Projects
Contemporary Dance in a Contemporary Church: Choreographic Reenactment as Liturgical-Theological Practice-as-Research KU Leuven
The interaction between dance and religion has become a research area of considerable growth and innovation. However, Catholic theologians do not participate in this research area, and choreographers hesitate to work with Christian rituals. Yet, during the twentieth century there have been precedents of “liturgical dance”. Especially in Belgium, liturgical dance was rooted in a fruitful collaboration between artistic modern dance and the ...
Choreografies of precariousness. A Transdisciplinary Study of the Working and Living Conditions in the Contemporary Dance Scenes of Brussels and Berlin Ghent University
CoP will investigate contemporary dancers’ socio-economical position and its influence on their production processes in Brussels and Berlin. The project will discuss to what extent one may speak of precariousness in the contemporary dance scenes of these two cities, which can be seen as creative capitals of Mid- and Western Europe.
Choreographies of Precariousness. A Transdisciplinary Study of the Working and Living Conditions in the Contemporary Dance Scenes of Brussels and Berlin. KU Leuven
In her influential article on “Cultural Entrepreneurialism: On the changing Relationship between the Arts, Culture and Employment” (2003), Andrea Ellmeier observes that in the post-Fordist work regime, artists, along with all creative workers, have become entrepreneurial individuals who work anywhere and anytime in exchange for low wages or immaterial income. In that context, Isabell Lorey introduces the idea that precarization can be defined ...
Dancing on Common Ground. Labor and Aesthetics in Contemporary European Dance from Center to Periphery and back again. Ghent University
Unlike in most Western European countries, contemporary dance communities in the Eastern European periphery generally do not have access to public funding, do not have a high degree of transnational mobility, and do not know a long history embedded in capitalist and neoliberal ideology. Therefore, contemporary dance’s working conditions and aesthetics in Belgrade (Southeastern Europe) and Riga (Northeastern Europe) are hugely understudied and ...
Diffracting the choreographer: Shaping the Choreographer Position in 21st Century European Contemporary Dance KU Leuven
In the last decades ‘choreography’ has been used in an ever-expanding sense, increasingly being defined as a generic practice that can be applied to different media and contexts. This evolution has destabilized the authorial position of the choreographer. ‘Being a choreographer’ now entails adopting different positions and strategies that are shaped by and performed in different media and contexts. Coining the term ‘diffraction’, this ...
Digital Transformation in Contemporary Dance Rehearsal KU Leuven
The unprecedented Covid-19 also has led dance and performing arts artists to consider the possibility of using digital tools to employ in performing arts exhibitions or even in the rehearsal process or the making, although it has been anticipated before by some choreographers and artists. This research will answer some questions on strategies, approaches, and methodological development of dance knowledge, especially in the rehearsal process ...
Diffracting the choreographer: Shaping the Choreographer Position in 21st Century European Contemporary Dance (SCP) KU Leuven
In the last decades ‘choreography’ has been used in an ever-expanding sense and it, increasingly been being defined as a generic practice whichthatthat can be applied to different media and contexts. This evolution has destabilized the authorial position of the choreographer:. ‘bBeing a choreographery’ now entails adopting a plethora different of positions and strategies that are shaped by and performed in different media and contexts. Using ...
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The Real Artworld? Mending the Gap between Dance Education and the Professional Field Ghent University
This project conducts pioneering research on the interplay between the labor conditions of contemporary dance artists and contemporary dance aesthetics. In the 21st century, contemporary dance in the European context is a heterogeneous artistic field that experiments with a broad range of alternative approaches to choreography. Contemporary dance artists are mostly precarious workers, whose labor is largely organized in a social, flexible, ...