Peter Stamer & Guests
Time, Structure, Decisions And All The Rest In Five Days

On Dramaturgy And Other Artistic Practices Dramaturgy deals with three main questions: 1. How does the artist transform his/her concept into practice? 2. What aesthetic strategies does the artist make use of in the art work? 3. How does the art work communicate to the audience? Thus, in this week we will take an active look at the theatre-machine and its productive conditions of creating moving bodies in time and space. Since practice and theory melt in this Coaching Project, the participants are asked to share their working process. Next to discussing and analysing their proposals, participants will work on their practice in the course of the week. Shows of the festival are going to be discussed and presenting choreographers of ImPulsTanz are invited on a daily basis to join the group.. Peter Stamer Peter Stamer, free-lance dramaturge, mentor, curator, and performer. Theatre studies at Johannes-Gutenberg-University Mainz. Co-director and dramaturge of and for the Ballet of Nationaltheater Mannheim (Mannheim, 1993-1998). Curator of theory at Tanzquartier Wien (2001). Dramaturge (a.o.) for theatre director Claudia Bosse (Belagerung Bartleby, Berlin 2005) and choreographer Philipp Gehmacher (Incubator, Vienna/Berlin/Brussels/Lyon 2004-2005, book publicationIncubator, Vienna 2006). Publishes articles in magazines, books, web pages. Peter's projects explore discursive power within performative setups. He develops series of talk performances like at home (Vienna 2005, Bern 2008), sans papierss (Berlin 2006), Head Room-Chinese Whispers-Les Boîtes (Beijing 2006, Vienna 2006, Lyon 2008 with Daniel Aschwanden), PersonaleChinese Whispers (Vienna 2006/2007 with Daniel Aschwanden) and creator of performative installations Les langues de mes tantes (Bern 2006) and lovers' discourses (Essen 2006 together with Paz Rojo and Cristian Duarte). He was the festival dramaturge and lecturer at Young Choreographers' Project (Beijing 2007). Teaching and mentoring credits include: the Coaching project ON TIME at ImPulsTanz 2007 in Vienna together with Philipp Gehmacher and at P.A.R.T.S. (Brussels 2007), CNDB (Bucharest 2007 & 2009) and at APT (Advanced Performance Training, Antwerp 2008, Kortrijk 2009). He was the writer-in-residence at Szene Salzburg (Salzburg 2007) and ImPulsTanz (Vienna 2008). He was Artistic Director of the dance biennal Tanznacht Berlin (Berlin 2008) and of the research project PRACTICE (Performative Research And Choreographic Tools In Contemporary Environments, Berlin 2008), as well as of the theatre project DRAMA QUEENS (Vienna 2009). He is director of and performer in a series of socio-economic performances and performative installations the path of money (China 2008/2009, Beijing/Berlin/Salzburg 2009/2010 together with Daniel Aschwanden)..