MA CoDE: Sum­mer se­mes­ter 2025

April 22^nd - 25^th An­no­ta­ti­ons of Dance Tech­ni­ques

A key to­pic in the sum­mer se­mes­ter is un­der­stan­ding tech­ni­que in con­tem­pora­ry dance and the re­sul­ting im­pli­ca­ti­ons for tea­ching pro­ces­ses. Stu­dents de­sign and teach dance tech­ni­que les­sons ba­sed on va­rious sub­ject-spe­ci­fic re­se­arch pro­jec­ts and sources. In a se­cond step, the­se are an­no­ta­ted and ana­ly­zed. The tea­ching sam­ples are clo­se­ly su­per­vi­sed in ad­van­ce by Ingo Diehl and Su­san­ne Trie­bel. The an­no­ta­ti­on pro­cess is sup­por­ted by Da­vid Rit­ters­haus, pro­ject ma­na­ger of Mo­ti­on Bank at Hoch­schu­le Mainz.

 

April 29^th - June 21^st Theo­ry and Tech­ni­que

To com­ple­ment the prac­ti­cal les­sons, Kat­ja Schnei­der con­tex­tua­li­zes the se­mes­ter to­pic from a theo­re­ti­cal per­spec­tive.

 

April 28^th - July 7^th Re-Vi­sio­ning Con­cepts / Re-Po­si­tio­ning the Di­sci­pli­ne

In this se­mi­nar, Prof. Dr. Kat­ja Schnei­der ex­ami­nes key con­cepts in art and dance stu­dies and, tog­e­ther with MA CoDE and MA CuP stu­dents (Uni­ver­si­ty of Gies­sen), as­ses­ses their re­le­van­ce to­day.

 

May 4^th - 6^th Cul­tu­ral Edu­ca­ti­on + Ex­cur­si­on to Ham­burg

Dance in cul­tu­ral edu­ca­ti­on is dis­cus­sed in a theo­re­ti­cal se­mi­nar and using best prac­tice examp­les in a school con­text, at the Elb­phil­har­mo­nie Ham­burg, and at an in­de­pen­dent dance com­pa­ny. Du­ring the ex­cur­si­on to Ham­burg, MA CoDE vi­sits the com­mu­ni­ty pro­ject “Fu­ture X – When is to­mor­row?” with cho­reo­gra­pher Pa­tri­cia Ca­ro­lin Mai and then dis­cus­ses the pa­ra­me­ters for cul­tu­ral edu­ca­ti­on pro­jec­ts with her team. With cho­reo­gra­pher Jen­ny Bey­er, the stu­dents con­duct an open stu­dio on site, a for­mat for au­di­ence par­ti­ci­pa­ti­on du­ring the ar­tis­tic pro­duc­tion pha­se, and then mo­de­ra­te a feed­back for­mat.

 

May 8^th - June 5^th Com­mu­ni­ca­ti­on
Dana Casper­sen, a spe­cia­list in con­flict ma­nage­ment and long-time dan­cer with Wil­liam For­sy­the, in­cor­po­ra­tes her ar­tis­tic ex­pe­ri­ence into new for­mats for con­flict re­so­lu­ti­on. Con­ti­nuing on from the win­ter se­mes­ter, she works with stu­dents in fur­ther on­line mee­tings on con­flict ma­nage­ment stra­te­gies and shar­pens their com­mu­ni­ca­ti­on skills.

 

June 16^th - 27^th Pro­fes­sio­nal Trai­ning

MA CoDE stu­dents teach the pro­fes­sio­nal trai­ning pro­gram at Tanz­platt­form Rhein-Main, with dif­fe­rent ap­proa­ches each day. Du­ring the two “Wild Weeks,” the joint fo­cus is on the spi­ne, weight, and gra­vi­ty—view­ed from the per­spec­tive of va­rious mo­dern and con­tem­pora­ry dance tech­ni­ques. Con­cepts and tea­ching me­thods from Jooss-Lee­der, Cun­ning­ham, re­lease tech­ni­ques, Jen­ni­fer Mul­ler, Emio Gre­co, and Gill Clar­ke are taught and ex­plo­red in in­di­vi­du­al and team tea­ching ses­si­ons. The two weeks al­low for an in­ten­si­ve phy­si­cal ex­pe­ri­ence and pro­vi­de space to re­flect on dance and mo­ve­ment tog­e­ther with the par­ti­ci­pants.

 

July 4^th Speed Da­ting 

At MA CoDE Speed Da­ting, stu­dents meet and ex­chan­ge ide­as with a va­rie­ty of in­vi­ted ex­perts from dif­fe­rent fields, such as the net­work of dance event or­ga­ni­zers, coope­ra­ting de­gree pro­grams and in­sti­tu­ti­ons, and the MA CoDE alum­ni net­work. Af­ter­wards, stu­dents select their men­tors from among the in­vi­ted ex­perts, who will ac­com­pa­ny them in­di­vi­dual­ly in the third se­mes­ter and sup­port them in de­ve­lo­ping their pro­files.

 

July 9^th - 16^th Tea­chings BA­tanz

In six tea­ching units, which are taught in tan­dem, stu­dents take up the to­pics of the pro­fes­sio­nal trai­ning and mo­di­fy them for pro­fes­sio­nal edu­ca­ti­on. The les­sons take place as part of the BA­tanz cur­ri­cu­lum for the first year, are ana­ly­zed using vi­deo an­no­ta­ti­ons, and are part of the ex­ami­na­ti­on re­qui­re­ments in the first year of the MA CoDE pro­gram.