On Practicing - mixed abilities In the frame of the Field Project we will propose an introduction of basic explorations and exercises that focus on presence and somatic research within the work-frame...

Something That Says Something Coming from different backgrounds it is remarkable how similar these two artists are. Both have an incredible love for voice and notion of how important an element it is...

OF BEAUTY AND REVOLUTIONS A few years ago I made a piece called "More more more... future". The ambition was to be punk. For a while in the late 1970s England "No Future" may have been a subversive statement,...

History and Violence A FIELD PROJECT PROLONGUED BY PUBLIC PERFORMANCES  Throughout this Field Project we will work and focus on how to represent violence on stage. Physical violence, psychological...

no holding back between magic and healing NOTE: This Research Project is already fully booked, we can not process any more applications! Can we let the body speak, by itself, by moving, breathing, dreaming,...

The Substance, The Internet, The Planet Mårten Spångberg’s last two dance projects have been highly celebrated opening up for new forms of choreography, relations between stage and spectator, consumption and...

Gesamtkunstwerk Through many of his previous works, Jefta van Dinther has been developing performances that merge the elements of body, sound, light and material into a new – fifth body. An amalgam w...

The Imaginative Body Drawing from many years of processing movement, utilising the body as a language facilitator within a choreographic construct, with the intention of applying a series of tools and...

Clips and Loops "The glimpse of a moment", which is the focus of this Research Project, will be frozen, granulated, glued together and looped. The starting points are excerpts of existing works of the...

Fighting Monkey Practice / 30 Wood Beams and Endless Composition This Field Project is booked, applications are no longer accepted! This year we have prepared a unique way for practising composition,...

On Becoming... There are countless ways of existing with each other, if we assume our body does not end with our skin. How can the other inspire me to enter spaces that are not occupied by a ’You' and a...

Tools for Dance Improvisations ONE MOVING AS MANY MOVING AS ONE This Field Project is booked, applications are no longer accepted! Every joint of our body has its range of movement and there are countless...

Unsettling Modernism / Performing Improvisation This Field Project is booked, applications are no longer accepted! "The state is a condition, a certain relationship between human beings, a mode of behaviour;...

YOGA and DANCE I first went to the Iyengar Study Centre in Brussels six years ago. I was greatly inspired by the richness, precision and intensity of this yoga teaching and especially very touched by...

Vodou Goes East Challenging European Contemporary Dance The first association with the word Vodou is the doll with the pins, maybe blood and zombies. Few know it as a living system of embodied knowledge,...

le corps cette archive The issue of archiving concerns a lot of choreographic works of the contemporary dance scene. The dance archive is vast and complex, consisting of a history of scores, personal...

Les Innombrables Nijinski Ko Murobushi is currently working on his new creation for 2015 and is looking for collaborators. Please join into "Les Innombrables Nijinski". Ko Murobushi will try to create...

Verbatim Dance Theatre The material for this Field Project is based on the company's latest production "John". During an intensive research and development period in 2013, Artistic Director Lloyd Newson...

Closer This Field Project is booked, applications are no longer accepted! Intimacy what does it mean on stage? In the studio? in a workshop? What do we need to let go of? What do we need to embrace?...

Performance Recipe Book LITTLE STORIES ABOUT S.O.S. - THE BODY AS A SYMBOLIC MODEL 00. Speech On Secrecy (appear) | 01. Stagnation Of System (enclose) | 02. Show Our Sacredness (enter) | 03. Scan Our...

A Mo(ve)ment of Community: Furnishing The Group Based on Dobricic’s continuous project Table Talks, the participants are invited to build tables, chairs, furniture, made of found material. The momentum o...

Performance Research Hell "for those who dare to come.....WE NEED ARTISTS"

Research research, a choreographic adventure: parasitism, care, camouflage, empathy and cannibalism In this Field Project each day will be spent researching a mode of relation that is too large to be...

In A Search For WE /An Ad - Venture Manifesto In A Search For WE Move Away from bureaucratic art Never towards conformism Imagine conflict-based collaborations Fuck individualization in the performing...

A catalogue of steps The idea is to work on material from A catalogue of steps, a project which coincides with Diary of an Image a month-long platform focusing on my work and artistic practices, which...

Which ‚WE’? - De-Constructing Ideas of Identities by Dance Both working in a region of the world that is excluded - accidentally and/or purposefully - from the process of generating discourse on contemporary cul...

Rite of Summer In the 100th anniversary year of Igor Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring we proudly look toward the 101st with naïve eyes. Taking into account the ominous history beginning with Nijinsky’s scan...

(un)limitations A dancer is an explorer working within the frame of his/her own limits, constantly trying to push further these physical but also mental boundaries, and who is also in relationship with...

Dario Argento, Rebecca Horn and Dan Flavin walk into a bar… Dear prospective participants, Below is part of a project description. I have decided to do this project as often as I can in the next year. A...

DIY! Fanzine Dance - Movement as Political Tool A Field Project from dancers for dancers - from maker for makers. Influenced by the DIY* philosophy and the Fanzine* magazines coming from the punk movement...

Choreographers are people that fear movement, therefore they organise them... Choreography is a means to tame dance, to domesticate it. Improvisation is a set of techniques used in order to liberate...

Community on Test Run Particularly in the recent decade, some ways of collaboration have been rehearsed which conceived of collectivity as both motor of and grounds for one’s own aesthetic practice. T...

Wasting Practices: Between Space And Politics In her internationally renowned research projects about waste, Berlin-based architect Bettina Vismann managed to map global topographies of urban spaces which...

Sherapy Sherry Vignon - a character created for practising Performative Therapy - will lead this Field Project. She will guide this weeklong seminar on giving Sherapy, which in itself will be a performance...

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...

The Impossible Movement Workshop This Coaching Project is dedicated to experimenting with the method of stop-motion. By applying the method of stop-motion as an analytical tool on the perception of...

Standup PerformDance Standup PerformDance is a creative research practice developed by the Cypriot choreographer Lia Haraki. It aims at applying principals of Stand Up Comedy to contemporary performance...

Fighting Monkey: Delving deeper into the memory of our mythological bodies How to rediscover our forgotten mental and physical potential During the last year at ImPulsTanz we worked with wood and...

Practice (walk+talk) This Coaching Project attempts to map out each participants concepts, experiences and practice of movement through engaging in a walk+talk score. walk+talk was originally conceived...

WORKSHOP Attention, self-reflexion, performance We want to start from the start. This Coaching Project is about itself. It is about workshop. Making a workshop about workshop, learning about learning,...

Implications, Sonic and otherwise Adventures in real time making and breaking with sound movement action experimentation installation. A laboratory in which to invent new rules of engagement, and generate...

On No Time If you have time you can think about future. Thinking, thinking on future, including prognosis, utopia and projection is what makes us human. We should establish such social and political...

Dance Fiction The Cadavre Exquis (Exquisite Corpse) was a favourite surrealist game from the mid-1920s onwards. It usually involved three or four participants who contributed to a drawing, collage or...

Hope Beneath Our Feet or Can We Save the World with a Dance? In this Coaching Project we invite you to research, play, intuit and explore our world entwined and tangled with nature, through improvisation,...

Shedding into the making of a solo This Coaching Project is booked! Applications are no more accepted! Benoît Lachambre uses this opportunity to share the development of kinetic ideas, images and ...

What the hell are we doing here? Why the hell are we still here? Political crisis, social crisis, economical crisis, environmental crisis, we live in a world where the crisis notion has become the...

The Thinking Body Vera Mantero’s process of work is in deep and close relationship with her particular understanding of the world and with her political and philosophical views on it. Thought, the n...

The State Choreographer with Dana YAHALOMI (Leader of Public Movement) The Coaching Project will observe and produce the performance of politics. Beyond party affiliation, we will take responsibility...

Indigo Hangout: At The Disco Time Is Pitch Black and Universal Kids born after 1990, you know, have different aura - it's like indigo. This ProSeries examines relations between dance, choreography...

Fragility Laughing at Strength This Coaching Project is booked! Applications are no more accepted! When I founded the company Ultima Vez 25 years ago, there was not a lot of exchange between performers....

urban transmedia: lab in performance choreographing complexity Have you ever talked to a zeppelin during a performance? Ever danced in an invisible city? Have you ever contemplated future investments...

Powerful & Fragile The game: "It is an action or a free occupation, developed within limits temporarily or spatially determined, according to absolutely obligatory rules although freely accepted, action...

Contamination "…and there are highly toxic substances inside of it. A direct connection exists between the dimension of an author and the dangerousness of the materials with which he deals and which h...

Do yourself a favour! A practical Coaching on creating a Solo The aim is that everyone has a coherent solo performance that expresses at best his/her own artistic individuality at the end of the five...

Fighting Monkey/Playing with the Dragon’s Pearl Monkey is totally fascinated by the realm of the senses; It swings from one desire to the next, one conflict to the next. If you threaten it, it actually f...

Turbulence - a dance about the economy Turbulence, the Coaching Project, is a research laboratory for a new work choreographed by Keith Hennessy. Part workshop, part choreographic experiment, part repertory...

Retrospective as mode of production The aim of our work is to research and develop a retrospective of solo choreographies. It will be presented in an exhibition space open to visitors 3 hours a day...

Mediating Intimacy What is it that makes us stop in our steps to look and see something or hear something that really moves us? We live in a world that is unbelievably complex and all of our senses...

Questioning Choreography We set out in two directions: expanding our concepts about what choreography can mean and simultaneously defining it for ourselves. What is it that is being choreographed? The...

Score We propose looking at scoring for improvisational structures for advanced movers and sound makers. We will exchange scores between movers and sound makers directed towards the possibility of development...

What can performing arts do out of al-Gaddafi and other "real politics" outbreaks? step 1 towards a new creation of SUPERAMAS …or ...through different techniques of composition (framing/re-framing, r...

"a piece together?" "a piece...together?" is an artistic framework that holds the question and the problem of: what, what for, to whom, which and how WE is, from a variety of practices (choreographic,...

Experience #0 When the body and its materiality is becoming the work itself and the work itself becomes experience and process, the question of working principles becomes a place of complex interdependencies...

Geo-trauma Dance When the enemy and opportunity for emancipation is one of the same, when city and desert overlap, when identity and fear has both become corporatised, we must engage in the inhuman,...

The Personal is not Political, the Political is Political Delusions of grandeur, a political resumé! I participated in a hunger strike with Mother Therese. I shared a prison cell with Nelson Mandela. ...

Incorporating Burlesque Performance The term burlesque derived from the Spanish burla (joke) as its root and was used throughout Europe from the 14th century to describe works in which serious and comic...

Powerful & Fragile The game: "It is an action or a free occupation, developed within limits temporarily or spatially determined, according to absolutely obligatory rules although freely accepted, action...

Do yourself a favour! A practical Coaching on creating a solo The aim is that everyone has a coherent solo performance that expresses at best his/her own artistic individuality at the end of the five...

Do yourself a favour! A practical Coaching on creating a solo The aim is that everyone has a coherent solo performance that expresses at best his/her own artistic individuality at the end of the five...

Too Shy To Stare 2010 Auditions in July will decide about the participants for this Choreographers' Venture. Davis Freeman will work with 14 performers for 7-10 days to create a new adaptation of his...

Fighting Monkey Monkey is totally fascinated by the realm of the senses; It swings from one desire to the next, one conflict to the next. If you threaten it, it actually fears for its life. Let...

Bühne der Notwendigkeit Find out about your motivation, trust the support of the group and the ground underneath your feet, formulate your vision and be the gift you’re meant to be. In this Coaching Pr...

Specific Abilities (Labour in Exile: Le Sacre & Powered by Emotion) Starting from two conceptually related pieces this workshop attempt to scrutinise possibilities for conceptual production of movement....

Being Present / Making Present THE TOPIC Consciousness is a skilful activity of exploring and achieving contact with the world around us. This workshop starts with the idea that the study of consciousness...

Socialmovements: the venture Social movements are a type of group action, generally political or social actions capable of producing movement in society. If we take the definition literally: when a...

Dance and Choreography Are FINE There is no time to waste. Pack your stuff and leave nothing behind. Throw away your pet outfit and burn your address book. The waiting has been to long already. We can’t w...

Clubbing - Dance o' the Times Every night hundreds or maybe thousands of people are dancing. What kind of dancing is this? What happens on the dancefloor, between gaze and gazing, body and bodies, sound...

The feeling of home in an always-changing world How to create a sense of home in an environment where people from different backgrounds, cultures and countries come together to coexist creatively? This...

The Game are you ready to admit that you are an artist but you are not free? are you ready to realise that there is nowhere to run? are you ready to cheat your way around and out of… THE GAME!? o...

Powerful & Fragile The game: "It is an action or a free occupation, developed within limits temporarily or spatially determined, according to absolutely obligatory rules although freely accepted, action...

"50 years of dance (flip book)" This project is a choreographic work, which has been tested once in Berlin with students from the HZT BA program and once in Saint Nazaire with professional dancers....

Fighting Monkey Partnering is for us The Way of Emptying and Listening. Move together wild but safe. Partnering as a way to understand our own behavioural habits through interaction with our partners....

Visual Art, Choreography, and The Practise of Performance This workshop will explore, question, and generate new parameters of choreographic practice through an intense examination of performance coming...

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....

Body Reflection or Many States Of Being This Coaching Project proposes constructive alignment accompanied with deep imagery work that awakens both, energy patterns and body space awareness. This creates...

Mediating Intimacy Mediating intimacy is a workshop centred on finding new points of departure for coming up with a movement vocabulary. Its areas of research include creating a vocal language for each...

Dance Journal - The fusing of Yoga, Visual Journaling and Performance Transport yourself from a three dimensional inner space of creative voices to a tangible, theatrical, external, three dimensional...

Entrer en scène Of all the borders, there is one which is particularly unique, the one separating the wing area from the stage. We call it "entering the stage“. The action of entering something requires fi...

Developing a personal practice The goal of the workshop is for each participant to recognise and find a way to do what they want to do. When are you Dancing? When are you Performing? Whose Dance...

Backtracking - A workshop in physical dramaturgy Dramaturgy’s "what and how" are to be invented anew with each creative process, though the accumulation of experience may very well provide a multiple s...

Sexuality_Self Censorship_Extremities We all have a general understanding of sexual norms and their relationship to how we see bodies on and off stage, while we attempt to play with our own understanding...

"Transformers" Transformers (Caution: Studio changes in the second week to Dance Arts Studio) This proposal aims to produce a performance to be performed on stage, after two weeks of rehearsal....

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...

INDIVIDUALITY, IDENTITY AND AUTHENTICITY Penny Arcade has incorporated dance and movement in her work since 1985. For ImPulsTanz' 25th Anniversery, Penny Arcade is creating a special workshop for...

"Creative Writing & Dance" Choreographer Jonathan Burrows and writer and curator Adrian Heathfield lead a five day intensive workshop questioning the relation of movement to language and looking at...

The creation process Five days to deal with the process of creation, immersing us into the time that is necessary to search, to invent and to construct. We research movement in the same way as we...

Repeating Distance Montreal-based choreographer Lin Snelling and Belgian dance dramaturge Guy Cools met when Lin participated in the improvisation project "Blind" by Flemish choreographer Alexander...