WELCOME | MONDAY JULY 7th | 2PM – 3PM | FOYER

DYADS | 2 PM – 3PM | FOYER

TUESDAY JULY 8th

with Mary O’Donnell & David Brandstätter and
Eva Karczag & Malgven Gerbes

These two conversations are concerned with personal and professional stories, criticality, values, professional relationships, lived bodies and their legacies. The first dialogue invites Mary O’Donnell (USA) and David Brandstätter (DE) into  conversation. The second dialogue will be a moving conversation between Eva Karczag (USA) and Malgven Gerbes (FR) . Both conversations and the following discussion will be facilitated by Thomas Kampe (DE /UK) as moderator.

Language: English

WEDNESDAY JULY 9th

THE TRACE IS NOT THE END* – VEHICLES FOR MOVING IDEAS

co-creating collective practice and history

A conversation about cycles of embodied research that lead to collective knowledge generation, artistic practice, documentation, and further embodied research between Nancy Stark Smith (USA) and Dieter Heitkamp (D) interviewing each other, and Nina Martin (USA) as interventionist.

*Title co-created with Norah Zuniga Shaw

Language: English

THURSDAY JULY 10th

with Lisa Nelson & Peter Hulton

A conversation about questions, circling around the present in the past, the past in the present. Touching on feedback and documentation. Between Peter Hulton (UK) and Lisa Nelson (USA) with Peter Pleyer (DE) as moderator.

Language: English

FRIDAY JULY 11th

with Ka Rustler and Trude Cone

Language: English

LECTURES | 6 PM – 7:30 PM | FOYER

MONDAY JULY 7th

Bottles and Brooms: Pre-Judson-explorations on Anna Halprin’s Dance Deck in the 1950/1960’s
by Gabriele Wittmann

California-based choreographer Anna Halprin was one of the fore-runners of the Judson Dance Theater Movement: In her summer workshops, artists like Simone Forti and Trisha Brown met to research the art of improvisation. Inspired by her experiences at the Bauhaus, Halprin’s radically interdisciplinary approach challenged musicians, architects, dancers and street people to deal with task movements.

Judson and me
by Peter Hulton

A personal account by an Englishman who left Europe for Japan in the 1960s, and, on his way back, met bits of Judson. Alarmed, he promptly joined the staff of Dartington College of Arts, U.K., becoming its director, for a while, in the 1980s.

Moderator: Ric Alsopp
Language: English

TUESDAY JULY 8th

Dance Migrations. Contemporary and its cultural practices
by Gabriele Klein

The LIVE LEGACY PROJECT searches for correspondences between German Contemporary Dance and Judson Dance Theater Movement. What does correspondence mean? How can it be produced? Why do we want to produce a correspondance? What are the political, social and cultural implications of the production of correspondences between different dance cultures?

These are the leading questions of the lecture corresponding with the current debates about the contemporary and the living archive of the contemporary.

Performing Poetics
by Ric Allsopp

From the Dance Studio in Dartington via daCostakade 102 in Amsterdam to Uferstudios in Berlin and back to the Performance Centre in Penryn in south-west Cornwall, my own ‘odyssey out of theatre’ began as a student in Dartington in 1976 with an interest in writing and alternative theatre challenged by a culture of sponaneity, release technique, perceptual analysis and projective poetics. Performing Poetics considers the persistence of the interwoven legacies of mid-century projectivist poetics, the thinking body, and performance art as forms of radical coherence that stretch from 1970s ‘new dance’ via 1990s conceptual choregraphy to the currency of the post-mainstream.

Institutionalizing Yvonne Rainer
by Yvonne Hardt

Almost no lecture or publication on Yvonne Rainer fails in reproducing parts of her so-called “No Manifesto.” This lecture seeks to re-set this focus by considering in closer detail the context of its first publication and Rainer‘s own critical position towards being reduced to this phrase. What happened to the anti-institutional stance of her work, once she herself became an icon of that critical movement? This lecture wants to re-trouble her work and traces the potentials of working with her material in dance educational contexts.

Language: English

ROUND TABLES | 6 PM – 7:30 PM | FOYER

WEDNESDAY JULY 9th | ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION

Tracing the Judson Migration: New Perspectives and Educational Directions

with Gabriele Klein, Peter Pleyer, Ingo Diehl, Mary O’Donnell, Trude Cone and Pauline de Groot | Moderator: Irmela Kästner


Language: English

THURSDAY JULY 10th | ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION

Surviving Institutions: That was then, this is now

with Joao da Silva, Gisela Müller, Silke Z., Alexandra Waierstall, Stephanie Maher and Martin Nachbar | Moderator: Jess Curtis

Language: English

OPEN LABS | 6 PM – 7:30 PM | STUDIO 1 – 6

FRIDAY 11th

LIVING AND WORKING | LEBEN UND ARBEITEN

Facilitator: Stephanie Maher – studio 1

CHOREOGRAPHIC COLLECTIVES

Facilitator: Nina Martin – studio 2

INVISIBLE HISTORIES

Facilitator: Martin Nachbar – studio 3

VISIONS OF DANCE PRACTICE

Facilitator: Thomas Kampe studio 4

SHARING THE DANCE | CONTACT IMPROVISATION IN GERMANY

Facilitator: Peter Pleyer – studio 5

NEW STRUCTURES FOR EDUCATION

Facilitators: Gisela Müller and Bernd Ka studio 6