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june 2013 – Tandem Series / Artistic Research @ Tanzkongress Düsseldorf

[08. June 2013] SHIFTING THE HUMAN : TOUCHING MATTER With writer/philosopher Wallace Heim (UK) I offered a collaborative artistic research labs during the dance congress 2013 in Düsseldorf. We moved indoors and outdoors, witnessed and watched, touched and talked, washed … Continue reading

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february 2012 – free:flight @ 100˚ Berlin

Phosphen Etwas bewegt sich. Oder nicht? Ist etwas hörbar, verändert sich was? Jemand beginnt, sich zu bewegen, hält wieder inne. Jede Bewegung verändert den Klang. Licht taucht auf, es blendet, zeigt, verhüllt. Zwischen Ruhe und Ge­schwindigkeit, Stille und Klang, Dunkelheit … Continue reading

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may 2012 – body, trees & things – A reflective presentation, Berlin

[28. May 2012] artistic research lab and open studio @ Uferstudios Berlin research installation and discussion films, items, postcards, string, photographs, comments, leather, cloth, pins, costume a morning of quiet attentiveness, entering the installation through different pathways, playfully improvising with … Continue reading

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may 2012 – body, trees & things, Stoneleigh

[10. May 2012] body, trees and things: final performance in the PhD-framework. From village church through fields and under trees, an afternoon near Stoneleigh village, close to Coventry. A site of ancient trees and airplanes, of criss-crossing and settling, of … Continue reading

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may 2012 – body, trees & things (announcement)

Welcome to body, trees and things – the final performance in the framework of my PhD. We’ll spend an afternoon at a tree site near Stoneleigh village, close to Coventry. There will be images, trees, performance, food and conversation. I’ve … Continue reading

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february 2012 – trees, – a winter triangle, Stoneleigh

[15. Feb 2012] Moving on the outer edges of what has becomes visible as a triangle. These trees were planted in lines that meet each other – three corners, three trees, three little performances. In time you will find your … Continue reading

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november 2011 – trees, – absolute soloist, Stoneleigh

[23. Nov. 2011] Me and a tree became me and two elderberry bushes, a ball of string, a white flag, an old dead oak in the background. A small audience arrangement. Three people watching from tree trunks and camping mat … Continue reading

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october 2011 – trees, – collective inauguration, Stoneleigh

[08. Oct. 2011] Inviting known strangers to be among trees with a performer and a musician. It is early evening, quiet autumn. Not much movement in the atmosphere, but a shift into light and then it gets dark. Collective procession … Continue reading

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april 2012 – BODY.RHYTHM.TREES in the CITY, Sant Cugat

Lecture and workshop at ETSAV the Vallès Higher Technical School of Architecture in the seminar series La Ciudad i la Vida by Prof. José Luis Oyon and Marta Serra. morning / lecture on strategies and examples of site-specific dance in … Continue reading

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october 2011 – trees, – collective inauguration (announcement)

Throughout the year I have been working with musician Michaël Lacoult (double bass/objects) at a tree-site near Stoneleigh Abbey (Warwickshire). I am now considering this site as a possibility for one part of my practical PhD-examination in 2012. To ‘plough … Continue reading

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may 2011 – Applied and Social Theatre Working Group interim event

  Study day on Richard Sennett’s book The Craftsman TaPRA interim event at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, May 27th, 2011 skin, touch, collective, resistance, chicken, anchor, skill I offered a performative response to The Craftsman, improvising … Continue reading

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march 2011 – Ballant a la primavera de les àguiles, Sant Feliu

Taller de Dansa Experimental i Processos Creatius a la Natura A càrrec de la ballarina Paula Kramer (Berlin) amb col·laboració amb el músic Julio Reig (mediterrani). Aquest taller s’enfoca cap a la relació d’improvisació col·laborativa entre dansa i música, cos … Continue reading

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march 2011 – BODY.SPACE.DESIRE, Sant Cugat

BODY – SPACE – DESIRE In this workshop we explored the city space of Sant Cugat through embodied movement with about 35+ students of architecture of the School of Architecture in Sant Cugat (ETSAV). We played in the streets and … Continue reading

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january 2011 – research installation @ NOFOD, Odense

In the context of the Nordic Forum for Dance Research 2011 (NOFOD), I presented a research installation – a material as well as metaphorical communication tool of my research. Both static and ‘there’, yet also processual and continuously changing through the intervention of … Continue reading

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2009 – 2015, practice-as-research PhD, Coventry University

My doctoral research focuses on dance practices in the natural environment. I work with a mix of ethnographic and practice-as-research methodologies and engage with practitioners in a case study sense – I participate in workshops and work-processes, I observe practice, … Continue reading

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2011 Obreros Espaciales / Raumarbeiter 2

Second international meeting @ dansBURG in the Catalan Pyrenees: Obreros Espaciales: Laboratori transversal de arquitectura i dansa – Space Workers: transversal laboratory of architecture and dance.

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2010 Obreros Espaciales / Raumarbeiter 1

In collaboration with architects Pepe Ramos and Marta Serra I started the research network obreros espaciales, in English space workers, in German raumarbeiter. We invite architects, dancers and others who have dealings with space into moments of collective investigations. The first … Continue reading

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july 2010 – experimental movement & creative process, Burg (Pyrenees)

L’alta muntanya per ella mateixa recull un espai màgic. És un lloc que impulsa la imaginació i ens posa en relació amb un món diferent. Cada dia anirem a explorar llocs al nostre voltant. Ens relacionarem amb els poders de … Continue reading

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july 2009 – Ballar a l’alta muntanya, Bordes d’olp (Pyrenees)

L’alta muntanya per ella mateixa recull un espai màgic. És un lloc que impulsa la imaginació i ens posa en relació amb un món diferent al de la ciutat. Per a la realització d’aquest taller ens trobarem afora i amunt … Continue reading

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may 2009 – experimental movement & creative process, Montseny

Treballar amb el moviment a la natura cada vegada és una experiència diferent. En aquest taller hi ha la posibilitat d ́anar junts cap a una aventura de moviment individual i comú al peu del Montseny a prop del població … Continue reading

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july 2008 – Labyrinth workshop in Barnum (MN)

Co-facilitated with Emily Hughes At this Community Supported Labyrinth Workshop and Ceremony at Common Place Farm we will not only create the physical path of a labyrinth on the earth’s body, but also explore this path in our own bodies. … Continue reading

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2009 Dem Raum lauschen / Escoltar el lloc

With dance and movement therapist Montse Martí I embarked on a photographic and movement based investigation of what arises when we listen to space. What we found was an intense inscription of individual and collective memory into a location. The … Continue reading

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july 2006 – experimental movement & creative process, Farrera (Pyrenees)

Els temes principals del taller seran l’exploració del cos/moviment a la natura, mitjançant la creació d’un ambient d’inspiració i creativitat. S’experimentarà amb les immenses variacions que es produeixen entre el temps, la matèria, els elements de la natura i la … Continue reading

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sept 2010 – free:flight & friends @ Festival MIAU, Caldes de Montbui (CAT)

A meeting in a public space, the Roman bath “la Portalera” – two musicians, a performer, a writer and the audience. Nobody knows what will happen. We make ourselves available, gestures unfold and disappear. Together we create a shared space, … Continue reading

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june 2010 – free:flight @ Festival Inselglück, Berlin-Moabit

free:flight participates in inselglueck – a celebration of art on Berlin’s largest island: the neighbourhood Moabit. In more than 100 locations more than 300 events happened on a long and sunny weekend between 17th and 20th of June 2010. free-flight … Continue reading

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may 2010 – free:flight @ Gallery TamTam 8, Berlin-Friedrichshain

Ensemble free:flight: Flute/Live-Electronics Miriam Akkermann & Dance Paula Kramer meets Prisma Sonorum: Cello Hui-Chun Lin & Live-Electronics Rico Graupner A meeting in a gallery space – musicians, performer, audience. We search for a dialogue, a short-term encounter of time, space, body, sound – some things fall into place, whilst others falls apart. … Continue reading

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sept 2009 – free:flight @ Ohrenstrand mobil, Berlin Hauptbahnhof

Amidst random movements and sounds, we define a space. Travellers are crisscrossing their way through Berlin’s main train station. Following their steps we leave our marks, first attempting to define, then to traverse and eventually to dissolve. Produced in collaboration with ohrenstrand mobil.

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july 2009 – Wandlungsphasen, Berlin-Schöneberg

choreography and performance: Bettina Mainz, Paula Kramer artistic director: Mikki Bleidner music: Peter Laros produced by: CAP A PIE, Berlin supported by: Municipal Office for Art + Culture Berlin-Schöneberg, Grün Berlin Park und Garten GmbH Wandlungsphasen was developed for a … Continue reading

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april 2007 – Beneath the Warmth of a Smile, Alexandria & Cairo

choreography: Bettina Mainz performance: Eva Balzer, Aude Henry, Paula Kramer supported by: Goethe Institut Cairo, French Cultural Centre Alexandria, Weinmeisterhaus Berlin, Nora Amin The smile – this precious universal gesture of mankind forms the starting point of our story. Three … Continue reading

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Forthcoming

A mix of what’s to come in the near and foreseeable future. Get in touch if you are interested in getting involved, receiving more information or proposing another adventure.

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Workshops

Since 2006 I teach movement workshops in the natural environment. Moving and being with groups out and about is one of the most exiting challenges in my life. Generally the complete workshop time is spent outdoors, and we slowly acquaint … Continue reading

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Performance

When performing I share my current investigations in the presence of an audience. This moment of performance offers a concentration of thought and action and that can illuminate the elusive task of being present to space and life within it. … Continue reading

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Research

Most of my research currently revolves around my PhD at Coventry University, a practice-as-research investigation of dance in the natural environment. Additionally I collaborate in a variety of research networks and activities that are related to movement, ecology, space and being-in-this-world. … Continue reading

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About Me

My work focuses on site-specific dance and performance. I am currently immersed in a practice-as-research PhD in dance at Coventry University entitled Dancing Materiality. In my research I explore contemporary outdoor dance practices in the natural environment in the light … Continue reading

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