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WHAT'S THE BIG DEAL ABOUT ACCESS? Ableismen und Zulänglichkeiten in Tanz und Performance bewegen

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"WHAT'S THE BIG DEAL ABOUT ACCESS?"

Moving Ableisms and Accessibilities in Dance and Performance

Lectures * Workshops * Performances * Interventions

with Marc Brew, Tanja Erhart, Raina Hofer, Juli Reinartz, Steven Solbrig and others

April 14 - 17, 2025, Center for Contemporary Dance

This week invites you to discuss questions of accessibility, ableism and diversity in the fields of dance and performance. Who has access to stages, audiences and training? Who is considered "able" to perform professionally? And how do we all shape such performances on an ongoing basis?

Lectures, workshops, performances and interventions by and with guests, students and teachers offer the opportunity to encounter and engage with diverse physicalities and thus opportunities to question, problematize and expand common notions of "the norm".

This week invites a sharing questions of accessibility, ableism and diversity in dance and performance. Who has access to stages, audiences, education? Who is considered as being 'able' to perform professionally? And how do we all continuously co-produce such notions?

Lectures, workshops, performances and interventions by and with guests, students and teachers open up encounters and engagements with diverse corporealities as a way to challenge, to problematize and to expand common notions of 'the norm'.

Language: German and English.

Admission: Free, registration is required.

Languages spoken: DE & EN

Admission: Free, registration is required.

Admission: Free, registration is required.

Accessibility: All rooms are located on the first floor and are wheelchair accessible. A barrier-free toilet is located next to Studio 2. Various seating options and a relaxation room are available. Please let us know your individual access needs: koordination-zzt@hfmt-koeln.de.

Accessibility: All spaces arelocated on the ground floor and can be accessed with a wheel chair. A barrier free toilet is located next to studio 2. There will be a variety of seating options and a resting area. Please contact us about your particular access needs via koordination-zzt@hfmt-koeln.de.

Venue:

Center for Contemporary Dance, Turmstraße 3-5, 50733 Cologne-Nippes

The ZZT is easily accessible by subway (Florastraße stop). There are no exclusive parking spaces available for the event.

Location: CCD (Centre for Contemporary Dance), Turmstrasse 3-5, 50733 Cologne Nippes.

CCD can be reached via subway (Florastraße). There is no parking space available exclusively for the event.

Program overview - Overview

More information as well as biographies of the participants can be found here.

More information as well as biographies of the guests can be found here.

April 14

08.30 - 9.00 Arrival

(8.50 Welcoming Tilmann Claus, Rector and Dean's Office FB7)

09.00 - 9.45 Cripping Perception - Aesthetics & Access in the Performing Arts - Opening Lecture with Steven Solbrig
10.00 - 12.00 luscious dancing access - pleasurable accessibility in dance

Workshop with Tanja Erhart + Raina Hofer

10.00 - 12.00 Collective Resting Areas by and with students
12.30 - 13.30 Gathering, Reflecting, Sharing. Reflection and exchange


April 15
09.00 - 9.30 Tune-in with students
10.00 - 12.00 Inclusive Training Fundamentals, workshop with Marc Brew
10.00 - 12.00 X Ways of Working with Crip Time, workshop with Juli Reinartz

10.00 - 12.00 Collective Resting Areas by and with students
12.15 - 13.30 Gathering, Reflecting, Sharing. Reflection and exchange
18:00 - 19:00 Negotiating Disability in Performance, Lecture Performance with Marc Brew

April 16
09:00 - 9:30 Tune-in with students
10:00 - 12:00 Creating Inclusive Dance, workshop with Marc Brew

10.00 - 12.00 X Ways of Working with Crip Time, workshop with Juli Reinartz

10.00 - 12.00 Collective Resting Areas by and with students
12.15 - 13.30 Gathering, Reflecting, Sharing. Reflection and exchange

18:00 - 19:00 All late, all babe, lecture performance with Juli Reinartz

April 17
09:00 - 9:30 Tune-in with students
10.00 - 12.00 What's up, next and beyond? Open sharing and discussion with guests

Mod.: Seven Solbrig

12.30 - 13.30 Gathering, Reflecting, Sharing... and Closing. Reflection and exchange

Anmeldung WORKSHOPS: https://terminplaner6.dfn.de/b/feaba8b2d0089e6707fc9bc0ca20a524-1133157

Registration PERFORMANCES & ROUND TABLE: https://terminplaner6.dfn.de/b/f7c57c45f6af1b9ee7db434d31d0bedf-1133177

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Location

Studiotheater Zentrum für Zeitgenössischen Tanz Turmstraße 3-5 50733 Köln

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