IMPORTANT NOTICE: The schedule is given in GMT+1 (Berlin, Warsaw, Paris, Rome) time zone!
29/06/2020 Presentations available online on YouTube channel of the Symposium
● 18:00-19:00 Panel 1. Translating dances – moderated by Klara Łucznik
Shannon Cuykendall, Lucia Piquero Alvarez, Dorota Michalak, Paweł Skalski, Rajyashree Ramesh
● 17:00-18:00 Panel 2. Situated dance and choreography – moderated by Sandra Frydrysiak
Paulina Wycichowska, Juliana Moraes, Paulina Zarębska, Iza Szostak, Iwona Wojnicka
● 18:30-20:30 Keynote workshop session: Nita Little
● 17:00-18:00 Keynote Q&A session: Leena Rouhiainen
● 18:30-20:00 Panel discussion “Dance Laboratory of Crisis” –moderated by Tomasz Ciesielski
Eva Maria-Hoerster, Colleen Thomas, Kaya Kołodziejczak
● 19:30 Online theatre: “Fabula rasa” by Maciej Kuźmiński (Polish Dance Theater)
● 20:00 PREMIERE: “Manhattan Interactive Movie” by Daniela Komędera and Dominika Wiak
● PREMIERE: Live and online theatre: “Odyssey 2021” by Tomasz Ciesielski
(moderator: Klara Łucznik)
1. Shannon Cuykendall (Simon Fraser University, Canada) „The Body Behind the Design: Examining Kinesthetic Transmission, Transfer and Translation in Interactive Dance Scores”
2. Lucia Piquero Alvarez (University of Malta, Malta) „Experience, perception, emotion: fighting against the “I didn’t get it” in contemporary dance”
3. Dorota Michalak (independent artist-researcher) „A bee a unicorn”
4. Paweł Skalski (University of Łódź, Poland) „Institutio Oratoria and the creative process. Classical rhetoric as an introduction to the methodology of working on a dance performance.”
5. Rajyashree Ramesh (Global Music Academy Berlin/Europa-University Viadrina, Germany) “Dance in embodied dialogue with current science – a cross-disciplinary analysis with Indian dance theatre”
(moderator: Sandra Frydrysiak)
1. Paulina Wycichowska (Poznań University of Physical Education, Poland) and Jarek Kordaczuk (Wytwórnia Zdarzeń Sonokinetycznych, Poland) „Ekphrasis”
2. Juliana Moraes (University of Campinas, Brazil) „EU ELAS [I HER]: The dancers’ body experienced as a network of environmental relations to be exposed, acknowledged, tensioned and disrupted through choreography.”
3. Paulina Zarębska (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Poland) „Choreographic dance-related problems: the role of embodied metaphors”
4. Iza Szostak (independent artist-researcher) "skaj is the limit"
5. Iwona Wojnicka (Research Center of Performing Practices at Huddersfield University, UK) “Gesture for Gesture”
(moderated by Tomasz Ciesielski)
1. Eva Maria-Hoerster German dramaturg, producer and from 2013 managing director of HZT Berlin.
2. Colleen Thomas New York based choreographer and performing artist, Associate Professor of Professional Practice at Barnard College of Columbia University.
3. Kaya Kołodziejczak Polish dancer, choreographer and dance activist.
Artistic research occasions a tense relationship between the singular sensuous qualities artistic processes entail and the scholarly articulation or knowledge production that research conventionally involves. This presentation readdresses this uneasiness on the basis of Bernhard Waldenfels’ phenomenology of the alien. He details alien experience in a manner that shows it to be pivotal for creative processes and thinking. Alien experiences move us in unexpected ways. They receive un-intentional articulation in sensations and embodied gestures, repetitious bodily stirrings as aftereffects of a contact with the elsewhere. Therefore, understanding these experiences can be germane for forwarding diverse processual undertakings in artistic research in dance and choreography. In detailing Waldenfels’ conceptions, the presentation aims pointing out that the ungraspable or inarticulate belongs to the structure of experience and that instead of rejecting it artistic research specifically should appreciate it in a responsible manner.
LEENA ROUHIAINEN is Professor in Artistic Research at the Theatre Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki where she has also acted as Vice Dean in Research. She is a dancer and choreographer whose research interests lie in somatics, performance, choreography, experimental writing, phenomenology and artistic research. She has published many articles in these areas and has likewise continued to do collaborative art projects. The latest Internet -based work, The Air Journey, is together with choreographer Riikka Theresa Innanen and sound artist Antti Nykyri and will be completed in fall 2020. She has co-edited several books, among others Dance Spaces: Practices of Movement (2012) with Susanne Ravn and Tanssiva tutkimus:tanssitutkimuksen menetelmiä ja lähestymistapoja (Dancing Research: Approaches to and methods in dance research) (2014) with Hanna Järvinen. She is on the editorial board of Nordic Journal of Dance, Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices as well as Dance Articulated. She was chair of the board of Nordic Forum for Dance Research (NOFOD) between 2008-2010 and Executive Board Member of Society for Artistic Research (SAR) between 2015–2020.
This is an era in which Response-Ability is a critical issue to our social and environmental responsibility. However, little seems to be understood about its practice. For example, what is understood about the relationship between our physical embodiment and our ability to be inclusive? Or, about spatial tactility and our empathy? Or, about our ability to build networks not just between the human but inclusive of the non-human? And, where do we think we humans begin and end? Alva Noë asks this question and adds, “where does the rest of the world begin”? And what's this got to do with communication and response-ability? The Institute for the Study of Somatic Communication considers these questions and many more. Thinking beneath the scale of human behavior, on the level of micro-actions, ensembles of dancer researchers are considering anew what a human can be when the embodiment of physical attention is part of the paradigm of "the self." This lecture/presentation/workshop is an invitation into this rethinking that requires actually experiencing what we are coming to know.
Keywords: Response-ability, embodiment, communication, attention, selfhood
NITA LITTLE, PhD is an activist for relational intelligence through improvisational dance practices that began with the emergence of Contact Improvisation (CI) when she worked with Steve Paxton in 1972. A dancer, teacher, choreographer, and dance theorist continues to be a major influence in the development of CI and includes ensemble post-modern dance research. Little received her PhD in Performance Studies in 2014. She tours worldwide on a regular basis working for dance companies, at major international festivals, conferences and universities teaching, lecturing, and choreographing. Her writing investigates ecological actions of attention and the creative potentials present in entangled relations. She initiated the Institute for the Study of Somatic Communication (the ISSC) in 2016 with dance research ensembles in seven countries globally.
EVA-MARIA HOERSTER - dramaturge, curator, organiser and educator. Since 2006 she has been working at the Inter-University Centre for Dance / HZT Berlin, first as the founding managing director until 2013 then as a project developer and coordinator. From 2003-06 she was the artistic director of the Tanzfabrik Berlin, where she had previously worked in the fields of dramaturgy and production. She was involved in the transformation of the Tanzfabrik from an artist collective to a production and research centre. Since 2016 she has been curating the programme series AUSUFERN at Uferstudios, which produces and presents socially engaged art projects. Additional curatorial projects include the international dance festival passage-recherche for the German National Theatre Weimar (2013) and the interdisciplinary program Berliner Ermittlungen (Berlin Investigations) in the frame of the EU network apap (2006). She was co-initiator and co-curator of the „TanzNacht Berlin” and the forum “Tanz made in Berlin“ from 2000-2004. For many years she has been engaged in Berlin cultural politics striving to improve the structural conditions for dance as an art form. First as a founding and board member of the umbrella association (ztb e.V.) for contemporary dance Berlin and then as co-initiator of the TanzRaumBerlin network. In addition, she has been a member of the Berlin ‘Rat für die Künste’ since March 2014.
KAYA KOŁODZIEJCZYK - Choreographer, dancer and movement director. The dancing character you will meet in the VR experience “Nightsss”. Her organic movement was recorded in motion capture technique. Kaya's choreography became the starting point for studying the affective dimension of movement in the storytelling with the use of virtual space. Kaya's work with the new VR medium was possible thanks to her extensive experience in creating choreography for theater performances, television theaters and film productions. She worked choreographically on films of Agnieszka Smoczyńska (The Lure, 2015, Fague, 2018) and on various artistic projects with Pola Dwurnik and Jacek Sienkiewicz. A longtime dancer in Rosas, a company from Belgium. She performed in performances created by the most important choreographers of the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries: Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, Trisha Brown and William Forsythe. She collaborated on performances of such artists as Mette Ingvartsen, Kris Verdonck, Szymon Rogiński, David Wampach and Aleksandra Wasilkowska. In Warsaw, she performs at the Grand Theater - National Opera in the spectacle of Mariusz Treliński The Flying Dutchman (2012) and performances by the theater director Maja Kleczewska: Głos ludzki (2016), Rage (2016) and Golem (2017). In the 2018/2019 artistic season, she plays in The Painted Bird by Maja Kleczewska on the stage of the Polish Theater in Poznań and in The Himalayas directed by Robert Talarczykat for The Silesian Theater in Katowice.
COLLEEN THOMAS - New York-based choreographer and performing artist. She is the director of Colleen Thomas Dance, co-director of Bill Young/ Colleen Thomas Co., and co- curator for LIT (loft into theater). Her work has been seen throughout the United States as well as in Europe, Asia, and South America. Her recent research includes: a new evening length work with artists from Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, and USA that premiered at La MaMa Theater in May 2019 and a recent published scientific study looking at brain activity in contact improvisers with Dr. Andrew Goldman (Goldman, A., Thomas, C., & Sajda, P. (2019). Contact improvisation dance practice predicts greater mu rhythm desynchronization during action observation. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. Advance online publication. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/aca0000255.) In her newest work, light and desire, Thomas joins five women artists from Venezuela (Carla Forte), Hungary/Germany (Ildiko Toth), Poland (Joanna Lesnierowska), Albania/ Greece (Ermira Goro), and North America (Rosalynde LeBlanc), taking a personal and universal look at how women artists cope under oppressive and manipulative power structures. This feminist collective looks at the many moments of transition and asks how women hold, embody and express power. The world premiere performances will take place at New York Live Arts in New York City from April14-17, 2021 once we have come through this.
She also continues to make work with her husband and friends and is a Professor of Professional Practice at Barnard College of Columbia University.
TOMASZ CIESIELSKI (moderator) - Choreographer, performer and dance researcher from Łódź. Student of choreography at the Academy of Music in Łódź and PhD student at the University of Łódź. He works at the interface between art and science, combines choreographic strategies with methods drawn from cognitive sciences and cultural studies. Creator of internationally presented performances: Sense-action; Eligible Costs/Dance, My love; Idyllusion; Karaoke and others. Dancer in professional companies. Between 2011 and 2016 dancer at Granhøj Dans (performances Men & Mahler and Rite of Spring Extended, both awarded the prestigious Årets Reumert 2013 and 2014). Member of the CHOREA Theater (projects: Oratorium Dance Project, Antic/Dance in Re-Construction, Touched/Moved). As a performer, he also collaborated with Rob Hayden, Tomasz Rodowicz, Mikołaj Mikołajczyk, Liwia Bargieł, Wojtek Mochniej and Anna Piotrowska.
The artistic program is funded by the Institute of Music and Dance.
"In the ice of solitude man becomes
most inexorably
a question to himself."
Martin Buber
Choreography, concept: Maciej Kuźmiński
Music: Zbigniew Kozub, Stanisław Moniuszko
Costumes, scenography: Ilona Binarsch
Dramaturgy: Paul Bargetto
Lighting: Paweł Murlik
Premiere cast: Amy Basley, Evelyn Blue, Kacper Bożek, Julia Hałka, Agnieszka Jachym, Paulina Jaksim, Jerzy Kaźmierczak, Zbigniew Kocięba, Katarzyna Kulmińska, Dominik Kupka, Paweł Malicki, Daniel Michna, Michał Przybyła, Katarzyna Rzetelska, Sandra Szatan, Emily Wong-Adryańczyk
Production: Polski Teatr Tańca 2019
MACIEJ KUŹMIŃSKI - Choreographer, performer, educator, producer. Artistic director of Maciej Kuźmiński Company. Founder and director of the Polish Dance Network. Enblish Dance Tabs magazine described Room 40 by Kuźmiński as 'bridging concept and beauty', a remark that well describes the style of the choreographer. His works, formally daring with grounded, dynamic movement, have been presented over 140 times in 20 countries. The multi-award winning artist has claimed among others the prestigious Audience Award at the Polish Dance Platform 2014, or 2nd Prize and Special Prize at the International Choreographic Competition in Hannover 2018. Maciej Kuźmiński graduated with Distinction from MA Choreography studies and BA Dance Theatre studies from the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London. Pedagogue at Codarts, Trinity Laban, University of Calgary, Belgrade Dance Institute, Dance Departament in Bytom, Poland.
Dofinansowano ze środków Ministra Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego pochodzących z Funduszu Promocji Kultury w ramach programu „Moniuszko - Promesa 2019”, realizowanego przez Instytut Muzyki i Tańca.
Concept:
Tomek Ciesielski
Choreography created in close cooperation with dancers:
Sarna Natalia Kladziwa, Paweł Urbanowicz, Oscar Mafa
Music:
Kuba Pałys, Sean Palmer
Costumes:
Damian Robert Kretschmer
TOMEK CIESIELSKI - Choreographer, performer and dance researcher from Łódź. Student of choreography at the Academy of Music in Łódź and PhD student at the University of Łódź. He works at the interface between art and science, combines choreographic strategies with methods drawn from cognitive sciences and cultural studies. Creator of internationally presented performances: Sense-action; Eligible Costs/Dance, My love; Idyllusion; Karaoke and others. Dancer in professional companies. Between 2011 and 2016 dancer at Granhøj Dans (performances Men & Mahler and Rite of Spring Extended, both awarded the prestigious Årets Reumert 2013 and 2014). Member of the CHOREA Theater (projects: Oratorium Dance Project, Antic/Dance in Re-Construction, Touched/Moved). As a performer, he also collaborated with Rob Hayden, Tomasz Rodowicz, Mikołaj Mikołajczyk, Liwia Bargieł, Wojtek Mochniej and Anna Piotrowska.
Scenario, concept: Daniela Komędera-Miśkiewicz, Dominika Wiak
Director of Photography: Paweł Szymkowiak
Music: Aleksander Wnuk, Michał Lazar
Performing: Daniela Komędera-Miśkiewicz and Dominika Wiak
Video of the explosion: Natan Berkowicz
Narration: Anna Szpaczyńska
Translation: Anna Komęder
Created by: Daniel Komędera-Miśkiewicz, Dominika Wiak