Interdisciplinary workshop at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, 28 October 2025, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.
With Aleksandra Selivanova, Carla Petzolt, Elena Vogman, Gwendolyn Lootens, Johannes Muselaers, Jonas Rutgeerts, Marlon Miguel, Mats Werchohlad, Mette Edvardsen, Mona Mahall, Sofia Michel, Stéphane Symons
On behalf of the Freigeist Project “Madness, Media, Milieus”, „Disegni: Research Network on Autonomous Drawing, Counterpoint: Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Contemporary Dance“ (KU Leuven), and the DFG Project “Animismus/Maschinismus” we are pleased to invite you to the workshop “Choreo/Graphics: Tracing the Social Body,” which will take place on Tuesday, 28 October 2025, in the Oberlichtsaal of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.
While choreography is commonly understood as the organisation of movement in time and space, it originally emerged as dance notation — the art of describing danced movement on paper. The workshop “Choreo/graphics: Tracing the Social Body” revisits the notion of choreography through the lens of drawing and its social potential. Using case studies from the Soviet and Weimar Republic avant-gardes, as well as from contemporary practices of “expanded choreography,” the workshop explores the emancipatory and transformative power of drawing when dance notation engages the social body. In this context, choreographic drawing — simultaneously prescribing gesture and opening up movement’s potential — becomes the site where individual tracings (as inscription, drawing, or writing) intersect with collective spatial imagination, reshaping the Umwelt of moving forms.
Further information about the event can be found on the poster and in the program.
Organized by Marlon Miguel, Jonas Rutgeerts, Aleksandra Selivanova, Stéphane Symons, and Elena Vogman, in the context of the Disegni: Research Network on Autonomous Drawing, funded by the FWO—Research Foundation Flanders, and Counterpoint: Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Contemporary Dance (KU Leuven) in collaboration with the Freigeist Project “Madness, Media, Milieus" funded by the Volkswagen Foundation and the DFG Project “Animismus/Maschinismus” at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.
Exhibition design & workshop assistance: Daria Lashutina, Sebastian Veloza; graphic design: Uliana Bychenkova; workshop assistance: Felix Brieden, Christian Scheerhorn.