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Orot Israel College Tela Aviv as guest in the archive of the Dance Film Institute. Seminar in live stream. [WissensWandel. Digitalprogramm des dbv] Aus dem Studio im Archiv des Deutschen Tanzfilminstituts Bremen direkt nach Tel Aviv. |
Dreharbeiten Events Lectures | Deutsches Tanzfilminstitut Bremen | Tel Aviv / Bremen | Israel / D | 2022 |
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.
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Folkwang University of the Arts as guest at the Dance Film Institute. Lectures in live stream. [WissensWandel.Digitalprogramm des dbv] Das Deutsche Tanzfilminstitut öffnet sein Archiv für ein Live-Stream Seminar in Essen-Werden. |
Dreharbeiten Events Lectures | Deutsches Tanzfilminstitut Bremen | Essen-Werden / Bremen | D | 2022 |
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.
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Ceremony of the German Dance Award 2022 |
German Dance Award Dreharbeiten | Dachverband Tanz Deutschland e.V. | Essen im Aalto-Theater | D | 2022 |
The German Dance Prize is the most prestigious prize for dance in Germany and has been awarded annually at a festive dance gala since 1983.
On 15 October, the award ceremony of the German Dance Prize 2022 took place at the Aalto Theatre in Essen. With a diverse programme and international guests, the diversity of dance and the art of the award winners were celebrated.
The multifaceted programme of the German Dance Award 2022 was presented at the Aalto-Theatre in Essen.
This year, the multifaceted programme revolved exclusively around the prize-winners. Two pieces by Marco Goecke were part of the programme. Lilith Hakobyan from the Staatsballett Hannover danced the solo Tué to music by the singer Barbara, which Marco Goecke dedicated to Princess Caroline of Monaco in 2009 as a tribute to her many years of commitment to dance. Rosario Guerra and Louis Steinmetz, also from the Staatsballett Hannover, also presented Marco Goecke’s duet Midnight Raga, whose title is based on classical Indian music.
Christoph Winkler presented his piece Coming Together to the music of the composition of the same name by Federic Rzewski, performed by the international Zafraan Ensemble. Dancers from the Netherlands, Nigeria, New Zealand and Germany deal with the body in turmoil and explore the body’s potential for protest.
Christoph Winkler’s piece Coming Together is set to music by Federic Rzewski.
Reinhild Hoffmann’s performance Solange man unterwegs ist… (As long as you’re on the road…), created especially for the event, takes us on a journey into her artistic past and allows us to experience her work of the past decades in the present.
The film WE LIVE IN A STRANGE WORLD – a dance film inspired by the speeches of Greta Thunberg by Christin and Carola Schmidt, created as part of the Chance Tanz funding programme of the Aktion Tanz association, will be presented as an example of the work of the association.
The team of the German Dance Film Institute Bremen is pleased to document the gala on the occasion of the awarding of the highest prize for dance in Germany on film again this year.
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Kultursalon Essen as part of the German Dance Award 2022 |
German Dance Award Dreharbeiten | Dachverband Tanz Deutschland e.V. | Essen - Pact Zollverein | D | 2022 |
The 2022 Dance Prize winners:in conversation about their work with : Marco Goecke, Christoph Winkler, Reinhild Hoffmann and the Aktion Tanz Company tell us about their research and inspirations.
German Dance Award 2022
CULTURE SALON 14.10.2022 / 19h
PACT Zollverein
Moderation:
Michael Freundt & Brit Rodemund
19:00 Welcome by moderator and Muchtar Al Ghusain (Alderman of the City of Essen for Youth, Education and Culture)
19:05 Talk session with Marco Goecke and Reinhild Hoffmann
Introduction of the laudator Reid Anderson
19:07 Laudation of Marco Goecke as video by Reid Anderson (8-10 min.)
19:15 Talk with the laudators and award winners (20 min.)
Introduction of the laudator Hedwig Müller
19:35 Laudation of Reinhild Hoffmann by Hedwig Müller
19:45 Talk with the laudators and prize winners
20:05 PAUSE
20:30 Talk with Christoph Winkler and Aktion Tanz
Introduction of the laudator Elisabeth Nehring
20:32 Laudation for Christoph Winkler by Elisabeth Nehring
20:40 Talk with the laudators and prize winners
Transition to Aktion Tanz
Introduction of the laudator Madeline Ritter
21:00 Laudation on Aktion Tanz by Madeline Ritter
21:10 Talk with the laudators and award winners
21:30 Farewell
From 21:30 Reception and conclusion with music in the foyer
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Looking at Shirley/ Christoph Winkler. tanz:digital II [Making Of] |
Christoph Winkler + Deutsches Tanzfilminstitut | Essen | D | 2022 |
“Looking for Shirley” is a project by Christopher Winkler as part of tanz-digital II. Our team produces the Making Of and interviews the winner of the 2022 Dance Prize in Essen. As a tireless artist and researcher, the German choreographer is interested in exploring the points of contact between dance and politics.
Within the framework of tanz:digital II, the German Dance Film Institute Bremen is building a bridge between the motivation of the realising artists and the circle of users focused on with it. In concrete terms, this means that “making ofs” will be created for about 10 individual projects, which will prepare potential users, whether they are tech-savvy or not, for what to expect if they want to entrust themselves to one of the many new offerings.
Video – https://vimeo.com/788976239
Tanz:digital II is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media in the programme NEUSTART KULTUR, Hilfsprogramm DIS-TANZEN of the Dachverband Tanz Deutschland.
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Doubt22/ Maureen Reeor. tanz:digital II [Making Of] |
Deutsches Tanzfilminstitut Bremen | Eupen und Bremen | Belgien; D | 2022 |
In the project Doubt22, choreographer Maureen Reeor mixes contemporary dance and videogame imagery, creating a performance in which the spectators decide, via an application on their mobile phones that confronts them with choices, how the performance will develop. An entertaining work that asks some questions about how the relationship with new technologies has changed our approach to performance, and about the possibilities that virtual reality can offer.
In the context of tanz:digital II, the German Dance Film Institute Bremen is building a bridge between the motivation of the realising artists and the focused circle of users. In concrete terms, this means that “making ofs” will be created for around 10 individual projects, which will prepare potential users, whether they are tech-savvy or not, for what to expect if they want to entrust themselves to one of the many new offerings.
Tanz:digital II is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media in the NEUSTART KULTUR programme, DIS-TANZEN support programme of the Dachverband Tanz Deutschland.
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(Deutsch) Dead code must be alive/ Brigitte Huezo. tanz:digital II [Making Of] |
Wuppertal | D | 2022 |
Virtual reality can help us rethink the way we approach our bodies, allowing us to overcome societal prejudices and stereotypes. In the project Dead Code Must Be Alive, performer and choreographer Brigitte Huezo, with the help of valuable collaborators, imagines a virtual space where, interweaving dance, graphic art and cyberfeminism, the body can express itself freely, without imposed models or gender labels.
In the context of tanz:digital II, the German Dance Film Institute Bremen is building a bridge between the motivation of the realising artists and the focused circle of users. In concrete terms, this means that “making-ofs” will be created for 10 individual projects, which will prepare potential users, whether they are tech-savvy or not, for what to expect if they want to entrust themselves to one of the many new offerings.
Tanz:digital II is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media in the NEUSTART KULTUR programme, aid programme DIS-TANZEN of the Dachverband Tanz Deutschland.
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INNER SUSPENSION (2). With Susanne Linke in Essen-Werden Tanzhaus Züllig |
Dreharbeiten | Susanne Linke / Deutsches Tanzfilminstitut Bremen | Essen-Werden /Folkwang Universität | D | 2022 |
Masters are truly great for what they pass on to their students: they leave traces that settle over time, becoming footsteps that others can walk in the future. The team of the German Dance Film Institute Bremen documented the Inner Suspension training programme developed by dancer and choreographer Susanne Linke at the Tanzhaus Züllig of the Folkwang Universität Tanz. The aim is to record and pass on this foundation of her way of working. An intensive experience with the great choreographer and her closest collaborators. Accompanied by Professor Henrietta Horn.
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Point de vue/ cie. toula limnaios. tanz.digital I [Making Of] |
Dreharbeiten | Berlin | D | 2022 |
In the Point de vue project, part of the tanz:digital series, cie. toula limnaios uses live stream technologies to expand perception and transcend the everyday boundaries of reality. Cameras, integrated by 360° recordings, dance with the performers on stage to create an immersive viewing experience for the audience. Digital media are no longer a mere technical support, but real creative tools, and the choreography on stage is translated into an autonomous audiovisual art format.
Tanz:digital II wird gefördert durch die Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien im Programm NEUSTART KULTUR, Hilfsprogramm DIS-TANZEN des Dachverband Tanz Deutschland
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Der schwarze Spiegel/ Katharina Groß. tanz:digital II [Making Of] |
Dresden | D | 2022 |
Can virtual reality be an opportunity in children’s education? In Der schwarze Spiegel, one of the TANZ:DIGITAL II projects, the TAFI Team followed a class of students from the 116. Oberschule in Dresden during a special art workshop: interacting with a VR installation, between play and reflection, the kids are able to create a dance piece together with dancers from the Landesbühnen Sachsen – who are not physically present, but only through their digital avatars. Conceived by the TMA Hellerau under the supervision of media teacher Katharina Groß, the young students learn to deal with new technologies in a non-passive, creative and free way.
https://www.landesbuehnen-sachsen.de/spielzeit/tanz-digital/
In the context of tanz:digital II, the German Dance Film Institute Bremen is building a bridge between the artists and the public. In concrete terms, this means that “making-ofs” will be created for around 10 individual projects, preparing potential users, whether they are tech-savvy or not, for what to expect if they want to entrust themselves to one of the many new installations.
Tanz:digital II is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media in the NEUSTART KULTUR programme, aid programme DIS-TANZEN of the Dachverband Tanz Deutschland.
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Virtual Sureallity/ bodytalk. tanz:digital II [Making Of] |
Dreharbeiten | Deutsches Tanzfilminstitut Bremen | Düsseldorf | D | 2022 |
Virtual reality technologies are often used to create alternative dimensions; but what if instead we used them to give substance to something fragile that we already possess, such as our memories? In the Virtual Surreality project, the members of the “bodytalk” collective (Yoshiko Waki, Rolf Baumgart, Marcus Bomski) asked various dance experts what they considered to be the most significant moments in the history of dance; they then traced these moments in the archives of the Deutsches Tanzfilminstitut, and reenacted them interactively with a team of four dancers. The results of the reconstruction are compared with the personal memories of the people interviewed, who watch the performances with VR glasses: past and present are intertwined in this ‘surreal reality’, and what has been is not really lost, but can return to dance.
In the context of tanz:digital II, the German Dance Film Institute Bremen is building a bridge between the artists and the public. In concrete terms, this means that “making-ofs” will be created for around 10 individual projects, preparing potential users, whether they are tech-savvy or not, for what to expect if they want to entrust themselves to one of the many new installations.
Tanz:digital II is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media in the NEUSTART KULTUR programme, aid programme DIS-TANZEN of the Dachverband Tanz Deutschland.
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Beyond Lightscapes/ Marcus Doering, Lars Scheibner und André Bernhard. tanz:digital II [Making Of] |
Dreharbeiten | Neustrelitz | D | 2022 |
The Beyond Lightscapes project takes virtual reality research to a previously unexplored level in the world of dance. The PMD-ART Productions collective, composed of Marcus Doering, Lars Scheibner and André Bernhardt, has in fact devised a technology that makes it possible to map and actively follow the dancers in real time: the video therefore does not take place in a separate dimension, but is attached to the dancers, it follows them and adapts to them, like a real costume made of light. The dancers’ movements give life to magnificent scenographies and suggestive visual effects, leaving us to imagine all the possibilities that an artistic communication between man and machine can open up.
In the context of tanz:digital II, the German Dance Film Institute Bremen is building a bridge between the artists and the public. In concrete terms, this means that “making-ofs” will be created for around 10 individual projects, preparing potential users, whether they are tech-savvy or not, for what to expect if they want to entrust themselves to one of the many new installations.
Tanz:digital II is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media in the NEUSTART KULTUR programme, aid programme DIS-TANZEN of the Dachverband Tanz Deutschland.
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Fünf Minuten Heimat Geboren werden ist das erste Exil. Denn das Leben auf der Erde ist eine ewige Diaspora. / To be born is the first exile. For life on earth is an eternal diaspora |
Dreharbeiten | ProdÁrt | Hafenmuseum Bremen | D | 2022 |
We are made up of the places we have passed through, the encounters that have enriched us, the people we have met and changed, even imperceptibly, the trajectory of our lives. This seems to be the heart of the piece “5 Minuten Heimat”, directed by Fabián Aimar and choreographed by Günther Grollitsch: to make us understand that migration regards not only individuals who move from one country to another, but indeed it represents the basic condition of human beings. We move, we grow, we respond to desires and needs, and these desires and needs sometimes take us far from home. The team of the Deutsces Tanzfilminstitut filmed the premiere of the performance in the spaces of the Hafenmuseum in Bremen: the dancers are migrants with and without disabilities who, for the duration of the show, seem to reconstruct on stage the homeland they have lost, or have not yet found.
ProdArt e.V. was founded in 2021 due to the mutual interest of the artists in their creative approaches. ProdArt artists understand diversity as a guiding principle for social and individual action. Diversity does not demand the adaptation of the individual, but promotes the opening of society – and thus a basic attitude that recognises each person as valuable on the basis of their individual characteristics and abilities.
With its work, the association wants to work towards the creation of favourable conditions for living, learning and working together, focusing on the equal participation of people with mental, physical, psychological and sensory impairments and/or chronic illnesses as well as different cultural origins and sexual orientations in social-cultural and artistic life.
Direction and concept: Fabian Aimar | Performance: Diene Abdoulaye, Doris Geist, Sakura Inoue, Ulrike Knospe, Estefan Vega Leon, Beno Novak, Caline Weber, Sergey Zhukov | Choreographic accompaniment: Günther Grollitsch | Production: ProdArt e.V. | Supported by Landesverband TanzSzene Bremen.
Supported by: Senator für Kultur Bremen, Supported by the NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK – STEPPING OUT, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of the NEUSTART KULTUR. Aid Programme Dance.
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If the body could speak/ Robert Wechsler. tanz:digital II [Making Of] |
Dreharbeiten | Palindrome Dance Company | Weimar | D | 2022 |
“If the body could speak”, what would it say? This is the question Robert Wechsler, choreographer and director of Palindrome Dance Company, asked himself when he designed an installation that generates sounds as soon as a body moves over a special carpet. An inclusive work that allows people with disabilities to dance and produce sounds, but also a poetic exercise, in which with just a few movements we can become a waterfall, a guitar or a bird rising into the sky, overcoming with imagination the limits imposed by the body. The magic carpet exists, and not only in fairy tales.
The German Dance Film Institute Bremen builds in the context of tanz:digital II a bridge between the motivation of the realizing artist:inside and the thus focused circle of users. In concrete terms, this means that “making ofs” will be created for around 10 individual projects, preparing potential users, whether tech-savvy or not, for what to expect if they decide to entrust themselves to one of the many new offerings.
Tanz:digital II is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media in the NEUSTART KULTUR program, aid program DIS-TANZEN of the Dachverband Tanz Deutschland.
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POSITIONS:DANCE #5 ACCESS. Films by Burkhart Siedhoff |
Documentations of Dance Pedagogic Work Dreharbeiten | Dachverband Tanz Deutschland | Bremen, Berlin, Köln u.a. | D | 2022 |
“Inclusivity’ is now a central concept in the world of contemporary dance: but what exactly does it mean?
From a collaboration between the TAFI team and Burkhart Siedhoff of Dachverband Tanz, these interviews with some dancers with disabilities tell us how the world of dance can open up to different bodies, and poetics.
The symposium Positions:Dance #5ACCESS
What development must there be in German (contemporary) dance so that everyone has access? What impulses are needed so that we do not equate professional dance exclusively with protonormalistic body images and movements? Can cultural policy give impulses so that dance does not just open a door here and there for people with disabilities, but that the whole world of dance is open to them – with all the support and freedom for artistic development?
Together with artists, organisers and politicians with and without disabilities, we would like to discuss structures and funding so that people with disabilities have sustainable access to dance. We had originally planned this year’s symposium within the framework of the German Dance Prize from 13 to 15 October. In discussion with artists and cultural actors with and without disabilities, we developed the idea of leaving the usual format of a three-day tightly scheduled symposium and choosing a decelerated and more sustainable format with regard to the negotiation of the topic.
The 5 modules of the symposium will take place online and will each be dedicated to a focus of the theme ‘Access’, from dance education to questions of professionalisation and transnational perspectives.
https://www.deutschertanzpreis.de/symposium/symposium-2022
POSITIONS:DANCE #5 ACCESS is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media in the programme NEUSTART KULTUR, aid programme DIS-TANZEN of the Dachverband Tanz Deutschland.
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Inner Suspension (1). With Susanne Linke in Berlin |
Documentations of Dance Pedagogic Work Dreharbeiten | Susanne Linke / Deutsches Tanzfilminstitut Bremen | Berlin | D | 2022 |
Masters are truly great for what they pass on to their students: they leave traces that settle over time, becoming footsteps that others can walk in the future. The Deutsches Tanzfilminstitut team went to Berlin to document the “Inner Suspension” training programme, developed by dancer and choreographer Susanne Linke. The aim is to record and pass on this basis of her working method. An immersive experience with the great choreographer and her closest collaborators.
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poor? … pour les livres! Books are an endangered species. Exhibition on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of KOÏNZI-DANCE e.V. Es gibt kein Kunstwerk, das nicht seine Fortsetzung oder seinen Ursprung in anderen Künsten hat. (Gilles Deleuze 1986) / There is no work of art that does not have its continuation or origin in other arts. (Gilles Deleuze 1986) |
KOÏNZI-DANCE e.V. | Poolhaus Blankenese, Grotiusweg 55, Hamburg | D | 2022 |
A special place for a special event: in Poolhaus Blankenese in Hamburg, the 25th anniversary of KOÏNZI-DANCE e.V. is celebrated with a show. Founder and dedicated chairwoman Dr. Nele Lipp curates an interdisciplinary show to which 19 artists are invited to show their works on the theme “Books as an endangered species”. A festive program frames the exhibition: a discussion with three accomplished speakers, the premiere of the film “Bibliothèque sac à dos” by Dr. Nele Lipp and performances by actors: inside the film deal with printed works of various genres. Another highlight will be the auction, during the finissage, of the artistic backpack libraries created for the film by artist Burkhard Scheller.
Program
June 18, 2022
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19:00: Opening with film premiere “Bibliothèque sac à dos” by Dr. Nele Lipp and live performances
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June 26, 2022
17:30 Film: “Bibliothèque sac à dos” by Dr. Nele Lipp.
19:00 Discussion: are books an endangered species? with Michael Diers, Rainer Moritz and Wilfried Weinke
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July 01, 2022
17:30: Film: “Bibliothèque sac à dos” by Dr. Nele Lipp
19:00: Finissage with performances and auction of backpack libraries
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Registration and other dates in consultation: info@ koinzi.de
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To all events: Admission free
At the exhibition celebrating the 25th anniversary of KOÏNZI-DANCE e.V. both members and artists invited to participate will show works on the given theme. On view are the following works:
Angela Breidbach – Ferdyfilm (StopMotion version), 2020/2021
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Noam Ben-Jacov – Altar for a Book-Time, 2022
Tom Bunk – Ferdyfilm (comic version), 2020
Christel Burmeier – Röntgen, 2020
Doris Cordes-Vollert – Endless Text, 1997
Free in empty space floats a hole, 1998
and others.
Achim Lipp – From the life of books. Habitat cabinet, 1973/2021
Nele Lipp – Bibliothèque sac à dos (film, 61′), 2021/2022
Pierres Mémoriales, 2021
Ferdyfilm. A complete fragment (photo version), 2020
Ferdyfilm. A complete fragment (film version), 2021
Volker Lippens – Simulacra of education, 2021
Hannes Möller – Burn books, ash books, fragments, 2017
Wittwulf Y Malik – Ferdyfilm (image and music video version The Duel), 2020
Pino Polimeno – Libri Posati, 2020
Burkhard Scheller – library backpacks, 2021
Hajo Schiff – SHIP MESSAGES – books and metatext, 2022
Ursula Wagner / Burkhard Scheller – Ex Libris and book dances, 2008
Simon E. Waßermann – V e r s c h w I e g e n v e r s , 2022
VA Wölfl – The Chrome and You (scene photo), 2006 and Woodstock, 2020
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The team of the German Dance Film Institute Bremen congratulates Dr. Nele Lipp, founder and longtime chairwoman of the interdisciplinary association KOÏNZI-DANCE e.V. and is pleased to document the vernissage on film.
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tanz:digital II. Virtual and Interactive Forum for Dance [Making Of II]. Mit tanz:digital II sollen Tanzkünstler*innen, Tanzensembles und Institutionen des Tanzes in der medialen Präsentation künstlerischer Produktionen gestärkt werden. Das Deutsche Tanzfilminstitut dokumentiert ausgewählte Projekte. |
Dreharbeiten Events | Dachverband Tanz Deutschland/ NEUSTART KULTUR | Bundesweit | D | 2022 |
“With tanz:digital, the umbrella organization Tanz Deutschland, in cooperation with dance archives, production houses and the model projects funded within the project, is pursuing the goal of making dance a virtual and immersive experience and presenting it online as part of the NEUSTART KULTUR program.
With tanz:digital, dance artists*, dance ensembles and institutions of dance (venues, archives, dance schools, mediation projects, etc.) are to be strengthened in the medial presentation of artistic productions.” Dachverband Tanz Deutschland
The German Dance Film Institute Bremen has made it its task in this framework to build a bridge between the motivation of the realizing artists:inside and the thus focused circle of users. In concrete terms, this means that “making ofs” will be created for about 10 individual projects, which will prepare potential users, whether they are tech-savvy or not, for what to expect if they want to entrust themselves to one of the many new offerings.
The Making Ofs will follow the highly unique production process of each of the selected projects on one day of filming, making the choice of technical, aesthetic, and possibly educational means accessible to a wide audience in a film of about 10 minutes about each project. Interviews with the artistic directors and other project participants will complement the film report.
The German Dance Film Institute Bremen will accompany selected projects as part of “tanz:digital II”
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tanz digital is a project in the umbrella organization Tanz Deutschland funded by the NEUSTART KULTUR program of the Federal Commissioner for Culture and the Media.
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Niv Sheinfeld & Oren Laor ART ATTACK – Festival TANZ Bremen Ein wildes, wundervolles Manifest des Feierns. / A wild, wonderful manifesto of celebration. |
Dreharbeiten Festival Dance Bremen | TANZ Bremen | Theater Bremen | D | 2022 |
Art wants, art should, art may, it must! It spreads and becomes loud when a dance performance is called ART ATTACK. With this group piece, the experienced duo Niv Sheinfeld and Oren Laor from Israel illuminate a relationship: that of the society, perhaps represented by the audience, with the art and with the artists. The performers pose and run, tumble, dance and entertain so that the sparks fly. Dynamism! Variety! Eyes open! Music drives into the limbs and memory.
“We want to praise the aggressive movement, the fiebrige sleeplessness, the running step, the somersault, the slap in the face and the punch in the fist”, wrote Filippo Tommaso Marinetti in Manifesto of Futurism in 1909. Manifestos play a crucial role in ART ATTACK, written by artists of different professions. None of them has the last word, and what is serious and what is not keeps the attack in the balance. “We must stop despising desire,” demanded Valentine de Saint-Point in the 1913 Lust-Futurism counter-manifesto.”
NIV SHEINFELD was a dancer and choreographer for Kibbutz and Batsheva Dance Company, among others. OREN LAOR studied acting and drama at Tel Aviv University. They have been working together and touring worldwide since 2004. The quartet ART ATTACK premiered in Tel Aviv in April 2021.
The team of the German Dance Film Institute Bremen documents this dance performance.
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Vanessa Goodman & Caroline Shaw GRAVEYARDS AND GARDENS – Festival TANZ Bremen Eine hypnotisierende Welt aus Tanz und Klang. STIR, Vancouver |
Festival Dance Bremen | TANZ Bremen | Theater Bremen | D | 2022 |
“Cemeteries are gardens. Something grows. Someone dies. “Everything returns to the earth,” we are told at one point in this multi-voiced performance GRAVEYARDS AND GARDENS. Canadian dancer and choreografin Vanessa Goodman created it with New York-based musician and composer Caroline Shaw. The premiere was in January 2021 (online due to pandemic). Vanessa Goodman takes the solo role in the space, which is defined by a round of antique lamps, like heirlooms, side by side with green plants in earthen pots and technical equipment, old and new. Cables. Connectedness. The sounds have a life of their own. Are they placeless? Sea, song, organ, piano, violin, clacking and snapping, speech. They point to their sources, where they were recorded, and they click something in the brain of the listener. Bach, Chopin. Return. Some sounds are also made on stage, feeding the floating web of traces in the air. In addition, the dance that hears the grass grow and becomes more violent, as if nudged by gusts, like echoes or like mechanically switched, click, click. This is how remembering works.” DanceBremen
Pulitzer Prize winner CAROLINE SHAW works for films, for music ensembles, dance companies, opera houses and releases her own CDs.
The team of the German Dance Film Institute Bremen documents the European premiere.
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Andrea Peña & Vanessa Goodman DOPPELPROGRAMM: UNTITLED I & CONTAINER – Festival TANZ Bremen UNTITLED I Eine feine, genaue Studie über Einzigartigkeit. the dance current // CONTAINER … erforscht Erbe, Kultur und Widerstandsfähigkeit. Vanessa Goodman |
Festival Dance Bremen | TANZ Bremen | Theater Bremen | D | 2022 |
UNTITLED I
“A picture of a man. But the picture alone doesn’t do it, so he has to be active. And being active means wanting to get better. Faster. In whatever. So repeat! What the dancer François Richard performs in the solo UNTITLED I and Andrea Peña worked out with him is a tirelessness in what is actually senseless activity. This figure on stage constructs movement phrases out of swings, jumps, rolls, bends, and it runs; or is it itself built, guided, laid down and raised up? As if this muscular, fleshy being had no personality, was only a surface, the title calls it “Untitled”. The “I” behind it, says the choreographer, is an “I” for “I”. For it is, after all, a human being. “We speak of being human in our own way with this work”. TanzBremen
As a trained industrial designer, the Canadian choreografin Andrea Peña is interested in cross-genre work, in the relentlessly recurring movement sequences of everyday life shaped by objects, and in vulnerabilities. Colombian-born, she was first a dancer in major Canadian companies, founded her own label ANDREA PEÑA & ARTISTS in 2014, and has since won several awards.
CONTAINER
“She is never alone, but is the only person on stage. Canadian choreographer and dancer Vanessa Goodman’s solo CONTAINER unfolds the relationship of a person, a woman, to her inside and to an outside. It seems to be a struggle with expectations. It dances Andrea Peña, who stands there in her boots like a defensible Super Woman; she strides forwards, backwards, forwards, she is buffeted, bent, struggles through a matter that presses against her body, invisible. Frees herself – almost. Paths of light open up to her, crossroads too. But like a forbidding pointer, such a bar of light threatens her. It swings. Sharp scythe blade. A Yiddish good-humour song frames the solo: “Chiribim Chiribom”. Its cheerfulness gives the dancer the rest. The end. Beginning.” DanceBremen
VANESSA GOODMAN, artistic director of Vancouver-based company ACTION AT A DISTANCE DANCE SOCIETY, worked as a dancer after graduating. The 2013 Iris Garland Emerging Choreographer Award enabled her to produce her first full-length piece as a choreografin. The works are meant to reflect the human condition and use dance to break down contemporary experiences, she writes about her company.
The team of the German Tnazfilmminstitute Bremen documents the double performance.
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Andrea Peña & Artists 6.58: MANIFESTO – Festival TANZ Bremen Wir glauben ans Destabilisieren. Andrea Peña & Artists |
German Dance Award | TANZ Bremen | Theater Bremen | D | 2022 |
“When everyone is sitting around, tugging at clothes or jumping around, as if to get the circulation going, and then one is just standing, then one more is standing, all upright. Later, all of them. In expectation. In readiness. This is the beginning of the show. The dancers now receive and do as told. In the three-part 6.58: MANIFESTO by Canadian choreografin Andrea Peña, it is different announcements or voices and moods to which they submit. And anyone who has ever taken a dance class knows the “Five, six, seven, eight!” command. Whether numbers, tones, beats or waltz tradition, they take the decision from the seven people here on stage. In the process, repetitions, sequences, pairings emerge. No stories. Only the bodies are exhausted. But already they are stretching their arms again, strutting, bending, kneeling.” DanceBremen
ANDREA PEÑA, a native of Colombia, worked in Canada as a dancer with Ballet BC and Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal, among others, studied industrial design and founded her own company ANDREA PEÑA & ARTISTS in Montréal in 2014. As someone who lives in two cultures, she’s interested in the in-between spaces, she says. In them, she wants to dig, “and show on stage the relationship between the known and the unknown.”
The German Dance Film Institute team is documenting the European premiere.
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Tomas Bünger & Sergey Zhukov / TanzKollektivBremen – SEE ME! Festival TANZ Bremen Other dancers may be on the floor / Dear, but my eyes will see only you. Dean Martin |
Festival Video-Libraries Festival Dance Bremen | TANZ Bremen | Schwankhalle Bremen | D | 2022 |
Two dancers of two generations. But SEE ME! does not care about age distinction. The duet by Tomas Bünger and Sergey Zhukov does not seek a divide or even competition, but an interested approach. “Look at me!”, the title says, as if someone were asking for attention. The dancers show facets of themselves, their preferences. This strikes a chord in the other person, something like agreement – yes, me too, but a little differently; and a coexistence emerges. A feeling of not being alone. A living room with an armchair, sofa and lamps areenough for their little shows. As if they were spending a quiet evening and had an infinite amount of time. Music is played, music of longing. No television. So the images remain their own. With the clothes they wear, the trousers and pumps, with tumbling around, drifting, floating, with falls, too, and with flights.
TOMAS BÜNGER, co-founder of TanzKollektivBremen, was a long-time member of Tanztheater Bremen. SERGEY ZHUKOV from Kazakhstan studied in Essen at the Folkwang Hochschule and danced as a guest with the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, among others. In 2021, the two began to research the topic of queer identity in dance-choreografisch. SEE ME! premiered in early 2022.
The team of the German Dance Film Institute Bremen documented the performance.