Jasmin Saulo & TNG : HE, Fabio Pronesti and Jameywamey
Resolution Festival 2024
About Jasmin Saulo & TNG : HE, Fabio Pronesti and Jameywamey
A Tribute To Ólafur by Jameywamey
This piece is structured improvisation. I’ve performed this piece a few times over the years. The music, structure and idea are the same, but I am always changing, as a person, and dance artist. I will try my best to find my vulnerability and honesty in my moments, not to perform, but to try to share with you how I am right now. I hope I, as the observed, and you as the observer, lose our expectations, of each other, and ourselves.
I hope we can both let go of the things, holding us back from feeling what we need to feel.
About The Artist
James was in NYDC (National Youth Dance Company) in 2012-14, graduated from NSCD (Northern School of Contemporary Dance) in 2017.
As a freelance dance artist, Lecturer at LCDS, teaching workshops in Europe, to teaching FKA Twigs. To more commercial work with artists and events such as Hania Rani, Saul Nash, Raybans, Beyonce’s Black is King film, The Marvels Film, and Ikea. To contemporary theatre work with Bullyache, Trashdollys, Jason Mabana, James Cousins, Hannes Langolf, Jasmin Vardimon and Akram Khan.
James focuses significantly on exploring and developing his own style of movement and expression, finding inspiration mixing elements from contemporary companies like Peeping Tom from Brussels, to hip hop battle scenes, cultures and communities around the world.
Cast and Credits
Created and Performed by James Olivo
La Na by Jasmin Saulo & TNG : HE
TNG : HE presents La Na, an abstract piece evocative of the human experience of healing, sourcing influence from an emotional, physical, spiritual and psychological perspective. La Na explores the rawness and perpetuation of human emotion, ultimately demonstrating the non-linear nature of healing and its uniqueness to each person. Originating from the Filipino phrase ‘bahala na’ meaning ‘come what may’, La Na encapsulates the expansiveness of a healing journey and embraces the cracks of a broken soul, with lightness, strength and surrender, to curate something beautiful and indelible in its truest form.
About The Artist
TNG : HE represents and celebrates a collective of all male-identifying artists working towards redefining and disrupting society’s stereotypical lens of the male form. HE utilises art to create social movement and start the conversation surrounding strength in vulnerability and openness to change. With over a decade of presence in the professional dance realm, providing opportunity for the next generation, TNG will debut their HE collective at Resolution 2024 in collaboration with resident movement artist and choreographer at the heart of TNG, Jasmin Saulo.
Jasmin takes the collective on a journey of rediscovery and creative exploration through the medium of dance and mixed movement. Following a career in the professional dance industry, it remains Jasmin’s mission and ethos to create a safe space in dance, not only as a means of physical space but allowing the artists to create a safe space within themselves; embracing vulnerability, finding lightness and creating positive change.
Cast and Credits
Founder/Creative Director: Ricky Labib
Creative Director/Lead Choreographer: Jasmin Saulo
Assistant to the Choreographer: Gioia Antonucci
Contributing Choreographer: Corbyn Taulealea-Huch
Creative Producer: Sally Fry
Cast with Creative Contributions: Adam Coyne, Andrew Cording, Arvin Daryl Odell, Dexter Obi, Jay Allen, Jean Ceballos Ruge, Jesus Kalu, Jordan Barrow, Jordan Hornett, Josh Rose, Kci J Lee, Kit Mccoy, Lamar Senior, Marcellus Hill, Mirlind Bega, Robbie Bovington, Sheehan Parsons
Additional creative contributions: Aaron Gonzales, Curtis Holder, Danyul Fullard, Gregory Armand, Hakeem Tinubu, Jacob McLay Reid, Jordan Quayson, Josh Gill and Miekalie Browne.
Lighting Designer: Ali Hunter
Photographer: Emily Cooper
We would like to give credit to CODY Studios, Open Ealing and The Yaa Centre for the provision of rehearsal space throughout our creative process.
SOUVENIR by Fabio Pronesti
Souvenir reconsiders what we kept close. A body retraces a series of memories from the past and, in the attempt of pouring them into the space it gets confused by what is familiar, entangling the voices that are certain. Lights of deception, the smell of a smoke, a way of capturing each others’ hands: some possibilities from yesterday rooted within our desires and then framed. The work, presented as a first study, is driven by the intention to establish different procedures through which get in touch with memories, making them present, questioning the role of the performative body and its archival features. Within the landscape crafted by sound engineer Beatrice Balagna, Fabio brings to light lived spaces, currents in which he immersed himself and some precious relics: other beliefs that were real.
About The Artist
Fabio Pronesti (1999, Italy) is a dance artist based in Turin. His work combines elements of performance and visual art. He graduated at Trinity Laban in London in 2022 to then join VERVE in 2023. Questioning the role of the performative body and its archival features, his research looks into possibilities of co-existence and procedures for revealing their intrinsic fragilities. Conducting an auto - ethnographic research, his works seek to frame the moving body at the intersection of mnemonic visions and perceptive experiences, incorporating improvisation as a tool to encourage its becoming. Over the last year, he has collaborated with The Place (London) and Atelier delle Arti (Livorno) to present his work.
Cast and Credits
Concept and performer: Fabio Pronesti
Sound design: Beatrice Balagna
Photographer: Lorenzo Tombesi
Supported by: KLAK - Stories for Artists, Atelier delle Arti
