activities – Border-Dancing Across Time

Amanda Piña / nadaproductions EXÓTICA

Christina Gillinger-Correa Vivar — Sat, 03 Jun 2023 16:35:38 +0000

The project’s research could find its way onto the stage and to a wide audience through the performance by and with Ángela Muñoz Martínez, André Bared Kabangu Bakambay, Venuri Perera, iSaAc Espinoza Hidrobo, Amanda Piña / Dramaturgy by Nicole Haitzinger. Besides Nyota Inyoka this work made appear further forgotten dancers of modernity: François (Féral) Benga, Leyla Bederkhan and Clemencia Piña “La Sarabia”. The world premiere was celebrated at Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels on June 1st 2023 and the work is touring through Europe. Find the evening program here. And if you would like to see an Interview with Amanda Piña, click here. The Ruhrtriennale (Sara Abbasi), where the piece is presented in September 2023, published the article Transcending Established Identities and produced a conversation between dramaturge Nina Bade and Nicole Haitzinger as introduction talk.

And here you can read a review by the brilliant writer Giulia Casalini that was published in Dance Art Journal on August 21st 2023.

Interview with Amanda Piña on French Language by Wilson Le Personnic on maculture.fr.

Re-enactments

Christina Gillinger-Correa Vivar — Thu, 04 May 2023 20:07:00 +0000

Several Re-enactments of Nyota Inyoka’s Dances Nagui, Shiva, and Pirère aux dieux solaires have been worked on by dancers coming from diverse cultural backgrounds and with different body-techniques/-education. Lina Venegas, Srabanti Bhattacharya, Shruti Ghosh and Anna Menslin. Please check out our Vimeo Channel to get an insight.
https://vimeo.com/borderdancingacrosstime

Workshopday at Paris-Lodron University Salzburg

Christina Gillinger-Correa Vivar — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 17:52:38 +0000

For an intense day of exchange, we invited theorists from various fields to share their perspectives on Nyota Inyoka’s oeuvre on Friday April 1st 2022:

Urmimala Sarkar (social anthropologist specialized in dance and visual culture, New Delhi),
Inge Baxmann (cultural scientist, Berlin),
Anne Décoret-Ahiha (dance anthropologist, Lyon),
Pauline Chevalier (art historian, Paris)

Fotos: Christina Gillinger-Correa Vivar, Gerrit Berenike Heiter

Press article on Border-Dancing Across Time

Christina Gillinger-Correa Vivar — Thu, 19 May 2022 20:57:00 +0000

On May 22nd 2022 Austrian Newspaper Die Presse released a piece by Claudia Lagler on the project that you can read here.

Presentation at Centre national de la danse – CN D

Christina Gillinger-Correa Vivar — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 20:59:59 +0000

Within the framework of the project “Contemporary Reflections on Nyota Inyoka” Sandra Chatterjee, Christina Gillinger-Correa Vivar, Nicole Haitzinger, Gerrit Berenike Heiter and Amanda Piña presented their insights at the CND near Paris. The presentation will be available online until the 8th of March 2022. Furthermore the team could visit the fashion museum (Musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris) and see some pieces of Nyota’s private wardrobe designed by Paul Poiret, Mouna Katorza and Madame Grès.

Research Presentation @CND

left to right: Gerrit Berenike Heiter, Nicole Haitzinger, Christina Gillinger-Correa Vivar, Sandra Chatterjee on ZOOM

Television report on Border-Dancing Across Time in ORF Salzburg

Christina Gillinger-Correa Vivar — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 20:58:04 +0000

Robert Schabetsberger filmed and edited an insight into the projects research for the Austrian local television programme ORF Salzburg. The appeal with interviews with Sandra Chatterjee, Christina Gillinger-Correa Vivar, Nicole Haitzinger and Linda Samaraweerová was on air on Saturday Jan 8th 2022. More Info still on the programme’s webpage.

Dancing with Nyota in Paris

Christina Gillinger-Correa Vivar — Fri, 17 Sep 2021 19:38:15 +0000

Thanks to the project “Contemporary Reflections on Nyota Inyoka” in the framework of “Aide à la Recherche” at Centre national de la danse – CN D Amanda Piña could join the team for an intense research phase: Dancing in the Marais, viewing material at BnF Richelieu and visiting the venues that Nyota used to show her dances at, like the Salle Adyar, Palais de Chaillot, Salle Gaveau, Théâtre des Champs Élysées, Théâtre du Rond Point, Théâtre Marigny, Le Théâtre du Vieux Colombier and Les Folies Bergère.

Forgotten Dancers // Forgotten Archives Part 3

Christina Gillinger-Correa Vivar — Wed, 07 Jul 2021 18:48:00 +0000

On July 3rd 2021 the team gave the workshop Remembering Nyota Inyoka: Körperliche und dialogische Arbeit mit Notaten gegen das Vergessen at Köşk in Munich with Sandra Chatterjee, Franz Anton Cramer and Lina Venegas organized by CHAKKARs – Moving Interventions.

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Fotos: Christoph Mukherjee

Complex biographies and fluid history

Christina Gillinger-Correa Vivar — Tue, 16 Feb 2021 18:03:11 +0000

Re-visions of a cultural, political and aesthetic modernism in dance

Online – Paneldiscussion in the framework of a Lab in Tanzquartier Wien on Saturday, 27 march 2021 5 p.m.

Based on the biography and work of French dancer and choreographer Nyota Inyoka (1896–1971), we will discuss the authorial position of Women of Colour in dance historiographies. Through re-enactments, using notes, sketches, photographs and texts, we will study and explore Inyoka’s choreographic oeuvre. In response to this and in conversation with theoretical positions, we will investigate to what extent ‘contemporary dance’ can be situated within a matrix of colonial modernism even today, because dancers, movement and composition systems and aesthetic principles deemed culturally or ethnically ‘other’ are still being excluded. We will therefore also address the urgent need to decolonise historiographies and archives.

Participants: The team of Border-Dancing Across Time (Sandra Chatterjee, Franz Anton Cramer, Christina Gillinger-Correa Vivar, Nicole Haitzinger), Linda Samaraweerová, Lina Venegas, Eike Wittrock.

The lab is a cooperation between the Tanzquartier Wien, Centre National de la Danse Pantin (Aide à la recherche et au patrimoine en danse 2020) and the FWF project Border-Dancing Across Time (P 31958) by the Department of Music and Dance Studies at the Paris Lodron University Salzburg.

Komplexe Biografien und fluide Geschichten

Re-Visionen einer kulturell, politisch und ästhetisch verflochtenen Moderne im Tanz.

Online – Podiumsdiskussion im Rahmen des Labors im Tanzquartier Wien am Samstag, 27. März 2021 17.00 h.

Ausgehend von der Biografie und dem Œuvre der französischen Tänzerin und Choreografin Nyota Inyoka (1896–1971) diskutieren wir die auktoriale Positionierung von Women of Colour in der Tanzgeschichtsschreibung. Durch Reenactments auf Basis von Notaten, Skizzen, Fotografien und Texten werden wir uns Inyokas choreografischer Arbeit annähern und sie erforschen. In Resonanz darauf und in Dialog mit theoretischen Positionen stellen wir die Frage, inwiefern „zeitgenössischer Tanz“ bis in die Gegenwart innerhalb der Matrix der kolonialen Moderne zu situieren ist, da er kulturell oder ethnisch als „anders“ markierte Tänzer*innen, Bewegungs- und Kompositionssysteme und ästhetische Prinzipien ausschließt. Dabei wird auch die Dringlichkeit, die Geschichtsschreibung und die Archive zu dekolonisieren, thematisiert werden.

Das Labor ist eine Kooperation des Tanzquartier Wien mit dem Centre National de la Danse in Paris (Aide à la recherche et au patrimoine en danse 2020) und dem FWF-Projekt Border-Dancing Across Time (P 31958) an der Abteilung für Musik- und Tanzwissenschaft der Paris-Lodron-Universität Salzburg.

Mit dem Team von Border-Dancing Across Time (Sandra Chatterjee, Franz Anton Cramer, Christina Gillinger-Correa Vivar, Nicole Haitzinger), Amanda Piña, Linda Samaraweerová, Lina Venegas, Eike Wittrock

https://tqw.at/event/border-dancing -across-time-labor/

Abbildung: Nyota Inyoka in ihrem Repertoirestück Tanz des Shiva, 1921;
aus dem Band Nyota Inyoka von Loulou Roudanez, 1947.

Forgotten Dancers / / Forgotten Archives Part 2

Christina Gillinger-Correa Vivar — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 16:18:28 +0000

Zoom – PANEL DISCUSSION

Sunday, 29th November 2020 at 18:00 hrs (Central European Time)

In the three-part event FORGOTTEN DANCERS//FORGOTTEN ARCHIVES we are looking at gaps in dance historiographies and contemporary dance practices, that render certain dancers and their achievements, certain movement and artistic practices, as well as certain archives invisible.

In this second of three events engaging with this topic, a group of researchers, practition- ers and curators consisting of Franz Anton Cramer, Christina Gillinger-Correa Vivar, Nicole Haitzinger, Hari Krishnan, Anna Wagner and Eike Wittrock, will discuss forgotten dancers and forgotten archives in a moderated panel discussion from the perspectives of their re- spective research and practical interests and work.

Part 1 of Forgotten Dancers//Forgotten Archives was a Zoom Mini-Symposium (which can be viewed here: https://vimeo.com/426562368 ). PART 3 is planned as a live event in July 2021.

Organisation and Moderation: Sandra Chatterjee and Sarah Bergh

This event is part of CHAKKARs – Moving Interventions, a platform that wants to facili- tate spaces in which PoC, postmigrant, decolonizing, critical intersectional, anti-racist, and critically white perspectives can be negotiated in and through dance, bodies and physical cultures.

PARTICIPANTS:

Hari Krishnan a professor at Wesleyan University’s Departments of Dance and Feminist, Gender, Sexuality Studies in Connecticut and is also the artistic director of Toronto based dance company, inDANCE. His scholarship and artistic practice intersects dance, critical histories and social justice issues. In the context of the question of Forgotten dancers// Forgotten archives , Hari Krishnan’s focus is on the early influence of cinema from South India (as a forgotten archive) in the modern history of the classical Indian dance form Bharatanatyam, which he wrote about in his recent book Celluloid Classicism (Wesleyan University Press 2019).

Franz Anton Cramer and Nicole Haitzinger, along with Sandra Chatterjee, are collaborating on a research project about the (almost forgotten) Parisian dancer and choreographer Nyota Inyoka (1896-1971) in the project Border-Dancing across Time, creating synergies between their respective research lenses (archival oeuvre, creolité, authorial position). Christina Gillinger-Correa Vivar who is also part of the research team of Border- Dancing across Time is researching Armen Ohanian and Leila Bederkhan, two exotified dancers of the dance scene of 1930s Paris, while also drawing analogies to Nyota Inyoka’s life and career.

In 2014 Anna Wagner and Eike Wittrock founded the Julius-Hans-Spiegel-Zentrum, a critical curatorial project on German modern dance heritage. Named after the ‘forgotten’ dancer Julius Hans Spiegel, the project interrogated the gaps and voids of dance historiography in view of their contemporary implications. Focusing on the exoticisms of modernity/modernism the project raised questions of cultural appropriation and the implicit whiteness of the genealogy of the contemporary.

With kind support of the cultural council of the City of Munich. This event is part of the Munich-based project ‘Living Archive’, which is initiated and funded by the cultural council.
In cooperation with the FWF research project Border-Dancing Across Time: The (Forgot- ten) Parisian Choreographer Nyota Inyoka, her Œuvre, and Questions of Choreographing Créolité (Austrian Science Fund (FWF): P 31958-G)

Mit freundlicher Unterstützung durch das Kulturreferat der Landeshauptstadt München. Die Veranstaltung ist Teil des Münchner Projekts “Lebendiges Archiv”, das vom Kultur- referat initiiert und gefördert wird.

In Kooperation mit dem FWF-Forschungsprojekt Border-Dancing Across Time: The (For- gotten) Parisian Choreographer Nyota Inyoka, her Œuvre, and Questions of Choreograph- ing Créolité (Austrian Science Fund (FWF): P 31958-G)