The Choreographic Forum
What is the position of makers and the position of the audience?
The Choreographic Forum is a moderated interdisciplinary discourse with and within experts, professionals, and enthusiasts in the fields of contemporary art, far beyond performing arts.
The rise of unconventional and participatory forms in performing arts opens up the question of how artists think about the role of general public as well as their own role while preparing or playing an artistic piece. Perhaps audience also strives to define its own role when attending a performance?
We invite choreographers, dancers, performers, directors, dramaturgists, theorists, critics, interdisciplinary artists, visual artists, architects, and others who are interested in inquiry into the question: What is the position of makers and the position of the audience? We intend to look at the topic from different perspectives including non-performative perspectives.
The Choreographic Forum is a unique 4-days combo that involves watching performances, and theoretical and practical workshops, which boosts all doers, thinkers, and observers.
The Choreographic Forum is a part of the international festival 4 + 4 Days in Motion in Prague, Czech Republic.
Theoretical and practical workshops will be led by:
Angela Conquet a Melbourne-based independent dance curator, arts leader, researcher, and PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne. Her 20-year professional career spans three continents, Europe, Australia, and Canada. She brings curatorial, artistic as well as executive expertise in performing arts, festivals, arts leadership, publishing, and arts policy and advocacy. Angela established DanceHouse diary – an online archive of publications which presents a global cross-disciplinary approach with a view to articulate the many and subtle connections between moving body, political body, and social body. The approach intends to activate creative and specifically corporeal thinking and imagination with regards to how we choreograph our place in the world.
Branislava Kuburović is a researcher, educator, and writer in the interdisciplinary fields of performance and visual culture. Her research focuses on art & memory, and on art and performance working with marginal histories, including histories of exile and migration. Her published texts engage with the practices of a number of contemporary artists, and the final writing in many cases results from various processes of collaboration with the artists themselves. Branislava holds a PhD in Performance and Visual Culture awarded by the University of Roehampton in London in 2011 and has taught performance and visual culture at several universities in the UK including Goldsmiths College, Chelsea School of Art and Design and University of South Wales in Cardiff. She is now Programme Leader for the MA Fine Art programme at Prague City University, the only UK-accredited University in Prague, Czech Republic. She also teaches at the Department of Alternative and Puppet Theatre at the Prague Theatre Academy, both in the English MA programme in Devised and Object Theatre and the Czech MA programme.
Samuli Nordberg is a Finnish choreographer, director, performing artist, and pedagogue based in Helsinki, Finland. He is currently a University Lecturer in Acting at Tampere University (Näty). He has an extensive background in contemporary and traditional dance, physical performance-making, Finnish theatre pedagogy, and collective performance-making practices. His ongoing doctoral research investigates the phenomenon of embodied decision-making in collective processes. He is also working on a research project that focuses on the impact of the digital revolution on acting and dramaturgy.
The Choreographic Forum will be in English.
Date: 5–8 October 2024
Venue: Kampus Hybernská, Block E
Program:
SATURDAY 5.10.2024
Meeting: 19:00 | ARCHA+
Performance: 20.00 | Antoine Defoort (F): Elles Vivent (They Live), ARCHA+
SUNDAY 6.10.2024
9.00–13.00| Workshop with Angela Conquet and discussion, Kampus Hybernská, Block E
Performance:
14.30 | Tantehorse (CZ): Children U, NA CIBULCE city walk, Praha 5
MONDAY 7.10.2024
13.00–17.00 | Workshop with Samuli Nordberg and discussion, Kampus Hybernská, Block E
Performances:
18.00 | Jana Látalová, Marta Trpišovská, Lea Švejdová: Stojíme v pohnutí, ARCHA+20.00 | Martine Pisani, Michikazu Matsune (F/AT): Kono atari no dokoka, ARCHA+
TUESDAY 8.10.2024
Performances:
10.00–12.30 | Museography Choreography: Alice Chauchat (produced by SE.S.TA, National Gallery – Veletržní palác14.00–18.00|Workshop with Branislava Kuburović and discussion, Kampus Hybernská, Block E
Fee:
We launch an Open call for 10 persons to be part of Choreographic Forum – intensive (4-day combo).
OPEN CALL FORM
INTENSIVE EXPERIENCE
1000 CZK (includes tickets to 5 performances, 3 workshops with experts, and small refreshment)
Early bird apply until 8.9.2024
1250 CZK (includes tickets to 5 performances, 3 workshops with experts, and small refreshment)
Apply until 25.9.2024REGULAR EXPERIENCE
1 workshop 300 CZK (includes 1 workshop, small refreshment)
2 workshops 550 CZK (includes 2 workshops, small refreshment)
3 workshops 750 CZK (includes 3 workshops, small refreshment)Please note: the price of the regular experience is without tickets to the performances!
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Contact:
Katarína Brestovanská
katarina.brestovanska@se-s-ta.cz’
+421 905 212 052
