contemporary_dance

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.

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.

The 5th BDP will be an opportunity for choreographers and dancers from Bulgaria, Romania, Greece, Macedonia, Slovenia, Serbia, Turkey, Croatia, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Albania and Montenegro to present thier work to a great number of international visitors (directors, producers, curators).

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-in-residence programme dedicated to dance and performance artists from Eastern and South-eastern Europe. The residence lasts for a maximum of 8 weeks (6 weeks at TQW, for two further weeks a studio will be organised in the city; less is possible) and shall open a multilayered exchange among international artists and create qualified working conditions.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.