Lectures and talks

Laboratory IN TRANSIT 06

Danse - L'Afrique Danse!

Tue, May 30, 2006
6 pm
Free admission

In the In Transit Lab 06 the notion of body culture will be discussed by artists and scholars from Brazil, India, Europe, Africa, the USA and the Middle East. They describe and discuss an open horizon of cultural variety, which forms resistance to the rationality of modernity up to now.


18-19.30 h

Ayoko Mensah and Johannes Odenthal

Danse – L’Afrique Danse! Ways to Deal With Colonial Habits. Freedom through the Body

Do colonial structures continue to exert an influence on the contemporary production of art? And how do African choreographs and dancers define being ‘contemporary’?

French - English


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