June 28th to 30th 2012
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ReinicThis is to be an international conference focusing on theaging body – a subject that has long been the subject of
medical, cultural and political research – with special reference to dance. We shall be looking at culture-specificnotions of the beauty and movement, agility and expressiveness of the body as they relate to the status of the aging
body in dance. Models will be used for a comparative
discussion of the differences in normative discourses andinstitutions and in gender-related concepts of body andmovement between the Euro-American and Japanese
dance traditions, i.e. between »youth-oriented« cultures on the one hand and a culture which – like Japan´s– reveres aging dancers as part of the country´s »living
heritage« on the other. The distinctions and changes insuch traditional cultural patterns in contemporary (globalized) dance as well as the theoretical challenges theypose for dance and cultural research will be pursued in
the papers presented at the conference, and as well in theroundtables and presentations of the invited artists. The
conference is based on the cooperation of the Zentrum fürBewegungsforschung, FU Berlin, and the Japan Society
for the Promotion of Science, and is funded by the DFG
and the Japan Foundation.
www.bewegungsforschung.deendwechIn cooperation with Theater Thikwa and NPO DANCE BOX.

Aging Body in Dance:
Seeking Aesthetics and Politics of the Body
through the Comparison of Euro-Americanand Japanese Cultures

Symposium: Aging Body in Dance

Symposium: Aging Body in Dance

Symposium: Aging Body in Dance

Thursday,
28th
June 2012

Friday,29thJune 2012

Saturday,
30th
June 2012-------------------------------------------------------------------14:00-15:00 Arrival /Registration---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Section II: Alternative Dancability: Dis/Ability & Performance--------------------------------------------------------------------

15:00 Opening
Gabriele Brandstetter (Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin)
Nanako Nakajima (Japan Society for the Promotion ofScience, Saitama)

10:00 Ann Cooper Albright (Oberlin)The Perverse Satisfaction of Gravity
11:00 Susanne Foellmer (Berlin)
Bodies´ Borderlands: Right in the Middle.
Dis/Abilities on Stage.
-------------------------------------------------------------------12:00 Short Break-------------------------------------------------------------------12:30 Petra Kuppers (Michigan)
Grace in the Hospice: Community Dance, Elders, Land-------------------------------------------------------------------13:30 Break--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Section III: Aging & Body Politics in Contemporary Dance---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------10:00 Kaite O´Reilly (London)
SILENT RHYTHM: A Reflection on sensory impairment
as a source of creativity and inspiration-------------------------------------------------------------------11:00 Janice Ross (San Francisco)
Sexuality and the Aging Body: Anna Halprin Dancing
Eros at the End of Life-------------------------------------------------------------------12:00 Short Break--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Section IV: Intercultural Perspectives---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Section I: Aging Body in the Context of Postmodern Dance-------------------------------------------------------------------15:45 Peggy Phelan (San Francisco)
The Ends of Dance: Pina Bausch and Merce Cunningham-------------------------------------------------------------------16:45 Short Break-------------------------------------------------------------------17:00 Ramsay Burt (Leicester)
Yvonne Rainer´s Convalescent dance: on valuing
ordinary, everyday, and unidealised bodily states-------------------------------------------------------------------18:00 Break-------------------------------------------------------------------20:00 Jess Curtis (Berlin) Lecture Performance
Jess Meets Angus – Dances for Non/Fictional Bodies
Choreography: Silke Z.
Post-Performance Talk with Gabriele Brandstetter

concept and direction:
Gabriele Brandstetter and Nanako Nakajima

15:00 Johannes Odenthal (Berlin)
Aging in dance is not an issue. Why are we always asking
the wrong questions? On Gerhard Bohner, Koffi Kôkô,
Kazuo Ohno, and endless other masters of dance-------------------------------------------------------------------16:00 Short Break-------------------------------------------------------------------16:15 Kikuko Toyama (Saitama)Old, weak, and invalid: dance in inaction-------------------------------------------------------------------17:15 Break-------------------------------------------------------------------20:00 Performance: Theater Thikwa plus Junkan Projekt
Choreography: Osamu Jareo
Post-Performance Talk with Nanako Nakajima

12:30 Mark Franko (New York)Why are the Hands the Last Resort of theAged Dancing Body-------------------------------------------------------------------13:30 Break-------------------------------------------------------------------15:00 Yoshito Ohno (Tokyo)
Figures of Life
16:00 Tamotsu Watanabe (Tokyo)
Flowers Blooming in the Time of Aging-------------------------------------------------------------------17:00 Short Break-------------------------------------------------------------------17:30 Roundtable
Aging Body/Differently Abled Body?
Difference, Convergence and Open Questions
Kazuo Fujino (Kobe) – Moderator, Gerd Hartmann (Berlin),Osamu Jareo (Osaka), Iku Otani (Kobe) – NPO DANCE BOX,Nicole Hummel (Berlin) – Theater Thikwa-------------------------------------------------------------------End of the Program around 19:00--------------------------------------------------------------------