SUNDAY, 23 JUNE 2024
"Art-Form-Dance" | 11 a.m., Opera House | free of charge
The festival is an invitation to experience the art form of ballet in all its facets, to be moved, to move and to enter into a discourse on what ballet was, is and can be.
The two panel events on 23 and 29 June 2024 are dedicated to these questions.
Under the title "Art-Form-Dance", high-calibre guests will come together to give exciting impulse lectures and discuss the supposed limits, characteristics and developments of dance as an art form.
The guests are: Prof. Dr. Gabriele Brandstetter, Prof. Dr. Friederike Lampert and Prof. Dr. Dorothee Gelhard.
Prof. Dr. Gabriele Brandstetter is Germany's first female professor of dance studies. She has earned an international reputation as a gender researcher. She successfully developed a new degree programme. Dance studies has been recognised as a university discipline since 2003 and has been integrated into the regular study programme at Freie Universität Berlin (FU). Since then, Gabriele Brandstetter has been one of the most innovative researchers in German cultural studies. Brandstetter pursues an interdisciplinary research approach, for which she has been honoured with the Leibniz Prize, among other awards: In her extensive work, she relates classical literary studies, architecture, neuroscience, politics and economics to dance and performance. At the Centre for Movement Research at the FU Berlin, which she founded, she combines artistic and academic work. Her studies raise awareness of historical and contemporary notions of beauty and power. Her work focuses on the history and aesthetics of dance from the 18th century to the present day, art theory and modern theatre from 1900 and the avant-garde, as well as contemporary theatre, dance and performance. Gabriele Brandstetter also analyses the relationship between dance and the forms in which it is recorded. She also specialises in literature, particularly works of Romanticism. Her commitment extends far beyond the academic sphere: she is involved in numerous committees and advisory boards and organises exhibitions, conferences and dance festivals. Guest professorships have taken her to Princeton, New York, Lisbon, Tokyo, São Paulo and Melbourne.
Prof. Dr. Friederike Lampert studied ballet at the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt/M and Applied Theatre Studies at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen. She worked as a dancer and choreographer for 10 years (including with Amanda Miller - Pretty Ugly Dance Company). From 2002 to 2006 she worked as a research assistant at the Department of Movement Studies at the University of Hamburg. She completed her doctorate in 2007 on the topic - Dance Improvisation. Geschichte, Theorie, Verfahren, Vermittlung von Improvisation im künstlerischen Tanz - (awarded the Tanzwissenschaftspreis NRW 2006). She then worked in various research projects at Tanzplan Deutschland, Codarts Rotterdam and at the Palucca University of Dance Dresden. From 2007 to 2017, she ran the K3 Youth Club at the K3 Centre for Choreography/Tanzplan Hamburg at Kampnagel. As a choreographer, she has worked with Jochen Roller for the National Ballet of Kosovo and in various choreographic formats with Ensemble Resonanz Hamburg, K3 - Centre for Choreography and in the Educational Programme of the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg. Since February 2018, she has been Professor of Choreography and on the Master Dance programme at ZHdK. Her research focuses on teaching and dance: Choreography as Ars Combinatoria, Digital Essay as medium of dance knowledge, The language of/in dance, Weaving as dance scores, Dance Music Improvisation.
Prof. Dr. Dorothee Gelhard, habilitated in 2001 at the Free University of Berlin in the field of general and comparative literature. She has been teaching comparative literature at the University of Regensburg since 2002, where she has introduced a specialisation in dance studies. She also regularly gives seminars at the Ballet Academy Bonivento Dazzi on "Dance History" and "Ballet and Other Arts". In 2019, together with the Ballet Academy, she performed "Dance History - A Journey through the Centuries" at the Velodrom Theatre in Regensburg. She is currently working on a book about the mutual influence of dance and the visual arts using the example of the cultural scientist Aby Warburg and Vaclav Nijinsky.