Workshop #2 Writing about Dance (Alternative Formats)

Taneční aktuality with Performing Arts Hub Norway organized a three-day seminar for beginning dance critics and authors as part of the MOVE Fest festival in Ostrava from September 28 to October 3, 2021. The workshop realized as part of the project Dance and Performing Arts Criticism in Europe focused on the investigation of alternative formats of texts, which can be used to reflect alternative formats of performances and site-specific performances.
 
 
The seminar was held under the leadership of experienced dance and theater critics of the Norwegian dance scene, Anette Therese Pettersen and Hild Borchgrevink. From the applications received as part of the open call, eight participants from all over Europe were selected, half of them participated in the workshop online, the other half arrived in Ostrava in person, where, in addition to the performance, they also took part in the audience's festival discussions with the artists organized by Taneční aktuality.
 
Workshop participants: Marija Saveiko (Latvia), Silvia Hristova (Bulgaria), Freda Fiala (Austria), Regina Janzen (Belgium), Friedericke Frost (Germany), Marianna Panourgia (Greece), Tereza Cigánková (Czechia) and Lorraine Vaney (Georgia).

 

Hild Borchgrevink said of the workshop participants: "The female writers really impressed me, especially considering that we gave them very little time to write in a way that was completely new to them so far."
 
Freda Fiala, who arrived at the workshop from Vienna, commented on the atmosphere as follows: "Combining the experience of visiting the city and an online workshop was a 'new thing' for me, but the organizers approached this physically distanced format with a detailed program and really achieved that one felt personal and substantial, material meeting. My writing has definitely benefited from this opportunity – travel, meeting, sharing and time and space to think in between.”
The texts  from the workhop were published in the English section of Taneční aktuality webpage.

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