Kerstin Evert | Patricia Carolin Mai

EMPOWERING DANCE – SOFT SKILLS IN DANCE EDUCATION

Dancing empowers - but what triggers this feeling? Is it the pure physical movement or is there more to it when we meet regularly, train together, develop choreographies or guide others to dance? What skills, what knowledge is inherent in contemporary dance practices, but also dance practitioners themselves are not always aware of? What skills do dance practitioners implicitly deepen when dancing together?

The European project Empowering Dance - Developing Soft Skills, co-financed by the EU funding program Erasmus+, has set out to explore this question for the first time in contemporary dance and to investigate the connection between the development of soft skills and dance.

The workshop reveals implicit forms of knowledge and enables a reflective approach to and practical application of soft skills in one's own dance mediating practice.

Open to interested dancers, mediators, dance educators and teachers.

Registration until June 7 at: tanzplan2@kampnagel.de

Kerstin Evert

Patricia Carolin Mai

Patricia Carolin Mai produces stage pieces as a dancer and choreographer with production locations at Kampnagel and at K3 - Hamburg, at LOFFT - DAS THEATER Leipzig and at Ringlokschuppen Mülheim an der Ruhr. The focus of her choreographic work is the investigation of the body as a central repository of memories. 2016 - 2019 she developed her trilogy on "bodies in extreme states" with the pieces Ready to Snap (2016), Balagan Body (2018) & HAMONIM (2019). In summer 2019, she accepted Ninety9 Art Company's invitation to Seoul in Korea to work in GAL-GAL on women's self-empowerment in Korean society. For this work she was awarded the "International Choregraphy Award Goyang 2020". In 2020, she explored the limits of her physical performance in the 12-month solo self-experiment KONTROL, questioning cultural normalisations of body and gender. She choreographed ASTERISM (2021) and ANIMA (2022) by multimedia composer Alexander Schubert, as well as the group piece OR (2022) for the Company of the Leipzig Dance Theatre. For the years 2020 - 2023 Patricia Carolin Mai has received conceptual funding from the City of Hamburg and continues with WAHN, UND SO KAMEN WIR ZUSAMMEN and RAUSCH. Eine Revision (AT), she continues her work on the theme of "Practices of Community". In 2023, together with 100 participants and in co-production with Kampnagel and K3, she will venture a look at the history of Tanzwut and complete the trilogy.

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