Dutch Dance Research
Lecture: Dances of Power and Rebellion
What does dance have to do with social power relations? Can dance contribute to their stabilisation or destabilisation? How can protest, resistance or social criticism be danced?
The lecture discusses these questions using selected historical and contemporary examples. I will argue that dance is ambivalent in its relationship to power: precisely because it is a physical art form, it can contribute to stabilising and preserving existing social conditions. At the same time, unlike any other art or movement practice, it can make aesthetic resistance, social criticism and political protest visible and tangible directly on and through the body.
Speaker: Gabriele Klein
Language of communication: Engels
Gabriele Klein, Dr. rer. soc., has been professor of ballet and dance (Hans van Manen Chair) at the University of Amsterdam since 2022. From 2002 to 2023 she was a professor of dance and performance studies at the University of Hamburg. There she was director of the center for performance studies and established the international master programme in performance studies. She has been a visiting professor at Smith College (USA), UCLA (USA), Stellenbosch University (South Africa), Osaka City University (Japan), the University of São Paulo (Brazil), the University of the Arts Taipei (Taiwan), the University of Bern (Switzerland), and the Mozarteum in Salzburg (Austria), among others. Her English-language publications include books such as ‘Dance (and) Theory’ (2013, with G. Brandstetter), ‘Emerging Bodies’ (2011, with S. Noeth), ‘Pina Bauschs Dance Theater. Compagnie, artistic practices, and reception’ (2020), ‘Materialities in Dance and Performance. Writing, Documenting, Archiving’ (2024, with F.A. Cramer).
About Dutch Dance Research
Dutch Dance Research provides a platform for dance research in the Netherlands with the aim of making the necessity of research for the art of dance and its social relevance visible and accessible to a wide audience.
Dutch Dance Research is a joint initiative of the Netherlandse Dansdagen, the dansMuseum and ICK Dans Amsterdam. This year forces are joined with new partners Fontys Academy of the Arts and the Hans van Manen chair, University of Amsterdam.
Visit also the alternative event by Dutch Dance Research, the round table by Caroline Ribbers, Stephen Shropshire and Suzan Tunca:
- Sunday 5 October
- 13:00 - 14:00
- Location
- Theater aan het Vrijthof
- Accessibility
- All ages
- Language no problem
- Wheelchair user
- Disabled
- Tickets
- Admission is free. Registration required.
