Gesellschaft für Tanzforschung
Wir schaffen Begegnung!
October 27–29, 2023, Cologne
in cooperation with the Centre for Contemporary Dance (CCD), Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln and German Dance Archive Cologne (DTK), with the participation of the Department of Sociology of movement and sport, Philipps-Universität Marburg and École de Recherche Graphique, Brussels (L’erg)
Ecologies on the Move! With its twofold focus on virtualities and ecologies, this year’s annual conference of the Society for Dance Research (gtf) investigates the influence and impact of hybrid media-centered constellations that emerge around dance and dancing. AI in the performative arts, digital education cultures, or an understanding of dance as a data (structure) in archiving propel questions such as:
What practices, discourses, and aesthetics have emerged socially, technically, artistically with and since digitization - and in the aftermath of the pandemic - and how can we research and move with them? What collaborative forms of working together are being opened up by digital media? And how can dance(s) be thought of as an ecological structure, especially under these circumstances?
The conference addresses these questions on- and offline in lectures, workshops and motion labs. Scrolling, speculating, discussing and always in motion, we want to take a look at historical antecedents in the negotiation between dance and technology as well as reflect on changing settings, ways of working and collective knowledge production. We want to ask how - based on an understanding of dance as embedded in socio-ecological structures - media dispositifs of staging, (colonial) power structures and hierarchies can be critically reflected in the virtual realm.
Theoretical contributions of renowned international speakers will examine topics such as choreographies and dramaturgies of the digital, practices of archiving, narratives (from) the crisis, technologies of mediation, or the productivity of the figure of thought of 'ecologies' for (dance) theory and practice. The physical-experimental formats will wander 'hands on' through virtual landscapes or bring bodies and avatars into conversation with each other.
The symposium thus can be seen as a meeting place for interdisciplinary scientific and artistic expertise and, with the participation of numerous cooperation partners and "NFDI4Culture", explicitly invites the sharing of knowledge and networks. Further embedded in the conference is the general meeting and the board elections of the gtf.
Concept/Planning/Execution: Prof. Dr. Yvonne Hardt, Anna Chwialkowska, Marisa Berg, Ulrike Nestler
Click here for the official conference programme.
Accommodation options
Hotel Viktoria
Address: Worringer Str. 23, 50668 Cologne (by underground in about 20 minutes each to ZZT and DTK).
Prices: Single room 99 €/night incl. breakfast, double room 110 €/night.
Centro Hotel Royal
Address: Hansaring 96, 50670 Cologne (by underground in about 10 minutes to the ZZT, walking distance to the DTK about 12 minutes).
Prices: Single room 99 €/night incl. breakfast, triple room 139 €/night incl. breakfast.