On the Relation between Music and Dance after 1970

In exploring the multi-faceted relationship between music and dance – be it according to hierarchically ordered principles or the interpenetrating principles of dance and music gestures or in the form of autonomously enacted dialogues of both arts – our work, which will be supported by audiovisual documentations, will focus on:

• anthropological and cultural backgrounds and conditions of selected manifestations of the Central European music-and-dance landscape (mainly from 1950 on);
• aesthetic peculiarities that determine the interaction of the two arts in these selected manifestations;
• various functions of the individual forms of expression in reflecting sociopolitical concepts.

Our studies will be based on selected writings by music and dance artists, music and dance experts and art philosophers of the past decades.

Required reading

VENT, Helmi: Funktionen musikalischer Komposition im zeitgenössischen Tanztheater
In: Gesellschaft für Tanzforschung (publication) / KLEIN, Michael (ed.): Tanzforschung, vol. 2/1991
Nötzel Verlag, Wilhelmshaven 1992
REININGHAUS, Frieder/SCHNEIDER, Katja (ed.): Experimentelles Musik- und Tanztheater. Series: Handbuch der Musik im 20. Jahrhundert – Vol. 7.
Laaber, Laaber 2004