Learning by making and making by learning how to learn
Tuesday 04 of May
It would be too easy to dismiss “education” as yet another topic like an event to arise in contemporary dance and performance in Europe, even if the event of “education” does confirm again the curatorial logic of exhausting and replacing one promise of the critical and inventive with another. “Education” has been recently featured by all major dance centers in Europe, in conferences, artists’ laboratories, research initiatives, festivals and national dance programmes.i To demonstrate how “education” and its declinations like “learning”, “learning by doing” etc. follow up the chain of topics such as “research” and “laboratory”, “collectivity” and “collaboration” neither deserves an interpretative effort. [...]
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Bojana Cvejić is performance maker and theorist, working in contemporary dance and performance also as dramaturg and performer. She has published in performing arts, music, philosophy journals, magazines and anthologies and is author of two books, most recently "Beyond the Musical Work: Performative practice” (IKZS, Belgrade, 2007). With Jan Ritsema she has developed a theater practice in a number of performances since 1999 (a.o. TODAYulysses, 2000), and has collaborated with X. Le Roy, E. Salamon, M. Ingvartsen a.o.. Her own performance work includes directing five experimental opera performances, most recently Mozart’s Don Giovanni (BITEF, Belgrade). Cvejic has been active in teaching in a number of European educational programmes (e.g., P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels), as well as organizing independent platforms for theory and practice in performance: TkH Centar (=Walking Theory Center in Belgrade), PAF (performingARTSforum in St. Erme, France) and most recently 6MONTHS1LOCATION (CCN in Montpellier). She is currently writing a PhD ("Performance after Deleuze: Creating ‘Performative’ Concepts in Contemporary Dance in Europe") at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Middlesex University in London. Since September 2009, she is teaching contemporary dance and performance at the Utrecht University, M.A. program Theater Studies.