The Produktionszentrum Tanz + Performance invites dancers and choreographers to become part of the SEEDS Academy from September 6 to 11, 2021, as part of TANZPAKT Stuttgart. The SEEDS Academy is tailored to the specific needs of the different career stages of the participants. The Academy is intended to be a professional workshop for the Stuttgart dance scene and to set important impulses in contemporary dance and performance art. This year, artistic workshops on dance film with Dutch filmmaker Noud Heerkens and on dance and performance in public space with Stuttgart choreographer Elena Morena Weber will be offered.

As part of the SEEDS Academy festival, a Film & Dance/Performance Public Viewing will take place at the production center on September 09, 2021 at 8:00 pm and the event Field Composition - a performative walk through Feuerbach for the public on September 11, 2021 at 5:30 pm.

Workshop Program:

Field Composition with Elena Morena Weber

In this workshop we explore the potential of choreographic composition in public terrain. Along dance trails in leafy parts of Stuttgart, we sharpen the senses for an intense experience with the immediate environment and our own dance language. The connection via Bluetooth headphones creates a parallel world that gives our movement focus and independence at the same time: visual, tactile and spatial impulses serve as impulses for the improvisations in solo and group constellations guided via radio. The urban environment becomes both laboratory and stage for choreographic composition. The workshop is aimed at professional dancers who want to encounter their own movement language in a new way in a context that is unfamiliar to dance and who want to explore physical as well as spatial boundaries on this playing field.

Workshop Film & Dance/Performance with Noud Heerkens

The workshop will explore the crossover between film and contemporary dance. Both disciplines defined and considered in the broadest and most playful way. The first two days start by showing and discussing a wide spectrum and approaches of (post) modern dance films. This will give rise to a conversation about the concept of dance film, its narrative constructions, working methods, cinematic and choreographic styles and the roll of the dancer-performer.

But above all the workshop intends to inspire the participants practice to explore the relations and dynamics between dance performance, choreography and film on different levels by watching, experimenting, conceptualizing making and presenting. The participants will work in multidisciplinary groups where rolls can switch and a generous and energetic attitude goes hand in hand with an open and playful atmosphere.