Peter Pleyer Workshop at HaZira -The Performance Art Arena, Jerusalem 2011

A workshop for young creators, choreographers, and dramaturgs aimed at expanding knowledge about the history of modern dance. In the workshop the participants will use books, news articles, journals, videos, DVDs, and other mediums that document dance in the last decades, to recreate and experience different methods of practice in the studio.
Through these workshops Peter Pleyer weaves and connects the most influential choreographers and improvisation artists in contemporary dance, from Merce Cunnningham through the members of the Judson Church Collective and through the work of Simone Forti, Steve Paxton, Nancy Stark Smith and others who influenced the development of postmodern dance. The methods will include: Grid Work, Contact Improvisation, Round Robbin, Ensemble Thinking, Viewpoint Theory, Touch Based Release Work, Authentic Movement, Working With Scores, Reconstructions, and more

Peter Pleyer -- After a brief career as an actor in German theater, Peter studied dance at the "European Dance Development Center" in the Art Academy of Arnhem, NL. He worked as a dancer and choreographic assistant with Yoshiko Chuma in New York and with Mark Tompkins in Paris. A long time collaborator with choreographer Eszter Gál from Budapest. From 1994 Peter created works in The Netherlands until he moved to Berlin in 2000. Peter creates independent works, is involved in the theoretical studies of dance and dance making, and mentors and coaches projects of other choreographers. Peter was a partner in the foundation of Institutes for the study of Choreography in Berlin. Since 2007 Peter is artistic director of Tanztage Berlin Festival

New Dance Project at HaZira - The Performance Art Arena in Jerusalem is a developing platform which is designed to be a fertile environment for artists in the field of dance to grow and develop. The project provides young creators with mentoring, production assistance, financial support, workshops led by choreographers and theorists from Israel and abroad, and the opportunity to participate in a new discourse between artists and audiences about dance practice and dance making.

New Dance Project Artistic Directors: Arkadi Zaides & Anat Danieli
HaZira - The Performance Art Arena Director: Guy Biran

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• performance

[arkadizaides]

Meg Stuart's one

[quetty4u247]

what book was he referring to at the end of the video?