tanzhaus nrw
FR, May 8 and SA, May 95, from 12.00 am until 4.00 pm
Free Admission

VIDEOTHEK TANZSZENE NRW
The video shop provides intensive insight into the NRW dance scene. Presenters are given the opportunity to watch videos of several NRW dance productions by different artists on several screens on the gallery of the tanzhaus-Bistro.

tanzhaus nrw
SA, May 9, 12.00 am until 2 pm
Free Admission

PRESENTATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL DANCE ARTIST SERVICE NRW
with Wolfgang Hoffmann, Staatskanzlei NRW, among others

The International Dance Artist Service nrw will take up its work starting in August of 2009. This agency, affiliated with the tanzhaus NRW, provides information and counsel regarding production and tour planning for choreographers and companies as well as procurement of guest performances. Wolfgang Hoffmann (Staatskanzlei Düsseldorf) and Bertram Müller (tanzhaus NRW) will introduce the concept and the members of the curatory board.

„SPITZENFÖRDERUNG IM TANZ"? - ARTISTS AND EXPERTS IN DIALOGUE

with Bettina Kogler (brut Wien) Thomas Lehmen, Stephanie Thiersch und Caroline Simon among others

Based on the new NRW support concept for dance which the state government introduced under the label "Tanzland NRW" at the beginning of the year, PACT Zollverein would like to make an invitation for public dialogue which interviews regional and international dance producers about forward-looking models for public dance support.
Promotion of excellence in freelance and contemporary dance companies, a marketing agency for dance, concentration on dance centres in the cities - is this the structural potential for an innovative and sustainable support concept, capable of adequate reactions to the needs and demands of the NRW dance scene, empowering new impulses and strengthening dance not only locally, but also beyond state boundaries?
We wish to incite a discussion on adequate contemporary and continuous dance support and enable a constructive debate about the (new) places for artists, companies, producing houses and educational institutions within the region.

KÖLN TANZT

A boundless dance night, an experience of the variety of dance in Cologne. KÖLN TANZT presents all that dances in Cologne on one stage and in the course of one evening. Two hosts guide you through the programme and connect the most contrary things. The result of this integration will be a dance performance of a different kind.
Insights into the most diverse dance worlds, the personal stories as well as histories of Cologne dancers and dance producers turn this production into an exciting journey, staged at a unique venue in Cologne.

Programme and additional information at www.alleswastanzt.de

Concept and idea: raum13 Theater Fraktion Köln

A city arts project by raum13 Theater Fraktion Köln
In cooperation with the Spichern Höfe and Totalanders-Veranstaltungstechnik
Supported by the Kulturamt der Stadt Köln.

Kölner Tanzresidenz
Cologne Dance Center
FR, May 15, 2.30 pm
Free Admission

LECTURE AND DISCUSSION: ART AND ARTISTS IN GERMANY. A QUALITATIVE STUDY BY THE FONDS DARSTELLENDE KÜNSTE
Presented by Günter Jeschonnek

The Fonds Darstellende Künste completed its great qualitative study and survey on the situation of performing artists in the Federal Republic of Germany. Its results and the first few operational directions will be presented within tanz nrw 09 in Cologne.

Tanzmuseum Köln
SUN, May 17, 3.00 pm
Free Admission

A GUIDANCE DANCE...
... THROUGH THE EXHIBITION "FATAL ATTRACTION. DANCE, ELEGANCE AND FEMINITY"

When the typhoon blows away the cocoon
the butterfly embraces the sun

Danced Haikus of happiness - feeling - solitude - expectation - finiteness - glory

Performance / Guided tour through the current exhibition "Fatal Attraction. Dance, elegance, and feminity" at the Tanzmuseum des Deutschen Tanzarchivs Köln

Dance: Katharine Sehnert
Text: Thomas Thorausch
Costumes: Cordula Paar

A presentation in the context of tanz NRW 09 and the Internationaler Museumstag 2009

Tanzmuseum Köln
Foyer
SUN, May 17
11 am / 12 pm / 1.00 pm / 2.00pm
5.00 pm until 7.00 pm with introduction and discussion
Free Admission

china-hair-connection Beijing-Cologne
Documentary film about an interdisciplinary performance project by Angie Hiesl and Roland Kaiser, filmed in collaboration with Gerrit Busmann

This project shines a light on facets of Chinese and occidental mundane culture with a special focus on HAIR. This project was realized with Chinese and European performers in Cologne and Beijing in public and semi-public spaces in 2008.

Angie Hiesl u. Roland Kaiser are in attendance.
www.angiehiesl.de

Supporters: Kulturstiftung des Bundes, Kunststiftung NRW, Stadt Köln, der Ministerpräsident des Landes NRW, Goethe-Institut

Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln
Konzertsaal
SUN, May 17, 7.00 pm
6 € / 4 €

Trikon Tanzwerkstatt Köln
Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln / Prof. Dr. Hans Neuhoff, Prof. Vera Sander

SHIFTING GROUNDS
Dance and music piece with 20 artists from Central Europe, West Africa and South India

Ten dancers from Central Europe, West Africa and South India reflect on group relations from
different perspectives: Status and leadership, polarization and integration, social and personal identity, interdependence and shortages of ressources. Music plays an integral artistic part, carried by a strong, intercontinental percussion apparatus, pianos, voices and electronics.
Idea and concept react to a situation of rapidly changing circumstances in geopolitics, social structures and general cultural conditions - "Shifting Grounds" - and are searching for specific efforts dance can provide therein. Vera Sander's choreography is leaning on a tension-filled set of a common anthropological foundation and different cultural human encodings.

Concept: Hans Neuhoff
Choreographical Direction: Vera Sander
Musical Direction: Paulo Álvares
Stage: Peter van der Logt
Sound: Benjamin Kropp
Lighting: Vera Sander, Michael Sandmeier, Thomas Vervoorts
Dramatury, Psychology: Hans Neuhoff
Dancers: Fatou Cissé (Senegal), Kojiro Imada (Ger/Japan), Sangeeta Isvaran (India), Narendra Kumar (India), Anusha Natarajan (India), Adonis Nebié (Burkina Faso),Jessica van Rueschen (Ger), Sayouba Sigue (Burkina Faso), Miriam Wick (Ger), Vasanth Venkatachari (India)

Muscians:
Paulo Álvares (HfMT Köln): Piano, prepared piano, electronics
Laurenz Gemmer (Ger): Piano, prepared piano
Alessandro Tomassetti (Italy): Drums, Mallets
Bombay Jayashri (India): Singing
V. Suresh (India): Ghatam, Kanjira, Tavil
Taffa Cissé (Senegal): Djembe (Lead)
Saly Diabate (Burkina Faso): Djembe, balafon
Bachir Sanogo (Côte d'Ivoire): Djembe, Singing, Kamal-Ngoni
Aly Wagué (Mali): Peul flute, kora, dum-dum

Production Management: Hans Neuhoff

Duration: 100 min

www.mhs-koeln.de/tanzwerkstatt.html

Partner and supporters: Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst, Kunststiftung NRW, Ministerpräsident von Nordrhein-Westfalen, SK Stiftung Kultur, Istituto Italiano di Cultura. The performances by TTK are being funded by the Kulturamt der Stadt Köln, tanzhaus nrw Düsseldorf and the Georg Neumann Mikrofone GmbH, Berlin.

TRACKS
DanceExperimentalFilm from the German Dance Archives Cologne

Curator: Christiane Hartter
Duration: 53 min

Distant landscape
GR 2004 _3 min_
Choreography, Direction: Aliki Chiotaki

The Space of the Other
D 2003 _5 min_
Direction: Phuong Nguyen

Minou
GB 2002 _6 Min_
Choreography: Magali Charrier, Maria Lloyd
Direction: Magali Charrier

Tra La La
GB 2004 _3 min_
Choreography, Direction: Magali Charrier

Wipe that Sound
D 2004 _3 min_
Music: Mouse on Mars
Direction: Rosa Barba

Nascent
GB / AUS 2005 _10 min_
Choreography: Garry Stewart
Direction: Gina Czarnecki

Three Times
AUS 2005 _7 min_
Choreography, Direction: Sue Healey

Lightning Bolts & Man Hands
D 2004 _6 min_
Music: Hymie's Basement
Direction: Markus Wambsganss

The Smallest Things
GB 2004 _10 min_
Choreography: Sara Crow
Direction: Jamie Paul Quantrill