Dance & Future
Artistic Keynote-Lecture
Jennifer Lacey: Unnamed Future Project
“It’s almost like a joke or rather not a joke but just a strange story, like a dream you try to tell to someone but they are not that interested. I dreamed the TQW commissioned me to make a performance about the future of performance and then 13 years later the same invitation came again. I love the TQW, it was essentially my graduate school in the beginning of the century, and I am grateful so I will always say ‘yes please’ to an invitation, especially when the assignment is something I really don’t understand. When I was first asked this impossible question, I responded with a show called Gattica that I still perform from time to time as it is surprisingly sturdy. In projecting into the very near future (rather than ‘The Future’) to say what I will do in November, I can’t imagine that I will not go back into the past to think forward, which already seems like a very complex choreography. Probably I will dance it out and ask for your help in diving the future, which is just like trying to tell a dream to someone who is not quite listening.” – Jennifer Lacey
Panel discussion
Panelists
Ligia Lewis (Choreographer and dancer)
Moritz Majce (Choreographer and visual artist)
Julia Müllner (Performer)
Ana Vujanovic (Curator and author)
Moderation
Anna Leon (TQW Theory)
Q&A after the panel
is a US-American dance artist based in Paris and Stockholm. Her constant project is a renegotiation of production methods, generating pieces that are always based in dancing but don’t always look like dance. She creates works that propose an inventive and playful hermeneutics of bodies and their environments. Often co-signing and collaborating, the products of her activity unbind dance from the spectacular whilst still investing in the multiple ways that the performative can manifest, effect and communicate. Her works have been produced and staged internationally in theatres, museums, galleries, workshops and publications. She is a recipient of a Doris Duke Impact Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Presently she is responsible for the MA programme in Choreography at SKH / Uniarts Stockholm as well as a member of the second cycle cohort of DAS Third!.
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In English