Analysing Dance
Choreographic Patterns

„the word „contemporary” implies a relation; one is a contemporary of another” (Hans Ulrich Obrist)
 
“he (the contemporary) is also the one who, dividing and interpolating time, is capable of transforming it and putting it in relation with other times.” (Giorgio Agamben)
 
Mappings, action guidelines, lists: all these terms from other (art) contexts appear in contemporary dance in order to describe specific subsidencies. This workshop chooses the format of time spanning thinking in order to discuss the relationship of movement-writing-image using historic and contemporary material (excerpts, texts, images, video).
Through the provided and presented material, certain cultural, as well as dance-specific choreographic patterns become visible; they relate to particular concepts of movement and body, as well as to cultures of knowledge. The question about choreographic patterns and their transmission, their relevance and their manifestation will be examined through the comparison of three different perspectives: considering historic aspects, using examples from workshops of the festival, and through analysing performances. Our first search for traces of choreographic patterns appearing in contemporary dance will show that they can be determined in different ways and relations of transformation.


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.

Lisa Hinterreithner
Lisa Hinterreithner is a freelance artist. She created a choreographic format for plane art (presented at the Arts Association in Salzburg in Febuary 2011). In collaboration with Rotraud Kern and Nils Olger she created the piece "tree me tree" fort he Tanzquartier Vienna in 2010, a solo "wieder 1" (2009) and a performance installation "Autobiographie – Zur Performance des Ichs" together with Nicole Haitzinger (premiered at Sommerszene Salzburg 2009). In the last two years she worked as performer for Paul Wenninger, Julius Deutschbauer and Martina Ruhsam a.o.
Between 2005 and 2008 she headed the Training & Workshop programme at the Tanzquartier Vienna and is co-producer of the platform tanzbuero since 2009. Since April 2010 she also co-conceives of the platform nadaLokal in Vienna. She is a temporary teacher at the institute for dance arts in Salzburg.