6TH IDOCDE SYMPOSIUM JULY 27 - 29, 2018

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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 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 , 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.

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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.

Viktorija Ilioska (MK/DE) is a performer and choreogra- ARTICULATING THE ANSWER - pher from Macedonia. She is doing her MA in Choreography with Defne Erdur, Patrick Faurot, Viktorija and Performance in Gießen, Germany after she finished her EPHEMERAL, THE DANCE Ilioska, Deirdre Morris, Melina Seldes bachelor degree in the Faculty of Music Arts in the department of pedagogy in Skopje, Macedonia. Her BETWEEN LANGUAGE, REFLEX EVENT interests are the forms of provocation in performing arts and the research on the movement of sub-body, distortion, and dif- Instant where information - stimuli, sensations, comprehen- ference. She is quite sure that we should build more space for MOVEMENT AND THE sion, meaning making - meet our flesh and bone. We are weakness in this world and she keeps repeating that. “here”: hunting, gathering, cultivating, excavating, dancing UNSPOKEN — the body, bodies, networks of bodies, collection and col- Deirdre Morris (US) is a performing artist, dramaturge, chore- Melina Seldes (AR) is an international performance artist, lectivity, sites of learning and unlearning… Now. ographer, and educator working in the US and abroad. She is researcher and teacher, based in Buenos Aires. She founded a with Colleen Bartley, Joana Chicau, Eszter the Executive Director at Earthdance MA/USA, and a working non-profit organization in 2009 (LEM, line in movement) that Gàl, Johanna Nielson, Agnes Schneidewind, Defne Erdur *see p. 30 contact biographies member of Dancing Earth, NM/USA. She founded, The Forgot- promotes dance and the dialogue between dance and other Martin Streit ten Body Remembers in 2010 as a site for researching somatic disciplines; amongst its activities exchanges programmes, Patrick Faurot (US/DE) is an American choreographer, based practices in education and performance. Her work spans residencies for developing artistic research, conferences and REFLEX EVENT director, musician and pluri-disciplinary performance artist. the mediums of dance theatre and site specific installations performances. The core lays in the relationship between body/ Until arriving in Gießen, his productions since 2014 focused interested in the reciprocal generation and documentation of action behavior and language. She studied dance and chore- Moving and reading through the chaos, constantly changing on researching experimental opera, combining elements of culture, bridging personal narrative and collective memory. She ography at ArtEZ Institute for the Arts (EDDC), Arnhem, NL, and adapting to the environment and structures that regulate contemporary dance theater with classical and new music. received her MFA in Interdisciplinary Dramatic Arts and Perfor- and completed an MA in Physical Theatre at Royal Holloway our bodies and movements provide a smorgasbord of potentials His current interests are in flux. Faurot studied mathematics mance Studies from the University of California Davis in 2014. University, London in 2007. of co-creation, re-creation, articulations, and cross-referencing.

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15:15 - 16:15, STUDIO 1 Aiko Kazuko Kurosaki/ViennaSchoolOff (JP/AT) is a danc- er, choreographer and performance artist born in Japan but DANCING TOGETHER WITH- living and working in Vienna. Solo and group performances at numerous festivals in Austria and abroad. Focuses on Colleen Bartley (UK) is an independent disabled dance artist Johanna Nielson (AT) wants to dance about questions. She projects critical of society and the environment. Site-specific, based in London. She teaches, organizes and CI and studied contemporary dance and dancepedagogy in Linz. OUT LEARNING THE SAME interactive and intervention-based work in public spaces. co-edits Contact Quarterly’s Newsletter. She is passionate Johannas work involves dance and movement, videos, spoken with Gina Battistich, Aiko Kazuko Kurosaki, Performance / flash-mob at the UN-Vienna headquarters for about lineage, dance history and she documents dance and words and Rap. She creates fluid formats, in which various Friederike Lampert, Anouk Llaurens, Claudia the anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki against the re- works creatively with archives. She is committed to social jus- roles encounter and perceptions are challenged. Amongst Lomoschitz, Charlotta Ruth, Sara de Santis, opening of nuclear power-stations in Japan after Fukushima. tice and resourcing people with creative tools. She has taught others she performed with Oleg Soulimenko, Claire Levèfre, Co-initiator and artistic director - since 2013 - for One Billion dance to a people of different ages and abilities is involved Florentina Holzinger, Peaches and Keith Hennessy or Julia Joana da Silva, Alina Tretinjak, Laura Unger, Rising Vienna – Ending Violence against Women and Girls, an in collaborative art events. She holds a Community Dance Danzinger. As pedagogue she is motivated to facilitate whole- Katherina Zakrav annual event taking place in public space. www.aikaku.net diploma from The Laban Centre and a degree in Dance and body-experiences and experiments. She got the DanceWEB Education from Swarthmore College. scholarship at ImpulsTanz 2017, is working for Im_flieger - REFLEX EVENT Friederike Lampert (DE) is a dance researcher, dance Independent Artists’ Association and a member of ttp/WUK. teacher, and choreographer. Besides teaching theory and Joana Chicau (PT) is a graphic designer, creative coder, The things we can(‘t) learn from schooling and fishing. practice of dance at Universities and schools, she has been researcher - with a background in classical & contempo- Agnes Schneidewind (AT/BE) studied philosophy at the Uni- working as research fellow for several research projects at rary dance - currently based in The Netherlands. She runs a versity of Vienna and followed further education in choreog- Gina Battistich/ViennaSchoolOff (AT) Performer, Dance educational institutions such as the Palucca Hochschule for transdisciplinary research project which interweaves media raphy, performance art and somatic practices in Antwerp and and Feldenkrais teacher, lives in Vienna, works internation- Dance Dresden, Codarts- University for Dance, Rotterdam, design and web environments with performance and choreo- Brussels. She has collaborated with Hazim Kamaledin, Eve ally. Interested in collaborative creative and organisational and Tanzplan Deutschland. She now holds a professorship of graphic practices. Chicau has been researching the intersec- Bonneau, Benjamin Vanderwalle and others. In her work she processes. In 2017: hosting and organising a platform for choreography at the Department Performing Arts and Film at tion of the body with the constructed, designed, programmed is investigating relationships, mechanisms of translation, and professional dance training in Vienna. Her own pedagogical Zurich University of the Arts. environment, aiming at in widening the ways in which digital the production of meaning in diverse realities through explo- ventures mediate between somatic techniques and dance with sciences is presented and made accessible to the public. She ration and creation of performative, collective and fictional a strong focus on anatomy and biomechanical knowledge. Anouk Llaurens (BE) is a freelance dance artist, dance has been actively participating and organizing events with spaces. Together with the collective F8 she realised the art education teacher, researcher and shiatsu practitioner based in Brussels. performances involving multi-location collaborative crea- More info: http://kaputorama.com program LasGaffas! at Museums and schools about changing She is currently leading a research on poetic, polyphonic, and tive coding/ algorithmic improvisation, open discussions on perception, perspective and involving the body in experienc- live documentation and completed the post-master program gender equality and activism. Martin Streit *See p. 31 Contact biographies ing a museum. Her most recent solo works were based on at a.pass. Her research is supported by Contredanse and game structures and were shown in Mexico, Czech Republic Bain Connective. She recently collaborated with Sarma in the Eszter Gàl *See p. 30 Contact biographies and Vienna. frame of “Conversation in Vermont: Lisa Nelson” at the http://www.idocde.net/idocs/1890 12 13 SATURDAY, JULY 28

Kaaistudio’s with her “breathing archive”. As a performer, student in artistic research at University of Applied Arts Macau and Austria, since 2011. Portuguese Language for Katherina Zakrav/ViennaSchoolOff (AT) Theorist, Per- Anouk is in long-term collaboration with trans-disciplinary Vienna supervised by Prof. Margarete Jahrmann. Children, since 2016. former, Dramaturg, Artist, Writer, Curator, Developer. 1998 artist Julien Bruneau. She teaches at KASK school of the arts, Ph.D. thesis on Kant’s philosophy of the University and Gent, at the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp, for Candoco Sara de Santis/ViennaSchoolOff (IT/AT) is a teacher, cho- Alina Tretinjak/ViennaSchoolOff (AT/HR) Dancer, Visual systemic theory of institutions. 1995-2012 Teaching at various Dance Company and Independent Dance, London. reographer, dancer and performer. She obtained her BA in Artist, Filmmaker. Born in Croatia, lives in Austria, works art institutions in Linz and Vienna and at the Philosophical Theories and practices of anthropology (2009)at Universita’ La internationally. Completed “School of Contemporary Dance” Institute, on the critique of humanism and biopolitics. Since Claudia Lomoschitz/ViennaSchoolOff (AT) works, re- Sapienza and her MA in Choreography at the National Dance in Zagreb and moved on to making video projections for 1994 independent scholar for film studies, social utopias and searches and teaches in the intersecting field of performance, Academy (2012), both in Rome. She continues her education dance performances. Studied South Indian classical dance dystopias, science, technology and society. 1998-2000 with dance and fine arts. She holds a MA degree in performance between Amsterdam, Rome and Vienna becoming a Gyro- Bharatanatyam at “Bharatha Choodamani Academy” in LuxFlux and Saira Blanche (Oleg Soulimenko), 2003-2007 studies from the university of Hamburg and studied Art tonic® and a yoga instructor. Meanwhile Sara began develop- Chennai, analogue Filmmaking in the Class for Independent with Chris Haring and Liquid Loft, Golden Lion at the Dance and Education at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, where ing her own work as independent artist and choreographed Film at “Schule Friedl Kubelka” in Vienna and Gender Studies Biennale in Venice for „The Art of Seduction“ (2007). Since she currently works as lecturer and writes her Phd regarding creating several solo and group pieces. She worked with at University of Vienna. Made several experimental short 2012 ZAK RAY, TransFormanceUnit. the relationship of Text and Body. Within her collective several renewed artist; among all Ismael Ivo, Adriana Borriello films and film installations as member of artist-run film lab called One Mess Gallery she realized various performative and Klaus Obermaier. Her work was presented in Italy, France, “filmkoop wien”. Works primarily as visual artist and dance http://www.idocde.net/idocs/1889 Works and in June 2017 her own piece called ‘Induced Poland, Germany, Austria, UK, Netherlands and Hungary. At teacher, exploring the interconnection between analogue film Lactation’ was shown at Kampnagel in Hamburg. the moment she is teaching Gyrotonic® and yoga for dancers. (making) and dance. www.claudialomoschitz.com Joana da Silva/ViennaSchoolOff (PT/ AT) Performer and Laura Unger/ViennaSchoolOff (AT) lives and works in Vien- Charlotta Ruth/ViennaSchoolOff (SE/AT) plays with time dance teacher based in Vienna. BA in Dance, ESD Lisboa and na. 2010-2018 she studied Dance, Context and Choreography and perception inside choreography, art based research and Institut del Teatre, Barcelona (Erasmus). Performance Activi- at HZT (UdK) in Berlin, Performing Arts at Bilgi University in pedagogical endeavors. Ruth currently works with Dominik ties: international productions, including works from Chto De- Istanbul and Dance Studies at Salzburg University. Since 2012 Grünbühel on documentation of ephemeral art practices lat, Rafael Alvarez (Plural Dance Company) and Aiko Kazuko she develops her own artistic works and received a START inside the project Living Documents, as a dancer inside Alex- Kurosaki. Until 2016: performer, director’s assistant and Amal- scholarship from the Austrian Federal Chancellery. Currently ander Gottfarbs yearlong project Negotiations at Tanzquartier gama Movement teacher at Amalgama Dance Company and she is researching on as a political tool and plans to Wien and as a guest researcher invited by Ingrid Cogne to the Unitygate Platform. Own projects in collaboration with artists set up an exchange platform in order to strengthen a critical art based research project Six formats at the Academy of Fine from diverse fields, since 2004. Teaching Experience: regular folk dance discourse in Austria and elsewhere. Arts, Vienna. Since 2017 Ruth develops her research on play, classes and workshops for children, young people, adults and www.umtata.at; www.ungerlaura.wordpress.com performativity and liveness in online contexts as a PhD people with special needs in several places between Portugal,

14 15 SATURDAY, JULY 28 a Teacher`s Training for Holistic Dance and Movement Peda- 15:15-16:30, STUDIO 2 gogy at the Institute INGATA (Austria). Since September 2017 she is part of the Master program “Artistic Research” at the University of Amsterdam (in collaboration with the Amster- DISORIENTATING dam School of the Arts). In her artistic work she is highly interested in bridging art and science, in questioning existing hegemonic formats of knowledge production through a form of 16:45-21:30, STUDIO 4 DOCUMENTATION ‘material thinking’. with Nicolas Hubert, Sabrina Huth, AFTERNOON Ilana Reynolds, John Taylor Ilana Reynolds (US) is a dance artist. Her interests range from the meticulously choreographed to instant compositions. 17:30-18:30 REFLEX EVENT She enjoys strong physicality, minimalism and haikus. She AT THE SYMPOSIUM studied dance at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and POLITICALLY RIGHT(?), The linearity of documentation is deconstructed in order to Escola da Fundação de Dança in Salvador, Brazil. She received Saturday afternoon is imagined as The Time for The Com- reveal its creative potential for the individual and collective her MA (2017) in contemporary dance education from the munity. The time will be spent engaging with a number of PHYSICALLY WRONG(!) experience. University of Performing Arts in Frankfurt a. Main. Actively different formats, meant to host and hopefully encourage an Moderated conversation regarding the notions of community, involved in the free-lance dance scene, she collaborates on ongoing conversation. diversity, and practice. Nicolas Hubert (FR) originally studied Fine Arts, while he interdisciplinary projects with musicians and writers. In ad- With Defne Erdur, pavleheidler, Kerstin Kussmaul. was a percussionist in a rock band (where he was discovered dition, she works as the dance dramaturge for the company by the choreographer Marie Lenfant, who integrated him Hennermann & TEAM in Frankfurt. 16:45-17:30 18:30-20:00 into her dance company). Since 1996 he dances for several MEET THE PROJECT TEAM choreographs, including Michèle Noiret in Brussels, Hervé is a dancer and educator based in Amster- THE KITCHEN TABLE John Taylor (NL) Past, present, and future of IDOCDE including The Moon Annual discussion forum continuing the conversation started Robbe in CCN du Havre – France. He creates his own work in dam. He has been associated with the MTD contemporary Practice and/or other performative actions previously, in a different format. the compagnie épiderme since 2002. Graduated (French State dance department at the Amsterdam University of the Arts for Hosted by Deirdre Morris *See biography p. 10 Degree for contemporary dance teaching), he also devotes the past 25 years. This association with young dancers sparked himself to teaching, within various institutions including the an interest in the processes of how we collaborate and learn 20:00-21:30 CND Lyon the CCN of Grenoble, and the CCN of Rillieux La through co-creative processes. To take part in artistic practice Pape, le Pacifique CDC. means to assume the roles of artist, researcher and teacher/ COMMUNAL DINNER learner in the collaborative co-creative process of one’s con- We provide the main course. You bring drinks & dessert. Sabrina Huth (AT) is a dancer, performer and movement tinuing artistic development. In 2016 he completed his master researcher currently based in Amsterdam. She has studied thesis The Benefits of the Art Practice Based Technique Class Psychology at the University of Vienna (2015) and completed for Dance in Higher Education.

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BASEMENT 2 18:30 SERIOUS FUN Meg Stuart & Mark Tompkins (IPT Performance) BASEMENT 2 Studio 3 Body Work 18:45 SCHEDULE Studio 4 LOCATION in Arsenal to be anounced 18:00-19:30 Body Work 19:00 Surf Station SYMPOSIUM EVENT Surf Station 19:15

19:30 Nearby public transportation: 19:45 Streetcars: Find the workshop area of 18, O Fasangasse ImPulsTanz behind the 20:00 18, Heinrich-Drimmel-Platz “Heeresgeschichtliches Museum” (Military Museum). Or follow the 20:15 Fast regional trains: ImPulsTanz bicycles! R, S Wien Quartier Belvedere “WELCOME, YOU ARE HERE NOW!” 20:30 20:00-21:30 Address: REFLEX EVENT 12 ARSENAL / Burgtheater-Probebuehne 20:45 1418 & ART-FOR-ART Werkstätten Objekt 19, 1030 Vienna 21:00

21:15 = joint (anchor) event for all participants! SATURDAY, JULY 28 = joint (anchor) event for all participants! SUNDAY, JULY 29 STUDIO 1 STUDIO 2 STUDIO 3 STUDIO 4 STUDIO 1 STUDIO 2 STUDIO 3 STUDIO 4 09:00 09:00 FOOD FOR THE DAY: TUNING 09:15 FOOD FOR THE DAY: 09:15 EXPLORATION FOR THE SPACE - PLASMA- A MOVEMENT GAME - Liisa Pentii / 09:05-09:45 09:30 Curio Kitheca / 09:05-09:50 09:30 09:45 09:45 ORIENTATION 10:00-10:20 10:00 10:00 10:15 10:15 OPENING KEYNOTE: POLITICAL A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO DANCE BREATHING - A PRACTICAL 10:30 PEDAGOGY: TOWARDS A BETTER GROUND INFINITY - AN ONGOING 10:30 PHILOSOPHY FOR LIVING RELATIONS 10:45 UNDERSTANDING OF HUMANITY: TRANFORMABLE PRACTICE: 10:45 Carol Brown / 10:20-11:15 Johanna Henritius, Ulla Mäkinen, Gosia Gajdemska, Andrea Keiz, 11:00 Sasha Kleinplatz, Silvia Marchig 11:00 11:15 Marianna Panourgia, Gwen Rakotovao 11:15 / 10:15-11:45 / 10:15-11:45 11:30 11:30 MUD - THE DANCE: 11:45 11:45 Emilie Gallier, Kerstin Kussmaul, SPACE BETWEEN THE QUESTION 12:00 12:00 Maria Ines Villasmil AND THE ANSWER: Defne Erdur, 12:15 12:15 Patrick Faurot, Viktorija Ilioska, / 11:30-13:00 12:30 12:30 Deirdre Morris, Melina Seldes REFLEX BODIES AS REALITIES AND REFLEX / 11:30-13:30 12:45 EVENT ROCK, PAPER, SCISSOR: REALITIES AS BODIES: 12:45 EVENT 13:00 Eszter Gál, Fabiana Pastorini, Sabina Holzer, Agnese Krivade, 13:00 13:15 Shelley Senter, Risa Steinberg Rayén Mitrovich, Angela Stoecklin 13:15 13:30 SYMPOSIUM / 12:15-14:15 / 12:15-14:00 13:30 SYMPOSIUM LEFT-OVERS: ARTICULATING THE 13:45 PASS 13:45 PASS EPHEMERAL, THE DANCE BETWEEN 14:00 14:00 LANGUAGE, MOVEMENT AND THE UNSPOKEN: Colleen Bartley, Joana Chicau, 14:15 14:15 Eszter Gàl, Johanna Nielson, Agnes 14:30 OPEN SPACE 14:30 OPEN SPACE Schneidewind, Martin Streit / 13:45-15:00 14:45 14:45 15:00 15:00 DANCING TOGETHER WITHOUT 15:15 PARTICIPATORY 15:15 LEARNING THE SAME: 15:30 CHOREOGRAPHY FOR 15:30 Friederike Lampert, Anouk Llaurens, DISORIENTING DOCUMENTATION: POLITICAL BREATHS Carol Brown & Members of ViennaSchoolOff Nicolas Hubert, Sabrina Huth, Ilana 15:45 Kasia Pol / 14:45-16:30 15:45 *See biographies / 15:15-16:15 Reynolds, John Taylor / 15:15-16:30 16:00 16:00 16:15 16:15 16:30 16:30 16:45 Afternoon at the Symposium CLOSING LECTURE: “LIFE IS NO 16:45 17:00 7 YEARS OF IDOCDE (Meet the Project Team) ARGUMENT!” - Reflections on 17:00 17:15 including performative action / 16:45-17:30 Meaning, Art, and Experience by 17:15 17:30 Afternoon at the Symposium Oğuz Erdur & final circle / 16:45-17:45 17:30 17:45 POLITICALLY RIGHT(?), PHYSICALLY WRONG(!) - 17:45 MULTIPLICITY IN OUR COMMUNITIES: 18:00 Defne Erdur, pavleheidler, Kerstin Kussmaul 18:00 18:15 / 17:30-18:30 18:15 REFLEX RG & 18:30 18:30 PARTNER MEETING 18:45 Afternoon at the Symposium 18:45 (closed session) / 19:00 KITCHEN TABLE 19:00 18:00-19:30 19:15 hosted by Deirdre Morris 19:15 19:30 / 18:30-20:00 19:30 19:45 19:45 20:00 COMMUNAL DINNER / 20:00-21:30 20:00 SUNDAY, 10:15-11:45, STUDIO 1 Ulla Mäkinen (FI) is a contemporary dancer, teacher and lecturer currently directing the dance department in North Karelia Col- A HOLISTIC APPROACH lege, Outokumpu, Finland. She graduated from the MA program JULY 29 of Contemporary Dance Pedagogy in University of Music and Performing Arts Frankfurt am Main and continues to work inter- TO DANCE PEDAGOGY: nationally in Europe, Asia and North America. She is in the Axis Syllabus teacher certification process. Besides dancing, she also TOWARDS A BETTER practices and teaches yoga. She is one of the representatives of 9:05-9:50, STUDIO 2 dance in the Art Council of Finland.

UNDERSTANDING OF Gwen Rakotovao (FR) is a dancer, choreographer and educator FOOD FOR THE DAY - born in France with roots from Madagascar. Her multicultural Plasma - a movement game HUMANITY - background influences her approach to movement and dance. with Curio Kitheca She graduated from the Ailey’s school in 2009 and creates works with Johanna Henritius, Ulla Mäkinen, with her own contemporary dance company since 2011. She also A kinesthetic-physical intelligence training game, which takes Marianna Panourgia, Gwen Rakotovao teaches worldwide to a wide range of audience from children to the question “What do I need?” as a starting point. The train- professional dancers. In addition, Gwen won the first prize at the ing will explore and use different movement states to enable REFLEX EVENT 2012 Biarritz International Contemporary Dance Competition a fine tuning of our movement’s boundaries, possibilities and and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Performing Arts (Licence preferences as well as observe phenomena of repetition in our What do we teach beyond movement techniques? Reflecting Arts du Spectacle) from the University Paris 8. practice. There will be plenty of food to digest the whole day contemporary dance pedagogy in relationship to the triptych long, created by our own ways of moving, together for and of body, mind and soul. Marianna Panourgia (GR) born in Piraeus, Greece. She is a with others. contemporary dancer/ teacher. She has obtained Diploma of Johanna Henritius (FI) is a dancer and PhD candidate whose Dance Teaching and Master of Arts in Ethnochoreology (1st Curio Kitheca (SI) researches playfulness and kinesthetic- current research focuses on the study of Energy Healing Tech- honours). She has attended dance seminars and workshops with physical intelligence as a performer, dancer, choreographer, niques. She graduated as Master of Arts from the University of many prominent dance scholars and practitioners in Greece and clown, teacher, writer, in formats like games, performances, Nice (2016) where she is pursuing doctoral studies. A central abroad. She has also participated in numerous performances, happenings, installations, publications, clown acts. He is theme of her research is to tackle the conceptual and methodo- festivals of contemporary dance and video dance projects, as involved in many research teaching projects i.a. with Andreja logical problems concerning the meeting point of dance and well as the 2nd and 4th Biennale of Athens. The last years she Podrzavnik in the state-level project of integration of artistic spirituality. Before this, she studied at the Royal Swedish Bal- is participating at dance conferences and congresses as a debut approaches into pedagogic process in schools and CoTeaching let School and in Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance. scholar with her interest focusing on dance training / education devised by and with Dejan Srhoj, Gisela Müller and Rok Vevar. As an artist, she has danced in Sweden, Austria and Germany and dance curriculum. and is currently working with Celaine Company in France. 19 18 http://www.idocde.net/idocs/1902 http://www.idocde.net/idocs/1893 19 SUNDAY, JULY 29

10:15-11:45, STUDIO 2 Andrea Keiz (DE) works as a freelance artist in the field of video documentation of performing arts. Besides document- 12:15-14:15, STUDIO 1 ing dance for research projects like Tanztechniken 2010, GROUND INFINITY - AN TANZFONDS ERBE she works closely with various artists and is part of the artistic research group AREAL, based in Berlin. ROCK PAPER SCISSORS - ON-GOING TRANSFORM- In addition to filming and editing she is advising students in with Eszter Gàl, Fabiana Pastorini, Shelley documentation, camera work, and archiving in several dance Senter, Risa Steinberg programs in Germany as well as offering workshops in video/ Shelley Senter (US) is an independent performer, choreog- ABLE PRACTICE dance and perception. Rock Paper Scissors is a playful juxtaposition of three seasoned rapher, teacher, whose work has been presented throughout with Gosia Gajdemska, Andrea Keiz, ImPulsTanz teachers, pondering some aspects of practice and North and South America, Europe, Asia, Russia and Australia. Sasha Kleinplatz, Silvia Marchig Sasha Kleinplatz (CA) is a teacher, choreographer, and with ample time for discussing the ideas. Rita, Shelley and She has been critically recognised and awarded for her distinct performance curator based in Montreal, Canada. She works Fabiana will teach short sessions in response to each other, approach to movement, performance and pedagogy, collabo- REFLEX EVENT to generate contexts that allow artists to take creative risks with Eszter Gàl facilitating the journey. As a collaborative semi- rating with and influencing distinguished artists from diverse while developing new, heterogeneous dance publics. Sasha improvised event, elements of unpredictability, serendipity and disciplines for nearly thirty years. Her work is informed by her An experience with multitude of possibilities proposed by the is the co-creator and curator of three curatorial initiatives not knowing are part of the deal. experience as a teacher of the Alexander Technique, member of collaboration of three artists working together for the first time, (Short&Sweet, Piss In the Pool and Total Space Party ), which Lower Left Performance Collective and as a repetiteur and liv- coming from different contexts, cultivating related principles and have had multiple iterations at festivals throughout Canada, Eszter Gàl *See p. 30 Contact biographies ing archive of the seminal post-modern choreography of Trisha ideas. Analysing, commenting, re/defining reality and creating and satellite editions of these events have been presented in Brown and Yvonne Rainer, among others. alternatives to it, by affirming dance as a social, political and ethical Oakland, California, London, and Paris. Fabiana Pastorini (AR) received first lessons in dance at the age practice. Practicing autonomy and responsibility as a balance be- of nine, attended the National Dance School parallel to her high Risa Steinberg (US) is the Associate Director of Dance at The tween giving and receiving in the context of teaching and sharing. Silvia Marchig (HR) is a dancer and dance educator based in school years and obtained a Bachelor degree in Pedagogy. She Juilliard School in New York City. She has been an active mem- Zagreb, Croatia. Educated as a classical dancer in National specialised on , learning the two most impor- ber of the dance community for more than 30 years. As a solo Gosia Gajdemska (DE/PL) gained her dance education in Theater Rijeka, Palucca Schule Dresden and Akademie des tant techniques - Graham and Horton - 1988 in New York. In artist, teacher, rehearsal coach, and director of the works of Poland, England and Germany. For over 10 years she has been Tanzes Mannheim, active professionally since early 90’s as a Germany she met Ismael Ivo for the first time in 1991, resulting José Limón, she has toured the world performing and teaching working as a dancer, choreographer, teacher, organizer. In her dancer, last 15 years in the search for her own artistic answer in a collaboration for a span of several years. Since 1992 Fabiana extensively. She is the former principal dancer with the José work she combines contemporary dance, improvisation, Contact on questions around human relationships and performativ- resides in Vienna. She teaches and choreographs at the Limón Dance Company, Bill Cratty Dance Theater, Annabelle Improvisation and somatic practices. She explores the relation ity. Strongly attracted to collective authorship, develops her School of the State Opera of Vienna, the Conservatory Private Gamson, Anna Sokolow’s Player’s Project, Colin Connor, Ameri- between choreography and visual arts, image and identity, work through Kik Melone artistic project, founded in Zagreb in University of Vienna, the Ballettseminar Wolfsegg, Tanz für can Repertory Dance Company of Los Angeles and worked as dance creation and reconstruction/recomposition. 2008 with the aim to open up the platform to invite artists she Europa and in various European cities. Since 2014 she is a regu- guest artist with choreographers including Wally Cardona, Member of The International Dance Council CID UNESCO. wishes to collaborate with. lar teacher at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna. Sean Curran, and Danzahoy of Caracas, Venezuela. Since 2015 she lives and works in Berlin. Member of the board, 21 20 artistic director and regular teacher in the K77 Studio. http://www.idocde.net/idocs/1895 http://www.idocde.net/idocs/1903 21 SUNDAY, JULY 29 12:30-14:00, STUDIO 2 and thinking. Educated as communicator, she has spent 16 years working as a copywriter, journalist and press officer (the BODIES AS REALITIES AND last five of those working for the European Parliament in Brus- sels). She currently studies dance and somatics in Finland. Main curiosity: intersection of dance and words. How movement of REALITIES AS BODIES - body and movement of mind can nourish one another and open with Sabina Holzer, Agnese Krivade, Rayén new ways of understanding. Mitrovich, Angela Stoecklin Rayén Mitrovich (CL) is a Chilean dance artist who has de- REFLEX EVENT veloped collaborative processes around contemporary dance. Her work considers the body as a network of aesthetic, social Unfolding concept of communicating and relating by and political issues that must be embraced through practical traveling the intersections of bodies, words and practices. research, theoretical reflection and experimentation with vari- ous devices and contemporary languages. She has developed Sabina Holzer (AT) is a performer, choreographer, and creative and research processes in artistic residencies and author. She facilitates interdisciplinary gatherings at the collaborative projects with different communities in diverse intersection of theory and dance practice. She is a certified socio-cultural contexts throughout the Chilean territory. The practitioner in systemic-integrational movement study. She is conceptual and practical relationship between body and terri- an editorial member of www.corpusweb.net and writes, pub- tory has been the basis of the processes with the communities lishes, and performs texts in relation to contemporary dance to collaboratively create performances, choreographic works, and performance in different medias. She collaborates closely experimentation laboratories and documentary experiences. with artist Jack Hauser, with whom she realizes performances and interventions, in Tanzquartier Wien, ImPulsTanz, Lentos- Angela Stoecklin (CH) found to dance through music and Museum of Modern Art, Essl Museum, Machfeld Studio, docu- fine arts. Worked with numerous companies in Switzerland, menta13, Im_flieger, and other (artist run) initiatives. Germany and Belgium, and creates her own works. She ex- www.cattravelsnotalone.at plores communication and interaction in their manifold facettes, also in interdisciplinary and inter-cultural contexts. Agnese Krivade (FI/BE) is a poet and a multi-disciplinary Her interests and means of working are both fixed choreog- artist, working with text, movement and presence. As an raphy dismantelling specific form as necessity in the due of a educator, she works with young writers and communicators, process, as well as momentary re/acting Instant-Composition exploring ways to bring movement into processes of writing as direct interaction and absolute presence in the now.

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of our own existence, is to “remain faithful to the earth” and 16:45-17:45, STUDIO 1 bring knowledge back to the body, understood in non-dual- istic terms, in order to explore its inexhaustible possibilities. Based on anthropological observations of the symposium ses- CLOSING LECTURE: sions, this lecture will reflect on the contemporary possibili- 14:45-16:30, STUDIO 1 “LIFE IS NO ARGUMENT!” ties of an artistic orientation towards life itself. Oguz Erdur (TR/US) studied economics, environmental sci- PARTICIPATORY ences and sociology at Bogaziçi University in Istanbul, follow- REFLECTIONS ON ing which he received a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from CHOREOGRAPHY FOR Columbia University. Since 2009, he has been teaching at MEANING, ART, AND the University of North Carolina, Asheville, offering courses Kasia Pol (NZ/PL) is a performance designer, creative on anthropology, archaeology, art, writing, the Middle East, POLITICAL BREATHS - producer, set and costume designer, who has based herself and Friedrich Nietzsche. Oguz is the author of Stone in Love: with Carol Brown, Kasia Pol in NZ over the last 15 years while working and collaborating EXPERIENCE - Seduction of the Orphan Past, a work of poetry and photogra- with various artists in New Zealand and internationally. with Oguz Erdur phy that recreates reality as a surreal montage. More recently, Dance states, unlike nation-states, are not territorially She has been working across the varying fields of theatre, he delivered a TEDx talk titled Is Love Universal?, where he bound. How might a measure of the state we are in (or out performance, installation, opera, dance, new media. She “Life is no argument,” Nietzsche argued. Because an argu- deconstructs biological and metaphysical approaches to love of) be figured in on our willingness to take a deep breath? trained at the acclaimed Theatre Academy in Prague and ment is in language. And language, like consciousness, is only using socio-cultural theory. How might our bodies become microphones voicing the graduated in 2003 with a Masters in Scenography. Since 2005 a surface. The body is both the grounds and the instrument of needs, urgencies, and demands of the present? Carol Brown she has worked with Samoan choreographer and director knowledge, but also its hostage. Our endlessly talking heads http://www.idocde.net/idocs/1899 in collaboration with performance designer Kasia Pol invite Lemi Ponifasio and his company MAU, a collaboration which prevent us from coming to terms with the transformative enacting political thought through a participatory culture of continued for 12 years. In April 2018 with choreographer powers of the body, which lie dormant within our cultural breath. Recuperating the dance studio as a site of enquiry for Carol Brown she has started a new interdisciplinary project cages. Western philosophy, Nietzsche suspected, has been radical embodiment we will collectively develop and perform called Lungsong with group of wahine (women) and “merely an interpretation of the body, and a misunderstand- a manifesto of political breaths. scientists from New Zealand, Iran, Argentina, Chile, Poland, ing of the body.” As a result, knowledge has flown away and Hawaii which is responding to the devastating signs of to conceptual abstractions and idealist dreams, if not also Carol Brown *See biography p. 9 climate change. metaphysics and other-worldly phantasies. Our task, as artists

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ICK - International Choreographic Arts Centre (NL) Tanzplattform Rhein-Main (DE) CELEBRATING 43 YEARS! Sanne Liebregts (NL) Mareike Uhl (DE) ICK, directed by Emio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten, is a dance The Tanzplattform Rhein-Main rings in the beginning of a three-year platform that produces international dance performances, cooperation between Künstlerhaus Mousonturm and the Hessische collaborates with guest artists and initiates various education Staatsballet. It is the very first time that an international production Contact Quarterly is a journal of dance, improvisation, projects. As the Amsterdam City Company for Contemporary house and the dance department of two state theatres join forces to de- performance, somatics, and contemporary movement arts. Dance and as the resident company of Theater De Meervaart, velop a wide range of production, performance and outreach formats. ICK contributes to dance development in the city. The dance For this, they draw on the experience of Tanzlabor 21, which operated CQ journals are available through subscription, sets, and single issues. The longest-running independent journal written by ensemble of ICK is distinguishable by the specific dance at Mousonturm from 2006 until 2015. In addition to artist residencies dancers, CQ reveals the thinking, practices, body-mind language developed by the choreographers. The intuitively spanning several cities in the region, the Tanzplat- tform Rhein-Main is techniques, and creative process of working artists. moving body is always central to their work. also planning mobile dance productions to penetrate urban and rural www.ickamsterdam.com areas beyond conventional theatre spaces, as well as an joint interna- When I take the time to sit and tional festival that brings together regionally produced pieces with open CQ, I remember why I am performances by international guests. By initiating this joint venture, still inspired by those who think Wiener Tanzwochen (AT) the cooperation partners seek to sustainably empower dance makers and move, talk about dancing, • Subscriptions Rio Rutzinger (AT) and dance itself in the region, create a strong regional and national share ideas and concerns, and include two biannual print journals, Founded in 1984, ImPulsTanz (organized by “Wiener network for people and institutions working in the field of dance and carry us forward in the field. unlimited access to online writings, and discounts. Tanzwochen”) has developed into one of the largest festivals excite new audiences for dance in the Rhine-Main region. Slowing down enough to sit and of Contemporary Dance worldwide. Each summer thousands photo © Patrick Beelaert Patrick © photo read is my own private challenge: • Books & DVDs of dancers, choreographers and artists from all over the world www.TanzplattformRheinMain.de CQ Contact Improvisation CQ is my reward. come and work together for five weeks in Vienna, to celebrate Newsletter Online — Bebe Miller, choreographer • Kneepads Contemporary Dance. ImPulsTanz offers performances, workshops, research projects, book presentations, Books and DVDs • Back Issues CQ sells symposia, talks and parties. It is home to [8:tension] Young Choreographers’ Series as well as established companies. • Online Store Dance Annually up to 50 artistic residencies are realised. Education Kneepads programs such as IDOCDE, danceWEB or Biblioteca do • Online Articles Corpo deepen dance and choreography knowledge. As New book • Contact Improvisation Newsletters organizational partner of REFLEX Europe, ImPulsTanz is by Mary Overlie excited about the expansion of its network, enriching the New tool for creative festival with its questions, findings and developments. research by Mike Vargas! www.ImPulsTanz.com 27 www.contactquarterly.com Questions? [email protected] REFLEX PARTNERS

SÍN Culture Centre (HU) North Karelia College Outokumpu (FI) ElimSende (TR) K3 – Centre for Choreography | Zoltán Nagy (HU) Ulla Mäkinen (FI) Çimen Güldöker (TR) Tanzplan Hamburg at Kampnagel (DE) SÍN Culture Centre is a Budapest-based production house The dance education in North Karelia College Outokumpu Since 2007, ElimSende works in and for culture, arts and Dr. Kerstin Evert (DE) with 4 dance studios, operating in the field of contemporary is a three-year vocational program leading to qualification education in Istanbul. It’s primary focus is to give support is a comprehensive centre for expertise in the field of performing arts. Beyond the infrastructure we offer a in dance. The education is based on contemporary dance to children’s education towards enhancing their creativity contemporary dance and choreography, artistic research and professional environment to work in: production assistance, techniques and encouraging students to explore their individual and mediate empowerment through arts. Primarily focused dance outreach. A major focus of work at K3 is developing fund raising, help and advice in the artist’s’ career direction as dance makers and artists. In addition to regular on working with children of immigrant families, via and offering various forms of residencies and artistic formats development, assistance in finding the best possible context training, a wide variety of productions are made during interdisciplinary lenses – contemporary & folk dance, music, of working that combine artistic research, production and and partners for their work. Additionally we organise the studies, in collaboration with sound and light design drama, literature – ElimSende serves on the permeable line presentation. Our outreach and education programmes aim workshops led by local or international artists, initiate departments, musicians and visual artists. The College regularly between art and therapy. Collaborating with international towards fostering appreciation of dance in theory and practice discussions and cooperations between the stakeholders. invites international guests and collaborates closely with other and national institutions –NGOs, Universities, Independent in people of all ages. In addition to providing information and We also provide education for sharing new way of thinking educations and the professional field of dance both locally and Artists, ElimSende Association is also inquiring ways to advice, the centre offers dance makers and other professionals in a field of performing arts. SÍN has the aim to develop a internationally. develop trainings for young artists who would be willing in the field regular courses and professional training, flexible and innovative, yet strong community of the local www.riveria.fi to get in the field of social work via Inter-model Expressive workshops as well as further learning formats. artists and partakers nationally and internationally.We Art Therapy approaches of ElimSende, while they are also https://k3-hamburg.de/en take part in various local and international cooperations supported in their own creativity and pedagogical formation. and partnerships. We are regular hosts of the artists in Le Pacifique (FR) www.elimsende.org residency project of the Visegrad Fund, co-organisers in Open Marie Roche, artistic director (FR) Latitudes3, a Culture Europe partnership project Tatiana Galleau, European project manager (FR) and are partners of an Erasmus+ project Le Pacifique is one of the 12 French CDCN (Centres de Reflex Europe. Développement Chorégraphique Nationaux) which have the http://en.sinarts.org/ following missions: support for researching and creating new works, talent scouting and guidance for promising new artists ; bringing performances to audiences in consultation with venues and theaters throughout the country ; cultural and educational actions, and public relations ; development of local partnerships This project has been funded with support from the and network-wide policies ; training and placement of dance European Commission. This communication reflects the professionals. views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be http://lepacifique-grenoble.com/ held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein. 28 28 29 CONTACT CONTACT IMPRINT

Defne Erdur (TR/FR) pavleheidler (HR/SE) Claire Granier (CH/AT) 6th IDOCDE Symposium Editor ([email protected]) Co-editor ([email protected]) Symposium Coordinator ([email protected]) YOU ARE HERE! is trained in Contemporary Dance (PhD), Sociology (MA), pavleheidler spends their time dancing, performing, studying, trained and worked professionally as dance artist before start- Intermodel Art Therapy, Body Therapies, Meditation, and writing, and teaching; inevitably considering their varied ing to work in the field of contemporary dance as a producer. Location: ImPulsTanz Trauma Healing (SEP). She has been regularly teaching at engagements as opportunities to continue unpacking the no- She studied cultural management at the IKM – University of Vienna International Dance Festival ImPulsTanz, MSGSU Istanbul State Conservatory, ElimSende, tions of performativity and success in communication. Their Music and Performing Arts in Vienna and coordinates since Arsenal, Burgtheater Probebühnen und Werkstätten, ÇATI-Contemporary Dance Artists Association and CI-Turkey preferred approach to collaboration is not meant to sustain 2011 dance productions, performances, EU Projects and Ghegastrasse 19, 1030 Wien besides supporting WINPeace and Beyond Borders initiatives. “flat non-hierarchies” but to affirm “power relations as ines- dance festivals. She currently works as a general manager of Invested in building safe, inclusive, and collaborative creative capable, but re-definable as socially-sensitive and fluid forms.” “Tanz die Toleranz”, a participatory dance program under the IDOCDE - environments she performs and offers workshops around // pavleheidler.wordpress.com umbrella of the NGO Caritas Vienna. International Documentation of the world. Defne is the co-founder of IDOCDE and editor of Contemporary Dance Education idocde.net. Martin Streit (DE) Kerstin Kussmaul (DE/AT/NZ) Gärtnergasse 8/8, 1030 Vienna, Austria Head of Project ([email protected]) Technology Coordinator Eszter Gál (HU) is a movement researcher, choreographer and PhD candidate works in the Media Department at Darmstadt University of Project Coordinator ([email protected]) (University of Auckland). She studied Music and Dance, Applied Sciences. He is technology coordinator for IDOCDE Photography: is a dancer and teacher, currently at the University of Theater Somatic Movement education, Myoreflex and teaches Im- and researcher in the REFLEX Europe project. In the Motion Pablo Ariel Bursztyn, Ana Caria, and Film Arts in Budapest, travelling & teaching (SRT, CI, im- provisation and Somatics in Europe and in the Pacific. She is Bank project he was coordinator for the Piecemaker develop- Kasia Chmura-Cegiełkowska, Leonor Fonseca, provisation and composition) internationally since 1998. She on the faculty of Myoreflex founder Dr. Kurt Mosetter. Kerstin ment. Matthias Freissler, Julien Gonthier, Sabrina Huth, is one of the co-founders of IDOCDE. She is a certified Skinner founded IDOCDE in 2011. Her choreographic focus is on mu- Richard Kaby, Dhiraj Kulkarni, Umberto Lancia, Releasing Technique teacher and works with a mixed ability sic/dance projects and the development of new formats for the Emilia Milewska, Johanna Nielson, Martin Streit, Company, Tánceánia. The core of her interest is somatic-based mediation of movement. Her work has been presented here at Agnes Schneidewind & Eva Würdinger movement research (PhD studies), improvisation, perfor- ImPulsTanz, in USA, Italy, Germany, and Estonia. mance and community work for dance education.

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