Assembling time
A research for people with and without disabilities

We would like to look into the subject of slowness/quickness. The training is devided in three phases - the Warm-up, stretching exercises and improvisation. We will work on movement tasks such as giving and receiving impulses and weight, integrating improvisation exercises with various concepts of time (dynamics, tempo, silence, etc).

In the second part of the class we will transfer this movement material in group work and start to find a collective movement vocabulary. A verbal and non-verbal reflection of what we see will be encouraged by creating a movement and an audience space. Every single person will have the oppportunity to move into space in the frame of a solo, duo or a group improvisation.

The third part of the class focuses on the use of an everyday object, which can be one in sítu or brought along to the class, and a video-documentation. This object will be integrated into the dance improvisation and installed in space. This improvisation will be structured by earlier explored movement tasks.
The creation process will be documented with a videocamera. The small groups are free to choose the space and setting (stage) they want to work in for this process.

We will work with and without music and explore the silence and its influence on movement and motionlessness. Alternation between structured and authenic movement enables every single person to work on their own individual movement vocabulary.
The focus lies on independent decision and self-determination of every single person, with or without limitation. As a result of the structured method, assistance on finding and developing a trust in the indivual movement vocabulary is given and thus shall become more natural.



Sonja Browne
Sonja Browne is dancer, choreographer, trainer and founding member of danse brute. She engages in inclusive dance work, dealing with the wide movement ranges originating from the physical, sensorial and cognitive differences of people with and without disabilities.
In 2011 she founded "tanzmontage.Balance" in the frame of Balance a platform of structured daily offer for people with disabilities.
Sonja Browne danced for Austrian choreographers Editta Braun/Salzburg and Willi Dorner/Vienna, AMICI/UK and Theater STAP/Belgium and is since 1999 choreographer and producer of collaborative work and performances for people with and without disabilities.

Johanna Tatzgern
Johanna Tatzgern studied at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Since 1990 she was further educated in the field of "new dance“ (Contact Improvisation, Improvisation techniques, Authentic Movement and bodywork) and is DanceAbility trainer since 2006.
She accepted invitations to festivals, symposia, dance and visual art collaborations, scientific collaborations, realisations of installations and performances involving media, space and visual art.

In 1999 she founded the association Goldfluß Unlimited (conception and realisation of process-oriented projects in the social artistic field).
Since 1994 she is committed to projects with people with special needs including Institut Hartheim, Kunstraum Goethestraße – pro Mente.

Since 2007 she is working on the organisation of a dance/performance group Tanzmontage with the association Balance (an association for the integration and equal opportunities for people with special needs) and creates artistic projects such as "Inter-View" (together with Elke Krasny), "Eigensinn-Eigensicht" at the gallery 5020 Salzburg, photo-works (Museum auf Abruf, Vienna), "Synthese: Tanz –Film” (a videopresentation, Tepidarium, Peripher, curated by Bernadette Dewald, Filmcoop, Tanzquartier Vienna), "Portraits afterlife" (installation, performance, curated by Katherina Zakravsky, Academie van Eyck, Maastricht, Holland), "Aftermath of a Faun - Hybridtraining" (together with Katherina Zakravsky), "Interspirale" (installation/performance, Pushkinskaya, St. Petersburg, Russia), "Drängen & Sehnen" (ImPulsTanz, 8tension, as well as for the Künstlerhaus, a video for the solo work of Ingrid Reisetbauer,Vienna), "Between screens" (concept: Lisa Hinterreitner, performance/installation, Sommerszene 06 Salzburg), amongst many others.