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Das Tanzsolo ist die kleinste Form tänzerisch-choreographischen Schaffens, verdient jedoch zweifellos besondere Beachtung: In seinen Mitteln meist reduziert auf den Körper, zeigt es ganz unmittelbar die Möglichkeiten körperlicher Ausdrucksformen und dessen, was Bewegung zu leisten vermag. Für Tänzer und Choreographen gilt es als ideales Mittel zur Selbstpositionierung und -definition, bietet schier grenzlosen Raum für Experimente und verlangt wie kaum eine andere Form nach Klarheit. Nicht von ungefähr hat sich der Solotanz immer wieder stilprägend auf die Entwicklung des modernen und zeitgenössischen Tanzes ausgewirkt.

 

Erstmals will sich das Internationale Bonner Tanzsolofestival dem Format „Solo“ nun auch von wissenschaftlicher Seite nähern. Geplant ist ein Symposium, das sich in erster Linie an ein Fachpublikum richtet, aber durchaus auch eine interessierte Öffentlichkeit ansprechen soll. Die wissenschaftliche Erweiterung gibt Raum für Fragen nach der historischen Veränderung von Tanzsoli, ebenso wie nach den Besonderheiten solistischen Arbeitens und dessen Einflüssen auf choreographisches Schaffen im weiteren Sinne. Besonderes Augenmerk soll darauf gerichtet werden, wie sich individuumszentrierte Praktiken (self care / radical care) auf Soloarbeiten auswirken und wie diese in einem größeren sozialen Kontext zu verorten sind. Thiago Granato wird im Rahmen des Symposium zudem eine lecture zu seiner Solo-Triologie "Choreoversations" geben.

 

 

Kunstmuseum Bonn – Auditorium, Helmut-Kohl-Allee 2, Bonn

Solo Dance – Focusing the Self and Beyond

11:00   Welcome

Rafaële Giovanola,, Choreographer and curator of the festival 

11:15   Keynote

“Solo - Singularity - Soli/darity - on the Aesthetic, Production-Immanent and Political Dimensions of Solo Dance“

Prof. Dr. Yvonne Hardt (Professor for Dance Studies and Choreography)

11:45   Lecture

“Solo Dance and Collective Care: Potentials of the Solo to Create Social Connections”

Prof. Dr. Sevi Bayraktar (Professor for Dance, Performance and Music in a Global Context)

12:10   Panel Discussion

“Why Going Solo? On Reasons and Impacts of Solo Dance from Artistic and Social Perspectives.”

With: Sevi Bayraktar (Professor for Dance, Performance and Music in a Global Context), Radhouane El Meddeb (Dancer and Choreographer), Thiago Granato (Dancer and Choreographer), Melanie Suchy (Dance Journalist)

Moderation: Yvonne Hardt (Professor for Dance Studies and Choreography)

14:00   Lecture

“Choreoversations  - How to Deal With the Presence of Those Who Are Not Among Us?“

 Thiago Granato (Dancer and Choreographer)

 

Teilnahme nur nach persönlicher Anmeldung unter Angabe von Name, Adresse und Telefonnummer bis zum 20. Oktober 2020 an: dramaturgie(at)cocoondance.de

 

Für Interessierte wird das Symposium auch als Live streaming angeboten: https://www.facebook.com/CocoonDance

 

 

Speakers

 

Yvonne Hardt, Prof. Dr.

 

Yvonne Hardt has been Professor of Dance Studies and Choreography at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln since 2009. Previously she worked at the University of California, Berkeley, and at the Freie Universität Berlin. As a choreographer and dancer, she has created numerous productions and increasingly combined her artistic and scientific work. Her current research interests include the methodological development of dance studies, notably historiographical methods at the interface of theory and practice as well as dance techniques and dimensions of cultural education in the field of contemporary dance. 

 

Sevi Bayraktar, Prof. Dr.

 

Sevi Bayraktar is Professor of Dance, Music, and Performance in global Contexts and currently teaching at the University for Music and Dance Cologne. She earned a Ph.D. in Culture and Performance from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Her recent writings appeared in the journals of Dance, Movement & Spiritualities and Performance Philosophy. By merging ethnographic and choreographic methods of research and analysis, her scholarship explores intersections between dance, politics, critical theories of race, gender/sexuality, postcolonialism, and Middle East studies. Her current book project examines modern history of folk dance, heritagization, and social movements in Turkey.

 

 

Marija Baranauskaité

 

After graduating from the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater as dancer and actress, Marija Baranauskaité studied clownery at international clown school École Philippe Gaulier in France. Since 2013, she has been working as a professional performer and artist. She is an actor at Raudonos Nosys GYDYTOJAI KLOUNAI (Red Noses, Clowndoctors) and also the organisation’s artistic director (2018-2020).

Marija continuously improves her skills by training with various masters of stage arts like Eric Davis (Red Bastard), Aitor Basauri, Lassaad Saidi, Philip Burgers, Vladimir Olshansky, Ami Hattab, Carlo Jacucci, Lorenz Wenda, Roberto Magro, Gary Edwards, David Zombrano, Claudio Stellato and many others.

 

Thiago Granato

 

Thiago Granato is a Brazilian dance artist engaged in creating choreographies with the potential of developing different ways to approach movement. His productions are the results of processes that insist on promoting experiences of political transformation through aesthetic innovation. Those works have been shown in South America, Europe, Middle East and Asia.

He has a Master’s degree in Choreography, with a specialization in Performative Practices at DOCH - University of Dance and Circus (SWE) and also studied choreography in the program Ex.e.r.ce 08, coordinated by Xavier Le Roy, at Centre Chorégraphique National de Montpellier (FR). As a guest teacher he worked at at UNIARTS - Stockholm University of Arts (SWE) and at the Máster Program en Práctica Escénica y Cultura Visual at Museo Reina Sofia (ES).

 

 

Melanie Suchy

 

After having completed her degree in linguistics, Melanie Suchy studied musical theater, theater and dance criticism. She worked in institutions for the promotion of culture and education in Bonn; since 2005 she has been publishing as a freelance journalist specialized on dance in daily newspapers, magazines, on online platforms as well as in festival brochures, program booklets, etc. Since 2012 she has been teaching "Tanz aktuell" at the Folkwang University in Essen. She is a member of several juries for funding programmes and artists' prizes, and is also a member of curating teams for festivals. 

 

The symposium is held in cooperation with the Center for Contemporary Dance at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz, Köln and the Kunstmuseum Bonn

 

 

The 7. Internationale Bonner Tanzsolofestival is a collaborative project of Theater im Ballsaal and Brotfabrik Bühne Bonn in cooperation with the Theater Bonn, the Kunstmuseum Bonn and the Center of Contemporary Dance at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz, Köln // Funded by: Kunststiftung NRW, Bundesstadt Bonn, Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen im Rahmen der NRW-Mittelzentren-Förderung, NRW Landesbüro Freie Darstellende Künste.