With the support of the regional association TanzSzene Bremen, we are resuming our well-established format, the TANZSALON.

As before, it will take place on the 10th of every month at 8:00 pm at TAFI – regardless of which day of the week the 10th falls on.

Many of you have told us how much you missed the TANZSALON as a place of encounter and exchange within Bremen’s dance scene. Since the last time, quite a lot has happened – at TAFI, but surely also with you: new productions, new films, new guests.

We warmly invite you to celebrate the first TANZSALON after the long break with us. The evening’s theme will be TAFI’s latest documentary: “Vulnerably Beautiful. Dance between Elegance and Risk – A Study by Goethe University Frankfurt.”

The film accompanies a medical study on physical strain in professional dance. Prof. Dr. Dr. Eileen Wanke of Goethe University Frankfurt, head of the research project, will introduce the topic.

Drinks will be provided – just bring yourselves, and feel free to bring along new people and friends.

Friday, October 10 at 8:00 pm
Deutsches Tanzfilminstitut Bremen
Am Wall 201 / Forum am Wall
Entrance Ostertorstraße, next to the bakery

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How is artificial intelligence changing the way we work with film, AV media and archives? What opportunities and challenges arise for research, archiving and mediation? The public working session of the Film AV & Media DACH working group, which is taking place as part of BiblioCon in Bremen, is dedicated to these questions.

Under the title ‘AI in Film and Media’, experts from Germany, Austria and Switzerland will come together to discuss the latest developments. The programme includes contributions from the Film Institute Hanover, the FID Media (formerly FID Film, Media and Communication Science / MediaRep) and the AV-Portal of the TIB Hanover – supplemented by insights into local institutions and projects.

A special highlight of the programme is a visit to the German Dance Film Institute Bremen, the world’s largest archive for dance film. The tour will provide an insight into the combination of decades of archive practice with new digital and AI-supported perspectives.

The session is open to the public and invites all interested parties – for information, discussion and networking at the interface of media studies, practice and technology.

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Can a body over 50 still dance? And if so, how? This guest lecture deals with this question.

Susan Barnett, dancer and dance teacher from Bremen, was invited to give this lecture. Barnett comes from Wales, has danced internationally – including with the Ballet Municipal de Santiago and in Hans Kresnik’s ensemble – and has been a freelance dancer for many years. With a Master’s degree in Dance Science and a wide range of projects between stage art, dance education and community dance, she deals intensively with the topics of body, age and expression.

In professional dance in particular, age often seems to be a criterion for exclusion. While mature artists and (fewer) female artists are still on stage in film and theatre, professional dancers often disappear from the limelight at an early age. What are the reasons for this? Is it an outdated ideal of eternal youth, agility and peak physical performance?

But dance can do more. Mobility, joie de vivre, expression – all of this can be maintained and even enhanced into old age.

This guest lecture ‘Age on Stage’ therefore focussed not only on the question of health benefits, but above all on artistic perspectives:

Is getting older on the dance stage really a taboo?
What new forms of expression emerge when the body emphasises qualities other than bounce and speed?
And how can images of age be shifted in art?

‘Age on Stage’ is an invitation to rethink dance: not as a privilege of youth, but as a lifelong form of movement and expression.

As part of the event ‘Dance – Excursions into the inner world of dance’, we welcome Prof. Dr Dr Eileen Wanke from the Institute for Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine at Goethe University Frankfurt as a special guest.

Prof. Wanke is leading a research project to analyse movement patterns in professional stage dance. State-of-the-art kinematic methods are used to scientifically analyse stresses and risks for dancers – work that opens up new perspectives on prevention and health promotion in dance.

Where does art end, where does medicine begin? In her lecture ‘From dance to dance medicine’, Prof. Dr Dr Eileen M. Wanke sheds light on the development of dance from an elementary human form of movement to a profession with special physical requirements – and the emergence of dance medicine as an independent interdisciplinary field.

Using historical examples, Prof Wanke shows how dance has always been used to maintain health. At the same time, she outlines the specific stresses and risks that professional dancers are exposed to as part of their training and profession.

The focus is on the question: How can medical knowledge help to prevent injuries, maintain performance and ensure the long-term health of dancers?

A lecture with film contribution between dance art and science – understandable, practical and with a view to current research results.

17 November 2023, 1 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Working conference of the Association of German Dance Archives

Miscellaneous topics

18 November 2023
Bibliotheca Albertina

10.00 a.m. Words of welcome

Charlotte Bauer, Deputy Director of Leipzig University Library

Holk Freytag, Saxon Academy of the Arts

10.15 am Dance archives in Germany

* Archive Performing Arts of the Academy of Arts Berlin, Stephan Dörschel (Head of the Archive)
* German Dance Archive Cologne, Thomas Thorausch (Deputy Head of the Dance Archive Cologne)
* German Dance Film Institute Bremen, Heide-Marie Härtel (Artistic Director)
* Mediathek für Tanz und Theater, Christine Henniger (Head of MTT at the International Theatre Institute Centre Germany e.V.)
* Dance Archive Leipzig e.V., Prof. Dr Patrick Primavesi (Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Leipzig and board member)
* University Archive of the Palucca University of Dance Dresden, Bianca Gleiniger (Head of the
University Archive)

10.45 am Dance-memory-digitality: a research

Caroline Helm, Clara Dolinschek, Michael Freundt (Dachverband Tanz Deutschland e.V.)

11.00 am Discussion: Dance and Archive – Transformation into the Digital

11.45 a.m. short break

12.00 pm Digital stages for dance: tanz:digital as an example

Michael Freundt (Dachverband Tanz Deutschland e.V.)

12.15 pm Discussion: Complicity of art, technology, science and archive

* Thomas Thorausch, Deputy Director of the Dance Archive Cologne
* Stephan Dörschel, Director of the Archive for Performing Arts at the Academy of Arts Berlin
* Heide-Marie Härtel, Artistic Director of the German Dance Film Institute Bremen
* Christine Henniger, Head of the Media Library for Dance and Theatre at the International Theatre Institute -
Zentrum Deutschland e. V.
* Patrick Henniger, Head of the Media Library for Dance and Theatre at the International Theatre Institute -
Zentrum Deutschland e. V. V.
* Patrick Primavesi, Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Leipzig, Board of Directors of Tanzarchiv Leipzig e.V.
* Bianca Gleiniger, Head of the University Archive of the Palucca University of Dance Dresden
Moderation: Melanie Gruß, Institute for Theatre Studies

14.00 Small reception with drinks and snacks

This new digital mediation format is being developed by the German Dance Film Institute Bremen thanks to the support of “WissensWandel. Digital Programme for Archives and Libraries of the dbv German Library Association”. Heide-Marie Härtel offers a seminar on the history of dance for students of the Orot Israel College in Tel Aviv via live stream from the studio in Bremen. The event will focus in particular on the relationship between dance and politics. Historical dance film material from the institute’s own archive will illustrate the contents of the seminar. Heide-Marie Härtel is developing the lectures in close cooperation with Dr. Talia Perlshtein, head of the dance department of the Orot Israel College.

As simultaneous translators:in Ziv Frenkel, Berlin, and Katja Manor, Goethe-Institut Tel Aviv will accompany the seminar.

All film excerpts will be subtitled in English.

Invited are the lecturers:
* Reinhild Hoffmann, dancer, choreographer, dance prize winner 2022
* Dorotheé Hahne, musician, composer
* Professor Henrietta Horn, Folkwang University of the Arts, dance degree programme
* Professor Stephan Brinkmann, Fokwang University of the Arts, director of dance degree programme

Wissenwandel.Digitalprogramm für Bibliotheken und Archive within Neustart Kultur is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and is launched by dbv Deutscher Bibliotheksverband.

Funded by the dbv German Library Association, Heide-Marie Härtel is developing a new digital mediation format for students at the Folkwang University of the Arts as part of the project “WissensWandel. Digital Programme for Libraries and Archives within Neustart Kultur” project, Heide-Marie Härtel is developing a new digital mediation format for students at Folkwang University of the Arts. The seminar on modern dance history will be broadcast from the studio at the German Dance Film Institute in Bremen – via live stream.
The focus of the seminar is particularly on the relationship between dance and politics. Important chroeographers include Kurt Joos, Hans Kresnik, Susanne Linke and Reinhild Hoffmann. In the live stream, Härtel can have film excerpts played from the rich film material of the in-house archive. The students discuss and reflect on the basis of specifically selected historical film examples with their lecturer, Professor Henrietta Horn in Essen, with Heide-Marie Härtel and invited guests, such as Reinhild Hoffmann, in Bremen.

This seminar is realised in close cooperation with the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen-Werden and Professor Henrietta Horn.

The seminar will be offered in English.
All film excerpts will be subtitled in English.

Wissenwandel.Digitalprogramm für Bibliotheken und Archive within Neustart Kultur is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and is launched by dbv Deutscher Bibliotheksverband.

“The Bremen archives present treasures from their holdings: Letters, photos, films, interviews, long-playing records, posters, radio recordings, telegrams and a wide variety of exhibits on the subject of “communication”. The spectrum ranges from the US station AFN, church radio and campus radio to the artist and musician John Cage, Werder TV and satellites in space travel. As in a kaleidoscope, a multi-faceted picture of the technical, social or linguistic changes in our communication over the past 100 to 200 years emerges.

The exhibition takes a special look at the cultural heritage of the city and state of Bremen. It is complemented by supra-regional and international themes. The preservation and making available of cultural assets are among the essential tasks of the diverse and multi-layered archive landscape in the federal state of Bremen.

In this context, the Bremen Archives Working Group also includes initiatives and collections whose holdings and professional content have hardly been noticed and dealt with by academic institutions. The exhibition is thus also an offer for new ideas and plans.”

A varied programme of events frames the show.

Arbeitskreis Bremer Archive

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“Dance and Film – Symbiosis of Two Genres” is the title of the exhibition contribution by the German Dance Film Institute Bremen. Heide-Marie Härtel’s contribution on the origins and development of dance film and the interpenetration of dance and film is illustrated by photos, film clips and historical costumes as well as film equipment from the extensive holdings of our producing archive.

Preview:
Tanzsalon 29 will be showing ” The Dance Film Institute in Transition”. The event will start on 10 March 2020 at 8pm as part of the exhibition and will highlight the coming step for Europe’s largest producing dance film archive.