loading

Everything about accessibility at TQW can be found here.

Accessibility

Adjust Text

100%

Highlight Title

More Line Spacing

More Line Spacing

Adjust Colors

Dark Contrast

Light Contrast

High Contrast

High Saturation

Low Saturation

Monochromatic

More Help

Reading Guide

No Animations

Large Cursor

Research
Labs
13.12. –
17.12.
2021

ELIZABETH WARD

abstraction and aboutness in dance

©

© Özgür Sevinç

For a week, at the end of an extaordinary year, six dance and performance artists come together to contemplate dance’s aboutness and it’s legacies of abstraction. Susan Sontag’s Against Interpretation (1966) and Miguel Gutierrez’s Does Abstraction Belong to White People? (2018) will be (re)read as a collective starting point for this lab.

The history of western experimental dance in the 20th century moved through dances that were meant to be legible, dances that were meant to be felt, dances that were purposely opaque, dances that prized simplicity or complexities, dances that were about what they said they were about and dances in which the makers were unable to go beyond their own cultural inheritances to see what was being reproduced. The group takes this week together for a moving research asking where are we now, both individually and collectively, after Modern, Post-Modern, Conceptual Dance and Performance, what are we not yet aware of, and what do we wish for ourselves and our dancing, moving, embodying communities?

Duration

-

Location

TQW Studios

Price

Geschlossene Veranstaltung

  • Dates

    • MON
      13.12.

      Elizabeth Ward

      abstraction and aboutness in dance

      00:00

      TQW Studios

    • TUE
      14.12.

      Elizabeth Ward

      abstraction and aboutness in dance

      00:00

      TQW Studios

    • WED
      15.12.

      Elizabeth Ward

      abstraction and aboutness in dance

      00:00

      TQW Studios

    • THU
      16.12.

      Elizabeth Ward

      abstraction and aboutness in dance

      00:00

      TQW Studios

    • FRI
      17.12.

      Elizabeth Ward

      abstraction and aboutness in dance

      00:00

      TQW Studios

  • Artist Bio

    Elizabeth Ward

    is a choreographer and performer who tends to think of her dances as an intersection of geographies, histories, mythologies, ecologies, and archeologies but is aware that that intersection may be abstract. Some of the performance festivals and venues she has been presented by include the Kitchen (NYC), Movement Research at the Judson Church (NYC), Disjecta (Portland), Pieter PASD (LA), Tanzquartier (Vienna), steirischer herbst (Graz), ANA (Copenhagen), and Trinosophes (Detroit).
  • Credits

    Mit
    Elizabeth Ward, Alix Eynaudi, Yoh Morishita, Perel, Jasmin Hoffer, Samuel Feldhandler, Mzamo Nondlwana