Do-Shop #8 (students only)
Fabrice Mazliah: The Forsythe Methodology Based on the Repertory
Fabrice Mazliah is a choreographer and a former Forsythe dancer. He will give an insight view in the methodology of Forsythe’s choreographic work based on the different pieces he was dancing over twenty years in the Ballet Frankfurt and the Forsythe Company.
Feb. 21/22, 3:00 pm
Kampnagel, Jarrestraße 20, 22303 Hamburg, room K4
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.
Atelier 2
Biennale meets BJB
As a young company, the German National Youth Ballet not only dances John Neumeier’s repertoire, they also develop their own contemporary works. In this atelier, the participants learn and rehearse repertoire of the German National Youth Ballet. Germany’s first ever National Youth Ballet was founded at the beginning of the 2011/2012 theatre season.
The company consists of eight professional dancers between the ages of 18 to 23 and also works in the Ballettzentrum Hamburg John Neumeier. With its own repertoire, comprising mainly of works by young choreographers, the group predominantly dances in new spaces –not only theatres, but schools, museums, nursing homes and even prisons; spaces in which dance does not usually attract much interest. The National Youth Ballet aims to demonstrate that dance has a social relevance creating a spirit of community and a sense of unity, focusing especially on a young audience. The company has both national and international tours scheduled, hoping to bring people of different backgrounds and characters together through movement and creativity.
Teacher: Raymond Hilbert
Feb 21 + 22, 11-12 am, room Petipa
Ballettzentrum Hamburg John Neumeier, Caspar-Voght-Straße 54, 20535 Hamburg
Atelier 4
Beethoven Dances
Participants work on an excerpt from John Neumeier’s ballet: Beethoven Dances.
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the School of the Hamburg Ballet in the year 2018, John Neumeier choreographed 40 dances under the title Beethoven Dances to the music of Ludwig van Beethoven. The choice of the music shows the musical diversity at the turn of the 19th century and that music and dance belonged to the essence of everyday life at that time.
Each level of the school was given the possibility to present their technical and artistic abilities. The focus of the dances is on the individual gifts of the students as well as on the technical level of the class. John Neumeier captures the atmosphere of the music with the individual dancers.
Beethoven Dances is a very special ballet for the students because John Neumeier choreographed the dances specifically for them. In these 40 dances, the students can express their joy and passion by moving to music. The intuitive students’ movements link the music and the dance as at the time of Ludwig van Beethoven.
Teacher: Gigi Hyatt
Feb 21 + 22, 11-12 am, room Fokine
Ballettzentrum Hamburg John Neumeier, Caspar-Voght-Straße 54, 20535 Hamburg
AK|T Meeting
ELECTION
New election of AK|T spokespersons, outlook Biennale 2022 and the status of the new AK|T organizational structure “Konrad Ekhof GmbH”. For teachers of the AK|T member institutions.
Moderation: Peter Boragno, Nik Haffner
Feb 21, 10:45 am-12:45 am
Ballettzentrum John Neumeier, Caspar-Voght-Straße 54, 20535 Hamburg, Library
Biennale Hang Out
The Biennale will be an exciting but intensive week of learning and training. We want to make sure however that there is also plenty of time to relax and socialize between workshops. The Biennale Hang Outs will give you the perfect excuse to blow off some steam over a few drinks and, maybe, some more dancing with your fellow participants. Soundtrack will be provided by DJs yung_womb (Thursday) and David Lenk (Friday).
Feb 20/21, 11 pm
Kampnagel, Jarrestraße 20, 22303 Hamburg, KMH
Fokus Tanz
nora chipaumire :#PUNK 100% POP *N!GGA
#PUNK 100% POP *N!GGA (verbalized as “hashtag punk, one hundred percent pop, star nigga”) is a three-part live performance album inspired by chipaumire’s formative years in Zimbabwe and the energy and rebellion of punk and 1980s New Wave music. Each part explores one of three sonic ideologies: Punk, Pop and Congolese Rumba, which are confronted and celebrated through music artists Patti Smith, Grace Jones and Rit Nzele. Each session exists as a complete statement and can be performed separately (like a single song) or together as an epic song cycle (like an album). Together, the trio paints a sonic and visual landscape, engaging voice, gesture and sound clash installation.
Kampnagel K4: 20.02., 10:00 pm: #PUNK
Kampnagel P1: 21.02., 10:00 pm: 100% POP
Kampnagel P1: 22.02., 10:00 pm: *N!GGA
Tickets € 15 (reduced € 9, [k]-card € 7,50, double ticket € 20, triple Ticket €30, reduced € 20)
Short Pieces Feb. 20, 6:30 pm
BALLETT-AKADEMIE DER HOCHSCHULE FÜR MUSIK UND THEATER MÜNCHEN
The Ballet Academy has been training young dance talents for more than 50 years. The basis of the training is the russian Waganowa method, supplemented by further pedagogical approaches and modern Dance techniques. The students will present »Nice to meet you too «, a collaboration with the lecturer David N. Russo.
CANADA’S NATIONAL BALLET SCHOOL TORONTO (NBS)
The National Ballet School stands for excellence, accessibility, and integration at the heart of the belief that dance has a transformative strength. The NBS presents two pieces: »Duet from Three Images of Hope” by graduate Robert Binet and the Pas de deux from »La Bayadère« by Marius Petipa.
SCHOOL OF CULTURE AND CREATIVE EXPRESSIONS (SCCE) AMBEDKAR UNIVERSITY DELHI, INDIA
The SSCE Master Programme Performance Practice (Dance) includes physical training, choreography, critical practice, and Interdisciplinarity. It is aimed at dancers and performance artists in the fields of artistic production, pedagogy, research and public relations. They will present the group piece “Terms and Conditions” by the Indian choreographer and Master student Aseng Borang.
Tickets € 10 (€ 5 concession, free entrance for holders of tickets for performances on the same night)
Kampnagel K2
Symposium (for students and teachers)
Updating Dance Education
What does dance education look like today and how can the knowledge imparted within dance studies be regularly updated? Since students and teachers are experts in dance education from different perspectives, the symposium is dedicated to the intensive exchange of students and lecturers in order to develop ideas for an update of dance knowledge.
Where does the training and knowledge living in the dancers body meet the influence and impact of its digital surroundings? How can the next generation of dancers relate to and help shape their relationship to digitalization? Through physical tasks and peer discussions, the dancers and educators will be invited to engage with their embodied knowledge as a means to reflect and investigate their digital landscape and its impact on dance education. From tic toc to socialmedia influencers to understanding the inheritance of a dance legacy via digitalization, participants will be asked to reflect and design their digital dance future.
The symposium is open to everybody interested. If you want to take part, please sign in: tanzbiennale@kampnagel.de
Concept and moderation: Monica Gillette
Feb. 20, 10:30 am – 3:30 pm
Kampnagel, Jarrestraße 20, 22303 Hamburg, room K4
Fokus Tanz
DEBORAH HAY – ANIMALS ON THE BEACH & 3 SOLI
ROS WARBY: FIRE
EVA MOHN: THE MAN WHO GREW COMMON IN WISDOM
DEBORAH HAY: MY CHOREOGRAPHED BODY …REVISITED, 2019
Deborah Hay is one of the most influential choreographers of the USA and was a founding member of the legendary Judson Dance Theater in New York. Fifteen years ago, she developed a programme and a method of collaborative choreography: she writes so-called scores, i.e. choreographic instructions for action, which dancers get to develop further. Deborah Hay developed her new production ANIMALS ON THE BEACH in which she deals with continuity and discontinuity, with five dancers from this solo programme.
Hays dancers dedicate themselves to a new language of movement that does not allow any pictorial conclusions to be drawn and that incorporates the dignity, humour and intelligence of their collaborators.
Christopher Roman and Ros Warby present their solos on the first evening. And on the two other nights Deborah Hay herself presents her new solo MY CHOREOGRAPHED BODY … REVISITED, 2019 as part of a two-part evening with ANIMALS ON THE BEACH.
Funded in the context of the Association of International Production Houses from the German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, supported by the National Performance Network Guest Performance Fund for Dance, funded by the German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.
19.02., 8:30 pm (2 solos: FIRE & THE MAN WHO GREW COMMON IN WISDOM),
20.02. and 21.02., 8:30 pm (1 solo: MY CHOREOGRAPHED BODY …REVISITED, 2019 & ANIMALS ON THE BEACH)
Tickets € 18 (reduced € 9, [k]-card € 9, double ticket for two evenings € 25, reduced € 12)
Kampnagel K1
Fokus Tanz
OUSMANE SY: QUEEN BLOOD
In QUEEN BLOOD, French choreographer Ousmane Sy pursues his exploration of energies and feminine gestures. The female dancers of the group Paradox-sal roll out their technical virtuosity and uniqueness in order to reveal or interrogate what could be womanhood, assumed or suffered, through dance and movement. Ousmane Sy belongs to the collective that has been appointed to run the Centre Chorégraphique National de Rennes.
The guest performance is supported by the Institut français and the French Ministry of Culture / DGCA. Event partner: arabesques. Wheelchair accessible.
19.02., 20.02., 21.02., 8 pm
Tickets € 40/32/24/12, reduced from € 9, [k]-card from € 6
Kampnagel K6
Behörde KuMe
