TALLINN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE OF FINE ARTS DEPARTMENT OF CHOREOGRAPHY SYMPOSION 13-15.05.2010

IMAGINING BODIES: LANDSCAPE, MEMORY, COMMUNITY

A symposium of dance performances, papers, installations, roundtables and workshops
Presented by the Department of Choreography, Institute of Fine Arts, Tallinn University
Choices about how the body is trained, choreographed and performed shape the past and form the future. Imagining Bodies: Landscape, Memory, Community examines relationships between bodies and communities – looking at how dance and body based practices intersect with dialectics of nation and identity across shifting global terrains and economies.

Dance artists and scholars from Estonia, Finland, Sweden, Germany, Netherlands, Armenia,
Slovakia, India, South Africa, Australia, Brazil, Canada, the United States of America and the
United Kingdom will come together for three days of corporeal conversations.

BIGRAPHIES AND PROJECT DESCRIPTIONS - read here!

SYMPOSIUM TIMETABLE:

Thursday, May 13
10:00-12:00 Kanuti Gildi SAAL
Registration
12:00-13:00 Kanuti Gildi SAAL
Opening Plenary
13:00-14:00 Kanuti Gildi SAAL
Reception
14:15-15:45 Kanuti Gildi SAAL
Paper #1: Heili Einasto, Pujita K. Jyoti, Helena Saarkoski
16:00-16:30 Suurgildi square
Site-Specific Performance: Sveta Bogomolova & Vahram Muradyn
16:30-17:30 Kanuti Gildi SAAL cellar
Art Installation: Kristina Paabus
17:00-18:30 Tallinn University Institute of Fine Arts / Lai 13, room 208 /
Videos: Misha Myers, Alexis Steeves, Kai Kaljo
18:30-20:00
Dinner Break
20:00-22:00 Kanuti Gildi SAAL
Performance: Isabelle Kirouac, Rebecca Pappas, Cid Pearlman, Alexis Steeves, Elo Unt, Fine 5

Friday, May 14
9:00-10:30 Kanuti Gildi SAAL
Workshop: Philippa Kaye
9:00-10:30 Tallinn University Institute of Fine Arts / Lai 13, room 208 /
Paper #2: Sille Kapper, David King, Leenu Nigu
11:00-12:00 Tallinn University Institute of Fine Arts / Lai 13, room 208 /
Round Table: lead by Evelin Lagle
12:00-13:00
Lunch Break
13:00-14:00 Tallinn University Institute of Fine Arts / Lai 13, room 208 /
Panel: lead by Silver Sepp
14:30-16:00 Tallinn University Institute of Fine Arts / Lai 13, room 208 /
Paper #3: Christopher Engdahl, Kate Hunter, Cid Pearlman
16:30-18:00 Kanuti Gildi SAAL
Tallinn University Student Performances
18:00-20:00
Dinner Break
20:00-22:00 Kanuti Gildi SAAL
Performance: Rebecca Alson-Milkman, Sandra Chatterjee, Hana van der Kolk, Ana Flecha, Tee Kuubis

Saturday, May 15
9:00-10:30 Kanuti Gildi SAAL
Workshop: Ana Flecha
9:00-10:30 Tallinn University Institute of Fine Arts / Lai 13, room 208 /
Paper #4: Misha Myers, Ernest Truely, Gretchen Schiller
10:45-12:15 Tallinn University Institute of Fine Arts / Lai 13, room 208 /
Paper #5: Kevin Kane, Mchelle Elliot, Dr Sarahleigh Castelyn
12:30-13:30
Lunch Break
13:30-14:30 Kanuti Gildi SAAL
Performed Papers: Rebecca Pappas, Candice Salyers, Chistine Suarez
14:00-15:45 Tallinn University Institute of Fine Arts / Lai 13 /
Performance Installation: Daniel Bear Davis
15:45-17:15 Kanuti Gildi SAAL
Workshop: Hana van der Kolk
15:45-17:15 Tallinn University Institute of Fine Arts / Lai 13, room 208 /
Paper #6: Kadi Tudre, Gerhard Lock, Stephanie Tuley
17:30-18:30 Kanuti Gildi SAAL
Closing Words/Reception
19:00
Free Museum night in Tallinn
Traditional Estonian Dance Performance and tour in Open Air Museum

Organized by: Tallinn University Institute of Fine Arts Department of Choreography

Where: Tallinn University Institute of Fine Arts / Lai 13 & Kanuti Gildi SAAL / Pikk 20
Conference registration: Thursday, 13 May, 10:00am – 12:00pm, Kanuti Gildi SAAL, Pikk 20, Tallinn
More info and pre-registrations: Heili Einasto heiein@tlu.ee or Cid Pearlman
Photo: cid.pearlman@fulbrightmail.org L.Wu
Supporters: Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Tallinn University, Kanuti Gildi SAAL, U.S. Embassy in Tallinn
Entrance:
Fee: 300.- for all three days, including all seminars and performances upon pre-registration
Performance nights 13+14.04: 100.- per evening available at Piletilevi
Student works 14.04: 25.- available half an hour before at the door