MA CoDE: Win­ter se­mes­ter 24/25

Oc­to­ber 23^rd - 25^th, 4^th 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 14^th, 1^st 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 16^th, 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 19^th 2024 and meet one of the cu­ra­tors, Dr. Clau­dia Jesch­ke.

 

No­vem­ber 11^th - 15^th, Pro­ject week So­cial Dance Prac­ti­ces

The in­ter­di­sci­pli­na­ry pro­ject week with BA­tanz 1^st - 3^rd year, Schau­spiel 1^st 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 19^th - De­cem­ber 16^th, 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 28^th - Fe­bru­ary 6^th, 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 27^th - 28^th, 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 4^th - 5^th, 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.