Patricia Carolin Mai

COME AS YOU ARE - INSIGHT INTO COMMUNITY DANCE PROJECTS

Dancing empowers - but what exactly triggers this feeling? Is it the physical movement alone or is there more to it when we train together, develop choreographies with different bodies and teach people to dance across generations? In the VHS course Come as You Are, choreographer Patricia Carolin Mai presents movement approaches and principles from her dance productions. What dancing and mediating potential lies in the transitions from one physical state to the next - in the fleeting and transformative moment of the in-between? She will also present the results of the EU project Empowering Dance - Soft Skills in Dance. Implicit forms of knowledge will be revealed, a reflective approach and the practical application of soft skills in one's own dance and dance-mediating practice will be tested and discussed together with the participants.

in german | open to all interested with and without previous dance experience, for (dance) mediators and (dance) teachers

Registration is ONLY possible via VHS Hamburg

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Patricia Carolin Mai

Patricia Carolin Mai produces stage pieces as a dancer and choreographer with production locations at Kampnagel and at K3 - Hamburg, at LOFFT - DAS THEATER Leipzig and at Ringlokschuppen Mülheim an der Ruhr. The focus of her choreographic work is the investigation of the body as a central repository of memories. 2016 - 2019 she developed her trilogy on "bodies in extreme states" with the pieces Ready to Snap (2016), Balagan Body (2018) & HAMONIM (2019). In summer 2019, she accepted Ninety9 Art Company's invitation to Seoul in Korea to work in GAL-GAL on women's self-empowerment in Korean society. For this work she was awarded the "International Choregraphy Award Goyang 2020". In 2020, she explored the limits of her physical performance in the 12-month solo self-experiment KONTROL, questioning cultural normalisations of body and gender. She choreographed ASTERISM (2021) and ANIMA (2022) by multimedia composer Alexander Schubert, as well as the group piece OR (2022) for the Company of the Leipzig Dance Theatre. For the years 2020 - 2023 Patricia Carolin Mai has received conceptual funding from the City of Hamburg and continues with WAHN, UND SO KAMEN WIR ZUSAMMEN and RAUSCH. Eine Revision (AT), she continues her work on the theme of "Practices of Community". In 2023, together with 100 participants and in co-production with Kampnagel and K3, she will venture a look at the history of Tanzwut and complete the trilogy.

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