Among his recurring interests are communication, cybernetics and the human being and how he/she is reflected in, and influences, his/her environment. Thomas Lehmen’s creative approach, which often contains linguistic elements, demonstrates conceptual methods and forms of expression insofar as the subject is often directly communicated by means of a serial, list-like structure.
Thomas Lehmen gives classes at universities in Amsterdam, Hamburg, Berlin and Reykjavik and workshops in many countries. Here he deals with, among other things, choreographic systems for achieving an individual artistic form.
Thomas Lehmen gives classes at universities in Amsterdam, Hamburg, Berlin and Reykjavik and workshops in many countries. Here he deals with, among other things, choreographic systems for achieving an individual artistic form.
Thomas Lehmen
Art alone doesn’t make anybody happy. This is the reason why Thomas Lehmen tries to link art with reality. Or, to put is more precisely, to take the reality of art seriously. That‘s why one thing has been evident from pure dancing in his research in the last couple of years: the stage itself. His idea was to break it down, rethink it, use it differently, get it away from hierarchies and put it right smack dab in the middle of reality. That‘s what he tried to do with his “Funktionen“ and “Stationen“.
Thomas says that being a dancer and/or choreographer is just one job among many (if you don’t stay unemployed). Why shouldn’t we combine the systems, structures and functions of this abundance of work with choreography? Why shouldn’t we do work like art and then pursue art? This is a meeting of minds we can learn from.
Thomas says that being a dancer and/or choreographer is just one job among many (if you don’t stay unemployed). Why shouldn’t we combine the systems, structures and functions of this abundance of work with choreography? Why shouldn’t we do work like art and then pursue art? This is a meeting of minds we can learn from.
Franz Anton Cramer
