modul-dance
DRESDEN an artist’s-eye view
modul-dance Modul-dance is a multi-annual cooperation project with the participation of 20 European dancehouses from 16 countries. One of the project’s key elements is the promotion of mobility, so that artists receiving its support follow itineraries across Europe to develop their creative work and present it to different audiences. Each of the guides in this collection shows a city from the viewpoint of a local artist, who proposes his or her own particular route to artists in transit, seeking to put them in connection with their host city. While these city routes share some basic features, each one is different and in their differences lies a wealth of gazes, aesthetics, approximations to the local and much more. In a word, they form a mirror of the diversity that modul-dance has always fostered. The Dresden city guide has been possible thanks to the curatorial work of HELLERAU-Europäisches Zentrum der Künste, a partner in the modul-dance project.
HELLERAU - European Centre for the Arts Dresden © Stephan Floss
51° 2′ 0″ N, 13° 44′ 0″ E
Anna Till presents Dresden to Arno Schuitemaker Cindy Hammer presents Dresden to Jasmina Kri탑aj Anne-Katrin Schmidt presents Dresden to Marie-Caroline Hominal Johanna Roggan presents Dresden to Patricia Apergi
Anna Till, “von hier aus, weiter” © Benjamin Schindler. Dancers: Liron Dinovitz, Romy Schwarzer
Anna Till presents Dresden to Arno Schuitemaker
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Anna Till Anna Till is a dancer and choreographer. Born in 1983, she lives and works in Dresden. She studied Contemporary Dance, Context, Choreography at the UdK (University of the Arts, Berlin) and Cultural Theory at LeuphanaUniversity Lüneburg. In 2010 she received the danceweb scholarship and in 2012 the mehrTANZ! residency in Leipzig. Anna Till has participated in several productions as a dancer, artistic collaborator and assistant director. She regularly teaches movement workshops and is involved in directing community projects and coaching. She is currently engaged in the project undo, redo and repeat – a reflection on dance history. She is the co-curator for exhibitions at Kunstverein Heidelberg and Kunsthaus Dresden and was involved in the programming of the current exhibition dance! Moves that move us at Hygienemuseum Dresden. Anna Till is an active member of the freelance dance network TanzNetzDresden. vimeo.com/annatill
Arno Schuitemaker was born in 1976 in The Netherlands. After obtaining his Master’s degree at the Delft University of Technology, he decided to change course and to study contemporary dance. Since then he has created performances such as ZONE (2008), EXIT (2009), TIDE (2011), The Fifteen Project | QUINTET and The Fifteen Project | DUET (2012), and I is an Other (2014). His work is characterized by a vigorously physical and sensorial approach to existential subjects. Focusing on the arousing connections that emerge between the performers and the audience, each performance draws its own perspective from intrinsic, layered, and bodily relationships. His performances have been presented in The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Canada, Switzerland, Poland, Luxembourg, Cyprus, China, and the UK.
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Arno Schuitemaker
Arno Schuitemaker, “I is an Other” © Jochem Jurgens
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A small but essential taste of Saxony Taking the ferry across the river Elbe from Rosengarten (Neustadt bank) to ThomasMüntzer-Platz (Altstadt bank) Carusufer 10
A trendy place Oswaldsz café Bautzner Straße 9
trendy Done!
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taste
A must see Kunsthaus Dresden, Contemporary Art Exhibitions Rähnitzgasse 8
Done!
art
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Done!
A panoramic view of the city Looking down from the top of Alaunpark in Neustadt Tannenstraße
panoramic view Done!
05 A day trip Porzellanmanufaktur in Meißen (30 km from Dresden) Talstraße 9
day trip
Done!
06 Detail Canaletto-view On the right river-side below the Augustusbrücke
river
07 Something for free Umsonstladen Alaunstraße 68
Done!
free Done!
08 A traditional Saxony dish “Eier in Senfsauce”, eggs in mustard Sauce (with potatoes) at Soulfoodsisters Louisenstraße 26
traditional dish Done!
09 A strange place The old town of Dresden
strange
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A restaurant with no stars Oosteinde Prießnitzstraße 18
restaurant Done!
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A place where you can find me Thalia – Cinema. Coffee and cigarettes Görlitzer Straße 6
find me Done!
12 A secret St. Pauli Bar Tannenstraße 56
secret
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Done!
A market The flea market next to the River Elbe on the Altstadt bank at the bridge Albertbrücke
market Done!
14 A souvenir Buy one at the T-Shirt Festival at the Scheune (DresdenNeustadt). Runs over the weekend in May and November Alaunstraße 36-40
souvenir Done!
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Something not to be missed The Albertinum – Art from Romanticism to the present Georg-Treu-Platz 2
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art
A historical spot The first high rise building of Dresden, also to some degree forms the gateway into Neustadt Albertplatz
Done!
history Done!
17 A person you have to meet Me :)
people
festival Done!
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An adventure The BRN – Bunte Republik Neustadt, a festival in Dresden-Neustadt in June Neustadt
Done!
Check out the Google maps version:
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Cindy Hammer, “MIT ALICE IN DEN STÄDTEN” / Tanzwoche 2014 © Florian Schluckebier
Cindy Hammer presents Dresden to Jasmina Križaj
Cindy Hammer
Cindy Hammer, born in 1989 in Germany, began to study dance at the Palucca Hochschule für Tanz in Dresden in the year 2000. She graduated with a diploma in 2010. In 2009 she obtained the Esther-Arnold-Seligman Scholarship which led to her attending the American Dance Festival in Durham, North Carolina. In 2010 she founded the art collective Go Plastic together with the musician Siggy Blooms. It was devoted to the creation of stage productions, club performances and short films. In 2012 from the Go Plastic collective she formed the dance theatre company Go Plastic Dance Theatre. It produces various stage and off-stage creations. She also subsequently worked in cooperation with HELLERAU-European Center of the Arts Dresden, LOFFT Leipzig, projekttheater Dresden, TENZA-Schmiede, Palucca Hochschule für Tanz Dresden and is a member of TanzNetzDresden. goplastic-dancetheatre.com vimeo.com/goplastic
Jasmina Križaj
Jasmina Križaj “The Very Delicious Piece” © Saša Kuzjak
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Jasmina Križaj was born in Maribor, Slovenia, in 2012. Graduated in 2006 from the SNDO - De Theaterschool, School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam. Before finishing her studies, she worked as a performer for renowned Slovene choreographers such as Snježana Premuš, Matej Kejžar, Mojca Kasjak, among others. In Amsterdam she started creating her own work. Her piece Zebra in the Hair Saloon received the 1st price for the best creation of 2006 at the Act Festival in Bilbao. Sugar Rush, produced in 2009 was supported by the European Cultural Foundation - ECF. In 2010 she was invited to participate in the project 50 Days of Flying Low & Passing Through Costa Rica with David Zambrano. From then on she has been part of 50collectiVe, with whom she has performed through Europe and toured the USA in 2011. In the seasons 2011-14, Jasmina is one of the selected artists for the European project modul-dance with residencies throughout the years at important European venues such as Mercat de les Flors Barcelona, HELLERAU Dresden, Art Stations Foundation Poznań, etc. In 2013 Jasmina was granted a scholarship for a Dance-Web program in the framework of the ImPulsTanz festival under the mentorship of Ivo Dimchev. Also in 2013 she was an outside body and dramaturgicaly lead the process for the solo work Gratest Hits of an artist Simon Wehrli in production with Tanzhaus Zurich. At the moment she is part of a new production DreamLab Communitas by the artist Mala Kline. Together with Cristina P. Leitão she established CJ, a long term collaboration which will premiere their second work in September 2014 at HELLERAU Dresden.
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A small but essential taste of Saxony Saxony dialect
A trendy place Thalia – Cinema. Coffee and cigarettes Görlitzer Straße 6
taste
trendy
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Done!
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A must see The old and new town
old and new town Done!
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A panoramic view of the city The roof of the congress center is a good point in the evening Ostra-Ufer 2 / Devrientstraße 10 – 12
panoramic view Done!
Out of range A hot air balloon trip Leutewitzer Ring 137
air balloon Done!
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Detail Fountain at Großer Garten in front of the Hygienemuseum Lingnerplatz 1
Something for free Listen to music at Fat Fenders record store Böhmische Straße 14
fountain
free Done!
Done!
08 A traditional Saxony dish Haselbauer Ice Cream (special ice cream) Right by the bus and tram stop Prager Straße
traditional dish Done!
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09 A strange place Assi-Eck Louisenstraße / Rothenburger Straße
strange Done!
A restaurant with no stars Bottoms up Martin-Luther-Straße 31
Done!
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restaurant
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A place where you can find me Tanteleuk Louisenstraße 24
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find me
Done!
12 A secret Go to Bahnhof Neustadt at night time, step in the middle of the big entrance hall and make a sound... it’s amazing :) Bahnhof Neustadt, Schlesischer Platz 1
secret Done!
13 A market Sachsenmarkt Lingnerallee, every Friday until 2 p.m. Lingnerallee
market Done!
14 A souvenir Eisenfäustl Bautzner Straße 51
souvenir Done!
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Something not to be missed Altes Wettbüro, my personal favourite club in Dresden Antonstraße 8
club
16 A historical spot The two sculptures in remembrance of Erich Kästner at Albertplatz Albertplatz
Done!
history
17 A person you have to meet Max Rademann, a local writer, moderator and performer from Dresden, a great guy to go for a drink with and have an unforgettable night of crazy conversations
people
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Done!
Done!
An adventure Go to one of the ruins on Königsbrücker Straße Königsbrücker Straße Done!
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ruins Check out the Google maps version:
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Anne-Katrin Schmidt presents Dresden to Marie-Caroline Hominal Anne-Katrin Schmidt
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Anne-Katrin Schmidt was born in 1984 in Munich, Germany. She studied theatre, film and media studies at the University of Vienna. During her studies she was working at ImpulsTanz Festival (2010-2012), Sommerfestival Kampnagel (2009) and others. Since 2012 she is working at HELLERAU - European Center for the Arts Dresden as assistant to Carmen Mehnert, programme director for performing arts. In 2014 she was appointed as project manager for the art festival and exhibition springhouse in Dresden, the curators of which are Anna Br端ndl and Sven Schuch.
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Marie-Caroline Hominal Marie-Caroline Hominal received dance training at Schweizerische Ballettberufsschule in Zürich and at Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance in London where she joined the National Youth Dance Company. Since 1998 she has been performing with choreographers and companies including the Tanztheater Basel, Blanca Li, Gisèle Vienne, Gilles Jobin, La Ribot and Marco Berrettini. She was also a guest performer in Humain writes by William Forsythe and B.O.B by Dick Wong. She develops her own work using different mediums as text, videos, music, dance and performance. Her dance pieces and performances are mainly solos or duets, Froufrou being her first ensemble work. For the past 2 years she has been working on miniature pieces, one to one performances as Hotel Oloffson, where she welcomes the audience in a hotel room, or Le Triomphe de la renommée where they are welcomed in the dressing room of the theater. Moreover, Marie-Caroline Hominal collaborated with other artists such as François Chaignaud with whom she created Duchesses, Clive Jenkins, Cristian Vogel, Kim Boninsegni, and recently with her brother David Hominal. Under the name MCH she shot a number of videos that have been shown at numerous festivals. In 2012 she was selected by the modul-dance project to develop Froufrou.
Marie-Caroline Hominal, “Froufrou” © Louise Roy
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01 A small but essential taste of Saxony Dresdner Berle Rothenburger Straße 44
02 A trendy place Combo Louisenstraße 66
taste
trendy
Done!
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A must see Grünes Gewölbe Taschenberg 2
palace 04
Done!
A panoramic view of the city The steeple of Martin-Luther church Open every Friday from 8 to 11 p.m. (1,50 €) Martin-Luther-Platz
panoramic view Done!
05 A day trip Get a day ticket and take the train to Bad Schandau 30 km from Dresden in Sächsische Schweiz
day trip
Done!
Done!
06 Detail Little gallery boxes Next to Böhmische Straße 34
gallery Done!
Something for free Read through the books at Büchers Best and get a free coffee Louisenstraße 37
free Done!
08 A tradition Saxony dish Schwarzbierbraten at Bautzner Tor Hoyerswerdaer Straße 37
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traditional dish Done!
A strange place Bunte Ecke On the corner of Böhmische / Alaunstraße
strange Done!
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A restaurant with no stars El Capone Alaunstraße 62
restaurant Done!
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A place where you can find me Martin-Luther-Platz
find me
Done!
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A secret
The open air in the forest Dresdner Heide. Take the tram to Moritzburger Weg and then call me Königsbrücker Straße 150
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secret Done!
A market
Mediamarkt Centrum Galerie Prager Straße
market Done!
14 A souvenir
Fotoautomat Louisenstraße 63
souvenir Done!
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Something not to be missed
A “Pash” at El Cubanito Sebnitzer Straße 8b
drink Done!
16 A historical spot
The former parade ground Alaunpark
history Done!
17 A person you have to meet
Mr Bui Louisenstraße 70
people Done!
The adventure playground Seifhennersdorfer Straße 2
playground
Done!
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An adventure
Check out the Google maps version:
goo.gl/maps/NSlnx
Johanna Roggan “Ich un Du ist nicht gleich Wir” © Juliane Müller
Johanna Roggan presents Dresden to Patricia Apergi
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Johanna Roggan With Dresden as her main place of residence, Johanna Roggan works as a freelance dancer and dance professional across Germany and internationally. She has lived and worked in Israel where, among other things, she has been able to intensely study Gaga – the dance vocabulary of the Batsheva Company. Since 2010 she has also worked as a freelancer at the Trans-Media-Akademie Hellerau e.V. She founded the artist collective Mind the gut that same year although it was renamed The guts company in 2013. Besides her voluntary work with the Dresden freelance dance scene and network TanzNetzDresden, she has been teaching dance and providing GYROKINESIS® training for professionals and amateurs, as well as workshops relating to motion sensing systems (sound specific movement for interactive environments®). Her own creations, workshops and festival invitations as well as collaborations with different choreographers have brought her to Montréal, Santiago de Chile, Montevideo, Oslo, Sevastopol, Dnipropetovsk, Nuremberg, Berlin, Meiningen, Görlitz and Halle. thegutscompany.net
Patricia Apergi
Patricia Apergi /Aerites “Planites” © Andreas Endermann
aerites.com
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Patricia Apergi was born in Athens. She completed her education in the departments of dance, theatre and choreography at Kapodistrian University in Athens (philosophical school), Niki Kontaxaki dance school, Nice Sophia Antipolis University and Middlesex University in London. Patricia has taken part in numerous workshops for dance and theatre and has worked as a freelance choreographer for various theatres in Greece. Her company Aerites is based in Athens and was formed in 2006. The aim of Aerites Dance Company is to create artistic initiatives based on the synergy between dance, the performing arts, poetry, theatrical practice and new technology. The company has been awarded the Ermis Prize (2008) and 3 Evge awards (2007-2009). The works presented by Aerites are: ERA poVera (2012), d.OΠA! (dopamines of post Athenians) (2010), The Manifest of the Other (2010), Ferry-tails (2009), Apolost (2008) and Anorexia Socialis (2007). In 2012 she was selected by the modul-dance project to develop the project Planites.
01 A small but essential taste of Saxony Dresdner Eierschecke im Kunzmann’s Schloßstraße 1
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taste
A trendy place I guess the same as no. 7
Done!
trendy
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Done!
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A must see Neustadt
neustadt Done!
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A panoramic view of the city Luisenhof Bergbahnstraße 8
panoramic view Done!
05 Out of range Television tower Oberwachwitzer Weg 37
tv tower Done!
07 Something for free Assi-Eck Louisenstrasse / Rothenburger Straße
06 Detail Sunday Night at Neustadt
night Done!
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free Done!
08 A tradition Saxony dish Kartoffelsalat mit Wiener Würstchen (potato salad with Vienna sausage) at Bautzner Tor Hoyerswerdaer Straße 37
traditional dish Done!
A strange place Prager Straße
Done!
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A restaurant with no stars Raskolnikoff Böhmische Straße 34
restaurant Done!
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A place where you can find me Thalia – Cinema. Coffee and cigarettes Görlitzer Straße 6
find me Done!
A secret Bar Holda Martin-Luther-Platz 4
secret Done!
13 A market The flea market every Saturday at the riverside Albertbrücke
14 A souvenir Field recordings during your stroll up and down the river Elbe Between Carolabrücke and Waldschlößchenbrücke
souvenir Done!
market Done!
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Something not to be missed A boat trip Mendelssohnallee 40-42
boat trip
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A historical spot The synagogue Hasenberg 1
history Done!
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A person you have to meet One of the bar tenders at “side door” Böhmische Straße 38
people Done!
city life Done!
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An adventure A visit to the neighbourhoods Reick, Prohlis and Gorbitz
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Produced as part of Sideways, a Belgian festival exploring the issues of journeying and environmental praxis from a contemporary perspective, Brandon LaBelle wrote his Handbook for the Itinerant. The book addresses transience and mobility as central themes, and aims to serve as a mobile object for journeying: the book is both a journey in writing and a device for conditioning the steps of the reader. The work functions as writing-walking, developing reflections and meditations on the conditions of the step. Part-fiction and part-essay, Handbook for the Itinerant depicts everyday life as a search for affiliation across multiple geographies (physical, relational, imaginary and virtual). Aspects such as the poetics of walking (drift and dreaming), the politics of mobility (place and displacement, gentrification), passing through (tourism, on the road), and the challenges of global migration (itinerant work and the refugee) are reflected upon so as to open up a critical, creative territory on what it means to go from here to there. Mobility is thus underscored as bringing together the poetics of walking, transiting and meandering, with that of the global refugee and the itinerant worker.
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“Already, I am searching. Amid the rhythm of the day, to find a point, en route, that is a step toward. To mark the step with a particular energy, one that travels up from under the foot to trail across the hip, on its way to the heart, or maybe, just behind the breath, but finally as a point of departure, onto the tongue. What we might think of as the step toward voice.
That is to say, once the foot steps forward, onto the concrete plane of the real, the imagination follows, in other words: the real and the fictional weave into one another. The step, and the voice, as well as the text: this writing. This is what I’m searching for... the promise of meeting... It opens up the horizon for finding connections, the other. I cannot leave its spatial character, its geography of intensity, of breaks and cuts, as well as linkages and networks. It has me, according to the particular dynamics of the step.” Brandon LaBelle
“Since the cities in which most of us live nowadays are large, dense, permanent clusters of heterogeneous human beings in circulation, places in which one is bound to mill in a large ever-changing crowd of varied strangers moving among one another, we tend to become surfaces to each other – for the simple reason that this is the only thing a person can notice in the urban space of lots of strangers.” Zygmunt Baumann
“The Generic City is sedated, usually perceived from a sedentary position. Instead of concentration – simultaneous presence – in the Generic City individual moments are spaced far apart to create a trance of almost unnoticeable aesthetic experiences: the color variations in the fluorescent lighting of an office building just before sunset, the subtleties of the slightly different whites of an illuminated sign at night. The sensations can be reconstituted and intensified in the mind, or not – they may simply be ignored. This pervasive lack of urgency and insistence acts like a potent drug; it induces hallucination of the normal. The Generic City is all that remains of what used to be the city.“ Rem Koohlhaas
“The most peaceful place on earth is among strangers.” Elias Canetti
“The homes we choose, in short, deserve a tolerance we might not extend to the homes we inherit, and in a world where we have to work hard to gain a sense of home, we have to exert ourselves just as much to sustain a sense of Other. And so our dreams of distant places change as fast as images on MTV, and the immigrant arrivest at the land that means freedom to him, only to find that it´s already been recast by other hands. Some of the places around us look as anonymous as airport lounges, some as strange as our living room suddenly flooded with foreign objects. The only home that any Global Soul can find these days is, it seems, in the midst of the alien and the indecipherable.“ Pico Iyer
LABELLE, Brandon (2012) Handbook for the Itinerant. Belgium, Sideways BAUMANN, Zygmunt (2006) Flaneure, Spieler und Touristen. Essays zu Postmodernen Lebensformen. Hamburg, Hamburger Edition. O.M.A.; KOOLHAAS, Rem; MAU, Bruce (1995) S, M, L, XL. New York, Monacellin Press. CANETTI, Elias (1980) Masse und Macht. Berlin, Fischer Verlage. IYER, Pico (2000) The Global Soul. New York, Vintage Books.
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“The Generic City is the city liberated from the captivity of center, from the straitjacket of identity. The Generic City breaks with this destructive cycle of dependency: it is nothing but a reflection of present need and present ability. It is the city without history. It is big enough for everybody. It is easy. It does not need maintenance. If it gets too small it just expands. If it gets old it just self-destructs and renews. It is equally exciting – or unexciting – everywhere. It is „superficial“ – like a Hollywood studio lot, it can produce a new identity every Monday morning.”
COLLECTION Athens (GR) Barcelona (ES) Bassano del Grappa (IT) Dresden (DE) London (GB) Paris (FR) Poznań (PL) Stockholm (SE) Toulouse (FR) Wien (AT)
MODUL-DANCE PROJECT MANAGEMENT Mercat de les Flors Project leader Francesc Casadesús
Project manager Amélie Louis
Project advisor Ulrike Kuner
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Coordination of the guide at HELLERAU - European Centre for the Arts Dresden: Carmen Mehnert and Anne-Katrin Schmidt
MODUL-DANCE PARTNERS adc Genève CH (associated partner) - Art Stations Foundation Poznań PL - CDC Toulouse FR CND Paris FR - Centro per la Scena Contemporanea Bassano del Grappa IT - Dance Gate Lefkosia Cyprus CY - Dance Ireland Dublin IE - Dansens Hus Stockholm SE - Dansehallerne Copenhagen DK - DeVIR/CAPa Faro PT - DDRC Athens GR - HELLERAU-Europäisches Zentrum der Künste Dresden DE - Kino Šiška Ljubljana SI - Maison de la Danse Lyon FR - Mercat de les Flors Barcelona ES - Plesna Izba Maribor SI - Danshuis Station Zuid Tilburg NL - Tanzhaus NRW Düsseldorf DE Tanzquartier Wien AT - The Place London GB
modul-dance Dresden, an artist’s-eye view
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