Closed workshop
Curating
and Performance
is an eight-session course unfolding over a fortnight in May, with the students
in the second year of the bachelor degree program at SNDO – School for New Dance
Development, Amsterdam. The course considers performance within the framework
of its institutional history to think through its contextualisation,
presentation and preservation through curatorial practice, and the theoretical
and practical implications of this for artists, institutions and audiences
alike.
Through this the course aims to introduce and
engage the students in the lively contemporary debates surrounding the curation
of performance, and to equip them with the critical and practical skills that
they require to think through how they structure and shape their own artistic
work in relation to the curatorial structures that they might choose to create,
engage with, or respond to.
The course is structured around six key
principals – Space, Time, Bodies, Props and Objects, Notation and
Documentation, and Writing – that will be complemented by readings and
practical exercises.
Curating and Performance is an SNDO – School for
New Dance Development course commissioning If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be
Part Of Your Revolution. In response to SNDO course conceptualization,
intentions and general outline, the programme contents has been developed by If
I Can’t Dance’s director Frédérique Bergholtz and curator Susan Gibb, and will
be co-ordinated by Susan Gibb.