Performance Lectures (2025)
To investigate discursive aspects of dance and choreography, and how those aspects might entangle with physical practice and composition, the students of the MFA in Choreography invite you to their series of Performance Lectures.
By Artur Schernthaner-Lourdesamy
Dedications
and fragmented Subjecthood
These days I’m talking with some of my
peers exploring various theoretical
concepts. In the performance I will
dedicate my dance to them.
By Carla Anacker
Do what you gotta do
Let's see what it does.
Choreography and performance
Carla Anacker
By Inaja K. Skands
Some thing for me to believe
Is a play on a play - A study of the solo (performer), as the mediator and possible creator of myth (ology).
The piece unfolds as research on performance as translation, “acting itself out” as a self-conscious spectacle that performs its own gesture of becoming.
The performer inhabits both the role and its reflection, always shifting. The myth unfolds as a score, staged yet fragmented.
Some thing for me to believe is based on a choreographic manuscript authored by Inaja K. Skands, continuing on her interest in developing choreography through written material.
Choreography and writing
Inaja K. Skands
Performer
Inaja K. Skands
Acting consultant
Julie Carlsen
By Lara Vejrup Ostan
Wait, wait, (tomato), hand
How do you embody a tomato? How is time distributed between us? How can I feel Fatimas hands?
credits
Fatima Saf provided her embodied knowledge of tomato cultivation in the Plastic Sea.
Selma Blanken provided her MA thesis “A global Roundabout - Entangled im/mobilities of ir/regular labour migrants and agricultural products in Almería’s greenhouse production”, as well as translation.
Ruth Cross provided her extensive knowledge of performing arts, connections as well as translation.
By Ottavia Catenacci
Four Dances in Three Acts
In Four Dances in Three Acts I am busy with dance and words - their organisation, their spaces, their ways of coming together or not. As I try to walk the distance between dance-making and language, it gets foggy and I lose the path.
CHOREOGRAPHER AND PERFORMER
Ottavia Catenacci
By Thjerza Balaj
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0 confronts complete rest through the framework of an impossible instruction.
Through the body under prolonged stillness, the work explores the tension between rest, refusal, and societal pressure. The performance lecture moves through contradictions between exhaustion and attention, rage and care, surrender and control, observation and resistance. Emerging as a fever dream, the work drifts between banality and extremes, taking on death therapy as a method to test presence and endurance — embracing failure as a form of insight.
Choreographer and performer
Thjerza Balaj
Dramaturg
Lea Fedida Claussen
Sparring partner / outside-eye
Angela Bundalovic
schedule
- 4th December 18:30-20:30: Inaja Katharina Skands, Ottavia Catenacci, Thjerza Balaj
- 5th December 18:30-20:30: Artur Schernthaner-Lourdesamy, Carla Anacker, Lara Vejrup Ostan
- 6th December 15:00-17:00: Inaja Katharina Skands, Ottavia Catenacci, Thjerza Balaj
- 6th December 18:30-20:30: Artur Schernthaner-Lourdesamy, Carla Anacker, Lara Vejrup Ostan
