Conference
Modern Dance in Japan and Germany
Directors: Gabriele Brandstetter, Kôji Ueda and Johannes Odenthal
Japanese and German with simultaneous translation
After the Second World War, developments in Japan’s and Germany’s contemporary dance had an impact on dance across the globe. German dance theatre and Japanese Butoh are two of the most prominent currents in these countries, but certainly not the only ones. What aesthetic ideas, what cultural factors, which political and body-political discourses are expressed in these new dance forms?
Programme
Fri 10.6.
10:00-10:30 Wellcome and short introduction by Gabriele Brandstetter, Kôji Ueda, and Johannes Odenthal
10:30-11:00 Hans-Thies Lehmann
11:30-12:00 Kazuki Kuniyoshi
12:30-13:00 Akira Amagasaki
15:00 -17:30 Gabriele Brandstetter and Johannes Odenthal are leading though the afternoon: short lectures by Tadashi Uchino and Rolf Elberfeld will be followed by a discussion with Min Tanaka on state and future of contemporary dance.
Booking ba fax: 004930-839 07 220 or E-mail: abastigkeit@jdzb.de
Venue: Japanisch-Deutsches Zentrum Berlin, Saargemünder Straße 2, Berlin-Zehlendorf
Public transport:
Underground: Oskar Helene Heim, Bus: X10, M11, 110, 115
Sat 11.6.
2.00 p.m.– 8 p.m.
Lecture, demonstrations, films and discussion
6.00 p.m.
Lecture performance by Min Tanaka
Venue: HKW
Participants:
Akira Amagasaki, Prof. of Aesthetics, specialising in dance
Rolf Elberfeld, private lecturer of intercultural philosophy
Kazuko Kuniyoshi, Prof. of Dance History
Hans-Thies Lehmann, Prof. of Theatre Studies
Tadashi Uchino, Prof. of Art History and Performative Aesthetics
Kuniichi Uno, Prof. of French Literature and Theatre, Specialist for Hijikata
Guests:
Akira Kasai + Mariko Takayasu + Un Yamada + Akiko Kitamura, and others.
Organiser:
Japanisch-Deutsches Zentrum Berlin, Institut für Theaterwissenschaft/Tanzwissenschaft and the House of World Cultures/IN TRANSIT