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Theoretical lecture
Zichy´s Palace, Ventúrska street

Deborah Jowitt (USA) - "American Dance from modernism to postmodernism"

Deborah Jowitt (USA)

Deborah Jowitt began to dance professionally in 1953; since then she has danced in various works of choreographers like Doris Humphrey, José Limón, Pauline Koner, Pearl Lang, Mary Anthony, Anna Sokolow, Jeff Duncan, Phyllis Lamhut, Marta Renzi, or Victoria Marks. In the sixties, she was a founding member of Dance Theater Workshop, where she danced with her colleagues and presented her own works.

Since 1967, when she began to write a regular dance column for The Village Voice, he works appeared in periodicals, among others in New York Times, Dance Magazine, Ballet Review, and Dance Research Journal, as well as in anthologies. She has published two collections: Dance Beat (1977) and The Dance in Mind (1985). Her most recent publication is Meredith Monk (1997), for which she edited and wrote introduction for. Currently, she is at work on a critical biography of Jerome Robbins. She is a founding member of the Dance Critics Association.

She has lectured, taught, and/or conducted workshops at institutions both in the United States and abroad, and is a Master Teacher in the Dance Department of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where she has been since 1975.

In 1985 she has been awarded a "Bessie" by Dance Theater Workshop for her dance criticism. In 1998, she received an "Ernie", an "unsung heroes" award from Dance/USA.

Supported by: THE SUITCASE FUND: A Project of Ideas and Means in Cross-Cultural Artist Relations, an initiative created by Dance Theater Workshop in New York City with major funding from the Trust for Mutual Understanding.

 

Predstavenia / Performances

11 May 16,30Old Town New Ritual II.
  20,00 Aréna Theatre Akram Khan (Great Britain)
    Fix, Loose in Flight, Rush
12 May 16,30Old Town Nový rituál II.
20,00 Aréna Theatre Haring / Obermaier (Austria)
D.A.V.E.
13 May 16,30Old Town New Ritual II.
14 May 20,00Aréna Theatre Granhřj Dans (Denmark)
Headbreak
15 May 17,00Aréna Theatre Laroque Dance Company (Austria)
... and the damage done
Tomáš Danielis
Dnes som ťa skoro stretol
Marta Poláková
Večierok (premiéra)
16 May 17,00Stoka Theatre Petra Fornayová
Polmesačný medveď
Katarína Mojžišová, Milan Tomášik
Zluftu
20,00 Aréna Theatre Štúdio tanca - Banská Bystrica
Hra s časom
Tak dávno som Ti nenapísala
17 May 15,30Zichy´s Palace theoretical lecture Deborah Jowitt (USA)
"Contemporary dance in USA"
20,00 Aréna Theatre TS Artyci
One Yin for every Yang
Peter Groll & Friends
In a minor key
18 May 19,00The Union of women of Slovakia Felix Ruckert (Germany)
Ring
19 May 19,00The Union of women of Slovakia Felix Ruckert (Germany)
Ring

Performances, 11 - 19 May 2001

  • during 10 days 8 domestic and 6 foreign companies of contemporary dance will be presented in Theatres Aréna a Stoka
  • the aim of dramaturgy is to present the most recent creative achievements of selected representatives of contemporary dance from Europe and to show related results by the top domestic creators, to offer by that a simultaneous review of results in this field to domestic public and critics
  • foreign participants in the festival: Cie Felix Ruckert (Germany), Chris Haring (Austria), Cie Eszter Gál (Hungary), Cie Akram Khan (Great Britain), Granhoj Dans (Danmark), Kristýna Lhotáková (Czech republic)
  • Slovak representatives: Katarína Mojžišová, Lucia Holinová, Tomáš Danielis, Petra Fornayová, Peter Groll, A dato, TS Artyci, Štúdio tanca - Banská Bystrica

All the performances will be followed by public discussions between audience and artists.

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