Fleeting, intangible, momentary, moving, but then also fleeting again.
Sure, dancing can be filmed, you can discuss it, measure muscles, feel an echo of the experience in your own body… And that’s it – isn’t it?
I found my way to dance in rebellion against a society in which life and love are tied to abstract conditions and fear, which exploits all that and those who make a comfortable life possible for us (including the fight against suppressed doubts), often denies them any respect and in which seemingly nothing is simply allowed to be what it is.
Originally I wanted to join a primitive people/indigenous tribe somewhere in the world, but as a teenager I didn’t find my way there, but instead danced with traveling musicians on the streets of Berlin and was completely swallowed up by the maelstrom of the movement.
Since 2013 I have been dancing in various groups, institutions and projects, whereby I am particularly interested in encounters with people and their very different stories, with places, different forms of expression and the themes and feelings that being human entails.
The fascination for indigenous cultures and the question of the origin of dance – both personally and in a cultural and evolutionary context – still accompanies me and I would like to invite you to pursue the following questions with some theoretical input, but above all in experiments:
– What is dancing?
– Where does it come from?
– What does dancing do to me?
– What does dancing make me do?
– Why do I dance?
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Monday, December 18, 2023
18:00 – 20:00 // Speeches
20:00 – 22:00 // Dancing (optional)
Rehearsal house, Orpheumgasse 11, 8020 Graz
Information & registration: kontakt@tanz-graz.at
