Tanz und Migration

Engagement with and dialogue about dance, migration and aesthetic diversity with various publics is central to this research communication project. Dance inhabits an ambiguous position in discourses around migration and the cultural sector (particularly in German- speaking areas): on the one hand, dance serves as a prime example for internationality in the performing arts; on the other hand, however, it also harbors an extraordinary potential for the performance of otherness through foreign/other dance and movement languages. With its focus on artistic, cultural, and aesthetic diversity, and multilingual movement texts, this communication project is based on the current stand-alone research project Traversing the Contemporary (pl.): Choreographic Articulations between European and Indian Dance (P 24190; duration 1.3.2012-30.9.2015), which critically interrogates the aesthetic category of the contemporary by way of dance, postcolonial and cultural studies based analyses of the hybrid choreographic practices of artists living and working in Europe. Paying close attention to the cultural groundrealities of 21st century Europe, concepts of own/familiar and foreign/other that dominate discourses of migration and the arts are being critically examined in the course of these choreographic analyses. The communication project consists of four parts: 1) choreographic residencies with students of dance and choreography 2) a site-specific, participatory performance-lecture which addresses questions of the foreign/other within the own/familiar, as well as dance and movement as embodied cultural knowlegdes and artistic raw materials for a general audience (not necessarily academics or artists) 3) a community-performance dealing with the topic diversity in motion which will be created in collaboration with a group of non-dancers who have migrated to Austria 4) an interdisciplinary performance-symposium for researchers from disciplines beyond dance studies and members of the cultural/arts sector, for example choreographers, curators, critics. The communication activities aim to address distinct publics in each part of the project, and strive to increase awareness of an existing diversity and communicate approaches for an open and enriching engagement with this diversity. Wissenschaftskommunikationsprojekt; Prof. Dr. Claudia Jeschke

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