The partners came together in London for the Elixir Festival, to celebrate the successes of the last four years and plan future collaborations.
Final Partner meeting at Elixir Festival
Dance Histories in Practice
Seminar on Archiving and Historicization of Dance
In partnership with the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, with which Nomad Dance Academy Slovenia has been creating the Temporary Slovenian Dance Archives since 2018, we organised the seminar Dance Histories in Practice – Selected Aspects of Archiving and Historicization of Dance. This seminar aimed to share good practices, standardized and innovative methodologies, and approaches to dance archiving with our collaborators, as well as various multi- and trans-disciplinary derivatives through which archival documentation was historicized, recorded, and transformed (covering visible and invisible aspects of dance work from the studio to education and completed stage works). The seminar sought to address dance works, problems, issues, and solutions that dance archiving and historicizing confront us with, focusing on their temporal and material aspects. At the seminar, we shared our internal working problems and evolving decisions with the public, opening up our work to further questions.
DOPODO Study Day and round table on Dance & Age
A professional study day initiated by KUMQUAT | performing arts in conjunction with the CN D and the biennale de la danse de Lyon, this one-day session is aimed at collectively exploring ways of working and inhabiting the stage beyond the age of 40.
10:00am to 1:00pm
Dancers’ professional careers: what if ageing was an asset?
This first half, dedicated to dancers and choreographers, takes the form of experience feedback on the issue of performers’ on- and off-stage career over the years.
2:30pm to 5:00pm
The dancing body: a matter of gaze and identification?
Open to programmers and all dance-sector professionals, this round table will explore the visibility of age in dancing, accompanying the audience’s gaze and expectations, and how our relationship with age informs the creative process.
Movement as Memory
talk by Madeline Ritter at Performing the museum
Madeline Ritter, the artistic and executive director of Dance On, gives a talk on the theme of “Movement as Memory”. The talk is part of the programme of public events around the exhibition “THIS MAY BE THE PLACE. Performing the museum” curated by Javier Arozena. Ritter talks about how in dance, knowledge is passed on in a very direct way from generation to generation, from body to body. If this fragile chain is interrupted, the knowledge is lost forever.
Live partner meeting and premiere of Kiss the one we are
The partners came together in Leuven for two days of discussion, sharing and planning, and to see the world premiere of Kiss the One We Are, a collaborative production by Daniel Linehan | Hiatus and the Dance On Ensemble.
Beautifully hosted by STUK House for Dance, Image and Sound at Studio Manhattan.
Exhibition:
This may be the place
Performing the Museum
Javier Arozena, a member of the Dance On Ensemble, co-curated the exhibition “THIS MAY BE THE PLACE. Performing the Museum” at the Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, which brought ephemeral art forms such as dance and theatre to the space of the museum. What they have in common is that they use body and the performative gesture as raw materials, without producing objects or lasting artefacts. How then can dance have a presence in the museum? How can it be preserved and recognised?
The exhibition focuses on the frictions between the performing arts and museums, and the absence of the so-called living arts in traditional museum spaces. It features material and immaterial pieces, voices and gestures, remains of actions, but also stage and film pieces, as well as the bodies of the performers, which are memory archives in their own right. All these are activated by the movements of the visitors as they walk around the exhibition.
Flash Mob
Dance On Lab
Diehl+Ritter is now Bureau Ritter
Dance On, Pass On, Dream On’s lead partner has a new name. We celebrated the rebrand and our 11th anniversary with an unforgettable party on the banks of the Spree in Berlin, complete with dance, speeches, food and umbrellas.
Explore our new website here: www.bureau-ritter.de
Dance On at Internationale Tanzmesse nrw
We presented Dance On and Dance On, Pass On, Dream On at our stall at the international dance fair Tanzmesse nrw. Great to see and speak to so many colleagues, collaborators, friends and new fans.
Panel of Experts at Tanzkongress 2022
With: Ty Boomershine, Alessandra Corti, Julie Anne Stanzak, Àngels Margarit Viñals | Moderation: Madeline Ritter
Four experienced dance artists engage in an open conversation about the process of continuing their active dance careers into their 40s, 50s and 60s, sharing their successes but also the pressures and expectations they have faced from a sector that still often expects dancers to be “young, silent, humble and exploitable” (Jacky Lansley, The Wise Body).
Inviting participation from the congress audience, they cover the following topics: The importance of representation – What happens when older dancers are visible and celebrated in companies and the independent scene? How can audiences of all ages see themselves and their experiences reflected on stage? How can we change negative perceptions of age and ageing in society more generally? The value of experience – Celebrating the role of dancers as keepers and transmitters of embodied knowledge, dance heritage and repertoire. The question of status – How does age affect hierarchical structures in the dance sector and the relationships between dancers, choreographers and company management? Practical considerations – What are examples of best practice, what can be done and what needs to happen now?
The quote is from the text “Some Reasons to Dance” (1997) by Àngels Margarit Viñals