Encounters build trust, inspire new ideas, and spark creativity. Through networking, knowledge is increased; through personal exchange, perspectives in dance research are examined, questioned, and concretized.
The Society for Dance Research fosters the discourse on dance in its manifold manifestations both on a national and international level. We bring together people who are interested in different aspects of dance, from art and culture, science and research, education and therapy.
Through its activities, events and conferences, the gtf facilitates communication and exchange: in dance research, dance education and dance performance. It provides the framework for a professional and international exchange and represents the interests of dance studies towards the political and cultural public.
Annual conference of the Gesellschaft für Tanzforschung (gtf) 2023
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)
New technologies and digital formats in dance practice and performance not only change the way we produce, teach, appropriate and receive dance, but also make transparent how we are interdependent in our diverse practices and production processes. In the aftermath of the pandemic and the increasing shift in using digital technologies, questions arise about how we (want to) work together, in what constellations and through which technologies.
Research Award of the Society for Dance Research
Deadline: 31 July 2023
For the fifth time, the Gesellschaft für Tanzforschung e. V. (gtf) announces a research award for academic theses in dance in 2023. The award aims to recognise and encourage young academics who are researching a topic in the field of dance.
The research award comes with a prize money of € 300,- and a free gtf membership for one year (incl. current copy of the yearbook Dance Research) as well as the publication of the thesis in the internal section of the gtf website.
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We warmly congratulated Antonia Gersch and Johanna Kasperowitsch on receiving the gtf Research Award!
The following Master's theses were awarded:
The award aims to recognise and encourage young scholars who are researching a topic in the field of dance.
Read more about the award winners and their work here.
Research Day Dance Therapy 2023: Past - Present - Future.
13 May 2023 | MSH Medical School Hamburg
Registration deadline is 23 April 2023
The Society for Dance Research (gtf) and the Professional Association of Dance Therapists of Germany (BTD) are organising the Research Day Dance Therapy at the Faculty of Art, Health and Social Science of MSH Medical School Hamburg on 13 May 2023 from 10 am to 6 pm.
Jahrbuch TanzForschung 2021
Sevi Bayraktar / Mariama Diagne / Yvonne Hardt / Sabine Karoß / Jutta Krauß (Hg.)
Pandemien und Kriege verdeutlichen, wie Gesellschaften mit eingeschränktem körperlichem Miteinander und verringertem Bewegungsradius starre Formen des Teilens aufzeigen. Die Beitragenden des Bandes betrachten Ausschlusspraktiken und untersuchen das Teilen aus intersektionalen Perspektiven, um (Un-)Möglichkeiten des In-Kontakt-Tretens von Kunstschaffenden, Forschenden und Zuschauenden zu entwerfen.
Erschienen am 21. September 2022 im transcript Verlag
SENS(e)ATION Tagung vom IPF Institute for the Performing Arts and Film, ZHdK auf Vimeo.
Open Access: Vorteile für den Wissenschaftsbetrieb
Open Access bedeutet, dass Leser_innen uneingeschränkten, kostenlosen Online-Zugang zur elektronischen Ausgabe von wissenschaftlichen Publikationen haben.
Unsere Jahrbücher sind seit 2017 im Open Access beim transcript Verlag (transcript-verlag.de)
Re-Routing Routines / Routinen reflektieren
4.–6.11.2022 | Frankfurt am Main
Das diesjährige gtf-Symposium widmete sich der Neubetrachtung von Routinen im Kontext von Tanz und dessen Vermittlung sowie einem Versuch der Neubestimmung von Routinen in einem drastisch veränderten Alltag. Zu untersuchen sind Routinen, die sich im Spannungsfeld von Stabilisierung und Veränderung bewegen.
Das gtf-Symposium fand in Kooperation mit der Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst (HfMDK) in Frankfurt am Main statt.