edited by Adolfo Estrada Vargas / cross-dissolve

park group / Hoek van Holland Strand

2009-09-10T17:24:00.027+02:00

During this summer Thomas Körtvélyessy taught a number of classes to the group of dance improvisation enthousiasts, organised by Wilma van de Hel and Karin van Etten.

The main location was in the Euromastpark in Rotterdam, but on July 15th they made a guest appearance on the Heemraadsplein, also in Rotterdam, where they performed a very free interpretation of the walking con·sens·us at the end.
Last Sunday, September 6th, 2009 they worked on the beach at Hoek van Holland, dancing with the water, the sand, and the wind.

All of the work was strongly centered in con·sens·us as a basic principle for interaction, supported by working with sensitive energy

Beach photographs by Wilma and Thomas
The complete gallery is here

Thank you!

2nd public space intervention score: imagine

2009-09-06T22:54:00.002+02:00

seeing a person in public imagine the person in a happy, fulfilled, blissful, satisfied state... :-)

synoptic Dortmund: twighlight zone

2009-08-22T07:36:00.010+02:00

In the middle of installations by the eight visual & sound artists with whom he participates in the workshop conceived and organised by Hajnal Szolga of SMART (Pécs, HU) - this time at the Hartware Media Association, Phoenix Hall Dortmund (D) - Thomas Körtvélyessy will perform a solo of accumulating energy in the space in process of con·sens·us. He will balance it with imagination, and finally end in an approached realisation of white noise in dance.
The entire process is visualized live by an infrared-video installation of Bence Samu of the Hungarian duo binaura.
More information: here

an appointment please meet here and now - Berlin Alexanderplatz

2009-01-28T10:37:00.008+01:00

>>> part of project PUBLIC by Elaine W. Ho and Fotini Lazaridou-Hatzigoga

An Appointment
Alexanderplatz, Tuesday, 27 January 2009, 18.00

"An Appointment is part of the continuing PUBLIC research project by Elaine W. Ho and Fotini Lazaridou-Hatzigoga. Organized as a daily series of experiments, interventions and discourses, PUBLIC aims to examine the potentiality of latency and open spaces made possible in the relations between individuals and publics.
Other activities are posted here. Some are open invitations to all, others are unannounced insertions in different locations throughout Berlin. 22 January - 1 February 2009"

taken from http://www.iwishicoulddescribeittoyoubetter.net / permalink
this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-
Commercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License.

SHUA group: Public Moves - Federal Hill

2008-10-26T23:44:00.000+01:00

A public movement art event by SHUA group. performed October 26th, 2008 in Baltimore, USA
>>> click here to see the project-weblog with more materials (images, texts, video)

Six Viewpoints by Mary Overlie online!

2008-10-06T03:04:00.002+02:00

The Six Viewpoints have been major influences at the beginning of con·sens·us. To learn more about Overlie's magnificient way of de- and reconstructing theatre and art, and herself, please click here

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2008-08-08T17:30:00.089+02:00

new work by
Thomas Körtvélyessy
dedicated to
Elaine Summers

Rotterdam, NL
16th & 17th of July 2008

dancers:
Elisabetta Consonni,
Jan Misker, Johnny Schoofs,
Wilma van de Hel

photography:
Konrad Szymański
video-registration:
Paul Sixta

special thanks to Amy Gale
Dansateliers, Rotterdam

with subsidy from the municipality of Rotterdam "Actieplan Cultuurbereik"

> for more info & materials visit the weblog

dance like no one is watching...

2008-04-27T10:08:00.006+02:00

a great idea from Toronto, Canada for the International Day of Dance
April 29th starting 12.00 and ending 6pm local time

visit this page on Facebook to learn more about the event
>>> let's join in worldwide!

Pauline de Groot & Co. - TOUCH air / raak lucht

2008-04-18T10:52:00.040+02:00

Pauline de Groot, Jaap Flier, Aharona Israel, Ailed Izurieta, Thomas Körtvélyessy

Cultuurmijl, Enschede (NL)
performances:
April 26th, May 24th, June 7th, & June 28th

organized by Mariëlle Videler / Performance Lab
(click here for the .pdf-flyer)

photo by Alex van Oostrum

SHUA group (again!) "Giant Place Detail"

2008-03-14T16:00:00.010+01:00

>>> SHUA group continue their series of explorations & audience interactive performances in public space! see http://giantplacedetail.blogspot.com for their latest project at the World Financial Center, with performances on May 8th, 9th, and 10th, in collaboration with filmmaker Diana Quinones Rivera.

Dylan Newcomb - this

2008-02-27T14:25:00.009+01:00

>>> new piece by Dylan Newcomb
a work approaching a state close to con·sens·us through a sequence of audience interactions along different phases.

SHUA group: crowded action

2007-12-14T13:35:00.003+01:00

>>> check out SHUA group and their videos
for their site-specific work and their performance-series
such as "Crowded Action"

Rose Akras @ VERBO 2007: Body Presence

2007-07-05T10:11:00.004+02:00

a very interesting investigation in relation to con·sens·us by performer, dancer, teacher Rose Akras, living and working in Amsterdam (Netherlands) and São Paulo (Brazil)

it will be conducted at the festival VERBO 2007 on July 11th, some time between 8 to 10 pm, at the prestigious galeria vermelho in São Paulo. > click here for more info

ARCHITEXTURE

2007-05-23T10:18:00.000+02:00

an ongoing interdisciplinary artist-in-residency
by Meredith Nadler and Steve Strasser

Dance Palace Luxemburg
April 2nd until June 30th 2007.

for more information (in French) click here

Architexture is a performance and a research project around contemporary dance, film and sound, which explores architecture and urban space, where these elements meet and form our everyday social sphere.
Architexture is in the middle of this creative process and results from the exchange between artists and public. Questions related to the premises of social conventions and existence are discussed in open forums with the public, with participants and interested. Finding answers and references, and in doing so, 0bserving the space surrounds us as well as the commitment which connects us to it.

untitled [film-dance]

2007-04-25T09:40:00.000+02:00

a performance with Lydia Müller
in an installation of film by Nora de Baan

De Fabriek / squatdeluxe, Rotterdam NL
April 22nd 2007

see video by Miquel de Jong

here we began with breathing and sensing, trusting that gradually we'd get together. the video shows the last 6 minutes of the 25 minute process.

Alexandria traffic

2007-02-09T15:17:00.000+01:00

while at the i-act forum in Alexandria, Egypt with the Dutch dance group vloeistof (liquid matter) it is very interesting for me to notice the forming of consensus in this place.

we mainly drive in taxis and small busses along the Avenue Corniche, a beautiful promenade along the coastline, which has four lanes in both directions, separated by a small wall that is interrupted at certain spots if one wants to turn around. The style of driving is very adventurous, even in the perception of the locals (and they say it's nothing compared to Cairo...) however it is very possible to cross the street at any place, because all one has to do is wait respectfully for the next opportunity to walk a little further, while cars race along in front and behind oneself and make a way the best they can. not many people do it, so there's not much frustration for the drivers, who constantly toot their horns and give signals to each other, like birds or insects, and that way help each other pass by.

everybody adapts more or less to the prescribed lanes, as a loose kind of orientation. and I get the impression that there are not many car accidents, as everybody sort of feels their way along each other, always alert, multiple. very little seems to go wrong in terms of car damage or casualties.

* * *

it is very easy for people here to help each other out in public space, and everybody is attendant to anyone present, immediately sensing any eye-contact or at times even intention.
taxi drivers consult each other easily if they don't understand where we want to go. speaking English happens in a very similar way, collectively, each complementing the other.

(to read more experiences in Alexandria you can surf to http://alexandriaconsensus.blogspot.com)

con·sens·us on video / YouTube™ !

2006-12-03T12:09:00.000+01:00

- con·sens·us at ZiM (Zwaanshals / Zenith in Motion) October 2004

- con·sens·us at Perambulação June 2005

- walking con·sens·us June 2006

- walking con·sens·us in Budapest August 2006

the technical quality is not ideal, but for now the best available.

Krefeld: der schiefe Blick

2006-08-12T18:20:00.000+02:00

Andreas Simon & Company

festival "ortswechsel / Ab in die Mitte - City - offensive NRW"
Krefeld, Germany, August 19th 2006, 11.00-13.00h
Lohstrasse, St. Anton Strasse, Ostwall, Hirschgasse

also by Andreas Simon: Der Schläfer (the sleeper)
August 20th, Quartelstrasse 13.00h - 14.00h - 15.00h
con·sens·us Düsseldorf

double impact: Japan / NL

2006-07-24T15:42:00.000+02:00

Janine Brall & Thomas Körtvélyessy

Friday July 28th 2006
Thomas Körtvélyessy: Schouwburgplein, Rotterdam, Netherlands 10.00h-11.00h (Central European Time)
filmed by Károly Tóth / zeroglab
+
Janine Brall: Tokushima beach, Shikoku, Japan
16.00h-17.00h (Japan Standard Time)

to see the video, click here

Thomas performs this dance as a contribution to SKYTIME™ by Elaine Summers

at ZiM once more: revista

2006-06-21T23:39:00.000+02:00

Eva Tremel & Thomas Körtvélyessy

photo ©2006 Samuli Schielke

ZiM goodbye-party Friday June 30th 2006

a farewell to the street from the artist-in-residency in 2004
in the spirit of 'Invitation to Secret Dancers' by Elaine Summers

departure & ending at Zwaanshals 474, Rotterdam

felt, but not seen...

2006-05-07T11:37:00.000+02:00

Thomas Körtvélyessy

solo to an audience of turned backs
using breathing con·sens·us (a.o.)

International Dance Exchange Amsterdam (I.D.E.A.)
Dance Studio Pauline de Groot
Koestraat 5, Amsterdam
May 13th 2006

> READ article choreographer's notes as a .pdf
(for more info, incl. participants' reactions please contact Pauline de Groot to order the forthcoming I.D.E.A.log)

last minute / con·sens·o, ego

2006-03-22T11:18:00.000+01:00

Thomas Körtvélyessy

video registration:
Aharona Israel

MAD-Sunday Special Edition Improvisation festival 2006
curated by Nini Poortman and David Lakein
Muiderpoort Theater, Amsterdam, NL

April 9th, 12:00 - 13:00 h
Oosterspoorplein (Muiderpoort train station)

new series: city - con·sens·us

2006-01-20T10:56:00.000+01:00

• the city and its currents / spaces
• in exchange with visual artists, architects, thinkers...

pilot project
ensemble N•visio
realized as a single afternoon in Rotterdam, July 2006
initiator: Thomas Körtvélyessy
+ Janine Brall, Willem Besselink, Stefan Hoffmann

specific themes
- (in)visibility and (dis)apprearing in performance
- organic process vs. geometric form today
- working with large groups of performers

questions
- what are conditions for realizing
con • sens • us in an expanded & shared artistic collaboration?
- what could be ones for realization in a different city? another cultural climate? (artistically, production, politics, etc.)

see mini-video walking con·sens·us on YouTube

links to participating visual artists
Willem Besselink
Stefan Hoffmann
Ludger F.J. Schneider

Düsseldorf: der schiefe Blick

2005-07-29T09:10:00.000+02:00

Andreas Simon, Eva Tremel,
Ludger F.J. Schneider (all photography)
+ guests
29 - 7 - 05
Expansion
30 - 7- 05
Stadt in Bewegung
city in movement

12 - 8 - 05
An die Arbeit
[get] to work
13 - 8 - 05
Unorte / Vorräume
un-spaces / pre-spaces

26- 8 - 05
Stadt in Bewegung
city in movement
27 - 8 - 05
Expansion

9 - 9 - 05
An die Arbeit
[get] to work
10 - 9 - 05
Unorte / Vorräume
un-spaces / pre-spaces

"con.sens.us originated from the curiosity to (re)discover the extraordinary within the ordinary. The dancers and actors follow the pedestrian choreography of traffic, streams or pedestrians, bicycle riders, children's laughter and silence. They are focussing on the not-so-obvious and practice the slant look at what is visible. Pedestrians secretly become co-actors and carry traces of memory within themselves. Every day has its own (pre) signature."
→ see the website www.consensus.kulturserver.de
concepts of this realisation © 2005 Andreas Simon, Eva Tremel
all visual material © 2005 Andreas Simon, Eva Tremel, Ludger F.J. Schneider

Rotterdam: Perambulaçao água morta - água viva

2005-07-20T16:54:00.000+02:00

Aharona Israel & Thomas Körtvélyessy

2nd Architecture Biennale Rotterdam
June 1st - 11th 2005
a series of on-location performances in Rotterdam
centered around the relationship with water.

created for Perambulaçao
an exchange-project with artists from São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro

(more infos & photo's from the website)

with special thanks to Mirta Demare and Wendelien van Oldenborgh

stills from video-mentary done by Geeske Kanters

> acknowledgements

2005-07-17T00:37:00.001+02:00

con•sens•us is a collaborative project, which develops constantly from the influences of many single individuals. like any human endeavour it lives from the joined diversity of many who gave their energy, time, and effort to make it happen.

therefore first thanks goes to everyone who helped make this particular development possible, each in her/his own way.

to see the ever expanding list, please see under
> what is it / performance history.

Eva + Thomas would like to express their special thanks to
Elaine Summers for her magnificent inspiration and pioneer work in choreography and dance-technique. it helped enormously for the becoming of this project.

they also would like to thank her for her generous permission to include selected dance-scores of hers to be used during this series: Invitation to Secret Dancers, Circle Dance with Balloons, and Walking Dance for Any Number.
these dance scores were used extensively, as well as the practice of Summers' Kinetic Awareness® work.

Invitation to Secret Dancers
dance by Elaine Summers,
1973 - present

original drawing © 1976 by Tina Mchon

further thanks go to Mary Overlie for developing the Six Viewpoints and her vision on historical development as described in her forthcoming publication Postmodern Mechanics.
for analysis of what happened in a practice, the Viewpoints provide a comprehensive formal analysis. thanks to SITI Company / Anne Bogart for their further application and teaching of this tool for post-modern decomposition and re-development.

the concept of responsible anarchy and ethical reformation by Mary O'Donnell-Fulkerson and her teachings of Open Form Composition clarified and helped envision the artistic, conceptual and social understanding of the implications of this practice instrumentally. as it progresses to develop these ideas constitute one possible attempt at an interpretation of her visionary and revolutionary work.

> what is it? / performance history

2005-07-04T14:37:00.000+02:00

con • sens • us
happens as a collaborative dialogue between the performer(s) and the environment.

the practice researches possible ways of sensory-based agreement in the widest sense.

drawing © 2006 by Thomas Körtvélyessy.

this can happen in many ways and different (public) spaces, outdoors or even indoors. the accent lies on working together to reach a common goal. this will only happen by relating involved energy.
it cannot be faked or copied in form.

by allowing silence and receptiveness, all actions that come to happen produce the final composition of meeting sensitivities and sensibilities.

>> originally...

... the central theme was to explore the crossing between art and daily life.
gradually and with a (collective) memory building up from the several realisations, it is more and more becoming a practice that could be applied to any interesting situation.

Kronenburg Shopping Centre,
Arnhem Netherlands, July 2004
photo © 2004 by Ingrun Schnitzler
reproduced by kind permission

con • sens • us
was started in Rotterdam, the Netherlands in 2002
by Thomas Körtvélyessy and Eva Tremel.

performances have been organised and produced in
- Arnhem, Netherlands (2002, 2004 Kronenburg Shopping Center),
- Rotterdam, Netherlands (2002, 2004 ZiM , 2005 Perambulação /2nd Architecture Biennial, 2006 ZiM closing celebration)
- New York City (2005 Kinetic Awareness® Center),
- Düsseldorf, Germany (2005 "der schiefe Blick" repeated in Krefeld 2006)
- Budapest, Hungary (2006 "les enfants du paradis")

Eva Tremel
Kronenburg shopping center
October 2004
photo © 2004 by Eva Karczag.

Thomas Körtvélyessy
ZiM Rotterdam, migrant neighbourhood
October 2004.
photo © 2004 by Şule Attems.

both photos reproduced by kind permission

> guest artists -

different people who perform this concept will find a different focus each time and with each setting. as long as the basic givens are maintained, each one can enrich the notion of consensus and develop it further.

thanks to:

performers - Andreas Simon, Meredith Nadler, Aharona Israel, Janine Brall, Ingrun Schnitzler, Claudia Heu, Amanda Rouse, Andreas Schmidt, Rolande Beugré, Karin Böszer, Shinsaku, evnodm (Don Springer)

musician & costume designer - Pierre Verbeek †

co-choreographers - Elaine Summers, Christine de Smedt, Andreas Simon, Meredith Nadler

photographers - Şule Attems, Ingrun Schnitzler, Eva Karczag, Doron Hanoch, Ludger F.J. Schneider

video-documenters - Corien van der Poll, Lina (ZiM), Geeske Kanters

advisors - Luz da Camara, Eva Karczag, Meg Chang, Mary O'Donnell-Fulkerson

supporting organisations -
Epicentrum Arnhem
Akasha Arnhem
ZiM Rotterdam
Kinetic Awareness® Center New York City
Mirta Demare gallery
tuzrakter independent cultural center Budapest

START !!!

2005-06-28T03:22:00.000+02:00

A forum to document the diverse realisations of con•sens•us and its related actions.

Please send material to be posted and feel free to comment / discuss etc.

More later!

Thomas