Pas des Deux
german dance film institute bremen, Till Botterweck/Alexander Hauer/Magali Sander Fett, Nicole Seiler, Chris Ziegler
For one week, renowned dancers, choreographers and ensembles as well as media artists and filmmakers dedicated to the topic of “Dance and New Media” will be making guest appearances in Oldenburg. The Edith-Ruß-Haus für Medienkunst, the Verein für Jugendkulturarbeit and the Kulturetage Oldenburg are organizing a festival for this innovative art form for the first time in the region, presenting dance performances, interactive installations, lectures and film screenings. In addition, practical workshops will be offered to get to know the new media in the field of dance and to develop their own choreographic approaches to “digital dance”.
Opening of the festival:
Friday, July 28, 8 p.m. in the Edith Russ House for Media Art
Welcome: Sabine Himmelsbach, Edith-Ruß-Haus for Media Art
Introduction: Paula von Sydow, Edith Russ House for Media Art
Gina Schumm, Kulturetage
forest – forest
Interactive dance performance by Chris Ziegler
Dance: Christine Bürkle
Composition: Sandeep Bhagwati
Media artist Chris Ziegler and dancer Christine Bürkle will open the multi-day festival with a performance environment for dance, light and sound and invite you to experience the installation forest – forest to explore.
The forest is both an architecture and an organism – outside of civilization, it is an ambivalent place that inspires both imagination and fear. With wald – forest, Chris Ziegler has created an interactive matrix in which visitors can explore the virtual organism of the “forest” and playfully experience themselves in the media space. The installation will also be open to visitors at the Edith Russ House for Media Art on July 29 and 30, from 11 am to 5 pm. Chris Ziegler will be present.
Chris Ziegler
Has worked at the Center for Art and Media Technology since 1994. Collaboration with dancers, choreographers, musicians and media artists in productions for the Frankfurt Ballet, the Goethe Institute, the National Gallery of Canada, etc. With William Forsythe and Nick Haffner he created the CD-Rom Improvisation Technologies about performance space and time. Since 2000, Chris Ziegler has been developing interactive dance performances and stage productions, which he has presented at numerous festivals in the USA, Ukraine, Singapore and Japan. His production scanned (2001) was awarded the prize for “Young Art and New Media”. Chris Ziegler teaches in guest professorships, gives lectures and organizes workshops for dance and new media.
Christine Bürkle
She studied classical dance at the John Cranko School in Stuttgart and then worked at the Staatstheater Stuttgart under Marcia Haydee and at the Zurich Opera House under Uwe Scholz. She danced for 14 years at the Frankfurt Ballet under William Forsythe and now works as a freelance dancer specializing in improvisation and as a dance therapist.
Sandeep Bhagwati
Studied choral and orchestral conducting, music theory and composition at the Mozarteum Salzburg from 1984 – 1987; studied composition at the Musikhochschule München until 1993. He was a guest composer at IRCAM/Centre Pompidou, the ZKM Karlsruhe and the Institute for Electronic Music Graz, among others. In addition to his compositional work, he develops new forms of multimedia musical and theatrical performance. Since 1988, he has been producing contributions on contemporary music for various German radio stations and publishing essays and analyses. He was a professor of composition and multimedia at the Karlsruhe University of Music from 2000-2003 and a fellow of the International House of Artists Villa Concordia in Bamberg in 2004/2005.
Sunday, July 30, 8 p.m., Kulturetage
Madame K: Choreography and dance: Nicole Seiler and Kylie Walters
One in a Million Dance film by Nicole Seiler
“Compared to our ideals, our own truth is often miserable. And: Clothes don’t always make the man…” (Nicole Seiler)
The piece by Swiss choreographer and video artist Nicole Seiler, Madame K, is a multimedia and choreographic journey through fragments from the life of a woman who is torn between the perfect image she is supposed to conform to and her own truth. With One in a Million, Nicole Seiler has created a dance film that examines the human spectrum of movement, explores the limits of the body and expands choreographic possibilities. Rhythm, space and time are defined by the medium of video and the language of the body and dance is reinvented. The film will be shown after the piece Madame K.
Nicole Seiler trained at the Dimitri School in Versio and at the Vlaamse Dansacademie in Bruges, until 1994 at the Ecole-Atelier Rudra Béjart in Lausanne and joined the Lausanne dance theater group Cie Buissonnière. 1998 Choreography for the play Nora – a doll’s house by Ibsen at the Théâtre de Vidy in Lausanne. 1998 Joined the freelance theater group Teatro Malandro in Geneva and toured worldwide. In 2002 she dances with Cie Philippe Saire for an Expo02 project and in 2002/2003 with Alias Compagnie. Founding of her own company Cie Nicole Seiler on the occasion of the play Quoi? in 2002. Self-taught training in multimedia and productions in the fields of website, video projection, CD-Rom, flash animation and digital photography for numerous companies and productions.
Kylie Walters trained in music and dance in Adelaide, Australia. 1991 Bachelor of Arts Degree Dance from the Victorian College of the Arts. She danced in Australia with Character X and worked in renowned productions in London, Germany, Switzerland and Amsterdam. 1995 joined the Alias Company in Geneva. Choreography of her own pieces and involvement in various films, such as Greenhouse Infect (2003) by Vincent Pluss and Kylie Walters, Liebe S-Bahn (2003) by Mikel Aristegui, La Fête (1999) by Raymond Vuillamoz. Since 2004 member of the Compagnie DV8 in London.
Wednesday, August 2, 8 p.m., Edith-Ruß-Haus für Medienkunst
choréo-cinéma
Film lecture by Heide-Marie Härtel Dance as a theatrical art form has always incorporated contemporary technologies in its development in order to use the aesthetic and technological possibilities for dramaturgical, content-related or formal purposes. The convergence of dance and media has led, among other things, to so-called “video dance”, which no longer has a stage version or has largely detached itself from it and has become a field of experimentation for choreographers. Heide-Marie Härtel, Artistic Director of the German Dance Film Institute in Bremen, will use film examples and her own productions to provide an insight into the historical context of this development and present current forms and possibilities of expression.
Heide-Marie Härtel studied at the Cologne Dance Academy and worked with Hans Kresnik at the Bremen Dance Theater from 1971-1978. This was followed by a master’s degree in cultural studies in Bremen. Since 1978 she has been setting up a dance film archive and since 1982 has been directing, cinematography and editing for TV stations as well as artistic director of the German Dance Film Institute in Bremen.
The German Dance Film Institute Bremen is a national archive for the collection, processing and production of audio-visual dance documents. Founded in 1991 as a non-profit organization, the institute supports the work of choreographers, dance companies, theaters, specialist journalists and television broadcasters by making the collected materials available and helps with the production and restoration of dance videos and films.
Thursday, August 3, 8 p.m., Edith Russ House for Media Art
“Rhythm is it!” – Dance in cultural education for children and young people
“Rhythm is it!” – Dance in cultural education for children and young people Based on the renowned project and with respect for the educational work of Royston Maldoom and Simon Rattle, who created a dance performance to Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du Printemps with 250 kids and teenagers with no dance experience, this evening is dedicated to cultural education for children and young people. Using examples, dance will be presented as a “pedagogical” project form and measure for building self-confidence and identity. Dance teachers will present their own projects and talk about the importance of new media in dance together with Till Botterweck, Magali Sander Fett and Alexander Hauer.
Sunday, August 6, 12 noon, Kulturetage
tanz_video_performance / ciné-tanz In a matinee, the participants of the practice workshops will present their results to the audience on the big stage. The leading dancers/choreographers, filmmakers and actors will be present and present the choreographies and dance films developed together with the workshop participants.
Practice workshops
July 31 to August 6: tanz_video_performance Praxis dance workshop with Magali Sander Fett, Alexander Hauer and Till Botterweck
Dancer and choreographer Magali Sander Fett, actor Alexander Hauer and video artist Till Botterweck have been recruited to lead the Praxis workshop. For the three Bremen-based artists, interdisciplinarity is an important part of their work, as has already been demonstrated in their joint productions. They will share their experiences of integrating other art forms into dance in this workshop. New media are increasingly becoming part of our lives and are also penetrating the fields of dance and theater. The use of the video camera is a further means of opening up new possibilities of expression. The source of inspiration for the artistic work in the workshop is the personalities of the participants, their abilities and stories.
Magali Sander Fett studied ballet and modern dance in Porto Alegre, Brazil, followed by studies at the Folkwang University in Essen. In addition to her own choreographies, she has worked with various choreographers such as Rodolpho Leoni, Susanne Linke and Mark Sieczkarek and has been a member of the Bremer Tanztheater under the direction of Urs Dietrich since 2000. In 1999 she won second prize in the competition “The Best German Dance Solo” in Leipzig with her choreography Sola and in 2003 the Critics’ Prize at the 17th Choreographers’ Competition in Hanover with her choreography VegeTable. In 2004, she was Artist in Residence at the PACT Zollverein in Essen, where she created the piece Superstars, which premiered at the Schwankhalle in Bremen with the support of the Bremen Senate for Culture.
Alexander Hauer studied acting at the Academy of Arts in Ulm. After two seasons at the Fränkisch-Schwäbisches Städtetheater Dinkelsbühl and the Burgfestspiele Jagsthausen, he was a permanent member of moks, the children’s and youth theater of the Bremer Theater, from 2000 to 2003. Here he performed in three dance theater pieces by choreographer Wilfried van Poppel. Since 2003 he has worked as a freelance actor in dance and theater plays and as a director and workshop leader in various theater projects.
Till Botterweck studied architecture in Wuppertal and has worked as a stage designer and video artist since graduating. He has created stage designs, video installations and short films for and with choreographers such as Rodolpho Leoni, Urs Dietrich, Geraldo Si, Magali Sander Fett, Helge Letonja and Samir Akika.
July 31 to August 6 ciné-tanz
Praxis Dance Film Workshop with Ulrich Scholz The filmmaker of numerous dance films, employee of the German Dance Film Institute Bremen and lecturer for the training of media designers, Ulrich Scholz, will lead the Praxis Workshop and examine the genres of dance film and dance documentary together with the participants. The practical workshop will initially accompany the festival with the documentary camera view, in order to then work out the essentials of the dance film – the encounters with the dance, the dancer and the choreographer … ultimately perhaps even with oneself and the camera eye. Three approaches to film work in dance will be presented and put into practice: the essayistic, subjective author’s view; the objectively descriptive documentary; the TV magazine format with the rules and time constraints of a fictitious editorial team.Ulrich Scholz will accompany the participants from the development of the concept to the finished film and its presentation at the matinee at the end of the festival.
The workshop takes place in cooperation with the local broadcaster oldenburg eins.
Ulrich Scholz studied social pedagogy with a focus on media pedagogy at the University of Bremen and worked from 1987-1990 as a freelance lecturer for video practice and film analysis in youth and adult education. This was followed by an engagement as a permanent cameraman and editor at Tele News Bremen GmbH and initial work for ZDF, Deutsche Welle, NDR and others. Since 1994 he has worked as a freelance director, cameraman and author for commercial films and TV formats and in 1996 joined the German Dance Film Institute Bremen as a freelancer. Here he works as a cameraman, editor and director for the broadcasters Arte, 3SAT, ZDF – Der Spiegel im Tanz (1996), Nothing Hurts (2000), Zwischen Räumen (2001), Four for Nothing (2002), Tele Tanz Journal No 6/No7 (2004/2006) – , the Goethe Institute, various dance ensembles and theaters, for trade fairs and presentations. Managing partner of the film production company docarts Medien GmbH Bremen since 1999.
Edith-Ruß-Haus für Medienkunst
Opening times: June 29 and 30, 11 am – 5 pm
Advance booking and box office for Madame K:
– Book tickets online and print them out yourself at www.kulturetage.de
– Kulturetage, Mon-Fri 10 am – 2 pm and 4.30 to 18.30, with tel. ticket information 0441/92480-0
– Oldenburg Tourismus und Marketing, Kleine Kirchstraße 10, Mon-Fri 10-18, Sat 10-14
– Hörbuchladen Anna Thye, Schlossplatz 23, Mon-Fri 9.30-18.30, Sat 9.30-16 h
– MTS City-Sound, Baumgartenstr. 12b, Mon-Fri 10-19, Sat 10-16 h
– CD-Corner Rastede, Raiffeisenstr. 52, Mon-Fri 10-18.30, Sat 9-16 h
Advance booking prices plus 10% advance booking fee and 80 cents system fee
Discounts at the box office for pupils, students, the unemployed, those doing military or alternative service with appropriate certification
The box office opens one hour before the start of the event.
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