𓆸 working for & in collaboration 𓆸

for ”Institute of Rest(s)” with Alix Eynaudi

𓏧 https://www.alixeynaudi.com/institute-of-rests/ 𓏧 https://www.alixeynaudi.com/projects/institute-of-rests-immobility-salon-3/

Institute of Rest(s) is funded by La Manufacture, Haute école des arts de la scène – HES-SO in Lausanne & supported by Tanzquartier Wien , La Grange Center /Arts et Sciences / UNIL Lausanne, Xing Bologna, Le Far Nyon, Tanzfabrik Berlin, Volkskundemuseum Vienna and ImpulsTanz Vienna.

Conceived as a space for studies, a series of investigations into the interstices, the hollows, the remains, the margins, the additions, the annotations, the footnotes, Institute of Rest(s) slips/sleeps into the field of expanded choreography as an unstable set of artistic practices.

Institute Rest(s) intends to interrogate and complicate notions of rest as they are practised – re-imagined, romanticised, allowed or disavowed – in ‘the age of performance’. It wants to articulate notions of rest(s) alongside a choreographic practice of study, where ‘rest’ figures both as a mode of inquiry and a methodological stance, more than as an object of study. Moved by the need to find conditions for living on better terms than we’re offered, Institute of Rest(s) is a research project that tries to rest in the forces that have already been practised through re-practising them, that thinks of practices of dancing, reading, translating together, as laboratories in which a study of personal and collective ethics is (mis)understood sensually.

for DDD - Erasmus Project (Diversity in Higher Dance Education in Europe)

𓏧 https://www.manufacture.ch/fr/6148/Diversity-in-European-Higher-Dance-Education. 𓏧

This research departs from the observation that different dance schools practice diversity in a variety of ways. The location of each institution, the prevailing dance culture, the working language, the teaching body, and the curriculum are all variables that influence the creation of institutionally specific ways of practicing diversity and they all engender different degrees and forms of inclusiveness and exclusion towards the student body. Starting from understanding precisely how such variables articulate to produced specific forms of diversity and exclusion in each institution, the questions Diversity in European Higher Dance Education is asking are:

• What kinds of diversity practices are already in place in these institutions?

• How do different dance institutions recognize and deal with issues of exclusion or discrimination when they arise in the student body?

• How do the students see and articulate their own experiences of exclusion or discrimination when crossing one of these educational programs?

Tackling those issues in a transnational and dance specific environment is crucial in order to avoid blind spots and produce outputs that are specific to the particular art form.