Welcome to attend the first award ceremony of the The Lilian Karina Research Grant in Dance and Politics.
November 17th 2010, at 17.30-19 hrs at University of Dance and Circus, studio G, Brinellvägen 58, Stockholm, Sweden
PROGRAM
Welcome by Johan Widén, Deputy Vice-chancellor and Guest Professor in Art at DOCH.
Presentation of the Lilian Karina Dance Research Foundation and of the 2010 awardee Laure Guilbert by Gun Román, Chair of the Lilian Karina Foundation.
Research presentation by the awardee, Laure Guilbert.
Film
Refreshments
Please confirm your attendance before November 10th 2010 to gun.roman@doch.se
Summary: “Dance in migration”. Exile and diasporas of the German choreographic environment. 1933-1950”
Among historical works on Germans exiled from Nazism, dance circles have never been studied in a global approach. Our research aims at reconstructing, synchronically and diachronically, the situation of a population that included only a few hundred people dispersed on several continents. Searching for those who, in many cases, can be numbered among the “forgotten of history”, will allow us to draw a new geopolitical map of dance, thus re-evaluating Western dance historiography as it was written after WWII, based on a partial memory of the 1930s and 1940s. Pondering the art produced through the exile movement will highlight how these artists enriched the fields that they touched. It will also show the complexity of their itineraries, which mingled the dynamics of survival and the creative process.
Our subject will be supported by methods of cultural, social and transnational history, and it will integrate contributions of geography, sociology and anthropology, “Cultural Studies” and theatre studies. We will gather our research materials from archivistic, printed, oral and visual sources. Our period will run from 1933 until the beginning of the Cold War, including “remigrations” to the country of origin. We will reconstruct a prosopography of artists originating from classical and modern traditions of theatrical dance, as well as mediators and professionals involved in this environment. Our reflections will be guided by three major themes: dispersion in the world; experience of exile in its sociocultural and artistic dimensions; memory and forgetting. We will use two perspectives: both “macro,” which relates a minority’s fate to the major problems of exile and the fact of the diaspora, and “micro,” which offers case studies on individual itineraries, artists’ societies, works, and social circumstances in places where they stayed. Finally, we will investigate the notion of a “field” by locating the common and singular realities shaping it in the transnational space of choreographical exile.