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Jonathan Burrows

"A Choreographer's Handbook“

On choreography: "Choreography is a negotiation with the patterns your body is thinking"
On rules: "Try breaking the rules on a need to break the rules basis"
Jonathan Burrows explains, how it’s possible to navigate a course through the complex process of how and why to make a dance performance. His open and honest prose provides exercises, meditations, principles and ideas on choreography allowing artists and dance-makers to find their own aesthetic process.

  August 9 | 10:00 pm | free entry
  Schauspielhaus
  presented by Jonathan Burrows

Damaged Goods / Meg Stuart & Jeroen Peeters (ed.)

"Are we here yet?“

How does choreographer Meg Stuart create work? In the book Are we here yet?, Stuart reflects on her own practice in dialogue with Jeroen Peeters and several (former) Damaged Goods collaborators. Are we here yet? is a container brimming with memories, projections, reflections and images close to Stuart’s choreographic practice, a heterogeneity of materials that have a certain gravity of their own and won’t cease to resonate and stir up new questions.

  August 10 | 06:00 pm | free entry
  Arsenal Bundestheaterwerkstätten + Probebühnen
  presented by Meg Stuart & Jeroen Peeters

Andrea Amort

"Hanna Berger – Auf den Spuren einer Tänzerin im Widerstand“

Political dance: Andrea Amort in search of traces of the dancer, choreographer, resistance fighter and idealistic communist Hanna Berger (Vienna 1910 – East Berlin 1962). In postwar Vienna, Berger was involved in the reconstruction of a legendary childrens’ theatre, when she was caught in the crossfire between political and artistic fronts. An intensive life, in which certain artists as Fritz Cremer, Paul Kont, Walter Felsenstein and Marcel Marceau had a share.

  August 11 | 07:00 pm | free entry
  Kasino am Schwarzenbergplatz
  presented by Andrea Amort

INPEX

The Swedish Dance History 2010 – it’s our history and it’s on the move!

History must be written and those who write it define the future. Dance, understood as a volatile medium needs its history but who has the authority to write it and to what authorities do those authors answer? TSDH is an open question and a claim of history by its participants. Within ImPulsTanz10, INPEX - in collaboration with the wealth of artists present at the festival – will produce (July 24+25) and release (August 13) a 1000-pages dance book (plus its sound version).

  August 13 | 09:00 pm | free entry
  Kasino am Schwarzenbergplatz
  presented by INPEX and contributing festival
  artists