MODE05

here is an article about a text by portugese choreographer Joao Fiadeiro published in mouvement.net on 06-10-05. it speaks very concretely about the cultural-political situation for performance arts in portugal, but a lot of the aspects he mentions are applicable to the european landscape.

Jan Ritsema is buying an old girls convent, near Reims (FR) dating from 1830, with 80 rooms, 8-10 rehearsal spaces, theatre space, 1,2 ha walled garden, unfortunately a chapel and offices. This, what he calls a Performingsarts Forum (paf) should be a critical and productive site for the creation, research and development of theatre, dance and connected areas.

to everybody -

there is a server problem at the moment, so the access to the wikis is impossible. we excuse for this inconvenience and keep working on the problem.

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When are we going to get to see some of this wonderful material?

Talking about a possible form of a notation / documentation / of what was happening at mode05:
– Including thoughts and motivations from the preparations. We still want to do a publication of the process and content of mode05.

sitting in an evening of ztb Berlin (contemporary dance association Berlin), talking about mode05. it just got clear to me that mode05 took place at a point in dance history after the term and practice of choreography has been exploding over the past 10 or 15 years. we all know that. now we are at a point that this practice is extremely open and difficult to define. or even moreso, we are unwilling to define it. so we are floating. and we want to float.

Since April 20, Daniel Aschwanden, Peter Stamer and I are in Beijing where we meet and work with a dance company that has toured in Asia and in Europe.

On Saturday, March 19th, the last day of MODE05, Irit Rogoff joined for a lecture on "Academy as Potentiality". If you want to see the lecture, download the torrent file in order start the actual transfer of the video (120MB).

The mode05 - 'meeting on dance education 2005' - has taken place from 13th-19th of March at fabrik Potsdam. To get an insight into the working process and participate in the discussions please check out the wiki pages at mode05 wiki

During the discussions in Mode05 part of the group used a term that might be a little bit difficult to understand. I here submit a text by Toni Negri where he draws out a fundamental definition of "multitude". Multitude has comed to be a rather controversial term due the use of it in the book which Toni Negri and Micheal Heart published some couple of years a go "Empire".