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form/RELAY/content - A Symposium on Artistic Material in Music and Dance
April 29-30, 2023
The symposium form/RELAY/content brings artistic and scientific contributions and formats on artistic material in music and dance into dialogue with each other. With performances, lectures, workshops, dance- and sound-based formats, feedforward and feedback moments, the event negotiates the topics of "form," "relay," and "content" from the perspective of dance and music, inviting both research-based contributions and artistic practices.
With contributions by: Özlem Alkış, Jan Burkhardt, Katja Cheraneva, Cătălin Crețu, Claire Cunningham, Maribeth Diggle, Andreea Duta, Juri Jaworsky, Sergej Maingardt, Maia Means, Brigitta Muntendorf, Justyna Niznik, Rasmus Ölme, Anna Roßmüller, Eleonora Siarava, Vera Sander, Stephanie Thiersch, Alina Ușurelu, Max Wallmeier, Netta Weiser, in cooperation with the German Dance Archive Cologne.
The symposium will take place on April 29 and 30, 2023 at the Center for Contemporary Dance, Turmstraße 3-5, Cologne. Selected formats will be streamed online and accessible via Zoom. The event will be held in English.
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Studio 1
Welcome to „Hörraum", a concert dedicated to the exploration of electro-acoustic music through the history of that art form, from its early beginnings to the latest works by the youngest generation of composers. The listening practice features a selection of electro-acoustic works that showcase the range and diversity of this genre. The pieces vary in style, instrumentation, and approach, demonstrating the many ways in which electronic and acoustic sounds can interact and complement each other.Throughout the „Hörraum“ concert, the audience is invited to engage with the music and explore the different sound worlds created by the composers. Rooted in the awareness that social situations like f.ex. a concert are never natural but represent designed, created or at least curated situations, this listening practice plays with its own constructedness and at the same time aims to facilitate a non-hierarchical being-with-others.
The Listening Practice is curated & facilitated by Cătălin Crețu & Sergej Maingardt.
Moving Practice
Studio 1
We invite you to tune in for the day, to wake up your perception, to approach spirals and curves or to create a playful mind by getting to know principles of Somatic Practices. Stimulating imagination, engaging tactics for being-with, inviting multi-perspectives. The aim is to support and encourage the development of one‘s own sources from which different forms of work can then develop and to look in our capacity to create, to endure, to transform, to enrich and to overcome obstacles.
The Moving Practice is led by RELAY-mentors. No prior knowledge required. Please come in comfortable clothing that allows moving. |
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| | | Choreographing music/Composing dance: co-writing scores
Stephanie Thiersch & Brigitta Muntendorf
Lecture, Studio 2, hybrid
Brigitta Muntendorff's and Stephanie Thiersch's lecture presents the choreographer and composer's collaborative art practice between synesthetics and transdisciplinarity through two stage works Archipel (2021) and Bilderschlachten (2019). Their collaboration is based on a non-hierarchical understanding, which is transferred to the working space and the relationship between dance and music.
Moving through modes of rehearsing, or: Repetition as a form of resistance
Katja Cheraneva
Lecture, Studio 2, hybrid
Repetition is an integral part of the rehearsal process. We repeat to practice and perfect. But is it possible that repetition serves a different purpose? In her artistic research and MA thesis, Katja Cheraneva looks at rehearsal less as a possibility to enhance future performance but rather to exhaust the possibilities as a form of reduction and resist any form of mastering, being better, success. Establishing rehearsal as a place of (non)work, learning, and formation of complicit collaboration, she investigates what affordances unfold if we are to remain in rehearsal as a space where it never becomes that stable, final product. In this lecture, through the analysis of her performance practice, she discusses notions of repetition, forgetfulness, fragmentation, and failure and proposes a thesis that repetition can become a method of undoing and unlearning where with each repetition, the difference gains new significance and move further towards reconstructing the initial ‘truth.’
Layers. Personal and Public. Individual and Collective. How do we work with our personal archives in a transdisciplinary approach?
Alina Ușurelu
Impulse Lecture connected to the Photo Exhibition, Courtyard
Starting from three performances that shaped Alina Ursurelus relation with contemporary dance, Quartet for a microphone by Vava Ștefănescu, LAY(ERS) by Cristina Lilienfeld and The Institute of Change by Paula Dunker, the performer and artist invites you to imagine their universes. Alina Ursurelus archive serves as an inspiration for her to grow and create new pieces that materialize in different kinds of mediums. By travelling through the images, sounds and texts that were written about the three choreographers and choosing a place to create a movement, a sound or a drawing, we will let the artistic material transform us and allow it to manifest in our own creative processes.
RELAY ARTicle
Jan Burkhardt, Cătălin Creţu, Andreea Duță, Rasmus Ölme, Vera Sander
Lecture, Studio 2, hybrid
The ARTicle-Lecture presents project results and gives inside into the objectives of the three year Erasmus+ Cooperation Partnerships Project RELAY, exploring artistic material in music and dance. Conceived as a 4-dimensional (adding the dimension of time) “rhizome”, the ARTicle develops artistic and pedagogical material and methods, using text, photos, video, sound and other. RELAY mentors Jan Burkhardt (HfMT), Catalin Cretu (UNMB), Andreea Duta (UNATC), Rasmus Ölme (DASPA) and Vera Sander (HfMT) are sharing their artistic as well as research-based findings around the five topics of “multitude of perspectives”, “pedagogical context”, “sustainability”, “relaying” and “mutual grounds - transformational processes”, diving into new perspectives and methods on dealing with artistic material in music and dance as well as music and dance education.
Movement inside the sound. Techniques and compositional strategies for developing artistic content. Case studies
Cătălin Creţu
Interactive Lecture, Studio 2, hybrid
The lecture presents possibilities of creative approaches in artistic endeavors involving audio-visual and movement, starting from concepts that have as a pretext the acoustic model of sound.
RELAY ARTwork
Max Wallmeier & Maia Means
Lecture Demonstration, Installation Space
Maia Means and Max Wallmeier present the RELAY ARTwork – a travelling installation that is activated at each of RELAY’s four locations by opening a time capsule sent from the preceding event. It is inspired by Yvonne Rainer’s and Robert Morris’ Continuous Project Altered Daily.
Wallmeier and Means use methods of artistic correspondence from their own collaborative practice to encourage the participating students to work through a collaborative and continuously changing format.
In this lecture demonstration, they will introduce ARTwork’s concept and background as well as the methods applied in it. They will share materials and descriptions of the previous instances in Copenhagen and Bucharest and give an insight into the installation’s current development. |
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| | | Between dance and music: experimenting with transdisciplinary scores - a practice
Stephanie Thiersch & Brigitta Muntendorf
Workshop, Studio 3
Stephanie Thiersch and Brigitta Muntendorf developed an artistic practice in which music and dance exist in a performative space that they create together. Both Thiersch and Muntendorf seek an intermedial way of working that contextualizes their respective arts and allows it to resonate socially. Thus, musical composition reaches into choreography, while the concerns of choreography co-conceive an audible dimension and a staging of music. In the workshop we will examine and experiment with scores of collaborative works.
Workshop-Registration
Soundtracking the stage
Özlem Alkış, Yi-Chen Chen & Juri Jaworsky
Workshop, Studio 1
In this workshop we will explore performance material of Soundracking the Stage (2020, 2022) together with one of the performers. In these solo materials, dancers produce sound and movement together. Through this opportunity, we will reflect on diverse topics: How does sound making proposes a new corporeality in dancing bodies? What kind of bodily technics appear? How does our dancing body perceives beauty, noise, silence, gravity? How do you relate to sound and movement? What do you perceive first? Are there different modalities of listening? How does listening and sound making interfere with one another? Materials will be physically explored together to deepen our physical understanding of sound making and moving at the same time. Through that the participants are invited to develop their own scores alone or in a group and test them in a playful way.
Further information about Soundtracking the Stage
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The Breath Art Project
Maribeth Diggle
Workshop, Studio 3
Until now, the role of breath as a central part of the performative and interpretative act has been largely under analysed, treated more as utilitarian, and lacks definition as an essential form of communication and tool to discover and embody authentic expression. This in an era of the recent COVID-19 pandemic, the murder of George Floyd by law enforcement in the United States, and the air quality control index indicating breathable and non- breathable indoor and outdoor air according to the particle pollution of our zip codes causing millions of premature deaths. The Breath Art project investigates how breath can be identified and studied as a primary actor in practices of dynamic physical expression by defining breath's diverse agency in bodies and physical practice, not exclusively from a therapeutic point of view, but from an expressive, performative, and creative perspective in connection with newly defined breath cultures. It will do so by analysing what Maribeth Diggle calls dynamic breath output (the multiple characteristics in which breath produces a form of expression), which does not seek to standardise one specific output requirement or result. The goal will be to design a unique and personalised methodology which can update performance practice through the wide medium of breath.
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UnderScore, Choreographic Objects and more
Eleonora Siarava
Choreographic Atelier & Open Presentation, Studio 1
Eleonora Siarava shares her ongoing choreographic research UnderScore, Choreographic Objects and more¬ experimenting with Scores & Choreographic Objects as tools for choreographic composition and performativity and methodological approaches to the creative process. The aim is to delve into dance as a dynamic condition of spatio-temporal events and unfold phenomena in the body-mind topography. Participants, through open and more structured tasks, are invited to inhabit the performative landscape, play with contents, construction-deconstruction of space, create choreographic images, choreographed spaces, imprints of time.
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| | | Radio-Choreography: listening to dance
Netta Weiser
Lecture Performance, Studio 1
Radio-Choreography is an artistic research project exploring the transformation of dance into sound and developing performative practices for the radio. Since 2019 the project brought together an international group of choreographers, theorists, sound and radio artists, moved by the question: what might a Radio-Choreography be like? Starting from a critical examination of contemporary dance documentation practices and their focus on the visual aspects of dance, we wished to shift perspective and ask: how might we access and amplify invisible choreographic knowledge by auditory means? How might the public space of radio become an immaterial stage and archival space for dance? How might we experience dance anew if we recalibrate our senses and listen?
This lecture performance discusses the research process and transdisciplinary methods, including sounds from our radiophonic archive of dance practices created by female choreographers during times of migration and border crossing.
4 Legs Good
Claire Cunningham
Lecture Performance, Studio 1, hybrid
Claire Cunningham, one of the UK’s most acclaimed and internationally renowned disabled artists, presents a lecture demonstration exploring her artistic practice. Claire will talk through the development of her career as her focus shifts from explorations about the connection between her crutches and her body, to how her crutches connect her to the world. She will demonstrate her own unique movement style Quanimacy, illustrating how she is influenced by the use/misuse, study and distortion of her crutches; rejecting formal dance training and techniques created for non-disabled bodies. She will discuss how her work is also influenced by her lived experience of disability and its impact on the way society thinks about knowledge, value, connection and interdependence.
This is a relaxed, informal event where the audience is free to make themselves comfortable. There will a variety of seating options.
this is a time for non-human existence
Anna Roßmüller
Performance, Studio 1
Where do we look?
When do we perceive a situation as a performance?
Is the more-than-human world not dancing?
Do trees dance? Water? Clouds?
Giving space.
Can I disappear into my own solo?
Something grows and time is relative. Time is subjective.
Maybe closing the eyes. Maybe silence. Maybe forgetting yourself for a moment.
The solo this is a time for non-human existence was created in the frame of SOLOEDITION’22 at ZZT/Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln and was shown in February 2022. For more videos, text and impressions visit the website Unnoticed Performances.
The Physicality of the Sound
Justyna Niznik
Performance, Studio 1
The Physicality of the Sound is a contemporary music performance that explores the intersection between sound and image, emphasizing the importance of the performer's body in producing both. The performance features a solo violinist who seeks to blur the boundaries between dance and music by giving equal value to the body as a source of both image and sound. The performance incorporates pre-recorded video footage of the performer's back in motion, which serves as a memory of the gestures used to produce sound and image. This video is treated as a performer in its own right and is related to by the live performer on stage, who is equipped with a violin and live electronic processing of the acoustic music. To heighten the listener's perception of sound as movement, the performance uses a surround sound system with four speakers, allowing for a radical specialization of the music. The musical material and imagery are inspired by the pace of movement, the frequency of sound, and the sloughing of skin cells in space. |
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#inbetweens
The film lounge offers perspectives on the transitions between dance and film in urban nature. Come, see & share the experience of 11 international filmmakers of today's world!
In addition to a selection of short dance films from the video library of the German Dance Archive Cologne, the film lounge will show next...II (Mali/Iceland), a 50-minute split-screen version from Janne Gregor's installation of 2022, in which dance artists Charmene Pang and Kettly Noël enter into a dialogue through performative video letters. Kettly Noël in Bamako, Mali, and Charmene Pang in Reykjavík, Iceland, grappled with the soils and climates of the two countries, which could hardly be more different. One country is expanding, the other shrinking - the glaciers are melting and the desert is growing.
The film lounge is offered in cooperation with the German Dance Archive Cologne and curated by Christiane Hartter and Thomas Thorausch.
nap room
The nap room is dedicated to the “relays” that happen between awake state and sleep, between material and virtual realities. Recuperation as a conscious practice, certainly also as a promotion of napping as contribution to a sustainable life style, stimulating health and efficiency (in the sense of feeling like newly born afterwards).
photo exhibition/installation
Layers
by Alina Ușurelu |
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| | | Location: All events happen on the campus of ZZT (Centre for Contempoaray Dance), Turmstrasse 3-5, 50733 Köln Nippes. The campus can easily be reached via U-Bahn (Florastraße). There is no parking space available exclusively for the event.
Online-Formats: All formats marked as „hybrid“ are accessible online via Zoom. Please register here for the online formats and we will send you the Zoom-link.
Accessibility: All spaces are located on the ground floor and can be accessed with a wheel chair. A barrier free toilet is located next to studio 2 (see floor plan). Unfortunately the symposium doesn‘t provide sign language or audiodescription.
In this event all participants are welcome to make themselves comfortable. There will a variety of seating options and a nap room.
Accreditation: The accreditation is free of charge. Please register for your online or on site participation.
Please find the registration for the Workshops directly under the Workshop descriptions. |
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