This will be about the conditioning and the conditions for improvisation as performance. I won’t talk about improvisation as a technique to create new movement, or as a technique to free the body from habitual movement patterns, or as a technique in contact improvisation to explore movement by physical contact.
Frakcija: The key concept and the title of your book is “social choreography” and you use it in relation to both dance and the aesthetic of everyday movement. How do you frame that concept and how is it related to choreography as artistic practice?
Andrew Hewitt: My methodology of “social choreography” is rooted in an attempt to think the aesthetic as it operates at the very base of social experience.
NOMAD DANCE ACADEMY is a common initiative of six partner organizations from SEE region with the aim to promote, educate and collaborate in the area of contemporary dance and related arts.
An inner and an outer voice echoing along the urban sections of the river. Lines conceived in the intimacy of a poet's room. Stranger's gaze sliding across the water as he passes by. The river. A flow of images. A being to live with for a lifetime. A coagulum of our past and present bleeds.
I gave to this talk the title: «the emancipated spectator». As I understand it, a title is always a challenge. It sets forth the presupposition that an expression makes sense, that there is a link between separate terms, which also means between concepts, problems and theories which seem at first sight to bear no direct relation on each other.
One of the first comments I could call out after the performance of The Theatre of Repetitions was: finally! Finally an event where music and theatre engage on an autonomous third plane of philosophy, saved from the obsessive search for a suitable Musik+Theater relationship whereby the capacity for representation in music traditionally is weighed against theatrical staging.
In the 2010 academic year the Cooperative Dance Education Centre at the Berlin University of the Arts and the School of Dramatic Arts “Ernst Busch“ will be again accepting students:
BA course of study “Contemporary Dance, Context, Choreography” and MA “Solo / Dance / Authorship (SODA)” and the MA “Choreography”.
In the 2010 academic year the Cooperative Dance Education Centre at the Berlin University of the Arts and the School of Dramatic Arts “Ernst Busch“ will be again accepting students:
BA course of study “Contemporary Dance, Context, Choreography” and MA “Solo / Dance / Authorship (SODA)” and the MA “Choreography”.
This project negotiates the question of affirmation as a performative method and political stance. To choose the esthetics of subversive affirmation – in times of neoliberal relativism – means to take a political position – at the same time affirmative and performative.
Artists who have established a professional practice and seek possibilities for further reflection and development, can increase their research skills at the Amsterdam Master of Choreography. This two- year non-residential program of the Amsterdam School for the Arts aims to contribute to the field of critical and contemporary dance research and creation. Deadline: November 15, 2009
Artists who have established a professional practice and seek possibilities for further reflection and development, can increase their research skills at the Amsterdam Master of Choreography. This two- year non-residential program of the Amsterdam School for the Arts aims to contribute to the field of critical and contemporary dance research and creation. Deadline: November 15, 2009
In the context of Dance Research NRW the NRW KULTURsekretariat is offering again a grant for several months with the purpose of pursuing research on dance subjects in co-operation with persons, institutions and communities in North Rhine Westphalia.
After 15 years of existence as an experimental art school, DasArts transformed itself into an international Master of Theatre, part of the Amsterdam School of the Arts (AHK). We offer a unique training laboratory for professionals in the field of the performing arts, in conformance with the internationally recognized Master qualifications.
NOMAD/ Educational programme 2009 is dedicated to the group of up to 12 emerging artists from the Balkans who are motivated and mature to live, learn, work and move together for 4 months, creating a network for future artistic collaboration and continuing to work in contemporary dance.
Nomad Dance Academy invites emerging creators from the field of contemporary dance and related professions, from around the world, to the nomadic dance-research-exchange-creative process. The programme will travel through Macedonia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Croatia and Slovenia from 13th March till 23rd June 2010 . A group of 10-15 people will be living, learning and creating together. Deadline: 15. 11. 2009.
We would like to invite you to apply for the 14th International Festival of Choreographic Miniatures, a competition for contemporary dance choreographers, which will be held 11th-15th May, 2010. in the National Theater, Belgrade...
Mission of the Festival of the Choreographic Miniatures is to promote contemporary dance in a wide range of styles and to introduce to the wider audience and professionals the current and up-coming choreographic trends.
Support and promotion of young choreographers, training and professional development courses and the promotion of Contemporary Dance – these are the focal points of the K3 Zentrum. For the third time the Tanzplan Hamburg is offering three residencies within this framework to choreographers at the beginning of their professional career. Ideally, the applicants should have realised their first own works.
MAztp stands for the development of methods for researching and conveying
the art of dance. The MAztp program is a full-time, two-year program which admits a maximum of ten students for each study cycle. The application process occurs every two years.
The Berlin Post School for Physical Theatre-Dance is opening its activities in collaboration with Tanzfabrik with a unique program. The main objective of the Post School is to empower the "creative performer", self-aware and completely open to investigating subjects from various perspectives within a solid, rigorous and updated basis of Physical Theatre-Dance knowledge/experience.
TANZPLAN DRESDEN seeks to give new impulses to the contemporary dance scene in Dresden and is therefore looking for two production teams to come to Dresden and create a new project for the dance evening of TANZPLAN DRESDEN in June 2009.
The focus of this workshop will be on creating with, writing from, studying and critiquing the research products of four unique interdisciplinary research projects initiated by contemporary choreographers Wayne McGregor, Siobhan Davies, William Forsythe and Emio Greco | PC.
Through the program Tanzplan Potsdam: Artists-in-Residence the fabrik Potsdam initiates and supports artistic projects in contemporary dance, choreography and performance with work residencies that include financial, creative, technical and logistical support. The program is oriented to professional artists and groups, from within and beyond Germany.
The application for the danceWEB Scholarship Programme 2010 is open now until December 15, 2009. The Programme is a further training programme for young and emerging dancers from all over the world. The next edition of the Programme will take place from July 14 - August 18, 2010 within the frame of ImPulsTanz - Vienna International Dance Festival.
Michaela Hargitay (A), Eszter Gál (H) and Zsóka Nej / Workshop Foundation (H) invite you to apply for a residency in the frame of "Research into the Unknown", a program that aims at encouraging artists to research on improvisation as an artistic tool, as a means of creation in contemporary dance.
PACT Zollverein runs a residency programme, which is open to professional choreographers, theatre and performance makers from Germany and abroad. Shaped to suit individual needs, residencies are available throughout the year and can include rehearsal space as well as administrative and technical support for artists involved in researching, developing or realising projects or productions.
The sixth edition of Festival NagiB will take place from September 15 to 18 2010 in Maribor, Slovenia. We call for projects that are undertaking a research in the medium itself and investigate new possibilities of expression. The works should not be shorter than 20 minutes, projects taking place outside of the traditional theatre space are welcome.
The WinterUpdateMeeting (WUM) 2009 will be from 26/12/09-3/1/10.
You are free to come for a longer or shorter time.
You are invited to make proposals for lectures, workshops, showings, classes or discussions.
Newcomer talents and contemporary choreographers and dancers from all over the world are requested to apply for the competition with a new, original, imaginative and unique solo piece, a piece which displays unusual achievement. The solo must be presented either as a premiere or must have been performed on stage only during the previous 12 months.
Dragana Bulut and Milka Djordjevich amplify the artifice of performance in order to reveal the generic character of contemporary dance and the larger system from which it is produced. They work with marginalized performers, whose inability to escape the pretense of performance is magnified, as their endeavor in moving produces a futile result. Does this signal a time for change, or is it just a soundscape for revolution?
“Delusional perhaps but Constellation always hopes we are up to more than just providing popular entertainment, an idea occasionally reinforced when practitioners of artforms outside of music seek to collaborate with our artists.[...] Our humble projects perhaps receive no greater commendation than when they are married with contemporary dance artists [...].” Don Wilkie from Constellation Records
SEMI-INTERPRETATIONS or how to explain contemporary dance to an undead hare
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Semi-inspired by work of: Joseph Beuys, Francoise Delsarte, Steven Shaviro, Bruno Latour and Graham Harman
HOMMAGE à trois is a piece based on questioning authorship and ownership of ideas; we are dealing with stretching the territories of copying and originality; we work from an understanding that paying tribute establishes authority, while at the same time undermines it.
BDP 2009 will present the latest production of BADco (Croatia), Rosana Hribar & Gregor Luštek (Slovenia), Madalina Dan (Romania), Dragana Bulut, Gillie Kleiman & Lígia Soares (Serbia), Griffon dance co. (Greece), Kinesthetic Project (Bulgaria) and Aleksandar Georgiev (Macedonia).
This is the second edition of the LocoMotion contemporary dance festival that, this year as well, aims to present an overview of the current discourses and practices in the field of contemporary dance, here and throughout the world. In five festival evenings, the audience will have opportunity to see and communicate with different dance creations, film projection and music concert.
Perforations – week of live art is a new festival in Croatia with the aim of initiating and supporting innovation in performing arts, starting collaboration projects with local and international arts organisations and festivals as well as to nurture the environment for further development of independent artists and cultural scene.
Using the most advanced social software platforms and internet multimedia applications, dance-tech.net provides dance and new media artists, theorist and technologists the possibility of sharing work, ideas and research, generating opportunities for interdisciplinary and collaborative projects that explore innovation and the impact of new technology on the performance.
POOL is a recurring format for dance- and animation film. Aiming for becoming a platform for dancer, choreographers, directors, artists, organizers and other interested people, POOL offers space for exchange of experiences, developing and advanced training, and presentation.
Choresound 09 is a forum and artistic lab that focuses on the process of composing contemporary dance and music. It is a week designed to explore and develop the collaboration between choreographers and composers /music and dance, and to expand the knowledge and experience on related issues.
The upcoming winter shedule includes master workshops and guest performances with Frédéric Gies and André Lepecki, artist-in residence program with Isabelle Schad and also artist-in-residence program with Ivana Mueller planned for spring-summer 2009.
PACT Zollverein runs a residency programme, for the development and realisation of projects and productions, which is open to professional artists from Germany and abroad, working in the fields of dance, performance or media art. Residencies provide artists with rehearsal space and local accommodation.
We invite you to enroll into the Seminar of Contemporary Performing Arts. In the 2009/2010 school year, the seminar will take place under the heading Artistic and Social Assemblage of Bodies: Contemporary Performing Arts and the Powerlessness of the Political. In its ninth consecutive year, the Seminar will again be composed of internal lectures, a series of public lectures and four theoretical and practical workshops.
The festival is a platform for young choreographers who already reached an own profile on their way to the international dance scene. The festival takes place during one week and offers exchange for young international artists. The program offers a selection of current new contemporary dance tendencies accompanied by lectures, workshops and video installations.
Borrowing the title from the famous Dean Martin song, this notebook-like
performance explores the mechanisms of forgetting, emotional consumption
and remembering moments and spaces that have been evacuated or that were never there.
Focus of SERIES is satisfying desires and their emergence later on…and what can be fanatical then. And dance is not consider here as a collective act, so it is observed in Magacin.
It is a dance performance which promises to be entertaining, virtuosic, and sharp, through beauty, emotion, etcetera. Of course, you will obviously see the socio-political engagement and the theoretical background of the dancers. These aspects will interact with you, provoke you, and shock you. Whilst showing you the crucial power of innovation and blindly following trends, the show achieves historical significance for the dance scene of the future.
“Sonzai-Kan” means in Japanese: “to sense a presence of something or somebody”. What happens if the sight tells you are meeting a human, but your senses cannot recognize a human being? What determines if one is alive? And quite the opposite: how does a body without life act?
WHATEVER BADco. is the first issue of a new publishing project titled WHATEVER. The project WHATEVER will be a series of publications whose content, thematic frame, editorial team, publisher, graphic design, format, etc. can be determined by anyone who wishes to publish or edit an issue.
Raster 2008 – Yearbook of the Independent Performing Arts Scene in Serbia is a bilingual directory of 24 authors/groups and their projects in the performing arts field – dance, alternative theatra and performance art/actions that had their premiere in 2008. Integral publication in the PDF format can be downloaded from this site.
The second Summer Workshop takes place between 14 – 25 July on the campus of Palucca-Schule. The course program includes Contemporary Technique, Ballet Class, yoga, Forsythe Repertoire, Trisha Brown Repertoire and visual arts with dancers. Teachers are Stefan Dreher, Holger John, Mariah Maloney, Ana Catalina Román and Risa Steinberg.
On the subject of T.I.M.E, German musician (Fello) and 5 Macedonian performers who collaborated for 4 days developed a work in process. This performance, a border-crossing cooperation project is set on the edges of contemporary dance and digital music.
Šukarova and Eagly met in 2006, when they collaborated with Yoshiko Chuma (USA) on the performance A Page Out of Order. The two artists are eager to build upon this foundation by researching their common choreographic interests. This performance in Skopje marks the first stage of their common research process.
The goal of the workshop is the transmission of an excerpt of the piece dance (praticable). The workshop will consist in working on the different tools that permit to read and interpret the score on which the piece is based. Mainly, we will work on a body practice that approach anatomy and physiology through movement.
