(re)translation / (re)construction
A Seminar from Anna Konjetzky & Sahra Huby
This seminar is about looking at the body as a construction, formed by a context. To approach this context in its complexity and to explore all its layers, allows us to “deconstruct”, transform, and expand the physical possibilities of the body, and our understanding of choreography.
The seminar takes place at the Danish National School of Performing Arts in Copenhagen from Monday, January 13th to Friday, January 17th, from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM each day.
It is offered in collaboration with the MFA in Dance and Participation, led by Laura Navndrup Black.
(re)translation / (re)construction is a practice of observation, of naming, of putting things in relation to each other. To look and experience movement through different filters.
To help us do that we propose very practical tools, using drawing, writing, speaking, mapping, as ways of analyzing, translating, reflecting and transforming.
One main tool is to formulate “Scores”, it is a practice of recognising and informing what is happening, but also of making it accessible for someone else to understand, giving an instruction, or proposing an experience.
We have been very busy with the practice of writing scores, as a way to transmit our artistic universe to other people, and have created a set of 26 printed cards, which we use as mediation (read more about the SCORE CARDS).
During the Seminar, we will use these Score cards as tool and point of departure.
Sahra Huby works as a freelance dancer. She studied dance and theater at the ‘Ecole Internationale de Theatre Lassaad’ in her home town Brussels and contemporary dance at Die Etage-Berlin. Her artistic path is closely linked to the choreographer Anna Konjetzky in Munich. Together they have created many dance pieces and are leading the studio PLAYGROUND, with Quindell Orton and Susanne Schneider.
In addition to dance, drawings are also an important part of her artistic work. In her research project ‘Cartographies’, she uses drawings and mappings to question the representation and perception of the human body.
The interaractive website ‘THE ATLAS PROJECT’ (www.theatlasproject.de) and the piece ‘Hey Körper?!’ emerged from this research.
Since 2005 Anna Konjetzky creates dance performances and dance installations in which choreographic thinking is a practice of reflection and transformation and is imbedded in a socio-political context.
Anna Konjetzky’s works happen physically, aesthetically and politically within a queer-feminist discourse – she sees her work always as a proposition for a dialogue.
Her work has been shown for example at Spielart, Tanzwerkstatt Munich, Cofestival Ljubljana, Unidram Potsdam, as well as in cities such as Krakow, Warsaw, Luxembourg, Kampala, Nairobi, Hanoi, Istanbul, Ghent, Shanghai, Salzburg, and across Brazil and Pakistan.
She also creates for established dance companies such as Staatstheater Saarbrücken or Staatstheater Braunschweig. She teaches regularly at several universities: for example MDT dance university Amsterdam, ZZT cologne, Mozarteum Salzburgs.
She received several prizes and scholarships, including her work for youth, ’running’ which was one of the three finalists for German Theatre Prize FAUST 2018, the „Förderpreis Tanz“ from the city of Munich in 2014.
Since 2019, she acted as Anna Konjetzky & Co with an established team and founded the PLAYGROUND, a space for artistic research and dialogue in Munich. Anna Konjetzky lives and works between Munich and Athens.
