March Dance

MARCH | DANCE
When dance is seen as a language of the body, it becomes inevitable to question the limits of the body. Starting from our bodily histories to the surrounding discourses on practice, politics and culture, the move within the contemporary idiom is concerned with the need to interrogate our process and position in contexts that are rapidly changing.
 
Does the nature of choreographic practice change with each new context, or is there a constant set of principles that define what the practice is? How do we evolve as practitioners?

MARCH | DANCE 2019 raises the question and from a range of differing perspectives challenges our understanding of creation and performance, while promoting enquiry into the creative process as a whole.
 
In a coming together of improvisation, performance and research, this edition of the festival seeks to make the questions around dance and the body more pertinent to how we locate ourselves as critical beings, constantly redefining our relationships to history, politics and practice.

Veteran performer Maya Krishna Rao brings her distinct language of improvised performance while taking time to share her unique modes of building a language of the body that is subversive and strong.
 
Anna Huber from Switzerland, critically acclaimed as a performer and soloist, visits the architecture of the body in a workshop, while taking the viewer through a reconstruction of a solo as a way to begin with nothing and allow the body to reveal its meaning.

Musician Maarten Visser and theatre/visual artist Pravin Kannanur lead a workshop on modes of listening and responding between practitioners of different arts that culminates in a site-specific sharing of their experience.
 
4. – 15. March   10:00-13:00 Hrs    
Workshop by MAARTEN VISSER & PRAVIN KANNANUR
           
14:00-17:00 Hrs     
Workshop by ANNA HUBER
 
10. March -19:00 Hrs              
UNSICHTBARST Performance by ANNA HUBER
 
11. March -17:30 Hrs             
CONVERSATION with ANNA HUBER
 
14. & 15. March -19:00 Hrs             
LOOSE WOMAN Performance by MAYA KRISHNA RAO
 
16. March-17:30 Hrs               
CONVERSATION with MAYA KRISHNA RAO
19:00 Hrs              
Performative SHARING from Improvisation Workshop
 
Workshops and Performances will be held at the Goethe-Institut Auditorium.
Conversations will be held at the Goethe-Institut Library