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with starting to present the arguments the smaller groups have raised in seperated sessions to each other the thing starts to become more to the point. the plenary sessions up to now end up a bit too much in compromising or missing each others arguments on purpose if this would create a potential of confrontation (for my taste). working out something / making choices and presenting them as well as the leftouts is pointing at the gaps and differences and attitudes more precisely. this should not be a lesson in compromising but a work out of... maybe (and hopefully) everybody here is looking and going for something else.

Despite of reflecting the possible shapes and contents of a dance "education" my motivation is also linked to the public/non-public/what means public-discussion that came up. How can a process as a potential and statement in itself meaning any artistic practice or model of education survive in a system of product placement? What are the strategies needed to position one within or outside of or in whatever relation to the other? Is it capitulation to get involved even strategically with it? If this is the case: How can the process be held in procedure if it decides with good reason not to request for the attention of the product orientated institutions that are in charge of the material sources? This is the difference between our internal discussion and the education topic in general.

Hello everybody. As you can see from the list of participants I am not an active participant in the first place. Ulrike and Martin invited me to join the whole thing as an observer, so I will stay out of the process itself during the week in Potsdam. Although I want to contribute to the preparation: a little collection that grew when I tried to get more clear about what to go for and what to expect and what to avoid in this discussion. See you then.