Gitta Barthel

EXPERIENCED DANCE HISTORY

What are the basic elements of modern dance? What is special about dance theatre? This workshop provides insights into dance styles of the 20th and 21st centuries: from ballet to expressive dance, modern dance, post-modern dance, dance theatre and hip-hop through to contemporary dance. Typical movement vocabulary of the styles can be experienced physically and we try out the different principles and rhythms. Whether soft, falling movements or powerful moves – each dance has its own individual expression and wants to tell different stories. The result is an overview of the individual basic steps as well as improvisation approaches and the theoretical knowledge behind them. By immersing oneself in this diversity, the individual spectrum of movement and aesthetic expression expands, practice and theory combine to form a journey through dance history.

Offen to all interested parties | No prior knowledge required

Registration is ONLY possible via the VHS Hamburg.

www.vhs-hamburg.de

Gitta Barthel

works across the fields of art, art outreach and academic research and teaches contemporary dance and choreography at various universities and training centres. As the result of her long relationship as a research associate with the Institute for Movement Research/Performance Studies at the University of Hamburg, she is currently writing her doctorate on Choreografische Praxis. Vermittlung in Tanzkunst und Kultureller Bildung (Choreographic Practice. Communication in Dance and Cultural Education.)

www.gittabarthel.de