Ancestral Futurities: Encounters with Heritage in Contemporary Dance and Choreographic Practices

The symposium explores how artists engage with cultural heritage, dance practices, and rituals connected to ancestrality through theoretical and methodological perspectives. It provides a platform to share and discuss strategies and methodologies for dance research and creation in order to expand and challenge the dominant dance canons. The program includes scholar and artistic engagements organized in panel discussions, lectures, and studio labs. It creates a space to acknowledge the diversity of bodily epistemologies, highlighting how social, political, spiritual, and “ancestral” movement practices inform, challenge, reshape, and expand contemporary dance and choreography. The aim is to collectively generate an ongoing questioning of what we label as traditional and contemporary and investigate ways of creating relationships among translocal experiences and their transmissions.
 
Keynote lectures by Şebnem Sözer Özdemir and Urmimala Sarkar
Curation Team: Ulduz Ahmadzadeh, Beatriz Herrera Corado, Christina Gillinger, Isabel Lewis
This event is supported by the Gender|Queer|Diversity call.

Programm

Further programme infos will be provided in due time here.

Starting time of Studio Lab: 10 am
Welcome and Open Program: 14 pm - 18 pm

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