Tanzfabrik
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Stage Kreuzberg 1
Möckernstr. 68
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Fotos: Orlok, Poelstra, KNI, Stöß, N.N., Brexendorff

Teaching and Performance Practice

Lecture-Performance by Mark Tompkins, Eva Karczag, Peter Pleyer, Susanne Linke, Elsa Wolliaston, Werner Huschka
In the frame of Oster Tanz 2015

observing – perceiving – developing

A group of artists that look back upon many decades of teaching and performing will enter into conversation about the connection between learning, teaching and performing: How do you teach learning? Learning performing by teaching? Learning teaching by performing? A range of different conversation rounds on specific topics and some practical examples will provide a rare view on these artists’ artistic-pedagogical practice after two intense workshop weeks at Ostertanz.

All conversations are held in English.
Moderation: Ka Rustler

Ticket: 8/5 (reduced for workshopparticipants)

Mark Tompkins

Mark Tompkins, American performer and choreographer living in Paris since 1973, he founds the Company I.D.A. in 1983. Over the years, his unique way of fabricating unidentified performance objects has become his signature: solos, group pieces, concerts and site-specific performances that mix dance, music, voice, video and text. His passion for real time composition leads him to collaborate with many dancers and musicians. Renowned for his teaching, he travels around the world. His recent performances are inspired by popular forms like music hall, cabaret, vaudeville, burlesque and musical comedy: BLACK’N’BLUES, OPENING NIGHT, SHOWTIME, STARDUST with Jeremy Wade, A POWER BALLAD with Mariana Tengner Barros, NEVER MIND THE FUTURE with Sarah Murcia, A WIND OF MADNESS with the Mladinsko Theatre in Ljubljana, Slovenia and LE PRINTEMPS. In 2008, he receives the SACD prize for Choreography for all his work. www.idamarktompkins.com

Eva Karczag

Eva Karczag is an independent dance artist. Since the early 1970s, practices, teaches, and advocates for explorative methods of dance making, she currently performs solo and collaborative work. Danced with the Trisha Brown Dance Company from 1979–85. Her teaching experience spans the range of major colleges, studios and organizations throughout the U.S., Europe and Australia, to private practice and individual mentoring. A certified teacher of the Alexander Technique, she holds an MFA (Dance Research Fellow) from Bennington College, VT. Recent performing includes dancing in Stephanie Skura’s Surreptitious Preparations for an Impossible Total Act (NY and Seattle); Elena Demyanenko and Erika Mijlin’s Echo Archive (EMPAC, Troy, NY); Elsewhere, a duet with Daniele Albanese (Milan, Parma, Berlin); and Promenade, a series of improvised durational performance/installations with visual artist Chris Crickmay and composer Sylvia Hallett (most recently at the Improspekcije Festival, Zagreb, Croatia). Her work is informed by improvisation and by Western and Eastern mindful body practices which engender trust in the body's innate capacity for ease, efficiency and integrated openness. The New York post-modern dance movement of the 1960's and 70’s has given her current dance practice a foundation of respect for the moving body, and a passion for creative process and experimentation.

Peter Pleyer

Peter Pleyer studied at the European Dance Development Centre (EDDC) in Arnhem before working with Yoshiko Chuma and Mark Tompkins as a dancer and choreographic assistant. He has lived in Berlin since 2000. From 2007 to 2014, he was Artistic Director of the Tanztage Berlin and from 2012 to 2014, a member of the Sophiensæle team. His interest as a choreographer and performer, dramaturge and coach, lies in finding new methods of integrating dance training, composition and improvisation into choreographic processes, such as, e.g., in the lecture-performance “Choreographing Books“ or in “Visible Undercurrent“ (2014). He teaches at various colleges and festivals in Europe and contributed to establishing a university course in Contemporary Dance in Berlin.

Susanne Linke

Susanne Linke, choreographer, teacher, dancer. Education at Mary Wigman and Folkwang Schule Essen. Artistic director of Folkwang Tanz Studio (until 1985), worldwide touring and international awards and prizes. Director of Tanztheater at  Bremer Theater (1994 – 2000), founding member of the Choreographische Zentrum Essen. Guest choreopgrapher at Limon Dance Company New York, Grupo Corpo/Belo Horizonte,  Ballett de l'Opera de Paris, Kibbutz Dance Studios, Netherlands Dance Theater among others. From the season 2015/16 Susanne Linke will direct the dance company of Theater Trier. www.susanne-linke.com

Elsa Wolliaston

Elsa Wolliaston, choreographer, dancer, teacher; research about traditions and rituals in Java, Bali and Kongo; work a. a. with Peter Stein, Yoshi Oida, Steve Lacy. www.elsawolliaston.org

 

 

Werner Huschka

Werner Huschka, Berlin, dance-pedagogue, dancer, and curator, artistic director of the German Institute of Dance Pedagogy, training manager of iTP; study of sport science with focus on rhythmic/dance at the German Sport University Cologne, member of Maja-Lex Dance Group, amendments study of dance and dance-pedagogy at Temple University Philadelphia, SUNY Brockport, US. Pilot projects and other projects in Kindergarden, after-school care club and schools.