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6TH IDOCDE SYMPOSIUM JULY 27 - 29, 2018 YOU ARE HERE INDEX FOREWORD 7 Years. 3 Cycles: Multi-layered dancing To walk our talk, we – the Project Team – recycled the collection of editorial titles of IDOCDE.net into a verse, hoping This is it: the culmination of the third IDOCDE cycle. We to tickle your imagination of what upcycling documentation finish REFLEX Europe with this symposium. The number could be: seven implies a sense of completion - indeed we have FOREWORD 03 accomplished a full circle in these past seven years. Starting What I did not miss this summer to set up a network and a website including first attempts Time is ticking, body time at documenting our work, we continued to LEAP where Solo thinking, does not exist 05 PROGRAM we strove for learning together within the many facets Rofl (Rolling On Floor Laughing) of dance education, to now – having created the digital Breathing through continuous uphill motion publication MINDTHEDANCE.com. This ebook posing as a Revisiting our reality FRIDAY website contributes to freely accessible knowledge towards deepening dance practices through documentation. Last but not least we are proud to have established the symposium as a practitioner’s meeting: an opportunity for SATURDAY As with all long-term projects, we worked our way through learning and researching through embodiment, trusting the all sorts of difficulties and discoveries, walked on unexpected innate capacity of movement to generate knowledge. In the SUNDAY meadows and unearthed hidden treasures. Looking on what midst of all the madness of lies and misunderstandings that remains, it is the most ephemeral of achievements of what we encounter whenever listening to the world news, we feel counts: living relationships. In what ways? We invite you to blessed to have been able to facilitate meaningful encounters, SCHEDULE 18 find out with us over the coming weekend! creative action and learning processes for dance practitioners. We feel affirmed to have worked in groups– the Project Team, This year’s symposium is special in the sense that most of the Research Group, the administrators and partners, all past PARTNERS 27 our lecturers developed much of the content collaboratively and present symposium lecturers and participants – that are in the week leading up to the symposium, with the common driven by respect, trust, continuity and good humour. We denominator of MINDTHEDANCE.com. It served to sharpen thank you all for that, and look forward to transforming IMPRINT 31 our artistic and reflective means for our dance and teaching futures together! practices. Much of it is playful, practical, recyclable with the aim to inspire you, our peers, to develop your own imagery, Defne Erdur, Eszter Gál, Claire Granier, Kerstin Kussmaul, ideas, and practices around it. pavleheidler, Martin Streit (The Project Team). 3 FRIDAY, REFLEX EUROPE JULY 27 is a gathering of 11 international dance teachers, movement researchers and artists who jointly reflect and develop proposals on how to support your process in the field of dance / performance teaching and research by artistic 18:00, ARSENAL Meg Stuart (DE/US) created her first evening-length piece, documentation. This resulted in the REFLEX tool and guide: “Disfigure Study”, which launched her artistic career in Mind The Dance - A Guide to Documenting Contemporary Europe. In this choreography, Stuart approaches the body as Dance Teaching. SERIOUS FUN a vulnerable physical entity that can be deconstructed, distort- by Meg Stuart and Mark Tompkins ed or displaced but still resonates and has meaning. Interested During the symposium we invite you to join the program of in devising her own structure through which to develop artistic the REFLEX Europe track. All events of this track will offer projects, Stuart founded Damaged Goods in Brussels in 1994. insights into the practice of documentation and the specific This performance provides unique insights into the lab of Together they have worked on over thirty productions, ranging findings related to Mind The Dance. Present at these events Meg Stuart and Mark Tompkins, where they collect mate- from solos such as “XXX for Arlene and Colleagues” (1995), will be most of the authors together with groups of artists rial for their book on Real Time Composition – as a tool, “Soft Wear” (2000) and the evening-length solo “Hunter” using and tweaking Mind The Dance. technique, research, philosophical adventure and as an end (2014) to large-scale choreographies such as “Visitors Only” in itself. The “urban LAB” at ImPulsTanz continues the work (2003), “Built to Last” (2012) and “UNTIL OUR HEARTS of Stuart and Tompkins, which they started with 15 artists in STOP” (2015). Other projects include video works, installa- All REFLEX Europe events at the symposium are a “rural lab” in Arbecey, France in 2016. In Vienna they work tions, and site-specific creations such as “Projecting [Space]“, free for all! together with Gilles Toutevoix, Volmir Cordeiro, Maxime which was presented at Ruhrtriennale 2017. Dupuis, Elizabeth Francisca, Marc Lohr, Maria F. Scaroni, Mariana Tengner Barros and Marcio Canabarro. Mark Tompkins (FR/US) American dancer, choreographer, singer and teacher, founded the Company IDA in 1983. He World Premiere / Lab / Performance creates solos, group pieces, concerts and performances that mix dance, music, song, text and video. His way of fabricating Reduced tickets for this ImPulsTanz performance at unidentified performance objects has become his signature. the Arsenal ticket shop His passion for real time composition takes him around the world, teaching and performing with many dancers and musi- cians. In 2008, he received the SACD (Society of Dramatic Authors & Composers) Choreography Prize for his work. 4 4 5 20:00 - 22:00, Meeting Point STUDIO 1 “WELCOME, YOU ARE HERE NOW!” Come join us for some relaxed drinks and snacks, hang out at the campfire (weather dependent), find out details about the upcoming weekend! REFLEX EVENT 6 7 SATURDAY, 11:30 - 13:00, STUDIO 1 10:20 - 11:15, STUDIO 2 MUD - THE DANCE JULY 28 with Emilie Gallier, Kerstin Kussmaul, OPENING KEYNOTE: María Inés Villasmil POLITICAL BREATHING - REFLEX EVENT A practical philosophy for living relations Grounding practices of dance documentation, experimenting with Carol Brown with matter’s dissolution —to decompose and to appropriate. 9:05 - 9:45, STUDIO 1 In dancing as in life in general, we are all sharing the same air. Emilie Gallier (FR) is a choreographer and a researcher We encounter each other through sharing breaths (listening, (www.post-cie.com). Primary concerns of her work are: the tuning and calibrating) in an atmosphere of airs that can never relation between people, how do we script our lives and what FOOD FOR THE DAY - be fully appropriated. This shared condition is what makes us scripts us. She makes participatory performances designing Tuning exploration for the space human and vulnerable. How might it also provide the ground landscapes for performers to evolve and for the audience to with Liisa Pentti for a practical philosophy for enacting a dance politics? actively contemplate and read. Her current PhD research within C-DaRE at Coventry University asks: what happens in In this morning session we will be tuning into the space – Carol Brown (NZ) is a choreographer, performer, teacher and dance performances when the audience is reading? the multiple space of our bodies and the space around us. writer whose work crosses between the contemporary and This gentle exploration will hopefully wake us up and enable the archival, the somatic and the virtual and the conceptual Kerstin Kussmaul *see p. 30 Contact biographies an attentive body –mind-spirit for the rest of the day. and corporeal. Originally trained in the Bodenwieser Method in Dunedin, New Zealand, she went on to become the first María Inés Villasmil (VE/NL) After a career as a sociologist and Liisa Pentti (FI) is a choreographer and the artistic director woman Choreographer in Residence at the Place Theatre, having developed a parallel dance career, she moved to Holland of the company Liisa Pentti +Co. She has been working 10:00 - 10:20, STUDIO 2 London. Carol won the Ludwig Forum International Art Prize to pursue a BA from the School for New Dance Development on the field of dance in many different roles and positions. for The Changing Room and a Jerwood Choreography Prize. (SNDO) at the Amsterdam Hogeschool voor de Kunsten. In She is one of the core creators of Zodiak- Center for the Carol completed one of the first practice-led PhDs in dance 2004 Maria received her Master’s degree in Choreography New Dance in Helsinki. The work done by Liisa Pentti +Co ORIENTATION from the University of Surrey, UK. She is currently an Associate and New Media and more recently, Maria obtained an MBA includes seminars, events and workshops related to dance Come find out about the upcoming weekend, Professor in Dance Studies at the University of Auckland where in Creative Industries and Cultural Management from the and the role of art in society. She is currently concerned with she teaches dance and performance as research methods. She University of Salamanca, Spain. Since 2002, she is a faculty the psycho-energetic dimensions and the relationships of what to expect and how to go about for a publishes regularly and recently edited Undisciplining Dance in teacher of the Amsterdam School of Arts and a freelance Dance visible and non-visible spaces as choreographic questions. blissful experience Nine Movements and Eight Stumbles with Alys Longley. Artist working mainly in Latin-America and Europe. 8 http://www.idocde.net/idocs/1900 http://www.idocde.net/idocs/1901 http://www.idocde.net/idocs/1894 9 SATURDAY, JULY 28 11:30 - 13:30, STUDIO 2 13:45-15:00, STUDIO 1 SPACE BETWEEN THE and physics at Columbia University in New York City and is currently completing his Masters in Choreography and Perfor- LEFT-OVERS: QUESTION AND THE mance at the Institute for Applied Theater Studies in Gießen.