ETHICS
AND POLITICS EMBODIED IN DANCE
International Dance Conference for Practitioners
and Scholars
The Theatre
Academy of Finland 9. - 12.12. 2004
Program
Thursday 9.12.2004
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11.00
- 13.00
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Registration
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EH
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12.00
- 13.00
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Welcoming
Coffee
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EH
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13.00
- 13.15
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Opening
Lauri
Sipari, Rector of the Theatre Academy
Soili
Hämäläinen, Research project
director
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EH
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13.15
- 14.30
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Plenary
Session
Dance
Perfomances
Inside
Heiner's Mind
Ana
Sánchez-Colberg
Mahler's
Fifths
Ana
Sánchez-Colberg and Daniel Suominen
Chair:
Helena Wulff
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EH
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14.45
- 16.45
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Theme
Afternoon
Choreography
as a Means of Expanding and Transgressing
Cultural Boundaries
Panel
members: Susan Kozel, Kai Lehikoinen, Kirsi
Monni and Ana Sánchez-Colberg
Chair:
Leena Rouhiainen
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A1
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17.00
- 18.15
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Plenary
Session
Memories
in Motion: Politics of the Irish Dancing Body
Helena
Wulff
Chair:
Jill Green
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A1
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18.30
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Reception
Dance
Performance: This Red Patch on the Carpet
By
Leena Rouhiainen
Book
Publication: The Same Difference? Exploring
Ethics and Politics in Dance
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EH
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EH
= Entrance hall
A1
= Auditorium
709 = studio 709
Friday 10.12.2004
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09:00
- 09:30
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Registration
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EH
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9.30
- 10.45
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Plenary
Session
Professional
Ethics and Personal Values: Intersections and
Decisions in Dance Education
Susan W. Stinson
Chair: Susan Koff
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A1
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10.45 - 11.00
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Coffee
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EH
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Working
Groups
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11.00 - 13.00
studio
709
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11.00 - 13.00
Auditorium
3
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11.00
- 12.30
Auditorium
2
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11.00
- 13.00
Auditorium
1
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Life
Histories and Untold Stories in Dance
Moderator:
Eeva Anttila
11.00
- 11.15
Opening
words
Eeva
Anttila
11.15
- 11.45
Dance
learning as practice of freedom
Sound
installation
Pirkko
Ahjo, Marjut Jaatinen, Tiina Jalkanen, Kimmo
Modig and Eeva Anttila
11.45
- 12.15
Memorabilia
Videodance
Liz
Pavey
12.15
- 12.45
Reflections
on dance, dancers, dance teachers and dance
audiences
Paper
presentation
Ana Macara
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Ethical
Issues in Teaching and Learning Dance
Moderators:
Soili Hämäläinen and Susan W.Stinson
11.00
- 11.30
Ethics
of Being a Dance Educator: The Implications
of the Name
Paper
presentation
Susan
R. Koff
11.30
- 12.00
Ethics
and Aesthetics: A Stance in Dance
Paper
presentation
Kristin
Kusanovich
12.00
- 12.30
Assumptions
and Actions
Paper
presentation
Sybil
Huskey
12.30
- 13.00
Embodying
Ethics in Dance Teaching Practice
Paper
presentation
Sho
Botham
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Everyday
Life in Dance Institutions: How to Understand
the Usual?
Contemporary
Ballet Culture: Artistic Practice and Training,
Research
in Dance Education
Moderators:
Maija Lehtovaara, Teija Löytönen and Paula Salosaari
11.00
- 11.30
The
messages Behind the Methods: Authoritarian Teaching
Traditions in Western Dance Technique Training
and Rehearsals
Paper
presentation
Robin
Lakes
11.30
- 12.00
The
Politics of Student-Centered practices in Dance
in Higher Education: Challenges to the Ethical
Treatment of Undergraduate Dance Students in
the US
Paper
presentation
Doug
Risner
12.00
- 12.30
Why
can injury be a good thing?
Paper
presentation
Anna
Aalten
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Current
Choreographic Practice of Contemporary Dance:
Gender, Agency and Approaches
Moderators:
Leena Rouhiainen and Ana Sánchez-Colberg
11.00
- 11.35
Dance,
computation and visual representation: choreographic
processes, movement vocabularies and questions
of alterity that emerge when choreographers
use interactive computer systems
Paper
presentation and video projections
Susan
Kozel
11.35
- 12.00
The
somaesthetic dimension of contemporary dance
- a phenomenological and aesthetic analysis
of the problem of creativity
Paper
presentation
Lis
Engel
12.00
- 12.30
The
Poetic Movement of Being-philosophical interpretations
of the new dance paradigm according to Martin
Heidegger's thinking
Paper
presentation
Kirsi
Monni
12.30
- 13.00
Tracing
bodily representations in choreography
Paper
presentation
Inka
Välipakka
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13.00
- 14.00
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Lunch
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EH
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Theme Afternoon:
Critical Views on Dance Education
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14.00 - 16.00
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Part I: Docile
Bodies: A Threat or a Necessity in Educating
Dancers
Panel members: Jill Green, Susan Kozel, Kai Lehikoinen,
Efva Lilja, Leena Rouhiainen and Paula Tuovinen
Chair: Soili Hämäläinen
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A1
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16.00
- 16.15
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Coffee
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EH
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16.15 - 18.15
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Part II: Thoughtful
Motion: The Role of Choice-Making, Critical
Consciousness and Empowerment in Dance Education
Dialogue: Jukka Aromaa and Susan W. Stinson
Chair: Eeva Anttila
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A1
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18.15
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Free Program:
The National Ballet performs the Nutcracker.
For tickets see www.operafin.fi
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Saturday 11.12.2004
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09:00 - 09:30
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Registration
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EH
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09.30 - 11.00
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Plenary
Session
For Better
and Worse, About Lust, Disgust, Expectations
and Other Things that Make Life Worth Living
Efva Lilja
Chair Ana Sánchez-Colberg
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A1
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11.00 - 11.15
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Coffee
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EH
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11.15 - 13.15
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Working
Groups
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11.30 - 13.30
studio 709
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11.00
- 13.00
Auditorium
3
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11.00
- 12.30
Auditorium
2
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11.15
- 13.15
Auditorium
1
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Life
Histories and Untold Stories in Dance
Moderator:
Eeva Anttila
11.30
- 12.15
Dismantle
Map
Performance
April
Nunes
12.15
- 13.00
Between
two languages: The Making of "Translations"
Performance
and discussion
Satu
Hummasti
13.00
- 13.15
Discussion
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Ethical
Issues in Teaching and Learning Dance
Moderators:
Soili Hämäläinen and Susan W.Stinson
11.00
- 11.30
Aesthetic
Moments in Children's Movement
Paper
presentation
Charlotte
Svendler Nielsen
11.30
- 12.00
First
Steps in Teaching Dance for Children: Dance
students talk about their experiences during
the teaching practice courses. Ethical Issues
Paper
presentation
Pipsa
Nieminen
12.00
-13.00
Seeing
flying Insects, the Art of Observation
Workshop
in studio 702
Jan
Erkert
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Everyday
Life in Dance Institutions: How to Understand
the Usual? Contemporary Ballet Culture: Artistic
Practice and Training, Research in Dance Education
Moderators:
Maija Lehtovaara, Teija Löytönen and Paula Salosaari
11.00
- 11.30
Researching
while dancing - Dancing while Researching
Paper
presentation
Kirsi
Heimonen
11.30
- 12.00
Not
"just" dance. Exploring meaning potentials
in Danselaboratoriet - an integrated dance project
based on improvisation
Paper
presentation
Tone
Pernille Ostern
12.00
- 12.30
Research
on rhythm and dance
Paper
presentation
Ana
Paula Batalha
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Current
Choreographic Practice of Contemporary Dance:
Gender, Agency and Approaches
Moderators:
Leena Rouhiainen and Ana Sánchez-Colberg
11.15
- 12.00
The
agency of the dance audience
Paper
presentation
Anna
Pakes
12.00
- 12.40
Choreography
of Northern Ireland - mapping contemporary dance
practice within the geopolitical and cultural
terrain of North Ireland
Paper
presentation
Mary
Brady
12.40
- 13.15
Perceptions
of dance: Challenges for audience development
in dance
Paper
presentation
Outi
Järvinen-Overton
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13.15 - 14.15
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Lunch
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EH
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14.15 - 16.15
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Theme Afternoon
Creativity
and Management in Dance Institutions - A Moral
Dilemma?
Panel members: Jill Green and Ari Tenhula
Chair: Teija Löytönen
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A1
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16.30 - 17.30
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Workshop
Bodies of
Knowledge: A Re-Examination of Wigman/Jooss
Technique within the Context of Arendt's Phenomenological
Project
Ana
Sánchez-Colberg
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709
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19.00
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Conference
Dinner at the Women's Room
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Sunday 12.12.2004
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09:30 - 10:00
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Registration
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EH
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10.00 - 11.15
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Plenary
Session
Living
the Gap: Improvisation as Political Practice
Ann Cooper
Albright
Chair: Susan
W. Stinson
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A1
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11.15 - 11.30
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Coffee
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EH
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Working
Groups
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11.30 - 13.15
studio 702
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11.30
- 13.30
Auditorium
3
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11.30
- 13.00
Auditorium
2
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11.30
- 13.30
studio
709
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Life
Histories and Untold Stories in Dance
Moderator:
Eeva Anttila
11.30
- 12.00
Ethics,
work-life choices and sustainability in the
lives of contemporary dance artists in Melbourne,
Australia
Paper
presentation
Kim
Vincs
12.00
- 12.45
Movement
as the Memory of the Body: A new research and
artistic development project
Lecture
demonstration
Efva
Lilja
12.45
- 13.15
Closing discussion
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Ethical
Issues in Teaching and Learning Dance
Moderators:
Soili Hämäläinen and Susan W.Stinson
11.30
- 12.00
Changing
Lives? Ethics in community dance practice
Paper
presentation
Sara
Houston
12.00
- 12.30
The
Politics of Interaction in the Dance Class
Poster/model,
research in progress
Tamara
Ashley
12.30
- 13.00
The
Fear of Dancing Queerly: An Intertextual Analysis
of Dance for Boys in Finland from Mid to Late
20th Century
Paper
presentation
Kai
Lehikoinen
13.00
- 13.30
Closing
discussion
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Everyday
Life in Dance Institutions: How to Understand
the Usual? Contemporary Ballet Culture: Artistic
Practice and Training, Research in Dance Education
Moderators:
Maija Lehtovaara, Teija Löytönen and Paula Salosaari
11.30
- 12.00
Dance
Technique and the Natural Genius
Paper
presentation
Hanna
Järvinen
12.00
- 12.30
Forwarding
a Living Tradition in Ballet
Paper
presentation
Paula
Salosaari
12.30
- 13.00
Closing discussion
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Current
Choreographic Practice of Contemporary Dance:
Gender, Agency and Approaches
Moderators:
Leena Rouhiainen and Ana Sánchez-Colberg
11.30
- 12.15
Synasthesia
Workshop
Jocasta
Crofts
12.00
- 12.45
Embodying
emotions in motion - reflexions in space and
French language
Lecture-demonstration
Liisa
Pentti
12.45
- 13.15
Lecture-demonstration
Jaana
Klevering
13.15
- 13.30
Closing
discussion
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13.30 - 14.30
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Lunch
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EH
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14.30 - 15.30
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Closing
Panel
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A1
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15.30 - 16.00
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Coffee
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EH
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The plenary sessions present central issues related to the
themes of the conference by invited speakers. The working
groups are open sessions for dance and art students and professionals
to present their work. The theme afternoon of each day continues
to address the themes of the conference from various perspectives
through alternative forms of presentation by invited speakers
and performers.
Plenary
Session speakers are: Ana Sanchez-Colberg, Sue Stinson, and
Helena Wulff.
Other speakers include: Eeva Anttila, Karen Bond, Ann Cooper
Albright, Betsy Fischer, Jill Green, Sara Houston, Soili Hämäläinen,
Susan Koff, Susan Kozel, Kai Lehikoinen, Efva Lilja, Teija
Löytönen, Isabel Marquez, Susan Melrose, Anna Pakes,
Jaana Parviainen, Leena Rouhiainen, and Paula Salosaari.
WORKING GROUPS
In the working group sessions conference participants will
discuss particular issues related to the general theme of
the conference in smaller groups. There will be several working
groups happening simultaneously, and each particular working
group will meet three times. Dance scholars, dance artists,
dance teachers, dance students, and other people working in
the field of the arts or research are invited to share their
scholarly work or thinking, artistic and pedagogical approaches
and practice, as well as personal experiences in any of the
several working groups addressing different questions. Paper,
lecture-demonstration, performance, performative and
other kinds of innovative presentations, as well as panel
and workshop proposals are all welcomed. The
maximum duration of the presentations is 30 minutes, and will
be adjusted depending on the total number of presentations.
In order to present your work or thinking related to the
topic of one of the working groups described below, please
submit a half page proposal to the moderator of the group
you want to attend by the 15th of September 2004. The proposal
should include your contact information and a short biography
or CV. Please describe the format of presentation and its
desired length. Also state if your presentation is based on
previous work or research, or created for this occasion. Both
options are equally appreciated. During the intermissions
of the conference, it is also possible to present posters
related to the themes of the working groups and describing
the work of conference participants in a more informal manner.
Those who are interested in participating in a working group,
but do not want to present their work or want to present a
poster, are also asked to contact the moderators and submit
their contact information and a short biography. The conference
organizers will confirm acceptance to present your work by
the 15th of October 2004. We look forward to your
contribution.
Working group options
1.
Life histories and untold stories in dance
In
this working group participants can present and share autobiographical
stories that revolve around their life history in relation
to dance. Significant events and memories of past events may
form the core of these stories, or they may be random journal
entries or freely flowing memoirs. In addition to discussing
issues related to recollections of life histories in dance,
this group will work in a studio and participate in movement
sessions focusing on embodied memories in dance. These sessions
may bring back events that previously have been untold or
forgotten. The aim of this working group is to illuminate
the uniqueness of individual life histories in dance, and
at the same time to identify possible themes or underpinnings
that are somehow related to each other. The common nominator
that the group focuses on is dance as a life’s work.
The passion towards dance unites persons who have chosen dance
as a career despite of many hardships and few rewards it brings
along.
Moderator:
Eeva Anttila, email
2. Ethical issues in teaching and learning dance
It
is critical that dance educators be conscious of ethical issues
encountered in teaching. This working group will look at ethics
from two different perspectives. One perspective deals with
how one might prepare future dance educators to be more conscious
of their ethical decision-making. What are ethical issues
faced by dance educators? What makes an issue an ethical one?
How do dance educators go about making decisions, especially
when ethical imperatives are in conflict, or there is no clear
right answer? What kind of process can prepare dance educators
to make ethical decisions? The participants in this working
group will share experiences about difficult ethical decisions
and consider what important literature can add to our thinking.
The second perspective looks in more detail at the ethical
issues embedded in evaluation in a technique class. In teaching
dance technique, assessment is mostly corrective feedback
directed to a movement or position of the body. However, it
may also be directed to a dancer’s persona or the features
of a dancer’s body. The feedback given in dance technique
classes is often verbal or physical, but it may also be tacit
feedback, silent messages transmitted through a teacher’s
body and expressions. Correction, feedback and evaluation
have great significance in the development of a dancer’s
skills. The contents and character of feedback may either
promote or, in some cases, prevent learning. Giving feedback
involves many questions concerning teacher authority, expertise
and power: but, it is also related to the abilities, choices
and independence of a student as well as the expertise she
or he has in regarding her or his own body. Evaluation is
not only a question of a dancer’s performance. It is
also concerned with the individual human being as a whole.
So far, the ethics of evaluation has seldom been publicly
discussed. This working group offers dance artists, dance
teachers and dance scholars a place to discuss and share experiences
on the above described issues.
Moderator: Soili Hämäläinen and Sue Stinson, email
3.
Everyday life in dance institutions: how to understand the
usual?
Only
from time to time everyday life surfaces as a topic for research
or scientific debate. Yet we are surrounded by this everydayness
in our private and public working lives. This working group
looks at everyday life within dance institutions: dance theatres,
companies and dance schools. This group will focus on issues
that are related to the dynamics of everyday life: both
possibilities as well as restrictions of working as a dance
artist, a dance teacher and a dance student in an institutional
context. We will deliberate how the daily and the usual
can be interpreted and understood when viewed from different
perspectives and through different discourses. Possible topics
for presentations and discussions are: How to approach
the flow of daily events and routines? Whose everyday
life are we interested in as dancers, dance teachers, managers
or researchers? How do the dynamics of everyday life affect
our work? How to change the usual? The aim of this working
group is to discuss and question the way of life in dance
institutions which is often taken for granted. All dance artists,
teachers, and scholars interested in the above described thematics
are invited to present their thoughts and viewpoints with
a presentation.
Moderator:
Teija Löytönen, email
4.
Current choreographic practices of contemporary dance: gender,
agency and approaches
What
is choreography in the perspective of contemporary dance and
what are the choreographic processes of contemporary dance
currently like? Evident is that contemporary dance is a practice
which, while building on the representational conventions
of its own tradition, concentrates on discovery and illuminating
dimensions as well as possibilities of human life not seen
before and does this in ways idiosyncratic to different dance
artists. For this reason it is difficult (even impossible)
to give a detailed or comprehensive definition of what contemporary
dance choreography is about. It might be thought of as an
evolving mode of structuring the dance medium (which in itself
has no set or unambiguous boundaries) and exploring the representational
conventions of theatrical dance. This working group discusses
what is topical to this exploration? It concentrates on contemplating
how dance artists currently approach and solve choreographic
problems related to embodying, perceiving, and evaluating
motion and dance, how the agency of the choreographer, dancer,
and spectator is determined in this process, and what meaning
do cultural, ethnic, racial, and gendered differences have
in the daily practice of creating choreography and the co-operation
of dance artists.
Moderators:
Leena Rouhiainen and Ana Sanchez-Colberg, email
5.
Contemporary ballet culture: Artistic practice and training/education.
On one hand ballet practice wants to safeguard and value its
centuries old tradition. On the other, contemporary choreographers
initiate creative changes and break the traditional norms
in performance. Society, from which ballet practitioners come
from, is changing. How do we connect these different influences
and bridge possible gaps between performing classical works,
contemporary choreography, and training dance artists equipped
with flexible skills in the art form?
Would you like to share research or practice in the art of
ballet or just initiate discussion on issues such as politics
of the body, hierarchical relationships in the processes of
making, performing and education in ballet? Do we need to
rethink the ballet dancer’s identity from artistic or
ethical point of view? Who owns the knowledge given or created?
This workshop is a platform for these and related discussions.
Moderator:
Paula Salosaari, email
6.
Tanssipedagoginen tutkimus (Research in dance education)
Tanssipedagogisessa tutkimuksessa ihminen nähdään
moniulotteisemmin ja kokonaisvaltaisemmin kuin perinteisessä
kasvatustieteessä ja psykologiassa. Kun lähtökohdaksi
otetaan kokonaisvaltainen ihmiskäsitys, tutkimuksen tematiikka
on aivan erilainen kuin perinteisen pedagogiikan tutkimuksessa.
Perinteistä pedagogiikkaa ja siihen liittyvää
tutkimusta on arvosteltu muun muassa teknologisesta rationaalisuudesta
- tällöin ajatellaan että siinä rationaalisuus
on ohennettu poistamalla emotionaalinen, fysiologinen ja orgaaninen
viisaus. Työryhmässäni on tarkoitus pohtia,
millaisia lähestymistapoja ja tutkimusmetodeja tanssipedagogisessa
tutkimuksessa/opetuksessa voi ja tulisi käyttää,
jotta vältyttäisiin tällaiselta ohentamiselta.
Mitä kaikkea tällainen tutkimus edellyttää
tutkijalta? Tuleeko tutkijan itsensä olla paitsi pedagogi
myös tanssija? Entä mikä on tutkimuksen asema
pedagogin ja tanssijan työssä? Toisin sanoen voidaanko
häivyttää ja jos voidaan niin missä määrin
tutkijan, pedagogin ja tanssijan roolien erot vai edellyttävätkö
roolit kovin erilaisia valmiuksia?
Moderator:
Maija Lehtovaara, email
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