The Department of Contemporary Dance presents
Move Over, an exciting new lecture series.
Admission to
Move Over lectures is free of charge and everyone is welcome. All lectures in the 2013 series will take place in MB 7.265 (1450 Guy St.).
Lectures:Feb. 13, 3 to 4 p.m.:
Marie-Hélène Falcon - Curating InterdisciplinarityMarie-Hélène Falcon, artistic director of Festival Transamériques, an
international event celebrating new works in contemporary dance and
theatre, will address curatorial methods for programming contemporary
dance and theatre.
Feb. 15, 2 to 4 p.m.:
Mårten Spångberg - Dance for Political ReasonsMårten
Spångberg is a performance-related artist, choreographer and
theoretician living based in Stockholm. He has collaborated with among
others Xavier Le Roy, Christine De Smedt/Les Ballets C de la B, Jan
Ritsema, Krõõt Juurak. His interests concern choreography in an expanded
field, something that he has approached through experimental practices
and creative process in multiplicity of formats and expressions. In this
lecture, Spångberg recalls the last 20 years of focus on choreography
in order to sketch a landscape on which dance as autonomous expression
carries political potentiality.
Mar. 1, 4 to 5 p.m.:
Sarah Chase - Narrative in Dance Sarah
Chase is a B.C.-based independent dancer and choreographer, and the
recipient of many awards including the "prize of the festival" at the
Munich Dance Biennale. Chase has been creating solo work for over 20
years and has collaborated with such artists as Benoît Lachambre and
Raymond Hoghe. She has developed an extensive pedagogy in relation to
her unique performance and storytelling style that she calls
"dancestory".
Mar. 13, 2 to 4 p.m.:Guy Cools - Dramaturgie en Danse/Dramaturgy in DanceBelgium-born
Guy Cools is dedicated to production dramaturgy. He is a key figure of
the rise of Flemish dance, as curator and cultural policy maker, and
recently as house dramaturge for Danshuis Station Zuid, Tilburg
(Holland) and lecturer at the Fontys Hogeschool voor de Kunsten. Amongst
his collaborations- choreographers are Akram Khan and Sidi Larbi
Cherkaoui, and Quebec artists Ginelle Chagnon and Lin Snelling.
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