DANCE BEYOND BORDERS • PODIUM DISCUSSION
"Methodologies and creative processes in dance education"
The project dance beyond borders is an encounter between ten young choreographers, school directors, teachers and artists from across Europe to question the function of Dance schools and what role they play in a dance student life, as a choreographer or interpreter. DanceKiosk is also interested in understanding the basis of school programs and how these dance institutions are reflecting upon the development of a new generation of dancers and dance makers.
with Gaby Allard, director of School of Dance, Arnheim; Natalie Gordon, Retina Dance Company; Thomas Kampe, London Metropolitan University; Francisco Pedro, Escola Superior de Danca, Lisbon; and directors, teachers from several dance schools and institutions from Hamburg
Moderation by Irmela Kästner, Author and dance critic, Hamburg
July 20. 2009
K3-Zentrum für Choreographie Hamburg, 4 pm
(ca. 90 minutes) • Language: English • Free Entrance
Gaby Allard was educated at the Royal conservatoire in The Haque. For 15 years she was contracted as dancer with Dance Works Rotterdam, a repertory company in contemporary Dance. In the final years of her dancing she developed her teaching skills and became Artistic assistant/rehearsal director. In the four years prior to her work at ArtEZ she worked at Codarts Dance Academy.
Besides co-ordinating the Bachelors and Master program in choreography she developed a complete health program for the school and did research on Injury behaviour of dance students as well as periodising/tapering in dance. This as a continuation of her work and research for the company Dance Works with NOC*NSF on Load and overload which have led to publication.
Gaby Allard is chairman of the Dutch Health Care Foundation and active within the Rotterdam Art Council as adviser.
In 2002 she was awarded the ‘Prijs der Verdienste’ from the Dansersfonds 79 for her overall contribution to the dance in The Netherlands.
Francisco Pedro born in Portugal 1969 he started the dance studies in 1983 in the Escola de Formação de Bailarinos da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, continued his Education Area Bachelor in the Escola Superior de Dança. He danced in the works of: Olga Roriz, Vasco Wellenkamp, MadalenaVictorino, Paula Massano, Gregory Nash, Andrea Morein, Bruno Cochat, Gagik Ismailian, Rui Nunes, Rita Judas. He is an independent and free-lancer, choreographer and dancer, since 1990 and teaches in the Escola Superior de Dança since 1991. At the present time he is doing the MA in Choreography, in Tilburg/Netherlands
Thomas Kampe has worked with movement for more than 25 years. He worked as a performer, choreographer and director in Germany and Britain and currently works as a senior lecturer for dance at the London Metropolitan University. He has taught somatic approaches towards movement education mainly for performers in different settings around the world. He is a teacher of the Feldenkrais Method®, which forms a foundation for his research and teaching of dance and movement.
London Metropolitan University
This institution offers an interdisciplinary 3 Year Performing Arts Programme (BA), along side with a BA (hons) in Theatre Studies. The dance provision at Londonmet is delivering a somatic and culturally diverse student centred curriculum responding to the growing diversity in student body.
The choreographic focus of the curriculum offers an education of the dancer as interdisciplinary dance maker. Students experience European, US based, and African contemporary dance techniques and approaches, supported by the study of cutting edge body-learning approaches such as Bartenieff Fundamentals or The Feldenkrais Method, thus bridging the gap between The Arts, Education and Health within a 21th century urban cultural context.
The Metropolitan University is currently developing a series of MA and Post Graduate courses in Performing Arts, including a Pg Diploma in Somatic Movement Practice.
In may 2008 the Metropolitan University organized “Moving into Health” a cross disciplinary symposium on the role of performance and movement in relation to health within the community.
The Facility Performance as Research was created in 2005 response to London Metropolitan’s thriving Performing Arts/Theatre Studies department. It was and is staffed by a mixture of highly skilled and experienced theatre/dance academics and practitioners. These include choreographers, live art performance makers, directors, actors, dancers, and scenographers. Most of these members of staff continue to work in the professional theatre/dance field and are interested in developing research through performance. There are also many high profile performance practitioners associated with the University either as Visiting Lecturers, ex-students, research students, through the Professional Performance Programme or via the Graeae-Training for performers with disabilities residency.
Natalie Gordon trained in dance and business studies at the University of Roehampton in London, which initiated her interest in Laban theories. She continued her advanced notator training at the Labanotation Institute, which inspired her to explore the full realm of Laban’s theories in the Integrated Movement Studies programme in America. Since her certification she has specialised in teaching Labananalysis and Bartenieff Fundamentals as well as being the Producer of Retina Dance Company. When previously living in England she managed Random and Physical Recall Dance Companies and taught at the University of Roehampton for several years. She now leads numerous Laban and Bartenieff courses internationally and collaborates with Retina Dance Company as their movement analyst.
Raul Valdez was born in Santo Domingo (Domenic. Republic), studied ballett and modern dance in Santo Domingo, Cuba (Escuela Nacional de Danza) and New York (Dance Theatre of Harlem). He danced among others in the Adriana Urdaneta Dance Company and "Danza hoy" at the Theater Teresa Carrena. He toured in Europa and America. Ballet Contemporáneo del Teatro San Martin, under the direction of Oscar Araiz. Ballettensemble at the Staatstheater Braunschweig, direction Pierre Wyss. He worked together with different well-known choreographs - Antonio Gomes, Anna Maria Stekelmann, Ben Ida, Jean Renshaw etc. Choreography award "Prix Don Perignon". Choreography- assignment for the Staatstheater Braunschweig, Karlsruhe and the Ballet Nacional Dominicano. Dancer and soloist in many productions, among others at the. Staatstheater Bern.
Irmela Kästner, Hamburg, works as freelancer dance journalist and reviewer for the daily and specialized press. She is author of book articles, film and tv produktions in cooperation with the Deutschen Tanzfilminstitut Bremen. Her book „Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker – Meg Stuart“ was published 2007 in the K.Kieser-Verlag, in cooperation with the photograph Tina Ruisinger. She studied psychologie at the University Kiel and got the MA-degree at the Laban Centre for Movement and Dance, London. She has lectureship and research assignements at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg, dramaturgy for the Hamburg Ballett/John Neumeier, among others. Between 2000 and 2004 she documented and accompanied the encounter Internationaler Tanzaustausch Ruhr at the pact zollverein in Essen. She is also curator and producer for contemporary dance projects as artistic co-director of the Tanzinitiative Hamburg.
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