FORUM TANZVERMITTLUNG
Choreographies of Rest

The Forum Tanzvermittlung offers experts in the region the opportunity to exchange views on questions in the field of "mediation and participation" in order to gain a reflective distance from their own work. This edition will feature choreographer and performer Angela Alves. Her artistic practice is strongly influenced by the reality of her life as a chronically ill woman and focuses on the political dimensions of the unavailable body. The artistic practice of chronically ill/disabled people is often linked to objects or practices that enable them to access and participate, alleviate their pain or have to do with self-care. These practices are called crip techniques. They not only counter the canon in dance with new aesthetics, but also reveal insights into those realities of life that are told far from the norm. "Choreograhies of Rest" is one such crip technique, in which everything revolves around resting and questions the intersectional and political dimensions of resting alongside the artist's individual access. What does it mean to rest? What do we rest for and where do we do it?