V dialogu s umělci*umělkyněmi z pohybového umění a souvisejících oborů reflektujeme materiál v naší dynamicky se rozvíjející profesi. Snažíme se porozumět tématům a fenoménům, které ovlivňují uvažování umělců a jejich uměleckou tvorbu. Díky partnerstvím napříč zeměmi vzniká prostor pro výměnu pohledů a obohacování kolektivních znalostí našeho oboru.
Marie Kinsky talks with choreographer Mirka Eliášová (CZ), professor at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, about the usage of specific choreographic tools in her teaching and creations, about improvisation as an opening tool for later choreography, about the influence of William Forsythe’s technique, and her research on these principles in relation to contact improvisation.
What if words were the key to working? The Brazilian choreographer Volmir Cordeiro, who lives in Paris, begins a wide-ranging conversation with the Madrid-born dancer, choreographer, filmmaker and visual artist La Ribot, currently based in Geneva – where she teaches at HEAD (Haute école des beaux-arts et de design) – on creation, including decision-making and freedom in work, as well as relationships with others… Shaping ideas – what is that?
Marie Kinsky talks with choreographer Vicki Amedume (UK) about her history as a dancer and maker – about her working process, the theme of their project Catch Me – dwelling into questions of intimacy, gender, age and ethnicity, her community, and last but not least her stay in the Castle during the festival KoresponDance 2019 in the frame of Roundabout Residency.
We asked current resident dancer and choreographer Roberta Legros Štěpánková to tell us a bit more about her research, current questions, doubts and process of working during her ART KLASTRY/Clusters residency in the Castle. Here is what she shares with us.
During the first weekend in March, a pedagogical seminar took place at HAMU. It was led by Anna Sedlačková, dancer, choreographer and faculty member at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava and dancer, choreographer and dance theorist Jean-Christophe Paré. The seminar was organised by SE.S.TA Centre for Choreographic Development and moderated by Marie Kinsky and Zuzanna Demlová. Zděnka Brungot Svíteková provided translation from French.
