SAVE THE DATE for this year's SEEDS dance lab from 02.09. - 06.09.2024!
This year, for the first time, choreographer Matthias Kass of the company Idem will meet Nuremberg choreographer Eva Borrmann, founder of the company PLAN MEE. As part of the 5-day workshop, the choreographers will share their choreographic approaches and ideas with professional dancers from Stuttgart and the region, creating an exciting exchange between the two artists as well as with the participating dancers.
Schedule
Monday, 02.09.2024
10 am - 5 pm Dance Lab
Tuesday, 03.09.2024
10 am - 5 pm Dance Lab
5.30 pm Talk & Practice Sharing with the Choreographers
followed by a Get-Together Dinner
Wednesday, 04.09.2024
10 am - 5 pm Dance Lab
Donnerstag, 05.09.2024
10 am - 5 pm Dance Lab
Freitag, 06.09.2024
10 am - 5 pm Dance Lab
6pm Showing
The choreographers:
Matthias Kass started his training as a dancer in 1998 at the John Cranko-Ballet-School in Stuttgart, Germany. In 2006 - 2007 he complemented his training by focussing on modern technique at the Palucca–Schule in Dresden. In September 2010 he joined the Hessisches-Staatstheater in Wiesbaden, under the direction of Stephan Thoss. In addition he has worked with numerous choreographers such as Rui Horta, Sylvia Camarda, Jiri Bubenicek, Monica Runde, Robert North and Medhi Walerski.
In 2011 he founded the company Idem, together with Clément Bugnon. Since then they create several new pieces, which are successfully performed in various European cities and festivals. The strength of “company Idem” lies in the creative and innovative power of its founders as well as their experience as dancers. “We combine different styles and dance-directions and in this way can create an infinite number of possibilities. Repeating ourselves and dull routine can thus be avoided. Our choreographies take an intense physicality on the part of the performers for granted and because of this, their energy and dynamism is liberated and set free”. In their pieces so far, they have concerned themselves with existential themes without losing sight of their complexity or simplifying these. From 2022 until 2025 company Idem is artist in residence at the Théâtre Benno Besson in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland.
Eva Borrmann (1988*) is a freelance choreographer, dancer and founder of the PLAN MEE company. After training in classical and contemporary dance, she worked at the Nuremberg State Theatre with Johann Kresnik, Joshua Monten and Laura Scozzi. In the independent scene, she worked for Alexandra Pirici at Art Basel and for deufert&plischke at K3/Kampnagel Hamburg. At the same time, she studied in the MAS programme ‘Dance and Performing Arts’ and ‘Arts Education’ at the Institute of Theatre Studies Bern (CH). She has been producing full-length productions with her company PLAN MEE since 2015.
The socially shaped body is always at the centre of her projects. From 2021 - 2023, Eva Borrmann received impulse funding from the City of Nuremberg and produced three full-length productions under the Kitsch/Kunst label. Her works have been shown at tanzhaus nrw, Kunsthalle Baden Baden, HELLERAU Dresden, Tafelhalle Nürnberg, LOFFT - DAS THEATER Leipzig, E-Werk Freiburg, tanzfaktur Köln, Sophiensaele Berlin, Bayerische Theatertage, among others. In 2021, she was part of the Goethe-Institut Indonesia's ‘Bodies of Care’ project as a choreographer.
Fee and Registration:
5 days workshop: 150,-€
Reduced price for students, PZ-members: 120,-€
The Workshop is aimed at professional dancers. Artists from related fields and dance enthusiasts with an appropriate level of training are also welcome.
Registration from 01.07.24 at info@produktionszentrum.de with a short letter of motivation explaining why you identify as a professional dancer and would like to take part in the SEEDS dance lab.