DANCERS INSTEAD OF SOLDIERS OR: GESTURES AGAINST FEAR
On new spaces of experience for dance
Excerpts from the interview that the author, dramaturg and curator Margarita Tsomou conducted prior to the Dance Congress 2016 with the choreographer Boris Charmatz in January 2016. [PDF]


HOW DID YOU COME TOGETHER?
On Contemporaneity in Dance and Performance
Lecture by Krassimira Kruschkova
On 7 October 2010 at Tanzquartier Vienna a visitor asked the performers on stage: "How did you come together?" "By train", was Christine De Smedt's laconic answer, accompanied by a disarming smile. ... [PDF]


POLITICS OF LABELLING AND POLITICS OF DANCE TECHNIQUES
Report on the Lab: De-colonizing Dance: Postcoloniality and Contemporaneity
By Guy Cools
The German dance scholars Gabriele Klein and Claude Jansen invited two generations of African choreographers, the Senegalese Germaine Acogny and the South-African Mamela Nyamza... [PDF]


EMBODYING THE POLITICAL: AN IMPERATIVE DIALOGUE
Report on the Lab: Embodying the Political
By Katherine Mezur
Perhaps the entire Tanzkongress 2016 could be called "Embodying the Political," because the theme "Being Contemporary" spun into motion the many already political provocations of "whose contemporary?"... [PDF]


DANCE AND PERFORMANCE IN DUCKBURG: WIR SIND DER SCHNABEL DER WELT
Report on the Lecture: Dance and Performance in Duckburg
By Martina Ruhsam
On the urgency of upgrading dance projects in decentral regions
"Dance and Performance in Duckburg. Wir sind der Schnabel der Welt" was the title of the event that Franz Anton Cramer, Matjaž Farič and Ingrid Türk-Chlapek... [PDF]


CRITIQUE LIGHT? Or: WHAT IS YOUR DISCOURSE?
Confronting the Institutionalization of Theory in Contemporary Dance Education
Report on the Discussion: Critique Light?
By Gabriele Wittmann
It is fashionable. Everyone follows it. And everyone uses it: the term 'discourse'. It can be found in most of the mission statements of German dance education institutes. ... [PDF]


LET'S TALK ABOUT WORK, HONEY! – ATTEMPT AT A RECONSTRUCTION
Report on the Salon: Let's talk about work, honey!
By Christine Standfest
"For her three-part salon 'Let's talk about work, honey!', the choreographer Claudia Bosse invited practitioners from different artistic disciplines to joint work sessions. ... [PDF]