A symposium on qualities, professionalism(s) and power

When is dance professional? This much-discussed question takes on heightened relevance when dancers challenge established visual habits.

Knowing that conventionally traditional criteria are not sufficient, the symposium UNPROFESSIONAL WORLDS? – taking into account the special knowledge and needs that make up mixed-abled dance – with dance critics, curators, teachers and other experts to explore questions of quality criteria, processuality and power. Special attention will be paid to the effects of barrier low-threshold on what happens on stage.

Furthermore, the study MOVE2GETHER!, commissioned by LOFFT – DAS THEATER and our Associate Artists from FORWARD DANCE COMPANY, will be presented during the conference. With the aim of eliciting the necessary framework conditions for mixed-abled dance to be practiced under professional conditions, the authors Ulrike Nestler and Fabian Chyle conducted a field study based on a Germany-wide inventory.

PROCEDURE

12:00 – 12:20 Welcome and introduction
Anne-Cathrin Lessel and Gustavo Fijalkow

12:20 – 13:00 Working Groups: When is mixed-abled dance work professional?
Working-groups leaders: Alessandro Schiattarella, Markéta Stránská

13:00 – 13:30 Lunch break

13:30 – 14:00 Key-Note: Michael Turinsky

14:00 – 14:15 Presentation of the results from the working groups

14:15 – 15:45 Panel discussion
Prof. Dr. Stephan Brinkmann, Dr. Fabian Chyle-Silvestri, Gerda König, Isabella Spirig, Arnd Wesemann, Moderation: Dr. Gustavo Fijalkow

15:45 – 16:00 End

Streaming:

German language stream + registration, including German sign language here.

English stream + registration here.

Participation to the stream is free of charge, registration required.