Claudia Bosse
your energetic democratic body!

your energetic democratic body! about political bodies? democratic (anti) bodies? (anti) democratic bodies? In the course of the three weeks I would like to develop movement material with a group of dancers/performers in a specific architecture, an architecture, which is the performance space itself, instead of working for a frontal stage. Various starting points for movement material will be explored and combined. There will be a performance at the end of the three weeks in the same architecture we worked in and another performance in a totally different space, as a means of a conscious examination of the spacial transformation of the developed material. What kind of physicality and necessity for movement do exist in a globally and politically changing situation? (comparison of participants' perspectives) What is a political movement like? What is the beginning of a movement? How can my body be political? In these three weeks I would like to develop movement methodologies composed of different elements: movements towards space movements out of biographical memories movements out of sexual desires and identities movements of transformed techniques democratic movements movements, squandering energy stillness shift of dynamic movement and stillness eruptive movements Movement disorders: acting through different bodies. different bodies: biographical / political / social / energetic / interruptive / still / pornographic Biographic body, educated and social body in the midst of desire, technique, aggression and adaption. Energetic studies with chaotic and squandering patterns. Movement research in a specific space, for a specific space, on a specific space. Movements in a specific space. Energetic movements with a specific body. Stillness. Break out. The translation of movements into a different space, or into the public space. Translation, resistance, transformation, motivation. Apply with CV, interest and motivation. Claudia Bosse (AT/DE) received her stage direction diploma at the Ernst Busch Theatre Academy Berlin. She produces hybrid theatre works encompassing entire spaces, specific room choreographies, theatrical sketches with and in public spaces, choreographies, installations, theoretical discourses of practice in Frankfurt, Prague, Tunis, Berlin, Geneva, Vienna, Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Podgorica, Watermill/NY a.o. Her collaborations include Festival Wien Modern, Prague Quadrennial/intersection, Leopold Museum Vienna, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Festival Theater der Welt, Podewil Berlin, Tanzquartier Vienna, National Theatre Montenegro, Berliner Ensemble, Kampnagel Hamburg, Forum Freies Theater Düsseldorf, Festival Journées Théâtrales de Carthage a.o. In 1996 she founded together with three other artists theatercombinat in Berlin for a fundamental research for theatre, spaces, bodies, text and relation of production. In 1999 theatercombinat moved to Vienna with a new formation, with Claudia Bosse as artistic director. Between 1998 and 2001 she collaborated with Josef Szeiler. At that time she had teaching assignments, visiting professorships and held lectures in Frankfurt, Giessen, Oxford, Vienna, Belgrad, Geneva, Lausanne, Zurich, Brussels, and published her writings. Claudia Bosse was Artiste Associée at GRÜ/Théâtre du Grütli, in Geneva between 2006 and 2008. Between 2006 and 2009 she worked together with Gerald Singer, Christine Standfest and many others on the 13- fold theatrical series called "tragödienproduzenten" resulting in choric stagings of: "les perses" with 180 citizens of Geneva at the Théâtre du Grütli and "die perser" at the Festival Theaterformen with 340 citizens at the Staatstheater Braunschweig. A staging of Racine's/Seneca's "phédre" a choreography of naked bodies with performers over 60 years of age, in french language has been shown at Salle de Faubourg/Théâtre du Grütli as well as "turn terror into sport" a tap dance choreography with 100 participants in public space for the Tanzquartier Vienna. In 2009 she received the Nestroy Theatre Prize with theatercombinat for her urban choreographic composition "bambiland" as best off theatre production. Since 2010 she develops together with the sound artist Günther Auer and other artists a series of political hybrids and space compositions out of choreographies and speech, text and sound readymades which resulted into "vampires of the 21st century oder was also tun?" in 2010/11 in Vienna, Düsseldorf and New York. She curated the artistic research „the future of the vampires“ at the Cartographic Institute of Vienna. One of her most recent works is the installation and city intervention "BURNING BEASTS", which she created in the frame of her residency in Giessen for Frankfurter Kunstverein and in the frame of the exhibition Demonstrationen- Vom Werden Normativer Ordnungen, "the tears of stalin" for Quadriennale Prague 2011/intersection, "der Raum der Raum das bild das bild das bett der baum und die entblößung der leiber" a walk-in room sculpture in the frame of the exhibition Melancholie und Provokation- Dialoge mit Egon Schiele at Leopold Museum Vienna. After a research period in Egypt, the premiere in Vienna, a french/english version shown in Tunis the piece "dominant powers. what is to be done then?" is being developed at the Eurokaz Festival in Zagreb since December 2011 until July 2012 in cooperation with the Museum of Contemporary Art/MSU and the live installation „Biographical Landscapes of New Zagreb“.