Part 2: Zoom – PANEL DISCUSSION
Sunday, 29th November 2020 at 18:00 hrs (Central European Time)
To Register please send an email to : sandra@chakkars.de
We will send the Zoom details on the weekend of the event.
In the three-part event FORGOTTEN DANCERS//FORGOTTEN ARCHIVES we are looking at gaps in dance historiographies and contemporary dance practices, that render certain dancers and their achievements, certain movement and artistic practices, as well as certain archives invisible.
In this second of three events engaging with this topic, a group of researchers, practitioners and curators consisting of Franz Anton Cramer, Christina Gillinger-Correa Vivar, Nicole Haitzinger, Hari Krishnan, Anna Wagner and Eike Wittrock, will discuss forgotten dancers and forgotten archives in a moderated panel discussion from the perspectives of their respective research and practical interests and work.
Part 1 of Forgotten Dancers//Forgotten Archives was a Zoom Mini-Symposium (which can be viewed here: https://vimeo.com/426562368 ). PART 3 is planned as a live event in July 2021.
Organisation and Moderation: Sandra Chatterjee and Sarah Bergh
This event is part of CHAKKARs – Moving Interventions, a platform that wants to facilitate spaces in which PoC, postmigrant, decolonizing, critical intersectional, anti-racist, and critically white perspectives can be negotiated in and through dance, bodies and physical cultures.
PARTICIPANTS:
Hari Krishnan is a professor at Wesleyan University’s Departments of Dance and Feminist, Gender, Sexuality Studies in Connecticut and is also the artistic director of Toronto based dance company, inDANCE. His scholarship and artistic practice intersects dance, critical histories and social justice issues. In the context of the question of Forgotten dancers//Forgotten archives , Hari Krishnan’s focus is on the early influence of cinema from South India (as a forgotten archive) in the modern history of the classical Indian dance form Bharatanatyam, which he wrote about in his recent book Celluloid Classicism (Wesleyan University Press 2019).
Dr. Franz Anton Cramer is researcher with the Cluster of Excellence „Understanding Written Artefacts“ at Hamburg University. He works for PI Professor Gabriele Klein’s project “Choreographies of Archiving” (RFE05). Until March 2020 he was research collaborator in the FWF-funded project „Border-Dancing Across Time”. With Barbara Büscher he is editor of the e-journal „MAP – Media Archive Performance“ (www.perfomap.de) since 2009.
MMag. Christina Gillinger-Correa Vivar is part of the FWF-funded project „Border-Dancing Across Time” as a PhD researcher. Since 2002 she has been working at Tanzquartier Wien (as a producer, curator and art mediator, since 2017 she is in charge of the library and editor of the TQW Magazine). Since 2017 she is a lecturer at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (in the Art & Economy postgraduate programme).
Prof. Dr. Nicole Haitzinger is Professor at the Department of Art History, Musicology and Dance Studies at the University of Salzburg. Since 2019 she is scientific director of the doctoral program Science and Art (Mozarteum and Paris-Lodron University); co-convenor of the university course Curating in the Performing Arts.
Franz Anton Cramer and Nicole Haitzinger (along with Sandra Chatterjee), are collaborating on a research project about the (almost forgotten) Parisian dancer and choreographer Nyota Inyoka (1896-1971) in the project Border-Dancing across Time, creating synergies between their respective research lenses (archival oeuvre, creolité, authorial position). Christina Gillinger-Correa Vivar who is also part of the research team of Border-Dancing across Time is additionally researching Armen Ohanian and Leila Bederkhan, two exotified dancers of the dance scene of 1930s Paris, while also drawing analogies to Nyota Inyoka’s life and career.
Anna Wagner is working as dramaturg and program curator at the Artist House Mousonturm in Frankfurt/ Main. She studied theatre studies together with Eike Wittrock in Berlin. Since she has entered the professional field of theatre she has initiating various projects that try to twist perspectives on the theatre as an institution.
Eike Wittrock is a dance historian and curator, currently Senior Scientist at the Centre for Gender Studies at the University for Music and Performing Arts Graz. His research focuses on 19th and 20th century European Dance, especially its iconographic sources, the politics of the archive, as well as the history of queer and exoticist performances in Germany.
In 2014 Anna Wagner and Eike Wittrock founded the Julius-Hans-Spiegel-Zentrum, a critical curatorial project on German modern dance heritage. Named after the ‘forgotten’ dancer Julius Hans Spiegel, the project interrogated the gaps and voids of dance historiography in view of their contemporary implications. Focusing on the exoticisms of modernity/modernism the project raised questions of cultural appropriation and the implicit whiteness of the genealogy of the contemporary.
Please note: This Zoom-Panel discussion will be recorded and posted online. By attending the Zoom-Panel discussion you agree to the discussion being filmed and posted online. Please be aware that your log-in name may be visible in the video of the symposium, and if your webcam is on, you will also be in the video. If you wish to attend the Zoom-Panel discussion and at the same time protect your privacy, please consider which log-in name/participant name you choose; you can also choose to participate without turning on your webcam (even though it’s nice for the speakers to also see the audience).
With kind support of the cultural council of the City of Munich. This event is part of the Munich-based project ‘Living Archive’, which is initiated and funded by the cultural council.
In cooperation with the FWF research project Border-Dancing Across Time: The (Forgotten) Parisian Choreographer Nyota Inyoka, her Œuvre, and Questions of Choreographing Créolité (Austrian Science Fund (FWF): P 31958-G)
Mit freundlicher Unterstützung durch das Kulturreferat der Landeshauptstadt München. Die Veranstaltung ist Teil des Münchner Projekts “Lebendiges Archiv”, das vom Kulturreferat initiiert und gefördert wird.
In Kooperation mit dem FWF-Forschungsprojekt Border-Dancing Across Time: The (Forgotten) Parisian Choreographer Nyota Inyoka, her Œuvre, and Questions of Choreographing Créolité (Austrian Science Fund (FWF): P 31958-G)
