Juliette Mapp writes „Dancers have the advantage of being able to detach themselves from meanings conveyed by normal language usage. A dancer can live in a world of passing images, sensations, landscapes, relationships, and constructs without necessarily attaching herself to the specifity that language often creates. The not naming that defines much of the dancer‘s… Continue reading Crack
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Queering the feet
Queering your feet, sexual and geographical re-orientation: where and with whom are we walking? I want to invite you to a small embodied practice. ( I proposed this meditation during the workshop that followed the “Fabulation for Future” Symposium. 13-23 September 2021. Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf.) I am calling it „queering your feet, sexual and geographical… Continue reading Queering the feet
Mirror
Dancing City. Where does movement take place? In the body? In the space around the body? In the spaces between bodies? In the objects that surround us? This experience is inspired by a specific Choreographic Object by William Forsythe, “City of Abstract”, created in 2001. Clicking on this link you will be able to experience what Forsythe describes as “specific… Continue reading Mirror
What is it like to be a dramaturg?
Report during the Fabulation for Future conference. September 2021 Exploring the dramaturgy of things I refer explicitly to the paper by Thomas Nagel “What is it like to be a bat”. The dramaturg is seen as a strange animal. The problem is here how we can be conscious to be dramaturges and to practice dramaturgy… Continue reading What is it like to be a dramaturg?
Iceberg
There’s so much going on right now under the surface. What is being done is so little, what is passively happening, on the contrary, is a lot.
In medias res
Let’s start, in the middle of things. I was planning to publish another kind of post, namely a video introducing my research and this website. I had already shot a video and I needed to write some text and voice it over. Today, instead, I decided to write something about dance dramaturgy, according to a… Continue reading In medias res