New lecture series/ Hamburg
What is contemporary dance? The term has emerged in a period in which the world, and the world of art, is being reordered by geopolitical upheaval. It replaces the categories of the modern, which were too attached to the Western heritage to incorporate such developments. The open term “contemporary” will be investigated in a series of lectures curated by Edith Boxberger. Dance expert and journalist Franz Anton Cramer will begin the series.
Because movement cannot create enduring material sources, dance and the body are declared to be a document of the present. Dance is always developing new strategies for documenting its own present, which since the Modern are also undermining its own constitution.
Franz Anton Cramer teaches at the Co-operative Dance Education Centre – Pilot Project Tanzplan and is a Fellow of the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris.
On the 21st of April at 7.30pm in the K3 Studio: K33.
