SYMPOSIUM: surviving dance
ARTISTIC RESEARCH, RESIDENCE, SYMPOSIUM
FROM ANGELA GUERREIRO
In the framework of Surviving Dance, Angela Guerreiro will invite six choreographers from Hamburg to four-week residencies at K3 | Tanzplan Hamburg in mid-April. The choreographic research will form the basis of reflection and critical discussion on the working methods and conditions in choreography and modern dance and will be presented at the end of the project in the framework of a symposium.
The symposium on 20 and 21 May will be dedicated to discussions, panels and presentations on how to ‘transition’ - in the truest sense of the word - from an education in dance to working as a professional in the precarious independent dance scene.
CALL FOR APPLICATION: http://survivingdance.blogspot.com/
Angela Guerreiro studied dance in Lisbon and Arnhem. She was a member of the Company RE.Al (Joao Fiadeiro) and has developed many of her own pieces since 1995. She teaches at dance and theater schools, while also curating her own dance festival, “DanceKiosk-Hamburg”.
Eine Produktion von Angela Guerreiro Prod. in Koproduktion mit K3 | Tanzplan Hamburg, gefördert von der Behörde für Kultur und Medien. In Kooperation mit dem Dachverband Freier Theaterschaffender Hamburg e.V. und Performance Studies / Universität Hamburg.
PARTICIPATION
To take part please write to: info@survivingdance.de
http://survivingdance.blogspot.com/
Call for Participation
An essential part of the project are the three working groups these are meetings between the resident choreographers, dance institutions, cultural centers, residency infrastructures, cultural managers, organizations, associations, economy and politic departments, labor offices and the Hamburg fellow-citizens with the aim to develop critical comments, visions and results to be presented and discussed at the final Symposium.
Working group 1 / Mentoring by N.N.
Survival Kit: The precarious situation in dance
Strategies for communication between economy, arts funding and the contemporary dance scene
With representatives and leaders from the fields of economy, welfare and labor it will be discussed, how to improve information and communication strategies for new approaches of cooperation between economy, arts funding and contemporary dance scene.
Working group 2 / Mentoring by Christoph Twickel
Dance and society: "We built this city on Rock'n'Roll"
Free cultural scene between gentrification, basic income and appreciation
Free creative artists working in precarious working and living conditions: Some Bread jobs in between self-exploitive work on ‘projects ‘- and it is for living and working space in the major cities becoming tighter and expensive. Hamburg is the German city in which these conflicts occur most clearly to light: rampant housing shortage, dwindling room for subcultures - while it claims the "creative" city to be. How far do you need to push up your own price just to afford paying the rent? How cheap must one be in order to be able to work in the cities? Should we engage in politics or better shut up and nourish the contacts? How do culture practitioners move in this area of conflict?
Working group 3 / Mentoring by Peter Pleyer
Dance education: transitions into professionalism and aging
Forms of production, residencies, collaborations and networks
There are an increasing number of young dancers and choreographers seeking job opportunities or trying to find ways through the funding system without really knowing how. What are the perspectives of a young dancer when studies are over? Can we demand from teachers and school departments a certain sense of responsibility regarding the future of the students and their careers? How to create opportunities for students to step in the professional world? Are residency programs the new solution for the production system in art? Can we look at collaboration work as a medium to establish networks and mobility? How to get old as a dancer in a social system that mainly strengthens youth?