a witch dance
Project information
submitted by
Simon Christopher Frisch
Co-Authors
Markus Baldzun,
Rosa Feigenbutz,
Carl Franke,
Sophia Höchstädter,
Mariia Karnakova,
Aliya Sayfart,
Elena Schmitt
Mentors
Nannette Banisch, Simon Frisch, Lea Hopp, Meike Britt Hübner, Katherine Sehnert, Salma Pethö-Zayed
Faculty:
Media
Degree programme:
Media Studies - Study programm European Media Culture (EMK) (Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) and Licence en Information-Communication (L.I.C.))
Type of project presentation
Exhibition
Semester
Summer semester 2023
- Schwanseestraße 143 - S143
Participation in the Centennial »23:ideas«
Links
https://www.uni-weimar.de/de/med…
Contributors:
HfM Franz Liszt, Bach Biennale
Project description
The Witch Dance by Mary Wigman from 1926 was reconstructed for the BaBa-Fest 2023 with the dancer Nannette Banisch together with the dancer Katharine Sehnert, who still studied with Wigman herself. For the re-enactment of the choreography, the surviving but incomplete film recording served as the basis, and further research was added.
Wigman's "Witches' Dance" formed the starting point for dance miniatures by students of the Bauhaus University Weimar, which they developed together with students of the Franz Liszt Academy of Music.
The students dealt intensively with the ambivalent figure of the witch, who at the same time frightens, but also encourages them to question supposed identities and orders. The project "a witch's dance" is designed as an exploration in manifold perspectives; it opens horizons for thinking in contradictions and in movement and stimulates reflection on norms and transformations. Dance and research, investigation and performance intertwine.
The project "ein hexentanz" is fragment 3 in the series of productions of the bauhaus.medien.bühnen laboratory (https://www.uni-weimar.de/de/medien/institute/bauhausmedienbuehnen-labor/).
Email: simon.frisch[at]uni-weimar.de