DanceLAB in Tranzit
What is “contemporary” dance?
International symposium

November 11. Thursday
19.00-20.30 (online)
PROLOGUE: ALTERNATIVE KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION. THE CASE OF MULTILOGOS: PRESENTATION (1) - Q&A (2)
How do historical and institutional constraints and changes affect practices of producing and transmitting dance knowledge? And what ethnographic and contemporary examples do we know which decentralise hegemonies?
Discussants:
Beatriz Herrera Corado, Raymundo Ruiz González (Multilogos, Latin America) and Georgiana Gore (Choreomundus, Université Clermont Auvergne)
Moderator: Urvi Vora

November 12. Friday
14.00-14:30 (local time)
INTRODUCTION: CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK AND BASIC QUESTIONS
How may cultural anthropology and contemporary dance enter into dialogue with each other in order to generate innovative educational and performing practices in which artists act as creative partners without giving up their idiosyncrasies? In which ways may we understand the notion of “contemporary dance”?
Discussants:
Csilla Könczei (curator of the project), Urvi Vora (organiser of the symposium)
Moderator: Urvi Vora

14.30-15:40
ARTISTS’ TALK: PRESENTATION (1) - Q&A (2)
How does transnational collaborative artwork change the conditions of dance production, performance and pedagogy? How does the notion of the “contemporary” change reading and making dance, and our understanding of embodied knowledge systems and their transmission?
Discussants:
Alexandra Dancs, Bogdan Olarson, Sashar Zarif, Urvi Vora (resident artists of the project)
Moderator: Csilla Könczei

16.00-17:30
INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES: WHAT IS “CONTEMPORARY”?
If the idea of the contemporary is in itself questioned, how can different conceptions of contemporary dance, from the point of view of different disciplines, help us define “contemporary”? How is dance practice and dance pedagogy related to body policies?
Discussants:
Miki Braniște (Colectiv A), Georgiana Gore (Choreomundus, Université Clermont Auvergne), Urmimala Sarkar (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi), Vava Ștefănescu (CNDB)
Moderator: Urvi Vora

18.00-19.30
THE G/LOCAL SCENE: THE “CONTEMPORARY” AND THE “TRADITIONAL”
What is the role of dance in contemporary g/local society? What is “contemporary” dance’s relation to various traditions? How can we deconstruct the oppositional relation of “contemporary” and “traditional”? What are the chances of innovative dance education and practice in the region?
Discussants:
Miki Braniște (Colectiv A), Corina Iosif (MȚR), Vava Ștefănescu (CNDB), Tibor Feketelaki, Melinda Jakab, Csongor Könczei, Melinda Székely (Sapientia)
Moderator: Csilla Könczei

20.00
CONCLUSIONS, REFLECTIONS
Discussants: all participants.
Moderator: Emőke Gondos (organiser of the symposium)