One-day workshop | Dance offerings for older people with and without disabilities

One-day workshop | Dance offerings for older people with and without disabilities

DABEI, Recent program

What is important when planning and implementing contemporary dance programmes for older people? This is the topic of the day workshop organised by DanceOn60+, ehrenfeldstudios e.V. and the Competence Centre for Cultural Education in Older Age (kubia).

DATE

Mon, 20 June 2022 | 10 am to 5 pm

at the ehrenfeldstudios

Participation fee | 25 Euro

Registration deadline | Mon, 13 June 2022

DanceOn60+/Munich is a contemporary dance programme for older people with and without disabilities. By networking with social institutions and organisations, the project builds bridges to people who have hardly benefited from cultural offers so far. The aim is to counteract loneliness in old age.

Find some impressions of DanceOn60+ here! 

More information: 

https://ibk-kubia.de/angebote/fortbildung/dance-on-neue-zugaenge/

Fatty Chain | tanzfuchs PRODUKTION

Fatty Chain | tanzfuchs PRODUKTION

QUERFELDEIN

DATES

Sat. August 21 I 6pm I PREMIERE

Sun. August 22 I 4pm

Mon. 23 & Tue. August 24 I 10am

Sat. 16 & Sun. October 17 I 4pm

at ehrenfeldstudios, Cologne

*Sat. & Sun. before the performance: “ONE MOMENT, PLEASE” – a 10-minute improvisation performance by Caroline Simon

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Fatty Chain | a round dance for all from 5 years onwards | tanzfuchs PRODUKTION

Side by side, behind each other, around in a circle – hands held out, shoulders clasped, elbows hooked underneath – six dancers move through the room like one unit. 

Together they create the rhythm that guides them. Who leads the group? Is there a master of ceremonies? Through the complexity of movement, rhythm and song, the performers merge into a unity, a chain: like the links of a chain, they are interwoven, connected, sometimes open, sometimes closed – without beginning – without end, sometimes as a circle, sometimes as a row. With their movements they interweave, tie themselves to each other and thus create a human web, a body chain. They negotiate with each other, each is responsible – each chain is as strong as its weakest link. The performers engage in an increasingly frenzied game, breathing new energy and fun into the time-honored dances and chants. This creates a dynamic and rhythm that is also transferred to the audience and breathes new life into the tradition of the round dance. With her new production, choreographer Barbara Fuchs immerses herself in the tradition of the REIG – in this oldest cultural asset of the Occident, dance and song become a community-building ritual. All movements – no matter from which culture they originate – become a ceremonial act and the dance a magical ceremony of movement. The bodies of the performers are central to the ritual acts as well as to the collective embodiment. After the round dance was replaced by the couple dance in Europe, this collective kind of embodiment still shows up in everyday ritual actions: from playing and storytelling together in kindergarten, to spiritual body communities in yoga and tai chi, to collectively ecstatic bodies in la ola waves and communal chants in soccer stadiums.

 FATTY CHAIN is a production of tanzfuchs PRODUKTION in cooperation with ehrenfeldstudios e.V., supported by the Cultural Office of the City of Cologne, the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Fonds Darstellende Künste.

tanzfuchs PRODUKTION receives top funding from the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.

 

Team:

Direction, Stage, Light: Barbara Fuchs

Music: Jörg Ritzenhoff

Performance: Odile Foehl, Katharina Sim, Alina Feske, Arthur Schopa, Michael Zier, Philine Herrlein

Costume: Stefanie Bold Lighting: Wolfgang Pütz

Press Work: Kerstin Rosemann

Production Management, Photos: Olivia Bott

NRW Scholarship holder for children’s and youth theater: Ronja Nadler

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SHARING ACROSS BORDERS

SHARING ACROSS BORDERS

NEBENAN

What chances does the principle of solidarity have in view of the challenges caused by the pandemic and what role do borders play in this? With our festival SHARING ACROSS BORDERS, we are taking a critical and artistic look at this topic. We take a close look at cultural, physical and political borders.

Over the course of three days, SHARING ACROSS BORDERS brings together internationally established artists with emerging local talents.

Artists from four European countries came to Cologne in September 2021 to strengthen the strong exchange between cultural workers across borders – especially now. In this context, five young artists from NRW presented their project ideas in the pitching format SHARING IDEAS on two afternoons. The international artists of the studiotrade network presented performances, a late night movie and there was a two-day outdoor workshop.

The festival is planned in this form every two years.

Get an impression in our festival documentation:

On view were works by the following international and local artists:

Liisa Pentti (Finland), São Castro, António M Cabrita/Production Play False Cultural Association (financed by Programa Garantir Cultura) (Portugal), äöü und Jung Sun Kim (Germany), Gabriel Carneiro (Germany), Cie. Humaine (France), Vilnius City Dance Theatre Low Air (Lithuania), Dennis Alexander Schmitz (Germany), TachoTinta (Germany), Katharina Senzenberger & Charlotte Werner (Germany)

 

You can find the full programme here!

 

TEAM

Artistic direction: Silke Z.
Administration: Carina Graf
Organisation: Anna Boldt
Assistance: Magdalena Schmitt
Technical direction: Beppo Leichenich, Garlef Kessler
PR: Kerstin Rosemann
Social Media Documentation: Lilith Fuchs
Helping team: Vivien Kovarbasic, Jimin Seo
Video Documentation: Barbara Schröer

Special thanks to our artist hosts and partners of the studiotrade network.

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Round Table I How intergenerative is contemporary dance?

Round Table I How intergenerative is contemporary dance?

DABEI

After a long period without an audience, the ehrenfeldstudios will host the intergenerational dance festival

TANZ FEST SPIELE

from August 27 – 29 2021 under the hashtag #we need to dance together!

Under the artistic direction of Barbara Fuchs and Silke Z., the festival pursues the goals and visions of initiating and strengthening intergenerational solidarity, encouraging generational dialogue, creating equality between generations and a dance culture for all and with all. Especially now, in and hopefully soon after these unreal Corona times, it is especially important that we maintain the connection to each other. And dance connects – non-verbally and across borders!

More info about the festival programme can be found here!

For exchange and impulses, we have invited people from different institutions to the round table and devote ourselves to the question together:

How intergenerative is contemporary dance?

After an opener, the intergenerative production “Blicke” by Tanzkomplizen from Berlin by and with Janne Gregor and Coco Ramatou Gregor, we will start the round table at 2:30 pm with a physical start.

In working groups we want to talk about intergenerative artistic practice in contemporary dance from an artistic, institutional and social point of view and dare to look into the future.

Two lectures will offer further inspiration and a look beyond the horizon:

Prof. Dr. Kristin Westphal from the University of Koblenz-Landau: “Kids on Stage – Potentials of Intergenerational Performance Art”.

Dr. Miriam Haller from kubia, the competence centre for cultural education in old age and inclusion: “Age(ing) trouble! Performances, performance and performativity of age(ing)”.

Artistic Outreach – The Empathic Body

Artistic Outreach – The Empathic Body

DABEI

The format “Artistic Outreach – the empathic body” is centrally based on the transfer of choreographic methods on the topics of empathy (2020-2023), distance (2021), imitation (2022) and manipulation (2023), which will be taught in workshops and advanced training courses to students and teachers in schools in Cologne and NRW as well as in Munich.

The program accompanies the stage productions of Silke Z. and the ensemble DIE METABOLISTEN.

Students are invited to attend the professional rehearsal processes and to participate in the development of material (movement and texts). In this way, the Generation U 20 “advises” the artistic team and becomes part of the creative-artistic output.

The content is conveyed to students and teachers in schools and in cooperation with other institutions in Cologne with the help of analog and digital workshops. If there are further school closures due to the pandemic, we will switch to purely digital teaching and reflection. In these formats, the students and teachers will nevertheless gain practical, dance-based experience on the topic and work together. The project also includes participation in rehearsals and performances as part of the productions, possibly in the form of live stream formats.

Many of the current social problems are caused by people experiencing a lack of self-worth, self-efficacy and social recognition. Especially in times of pandemic, isolation and “social distancing” exacerbate this problem. What is one’s own – and idiosyncratic – must be constantly hemmed in to predetermined guidelines. As a result, the richness of individual potential and confidence in one’s own abilities and needs are lost. The resulting feelings of alienation are in turn compensated for by devaluing other perspectives and life plans. A vicious circle with visibly destructive consequences for democratic and solidarity-based coexistence: isolation, narcissism and feelings of loss of meaning increase. Empathy falls by the proverbial wayside.

The large-scale participation project “The empathic body” starts – instead of external performance requirements – from the stubbornness and potential of each individual. Thus, this concept initiates a fundamental change of perspective towards a contemporary understanding of education, which is able to promote a more social togetherness in the sense of strengthening community and self-efficacy.

The main target group for the outreach program are students (children and youth), teachers and lecturers who would like to participate in workshops between 2021 and 2023.

If you are interested, please contact us at:

E-Mail: admin@resistdance.de
Tel: 0221 2226663

Photo: © Meyer Originals

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