PRACTICE

PRACTICE wants to propose a shared space for work, thoughts, and most of all exchange, designed for choreographers and dancers whose workbase is in Berlin. In general, PRACTICE invites two different artist groups who are coming up with two different projects for about 10 to 14 working days. Some groups consist of artists that haven’t even been collaborating before. The groups would work together in the same space at the same time, thus finding out about tools for and of collaboration. Yet there is no need for a forced collaboration, since the projects are disctinctive, rather we are looking for protocols of sharing work in order to give the notion of ‘working together’ another twist. Thus, PRACTICE does not provide a space for rehearsals, to the contrary, it’s a platform where open research should take place, since rehearsals already try to materialize a preconceived idea whereas research tries to search for methodologies and mental pathways.

Since PRACTICE is an akronym that stands for ‘PERFORMATIVE RESEARCH and CHOREOGRAPHIC TOOLS in CONTEMPORARY ENVIRONMENTS’, the project advocates the scrutiny of the at stakes of the proposal itself:

1) what is PERFORMATIVE RESEARCH in contemporary dance?
The question of KNOWLEDGE in theory and practice

2) what can be understood by CHOREOGRAPHIC TOOLS?
The question of METHODOLOGIES

3) how can we conceive of space as CONTEMPORARY ENVIRONMENT?
The question of SETTING

to be continued …