Talks...

Every year, renewed artists will touch upon various issues of their work and contemporary dance in general during the ImPulsTanz festival. All talks are held in English - the admission is free.

... and Talk Back

For the first time, there's the possibility to continue the talks even after the festival: the talk back - blog is open for everybody and is an invitation to keep up the communication on the ImPulsTanz - homepage and join the talks.
Having said this: TALK BACK !

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Public Talks ImPulsTanz09

THE SOMATIC SALON

an open, informal forum for community based dialogues on the politics of dancing
initiated, hosted and fuelled by Sri Louise (USA/AT)

Dates:
Sunday, July 26, 17:45, Arsenal
Sunday, August 2, 16:00, Arsenal
Sunday, August 9, 17:30, Arsenal

Topics:
• How do Somatic Practices Influence/Generate Dance Pedagogy and Contemporary Performance?
• The Body on Stage: Subject or Object?
• The Politics of Motion: Who Makes the Work -VS- Who Owns it?
• Dancer Rights: Oxymoron or Long Overdue?
• Colonial Conventions in Contemporary Choreographers
• Alternative Models of Production: Dance Co-Operatives, Can They Decentralize the Dance Machine?

Guest Facilitators:
This is a community based project where all teachers (& guests) of the festival are welcomed, through an open invitation, to participate and in a sense, co-create these community dialogues. The guest facilitators are encouraged to suggest topics, experiment with formats and to promote these conversations among their peers and students.

Vision:
Topics of interest are generated by, and intended for, the dance community as a whole regardless of individual technical style or artistic genre. Topics reflect the current needs, changing dynamics and frequent frustrations of the professional and pedagogical dance environment as seen from the perspective of those most immediately effected: students, teachers, free lance/company performers and choreographic artists. These discussions are envisioned to serve as a kind of grass-roots, contemporary dance think tank or an experimental, political powwow, in which all are welcome to participate!

Structure:
Lounge style conversations, offering the comfort/confusion of informal intimacy...the “living-room” setting is meant to encourage relaxed, but passionate dialogues among cross generational peers. The underlying spirit of these discussions is towards cultivating creative tolerance with respect to communal differences in pedagogical ideologies and performative preferences.

Documentation:
In keeping with the value of communal accessibility/inclusivity, these discussions will be documented via video and made publicly available through the ImPulsTanz website.

Guest facilitators so far:
Alito Alessi (USA)                  Zvi Gotheiner (ISR/USA)                Malcolm Manning (UK/FIN)
Olive Bieringa (NZL/USA)       Miguel Gutierrez (USA)                   Janet Panetta (USA)
Georg Blaschke (AT)              Keith Hennessy (CAN/USA)             Shellley Senter (USA)
Ori Flomin (ISR/USA)             Jennifer Lacey (USA/FR)                 Risa Steinberg (USA)
Ami Garmon (USA/DE/FR)      Claudia Mader (DE/AT) Storm (DE)

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THE DANCEWEB TALKS 2009

hosted by Philipp Gehmacher (AT) & Christine de Smedt (BE)

Sat, August 8 (tbc), 6pm, Studio E, Arsenal
Christine de Smedt & Philipp Gehmacher in conversation with Xavier Le Roy (FR/DE) on practise, on ex e.r.c.e / 6M1L

Over many years, Xavier has been involved in several artistic collaborations, creating artistic projects such as ‘project’ as well as in curatorial positions. In 2007-2008 he was associated artist at the Centre Chorégraphique National de Montpellier, France and codirected the educational programm ex.e.r.ce07 and 08. Together with Bojana Cvéjic he initiated the project 6M1L (6Month1Location), inviting 9 artists working in different research projects and performance productions as well as other types of events linked to all activities of the CCN de Montpellier, France. Ex.e.r.ce and 6M1L will be the starting point to talk about sharing knowledge, practice and artistic collaborations within and outside institutional frames.