Sabina Holzer
TANZSALON 21 - Exploration, Improvisation, Composition

TANZSALON 21 Exploration, Improvisation, Composition TANZSALON 21 sees the human body as a source of exploration of the connection to and from the world. The examination of physicality will be set through exercises and approaches from contemporary dance and Yoga, which facilitate awareness and presence of the body. From out of this tuning and this attention to the body (the we, the singular plural), the body will be perceived in movement. Material, such as text, images, music and improvisation structures will be provided and will enhance a game with everyone‘s imagination. Dance as encounter with imagination and matter. Dance as a game with thought and sensed material. A plane of reflexion will be stimulated in the dance (of entities). Participants are invited to exchange their experience, their stories of daily life, of politics and poetry, as well as their various artistic practices. Movement is the essence of sensations and actions. By exploring the movements (everyone is familiar with) we gain the possibility to delve into various communication systems. TANZSALON 21 is a laboratory, and a room for action and experiment. In improvisation, dance and choreography take over, the form becomes less important, and we follow the traces of the New York Judson Dance Theatre of the 1960ies, which has back then held the opinion of: "Everything is dance! Everyone can dance!", in the transdisciplinary PerformanceConcerts. TANZSALON 21 is a projection of methods and approaches to Dada, Fluxus and Situationism: improvisation, collage, random, instructions for actions, transformation and dreams. At TANZSALON 21 we will reflect on perception systems of media arts, film, music, visual art appearing in dance. TANZSALON 21 links practice and discussion, amateur/enthusiasm and professionalism, and is movement and game in different social contexts.