Symposia – Border-Dancing Across Time

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)

Forgotten Dancers / / Forgotten Archives

Christina Gillinger-Correa Vivar — Sat, 25 Apr 2020 11:18:32 +0000

Part 1: ZOOM-Minisymposium

Saturday, 9th May, 2020 at 18:00 hrs (Central European Summer Time)

In the three-part event 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 first of three events engaging with this topic, a group of researchers, practitioners and curators consisting of Franz Anton Cramer, Christina Gillinger-Correa Vivar, Nicole Haitzinger, Hari Krishnan, Anna Wagner and Eike Wittrock, will introduce their engagements with a select group of forgotten dancers and archives in three impulse presentations.
Part 2 of Forgotten Dancers/Forgotten Archives will be an online roundtable in Fall 2020, and Part 3 a live event in Spring 2021.

Organisation and Moderation: Sandra Chatterjee and Sarah Bergh

This event is part of the platform CHAKKARs – Moving Interventions

Program:

Impulse 1:

Hari Krishnan (Wesleyan University/inDANCE) will discuss 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).

Impulse 2:

Franz Anton Cramer (Hamburg University) and Nicole Haitzinger (University of Salzburg), along with Sandra Chatterjee (CHAKKARs and University of Salzburg), will introduce the (almost forgotten) Parisian dancer and choreographer Nyota Inyoka (1896-1971), whose work and biography they have been researching in the project Border-Dancing across Time from three respective research lenses (archival oeuvre, creolité, authorial position). Christina Gillinger-Correa Vivar (University of Salzburg) who is also part of the research team of Border-Dancing across Time, will talk about Armen Ohanian and Leila Bederkhan, two exotified dancers of the dance scene of 1930s Paris and draw analogies to Nyota Inyoka’s life and career.

Impulse 3:

In 2014 Anna Wagner (Künstlerhaus Mousonturm) and Eike Wittrock (University of Music and Performing Arts Graz) 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. In their impulse they will discuss historiographic approaches to the estates of two ‘forgotten’ dancers at Deutsches Tanzarchiv Köln (Wittrock), as well as the challenges for contemporary curatorial practice (Wagner).

Followed by a Q & A among the participants.

Please note: This Mini Zoom-Symposium will be recorded and posted online. By attending the Mini Zoom-Symposium you agree to the symposium being filmed and posted online. Please be aware that your log-in name may be visible in the video of the symposium, and if your webcam is on, you will also be in the video. If you wish to attend the Mini Zoom-Symposium and at the same time protect your privacy in the video, please consider which log-in name/participant name you choose; you can also choose to participate without turning on your webcam (even though it’s nice for the speakers to also see the audience).

A project by CHAKKARs – Moving Interventions

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 (Forgotten) Parisian Choreographer Nyota Inyoka, her Œuvre, and Questions of Choreographing The (Forgotten) Parisian Choreographer Nyota Inyoka, her Œuvre, and Questions of Choreographing Créolité (Austrian Science Fund (FWF): P 31958-G)

Ein Projekt von CHAKKARs – Moving Interventions

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

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