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Dance Reenactment:Ways of Exploring the Future

Victor Ruban

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During this course we will dive into methods of dance reenactment in several takes: firstly, watching, analysing and performing feedback on several existing dance reenactments; secondly, familiarising ourselves with the interplay between reenactment and reconstruction that gave shape to the «Bronislava Nijinska» lecture performance, trying practical elements of it; and thirdly, developing our own process for small-format reenactment projects, presenting results performatively through combining dance, movement, music, props, video, text, voice, and/or other media. In this process of interaction with the past we will be reflecting on two different concepts of time: horizontal or linear (of a past that moves to the future through the present), and vertical, as proposed by Tristan Garcia in Form and Object: A Treatise on Things (of a present that stands on a past that stands on a future), to define which of them has more performative potential with regard to the current political situation that we are dealing with both in Germany and Ukraine. A special focus of this course will be a conceptual frame that was born in the artistic and cultural processes that took off in Ukraine after Maidan 2014, i.e., at the beginning of the war in order to reflect on glocal artistic and institutional challenges. This frame was formulated by the Ukrainian artist Larysa Venedyktova (Tanzlaboratorium) to imagine the «Artist as Institution». Together, we will look at the questions and the potential that arise from Venedyktova’s concept for artists, researchers, and institutions alike. Schließen