Analysing Dance
Techniques of Contemporary Choreography

After a theatrical event, what and from where do we know of a dance performance? And why and in what media does the memory of dance save this particular or another production? These questions form the point of departure of the media course, which cursorily attempts to negotiate corporal, medial and topographical strategies of memory of dance and of its medial documentation.
Staging of dance as medial and cultural (mediation) methods are also to be established via the respective hybridisation and synthesising of various media and via the formation and creation of movement of bodies medialised by movement.
During dance, corporal memory strategies are documented through external recording media (writing, image, new media, space…). Each media and each live-performance enables a specific approach to the kinetic and to the kinesthetic, to the memory of movement, which necessitates a process-oriented approach to analysis. Together with guests we are going to discuss different methods of analysing dance.

The seminar takes place in the summer atmosphere of Arsenal, in the midst of the big number of workshops and research projects for dancers and dance interested people. A place that invites theory and practice to exchange. All participants will be invited to selected performances.


Nicole Haitzinger
Nicole Haitzinger completed her studies and dissertation at the institute for theater sciences of the University of Vienna. As a scientific coach, dance dramaturg and curator she participated in several international projects and theory-practice-modules. Her scientific, dramaturgic and journalistic focus is on the creative encounter between theory and practice, in history and the present. In her scientific work she engages in staging and concepts of efficacy of dance in different historic formations, as well as in contemporary performance art, considering practical-theoretical (and interdisciplinary) perspectives. Since 2004 she works at the department for dance science at the University of Salzburg. She writes for Corpus www.corpusweb.net and lives and works in Salzburg and Vienna.