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If you need exact details about times, dates, overlaps, and scheduling, please check the calendar link below!
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The years program is recurringly updated, if you‘re missing a price or an important information or if you have questions about our program, please get in touch.
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Overview: upcoming events
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Jump to: February–March 2020
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Jump to: April–May 2020
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Jump to: June–July 2020
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Overview: August–November 2020
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WORKSHOPS
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Ponderosa workshops — including those both in and outside the dates of the Tanzland Festival
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FESTIVAL
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P.O.R.C.H.
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Everything to do with the P.O.R.C.H. programme.
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RESIDENCY
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Residencies at Ponderosa.
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GARDEN CLUB
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COLOR BLOCK
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Events that are part of the Color Block series of events in 2020.
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AIR CAMP
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Events that are part of the Air Camp series.
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SOMATICS
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Events that are part of Ponderosa’s ongoing somatics, yoga, and contact improvisation work.
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TIPPING UTOPIA
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Events occurring under the curatorial direction of the Tipping Utopia initiative.
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SPECIAL EVENTS
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Special events. This includes one-off concerts, installations, performances, lectures, and lots more.
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24. February–13. March, 2020:
Winter Artist Exchange |
RESIDENCY
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Cost: 490€ all-inclusive · Admission: by application
The Winter Artist Exchange is a three-week open residency which will happen at Ponderosa. You are invited to participate. Applications are open to all interested people and groups — including, but not limited to, artists, researchers, curators, dancers, and writers. This time of the Winter Artist Exchange is offered as an opportunity for artistic work and research, in a collaborative environment, together with other participants.
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13.–15. March, 2020:
Embodied Thinking: Library Hibernation · With Diana Thielen and Florence Freitag |
SPECIAL EVENTS
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Cost: 81€ all-inclusive ·
For this years’ Library Hibernation, facilitated by Diana Thielen and Florence Freitag, we would like to work around and with ideas of “embodied thinking” and expand the idea of thoughts and theory beyond words.
Starting from questions like how to move with words, letters or books, we would like to explore — through movement and somatic exchanges but also through discussions, writing and reading prompts, improvisations and meditations — how to understand concepts and theories differently, and transfer this knowledge into the everyday. In a very practical way, we also would like to work on the idea of a living library. Which books are present in the library, which books are needed, which stories are told? How can theory become practice and vice versa and how much does fiction tell us about our every life? |
Photo: Avishag Gaya
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13.–29. March, 2020:
Winter Writing Retreat · With Carrie Hampel |
RESIDENCY
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Cost: 378€ all-inclusive ·Admission: by application
14 days of intense group writing retreat with coordination by Carrie Hampel of shared readings and feedback sessions with other writers. Open to playwrights, journalists, fiction and non-fiction authors, and performance makers working on text / dialogue work.
Carrie will allow time during the residency for writers to read their work if they wish, and to give each other feedback as required. Writers and storytellers of all kinds are welcome to work on their fiction or non-fiction, theatre or performance plays, essays, articles, short stories, book projects or novels during the retreat. To apply, send an email to sign.up@ponderosa-dance.de with a short outline of why you would like to be part of the residency. The 14 days residency starting on the 13th of March will take a weekend break from 20-22nd of March, as the Musik und Sterne-Festival is taking place in Ponderosa. If you're interested get your ticket now! |
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27. – 29. März, 2020:
Kundalini and Social Bread Scores of Digestive Improvisations · With Leo Kay and Stephanie Maher |
SOMATICS · WORKSHOPS
GARDEN CLUB · SPECIAL EVENTS |
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We are going to share a bursting spring weekend of Bread baking, guided by The Bakery of Slow Ideas. We will integrate kundalini yoga and other somatic practices that address the digestive system and the microorganisms that guide our life prana and its happy absorption.
We will start the day with a few hours of Kundalini practice, followed by a session of bread baking. We will share an in-depth and ritualized context for reflection and the digestion of artistic ideas. These elements will coexist and contribute to the sourdough bread baking process and its togetherness factor- the basics, the simple things, the aliveness of the hundreds of years old sourdough starter and the clever insides of us coming into focus through psychophysical awareness. More about the Bakery of Slow Ideas can be found here! |
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April–May, 2020:
Garden Club |
SOMATICS · WORKSHOPS
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Level: beginners welcome
Garden Club is an ongoing series of gatherings in the Ponderosa garden — ranging from artistic research, to practical skill-sharing, to the hands-on dirty work of garden care — inviting engagement with the ongoing interplay of ecology, food, somatics, and local landscape in which the garden lives.
In May we proudly present out series of Permaculture Workshops, so save these dates and get ready to get your hands dirt! Please contact Leonardo the gardener if interested! April 17-19: The Way to Forest Gardening May 2-3: Organic Vegetable Beds May 16-17: How to avoid parasites: Aromatic plants, pest confuser, attracting predators and trapping crops May 30-31: Soil food web These events are a relaxed and emergent ongoing process, and they have their own newsletter — sign up if you’re interested in staying up-to-date about it all. They are overseen by Shelley Etkin, Leo Kay, Stephanie Maher, and Leonardo Cocucci.
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3. – 5. April, 2020:
Still Dancing/ Integrative Practice 1 ·With Stephanie Maher |
SOMATICS · WORKSHOPS
TIPPING UTOPIA |
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Workshop · Early-bird deadline: 11. March
Cost 81€( (early-bird) / 98€ (standard) | All inclusive This is an intensive workshop about motion, somatic support and energetic reliance. We will deconstruct patterns and pathways of coordination that no longer serve us. We are diving into an improvisational flow of integrative practices which are drawing from Kundalini Yoga, fake Klein-Technique, Qigong, Contact Improvisation, release techniques and “Psychic Jogging”. Within the 5 hours a day we will focus on the physical exploration and integration of the preconceptions of our various movement practices. We will accentuate the use of alignment and efficiency in our structure and activate questions about spiritual dogma and the meaning in movement, to tune our attention to repetitive motion that possibly enhances strength. Non-doing is an option and we need freedom and fucking fun in our dancing bodies!
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13. – 19. April, 2020:
Spring Garden Camp |
SOMATICS · WORKSHOPS
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Work exchange week: by application only!
Welcome to our garden, as the yearly Ponderosa tradition goes on: We invite you for a week of work in the garden, in exchange for free stay, delicious food and dirty fingernails.
Along with the holidays of rebirth, the garden starts to bud, emerging from its winter dreams. This is a beautiful chance to come out to the village, witness the raw shapes of the garden, and experiment with new moves in old grounds. Expect to break a sweat and your effervescent host on the ground, Stephanie Maher will be here to hand out the shovels and motivate the dirt(y) work. So grab some old clothes, leave the city and contact Stephanie here with interest! |
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Workshop · Early-bird deadline: 3. April
Cost 82€( (Early-Bird) / 98€ (standard) | Level: beginners welcome This spring weekend workshop offers you a great introduction to permaculture and gardening, with both theory and practice in the field.
What are the possible solutions for the main contradictions of modern agriculture? And how can we understand forest gardening as a possible remedy to the general agricultural trend? On friday after a lunch together we will have a 2 hour afternoon workshop, that give an introduction into soil fertility, modern agriculture and the main contradictions of this practice. On saturday we will have an introduction to forest gardening, followed by 2 hours practical experience of creating a balanced polyculture patch. On Sunday will will eventually spend time designing a food forest. You will pay for your food for this workshop by donation- we exchange our garden work for supporting the infrastructure and sustainable thinking around the Ponderosa future! This weekend workshop is the first one in an ongoing series and exploration of permaculture and garden events. To get an overview about all of the events happening, you can check our monthly events of the Garden Club and sign up with our garden newsletter- spread the word and we‘re glad to see you at the next permaculture workshop.
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20. – 24. April, 2020:
Still Dancing /Integrative Practice 2 ·With Stephanie Maher |
SOMATICS · WORKSHOPS
TIPPING UTOPIA |
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Workshop · Early-bird deadline: 5. April
Cost: 165€ (early-bird) / 195€ (standard) All inclusive! This is an intensive workshop about motion, somatic support and energetic reliance. We will deconstruct patterns and pathways of coordination that no longer serve us. We are diving into an improvisational flow of integrative practices which are drawing from Kundalini Yoga, fake Klein-Technique, Qigong, Contact Improvisation, release techniques and “Psychic Jogging”. Within the 5 hours a day we will focus on the physical exploration and integration of the preconceptions of our various movement practices. We will accentuate the use of alignment and efficiency in our structure and activate questions about spiritual dogma and the meaning in movement, to tune our attention to repetitive motion that possibly enhances strength. Non-doing is an option and we need freedom and fucking fun in our dancing bodies!
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24.–26. April, 2020:
BhaktiChi · With Don Hanson |
WORKSHOPS · SPECIAL EVENTS
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Don Hanson has been a profound teacher to many artists. Being introduced with his work in Germany in 2019 at the Tanzkongress Ponderosa invites Don to continue spreading this process throughout the international dance community. His work is non-dogmatic and deeply challenges us to stay in the body for direct knowledge and intuitive guidance. We work with his guidance in an intimately led group process while learning to take responsibility for our own journey to heal.
BhaktiChi is a process of cleansing, purifying, awakening and enlightening. As we check in with our belief systems as artists and laymen, we are given tools how to embrace our own gifts. By raising our physical body vibration and transmitting Chi energies we can stay interconnected, accepting of ourselves and continue to bring our best to all we hope to accomplish. |
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27. April–8. May, 2020:
Beltane Residency |
RESIDENCY
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Cost: 240€–300€ sliding-scale, all-inclusive · Admission: by application until 31. January
What is Beltane? The beginning of May, halfway between the spring equinox and the summer solstice. We will light a fire together to celebrate this day and start our creative growth for the spring. The ground will be thawed and the plants will be coming up from the earth. Our energy and creativity will start to emerge from our minds and bodies.
Coral Short, Adi Brief and Caitlin Fisher are collaborating to bring a spring multimedia residency to Ponderosa. During the days we will have three studios to work together in, including the newly-constructed and heated accessible Light Castle. We can enjoy our meals on the porch overlooking the luscious budding gardens of Ponderosa's matriarch. Our previous dynamic gatherings have brought incredibly talented people together from Berlin and around the world. This residency is a chance to finish your project or start a new one — be it video, sound, performance, or something else. We will provide a projector for artists’ talks and movie nights. We strive to create an art-making utopia for a full twelve days — a magical space to raise up queer and feminist artists’ unique and diverse practices. This is a safer space in which to realise your dreams, try out something new, research ideas, or just read that stack of books you’ve been collecting. We find people get a lot done during these twelve days outside cities' distracting energies. We encourage people to share their morning movement practices with us in the beautiful studios. Vegetarian dinners are an event every night full of idea sharing, stories and laughter. We all share in cooking and kitchen cleaning to lower our costs. Gluten-free and vegan options will be available. If you are not free during this time we encourage you to invite your friends who may benefit from this special time and place. To apply, send CV and short proposal of your project, along with a link to a website, Facebook page, Instagram page, or other online presence to beltane.residency@gmail.com. |
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15.–17. May, 2020:
Enqueery Within · With Diana Thielen, Kata Kovács, and Camille Barton |
WORKSHOPS · SOMATICS
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Cost: 190€ all-inclusive · Level: beginners welcome · Admission: by application
A weekend of contact improvisation creating space for FLT*I* communities. Let’s explore intimacy, trust, the space around us, and our movements, together. With our diverse bodies, we’ll share weight, touch, contact, movement, and dances, and pave the way for healing from heteronormativity and gender normativity — in the dance and movement world, and beyond.
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June–July, 2020:
Garden Club |
SOMATICS · WORKSHOPS
GARDEN CLUB · TIPPING UTOPIA |
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Level: beginners welcome
Garden Club is an ongoing series of gatherings in the Ponderosa garden — ranging from artistic research, to practical skill-sharing, to the hands-on dirty work of garden care — inviting engagement with the ongoing interplay of ecology, food, somatics, and local landscape in which the garden lives.
In June we proudly present our ongoing series of Permaculture Workshops, so save these dates and get ready to get your hands dirt! Please contact Leonardo the gardener if interested! June 13-14: Doing compost June 27-28: Do it yourself: Compost tea and organic empowering fertilizers or pests controller potions July 11-12: Edible plants in Ponderosa: Knowing their use and benefits These events are a relaxed and emergent ongoing process, and they have their own newsletter — sign up if you’re interested in staying up-to-date about it all. They are overseen by Shelley Etkin, Leo Kay, Stephanie Maher, and Leonardo Cocucci.Garden Club is an ongoing series of gatherings in the Ponderosa garden — ranging from artistic research, to practical skill-sharing, to the hands-on dirty work of garden care — inviting engagement with the ongoing interplay of ecology, food, somatics, and local landscape in which the garden lives. |
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15.–26. June, 2020:
Garden as Studio Lab |
SOMATICS · WORKSHOPS
GARDEN CLUB · TIPPING UTOPIA |
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Cost: 70€ + daily garden work exchange · Admission: by application
Evolving as an artistic research stream within a residency period, Garden as Studio is devoted to relations of bodies and place with/in the Ponderosa land.
Garden as Studio has previously occurred in various formats (last year spinning off into the 2019 P.O.R.C.H. Garden Body Module.) The upcoming Garden as Studio in 2020 offers space for different modes of being with the land. The period will include daily laboratory research exploring inner and outer dimensions of perception through somatic and land practices, facilitated by Shelley Etkin. Participants will each follow their own research modalities, given their interests, temporalities and ways of working. The period will include a concurrent stream of hands-on garden care as an exchange. Artists, green thumbs, feelers, and nerds who resonate with ecological sensitivities are invited to apply. Proposals should include a specific research focus, why you would like to work in this frame at Ponderosa, and potential methods or modes that you intend to explore. Stay tuned for more details, contact Shelley with interest or questions. |
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June–July, 2020:
Air Camp Summer Artist Exchange |
RESIDENCY · AIR CAMP
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Admission: by application
The Air Camp Summer Artist Exchange is a series of individual and collaborative residencies and retreats, hosted by Ponderosa’s visiting artists — and you. Take some breathing space, weave an individual structure, and find refuge.
For the first time ever, the summer months of June and July are held for visitors for retreats and residencies to create your work around our gardens and our studios. During this time, there will also be communal classes and events, instigating new possibilities to use our infrastructure and by inviting collective processes for inclusion and embodied dialogue. With contributions from Stephanie Maher, Caitlin Fisher, Teo Vlad, Yoav Admoni, Asaf Aharonson, Peter Pleyer, and Alicia Grant. To apply email info@ponderosa-dance.de. |
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2.–9. July, 2020:
Air Camp Gathering / CORE |
WORKSHOPS · SOMATICS
AIR CAMP · TIPPING UTOPIA |
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The Air Camp Gathering/ CORE is a Reunion of the San Francisco based performance company CORE (1993- 1998)- with Jules Beckman, Jess Curtis, Keith Hennessy, Stanya Kahn, Stephanie Maher and co-conspirators. This gathering is a reunion after not all being in the same room for twenty years — and we invite you all to join.
The AIRCAMP Gathering, a rebuttal of sharing the San Fransisco 90's history with “Entertainment for the Apocalpyse” repertory! This could be a transcendental funeral rehearsal. We are calling all Witches. We are calling the past and the future.There will be a week-long wending through workshops, films, drumming, songs, concerts, archiving, alchemy, lectures, discussions, casual walks, sewing circles and ritual settings for our futures. Including:
The price includes participation in all workshops, offerings, and events. |
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26. July–23. August, 2020:
Color Block series events · With Joy Mariama Smith, Reza Mirabi, Zwoisy Mears-Clarke, Sumi Jang, Jaamil Olawale Kosoko, Verónica Mota, Ima Iduozee |
WORKSHOPS · SOMATICS · COLOR BLOCK
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Early-bird deadline: 15. June · Admission: by application
From late July to mid August 2020, the Color Block series will present four weeks of People-of-Color-centered divergent programming at Ponderosa.
Color Block is a space held by and created for people of color to work, play, and experiment around performance, improvisation and activism, hosted by Joy Mariama Smith. We aim to collectively and collaboratively focus on perseverance, resistance, freedom and healing. The programming that forms the Color Block series will provide opportunities for various explorations of radical kinship, will highlight intersectional politics, and will create spaces for those of us on the periphery.
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August–September, 2020:
Garden Club |
SOMATICS · WORKSHOPS
GARDEN CLUB · TIPPING UTOPIA |
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Level: beginners welcome
There will be a series of Garden Club events in August and September. Garden Club is an ongoing series of research-based, low-key, and mostly easy-going events at Ponderosa, based around the garden — exploring the ongoing interplay of ecology, food, somatics, and landscape that spins around the garden.
These events are a relaxed and emergent ongoing process, and they have their own newsletter — sign up if you’re interested in staying up-to-date about it all. They are overseen by Shelley Etkin, Leo Kay, Stephanie Maher, and Leonardo Cocucci. |
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Ponderosa Tanzland Festival · 1.–13. September 2020
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1.–13. September, 2020:
Ponderosa Tanzland Festival |
WORKSHOPS · SOMATICS · FESTIVAL
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The one and only festival. The 2020 edition with Yoav Admoni, Asaf Aharonson, mayfield brooks, Alessio Castellacci, Christa Cocciole, Malin Dahlström, FAKE Company, Alicia Grant, Kathleen Hermesdorf, Josefin Hinders, Malin Holgerssson, Leo Kay, Destiny af Kleen, Karola Lüttringhaus, Stephanie Maher, Mary Pearson, Peter Pleyer, Jen Polins, the Ponderosa Team, Tove Sahlin, Ayelet Yekutiel and Special Guests.
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Photo: KUDERA + MPEARSONATER
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October—November 2020
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19.–31. October, 2020:
The School of Tender Thinking · With Robert Steijn and Ricardo Rubio |
WORKSHOPS · SOMATICS
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Early-bird deadline: 1. September · Cost: tba · Level: beginners welcome
The school of tender thinking develops tools to change our way of thinking by working with the energy of the serpent/dragon. It teaches us to think from the heart, the skin, the glands, the limpic brain. The school of tender thinking brings the body in an altered body-mindstate induced by the energy of Oxumare, Quetzalcoatl, and the Dragon tradition as it was cultivated in Europe. The core of these weeks is to awaken some spiritual dimensions in the body mind for personal transformation and political activism. All the participants will experience an altered body mind state of the snake that can fly, that is not longer punished to creep eternally on the ground.
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2.–29. November, 2020:
P.O.R.C.H. Dramaturgy Module |
P.O.R.C.H. · SOMATICS
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Early-bird deadline: 1. August · Admission: by application · Level: aspiring professionals
As art-makers and supporters, we are in the field of professional pretending. We find ourselves navigating without blueprints or reliable maps. We embark on many journeys with self-built compasses and overheard rumours about the stars. Our accumulated, precarious piles of knowledge are composed through years of random encounters, web searches and gates opened by others.
It is often the case that we stumble upon the dramaturgical role, a clearing located on the crossroad of many paths. We come from dance, theatre, theory, visual arts, literature, we bring our heritage into our practice as we craft our eyes, ears and mouths into working tools. The P.O.R.C.H. Dramaturgy Module is a space of reflection and experimentation around what dramaturgy is. We wish to foster individual approaches through a communal gathering of colleagues. Facilitated by Yoav Admoni, Sharon Zuckerman Weiser, Stephanie Maher, Peter Pleyer. |
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30. November–13. December, 2020:
Integration Retreat |
SOMATICS · RESIDENCY
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Cost: tba
Full details coming soon!
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