The Dancing Oracle
In spring 2021, Mapping the Futures of Dance – a series of workshops at TQW with professional dance artists, dance students and non-professional dance practitioners – explored dance’s imagined, desired, projected and feared futures as symptoms, potentials and cracks within the fabric of the present. Drawing from dance history and theory, philosophy, science fiction and futurology, we deviated from predicting, towards fictionalised dancerly tomorrows that have agency in contemporaneity. This talk is a conceived as a moment of sharing reflections, references and acts from the workshops, speculating on the futures of dance as a motion of care in the present.
The talk will be followed by a fortune-telling ritual: a one-to-one card-reading encounter and imaginative exploration of audience members’ personal dance futures. Co-conceived with and performed by Berit Einemo Frøysland, Marcus Fisch, Martina Rösler, Navina Neverla and Yoh Morishita.
is a dance historian and theorist. She joined the team of Tanzquartier Wien as theory curator in September 2021. She holds a PhD in Dance Studies (Universität Salzburg, 2019) with a thesis on expanded choreography, to be published soon with the title Expanded choreographies / Choreographic histories (transcript Verlag). Her current research activity includes independent work on theatrical dance in early 20th century Greece in relation to narratives of gender and nation; co-developing the interdisciplinary workshop The pervasion of the digital (with Johanna Hilari, University of Bern) and a collaboration in Dancing Through Crises (University of Roehampton). She has taught at the Universities of Vienna, Bern and Salzburg as well at SEAD and has worked as a dramaturge and/or historiographic adviser for choreographers including Julia Schwarzbach, Florentina Holzinger and Netta Weiser.
The lecture will be held in English.