Schlagwort-Archive: Improvisation

Was ist Tanz? (April 2022)

Centre Francais Berlin S.K.A.T.#1 Was ist Tanz Flyer 27.04.22
Mit Susanne Martin und Jan Burkhardt

Durch eine Mischung von Vortrag, Workshop und Performance widmen wir uns einigen zentralen Tanzthemen wie zum Beispiel:

Wonach gucken wir, wenn wir Tanz sehen?
Woran denken wir, wenn wir selbst tanzen?
Wie verhält sich Tanz zu Ton und zu Musik?
Was könnte man wissen und was will ich wissen über Tanz?
Wie passen Tanz und Alter(n) zusammen?

Anders gesagt: Mit Hilfe von Wahrnehmungsaufgaben, Bewegungsaufgaben (kein Zwang) und gemeinsamem Nachdenken lade ich ein, sich dem Phänomen Tanz anzunähern. Außerdem konnte ich meinen wunderbaren Kollegen Jan Burkhardt (Tänzer/Choreograph/Tanzvermittler) gewinnen in einem Gastbeitrag etwas zu unserem Tanzverstehen beizutragen. Also es wird spannend. Vorwissen oder spezielle körperliche Fähigkeiten sind nicht erforderlich. Alle Altersgruppen sind willkommen, Expert*innen und Genies jeglicher Art dürfen auch mitmachen.

Alle Fotos: Félicie Bleesz

 

Fotos: Félicie Bleesz

Publications

Martin, S. (forthcoming) Other Bodies of Knowledge: Dance improvisation as embodied recognition practice for scientists. In: Werquin, P., Klein, R., Ravet, S. (eds.) Decolonising Recognition. Editions Atlantique (open access), www.decolonising.openrecognition.org)

Haller, M. and Martin, S. (2022) Ageing trouble tanzen! In: Hiesl, A. und Kaiser, R. (eds.) War schön. Kann weg: Altern in der darstellenden Kunst. Berlin: Theater der Zeit.
https://www.theaterderzeit.de/buch/war_scho%CC%88n._kann_weg_%E2%80%A6/
ISBN 978-3-95749-406-1

Martin, S. and Rustad, H. (2021) Crisis Collective. In: Howden Sjøvaag J., Peters, D., Mydland. A. H. (eds.) Crisis Collective: relic site – contributions to a lost conference. Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen.  https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1190427/1190428 https://www.researchcatalogue.net/portals/issue?issue=1213711

Martin, S. (2021) Dancing with Real Bodies. In: Schulze Heuling, L., Filk, C. (eds.) Algorithmic and Aesthetic Literacy. Emerging Transdisciplinary Explorations for the Digital Age. Opladen: Barbara Budrich. (open access)
https://shop.budrich.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/10.322484742428.02.pdf

Martin, S. (2021) Performing Age(ing): A Lecture Performance. In: Hülsen-Esch, A. (ed.) Cultural Perspectives on Ageing. Berlin: De Gruyter. (open access)
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110683042-010/html

Martin, S. (2020) Dancing Age(ing): 3000 Bewegungen und 1000 Worte an deren Ende wir alle 40 Minuten älter sein werden. In: Stronegger, W., Attems, K. (eds.) Altersbilder und Sorgestrukturen. 3. Goldegger Dialogforum Mensch und Endlichkeit. Baden-Baden: Nomos. https://www.nomos-shop.de/nomos/titel/altersbilder-und-sorgestrukturen-id-81263/

Kloetzer, L., Henein, S., Tau, R., Martin, S., Valterio, J. (2020) Teaching Through Performing Arts in Higher Education: Examples in Engineering and Psychology. Scenario 14 (2). (open access) https://journals.ucc.ie/index.php/scenario/article/view/scenario-14-2-1/pdf-en

Kramer, P., Meehan, E., Martin, S., Voris, A. (2019) About Adequacy: Making Body-based Artistic Research Public. In: Bacon, J., Hilton, R., Kramer, P., and Midgelow V. (eds.)  Researching (in/as) Motion: A Resource Collection, Artistic Doctorates in Europe, Theatre Academy, University of the Arts, Helsinki: Nivel 10. (open access) https://nivel.teak.fi/adie/about-adequacy/

Martin S. (2019) Ageing and Dance. In: Gu D., Dupre M. (eds.) Encyclopedia of Gerontology and Population Aging. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69892-2_257-1

Martin, S. (2019) book review on Mark Edward, Mesearch and the Performing Body. Dance Research, 37(1), pp. 120–121. https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/drs.2019.0262

Martin, S. (2018) Learning. Teaching. Dancing. In Cramer, F.A., Lanteri, J., Orlok, L., Stein, A. (eds.) Remembering the Future: 40 Jahre Tanzfabrik Berlin. Berlin: Tanzfabrik Berlin. https://www.booksonthemove.fr/en/produit/remembering-the-future-40-jahre-tanzfabrik-berlin/

Raphael, R. and Martin, S. (2018) On Dance and Aging: An Interview with Berlin-Based Researcher-Dancer Susanne Martin. Review of Disability Studies, 14 (4).
https://rdsjournal.org/index.php/journal/article/view/867

Martin, S. (2017) Searching for the Fountain of Age: Script of a Danced Lecture. Proceedings of the conference Carpa 5: Perilious Experience? Extending Experience through Artistic Research. Uniarts Helsinki, Finnland. August 31 to September 2, 2017. https://nivel.teak.fi/carpa5/susanne-martin-searching-for-the-fountain-of-age-script-of-a-danced-lecture/

Martin S. (2017) Dancing Age(ing): Rethinking Age(ing) in and through Improvisation Practice and Performance. Bielefeld: transcript. https://www.transcript-publishing.com/978-3-8376-3714-4/dancing-age-ing/

Artistic Research on Improvisation & Engineering

A postdoctoral research project at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), hosted by Instant-Lab, Prof. Simon Henein

In this postdoctoral research I examine dance improvisation in its potential to rethink and advance processes of learning and researching in a technical university. Placed in the context of EPFL, a university specialised in engineering, the project takes a new approach to exploring and articulating the practice-knowledge of dance improvisers in relation to the needs of scientists, students and educators in higher education. As such this artistic research situates itself right at the heart of the critical discourses around the dichotomies of practice/theory, art/science, body/mind, action/reflection, as well as the divide between object and subject in research processes. The sensing body, reflection in action, and play are the practical themes of the project.

My artistic research project is part of the ASCOPET research (Les arts de la scène comme outil pédagogique dans l’enseignement tertiaire), a collaboration between Prof. Simon Henein, EPFL and Prof. Laure Kloetzer, University of Neuchatel (Unine). In June 2019 we held the first international ASCOPET symposium on higher education learning through performance practices on the EPFL campus. The event offered an opportunity for an international exchange on applying performing arts and improvisation methods to higher education.
Organisation and Curation: Laure Kloetzer and Susanne Martin
Speakers: Simon Henein / Laure Kloetzer / Ramiro Tau, Switzerland;  Jonathan Parker, UK; Helle Winther, Denmark; Francesco Mondada, Switzerland; Gunter Lösel / Nicole Erichsen, Germany / Switzerland; Fran Iglesias Gracia, Spain; Susanne Martin, Germany / Switzerland.

See also: https://www.epfl.ch/labs/instantlab/improgineering/

Public Presentations:

– 27.10.2020 Improvisation für die Universität? Gewohnheiten in Bewegung Lecture Performance, Saalfrei Festival Stuttgart

Photo: Gordon Below

Photo: Gordon Below

Photo: Gordon Below

– 21 January 2020 Improvising to Collaborate – Collaborating to Improvise research presentation with Martin Sonderkamp during the annual research week at the University of the Arts Stockholm

photo: Sissel Behring, research week at Uniarts Stockholm 21.1.2020, presentation Martin/Sonderkamp

– June 2019 Bodies in the Making interactive danced lecture with generous participation of  Norah Zuniga Shaw, Soundance Festival Berlin

Video: Andrea Keiz, Bodies in the Making, 22 June 2019, collaboration with Norah Zuniga Shaw

Video: Andrea Keiz, Bodies in the Making, 22 June 2019, improvisation of participants

Video: Andrea Keiz, Bodies in the Making, 22 June 2019

-13 June 2019 Learning to Improvise – Improvising to Learn interactive danced lecture with generous participation of Alexandra Macdonald and EPFL master students, during the Symposium on Higher Education Learning through Performance Practices, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland

Photo: Simon Henein, ASCOPET symposium 13 June 2019 , Presentation „Learning to Improvise…“ improvisation of Improgineering students

Photo: Simon Henein, ASCOPET symposium 13 June 2019 ,Presentation „Learning to Improvise…“ improvisation with Alexandra Macdonald

Photo: Simon Henein, ASCOPET symposium 13 June 2019 „Learning to Improvise…“, improvisation with Alexandra Macdonald

Photo: Simon Henein, EPFL symposium 13 June 2019, Presentation „Learning to Improvise…“

-23 March 2019, IMPROGINEERING or Move Towards the Unknown, Fall Into a Gap, and Find a Body There, together with Simon Henein, international conference Society of Artistic Research SAR, Zürich.

Video: Joelle Valterio, SAR Conference 2019 Presentation Heinein/Martin performing improvisation

Video: Joelle Valterio, SAR Conference 2019 Presentation Heinein/Martin performing improvisation

Video: Joelle Valterio, SAR Conference 2019 Presentation Heinein/Martin, improvisation of participants

-25 January 2019 Improvisation and Engineering, Eawag, The Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science & Technology, Zürich, Switzerland

-7 September 2018 IMPROGINEERING interactive lecture performance together with Simon Henein and Joelle Valterio, Conférence Européenne de l’Improvisation (CEPI) Haute Ville, Puget, France

See on the website of epfl.ch:

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Performing Improvisation – VARIA Festival Sweden 2018

19/20 October 2018 at Konstepidemin Göteborg

Participating artists:
Susanne Martin choreographer, dancer (DE)
Irena Z. Tomažin voice artist, dancer (SI)
Alessio Castellacci composer, voice artist (IT/DE)
Alex Nowitz composer, voice artist (DE)
Hui-Chun Lin musician, composer-artist (TW/DE)
Lisa Larsdotter Petersson performance and visual -artist (S)Video-light installation & video documentation – Christina Hallström filmmaker, visual artist (NL/S) Moderator conversation – Jannine Rivel choreographer, dancer (S)
In collaboration with VARIA

teaching lately

– SS 2022 Erst- und Zweitbegegnungen mit Tanzimprovisation Evangelische Hochschule Berlin

– SS 2022 Tanzimprovisation & Methoden künstlerischer Forschung Evangelische Hochschule Berlin-

– 3.5.2022 Body and Voice in Teaching, Workshop EPFL Lausanne

– 27.4.2022 Was ist Tanz? Workshop / Lecture Performance zusammen mit Jan Burkhardt, Centre Francais Berlin, https://centre-francais.de/events/skat-1-was-ist-tanz-mit-susanne-martin-und-jan-burkhardt/

–  Somatic Research and Documentation Workshop 26/27 March 2022
Information and registration via Somatische Akademie Berlin: https://www.somatische-akademie.de/en/your-account/booking-en

– Movement Improvisation for University Teachers (together with S. Henein) Feb & Sept 2022, in Lausanne. More infos: www.epfl.ch/labs/instantlab/ascopet

 

– WS 2021/22 Tanzimprovisation & Methoden künstlerischer Forschung Evangelische Hochschule Berlin

– SS 2021 Erst- und Zweitbegegnungen mit Tanzimprovisation Evangelische Hochschule Berlin

–  20/21 March 2021 Online Workshop Somatic Research and Documentation
Information and registration via Somatische Akademie Berlin

-August 2020 CI Workshop, international contact improvisation festival, Freiburg (cancelled)

– July 2020 CI Workshop, The Netherlands Contact Improvisation Festival (cancelled)

– 14/15 March 2020 Workshop Grundlagen somatische & künstlerische Forschung / Dokumentation, S. Martin & A. Keiz, somatische Akademie Berlin

– 27 February 2019 Dancing with Real Bodies, improvisation class for MA students of EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland as part of the EPFL research project Improvisation & Engineering

– 16-17 February 2019 Workshop Grundlagen somatische & künstlerische Forschung / Dokumentation, S. Martin & A. Keiz, somatische Akademie Berlin

–15 – 21 October 2018 dancer training and performances for VARIA Festival Göteborg, Sweden

– 23/24 July 2018 Workshop Bad Performance For Shy Artists, transart institute, summer intensive Berlin

– 29 May – 6 June 2018 CI Workshop Watch Us Dance, Ukraine CI Festival, see website ci-ukraine.com/wpWatch Us Dance,

– 24/25 March 2018 Workshop Grundlagen somatische & künstlerische Forschung / Dokumentation, S. Martin & A. Keiz, somatische Akademie Berlin

–18/19 November 2017 Workshop Body & Milieu Body IQ Festival, Somatische Akademie Berlin

– 16 – 22 June 2017 CI Workshop Dancing with Others – Dancing for Others, Bucharest CI Festival

 

Performing Improvisation at Bucharest Contact Improvisation Festival (2017)

22 June 2017, group improvisation performance of the teachers at Bucharest Contact Improvisation Festival, with Steven Batts, Inna Falkova, Elisa Ghion, Sergey Golovnya, Susanne Martin, Virginia Negru, Adrian Russi, Alexandra Soshnikova, venue: CNDB (Centrul Național al Dansului Bucuresti)

Photo Eugene Titov, duet with Adrian Russi

Photo: Alina Usurelu, duet with Virginia Negru

Photo Alina Usurelu, duet with Adrian Russi

Photo Alina Usurelu, with Steven Batts, Elisa Ghion, Susanne Martin, Virginia Negru

What do I teach (in 2019)?

My teaching deals mainly with dance, improvisation, performance, the body in different contexts, artistic research methods, or topics such as such as dance & age(ing) or improvisation & engineering, which developed out of my own artistic research.

In which formats do I teach?
– Workshops / Classes = practice oriented, limited time for verbal interaction
– Seminars = mix of input, practical exploration, group reflections/discussion
– Supervising / Coaching = one to one work, content focus tailored to supervisee
– Lecture Performances = performances aiming at knowledge production/dissemination, therefore therefore including a substantial amount of verbalizing

Workshops / Classes
Generally speaking, I teach what I embody as dancer and performer. I teach what I know most about, what I learned and still passionately study. So I design my dance teaching around one of the following 3 focal points
– contact Improvisation
– improvisation and composition for performance (group-duet-solo)
– improvisation-based workout

Photo Eugene Titov, contact workshop Dancing with Others – Dancing for Others, Bucharest Contact Festival 2017

Seminars
These are thematic seminars that combine practical and theoretical inputs and explorations with the participants. Themes are
– artistic research
– improvisation as exploration, as performance, as research
– showing process on stage, staging your work (e.g. “bad performing for shy artists”)
– dance & age(ing) (e.g. “undoing age appropriateness”)
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Supervising / Coaching
I started to support individuals and groups in developing their respective artistic research practices. Currently I am supervising some MFA students, helping them the find, find back, not loose their very unique paths through the jungle of art and academia., I’m sharing inputs, tools and strategies from dance, theatre, artistic research and from my personal experience with collaborative artistic practice. I’m supporting processes of performance making

Photo:Harald Mühle, Zeitgenössischer Tanz und Alter(n), Dialog der Generationen Werkstattgepräche, Berlin 2013

Lecture Performances
I keep developing the hybrid format of lecture performance.
I’m staging, dancing and discussing specific themes often with invited guests and/or the audience – these lectures often include some audience activity/participation. For past lecture performances go to „Research“ and “Salons” in the menu.

Video Still Benedikte Esperi, Dancing Age(ing) – Sliding through Time, Göteborg University for Music and Drama, Q&A with Benedikte Esperi 2017

Doctor D meets Doctor V (2016)

Susanne Martin and Alex Nowitz

Premiere: July 7, 2016, at festival Improvisation Xchange Berlin – berlin arts united at Dock 11, Berlin
Duration: 60 min

An interdisciplinary dialogue between two artistic research projects, one based in dance, the other in voice/live electronics
(spoken language English)
In this three-part performance Susanne Martin and Alex Nowitz each share, explain, and perform aspects of their respective research for the other and for the audience. Susanne’s research “Dancing Age(ing)” rethinks age(ing) critically in and through improvisation practice and performance. With “The Multi-Vocal Voice” Alex traces the potentialities for the contemporary performance voice without and with technological means, i.e. live electronic instruments. Finally they enter into a duet improvisation in which they allow their ideas and modes of performing to merge, interact and possibly inspire each other.

TIN Pieces (London 2015)

23.10. 2015 Middlesex University London

‘TIN Pieces’ is a playful evening of improvised performance by members of the TransDisciplinary Improvisation Network (TIN) based at Middlesex University and their guests.
Exploring processes of instant composition, within and across dance, music and theatre the event promises to be a lively celebration of all things spontaneous. The evening is shaped through a chain like structure in which ‘scored’ improvisation pieces are linked by open ‘riffing’ spaces alongside interactions with the audience, who will have opportunities to shape the emerging improvisations.
Including world class performers in Music (Ben Dwyer, Garth Knox, Jonathan Impett and Simon Limbrick), Dance (Susanne Martin, Jovair Longo, Helen Kindred)  and Performance (anthologyofames collective), TIN pieces emerge from shared interests in improvisatory processes and play, feedback loops, fear and vulnerability, touch and embodied knowing.

With: Mariana Camilotti, Antonio de la Fe, Ben Dwyer, Peter Gomes, Jonathan Impett, Helen Kindred, Garth Knox, Simon Limbrick, Jovair Longo, Susanne Martin, Vida Midgelow, Maga Radlowska, Petra Söör, Robert Vesty,

The Performance is part of The Cultural Capital Exchange, Inside Out Festival, and ‘What’s in a Name?: Improvisation Symposium (Oct 23rd & 24th, Middlesex University)

Korsobad: on Stage (2014)

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Photos Steffen Rüttinger		 IMG_4934 IMG_5305

07.06.2014
Duet with Gabriele Reuter
Solo (work in progress for The Fountain of Age)
Group improvisation with all performers

Ein Abend mit kurzen Tanzstücken, Improvisationen und Live Musik, kuratiert von Gabriele Reuter. Diesmal mit Solos von Susanne Martin, Maria Colusi, Lutz Streun (Saxophon) und Previews der neuen Stücke von Philip Amann und Gabriele Reuter/Mattef Kuhlmey. Danach tanzbare Musik von Montage.

 

Susi & Gabi’s Salon #5 #6 #10 Leicester

#5
30.10.2011 at Embrace Arts Centre, Leicester
Salon Guests: Jo Breslin, Sally Doughty, Marie Fitzpatrick & Kerry Francksen

#6
27.11.2011 at Embrace Arts Centre, Leicester
Salon Guests: Pete Shenton, Miriam Keye, Annie Woodhouse, Rachel Liggitt

#10
03.11.2012 at Embrace Arts Centre, Leicester
Salon Guests: Caroline Bowditch, Jo Breslin, Jill Cowley & Sally Doughty

Thank you for the support of Embrace Arts Centre, Dance 4 Nottingham and Tanzfabrik Berlin

Hoppalappa Postfolki Tanzi Teateri 2008 – 2012

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Photos Viktor Rahmqvist		 Photo Viktor Rahmqvist 50440017_1024

An improvisational performance project by
Katarina Eriksson (San Francisco)
Susanne Martin (Berlin)
Bronja Novak Lindblad (Gothenburg)
Coaching: Andrew Morrish
Production: Big Wind
Supported by: the city of Gothenburg and Statens Kulturråd

The studio version:
Sept. 2008, Konstepidemin Gothenburg

The stage version:
Premiered 23.5.2009, Atalante, Gothenburg
Performance time: 75 min
Light: Victor Wendin
Touring: Stockholm, Malmö, Berlin

The site specific version:
June 2012 in Gothenburg

At the intersection of folkdance culture and contemporary improvisation culture this international trio indulges in made up and experienced cultural roots, traditions they never had and dances they never learned.
Connecting home is: the practice of improvisation and contact improvisation.
The shared questions are: how much improvisation can a thematically set piece take without bursting? And how much individuality can an improvised trio take without falling apart?
Dressed in Bavarian Dirndl’s, armed with irony, supported by newest improvisation technologies the three dancers dig into our projections and clichés of country living and the traditional. They are odd and familiar in their pride of and will for a self-made nature idyll and in their passionate attempt to include every soul in the room into the warmth of their temporary village.

Press:
“Hoppalappa is a performance you want to experience rather than observe“
“Hoppalappa, an hour long display of exhilaration, strings of associations, of well trained collaboration and of joyful courage towards the unknown. The safety net is called humour.“
“It was a joy to look into the minds of these crazy performers and to be embraced by their warm madness when it’s so damn cold outside.”