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dear all, to share with you
the news of this exciting workshop/conference now in session:
(E)MOTION FREQUENCY deceleration
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In its second module the International ChoreoLab Austria discussed the theory and practice of the choreo-sonar discourse. In 2011, from August 27th to September 4th, it will again deal with a current topic in the context of science and the performative arts: the desire for deceleration.
Stress, breathlessness, exhaustion – these are the symptoms of our modern life-style pursued by most people around us. Our life is determined by the ticking of the clock or the slavery imposed by electronic 'tags' most beloved by those who still consider stress to be a kind of status symbol. One thing is clear: those who do not surrender to the increasing speed of everyday life will very likely end up with the short end of the stick. It almost seems as if the unstoppable disengagement of life from natural and traditional rhythms simply can not be stopped.
Among other things, lectures, discussions and bodywork will raise the issue of how substantial changes in dealing with time can be achieved in the sense of deceleration, and what the roles of the performative arts in addition to science will be.
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from the program:
Sunday, 28 August 2011
10.00 am Introduction Sebastian Prantl
10.30 am (E)MOTION SPACE I
Henrietta Horn - Dancer/Choreographer, former Co - Director of Folkwang
Studios, Essen/Germany
02.00 pm (E)MOTION SPACE II Henrietta Horn
07.00 pm ROUND TABLE I Featured Guest Participants Presentation/Discussion
// Monday, 29 August 2011
09.00 am MOTION FREQUENCY Sebastian Prantl
10.30 am LIGHT RHYTHM Renate Hammer
02.00 pm SPACE FREQUENCY Sebastian Prantl
07.00 pm Sundowner - touching frequencies
// Tuesday, 30 August 2011
09.30 am NAMING THE MOTION I Amos Hetz – Dancer/Choreographer (EWMN),
Body Thinker, former Head of Movement Department at the Jerusalem
Academy of Music and Dance/Israel
02.00 pm NAMING THE MOTION II Amos Hetz
07.00 pm ROUND TABLE II: IN SEARCH OF THE MISSING LINK Video Presentation
Amos Hetz, Featured Guest Participants Presentation/Discussion
// Wednesday, 31 August 2011
10.00 am DECELERATION Fritz Reheis – Social Scientist, University of Bamberg/
Germany
02.00 pm (E)MOTION IN THE FRAME
Gerald Trimmel - Head of Austrian Center for Film Studies and
Hannes Rauchberger - Course Director of Austrian Center for Film Studies,
DUK
08.00 pm VIEWFINDER - Film Screening
// Thursday, 1 September 2011
10.00 am MOTION FREQUENCY/NEW MEDIA I Johannes Birringer -
Independent Media Choreographer and Artistic Director of Dap Lab
Brunel University, School of Arts, London/UK
02.00 pm MOTION FREQUENCY/NEW MEDIA II
Johannes Birringer/Sebastian Prantl
08.00 pm BUTOH Open Lecture Demonstration
Yoshito Ohno, Dancer/Choreographer -
Founding Protagonist of Butoh, Tokyo/Japan
// Friday, 2 September 2011
10.00 am BUTOH Yoshito Ohno
03.00 pm SOUND/MUSIC FREQUENCY Eva Maria Stöckler - Head of Center
for Contemporary Music, DUK
08.00 pm SOUND/LIGHT FREQUENCY Concert
Cecilia Li - Piano Solo, Music Director of Tanz Atelier Wien,
Vienna/Taipei
Victoria Coeln - Light Artist, Chromolab, Vienna
// Saturday, 3 September 2011
10.00 am EXODUS: POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY, AESTHETIC PRACTICE
Soenke Zehle - Media Theorist, Academy of Fine Arts Saar,
Director Experimental Media Lab (XMLab), Saarbrücken/Germany
02.00 pm DECELERATION - A STATE OF MIND AND BODY
Performative Analysis - Soenke Zehle / Sebastian Prantl
07.00 pm PARTICIPANTS PERFORMANCE/Real Time Composition
http://www.tanzatelierwien.at/en/international-choreolab-austria-modul3.php
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The ICLA invites to butoh-lecture-performance, piano concert with visuals and a choreographic real time composition.
The Desire for Deceleration
The ICLA invites to a butoh-lecture-performance with Yoshito Ohno (Sept. 1st), a piano concert with visuals by Cecilia Li and Victoria Coeln (Sept. 2nd) and a choreographic real time composition with all participants (Sept. 3rd)
In the framework of the interdisciplinary seminar „(E)MOTION FREQUENCY_deceleration“, which takes place from August 27th to September 4th at Danube University Krems, the International ChoreoLab Austria invites interested persons to three public performances. International artists provide an insight for a wider audience into the creative engagement with a current issue: the desire for deceleration in the complex interface of motion and emotion:
Thursday September 1st 2011, 8 pm:
BUTOH Open Lecture Demonstration
Yoshito Ohno, Dancer / Choreograph – Founding Protagonist of Butoh, Tokyo/Japan
Introduction into the Japanese butoh dance by doyen Yoshito Ohno
Contribution fee: 10 Euro
The Japanese butoh dance – also referred to as ankoku butô or “dance of darkness” – has been created by Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno following World War II. Influenced by the catastrophic effects of war, butoh developed into a revolutionary form of artistic expression, revolting against a forced Americanization as well as the rigidity and conservatism in traditional Japanese culture during this period.
Yoshito Ohno – son of Kazuo Ohno – played a central role in the very first butoh piece “Kinjiki” in 1959, which raised a scandal during the performance and outraged the audience. Today he is director of the Kazuo Ohno Dance Studio in Tokyo. Yoshito Ohno is travelling from the urban centre of Tokyo to the idyllic town of Krems – located in the heart of the wine-growing region – to celebrate deceleration by introducing a different perception of the body. In the face of the fragility of our contemporary society – as made evident by the catastrophe in Japan – butoh proposes an alternative to the rationalistic worldview. Having no definite form and using playful, meditative or grotesque imagery and slow “hyper-controlled motion”, this Japanese dance form deals with important cross-cultural topics. Accepted, celebrated and practiced as a unique performance art internationally, it flourishes increasingly in regard to a philosophical path (a way of living) beyond art making.
Friday, September 2nd 2011, 8 pm:
SOUND / LIGHT FREQUENCY Concert
Cecilia Li, Piano Solo / Music Director of Tanz Atelier Wien, Vienna/Taipei
Victoria Coeln, Light Artist Chromolab, Vienna
Music by Claude Debussy: 12 préludes pour piano, Book II
Contribution fee: 10 Euro
Taiwan-born piano soloist and music director of Tanz Atelier Wien, Cecilia Li, is performing an experiment on light and sound together with the Viennese Light Artist Victoria Coeln. In this conscious combination of visual and acoustic arts, the music by Claude Debussy will be the starting point for compositions with light, which are created live, in response to the music. Claude Debussy – who was inspired in his compositions by Asiatic traditions – demanded of his music to stimulate the fantasy and create a world of inner pictures.
Saturday, September 3rd 2011, 7pm:
(E)MOTION FREQUENCY_DECELERATION Final group performance
Final group performance at Campus Krems
Admission free!
A choreographic real time composition forms the conclusion of the interdisciplinary seminar „(E)MOTION FREQUENCY_ deceleration“, the third module of the International ChoreoLab Austria. International dancers and experts from different disciplines – who have travelled to Austria from all parts of the world – are preparing a choreographic performance, cross linking the contents of the seminar and drawing up a summary. The participants demonstrate their own engagement with an expanded understanding of choreography in an improvisational framework and present their own interpretation of deceleration in the complex interface of motion and emotion.
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