ON AVANT-GARDE DANCE AND SOCIETAL CONCEPTS IN THE BALLETS RUSSES

By Nicole Haitzinger

A CO-OPERATION BETWEEN MUNICH’S HAUS DER KUNST AND THE FESTIVAL DANCE2006

By Helmut Ploebst

The reconstruction, re-enactment or here, “re-doing” of Allan Kaprow’s landmark opus “18 Happenings in 6 Parts” by the New York-based dance theoretician André Lepecki in co-operation with the curator Stephanie Rosenthal at Haus der Kunst in Munich presented a genuine highlight of the festival Dance2006.

ANSWERED FOR CORPUS BY ANDREY ANDRIANOV, ROSEMARY BUTCHER, JULYEN HAMILTON, SUSAN T. KLEIN, JEREMY KRAUSS, STEVE PAXTON, AND LINDA RABIN

Questions: Sabina Holzer and Katrin Roschangar

BENOÎT LACHAMBRE ABOUT A SHAMANIST APPROACH, GENDER ISSUES, BODY PRACTICES, TEACHING, CIRCUS & THE SPECTACLE, AND HIS RESEARCH CENTRE

A conversation with Sabina Holzer

MATHILDE MONNIER: AGING IN DANCE IS A POLITICAL ISSUE

The human body is intelligent and well equipped to create tools, rules and skills to survive various situations! How do we survive (in) the world of art? Two young dancers and choreographers, Valerie Oberleithner and Agnieszka Ryszkiewicz, met two advanced contemporary artists, the Vienna based choreographer Frans Poelstra and the French choreographer and head of the CCN of Montpellier Mathilde Monnier to talk about their personal ways of surviving. Read in the following 1st part about Mathilde Monnier’s survival strategies as she explained them to her interviewer Valerie Oberleithner in Hotel Biedermeier, Vienna.

FRANZ POELSTRA: IS HAVING NO STRATEGY A STRATEGY?

The human body is intelligent and well equipped to create tools, rules and skills to survive various situations! How do we survive (in) the world of art? Two young dancers and choreographers, Valerie Oberleithner and Agnieszka Ryszkiewicz, met two advanced contemporary artists, the Vienna based choreographer Frans Poelstra and the French choreographer and head of the CCN of Montpellier Mathilde Monnier to talk about their personal ways of surviving.

To talk about survival strategies Agnieszka Ryszkiewicz welcomed Frans Poelstra in a basement in Bandgasse, 7th district of Vienna, that serves as stock to a children shop. As father of two kids, Poelstra is immediately drawn to the toys that surround us. Eventually he will leave the space with empty hands. Stealing is not part of his survival strategies.

ABOUT "MORE MORE MORE... FUTURE" presented at brut Wien in the frameWORK of Wiener Festwochen

Material from a conversation with Michikazu Matsune

A TALK INITIATED

By Sabina Holzer

AN INTERVIEW WITH THE JAPANESE CHOREOGRAPHER

By diaTXT / Kyoto

The neologism "prublic" is a combination of "private" and "public". As can be seen representatively with blogs and "otaku" culture and the like, through the rapid popularization of the internet, communities possessing certain public characteristics are appearing in all sorts of forms throughout the world. As a result, the boundary between the so-called "private" and "public" has become blurred, and it seems that the difference between private and public domains is indeed becoming difficult to distinguish. On examining the question "What is to be done? (Education)" put forward by documenta 12, we realized that the abovementioned phenomenon is a major issue in many areas of Japanese education today. And in the art scene since the nineties, new and diverse forms of expression have been appearing that are thoroughly grounded in private sensibilities and personal everyday things while also being closely connected to contemporary society. [...]

ABOUT "SPECTACULAR" AND OTHER REALMS OF GHOSTLINESS. A TALK ON THE PHONE

By Helmut Ploebst

The Indian choreographer about her country, her culture, and her work. A talk with Daniel Aschwanden and Helmut Ploebst.

A CONVERSATION ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF A GAY SCIENCE

By Pierre Zaoui and Mathieu Potte-Bonneville

THE OUTSTANDING GERMAN CHOREOGRAPHER TALKS

and Michikazu Matsune listens

A triangular conversation between Andrei Andrianov, Oleg Soulimenko and Jack Hauser. Part of a performance at Tanzquartier Wien in the framework of Correspondances, June 2, 2007.
Transcribed by David Ender.

The Norwegian choreographer about his pieces and projects, about the body, dance & movement, Jérôme Bel, culture & colonialism, terrorism and the army. An interview by Jack Hauser and Helmut Ploebst.

A NEW VERBATIM TRANSCRIPT FOR DOCUMENTA 12 MAGAZINES

By INTO-GAL

THE POETIC SURVEY OF DANCE. A PORTRAIT.

By Irmela Kästner

THE CONSTRUCTION OF REALITY

By Helmut Ploebst

CUNNINGHAM, DUCHAMP, AND NAM JUNE PAIK'S TWO MERCES

By Mark Franko

“Therefore, everything seen – every object, that is, plus the process of looking at it – is a Duchamp.”
John Cage[i]

(FOR MERCE CUNNINGHAM)

By Yvonne Rainer

A TEXT BY JOANA VON MAYER TRINIDADE FOLLOWED BY A TRANSCRIPTION OF AN INTERVIEW WITH THE ARTIST RUTI SELA

By David Vaughan
 (Archivist, Merce Cunningham Dance Company)

A DOCUMENTARY ON GUARDS

By Bertrand Flanet

A CONVERSATION WITH MATHILDE MONNIER

By Kate Mattingly

A TALK WITH SIMONE FORTI IN THE FOYER OF ZKM / CENTER FOR ART AND MEDIA, KARLSRUHE DURING THE LAST MOMENTS OF THE EXHIBITION “MOMENTS”

By Martina Ruhsam

A COMMENTED INTERVIEW WITH GRACIELA CARNEVALE

By Rose Beermann

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