RAUMLABOR

Uferstudios Studio 8 & Studio 14 (see HZT ASIMUT for changes)

Mondays: 08.04.-03.05.24 (08.04.), 10:30-12:30 14:00-17:30

Tuesdays: 08.04.-03.05.24, 10:30-12:30 14:00-17:30

Wednesdays: 08.04.-03.05.24 (01.05.), 10:30-12:30 14:00-17:30

Thursdays: 08.04.-03.05.24, 10:30-12:30 14:00-17:30

Fridays: 08.04.-03.05.24, 10:30-12:3014:00-17:30

Vladimir Miller, Annegret Schalke, Nikola Pieper, Constanza Piña, Martin Sieweke,

Prof. Philipp Gehmacher, Prof. Claire Cunningham

Modul 8,9,10,11 ECTS 6 in total

For: BA 1 & 2

Mornings and afternoons are one block and need to be taken together.

Prof. Claire Cunningham will be a staff member in Raumlabor 15.04. - 20.04.24.

In this seminar, mornings and afternoons, we will create a shared research and practice environment in Studio 14 and 8. We will reflect upon and practice the notions of space, object, sound and light as contributing "other bodies" in the context of live performance. We will learn about and dive into the concept of (supporting) media (light, sound, props), challenge this heritage and practice how body, physicality, light, sound, space, object and prop can be experienced integral to each other. All participants will have the opportunity to acquire extended knowledge in the use and handling of theatre technology whilst there will be a focus on understanding matters of light, sound and space within and beyond their technological possibilities. Participants will work in two differently equipped spaces (Studio 8 and Studio 14) and will be supported by various experts in the aforementioned media.

The aim of RAUMLABOR is to promote a deeper understanding of how the media and disciplines of light, sound and space/scenography/object, as well as the physical theatre or art and non-art spaces we often work in, can create a variety of settings for a live event or even be the live event. We will divide into groups, work, explore, realize ideas, to finally share with each other what has come up during this seminar. During the week 15.04 – 20.04 Prof. Claire Cunningham will join the Raumlabor to support and contribute to explorations and dialogues relating to their interest in ethics of performance, engagement with and responsibility to audience, and creative potential of interwoven access and anti-ableist practices.

RAUMLABOR 2024 is facilitated by Vladimir Miller (dramaturgy, research development, scenography), Nikola Pieper and Constanza Piña (sound, sound design, sound objects), Annegret Schalke (lights, light objects), Martin Sieweke (object, prop, materials) and the staff members Claire Cunningham and Philipp Gehmacher.

Introduction to research practice – Prof. Claire Cunningham

Uferstudios Studio 9

24.04.24 14:00 – 17:00

Prof. Claire Cunningham

For: MA SODA 1, module 101

Prof. Claire Cunningham will share elements of her own practice, alongside introducing the students to the research strands of the Professorship of Choreography, Dance & Disability Arts, and consider with the students the intersections of her research with their own interests and practices.

Un/Doing Choreography

Campus Zinnowitzerstr. Room 3.40

Montag 22.04.24 11:00 - 13:00 & 14:00 – 17:00

Prof. Claire Cunningham

For: maC

During this 1day workshop Prof. Claire Cunningham will share elements of her own practice through practical work and conversation, alongside introducing the students to the research strands of the Professorship of Choreography, Dance & Disability Arts, and consider with the students the intersections of her research with their own interests and practices.

Producing, Access & Artistic Development: One to One Mentoring Sessions.

Online

Wednesdays: 17.04. - 24.07. - 14:30 - 17:30 (by individual appointment)

Nadja Dias with Luke Pell

For: BA 1, BA 2, BA 3, MA SODA, MaC

Students are invited to register for these drop-in sessions to discuss, plan and produce their final showings, productions and/or other projects they are currently working on. In these sessions students can start planning ahead of their next semester projects or receive input and support in planning, communication and access provision as part of their projects - considered in relationship to their developing practice; as well as drawing up timelines, tools for mapping practice recurring thematic concerns, production plans, budgets and accessriders. Students should have an artistic idea/ proposal or project they like to develop into a production.

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Producing Support to MA Students to prepare for September (or public) sharings/ performances.

Online

Dates: 90 min sessions throughout July- September (by individual appointment)

Nadja Dias with Luke Pell

For: MA SODA, MaC

Students are invited to register for these drop-in sessions to discuss, plan and produce their final showings and productions to include access planning & riders, their approaches to audience invitation, hosting, communication, production plans, and budgets.

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Meet our audiences: Intro to Campus Uferstudios & Performance

Uferstudios/ HfS Ernst Busch

Thursday 16.05. 17-22 Uhr

Nadja Dias

Nadja Dias hosts a group of external students from Hochschule Munich to get to know Uferstudios, and its various organisations, tenants and artists that form part of the current contemporary dance sector. We will experience together a performance as part of this visit with an opportunity to discuss the work afterward for the artist to share their work, what drives them and engage in dialogue with non- performance/ dance students. HZT students are welcome to join the group, engage in conversation, exchange and post show talk.

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Artistic Development, Access & Producing

Uferstudios Seminarraum 2

20.05- 24.05. 10:30-17:00

Angela Alves & Nadja Dias

In this week Artist & Maker Angela Alves and Producer Nadja Dias explore how artist and producer can work together to develop producing, making and presentation formats that place access, crip time and accessible working methods at the heart of the work. Angela and Nadja will draw on Angela’s previous work ‘Tennis’ to start mapping research, creation and production for a future work. Students are invited to join into this week of artistic practical explorations, responses and conversations in order to reflect on their own way of making and producing work.

Places are limited to 5 students, please register by 22 April via email to Nadja Dias on

n.dias@hzt-berlin.de.

NB: This project runs in Crip Time*, a concept that acknowledges that disability brings a person into conflict with normative concepts and frames of time and productivity. Timings may therefore alter in response to the artists needs throughout the week.

* Definition: diversity-arts-culture.berlin/woerterbuch/crip-time

REST

Uferstudios Seminarraum 2

Mondays: 15.04.-15.07. 09:00-10:00

Wednesdays: 17.04.-10.07. (19.06., 26.6.) 14:00-15:30

Angela Alves

In this practical class, students are invited to rest. It is possible to join Angela in her practice to release stress and reduce chronic pain. This practice will mainly be informed by the principles of Yin Yoga and other practices of self-regulation that help us to own our limits.

Somewhere to Talk: International working and touring for Artists and Producers

Online

Monday, 15.07.2024 16:00 - 17:00

Nadja Dias & Vicky Wilson

Students are invited to register to join one of these sessions hosted in cooperation with Glasgow based Take Me Somewhere Festival (https://takemesomewhere.co.uk) aimed at artists and producers interested in working and touring internationally. This is a chance to meet Scotland based independent practitioners and be part of a session to discuss and hear about approaches to international working and touring led by Nadja Dias and Vicky Wilson who bring their joint experience working with artist Claire Cunningham to this session.

Workshop

REST at HZT

Uferstudios Seminarraum 2

15.-19.07. – 10.30-17.30h

Hosted by Angela Alves for MA SODA 101

Seminarraum 2

This workshop is about creating a restful space at HZT.

Firstly, we will take care of the environment. We will think together about the needs of Seminar Room 2. What does this space need to become a happier space where the dancers' bodies can feel nurtured and release stress? How can we practically support it, so that it will also support us and becomes a cosy place at HZT where students and staff can spend a restful time? We also cater to the needs of a rest space in terms of sound and light, and of course we are going to rest. A lot.

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It matters that you’re here… (access & welcome tools for audiences in student showings)

06.07.24, 11:00 – 13:30 Uferstudios, Studio 11

09.07.24, 18:00 – 20:00 Uferstudios, Studio 6

Prof. Claire Cunningham

Claire Cunningham and colleagues will offer a space for HZT students with upcoming showings (including those in September) and interested staff to come with questions, concerns and thoughts regarding audience access/care and welcome in their upcoming showings. We will consider together simple/lo-fi strategies that could perhaps be implemented. These could include us looking at:

- accessibility of marketing copy/language,

- creating pre-show access statements, information or show introductions

- sound notes or transcripts,

- audience entrance/egress,

- seating choice and layout, ease of leaving… among other things.

We will create a space where we can offer ideas to each other, practice room layouts, welcomes, etc and draw on strategies Cunningham and her team already use. Students can also just use the space as somewhere to sit and dedicate time to thinking about this aspect of their work or to hear others questions and ideas.

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F/our feet – a pilot walking*, talking, reading group

19.07.24, 18:00 – 20:30, Uferstudios, Studio 6

Claire Cunningham & Luke Pell

Join choreographer and performer Professor Claire Cunningham and Research Associate Luke Pell for this early summer evening walking, talking, reading group. Proposed as part of Claire’s current research towards new solo Songs of the Wayfarers, we’ll spend time with a series of selected writings from disabled and non-disabled artists and thinkers that might invite us to re-consider the philosophies, practicalities, and poetics of what walking is from crip perspectives. Together we’ll move between different modes of conversation, journeying and companionship to think with the texts in relationship to our own experiences of time, energy and attention, asking the question ‘what does walking mean for me?’ 

* We recognise & challenge the assumed bipedalism of the term walking. This group welcomes, and is hosted by, people who have diverse physicalities, sensory modalities, use mobility tech and/or are neurodivergent.

What else is good to know:

- We’ll take several breaks

- We’ll meet at studio 6 in Ufer Studios/HZT campus.

- Some of the time we’ll sit, or lie down, some of the time we’ll go for a wander outside

– together and apart

- We’ll circulate a suggested reading list of short excerpts 2 weeks before we meet

- You only need to read one or two

- We’d also love it if you wanted to bring you own suggestions

Everyone is encouraged to engage as they need, in relationship to their levels of energy, pace and scale when moving, reading, speaking. Everyone is free to rest as required; to come and go as they need and to choose the distances they travel. Support workers are encouraged to join the session, but this is not essential and should be decided in dialogue with the participant. The studio we will use as a base has a wheelchair ramp and there are accessible toilet facilities nearby. This sessions will be led in English but participants may engage in the tasks in the language they feel most comfortable using.

Invitation to attend

Uferstudios (studio TBC)

25.04 – 26.04.2024 10:00 - 13:00 & 14:15 – 17:00 (10:00 – 10:20 am soft arrival)

Prof. Claire Cunningham

For: staff & students – UdK, HfS Ernst Buschand from specific partner-programs within Charité and FU Berlin, Max. 10 Students, with waitlist.

This 2-day workshop will see Prof. Claire Cunningham share aspects of her performance and choreographic practice relating to perception and the tuning of attention. Working with simple exercises of movement (no need for dance experience) and speech/voice alongside watching, listening and documenting in a manner accessible to you,  we will engage in tasks looking at:

- attending to our own attention;

- the connection between movement and language;

- the potential within these scores in gaining ownership (or re-ownership) over our bodies

- exploring new modes of noticing, moving and improvising.

This workshop welcomes persons of diverse physicalities, neurodivergence and sensory modalities. The work will use structured improvisation and allows everyone to engage at their own chosen levels of energy, pace and scale of movement. Any physical contact will be done with consent built into the task. Participants will be free to rest as required, and to come and go as they need. Support workers are encouraged to join the workshop but this is not essential and decided in dialogue with the participant. The studio has a wheelchair ramp and there are accessible toilet facilities nearby. The sessions and conversations will be led in English but participants may engage in the tasks in the language they feel most comfortable using. Both students and teaching staff members from different disciplines from UdK Berlin, HfS Ernst Busch, and from specific partner-programs within Charité and FU Berlin are welcome.

Songs of a Wayfarer

Research, Development & Creation

10.03. – 23.02.20204 – Kammerspiele, Munich

04.06. – 30.06.2024 – Mousonturm, Frankfurt/Main

08.07. – 21.07.2024 – HZT, Berlin

26.08. – 15.09.2024 – HZT, Berlin

07.10. – 05.11.2024 – Mousonturm, Frankfurt/Main

Touring dates (tbc)

03.11. – 05.12.2024 – Mousonturm, Frankfurt/Main (Premiere); Next Festival, Kortrijk; No Limits Festival, Berlin; Sadler´s Wells, London

Prof. Claire Cunningham

Guests: Anna Booth, Chris Copland, Michelle Ettlin, Matthias Herrmann, Gregor Knüppel, Dan Watson, Julia Watts-Belser, Bethany Wells & NN

Claire Cunningham will be continuing the process of developing her new solo performance piece Songs of A Wayfarer over the course of 2024.

4 Legs Good- Lecture Demonstration

11.04.2024: Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg (HFBK), Hamburg

02.05.2024: Academia Dimitri, Versio, Switzerland

Prof. Claire Cunningham

As part of sharing her practice and introducing students and audiences to her work, Claire Cunningham will present her lecture demonstration.

Artistic Research

11.03. – 15.03.2024, Uferstudios, Seminarraum 2

Angela Alves & Juli Reinartz

In this week Angela Alves starts her research with choreographer Juli Reinartz to lay the basis for a future work and her artistic research project “Cripping nervous systems. How to dance with stressed cultures” (WT).

22.07. – 24.07. 2024, Uferstudios, Studio 6

Angela Alves & Guests

Angela Alves takes a break between the end of the semester and the start of the summer vacations to let things sink in, revisit past artistic material and connect it to the present research.

Research development

Workshop: Art & the Critical Medical Humanities: Confabulations X Health & Care

19.06. – 21.06.2024, Royal College of Art, London

Angela Alves with Céline Kaiser and Monika Ankele

In cooperation with Fiona Johnstone (University of Durham); Allison Morehead (Queens University, Canada), and Imogen Wiltshire (University of Lincoln, formerly the University of Leicester) & IMHAR. Institute for Medical & Health Humanities and Artistic Research (Inter-Institute of University of Applied Sciences and Arts) In the collaborative project Lying in: Bed Angela Alves explores the bed as a space of negotiation together with medial cultural scientist Céline Kaiser and historian and scientific researcher Monika Ankele.

After an online presentation, Lying in: Bed will be translated into text as part of an edited volume of the two-year event series Confabulations: Art Practice, Art History, Critical Medical Humanities (2021-2023) to be published with Bloomsbury Academic in the series Critical Interventions in the Medical and Health Humanities. The workshop will be dedicated to workshopping the contents of the book and offers opportunities for potential future entanglements between art and critical medical humanities.

https://confabulationsdotorg.wordpress.com/

https://confabulationsdotorg.wordpress.com/current-programme/lying-in-bed/

https://www.imhar.net/