The recently released publication “Éducation Aventureuse” brings together experiences from ten years of experimental teaching in the choreography program at the HZT Berlin. During this time, the program has repeatedly left the confines of the university in order to enable students and teachers to have…

In this joint publication, the six graduates of the MA SODA 2025 provide insights into their work processes and the contexts and realities that they address in their final performance work. With texts by: Burcu Bilgiç, Juana del Mar Jiménez Infante, Isu Donggeon Kim, Colleen Ndemeh Fitzgerald, Hana Umeda,…

Book Launch, 23.1.2025, 6 pm, Uferstudios Shielding offers a collection of conceptual approaches through which bodies, intentionally or involuntarily, become shields. Bodies take on an ambivalent status in the process: they serve as protection or a buffer and express resistance. At the same time, they turn…

Since its invention in the late nineteenth century, the penetrating gaze of the X-ray has changed our vision of the inside of the human body. After we started to see inside ourselves, the relationship between ourselves and our bodies changed forever. As a progression in medical science, X-ray technology was…

The publication looks back on the last six years. In the form of interviews with artists and reports on developments in the network’s partner organisations, the book provides insights into project practice over the last six years. With “What it takes to act – a knowledge transfer” it gives an overview of the…

Grounding, a choreographic iconography by Wanda Golonka makes the spatial visible through the body. Wanda Golonka understands choreography as a moving form of thinking and being. Artistic research is always part of the choreographic process. The research work "Grounding, a choreographic iconography" explores…

Breathing is an unavoidable, vital act, yet it cannot be taken for granted, as the experiences of the pandemic, profound changes in our environment, but also structural, racist discrimination make clear. In the physical act of breathing, we are symbolically, materially and radically thrown back to our own…

For Berlin's universities, very important decisions are pending in the first half of 2023 with the university contract negotiations. This concerns not least the HZT Berlin with its approximately 80 students in the field of contemporary dance, choreography and performance - it needs courageous political steps…

The portrait booklets of the MA Choreography students in the year 2022, published on the occasion of their final Master's projects  show their personal answers to the question of what choreography can be. With Contributions by: Ari Adamski Veronika Heisig Jo Kolski Valentina Menz Nash Dominique Tegho Read…

Over a period of one year, artists from the art forms of dance, music, video and language art came together to create joint ad hoc works and to explore them in subsequent conversations and interviews. The goal was to find approaches to the phenomenon of the real-time composition with its forms and qualities.…

The book was published to mark the 10th anniversary of the HZT Berlin in 2017 and sketches with texts by Nik Haffner and Britta Wirthmüller and drawings by Andreas Töpfer what the HZT is today and what it could become tomorrow. We publish two excerpts here.   DANCE what gets you dancing Can you dance? If…

In the frame of the 10th anniversary of MA SODA in 2017, the independent writer, editor and consultant and former guest professor Richard Allsopp edited the publication “SODA – A DECADE OF MA SOLO DANCE AUTHORSHIP”. “The aim of this book on a decade of SODA at the HZT Berlin is to provide a retrospective…

The as if it’s just about to happen book series invites a reengagement with four workshops, facilitated within HZT Berlin’s BA Dance, Context, Choreography course between 2014–2016. Four of HZT’s teaching staff initiated a collaborative writing project with colleagues and HZT students and alumni to access…

Resilient Bodies, Residual Effects. Artistic Articulations of Borders and Collectivity from Lebanon and Palestine What does it take to cross a border, and what does it take to belong? Dr. Sandra Noeth is a Professor at the HZT - Inter-University Center for Dance Berlin (MA SODA - Solo/Dance/Authorship). In…

The portrait booklets of the MA Choreography students in the class of 2021, published on the occasion of their final Master's projects, show their personal answers to the question of what choreography can be. With contributions from: Melika Akbariasl Javier Blanco Dan Su Rocio Marano Lilly Pöhlmann Hannah…

The portrait booklets of the MA Choreography students in the class of 2020, published on the occasion of their final Master's projects, show their personal answers to the question of what choreography can be. With contributions from: Jadi Carboni Clara Federica Crescini David Lima Saida Makhmudzade Alica…

The publication encourages transversal readings and can be interpreted as a companion to the work of the SODA year group 2018-2020. During the two year process, the students were invited to critically challenge, reflect and develop their artistic practice. With works by Kuba Borkowicz, Bernardo Chatillon,…

The portrait booklets of the MA Choreography students in the class of 2019, published on the occasion of their final Master's projects, show their personal answers to the question of what choreography can be. Read publication on YUMPU

If SODA has established itself over the last decade not so much as a singular vision but as a flexible structure, then like any postgraduate programme that builds a certain reputation for experimentation and risktaking within the constraints of an institution, it has also established an ethos over time.…

In its third edition the "Laboratory on Feedback in Artistic Processes" reflects on "Responses" within performing arts. The results of the previous Labs highlighted the need to take a closer look at the complexity and often subtle implications of feedback within the the artistic process itself. How do artist…

The portrait booklets of the MA Choreography students in the class of 2018, published on the occasion of their final Master's projects, show their personal answers to the question of what choreography can be. Read publication on YUMPU

The SODA (Solo/Dance/Authorship) class of 2018 have compiled this publication to contain selected content from their individual thesis projects. These projects each consisted of a live performance - presented in December 2017, at the Uferstudios in Berlin - an artist work book, as a document of the creative…

The portrait booklets of the MA Choreography students in the class of 2017, published on the occasion of their final Master's projects, show their personal answers to the question of what choreography can be. Read publication on YUMPU

The portrait booklets of the MA Choreography students in the class of 2016, published on the occasion of their final Master's projects, show their personal answers to the question of what choreography can be. Read publication on YUMPU

The SODA (Solo/Dance/Authorship) class of 2017 have compiled this publication to contain selected content from their individual thesis projects. It is the aim of the publication to present a selection of artist work books, documentations of creative processes and presentations of independent research areas…

The SODA WORKS 2015 compiles selected contents of the SODA master graduates of 2016 thesis projects. It reflects the experimentation and/or critical reflection that the SODA students pursue in preparation of their final SODA project. It positions their work in relation to their experiences and to wider…

Feed-back is everywhere, and as a means to reflect, gather and share resources and methods on this expanding field the “Laboratory on Feedback in Artistic Processes” was initiated within the frame of “Teachback” – one of the modules of the project “Life Long Burning” 1 in collaboration with HZT Berlin and…

In its second edition the "Laboratory on Feedback in Artistic Processes" pays particular focus on “audiences” feedback within performing arts. Feedback is happening everywhere, and everything is feedbackable. But what is the value of public audience feedback? What kind of feedback is needed where? Why do we…

The portrait booklets of the MA Choreography students in the class of 2014, published on the occasion of their final Master's projects, show their personal answers to the question of what choreography can be. Read publication on YUMPU

In the two years of the SODA Master's programme, students are asked to respond to questions around art as knowledge production through their work and practice. How can art practice be conceived as knowledge, and how is the acquisition of this knowledge demonstrated and accounted for as academic discourse?…

Authored by the SODA graduates of 2014, the "SODA WORKS 2013" takes on the form of a book. It frames the live performance experience by porposing additional visual and/or literary coordinates to facilitate its reception. It also allows and insight into the experiments, reflexions and researches that the…

The SODA WORKS 2012 evidences the trajectory of research, investigation, experimentation and critical reflection that the SODA students pursue in preparation of their final SODA project. It positions their work in relation to their experiences and to wider cultural and aesthetic questions and conditions. This…

In "New Performance Work 2011", the nine 2012 graduates of the masters programme Solo Dance Authorship critically reflect on the conditions of performance creation and production. Whilst doing so, the group questions preconceived notions of authorship through the practical workshops and table discussions they…

What does today's contemporary dance training look like? Seven research teams at well known European dance universities have tackled this question by working with and querying some of contemporary dance s most important teachers: Alan Danielson, Humphrey/Limón Tradition, Anouk van Dijk, Countertechnique,…