Programmheft Tagung Körperpolitik Hellerau

KÖRPER POLITIK

LIGNA, Der Neue Mensch (Springdance-Festival 2012), photo: Anna van Kooij©

LIGNA, Die Unterbrechung (Leipzig 2010), photo: Diana Wesser©

BODY POLITICS:

LOCATION

Rhythmics, Modern Dance and Movement Choirs The symposium is a starting point both for a research project on body politics and for an artistic project by the Berlin based performance group LIGNA on modern movement choirs.

What were the particular impulses that spread from Hellerau a hundred years ago and strongly influenced the development of modern dance?

Did the result come closer to a ‘liberation of the bodies’ as proclaimed by the life reform movement?

How can we reflect this development in the context of a transcultural modernity?

How are the body politics of that time, between discipline and performance, related to an emancipation of the political body?

What kind of community is created by the movement choirs?

To what extent the new artistic and political principles were realized in the widespread practice of amateur dance?

What might be possible ways – keeping in mind the history of mass choreographies in 20th Century – to re-appropriate the idea of movement choirs in contemporary performance?

The conference language is mainly English.

BODY POLITICS

HELLERAU – Europäisches Zentrum der Künste Dresden Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 56, D-01109 Dresden Tel: +49 351 26462 11, Fax: +49 351 26462 23 info@hellerau.org, www.hellerau.org organized by: Forschungsprojekt Körperpolitik Universität Leipzig, Institut für Theaterwissenschaft Ritterstraße 16, 04109 Leipzig, theaterw@uni-leipzig.de Tel. +49 341 / 97 30 400 in cooperation with: LIGNA and Tanzarchiv Leipzig e.V., Ritterstraße 12, 04109 Leipzig www.tanzarchiv-leipzig.de Tel. +49 341 / 97 30 422 Concept: Prof. Dr. Patrick Primavesi Design: Matthias Sterba/Diana Wesser The research project on body politics at the University of Leipzig is funded by the Saxonian Ministry of Science and Art. The artistic project Movement Choirs by LIGNA is subsidised by the Dance Heritage Fund (Federal Cultural Foundation).

International Symposium 3-4 November 2012 Hellerau

ewegungschor Hallesche Gruppe

Bewegungschor Hallesche Gruppe

KÖRPERPOLITIK: Rhythmik, Neuer Tanz und Bewegungschöre BODY POLITICS: Rhythmics, Modern Dance and Movement Choirs Saturday, 3 November FESTSPIELHAUS HELLERAU, Obergeschoss: Westsalon RHYTHMIK / RHYTHMICS 10.00 – 10.30 Patrick Primavesi (Leipzig): Introduction / Questions 10.30 – 11.15 Sebastian Klotz (Leipzig): Rhythm and the orders of movement 11.30 – 12.15 Christine Straumer (Dresden): Rhythm as body practice 12.15 – 13.00 Selma Odom (Toronto): Community in motion: Dalcroze, Appia and Schulfeste at Hellerau 13.00 – 14.30 Lunch break

Saturday, 3 November

Sunday, 4 November

FESTSPIELHAUS HELLERAU, Obergeschoss: Westsalon

FESTSPIELHAUS HELLERAU, Nancy-Spero-Saal

NEUER TANZ / MODERN DANCE

BEWEGUNGSCHÖRE / MOVEMENT CHOIRS

14.30 – 15.15 Nicole Haitzinger (Salzburg): Dance and body culture: „Wege zu Kraft und Schönheit“ 15.15 – 16.00 Rachel Fensham (Melbourne): The “after-life” of images from early 20th century dance 16.00-16.30 Coffee break 16.30 – 17.15 Ramsay Burt (Leicester): Hellerau, Leeds, and the early British reception of the ideas of Jaques-Dalcroze 17.15-18.00 Claudia Jeschke (Salzburg) / Sandra Chatterjee (Salzburg): Performative rituals as political acts.

Transcultural modernity: Alexander Sacharoff and Uday Shankar

10.00 – 10.45 Uhr: Hedwig Müller (Köln): Group choreography in the work of Mary Wigman 10.45 – 11.30 LIGNA (Ole Frahm, Michael Hüners, Torsten Michaelsen): The development of the movement choirs 11.45-12.30 Michael Wehren (Leipzig): Movement choirs and speaking choirs 12.30-13.15 Gabriele Klein (Hamburg): Choreographies of protest 13.15 – 14.15 Lunch break 14.15 – 16.00 Uhr Panel Discussion: LIGNA, Irina Pauls, Gabriele Klein, Hedwig Müller