Historic Figures: Introduction to Contemporary Dance, workshop
The workshop Introduction to Contemporary Dance provides the spectator with basic reading and contextual tools with which we enter into the process of »reading« and thinking about contemporary dance. Using crucial historical paradigms and their contexts, we will explore the productive and creative turns of contemporary dance in the twentieth century and how they have changed the way we think about and treat dance bodies, space, time, choreographic structures, the instance of the choreographer, dance spectator, dance institutions, etc. We will present pivotal historic and contextual moments in which turns and shifts in the production and creation of contemporary dance works and their conceptions (from performances to studio practices) have emerged. We will also address the ways in which different contemporary dance publics have responded to dance work, how they were produced, cultivated and changed. Our historic lens will cover the period from the transition between the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, through the historical avant-gardes, to the post Second World War period and the last decades of the twentieth century; from the early modern dance to the conceptual dance or »post-dance«.
Workshop facilitators
Rok Vevar and Jasmina Založnik, PhD
Approach
Our work will draw on documentary film footage from the collection of the Temporary Slovenian Dance Archive at the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova. The workshop will take the form of lectures and discussions. Participants will have the opportunity to attend performances of the 2023 CoFestival, the international festival of contemporary dance, and other productions of Nomad Dance Academy Slovenia at discounted rates (cultural euro).
Place and Time
The twice monthly workshop will be held on Fridays between 3:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. at the Temporary Slovenian Dance Archive at the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, 1st floor. In the event that the workshop will not be held on the scheduled date due to objective circumstances, alternative schedules will be arranged.
13 October 2023
27 October 2023
10 November 2023
8 December 2023
Analysis Of Contemporary Dance, workshop
At the workshop Analysis of Contemporary Dance, we will focus on specific works and practices that are more closely related to contemporary artistic practices of the last decades. To a period when contemporary dance departed from the classical forms of modern dance compositions. When the following were introduced into its practices:
Workshop facilitators
Rok Vevar and Jasmina Založnik, PhD
Approach
Each session will be based on a particular dance work or a series of examples, which will be shown using videos from the audio-visual collection of the Temporary Slovenian Dance Archive at Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova. It will be based on lectures and discussions. We will invite guests to specific sessions: choreographers, theorists and curators of our local contemporary dance community. Participants will have the opportunity to attend performances of the 2023 CoFestival, the international festival of contemporary dance, and other productions of Nomad Dance Academy Slovenia at discounted rates (cultural euro).
Place and Time
The twice monthly workshop will be held on Fridays between 3:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. at the Temporary Slovenian Dance Archive at the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, 1st floor. In the event that the workshop will not be held on the scheduled date due to objective circumstances, alternative schedules will be arranged.
20 October 2023
3 November 2023
17 November 2023
1 December 2023