Happy Holidays to all of you.

Thank you for supporting us and our program in 2016.

FD13 residency for the arts continues its international artist program in 2017.
We are looking forward to sharing it with you and hope to see you at one of our events at the various inspiring venues in and around the Twin Cities.

January 2017: Bojana Cvejić 
In conversation with Sandra Teitge at Carleton College (Weitz Center for Creativity, Room 236)
Friday, 20 January 2017, 4.30-5.30 pm

Talk in Chicago (with the support of the Goethe Institut Chicago)
Monday, 23 January 2017

February 2017: Moriah Evans
(in collaboration with Kampnagel Hamburg / in parallel to Common Time at the Walker Art Center)

Moriah Evans at Yeah Maybe
Wednesday & Thursday, 8 & 9 February 2017, 11 am – 7pm

March 2017: Barbara Held

Thank you to Cameron Gainer for hosting our residents, Bruno Freeman for being the man on site, and to all our presenting partners.
Bojana Cvejić’s residency is made possible with the support of the Trust for Mutual Understanding (TMU).

Everyone can find happiness and change their life. This is the inexorable mission of life coach Dragana Bulut. The former choreographer and dancer practices the life-changing potential of a new form of art.

Thank you to The White Page for hosting us. Thank you to Bruno Freeman for holding down the fort.

“Life is meant to be fun… not just on weekends! What would your life be like if you lived it to the fullest? Take a moment to imagine it! – – – You are not sure where to turn and what to do next? Within the little time we have together during this occasion I can provide you with programs to help you clarify what it is that you want, and give you the tools to achieve those desires. Trust me, you have the power within yourself to realize all your potentials. You are the only one who can make yourself happy. I will help you to live your best life and practice The Art of Happiness!”

Dragana Bulut is an artist of happiness whose mission is to guide, teach, coach, and empower people to use their thoughts and feelings as a guide to leading a life full of harmony, love and happiness. After working as a choreographer and performer Bulut shifted her carrier into the field of life coaching. Her strength in coaching is in the area of creativity, self esteem and creating happiness irrespective of what is happening in her clients’ life, which helps in manifesting one’s true desires.

Bulut’s FD13 residency (12 September – 3 October 2016) is made possible through support from the Trust for Mutual Understanding (TMU).
Thank you to Cameron Gainer for hosting the residents.

FD13 residency for the arts presents: Dragana Bulut

The Art of Happiness (Work In Progress)
Saturday, 1 October 2016, 7pm

The White Page
3400 Cedar Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55407

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Everyone can find happiness and change their life. This is the inexorable mission of life coach Dragana Bulut. The former choreographer and dancer practices the life-changing potential of a new form of art:

“Life is meant to be fun… not just on weekends! What would your life be like if you lived it to the fullest? Take a moment to imagine it! –– You are not sure where to turn and what to do next? Within the little time we have together during this occasion I can provide you with programs to help you clarify what it is that you want, and give you the tools to achieve those desires. Trust me, you have the power within yourself to realize all your potentials. You are the only one who can make yourself happy. I will help you to live your best life and practice The Art of Happiness!”

Life Coach Dragana Bulut 
Personal trainer Zeina Hanna 
Dramaturgy coach Ana Vujanović 
With the support of FD13 residency for the arts 
Co-Production Theaterdiscounter – Monologfestival 2016 / Theater Rampe Stuttgart

Dragana Bulut is an artist of happiness whose mission is to guide, teach, coach, and empower people to use their thoughts and feelings as a guide to leading a life full of harmony, love and happiness. After working as a choreographer and performer Bulut shifted her carrier into the field of life coaching. Her strength in coaching is in the area of creativity, self esteem and creating happiness irrespective of what is happening in her clients’ life, which helps in manifesting one’s true desires.

Bulut’s FD13 residency is made possible through support from the Trust for Mutual Understanding (TMU).

Thank you to Cameron Gainer for hosting the FD13 residents.

Pass It On is a performance realized as an auction, which deals with the question of authorship, the relation between the material and the immaterial, and the value of an artistic object.

The rules of the auction and the registration form were available before the beginning. By registering the public received a bidding number and became a potential owner of the items that were presented at the live auction. 

FD13 residency for the arts presents: Dragana Bulut Pass It On Friday, 16 September 2016, 7pm Bryant Lake Bowl Theatre 810 West Lake Street Minneapolis, MN 55408 Work In Progress Saturday, 1 October 2016, 7pm The White Page 3400 Cedar Avenue Minneapolis, MN 55407   Pass It On is a performance realized as an auction, which deals with the question of authorship, the relation between the material and the immaterial, and the value of an artistic object. The rules of the auction and the registration form will be available before the beginning. By registering you get your bidding number and become a potential owner of the items that will be presented at the live auction.  Bring your cash because it’s all for grabs! Note that by registering you don’t oblige yourself to buy any item; however, you could find art at bargain prices and have fun, too. Work In Progress will present Bulut’s research while in residency at FD13. — Dragana Bulut works with choreography and dance and was based in Belgrade/Serbia before moving to Berlin/Germany, where she graduated from MA studies Solo/Dance/Authorship at Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz Berlin (HZT). Since 2005 Bulut has been developing her own choreographic work, which was presented in various national and international contexts, including: Tanzquartier Vienna/Austria, InTransit festival Berlin, euro-scene Leipzig/Germany, iDANS festival Istanbul/Turkey, Fabrik Potsdam/Germany, Danspace Project New York, NY/USA, eXplore Dance Festival Bucharest/Serbia, Kondenz Festival, Belgrade and Balkan Dance Platform, Ljubljana/Slovenia. Dragana performed amongst others for Meg Stuart, Tino Sehgal, Ivo Dimchev, and Charles Linehan. In 2013-15 Bulut was a performing arts resident at Schloss Solitude; in 2010 she won the Prix Jardin d’Europe and in 2004 and 2008 she received the DanceWeb Europe Scholarship. She is also a member of Station – Service for contemporary dance in Belgrade. Bulut’s FD13 residency is made possible through support from the Trust for Mutual Understanding (TMU).

Happy Summer to all of you.

Thank you for your support and enthusiasm, as always.
We are looking forward to seeing you all in the fall for FD13’s upcoming programming.

Save-the date
September 2016: Dragana Bulut

Apart from two shows in Minneapolis at Bryant Lake Bowl (Friday, 16 September) and at The White Page (Saturday, 1 October 2016), Dragana Bulut will present her work in Chicago in collaboration with the Goethe Institut Chicago. More details will follow later on in the summer.

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Dragana Bulut works with choreography and dance and was based in Belgrade/Serbia before moving to Berlin/Germany, where she graduated from MA studies Solo/Dance/Authorship at Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz Berlin (HZT).
Since 2005 Bulut has been developing her own choreographic work, which was presented in various national and international contexts, including: Tanzquartier Vienna/Austria, InTransit festival Berlin, euro-scene Leipzig/Germany, iDANS festival Istanbul/Turkey, Fabrik Potsdam/Germany, Danspace Project New York, NY/USA, eXplore Dance Festival Bucharest/Serbia, Kondenz Festival, Belgrade and Balkan Dance Platform, Ljubljana/Slovenia.

Dragana performed amongst others for Meg Stuart, Tino Sehgal, Ivo Dimchev, and Charles Linehan.
In 2010 she won the Prix Jardin d’Europe and in 2004 and 2008 she received the DanceWeb Europe Scholarship. She is also a member of Station – Service for contemporary dance in Belgrade.

Bulut’s FD13 residency is made possible through support from the Trust for Mutual Understanding (TMU).

https://vimeo.com/164280720

FD13 residency for the arts presents:
Marit Neeb. A German Requiem for Windows.

(simultaneously to the Minnesota Orchestra concert A German Requiem)

Saturday, April 23rd 2016, 8.30 – 10 p.m.
Target Atrium of the Minnesota Orchestra 

Minnesota Orchestra
1111 Nicollet Mall
Minneapolis, MN 55403

Doors open at 8.30 p.m
Performance starts at 9 p.m.

(no tickets needed for the FD13 performance, access via Orchestra Hall lobby; it is possible to see both the concert and the FD13 performance, tickets for the concert here)

A German Requiem for Windows is an in situ performance in the Target Atrium of the Minnesota Orchestra and a response to the simultaneously staged A German Requiem by Brahms in the main concert hall. The window piece, based on the singing voices, will resonate Brahms’s opus and will be visible from the in- and outside creating a situational relationship with the audience on both sides of the windows. It will develop a temporary space, in which a common musical experience will open up for new multi-faceted encounters.

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Berlin-based artist Marit Neeb is interested in the possibilities of creating resonance between disparate bodies in the broadest sense. Her working method approaches texts of different sources ––voice and speech, movement and choreography– as one and the same fluidly interwoven phenomena of different manifestations.

Since 2011, Neeb has worked on what she calls ‘Resonance Structures’. These are performative installations for dynamic bow structures whose rhythmic choreographies follow compositions based on spoken language.

Recently, Neeb has presented her work at HELLERAU – European Center for the Arts Dresden, L40 Berlin, and haubrok foundation Berlin.

For her residency at FD13 in the Twin Cities Neeb will continue this multi-sensorial investigation whilst extending it onto the human body for the first time.

Thank you to Jessica Rau from the Minnesota Orchestra for the help and support.

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This will be the last performance before FD13’s Summer Break.

We will be back in September 2016 with a series of fantastic international artists. Stay tuned.

In conjunction with FD13 residency for the arts, Ligia Lewis shared an excerpt of the research for Minor Matter as a solo with dancer Jonathan Gonzalez at White Flag Projects in Saint Louis, MO.

Minor Matter will be performed by three dancers when it premiers later this year at Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin.
Grounded in an ongoing investment in affect and embodiment, Minor Matter takes the “minor” position to be understood racially, sonically, and thematically as it’s translated into aesthetic experience. In the score dancers negotiate themselves in relation to sight and phonic play, while exploring the limitations of signification and the fallacy of neutrality.

Supported by the Goethe Institut Chicago.