Critical Endeavour 2010 Critical Endeavour is an educational program for emerging dance and performance journalists that took place for the first time during ImPulsTanz 2008 in Vienna. It is part of the new European initiative Jardin d’Europe―a multi-annual project funded partly by the European Union―that was developed by its 10 network partners Ultima Vez (BE), CCN Montpellier (FR), Workshop Foundation (HR), Lokomotiva (MK), Station (RS), 4Culture (formerly ArtLink) (RO), Cullberg Ballet (SE), Bimeras Culture Foundation (TR), Southbank Centre (UK), danceWEB (AT). Critical Endeavour’s aim is to encourage and enhance public discourse on dance and to promote exchange about practices, ethics, and responsibilities in criticism within the respective countries and contexts.
Preliminary Description of Critend 2010:
Contemporary practices in the field of dance and performance―at times infiltrating into and at other times being contaminated by related questions in other artistic and expressive fields―question, challenge and expand the boundaries of what constitutes the “choreographic.” We witness the “contemporaneity” of current live art practices and performative interventions as sites where the margins are blurred, often rendering territorial disciplinary demarcations insufficient, if not irrelevant. Granted that, within the Critical Endeavor 2010 seminars/ encounters/talks, we search for the ways in which we can catch up with, contribute to, and multiply the questions and to reflect on the creative possibilities rising from such cross-pollinations. Herein, we pay particular attention to facilitating an informed yet accessible discourse and writing on contemporary dance and performance practices.
In line with the broader festival theme, cosmopolitanism, we consider whether or not it is possible to achieve and maintain a cosmopolitan perspective in performance writing and criticism. We exchange reflections on critical writing with local and transnational writers, journalists and theoreticians from visual arts criticism, music criticism and literary criticism in order to extend our vocabulary and practice of writing in/around/for contemporary dance.
In 2010, Critical Endeavor will be hosted by Bimeras within the context of iDANS International Contemporary Dance and Performance Festival in October 2010, in collaboration with the Modern Dance Department of Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts, Department of Dance of Yildiz Technical University, and Radikal (a Turkish national daily newspaper).
Dates: October 18 - 31, 2010
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