In 2011 Sarma organizes two workshops (on ‘physical dramaturgy’ with Martin Nachbar & Jeroen Peeters; Against the interdisciplinary with DD Dorvillier and David Bergé), ad hoc master classes a.o. by Philipp Gehmacher, and an open dramaturgy laboratory. Open dramaturgy' refers to the idea that communal and collaborative contexts like laboratoria, salons and workshops have an as important impact on the artistic process as the one-to-one relation between dramaturge and artist. The first Open Dramaturgy Laboratorium Sarma organized in collaboration with workspacebrussels was VoiceLab (April 12-17, 2010).

UPCOMING

• workshop against the interdisciplinary with DD Dorvillier & David Bergé (September 26-30, 2011)deadline extended to September 1st
• Popela's Paralipomena: Open Dramaturgy Lab around scores, experimental writing and collective discursive practices  (November 10-18, 2011)

PAST

• workshop backtracking : physical dramaturgy with Martin Nachbar & Jeroen Peeters (June 13-17, 2011)
• Voice Lab (April 12-17, 2010)

Dramaturgy’s “what and how” and its relations to choreography are to be invented anew with each creative process, though the accumulation of experience may very well provide a springboard for sharing knowledge within the field. Informed by their longstanding collaboration, choreographer Martin Nachbar and dramaturg Jeroen Peeters will lead a workshop centered around “physical dramaturgy”.
Physical dramaturgy seeks to explore and exhaust the realm of meaning triggered by moving bodies, as well by as the various materials and ideas that populate a creation process. In order to facilitate artistic research within a creative process, it insists on analyzing one’s own practice and stimulating an awareness of the underpinnings and contexts of one’s work.
Physical dramaturgy embraces an ethics of collaboration and regards practice and theory, research and making, movement and reflection as intertwined activities. As an oscillating in-between space it may become a discursive site, a place that enables a critical understanding of time, space, perception, and the production of meaning.

The workshop will take place in Brussels, 13-17 June 2011, 10am-5pm
Organized by Sarma @ workspacebrussels


Jeroen Peeters (Brussels) is active as a writer, dramaturg, performer and curator. Trained in art history and philosophy, he publishes on dance and performance in various specialized media, including Contact Quarterly, corpus, Dance Theatre Journal, Etcetera, Maska, Mouvement and TM. Together with Myriam Van Imschoot and Kristien Van den Brande, Peeters directs Sarma. As dramaturg, artistic collaborator or performer, Peeters has contributed to performances and research projects of a.o. Eleanor Bauer, Paul Deschanel Movement Research Group, deufert + plischke, Sabina Holzer, Anne Juren, Thomas Lehmen, Vera Mantero, Martin Nachbar, Meg Stuart and Superamas.

Martin Nachbar (Berlin) is dancer, performer and choreographer. He writes about his practices and processes for various publications. He trained at the School for New Dance Development, Amsterdam, in New York City, at PARTS, Brussels, and at the Amsterdam Master of Choreogaphy. Nachbar collaborated in different functions with artists of different fields (Thomas Plischke, Alice Chauchat, Vera Mantero, Les Ballets C. de la B., Meg Stuart, Thomas Lehmen, Benjamin Schweitzer, Joachim Schlömer, Carlos Pez, Martine Pisani, Paul Hendrikse a.o.). He has been making work and teaching in various contexts in Europe and overseas.

2. workshop against the interdisciplinary with DD Dorvillier & David Bergé

an explorative workshop hosted by David Bergé and DD Dorvillier, with interventions by Susan Sontag and Francis Bacon for dancers, choreographers, photographers, and visual artists, alike.

Rather than finding a meeting point for these media, we will define together the individual qualities of photography, the photographic, movement and choreography. We will test spatial and temporal limits of image and movement and by doing so, reach points where they inform each other, where they can be each others' model or subject matter. We will examine for instance, questions of sensation and interiority for a dancer, or the position that a photographer places him/herself in, in relation to the subject, levels of projection and presence for each other.

The workshop will take place in Brussels, September 26-30, 2011, 10am-5pm
Organized by Sarma @ workspacebrussels

Participation price: 125€

If you’re interested in participating, please send your bio and motivation letter to contact.sarma@gmail.com 
Deadline extended tot September 1st!


BIO David Bergé
David Bergé is a photographer working on the intersection of photography and choreography. His artistic practice consists of performative walk projects, performance installations, photographic projections integrated in choreographies and traditional acts of photography. His work has been seen at TanzQuartier Wien (AT), WorkSpace Brussels (BE) and Netwerk Aalst (BE). Artistic collaborations include projects with (amongst others) choreographers DD Dorvillier (US), Trajal Harrell (US), Marc Vanrunxt (BE). Besides that, he has been involved into creationships with lightening designer Jan Maertens (BE) and performer/theorist Elizabeth Waterhouse (US/DE). www.papa-razzi.be

BIO DD Dorvillier
DD Dorvillier is a choreographer and performer from New York. Through her company, human future dance corps, she has produced many works, presenting them in the US, Europe, Asia, and Latin America. She has also taught worldwide in state and private institutions, festivals, and schools. She has worked with David Bergé in different capacities including the creation of a collaborative the photo-installation Half a Train (2007). Her work Choreography, a Prologue for the Apocalypse of Understanding, Get Ready! was presented in Belgium most recently at Kaai Theater, and deSingel. Recent collaborative projects include: The Blanket Dance (2011) with Frédéric Gies and Jefta van Dinther, Pièce Sans Paroles (2010) with Anne Juren and Annie Dorsen, RMW(a) & RMW (2004) with Jennifer Monson, and Anarchive #2:secondhand (2010) with Deuffert/Plishke. In 2003 she received a Bessie for her quartet Dressed for Floating and in 2010 for her performance in Parades & Changes, replays, a re-activation of Anna Halprin’s seminal Parades & Changes (1965), directed by French choreographer Anne Collod. Dorvillier maintains on-going artistic partnerships with Composer Zeena Parkins and Lighting Designer Thomas Dunn. She has worked with many artists including: Sarah Michelson, Jennifer Lacey, Yvonne Meier, Heather Kravas, Elizabeth Ward, Jonathan Bepler, and Karen Finley, among others. She has been awarded with fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts (2000), the Foundation for Contemporary Arts (2007), and the Guggenheim Foundation (2011). Her upcoming project, Danza Permanente, will premiere at STUK in Leuven in May 2012.

 
3. Popela’s Paralipomena: Open Dramaturgy Lab around scores, experimental writing and collective discursive practices

Sarma @ WorkSpaceBrussels, November 10-18, 2011

Research and forms of collective dramaturgy are of central interest in Sarma’s collaboration with WorkSpaceBrussels. The laboratory Popela’s Paralipomena assembles a diverse group of artists and researchers for reflection and exchange around scores, experimental writing and collective discursive practices.

In dance and choreography meaning is understood as embodied in specific practices – form does matter. It doesn’t come as a surprise then that many artists in the field of dance and performance not only look into the underpinnings of the discourses surrounding their work, but that alternative discursive practices and experimental writing have become the very core of their work. By connecting with the principles of Oulipo, the “workplace for potential literature” that saw a creative challenge in constraints, current questions appear in a different light. Can the playful formalism of experimental writing provide a critical view upon the rapid and superficial consumption of knowledge in our information society? What can the approach of scores as obstacles or sites for negotiation mean for artistic research and creation?

Concept: Jeroen Peeters
Participants: Shila Anaraki (tbc), Julien Bruneau, Mette Edvardsen, Jack Hauser (tbc), Leslie Mannès, Jeroen Peeters, Manon Santkin, Noé Soulier (tbc), Sarah Vanhee, Myriam Van Imschoot
Production: Sarma @ workspacebrussels