MA CoDE: Winter semester 24/25
October 23rd - 25th, 4th semester G10
At the beginning of the semester, the 10th generation of the MA CoDE complete their final examination teaching rehearsals, which relate to the translation of historical materials into contemporary teaching contexts. The lessons take place as part of the BAtanz curriculum.
October 14th, 1st semester G11
The new generation of MA CoDE students begin their studies at the HfMDK in Frankfurt. The study focuses on the body and body concepts as well as academic work.
October 16th, HTA lecture series "Nachhaltig Produzieren?!"
In the winter semester 24/25, the HTA lecture series, which takes place online on Thursday evenings, is dedicated to the complex question of the possibilities of sustainable production in theaters and similar production contexts. Artists and experts are invited to reflect on their positions and practices in the sense of pointing out and collecting best practice examples and to pursue a perhaps utopian question that is very relevant to us: What if the cultural sector were a role model for transformation through sustainable business ecology?
October 23rd, Knowledge transfer in dance
For the eleventh generation of the MA CoDE, Katja Schneider offers, among other things, a seminar on history, historiography and formats of knowledge transfer in dance history as well as a corresponding reading course. In this context, the students will visit the Tanzwelten exhibition at the Bundeskunsthalle Bonn on December 19th 2024 and meet one of the curators, Dr. Claudia Jeschke.
November 11th - 15th, Project week Social Dance Practices
The interdisciplinary project week with BAtanz 1st - 3rd year, Schauspiel 1st year and MA CoDE Generation 11 is taking place once again. In this edition, the focus is on social dance practices and how concepts of togetherness, proximity and distance as well as empowerment and agency manifest themselves through these forms. Invited are the lecturers Panama (Voguing), Joris Focqaert (Lindy Hop) and Angelika Thiele & Giorgos Protopappas (Contemporary Tango Argentino). The workshops will be complemented by lunch talks and a closing ball. The last editions of the project week have shown that this collaboration between different courses of study in the winter semester enables a sustainable connection between students and makes a decisive contribution to promoting interdisciplinary interactions at the university and also leads to artistic collaborations throughout the course of study.
November 19th - December 16th, Documentation Processes
How are physical experiences translated and documented in other materials? Florence Corin and Baptiste Andrien from Contredanse have been working on this for years and are constantly finding new translations with artists such as Steve Paxton, Anna Halprin and Lisa Nelson. Questions of dance documentation as well as current research and documentation results will be presented and discussed.
November 28th - February 6th, Conflict Management
Dana Caspersen, a specialist in conflict management and long-time dancer with William Forsythe, integrates her artistic experience into new formats of conflict resolution. In six online meetings, she will give students an insight into her “Changing the Conversation” strategy and participatory projects that she has realized in recent years.
January 27th - 28th, Empowering Dance
What is the connection between contemporary dance and the development of soft skills? The European research project Empowering Dance investigated this question. Dancer and choreographer Patricia Carolin Mai presents the results. The workshop reveals implicit forms of knowledge and enables a reflective approach to and practical application of soft skills in one's own dance practice.
February 4th - 5th, Body and Body Concepts
In her workshop “RECLAIMING THE BODY AS SELF DEFINED TERRITORY - Eroticism, Exorcism and Pleasure”, Claire Sobottke, choreographer, dancer and performer with Meg Stuart, explores the moving body as a site of resistance to norms and the subversion of categorization. She is a visiting professor at ATW and MA CuP at the Justus-Liebig University in Giessen during the winter semester. In addition, students will work with Amelia Uzategui Bonilla on concepts of the body that do not originate from a Eurocentric perspective and, with Dr. Claudia Jeschke, will question concepts of the body that underlie certain movement analysis methods.