- Artistic Research and Documentation
Module 2 with Susanne Martin & Andrea Keiz
In addition to practical exercises in dance and improvisation, there will be theoretical input on artistic research. With different practices of documentation we will exemplarily deal with the direct connection of practice and analysis or evaluation through the use of documentation.
What does this module focus on?
The participants' own artistic/somatic practice will be the basis for the offers and suggestions in the workshop. A mixture of theory and practical exercises will be offered. The own artistic/creative work is always the starting point.
What does Artistic Research mean?
Artistic research has become a recognized field of work in the performing arts. Being active in research is based on the interest to generate and share knowledge. Documentation of one's own practice is an indispensable tool to evaluate one's own (creative) process.
Susanne Martin and Andrea Keiz have been cooperating in the field of artistic research and documentation for many years. Susanne Martin brings her expertise from university and many years of dance and teaching practice, Andrea Keiz has been accompanying dance and various projects of artistic and somatic research with documentation for many years. Constant questions are:
- What is artistic research?
- What is research in somatics?
- What can documentation be useful for?
- How can I establish documentation as part of my artistic/somatic practice?
Ausführliche Seminarinformationen
EMERGE Continuing Education // Somatics in Dance, Choreography & Performance
Concept: Heike Kuhlmann & Katja Münker
Lecturers: Andrea Keiz, Heike Kuhlmann, Susanne Martin, Katja Münker & Andrew Wass
Emerge // Somatics in Dance, Choreography & Performance is a 250-hour, modular, in-service specialization in Somatic Pedagogy for use in artistic, creative, performative & educational professions.
The sentient body and the experience/experiencing of oneself in movement and in interaction with the environment are the focus of this dance-choreographic advanced training.
The methods Body-Mind Centering®, Feldenkrais Method and Authentic Movement form the basis for movement trainings and aesthetic research. With improvisation and composition strategies, these experiences are made creatively creative and performative-artistic usable. This enables the development of individual dance abilities in their deep, embodied potential. Connected to the somatic experience, choreographic criteria and tools are taught. The participants are thus accompanied through an artistic development process in which they (further) develop their own present, powerful and subtle penetration of movement as an aesthetic form and conclude with a presentation.
For whom is Emerge recommended?
This continuing education is aimed at educators, therapists, teachers, dancers, dance/theater educators, choreographers and anyone who wants to implement creative action and relaxed, confident performance in their everyday life or profession.
What does Emerge promote?
- Development of somatic-choreographic action through a strengthening of sensory reference in decision-making and in the use of choreographic strategies.
- Unfolding creativity through training in strategies for shaping individual and collaborative creative processes, strategies for overcoming creative blocks.
- Deepening embodiment through body awareness training (being at home in the body), strengthening the body's own resources and sensory reference in movement.
- Performativity by strengthening individual and collective expressiveness, by strengthening sensory references in public performance, in solo and group performances and in application in individual areas of interest.
What does Emerge include?
The Emerge continuing education is modular. It is possible to join at any time. The completion is based on
- participation in 250h compulsory & elective modules,
- participation in 3h somatic & 3h artistic coaching each,
- artistic contributions to the workshop-internal performance shows,
- Documentation of the individual somatic process (max 5 pages) and
- Documentation of the artistic process (max 5 pages) with follow-up discussion
Curriculum 2023-2024
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Module 9 | Nov 15-17, 2024 | Expanding Project Unfolding // Tensegrity-principles & Fascia anatomy in dance with Katja Münker
| 430€ |
Additionally, according to the individual focus or interest:
90h Continuing education | Recognition from advance training possible or optionally bookable in
| varies according to selection or pre-training |
Artistic Coaching | Optional with one lecturer of Emerge
| 60€/h |
1:1 Somatic session | Optional with one lecturer of Emerge
| 60€/h |
Documentation, feedback, certification | Both
| 200€ |
Seminarleiter*innen
Susanne Martin
www.susannemartin.de
choreographer, performer, researcher, and teacher in contemporary dance.
She presents her work internationally in solo performances and collaborative stage works. Her artistic practice and research focus on improvisation, contact improvisation, critical practices and narrations of age(ing), artistic research methods, and improvisation-based approaches to knowledge production and knowledge dissemination. Festivals that presented her performances include: International Dance and Theatre Festival (Gothenburg), Aerowaves (London), Nottdance (Nottingham), Opera Estate (Bassano del Grappa), Tanec Praha (Prague).
Her PhD dissertation Dancing Age(ing): Rethinking Age(ing) in and through Improvisation Practice and Performance was published 2017 by transcript. In her postdoctoral research at EPFL, Switzerland (2018-2021) she examined dance improvisation in its potential to rethink and advance processes of learning and researching in a technical university.
credit: Frank Post
Kosten
Anmeldeinformationen
BerlinSomatische Akademie Berlin
Paul-Lincke-Ufer 30
10999 Berlin | side building
1st backyard
4th floor
- Full Price: 280.00 EUR
This module is part of the continuing education Emerge. It can be booked separately as well:
EMERGE - Somatic/Artistic Research & Documentation
EN | 2-day workshop with Andrea Keiz & Susanne Martin
Mar 28, 2026 – Mar 29, 2026
