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Interview with Simon Tanguy, Roger Sala Reyner and Florentina Holzinger

This year’s Springdance will once again be offering young dance makers an opportunity to present their work. Europe in Motion (EIM) will be giving dance makers from the UK, the Netherlands, Turkey and Austria the opportunity to exchange their expertise, their fascinations and their working methods. And the twelve dance makers will be presenting their work at one of…

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(English translation by Springdance)

De Dansvloer reveals a different side to Springdance. Choreographers Meg Stuart and Jeremy Wade provide the Workweek for 45 choreography students from SNDO (Amsterdam, NL), P.A.R.T.S. (Brussels, B) and Folkwang Universität (Essen, GER). The delays caused by the Icelandic ash cloud have somewhat postponed the start, but soon after everyone has arrived, the group is starting to fill up every corner of the small studio at De Dansvloer. Meg Stuart has… Continue

In De Dansvloer vind je een andere kant van Springdance. Choreografen Meg Stuart en Jeremy Wade verzorgen de Workweek voor 45 choreografiestudenten van SNDO (Amsterdam, NL), P.A.R.T.S. (Brussel, B) en Folkwang Universität (Essen, D). Door de IJslandse aswolkvertragingen…

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I would like to invite all (virtual) visitors of Springdance to take a look on the website of BIT dance dramaturgy. BIT, an initiative of young dance dramaturges, researches, discusses and questions aspects of dance dramaturgy in order to deepen its practice. Although dance dramaturges usually don’t work together with other dramaturges, we created a place with BIT to gather and share our experiences. We meet to exchange, to… Continue

This is an introduction I was asked to make for the performance Beginning, Middle, End by Andrea Bozic, Julia Willms, Madalina Dan and Michael Pinchbeck. In November 2008 Michael asked me as a dramaturge for his part of a performance: End. End was only to be one third of the whole performance and while reading the proposal that was send to Springdance I wondered how I could ever be a dramaturge for only this part…



After last year’s Dialogue (this years Europe in… Continue