Fokus Tanz
CLAIRE CUNNINGHAM: 4 LEGS GOOD
This lecture performance by multi-disciplinary artist Claire Cunningham explores her artistic practice -specifically the use / misuse, study and distortion of crutches in artistic practice and how they shape her practice. In the widest sense her work has shifted from its explorations about the connection between the crutches and the body – from what is possible in the combination of the crutches with her and other bodies to how the crutches connect her to the world.
Lecture performance in English.
Handicapped accessible offers: the artist’s live audio description is a part of the performance.
Early admission.
All information about what is handicapped accessible: www.kampnagel.de/service/barrierefreiheit
Supported by Europe Beyond Access and co-financed by the Creative Europe Project of the European Union.
Tickets € 10, reduced: € 5
Kampnagel P1
Short Pieces, Feb. 18, 6:30 pm
PALUCCA HOCHSCHULE FÜR TANZ DRESDEN
The Palucca University of Dance Dresden is Germany’s only independent university for dance with a bachelor’s and two Master’s programs. Students are taught classical, contemporary / modern dance and improvisation. On Kampnagel, they will show »Constellations« by the Canadian choreographer Matjash Mrozewski. His artistic cosmos ranges from dance to opera and film.
ZENTRUM FÜR ZEITGENÖSSISCHEN TANZ DER HOCHSCHULE FÜR MUSIK UND TANZ KÖLN
The Center for Contemporary Dance works interdisciplinary and sets impulses for artistic and practice-oriented research. The piece »LEVIAH« is presented by Israeli choreographer Reut Shemesh, who was invited to this year’s Dance platform.
INVISIBLE CENTRE OF CONTEMPORARY DANCE TEHERAN, IRAN
The Invisible Center of Contemporary Dance offers a structure for workshops, jam sessions, research, screening of dance films and the underground dance festival UNTIMELY. The goal is to make contemporary dance accessible in Iran. They will show their jointly choreographed group piece »We all need a party«.
Tickets € 10 (€ 5 concession, free entrance for holders of tickets for performances on the same night)
Kampnagel K2
AK|T Meeting
PLANNING AND ORGANIZATION
Programmatic and organizational topics, preparation of AKIT spokesman’s choice, exchange about future biennial formats and the general goals of the Biennale. For teachers of the AK|T member institutions.
Moderation: Peter Boragno, Nik Haffner
Feb 18, 3 pm – 6 pm
Kampnagel, Jarrestraße 20, 22303 Hamburg, Peacetambul
Do-Shop #3 (students only)
Boy Henry & Boy Bernd / Brontez Purnell: DI whY?
The workshop is about Punk and the DiY spirit that goes along with it in reference to making music yourself, write about music yourself, release music yourself, organize concerts yourself and how this affects your creativity. During the workshop we will explore how the DiY spirit can be translated to other art forms than music (eg. dance).
In the physical part Brontez Purnell will offer a warm up and movement across the floor alongside a structured improv jam dealing with concepts of both negative and positive space, contact and anti-contact and how to build chapters in a dance score using scripting techniques in the class. There will be live accompaniment.
In this movement/word Do-Shop we will explore the interface of Brontez’s first two artistic loves–dance and writing. In moving through the world of dance–a body based practice that often forgoes the use of speech–the mode
of physical expression is emotive–to express with gesture where words may fail. We will explore/investigate/deconstruct the inescapable world of movement and the written word. Please bring a laptop and pen and prepare to record on your smartphone.
Teachers: Boy Henry & Boy Bernd and Brontez Purnell
Feb. 18/19/21/22, 3 pm
Kampnagel, Jarrestraße 20, 22303 Hamburg, room 6c
Do-Shop #2a/#3a (students only)
Tim Reuscher: Zine
Comic, fanzine etc. have their own way of storytelling. Zines are easily made and distributed. Tim Reuscher from NACHLADEN in Hamburg will give a lecture about the history of zine and a practical introduction to the production of zines. The Do-Shops #2: history / herstory of dance and #3 DI whY? make use of that technique to enrich their process.
Teacher: Tim Reuscher
Do-Shop #4 (students only)
Claire Cunningham: Visibility is no Choice
Claire Cunningham’s work is often rooted in the study and use/misuse of her crutches and the exploration of the potential of her own specific physicality with a conscious rejection of traditional dance techniques (developed for non-disabled bodies). In her live and artistic career, she was always visible due to her disability, she says. This Do-Shop is about the choice to be visible on and off stage.
Feb. 18/19/21/22, 3:00 pm
Kampnagel, Jarrestraße 20, 22303 Hamburg, room K31
Do-Shop #5 (students only)
Bea Carolina Remark / Raymond Hilbert: Dancing Together
How do dance and inclusion fit together? For a long time dance has not been thought as an inclusive art form. That it can be one has been proven by the National Youth Ballet (NYB), among others, for many years in numerous collaborations with institutions whose field of activity lies outside the art world. The Do-Shop directors Raymond Hilbert, Ballet Master of the NYB, and dance creator Bea Carolina Remark invite you to freely investigate your individual repertoire of movements and to develop it into a common language of dance and movement by exploring how dance can be experienced by everybody. The do-shop participants will take part in the inclusive work of the National Youth Ballet and of Bea Carolina Remark, both observing and participating. Let’s enjoy dancing together!
Feb. 18/19, 3:00 pm
Kampnagel, Jarrestraße 20, 22303 Hamburg, room K4
The participation of the students of the Heinrich Ernst Stötzner School in Hanover is supported by the Gabriele Fink Foundation.
Attention: criss-cross!
The do-shops #5-8 are two days each, on Tuesday and Wednesday #5 and #6, on Friday and Saturday #7 and #8. They will be combined as 5/7, 5/8, 6/7 and 6/8.
Do-Shop #6 (students only)
Zwoisy Maers-Clarke: Bodies + Politics
In this workshop, we will explore, de-construct, and discuss our politics. These explorations, de-constructions, and discussions will take place in the space between speech and movement. We will start with the naming of some of the political topics and ideas that are on our minds. Then from there, we go into dance improvisation exercises (taken from Zwoisy‘s artistic practice) that draw a bridge between the verbal and movement languages. While we explore how socio-political messages inhabit our bodies daily and how our bodies express them, we will actively listen to one another. In these moments and beyond, we can give support, peaceful resistance, and solidarity to one another. In part of this workshop, touch will be used; physical boundaries will be self-directed and the responsibility of respecting these boundaries will be shared by all.
Teacher: Zwoisy Mears-Clarke
Kampnagel, Jarrestraße 20, 22303 Hamburg, room K32
Feb. 18/19, 3:00 pm
Attention: criss-cross!
The do-shops #5-8 are two days each, on Tuesday and Wednesday #5 and #6, on Friday and Saturday #7 and #8. They will be combined as 5/7, 5/8, 6/7 and 6/8.
Do-Shop #1 (students only)
Omar Rajeh: MaQaM – Spaces of Inspiration | The Plurality of the Body
Instead of looking at the body as one entity with one centre, the body represents an interactive relationship of ‘bodies’ giving it its dynamics, presence, and meaning. It focuses on centres of dynamics that could be seen as centres of attention and communication. Creating spaces of inspiration that are framed, mutated, and dissolved in time, is a central concept of this approach. The MaqaM aims to introduce a broader concept of choreography and dance based on inner impulses of presence rather than pure physical forms. Movement becomes an urgency for being and for the generation of meaning rather than for showing forms and exhibiting representations.
Teacher: Omar Rajeh
Feb. 18/19/21/22, 3 pm
Kampnagel, Jarrestraße 20, 22303 Hamburg, room 6a
Do-Shop #2 (students only)
Eylül Fidan Akinci: Dance Herstories
What do we think of when we talk about “the” dance history? Whose bodies and movements does this history glorify, and whose does it ignore? Who writes this history, what is their profit in its retellings? Such questions motivate this do-shop. We will first make explicit our preconceptions and accepted narrative of dance history. Then, we will see how we have been locating ourselves in it. Finally, we will devise some criteria for feminist, anti-colonialist, post-humanist routes of telling the multiple stories of dance, and see what kind of motions, shapes, anatomies they might afford to our bodies today and in the future. To achieve these goals, we will practice our improvised writing as well as improvised moving skills.
Teacher: Eylül Fidan Akinci
Feb. 18/19/21/22, 3 pm
Kampnagel, Jarrestraße 20, 22303 Hamburg, room KX
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