TANZFONDS ERBE
Dates: 7 au 12 juillet
Lieu: Düsseldorf
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Artistic direction: Angela Guerreiro in cooperation with Karen Schaffman. Project Management: Maike Tödter The Live Legacy Project seeks to share the practices and techniques sprouted by the 1960s American avant garde that migrated to Germany, often through the Dutch institutions e.g. School for New Dance Development (SNDO) and European Dance Development School (EDDC). The project reveals these revolutionary influences in German Contemporary Dance and highlights the visibility of such corporeal values in choreographic work and practice. What exactly are these embodied philosophies, and what kinds of cultural shifts have been enabled by their transmission?The Live Legacy Project celebrates this movement by bringing together choreographers, dance artists, scholars, and educators, to converge in a six-day symposium of dance workshops, conversations, lectures, discussions and performances.The program includes Daily Workshops from Monday, July 7th through Friday, July 11th, which are open to movers of all levels including dance professionals, dance students and scholars. Morning sessions, from 10am-1pm, include workshops by Nancy Stark Smith (States of Grace), Lisa Nelson (Tuning Scores), Pauline de Groot (Slowly-Slowly), Trude Cone and Ka Rustler (Embodied Conversations, a Body-Mind Centering® approach). Afternoon sessions, from 3:30-5:30pm, include workshops byDieter Heitkamp (Contactencyclopedia) and Mary O'Donnell (Release as “Living the Changes). The all day workshops, from 10am-1pm and 3:30-5:30pm, will be facilitated by Gabriele Wittmann (Releasing Writing) andEva Karczag (Set and Reset: Wall 1’ - phrase material and concept, Trisha Brown (1983). Individual sessions e.g. Alexander Technique, Body-Mind Centering® and the Feldenkrais Methode® will be coordinated daily by Ines Heckmann.
On Tuesday-Friday (2-3pm), the symposium includes daily Conversationsbetween leading figures in the field. They include dyads between: Mary O'Donnell and David Brandstätter, Eva Karczag and Malgven Gerbes, with moderation by Thomas Kampe; Nancy Stark Smith and Dieter Heitkamp, with Nina Martin as interventionist; Lisa Nelson and Peter Hulton, with moderation by Peter Pleyer; and Trude Cone and Ka Rustler, interviewing one another.
Lectures will be offered on Monday July 7th and Tuesday July 8th (6-7:30pm). The Monday’s series includes: Gabriele Wittmann’s lectur e “Bottles and Brooms: Pre- Judson explorations on Anna Halprin's Dance deck in the 1950/60's” and Peter Hulton’s talk “Judson and me.” On Tuesday, the lectures include: Prof. Dr. Ric Allsop’s “Performing Poetics,”Prof. Dr. Gabriele Klein’s “Dance migrations” and Prof. Dr. Yvonne Hardt’s, “Institutionalizing Yvonne Rainer.”
Round Table Discussions will be held on Wednesday July 9th and Thursday July 10th (6-7:30pm). The topics include: Tracing the Judson Migration: New Perspectives and Educational Directions with Gabriele Klein, Peter Pleyer, Ingo Diehl, Mary O'Donnell, Trude Cone and Pauline de Groot moderated by Irmela Kästner; and Surviving Institutions: 'That was then, this is now', with João da Silva, Gisela Müller, Silke Z, Alexandra Waierstall, Stephanie Maher and Martin Nachbar, moderated by Jess Curtis.
Open Labs on Friday July 11th (6-7:30pm) invites guests and participants to share their experiences and insights on a variety of topics including: Leben und Arbeiten, Choreographic Collectives, Invisible Histories, Visions of Dance Practice, New Structures for Education and Contact Improvisation: “Sharing the Dance"
There will be daily Corresponding Events throughout the week. Snap Shots, a site specific performance project initiated by Fabian Chyle, inspired by Mary Overlie’s, The Six Viewpoints, and performed on Friday July 11th (time and location TBA). Shared Readings, will be ongoing evening performances of readings from the notebooks of Mary O'Donnell and Joao da Silva from the early 90s, these will be presented from 8-8:30pm for five consecutive evenings with performance site to be announced daily. Blind Dates: Spontaneous Correspondences (8:30-9pm), offers all participants the opportunity to experience unexpected encounters and exchanges with symposium guests and participants by signing up at the Bulletin Board posted at the Information Desk.
Dieter Heitkamp co-curates an installation, going into contact - a permeable spiral installation, that will be open to visitors from 10am-7:30pm on Monday to Friday, and including Contact Improvisation performances from 6-7:30pm except on Friday. This installation focuses on the 40 years of development of Contact Improvisation and the form’s connection to other movement practices.
Agnès Benoit will be at the Tanzhaus daily with her bookstore Books on The Move to offer significant dance literature related to Symposium topics for purchase.
The Symposium includes Evenings of Performances, Film Screenings and (Un)done from Monday to Friday (9pm). These include: Silke Z. and the Generation Project Jess meets Angus with Jess Curtis and Angus Balbernie and Peter Pleyer presents his solo, The Ponderosa Trilogy.David Brandstätter and Malgven Gerbes show a double bill evening with the solos FREIHEIT! and Cartographie; Isabelle Schad presents excerpts from her solo Der Bau and Martin Nachbar brings Channeling Judson Church, a performance, which decidedly will be engaged with the dance heritage of the Judson movement; Lisa Nelson and Scott Smith will perform the dance piece GO. With the support of the Bennington College Dance Archives we will screen the film The Judson Project: Steve Paxton, Interviewed by Nancy Stark Smith (camera Lisa Nelson, 1981) and (Un)done, a shared evening of short works open for symposium guests and participants.
On Saturday July 12th (3:30 pm), the symposium hosts a “structured”Contact Improvisation Jam The Underscore with Nancy Stark Smith and Mike Vargas (music). An Introduction to The Underscore will be on Friday evening (7:15-8:45 pm) by Nancy Stark Smith.Come to tanzhaus nrw in Düsseldorf and join us for this landmark event.
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Thanks to: Bertram Müller, Bernd Ka, Lilo Stahl, Agnés Benoit, João da Silva, Peter Pleyer, Ka Rustler, Ludger Orlok, Nita Little, Barbara Stahlberg, Anna Garms, Benno Enderlein, Eckhard Müller, Dani Schwartz, Pauline de Groot, Sasha Waltz, Trude Cone, Meg Stuart, Irmela Kästner und Barbara Schmidt Rohr, Simone Forti, Anna Halprin, Sara Shelton Mann, Keith Hennessy, Scott Wells, John Lefan, Lisa Nelson, Steve Paxton, Eva Karczag, Mary O'Donnell, Thomas Lehman, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Manfred Fischbeck, Brigitta Herrmann, Erin Read, Helmut Gottschild, K. J. Holmes, Guy Calaf, Kristen White, Christoph Wilms, Noah Guerreiro Lorenzen, Ines Heckmann, Gali Goldwaser, Andrew Wass, Kelly Dalrymple-Wass, Monica Duncan, Trisha Brown Dance Company, Worldwide Representation for the Lucinda Childs Dance Company: Pomegranate Arts, Carolee Schneemann, Nancy Stark Smith (Contact Quarterly), Stephanie Maher (Ponderosa), Nicole Beutler (NBprojects), Fales Library New York, Walker Arts Center, Bennington College Dance Archives and the Bennington College Judson Project, organizers, Wendy Perron and Tony Carruthers, Bettina Masuch and the tanzhaus nrw team.
The Live Legacy Project, is Angela Guerreiro production in cooperation with Karen Schaffman. In co-production with tanzhaus nrw, Düsseldorf. In collaboration with Performance Studies – University Hamburg; Tanzfabrik Berlin; © Arts Documentation Unit. Exeter. UK.; Deutsches Tanzfilminstitut Bremen; Dance Studies, California State University San Marcos, Zwei Eulen - Office for Cultural Concepts and Contact Quarterly. Funded by TANZFONDS ERBE – An initiative by the German Federal Cultural Foundation.
Going Into Contact - a permeable spiral installation and Continuous CI Performances are a cooperation with Global Contact Improvisation Archive (contactencyclopedia D / Contact Quarterly USA), The Live Legacy Project, Tanzfonds Erbe, tanzhaus nrw, Tanzfabrik Berlin, and the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main. With support of (the) Kunststiftung NRW.
A project by TANZFONDS ERBE – An initiative by the German Federal Cultural Foundation.