Dance
Dance as an artistic, mediating, and scholarly-research practice is physically, exploratively, and reflectively central to the three courses in Department 7/ZZT.
Hub for dance and dance research
The Center for Contemporary Dance at the Cologne University of Music and Dance forms an important hub for dance and dance research within the contemporary dance landscape. The three degree programs BA Dance, MA Dance Education and MA Dance Studies convey practices and perspectives of performative dance art, dance education and dance studies. This constellation, unique in Germany, forms an inspiring, artistic-practical as well as research-oriented study environment in which interdisciplinary work and experiments are carried out.
In addition to the bachelor's and master's degrees, the Department 7/ZZT is the only institution in Germany to offer the possibility of a doctorate (Dr. phil.) in dance studies since 2009 and hosts the Forschungskolleg Tanzwissenschaft, which offers an institutional and content-related connection for international researchers in cooperation with the German Dance Archive Cologne.
The dance in Cologne Nippes
The Center for Contemporary Dance / Department 7 of the Cologne University of Music and Dance is located in Nippes, a central, urban and lively Cologne neighborhood, with spacious facilities: seven dance studios, a Pilates studio, a 150-seat studio theater and several seminar rooms, a reference library and an online media room accessible to students. The professors and instructors are internationally renowned.
Address
Center for Contemporary Dance
Cologne University of Music and Dance
Turmstrasse 3-5
50733 Köln
Latest news
Lecture series "What's the big deal about independence?"
Lecture series on the working practices and self-conception of female artists in music and dance
With Nora Amin, Elsa Artmann, Maribeth Diggle & Eva Karczag
April 16 - 19, 2024, ZZT Studio Theater
Even today, female dancers, choreographers and musicians face particular gender-specific challenges in order to be successful in their professional field. The lecture series "What's the big deal about independence?" focuses on the (life and) work practices of female artists of different generations and backgrounds.
Nora Amin, Elsa Artmann, Maribeth Diggle and Eva Karczag provide insight into their self-conception as women in the artistic field and share their experiences with self-assertion, resilience, helpful "stepping stones", but also gender bias and other hurdles.
The series of events deals with these topics from different perspectives, each with a focus topic:
April 16, 6:30 p.m.
Feminist and decolonial perspectives on being a dancer Nora Amin
April 17, 9:45 a.m.
Independence and resilience in the dance profession Eva Karczag
April 18, 6:30 p.m.
Gender roles and diversity in the classical music canon Maribeth Diggle
April 19, 9:45 a.m.
"Gentle work" - questions of collective composition and shared authorship Elsa Artman
Concept/idea: Vera Sander
Coordination: Laura Lang
In English; partly barrier-free.
The lecture series is made possible by the HfMT Cologne's participation in the Federal and State Government's Female Professors Program, which pursues the goal of a more gender-equitable university.
Admission is free, registration is required. Registration
Location: ZZT-Studiotheater, Turmstraße 3-5, 50733 Cologne
Note: On April 17, Nora Amin will present her performance MY DANCE at 8 pm.
Admission is also free, but registration required. Registration for the performance
Nora Amin, MY DANCE
Nora Amin, MY DANCE
April 17, 2024, ZZT-Studiotheater, 8 pm
Nora Amin liberates so-called belly dance from the sediments of history: she reverses the voyeuristic and exoticized perspective into a perspective of her own body and her own history and enables the audience to take a new look. MY DANCE is an attempt to shift power, a reflection on female sexuality, the erotic self and patriarchal oppression, as well as on the effects of colonialism and racism on belly dance and the image of women associated with it.
The solo is also a personal testimony by the author, choreographer and director, who traces her own body history between Egypt and Germany. Nora Amin searches for an artistic language that embodies both the trauma and the ecstasy of liberation and enables communal dancing as an intimate and decolonial practice beyond the categorizations of white economies.
The performance is supported by the funding fund "Engagement für Vielfalt, Toleranz und Demokratie an der HfMT Köln".
Duration: 60 minutes, language: English (with occasional Arabic words and a song in Arabic)
Suitable for all audiences aged 14 and over.
The performance covers topics such as trauma, rape, injuries and disability. The video projection contains nudity.
Admission is free, registration required.
Prior to the performance, a lecture with Nora Amin will take place on April 16, 2024 at 6.30 pm as part of the feminist series "What's the big deal about independence?" at the HfMT Cologne, in which Nora Amin will convey feminist and decolonial perspectives on being a dancer. Admission is free, registration is required. Registration for the lecture
Venue: ZZT-Studiotheater, Turmstraße 3-5, 50733 Cologne
SOLOEDITION'24 goes Tanzfaktur
SOLOEDITION'24 goes Tanzfaktur
April 20, 2024, 7 pm
April 21, 2024, 6 pm
If you missed the performances in February or would like to see the solo works of the BA Dance graduating students again, you have the opportunity to do so on 20 and 21 April at Tanzfaktur.
As part of the SOLOEDITION format, students from the final year of the BA Dance course at the Centre for Contemporary Dance/Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln give an insight into their artistic practice. With the aim of deepening and developing their own artistic dance work and in close connection with their respective profiles (performative practice or mediation in dance), the students develop performative solos. They are each accompanied by a mentor from the fields of choreography, dance, dramaturgy or performance, chosen by the students according to their interests and focus.
With solo works by:
Pamela Banchetti, Yi-Chen Chen, Valeria Cordes, Lena Valentina Hauth, Rita Maria Klos, Lea Marie Neumayer, Andrés Felipe Gonzalez Patarroyo, Hannah Reena Reif, Elin Tezel
Mentors:
Shai Faran, Smadar Goshen, Dominikus Moos, Adonis Nebie, Paula Pau, Samuel Penhastro aka Thelmo Parole, Claire Vivianne Sobottke, Julio Cesar Iglesias Ungo
Get your ticket
Venue: Tanzfaktur, Siegburger Straße 233 w, 50679 Cologne, Germany
Open Day Dance Studies
Open Day Dance Studies
Get an idea of the working and research atmosphere in the MA Dance Studies program at ZZT!
April 22, 9 am - 8 pm
Our Open Day offers a glimpse into ongoing seminars, Q&A's with current students, Ph.D. students and professors, a round table with M.A. alumni, a campus tour as well as a peer-to-peer format to creatively feedback and move around artistic or scholarly research projects and ideas. Some of the events will be in a hybrid or bilingual form (German/English).
Entry is possible throughout the day!
Detailed program:
9.00 - 9.45 House warming with coffee and croissants
Room 415, 4th floor
9.45 - 11.15 Open seminar Seminar I: Historiography
Room 104, 1st floor *Language: German
with Johanna Hörmann, participation in the seminar via Zoom is possible.
Zoom link follows.
How does historical work function in the field of dance studies? The seminar introduces a critical historiography that presents an overview of the diversity of methods and questions of definition, construction, and analysis of sources and narratives in dance historiography. The goal is to expand the canon of dance history by explicitly focusing on everyday, popular, and globalized dance cultures and to provide the procedures for interdisciplinary and theory-driven historical research.
11.00 -12.00 PhD in Dance Studies - highs, lows, insights, outlooks
Room 415, 4th floor *Languages: German/English
Online Q&A, Zoom link follows.
Two current doctoral candidates in dance studies talk about their work processes and are available to answer questions.
12.00 - 12.30 Tour through the ZZT
Meeting point room 415, 4th floor *Languages: German/English
Dance studios, seminar rooms, library ... get to know the ZZT campus.
12.30 - 1.30 Introduction to study structure, offers, projects of the MA Dance Studies
Room 415, 4th floor *Languages: German/English
with Yvonne Hardt (Head of degree program)
Participation via Zoom is possible. https://eu01web.zoom.us/j/68483561765?pwd=SWlmSVoxdWVOajI1eGk1WHRvQnVFQT09
We introduce you to the structure, the offers and exemplary past artistic and scholarly projects of the study program.
1.30 - 2.30 Lunch break
If you want to continue talking, join us for lunch.
2.30 - 3.45 MA Dance Studies - and then? Alumnae round table
Room 415, 4th floor *Languages: German/English
with Constanze Schellow and MA graduates
Participation via Zoom is possible. https://eu01web.zoom.us/j/68483561765?pwd=SWlmSVoxdWVOajI1eGk1WHRvQnVFQT09
Dance studies offers a variety of professional perspectives. Alumni of the MA Dance Studies, who today embark on fields of work, such as cultural management, production, dramaturgy, and performance, will give insights into these occupations and discuss their ways 'into the field'.
4.00 - 5.30 Dramaturgy colloquium
Room 104, 1st floor *Language: German
with Constanze Schellow
Participation via Zoom is possible. https://eu01web.zoom.us/j/68483561765?pwd=SWlmSVoxdWVOajI1eGk1WHRvQnVFQT09
Using artistic works, but also everyday situations, we will look at where and how we encounter "dramaturgies", how they work and how they influence us. We will also discuss possible working methods (and ethics) of dramaturges in an expanded understanding: in the co-creation of work processes.
6.00 - 8.00 MESH WORKS - Crochet club for artistic and scientific ideas
Studio 1, with Constanze Schellow *Language German/English
MESH is a loose network to share creative materials and ideas – peer-to-peer, across all study programs at the ZZT and independent of media or techniques used. In the spirit of a research cluster and/or knitting club we interweave, discuss, associate, perform, test, support and make up artistic and scholarly ideas and concerns.
Location: Turmstraße 3-5, 50733 Cologne-Nippes, Florastrasse subway station
Contact person for queries and registration: Constanze Schellow
