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 here:
https://www.uni-weimar.de/de/medien/professuren/medienwissenschaft/madness-media-milieus/events/choreo-graphics-tracing-the-social-body/