stromereien 09 - Workshop
Workshop with Thomas Lehmen (Berlin)
Attention: New dates!
Tuesday 28 July – Sunday 2nd August 2009
Public presentation / talk: Sunday 2nd August, 18.00
In his workshop, Thomas Lehmen will concentrate on the artistic exploration of public space. Over a period of six days the participants of the workshop will experiment with different strategies of creating a dialogue with communal spaces, of how to react to the resulting findings or how to include imaginary content in these results. The factual context of a city will thereby be brought into a creative relationship with artistic ideas, utopical fantasies and invented characters. The outcome of various excursions through the city will firstly be documented on film and then be subject of further exploration. On the final day of the Workshop, several “Working Rehearsals” will be presented to the public as part of the festival.
The workshop is aimed at practising artists of various genres, specialists in related subject areas, and students of relevant subjects.
Thomas Lehmen is a choreographer, dancer and teacher. He studied at the School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam from 1986 to 1990; since 1990 he has been living in Berlin where he developed numerous works and projects that have presented worldwide. Topics of repeated artistic interest include communication, cybernetics and the way in which the human being reflects over, and therefore influences, his environment. His methods of approaching material, which often use elements of verbal communication, are based on conceptional methods and forms of presentation.
Thomas Lehmen teaches at various universities in Amsterdam, Hamburg, Berlin and Reykjavik and gives workshops both nationally and internationally. His teaching methods often utilise choreographical systems that lay focus on an individual artistic process.
Works (Selection): 1999: "distanzlos", 2001: "mono subjects", 2002: "Schreibstueck", 2003: „STATIONEN - Station 1, Berlin“, 2004: "FUNKTIONEN", "It's better to...", 2006: "Lehmen lernt", "Invitation" .
Course Dates: Tuesday 28 July – Sunday 2nd August 2009, all day
Location: Tanzhaus Zurich, Wasserwerkstrasse 129, CH – 8037 Zurich
Working Language: German (possibly also English)
Cost: SFr. 400.00 (Swiss Francs)
Places are limited!
Written or emailed registration for the workshop containing
1.
a short CV; Don’t forget address, telephone number and email address!
2.
a short letter of application explaining why you wish to take part in the workshop
should be sent to the following address:
stromereien 09, c/o Tanzhaus Zurich
Wasserwerkstrasse 129
CH – 8037 Zurich
For questions or information please contact Bettina Holzhausen at info@stromereien.ch, or +41 (0) 79 745 30 24.
Download: Workshop description (PDF)
Kindly supported by the Botschaft der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bern