KT Zakravsky/ZAK RAY & Anne Juren
lab/p Dance

Lab/p Dance This workshop takes the "lap dance", a genre known from film and red light entertainment, as a metaphor and a model for more general questions in the context of contemporary dance and performance. A "lap dance" is a more or less erotic solo performed for one seated person; the dance adds touch to the usual visual perception of dance, but in the well-known club set-up the customer is not allowed to touch back. If he does, a silent witness intervenes. We want to take this intimate situation literally and enact "lap dances" and do "field research". We also want to see the model in a broader context and do theoretical and corporeal research on the relationship of eroticism, gender and intimacy to contemporary performance practices. We address professional dancers, choreographers and performers; but we would also like to emphasise that people with a multidisciplinary background (including acting, theory, fine arts etc.) are very welcome. As this workshop explores the performance and perception of (physical and other) intimacies, also the adventure, the risk and even the embarrassment it can involve, we would like to work with a group of mixed gender, various ages and body types. We plan a possible excursion into the "field" of red light entertainment that could also include a performance there. So people who are interested should have an open mind and not be shy, away from social environments they might not be too familiar with. On the other hand the workshop will also involve some reading and theoretical discussion. We like to get into email contact with participants a while beforehand and propose reading material so we can already built on some common ground. For now we strongly recommend to read the highly poetic philosophical treatise on the body "Corpus" by Jean-Luc Nancy (in English, German or French). Katherina Zakravsky Katherina Zakravsky is a cultural theorist, performance artist, dramatic adviser, based in Vienna. Her work include: a thesis on Immanuel Kant’s theory of the University (1999); research and publications on Giorgio Agamben’s political theory of bare life; publishing on dance and performance since 1989, Frankfurt: "Revolver" 2006; "Homo Sacer and the Consequences. Two remarks on Holocaust commemoration and 'bare life" in contemporary art”, Documenta Magazines und Frakcija 42/2007, http://magazines.documenta.de/; "Porn Chic im Web 2.0 Zeitalter", Katalog zur Ausstellung The Porn Identity, Kunsthalle Wien 2009; porn and performance studies; "I Do. Some considerations on performativity and agency", in: Martina Hochmuth, Krassimira Kruschkova, Georg Schöllhammer (Eds.) It takes place when it doesn´t. Performance work: 1999-2004 solo series "Faun Montages", since 2003 collaboration with Chris Haring and LIQUID LOFT; since 2007 PATHOSBÜRO (with Daniel Aschwanden u.a.) Since 1995 she is teaching Philosophy, Science Fiction studies and Multimedia Theory at several institutions in Austria and was researching for theory at the Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht (NL) in 2001/2002. Anne Juren Anne Juren (1978, Grenoble, France) is a choreographer, dancer and performer based in Vienna. She studied contemporary dance at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Danse de Lyon and apprentice at the Trisha Brown Company in New York (2000). Besides her activity as a dancer with various choreographers (Laurent Pichaud, Saskia Hölbling, Jennifer Lacey), she participates in several laboratories of research in dance and works as an artistic assistant with other artists. Her works "A?"(2003) and "J’aime" (2004) in collaboration with Alice Chauchat, "Code Series" (2005), "Patterns of Sport and Dance" (2006) in collaboration with Fouad Asfour, "Look Look" (2007) in collaboration with Kroot Juurak, and "Komposition" (2008) have been shown in venues in Vienna such as dietheater, Tanzquartier Wien, and ImPulsTanz as well as in numerous International dance and theatre festivals. In 2006/07 she was Artist-in-residence at Tanzquartier Wien and took part in the European program IDEE. She recently worked as a choreographer at the Burgtheater. Her most recent work "Magical" was presented in October in Vienna/TQW.