contemporary_dance

A LECTURE [about improvisation as performance]

[Jan Ritsema ]
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.

KRATKI REZI / SHORT CUTS - Nomad Dance Academy / 7th, 8th and 9th June 2008 / Ljubljana


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.

MISLIM REKU (I think of River) / Nhandan Chirco, Mala Kline / 29. 05. / Novi Sad


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.

NOT QUITE-NOT RIGHT EASTERN WESTERN DANCE

[Ana Vujanović]
In order to write about the actual situation of contemporary dance in Serbia, I must begin by conceptualizing and contextualizing the local dance scene through its synchronic relationship with neighboring scenes and other European or Western scenes. As contemporary dance is a new phenomenon in Serbia, there are two problematic theses that I would like to put forward as starting points.

THE EMANCIPATED SPECTATOR

[Jacques Rancière]
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.

THE PASSION OF PROCEDURALISM

[Bojana Cvejić]
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.

[announcement] BA & MA IN DANCE AND CHOREOGRAPHY - The Cooperative Dance Education Centre / from: 15.10.2009 / Berlin


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”.

[announcement] WHAT TO AFFIRM? WHAT TO PERFORM?


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.

[call for applications] 5TH BALKAN DANCE PLATFORM / deadline: 20. 03. 2009. / Novi Sad


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).

[call for applications] AMSTERDAM MASTER OF CHOREOGRAPHY 2010 / deadline: November 15, 2009 / Amsterdam


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

[call for applications] ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE AT TANZQUARTIER WIEN 2009 / deadline: 06. 02. 2009. / Wien


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.

[call for applications] EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMME NOMAD DANCE ACADEMY 2009 / deadline: 27.10.2008.


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.

[call for applications] K3 - ZENTRUM FÜR CHOREOGRAPHIE RESIDENCY PROGRAMME 2009 / deadline: 4.08.2008. / Hamburg


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.

[call for applications] PROMOTING YOUNG TALENT BY TANZPLAN DRESDEN / deadline: 15.09.2008. / Germany


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.

[call for applications] TANZPLAN POTSDAM: ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE / deadline: 15. 01. 2009. / Germany


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.

[call for entries] PACT Zollverein a residency programme / deadline: 18.08.2008. / 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.

[call/reminder] PAF: WinterUpdateMeeting (WUM) / 26-12-09 - 03-01-10 / St.Erme (Fr)


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.

[competition] INTERNATIONAL SOLO-DANCE-THEATRE FESTIVAL - Treffpunkt / deadline: 11. 11. 2009 / Stuttgart


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.

[festival] Balkan Dance Platform / 1-3. 10. 2009. / Novi Sad (Serbia)

BADco (Croatia) / 1 poor and one 0

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).

[open call] - POOL 09 InternationaleTanzFilmPlattform / deadline: 15. 08. 2009 / Berlin


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.

[open call] CHOREOSOUND 09 / deadline: 11. 08. 2009. / Gothenburg (Se)


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.

[open call] PACT ZOLLVEREIN RESIDENCES 2010 / (new) deadline: January 15 2010 / Essen (GE)


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.

[performance] MEMORIES ARE MADE OF THIS / 16.05.2008. / Puppet Theater, Ljubljana

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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.

[registration] MUSE 8 - Interdisciplinary Summer Workshop / 14 – 25 July, Germany

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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.

[workshop] FRÉDÉRIC GIES - DANCE (PRATICABLE) / deadline: 20.08.2008. / Beograd


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.

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