“Tact of Teaching”s – meaning pedagogical thoughtfulness – are an invitation for teachers to find a point of contact for teaching together. Finding their individual teaching inquires and follow that together with their colleagues’. Assuming that practical knowing-in-action requires pedagogical sensitivity, vigilance, and tact we hope to challenge and inspire the teachers as well as the participants of these sessions.
LAB’s:
We reserved time slots for the laboratories to be proposed by the participants. In the labs you have the possibility to bring in or try out your own interests with the people sharing similar interests.
one2ones:
You can get one one2one session with one of the teachers for ~15 min. You come with your question, interest, wish for feedback. You can work 1 on 1, come with a friend or small group.
Kitchen Table is a setting for an open discussion about any topic (in this case in and around CI), but with a rule set to create a performance out of the ordinary. During a set time anyone interested can witness and/or participate in the discussion. The topics are open and the exchange of speakers is actively encouraged.
Schedule
Teachers
Eszter Gál (HU)
Eszter Gál is a dancer, teacher, working at the University of Theater and Film Arts in Budapest, a certified Skinner Releasing Technique teacher, co-founder of Artman MM Association and member and co-leader of Co. Tánceánia since 2002.
She has been teaching since 1986 and practicing, studying and teaching releasing work and improvisation including Contact Improvisation for over 20 years. She has been creating her dance performances, performing solo and group improvisation since 1993, has been a guest teacher at Master workshops and International Festivals since 1998 and organizes national and international events, projects (Kontakt Budapest International Improvisation Festival, ECITE, PORCH, Ponderosa Tanzland, IDOCDE, LEAP). She is the co-founder of IDOCDE and the project coordinator and one of the researchers of the EU funded International project on documentation of Contemporary Dance Education REFLEX EUROPE (2015 – 2018).
Katja Mustonen (FI/DE)
Katja Mustonen is a Finnish dance maker and teacher, currently based in Berlin, working as a nomad. She graduated as dancer in Finland 2004, and holds a MA degree in “Contemporary Dance Education”(MA CoDE, HfMDK,Frankfurt 2010). Since 2008, she’s been teaching Contemporary Dance, Improvisation and Contact Improvisation internationally in institutions, festivals and other venues for dance. In her artistic work, she is curious about the states of presence and body’s ability to transform, embody, and transmit images into knowledge, emotions, language and atmosphere’s. Also, merging photography, video, sound and text together with materials or objects continues fascinating her in terms of finding more ways to express ideas and execute movement, creating the larger body of her artistic work.
Jurij Konjar (SI)
Jurij Konjar was born in 1978 in Ljubljana. He trained Judo and singing from an early age, then began dancing with ballroom competitions. For some reason he never stopped dancing, while dancing became many things previously unimaginable… In 2007 he suffered a head injury that shifted the focus of his work towards the potential of the present moment. A years-long, in-depth observation of Steve Paxton’s Goldberg Variations video started an ongoing process of discovery.
July 2018: “At this moment, what keeps me going: on the level of community, to find a match between what is needed and what I’m interested in bringing. And so I’m constructing a nomadic working environment for performing-arts artistic practices, under the name Habitat. I also establish contexts for people to explore performance as a way of sharing their working processes. I keep performing regularly, mostly improvisation, sometimes alone. Teaching is a constant challenge and feedback for my practice; through games, scores and perspectives proposed, I give workshops on improvisation performance, on constructing scores, on instant composition in duets, etc. I teach Contact improvisation as I have come to practice it – in a state of constant fall, following movement in instant interaction with a partner. Writing about dance and interactions is another part of the daily practice, a place for reflecting-on and informing the dancing. I keep exploring communication with tango dancers, through what is essentially a vertical, frontal, boilt-down version of Contact Improvisation (NOT Contango!).
As the learning continues, I aim to stay at the same time naïve as well as analytical about movement and the processes that give birth to it. The dancing as I perceive it is not limited to the studio, to a life-period, nor to movement; but has to do principally with observation, communication and learning.”
More info here:
https://www.facebook.com/jurij.konjar
and here:
http://ski.emanat.si/jurij-konjar/
Some video links are here:
https://vimeo.com/search?q=jurij+konjar
to point a few out, here:
2015 https://vimeo.com/121118489
2016 https://vimeo.com/182034857
2018 https://vimeo.com/268876158
Laura Doehler (DE)
Picking up on impermanence and change Laura choses improvisation as the format to trace and train focus that observes change. She initiates collective processes that in themselves facilitate and disseminate an embodiment of ideas, which circle around social connectivity and manifest via events that people can participate in and witness. The shedding of boundaries of self and other and the integration of performance and practice as part of everyday life are reoccurring themes. The most recent work of Exit Map which Laura is founder of, The Shared Training Practice in SE London, the Free to Move Movement, and Trilogy Twerk a Sonata, are projects brought to life in close dialogue with other cross-disciplinary artists that build on collective ownership and are defined by processes; the product being ourselves changing. Laura Doehler, BA (Dance Theatre) and MA (Performance Making), teaches movement (release, CI, improvisation, composition and movement analysis) in HE at the National School of Circus Arts London. H2dance, Tara’ Darquin, Monsur Ali and Anne-Gaelle Thiriot are artists she is currently working with as performer, collaborator and researcher.
Edo Ceder (IL)
Defne Erdur (TR/FR)
Defne Erdur is a dance artist and a sociologist working in the fields of performing arts, therapy and education. She is trained in Contemporary Dance (PhD), Sociology (MA), Intermodel Art Therapy & Creativity, Body Therapies (Deep Tissue Release, Trigger Point & Movement, Integrative Craniosacral Therapy), Meditation, and Trauma Healing (Somatic Experiencing). She is the co-founder and editor of idocde.net.
In 2016 she completed her PhD thesis in Turkey (DANCE EDUCATION ON THE TRANSITIVE LINE BETWEEN LIFE AND ART: Contributions of the Technique, Methodology and Pedagogy of Contact Improvisation to the Physical, Artistic and Psycho-social Development of Amateur Dancers). In 2017 she co-published mindthedance.com: A Guide/Movement to Document Contemporary Dance/ Movement Teaching, as an outcome of the REFLEX Europe Project.
Besides her private practice, she had been regularly teaching at ImPulsTanz Vienna International Dance Festival, MSGSU Istanbul State Conservatory, CI-Turkey, ElimSende and ÇATI Associations. She also gives her workshops (Hunting Gathering Cultivating, Every Body Knows, Mind the Body, and Embodying Time) around the world (Tanzhaus Zurich, Konservatorium Wien, Mandala İstanbul, Kuala Lumpur, Vienna, Berlin and Freiburg CI Festivals…), working with different populations (professional and amateur movers, therapists, women, and migrant children and youth).
Her movement teaching practice is mostly informed by her intensive trainings with Simone Forti, Julyen Hamilton, John Britton, Nancy Stark Smith, Daniel Lepkoff, Kirstie Simson, Nita Little, Frey Faust, Keith Hennessy, Aydın Teker, Marcia Plevin and Julia Buckroyd. Today, she continues her quest within Body Mind Centering, Axis Syllabus and Integral Somatic Psychology studies.
