In times of increased physical distancing, in which physical contact has been avoided due to the pandemic situation and the possibilities of dancing together or individually have been drastically reduced, this curatorial project with five artistic choreographies created especially for this purpose encourages people to experience themselves, their own bodies and minds in a new way through dance. Aspects of the increasing social and individual alienation, as well as the exploitation or conditioning of the body, find their way into the simple but profoundly conceived movement sequences. Dance is per se an aesthetic form of expression of the special connection between body and mind, especially in the intermediate area of visual and performing arts, which comes into focus with the artists-choreographers selected here.

The artists of the project "dance your home - choreographies for everyone" - Alicia Frankovich, Liz Magic Laser, Tabea Martin, Alexandra Pirici and Kat Válastur - are both at home in the visual arts and trained as dancers and choreographers, and they combine these practices with their own logics and ways of showing in a special way. Therefore, a transdisciplinary intermediate area of the arts comes into view, which is located between dance, choreography, performance, and visual art. It is no coincidence that the scores created for this purpose also include hand drawings, photographs, images of paintings and scientific sketches as well as objects.

In young, contemporary forms of choreography, long-established dichotomies - such as of body and mind - are often called into question in sequences of movement. Existential questions are raised and impressively negotiated in each of the choreographies collected here. The character of the scores contributes to the fact that this debate is acted out in physical movement and thus inseparably combines cognitive and motoric, sensitive, and reflective aspects.

It is not surprising that movements and gestures in body expression appear all the more important as motor skills, especially in increasingly digitalised times. The real and symbolic scope for movement, especially in pandemically overshadowed phases, is once again being put to the test. Dance as a genuine expression of feelings, thoughts and sensations in embodiment, but also of the real taking up of space and positioning in the surrounding space and in the world, to and with other forms of life and being, comes into focus in an impressive and profound way. Thus, these newly created scores are subject to questions about locating oneself in space, about concentration and sensitivity, the purposeful control of the body and a letting go and sensing, sensitivity as well as questions of identity - in short, practices of embodiment on many levels.

Since the positions gathered here understand contemporary dance decidedly in an expanded field of the arts, a fluid and fertile intermediate area between dance and performance, movement and drawing, spatial marking and self-reflection comes into view, which is acted out and interpreted by active recipients in their own way. The artistic choreographies are updated in the performing body in the present situation, so that dancing foregrounds the presence of movement with all its associated physical, psychological, emotional and cognitive aspects.

The fleetingness of the transitory, which characterises performing movement arts, is an expression of both form and content, which are inseparably interdependent. The dynamics of the moving or consciously still body, the resonance with space, time and matter as well as with other subjects thereby shape the perception of the individual*. At the same time, one strength of these special works is that they can be performed very freely almost anywhere and by anyone. The scores by Alicia Frankovich, Liz Magic Laser, Tabea Martin, Alexandra Pirici and Kat Válastur in "dance your home - choreographies for everyone", which are distributed like a gift by post and digitally, only find their completion in the acting out, in the movement of the individuals. At the same time, the artistic choreographies are designed in such a way that everyone can and must interpret and perform them in an individual way.

In doing so, the project also reflects the experiences of performers and choreographer-artists who have had to adjust their dance and performance practice since the beginning of the pandemic and adapt it to the special conditions and (distance) imperatives, or at times have not been able to practise at all. Thus, this project breaks new ground in the conception, realisation and mediation of movement art works, both on a curatorial and artistic level.

Bodies and brains cramped by tension and insecurities start to vibrate, get into new rhythms, experience their physicality at home anew and thereby experience alternative perspectives and scope for action for themselves and their fellow human beings in and through the sequences of movements in artistic transformation. As long as clubs, discos, bars, stages, dance halls and larger parties may not be available at times, we can at least dance our everyday lives at home! But even beyond that, dancing in the space that is available to us is a sustainable and always available strategy to get body and mind moving in new ways. At best, the choreographies gathered here will be experienced and acted out again and again, and perhaps even integrated into one's own life in the longer term - Dance on!

Dance the Everyday
Julia Katharina Thiemann

In times of increased physical distancing, in which physical contact has been avoided due to the pandemic situation and the possibilities of dancing together or individually have been drastically reduced, this curatorial project with five artistic choreographies created especially for this purpose encourages people to experience themselves, their own bodies and minds in a new way through dance. Aspects of the increasing social and individual alienation, as well as the exploitation or conditioning of the body, find their way into the simple but profoundly conceived movement sequences. Dance is per se an aesthetic form of expression of the special connection between body and mind, especially in the intermediate area of visual and performing arts, which comes into focus with the artists-choreographers selected here.

The artists of the project "dance your home - choreographies for everyone" - Alicia Frankovich, Liz Magic Laser, Tabea Martin, Alexandra Pirici and Kat Válastur - are both at home in the visual arts and trained as dancers and choreographers, and they combine these practices with their own logics and ways of showing in a special way. Therefore, a transdisciplinary intermediate area of the arts comes into view, which is located between dance, choreography, performance, and visual art. It is no coincidence that the scores created for this purpose also include hand drawings, photographs, images of paintings and scientific sketches as well as objects.

In young, contemporary forms of choreography, long-established dichotomies - such as of body and mind - are often called into question in sequences of movement. Existential questions are raised and impressively negotiated in each of the choreographies collected here. The character of the scores contributes to the fact that this debate is acted out in physical movement and thus inseparably combines cognitive and motoric, sensitive, and reflective aspects.

It is not surprising that movements and gestures in body expression appear all the more important as motor skills, especially in increasingly digitalised times. The real and symbolic scope for movement, especially in pandemically overshadowed phases, is once again being put to the test. Dance as a genuine expression of feelings, thoughts and sensations in embodiment, but also of the real taking up of space and positioning in the surrounding space and in the world, to and with other forms of life and being, comes into focus in an impressive and profound way. Thus, these newly created scores are subject to questions about locating oneself in space, about concentration and sensitivity, the purposeful control of the body and a letting go and sensing, sensitivity as well as questions of identity - in short, practices of embodiment on many levels.

Since the positions gathered here understand contemporary dance decidedly in an expanded field of the arts, a fluid and fertile intermediate area between dance and performance, movement and drawing, spatial marking and self-reflection comes into view, which is acted out and interpreted by active recipients in their own way. The artistic choreographies are updated in the performing body in the present situation, so that dancing foregrounds the presence of movement with all its associated physical, psychological, emotional and cognitive aspects.

The fleetingness of the transitory, which characterises performing movement arts, is an expression of both form and content, which are inseparably interdependent. The dynamics of the moving or consciously still body, the resonance with space, time and matter as well as with other subjects thereby shape the perception of the individual*. At the same time, one strength of these special works is that they can be performed very freely almost anywhere and by anyone. The scores by Alicia Frankovich, Liz Magic Laser, Tabea Martin, Alexandra Pirici and Kat Válastur in "dance your home - choreographies for everyone", which are distributed like a gift by post and digitally, only find their completion in the acting out, in the movement of the individuals. At the same time, the artistic choreographies are designed in such a way that everyone can and must interpret and perform them in an individual way.

In doing so, the project also reflects the experiences of performers and choreographer-artists who have had to adjust their dance and performance practice since the beginning of the pandemic and adapt it to the special conditions and (distance) imperatives, or at times have not been able to practise at all. Thus, this project breaks new ground in the conception, realisation and mediation of movement art works, both on a curatorial and artistic level.

Bodies and brains cramped by tension and insecurities start to vibrate, get into new rhythms, experience their physicality at home anew and thereby experience alternative perspectives and scope for action for themselves and their fellow human beings in and through the sequences of movements in artistic transformation. As long as clubs, discos, bars, stages, dance halls and larger parties may not be available at times, we can at least dance our everyday lives at home! But even beyond that, dancing in the space that is available to us is a sustainable and always available strategy to get body and mind moving in new ways. At best, the choreographies gathered here will be experienced and acted out again and again, and perhaps even integrated into one's own life in the longer term - Dance on!