DEJA DONNE is directing a large research project, which is being developed in collaboration with Dr. Katja Schneider (University of Munich), Dr. Piergiorgio Giacché (University of Perugia), Kulturbüro Simone Schulte in Munich as a special project of the Region of Umbria, in co-production with the Theater im Pfalzbau Ludwigshafen, Foundation Nationales Performance Netz, international biennale DANCE festival in Munich, Teatro Stabile dell’Umbria Perugia, Duncan Centre Conservatory in Prague and EMANAT Institute in Ljubljana.
The project includes a group of nine dancers from Italy, Germany, Czech Republic, Columbia, Spain and Slovenia.
The project, taking place in Germany in 2010 and Italy in 2011 leads towards practical and theoretical outcomes.
Photo: Judith Hummel
is led by Simone Sandroni (DEJA DONNE) and followed by 9 dancers (4 professional dancers, 2 stager + 3 selected students from two European dance academies). The research is divided in 4 chapters: "SPACE", "FLOOR", "CONTACT", "TIME" and each of them will have a duration of 1 month. At the end of the second chapter a presentation of achieved results will take place in a form of a work in progress, a discussion, and a lecture of the theoretical research results. At the end of the 4th chapter the achieved experience of the group will set profound conditions for the creation of a performance. The creation is to be developed in collaboration with international partners (festivals, venues) in the form of co-producers.
The aim of the practical research is to analyze the working model of DEJA DONNE, develop a training treating tasks developed by the project, and create a performance.
Is directed and coached by Dr. Katja Schneider (University of Munich), Dr. Piergiorgio Giacchè (University of Perugia), in collaboration with historian Bruna Filippi. Three university students have been selected to follow the process as part of their studies. The students follow the practical research process and fulfil the tasks requested by their coach. The theoretical work is based on the practical experience, following the movement research in the studio, discussing with the director and the dancers, work out concepts concerning the main categories and its systematization. The research is to be supported by studies of the dance concepts in the 1980ies (especially the Belgian dance scene where Simone Sandroni and Lenka Flory were situated), based on interviews with selected dancers, and through published material. At the end of the process a publication is published to cover all achieved information. It will bring together the specific work of DEJA DONNE and the mentioned desideratum of dance and drama research concerning the 1980ies. An integrated DVD will document the practical research.
The aim of the theoretical research is to describe and analyse the process and the results of the practical work by DEJA DONNE, to research dance concepts and body concepts of the dance of the 1980ies, to contextualise the results of the DEJA DONNE research with the dance of the 1980ies and to bring out a publication with DVD on the whole process.
Is to be directed, edited and photographed by a German director Barbara Schröer. The purpose of this part of the project is to create a dialogue so that the video as a document is not only aimed at the “final product” but also turns into an instrument of communication that offers the opportunity to look at the work from a different perspective and therefore it becomes an active part in the creative process.
The aim of the video documentation is to follow from it’s very beginning both, the practical, and the theoretical research, direct and film interviews/talks with people involved in the process, to create a narrative line between the work of DEJA DONNE and the research of dance and body concepts of the dance of the1980ies, to deepen the research of a personal video language to narrate dance, to bring out a DVD as a document of the whole process publicised together with the book.
