Dance and Complex Culturalism

The course will follow the theme of the conference of the Gesellschaft für Tanzforschung (society for dance research) entitled „Tanz Anders Wo – Tanz und komplexe Kulturalität“ being held at the Tanzquartier Wien from November 6 to 9, 2003 (s. notice posted at the Mozarteum University). Due to the integration of selected topics being dealt with at the aforementioned conference in Vienna, only students who also attend the conference may register for this course.
(Total length of stay in Vienna: Nov. 5–10, 2003)

From the conference brochure:
“Our experiences of space and time are becoming increasingly disengaged from traditional geographic and cultural contexts. As a result of migration, electronic communication and international tourism, identity is no longer defined only by a birthplace, but also by the journey that it makes through the world and its cultures. Traditions are gathered along the way, taken along, rethought and transformed. Differences are experienced and remembered, constructed and deconstructed. Dance, as a physical memory of this process, is a privileged medium.”

Required reading

KAROSS, Sabine / WELZIEN, Leonore (eds.): Tanz – Politik – Identität.
Jahrbuch Tanzforschung, vol. 11, published on behalf of the Gesellschaft für Tanzforschung
LIT Verlag Münster/Hamburg/London 2001