Teaching the Teachers — Jardin d’Europe, ttt
Methoden-Seminar + Workshops + Präsentationen + Performance
* maps which are part of the installation established during the research week of the dance-performance-scenes in Budapest *
summary Dorothea Rust
I returned home full of energy from these 10 days rich in impressions and experiences. I would say it's because of the ATTENTIVENESS I experienced in many ways in Budapet - I saw it in us working together, in the places we visited, in the organizing of Workshop Foundation and the Budapest Contemporary Dance Academy. It's still with me, I am attentive in a different way to every day live, it has a far-reaching effect onto my teaching, performing, organizing, general condition and communicating. ...
summary Peter Pleyer
1.before:
why i am invited to teach the teachers in budapest? my history with the dance-community in budapest dates back to 1993 when i was traveling with my fellow student at the “european dance development center” in arnhem/nl, eszter gal, to budapest to perform a duet that we choreographed. it was performed at “skene” a small, almost improvised theater-space at the university. the light-grid was on ropes, so the whole light-design was constantly moving. after this we came back frequently, every year to teach or perform in this city. performing at mu-theater, artus-theater and merlin-theater and improvising at hero-square and galleries with the growing number of musicians that got interested in our way of working. as a duet we won a choreography price in lübek/germany, and traveled to perform in festivals in paris, new york, st petersburg, jaruslavl/russia, lublin/poland and other places in europe. when we both left arnhem and the netherlands in 2000 to go back “home”, me to berlin, eszter to budapest, we met yearly at the improvisation-performance-festival she was curating and organizing: “kontakt-budapest”, bringing her international colleagues from that scene to budapest and to hungary, bringing new information about working with a different body/mind in training a dancer, making material for improvisation/performance and about composing/choreographing. our interest was to grow further together, building on our foundations but also to educate other dancers, artists and audiences in budapest and hungary. in the last 10 years this festival took place at l1-studio, artus-studio and theater, mu-theater and sin-art center. teaching the teachers 2010 in budapest brings different threads of this past together, weaving a new net for the city and for the participating teachers, students, programmers and organizers. ...
summary Susanne Martin
Building nets and bridges
This text hopes to bridge the gap of time and space between our Budapest ttt project and past and future ttt’s as well as to contribute to connectivity and discussion with anybody engaged in questions of dance and education.
The multidimensional net of information, knowledge, experience, questions and friendship that we build from day to day will not be adequately represented by this text production.
So what from this overfull, exciting, multidimensional week do I want to share here? So much material we produced: pages and pages of individual writing, of combined writing, big mappings on rough paper, classes that are documented on video, the public performance in which we danced together with local artists, the installation we created for the public presentation of our ttt week.
So many questions were raised and keep ...
summary Eva Karczag
Seven individuals, united by a common language. No translation needed. Discussion can proceed quickly into areas of subtlety and precision, where questions are welcomed, thoughts are shared with generosity, and parameters are nudged wider open. Curious,because we are speakers of Hungarian, English and German, but although we do use the spoken and written word, the common language we speak is a particular form of movement, a philosophy of teaching and learning, thinking and creating. We are teachers and performers, and we are here to learn from each other. Our discussions and play are grounded in our practice.
This was the set-up of the Budapest ttt: two Hungarians, two Germans, one Swiss, one British, and one Hungarian/Australian - a further demonstration of the extent of the reach of this ‘alternative’ work we do.
We began with history. At our first meeting, on the first day, each of us introduced him/herself, and named connections -- some of us knew almost everyone, some of us knew almost no one. But connections began to be drawn as invisible threads that started to crisscross the space around and between us. ...
conference report
with images about the conference 19 April at Budapest Dance School