Project partner(s)
Springbackers
A series of workshops alongside the CPH STAGE performing arts platform in Copenhagen, Denmark, with 10 participants selected by open call application.
Participants
Katla Ársælsdóttir (IS), Karolina Bugajak (SI), Olya Stoyanova Djakova (BG), Naja Lee Jensen (DK), Merja Koskiniemi (FI), Tara Okeke (UK), Richard Pettifer (DE), Ilo Tuule Rajand (ET), Yeong Ran Suh (DK), Hossein Tavazonizadeh (NL)
Activities
Ingeborg Zackariassen: From movement to language
With dance and choreography as a strong driving force in her life, Ingeborg Zackariassen engages with art through lived experience and physical knowledge alongside critical reflection. Her workshop invites writers and practitioners to treat language as an active ‘choreographic’ tool, where visualisation and movement guide us to access what’s already present in our bodies. She enjoys letting curiosity lead the way to discovery.
Evgeny Borisenko: Vulnerable writing
A workshop for dance writers who are tired of pretending they understood everything; and about criticism that is accountable to its own ignorance. Starting from the ethics of the front row gaze – who watches, who is watched, and what authority the critic actually holds – we will move through different writing lenses toward discussing a practice of writing from genuine not-knowing: holding the unknown without resolving it and treating the gap between the artist’s intent and your own confused reception as the most honest critical material you have.
Yasen Vasilev: Collective agency and embodied dramaturgy
An invitation to engage with the critical capacity of open dramaturgy to set bodies in motion in anti-disciplinary ways. The session introduces theory, reading references, work principles and concrete tools to unpack this way of thinking and doing.
Oonagh Duckworth: Play to connect
Opening the Springback tool box MADE: Me-diation, Art- icles, Drama-turgy Engagement
How to talk about dance to a non-specialised public, how can mediation connect people with each other through conversations around dance? Using film clips ranging from pop to abstract, a workshop that invites seriously playful and pleasurable engagement for the non-expert audience.
Sanjoy Roy: Beyond the ‘traditional review’?
Discussion point: regardless of theoretical arguments, in practice the ‘traditional review format’ has declined in reach and scope as the media landscape and its economic models have changed. Are there any aspects of the format that we might want to keep or build on as we move forwards?