publications

Martin, S. (2024) Performing Bodies / Performing Relationships. In: Tau, R., Kloetzer, L., Henein, S. (eds.) Barefoot Academic Teaching: Performing Arts as Pedagogical Tool in Higher Education. Edition Scenario. Berlin: Schibri. https://www.schibri.de/978-3-86863-280-4/barefoot-academic-teaching Bauer, L.; Boos, P.; Martin, S.; Nöthen, E.; Reuter, G. (2023) Er-Fahrung – Cycling Spaces im Salon Raumverstehen: Mobilitätspraktiken im Quartier geographisch-künstlerisch beforschen.… Continue reading publications

Newest Article: Embodying Recognition

Photo: Simon Henein, ASCOPET symposium 13 June 2019 "Learning to Improvise..."

Dance Improvisation for Scientists My new artistic research article /exposition is in the Research Catalogue (2023) OPEN ACCESS – GO HERE From the perspective of a dance artist and artistic researcher, I trace the details of how and why I created events for scientists to encounter dance improvisation through shared exploration and shared reflection. Interlacing… Continue reading Newest Article: Embodying Recognition

Dancing Age(ing) lecture performances 2019 – 2023

24 May 2023 Jung bleiben und Sterben üben – eine Lecture Performance zu Alter(n) und Tanz, Ringvorlesung, Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Alterns- und Care-Forschung, Karl Franzen Universität Graz 4 December 2022 Üben, Üben, Üben NachWieVor – Fachtag Tanzperformance und Alter(n), Ehrenfeld Studios Köln, Germany 30 January 2020 Dancing Age(ing): an Ongoing Practice and a Danced Lecture… Continue reading Dancing Age(ing) lecture performances 2019 – 2023

Article: Dancing with Real Bodies

Dancing with Real Bodies: Dance Improvisation for Engineering, Science, and Architecture Students is published in “Algorithmic and Aesthetic Literacy 2021 OPEN ACCESS HERE How can dance improvisation contribute to learning processes within a technical university? This article proposes an answer to this question from the perspective of an artistic researcher and dancer who specializes in… Continue reading Article: Dancing with Real Bodies

Artistic Research Project: Improvisation for Scientists

Photo: Gordon Below

A postdoctoral research project at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, hosted by Instant-Lab, Prof. Simon Henein. My artistic research is part of the interdisciplinary research project ASCOPET (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).… Continue reading Artistic Research Project: Improvisation for Scientists

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… Continue reading teaching lately

Artistic Research Lecture Performances – other themes

– 3 April 2022 Miteinander improvisieren: Ein Tanz, ein Vortrag und zwei Übungen zum Sich-Anstecken, Lecture Performance, Symposium Gruppenpsychoanalyse, Wien – 25 October 2018 Ties & Bonds, together with Alex Nowitz, conference Alliances & Communalities, University of the Arts, Stockholm, Sweden – 7 April 2018 Learning. Teaching. Dancing. An interactive danced lecture, Tanzfabrik Berlin –… Continue reading Artistic Research Lecture Performances – other themes

Dancing Age(ing) lecture performances 2017

Photo Annika Fredriksson

September 2017, Searching for the Fountain of Age – a danced lecture, Colloquium on Artistic Research in Performing Arts (CARPA 5), Theatre Academy and the Academy of Fine Arts, UniartsHelsinki, Finnland.See publication here 7 July 2017, Improvising Age(ing) or dancing around the fountain of youth and the fountain of age – a danced lecture and… Continue reading Dancing Age(ing) lecture performances 2017

Dancing Age(ing) lecture performances 2014 – 2016

Photo: Lars Åsling

7 Dec 2016, Performing Age(ing): Sliding through Time – a danced lecture, Academy of Music and Drama, University of Gothenburg, Sweden 1 Dec 2016, Performing Age(ing): Sliding through Time – a danced lecture, SITE, artistic platform and production house for contemporary performing arts, Stockholm, Sweden 29 Nov 2016, Performing Age(ing): Sliding through Time – a… Continue reading Dancing Age(ing) lecture performances 2014 – 2016

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, BerlinDuration: 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… Continue reading Doctor D meets Doctor V 2016

The Fountain of Age 2015

Photos W. Gillingham Sutton​​ A Solo / Dance / Piece / Lecture / Performance / Research This solo performance constitutes one of two artistic outcomes I present as part of my PhD dissertation Dancing Age(ing) at Middlesex University London. Premiere: 18 June 2015, Ravensfield Theatre MIddlesex University LondonDuration: 40 minSupported by: Middlesex University London, Tanzfabrik… Continue reading The Fountain of Age 2015

Dancing Age(ing) lecture performances 2013

21 November 2013 18800 Bewegungen und 1000 Worte, an deren Ende wir alle 30 Minuten älter sein werden – Ein getanzter Vortrag, Werkstattgespräch kulturelle Generationenarbeit, Berlin 12 October 2013 Dancing Age(ing): An improvisation-based performance of 18800 movements and 1000 words during which we grow 30 minutes older, Symposium of Society for Dance Research at Middlesex… Continue reading Dancing Age(ing) lecture performances 2013

The Research Project Dancing Age(ing) work in progress spring 2013

Summary My PhD research engages with the premise that Western artistic dance can be seen as holding an interesting multi-layered position in relation to age(ing). On one hand, it most often focuses on youthful physicality and therefore takes part in an unquestioned marginalisation of ageing bodies, which, according to critical age studies (Woodward 1999, Gullette… Continue reading The Research Project Dancing Age(ing) work in progress spring 2013

The Fountain of Youth & The Shadow 2013

Photos Lars Åsling, Graphic Sophie Jahnke The Shadow and The Fountain of Youth – Two Dances on Staying Alive As a new step in their long-term collaboration Bronja Novak Lindblad (Göteborg) & Susanne Martin (Berlin) have created each a solo on the same subject: the facts of getting older and sustaining in the world of… Continue reading The Fountain of Youth & The Shadow 2013

Rosi tanzt Rosi – The Winter Version 2009

photos David Bergé

Performances at Critical Path, Sydney and Lucy Guerin Studio, Melbourne in  January 2009 during the residency at Critical Path, and as semester-presentation for MA SODA at HZT Berlin at Uferstudios Berlin “During her stay in Sydney and Melbourne she will work on her solo Rosi tanzt Rosi, dealing in it with the notion of narration… Continue reading Rosi tanzt Rosi – The Winter Version 2009