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.
Atelier 1
Dancing with a company
Participants work on an excerpt from John Neumeier’s repertoire: Orphée et Eurydice.
John Neumeier has always exceeded common expectations by not letting himself be defined solely as an artist in the role of a choreographer. With the premiere of Christoph Willibald Gluck’s Orphée et Eurydice at the Lyric Opera Chicago in 2017, he directed the opera as well as taking the responsibility of the choreography, the stage design, costume and lighting design – thus enabling an unexpected fusion of ballet and opera. The inspiration for this innovative production was the Parisian version of 1774, for which the composer provided extensive dance performances.
For John Neumeier, however, the dynamic coupling of music and dance is not an end in itself. His modern adaptation of the plot framework is inspired by Gluck’s idea of making human emotions intuitively tangible: “We have all had experiences of loss –even if they do not reach the dimensions of madness that I think can be shown in ‘Orphée’.”
Teacher: Janusz Mazoń
Feb 18 + 19, 11-12 am, room Fokine
Ballettzentrum Hamburg John Neumeier, Caspar-Voght-Straße 54, 20535 Hamburg
Atelier 3
Yondering
Participants work on an excerpt from John Neumeier’s ballet: Yondering.
In 1996, John Neumeier choreographed the Ballet Yondering for Canada’s National Ballet School to the music of Stephen Foster. The title was chosen from pioneering days in America, when the first settlers made their way in the unknown west und discovered a new country. They left their familiar surroundings and everything they knew behind, looked “over yonder” and went beyond this frontier although nobody knew what to expect. This journey and the courage going beyond this frontier was known as “Yondering”. The link between the word and the ballet Yondering manifests itself in the fact that John Neumeier choreographed this ballet only for students to perform and not for professional dancers.
Most of the students who dance Yondering are facing their own frontier. They have almost completed their training and are about to begin their first engagement in a professional company. These students are also looking “over yonder”, looking towards their new world as professional dancers. Only these students at this time in their lives have the ability to express the feelings of this ballet. The lyrics and Thomas Hampson’s interpretation accentuate the deep emotion and the innocence of youth.
Teacher: Kevin Haigen
Feb 18 + 19, 11-12 am, rooms Petipa, Nijinsky
Ballettzentrum Hamburg John Neumeier, Caspar-Voght-Straße 54, 20535 Hamburg
Training Ballet
The classical training of the School of the Hamburg Ballet is based on the Vaganova method and is used individually by the teachers of the school to build the focus of the training.
John Neumeier, speaking about the School of the Hamburg Ballet: “As a choreographer I have created a company with a unique image and founded a school that combines two important elements. A school with and without its own style. The school has its own style because it is closely associated with the Hamburg Ballet and with myself as its chief choreographer. It is also without a particular style because we offer a solid, all-round dance education. This training equips young dancers with the tools required to establish themselves in the dance world of today, preparing them for a fulfilling professional life.”
Teachers: Gigi Hyatt, Kevin Haigen, Anna Urban, Carolina Borrajo, Leslie Hughes, Christian Schön, guest teachers: Rosemarie Helliwell, Jason Beechey
Feb 18/19/21/22, 9:15 -10:45 am, rooms Fokine & Petipa
Feb 19/21, 10:45 – 12:00 noon, room Nijinsky
Feb 20, 9:15 – 10:30 am, rooms Fokine & Petipa
Ballettzentrum Hamburg John Neumeier, Caspar-Voght-Straße 54, 20535 Hamburg
Training Contemporary
Among the techniques that will be appropriated, contemporary training will be held in Horton technique and according to the methodology of Sigard Leeder.
Teachers: Stacey Denham, Raymond Hilbert, guest teachers: David Russo, Stephan Brinkmann
Feb 18/19/21/22, 9:15 -10:45 am, room Nijinsky
Feb 18/19/21/22, 10:45 – 12:00 noon, room Cranko
Feb 20, 10:45 – 12:00 noon, room Cranko
Ballettzenturm Hamburg John Neumeier, Caspar-Voght-Straße 54, 20535 Hamburg
Do-Shop Programme
In this Biennale, we concentrate on being and creating together in all themes and methods. For this reason, we have decided to call the workshops Do-Shops.
Please find below an overview of the Do-Shop programme which takes place from Tuesday, Feb 18 to Saturday, Feb 22 from 3:00 pm to 5:30 pm at Kampnagel, Do-Shop #9 on Feb. 19 starts at 10:00 am. A variation of the programme builds Thursday, Feb. 20 with the symposium. No further Do-Shops will take place on this day.
Participation in the Do-Shop programme will be drawn by lot. Please check your individual welcome folder!
Students take part in the Do-Shops#1 to #8 and teachers join the Do-Shop #9, whereas the symposium can be attended by teachers and students together.
Feb. 18 to 22, 15:00 to 17:30
Symposium on Feb. 20, 15:00 to 17:30
Kampnagel, Jarrestraße 20, 22303 Hamburg
Short Pieces, Feb. 17, 8 pm
HOCHSCHULÜBERGREIFENDES ZENTRUM TANZ BERLIN
The specialty of the three courses at HZT Berlin is the close connection of academic training and artistic practice. The programs offer an experimental approach to study and nurture a critical reflection of art and art practice. You will see a students’ work from the Bachelor’s degree, »Dance, Context, Choreography«.
GLS _LA FABRIQUE CULTURELLE ABIDJAN, IVORY COAST
The artistic educational center’s concept focuses on cultural democracy: a culture for everyone, accessible to everyone. It offers instruction in various disciplines. The performance “La Transformation” expresses the search for a contemporary identity with the means of dancing.
SCHOOL OF THE HAMBURG BALLET JOHN NEUMEIER
Founded in 1978 by John Neumeier, today 196 students (7-18 years old) from all over the world are trained in classic academic dance as well as in modern techniques, dance composition and character dance. On Kampnagel, they will show excerpts from »Beethoven Dances«, a work by John Neumeier, which he created for the 40th school anniversary.
Tickets € 10 (€ 5 concession, free entrance for holders of tickets for FOKUS TANZ performances on the same night)
Kampnagel K2
Behörde KuMe
