MODE05

Thinking, acting, moving and joining together with different people and their approaches to teach dance and choreography marks one of the exitements and interests for me. In particapating mode 05
I would like to find a clearer vision about the contemporary demands and chances for a education model, which trains, forms, constructs and open up ways of thinking and moving the body.Since dance/choreography is a highly self-interwoven medium my questions are how to find pathways in connecting to students, how to help them, to build up an active orientation and trust in their own experiences and thinking. I’m highly motivated to underline the importance of a contemporary pedagogy, not denying the differences between teacher and student but making it productive so that we listen and looking at each other with open eyes. Knowing, that the historical field of dance education is highly ideological, my hope for this new century is, to take the self-reflexiv mode of dance serious and adapt it as a model for education – leaving the mirrow like models behind. What are the reasons and motivations, that people want to dance? How can we deal with the tremendous ideological background, that leads and structeres until now the cultural way of thinking and looking at dance? (These are the questions, I still discuss in my courses at the university, teaching dance aesthetics and history to ‘normal’ students, who are for a great number actual or former dancers.)