Migrant Bodies - Moving Borders had its final symposium this weekend.
Oh, what a journey this has been. So far.
I’d like to borrow the words of my dearest colleague Andrea Rampazzo:
“This is not the end. This is just the beginning of something I can’t imagine yet.”

I’m bursting with gratitude. I’m moved. I’m connected. To myself. To the world and to a community which believes in the power of Dance.

Thanks and all my love to every body participating in this project!
You´ve got my love.

I will be offering three workshops as part of the beat1060-summer-schedule. And I can´t wait to share, shake and sweat with you!

In the week of 29.07. - 01.08.2019:
18:00-19:30 Contemporary Basic
19:35-21:05 Contemporary meets Martial Arts (based on Kalari)

In the week of 05.08. - 08.08.2019:
19:35-21:05 Contemp. Improvisation

For closer details and your registration please go to:
www.beat1060.wien

The great Maartje Pasman and me will create a Performance for Schäxpir-Festival in Linz. Schäxpir is THE Dance- and Theatre-Festival for Young Audience. We are very grateful for this  opportunity and the support of our fellow-artists Patrick Gutensohn and Laurent Ziegler.

Please find all the Details and Dates here:
https://www.schaexpir.at/programm/event/white-hole.html

[white hole] ist eine bewegte, inter-aktive und multi-sensorische Expedition in eine neue Wirklichkeit.

Die Kulturtankstelle Linz wird in ein „weißes Loch“, in eine Begegnungszone mit den Körpern der Gegenwart und Zukunft verwandelt. Es entstehen (Möglichkeits-)Räume für Menschen, Maschinen, Cyborgs und allem was dazwischen existiert.

SCHÄXPIR - Koproduktion
Von & mit: Katharina Senk, Maartje Pasman
Sound: Patrick Gutensohn
Photografie & Lichtdesign: Laurent Ziegler

D.ID - Dance Identity and their "Choreografisches Zentrum Burgenland" will move to "Kulturzentrum Eisenstadt". They will inaugurate this great change with a top-dance-festival: this years edition of Burgenländische Tanztage.

And I´m happy as can be to be part of it. With two productions. 
Our final presentation of the EU-Project Migrant Bodies - Moving Borders and super[human]. Both performed on June 1st. Liz King and Max Biskup are such strong supporters of my work. It´s great to be part of their Perspektiv-Gruppe zur Förderung von NachwuchschoreografInnen. I value their effort and dedication and how much energy they put into the Austrian dance scene.

So come and join the festival! It will be most awesome!

Here the link with all the infos:

http://dance-identity.com/festival.html

Amazing news from the EU-Project "Migrant Bodies - Moving Boders":
The group of unaccompanied minors in Burgenland, a.k.a. the Rechnitz Crew, are now working once a week for three months with a group of local citizens. Together… we are creating an installation that will be shown at the first MBMB presentation in Eisenstadt on June 1st. We are excited about sharing the work and can't wait to see all our international MBMB friends again soon. Come and join us at "Burgenländische Tanztage 2019".
Thanks to D.ID - Dance Identity, Liz King, Max Biskup, Pascal Steiner and every body involved!

Premiere of the new production by Georg Blaschke and Jan Machacek at February 21st. Go and get your tickets!
https://brut-wien.at/

Choreograf Georg Blaschke und Video- und Medienkünstler Jan Machacek machen das Werk des britischen Jahrhundertmalers Francis Bacon zum Ausgangspunkt ihrer neuen gemeinsamen Arbeit. Der Körper als zentrales Motiv Bacons bildet dabei auch die Basis ihrer Annäherung.

A Production by M.A.P. Vienna and brut wien
Choreografische Leitung: Georg Blaschke
Medienkunst:Jan Machacek
Choreografie, Performance: Katharina Senk, Tomaž Simatović
Musikgestaltung: Christian Schröder
Kostümgestaltung: Hanna Hollmann Lichtgestaltung: Sabine Wiesenbauer Videoprogrammierung: Oliver Stotz Bühnenbau:Leopold Kessler
Fachliche Beratung: Barbara Steffen Produktion: Raffaela Gras

Eine Koproduktion von M.A.P. Vienna 2018 und brut Wien.

Mit freundlicher Unterstützung der Kulturabteilung der Stadt Wien und der Kulturabteilung des Bundeskanzleramts Österreich.

PREMIERE.
super[human]
a D.ID - Dance Identity Production

choreography: Katharina Senk
performance: Laureen Drexler, Maartje Pasman, Robyn / Hugo le Brigand, Harmen Tromp

1. Dezember 2018
20 Uhr.
Anker. Saal Wien

http://www.dance-identity.com/

https://www.facebook.com/danceidentityaustria/

The next phase of "Migrant Bodies - Moving Borders" - a project supported by "Creative Europe" - has started.
I am grateful for a wonderful and challenging residency in Pinkafeld  (AUT) together with "D.ID - dance identity" at "Woche der Vielfalt". "The week of diversity" was organized by BiP-Pinkafeld and Elias Bierdel and our project was invited to participate. We tested some of our strategies of connecting people with very diverse backgrounds through dance-activities and dance-art, we are now busy collecting our new insights as a team, together with writer Monica Gilette. I am already excited about the final presentations in May, June and July 2019 all over Europe.

http://www.migrantbodies.eu/
https://www.bip-pinkafeld.at/aktuelles/woche-der-vielfalt/

http://dance-identity.com/

I will be guiding the "Monday Practice" at TQW Vienna from November 12th until December 17th from 9:30-10:30. The motto of our Mondays together will be "Contemporary meets Martial Arts". It will be hot, sweaty, challenging and fun! Brave dancyfancy warriors, come and join!

"Inspiriert durch die jahrtausendealte südindische Kampfkunst Kalaripayattu setzt diese Morning Practice mit Katharina Senk an der Schnittstelle von Tanz und Kampf an. Jede dieser beiden Künste setzt sich auf unterschiedliche Weise mit Körper, Bewusstsein und Präsenz auseinander. Durch das Verbinden dieser beiden Welten werden neue Bewegungsansätze für die Teilnehmer_innen möglich."

For closer details please have a look at the TQW-Website:
https://tqw.at/workshop/morning-practice-katharina-senk/24049

"Stretching the possibilities of human connection."
The duett "non_yielding" premiered at UNLIMITED-Festival at Southbank Centre in London at September 6th.

"non_yielding" is a live video-dance performance. Interrogating the topic of human, physical, "objectified" and digital connectivity.
We mused on questions arising from the themes exploring physicality across space, time and everything in-between.

Special thanks to Tanja Erhart for her invitation to co-operate and for the CHANGE MAKER-residency, that made this dancy encounter possible.

This was just the first step of a wonderful and very exciting collaboration. More to come!

http://www.metalculture.com/wp-content/uploads/PROGRAMME-DESCRIPTIONS-Final.pdf

This summer I was lucky to dance and spider around for Florentina Holzinger and Cecilia Bengoleas "insect train" in the frame of my favourite dance-festival ever - the ImPulsTanz-Festival. Touring dates coming up soon!

https://www.pw-magazine.com/2018/insekten-mit-autotune-und-spitzenschuhen-insect-train/

A bit more than three years have passed since I graduated from MUK-University and this September I´ll be back to hold a week of workshops for "the offspring".
I am so happy about this great opportunity! Thanks to the head of the dance department Nikolaus Selimov and the MUK-staff. 

http://www.muk.ac.at/studienangebot/fakultaet-darstellende-kunst/tanz.html

I am so happy to announce that I will have the chance to work and create together with the wonderful Tanja Erhart as part of her residency in the frame of "Change Makers"-Project  at Southbank Centre in London this July. What an honour!

Please also have a look at this interview which Tanja gave last summer! I can´t wait to collaborate with her.

https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/taenzerin-tanja-erhart-ich-tanze-mal-mit-einem-mal-mit-drei.970.de.html?dram:article_id=398543

Time to push perceptions!

On April 25th the audience of "Tanz als Kunsterfahrung" - a public-learning-experience set up by D.ID and the Galerie "Wienerroither und Kohlbacher" - gave us the opportunity to share some of our ideas and research for our upcoming piece 
super[human] with a great audience at Palais Schönborn-Batthany, one of the most beautiful spaces in Vienna in the midst of Art-Works by Arotin & Serghei.
What an evening! We are most grateful for every body who showed up and supported us with their presence and feedback.
Danke.

Together with D.ID - dance identity and many great partner-organizations and (dance-)artists I will be engaged in the EU-Project "Migrant Bodies - Moving Borders".

Migrant Bodies develops a shared international research, focusing on identifying, developing and testing new and relevant actions for the inclusion of refugees and migrants with dance and movement based initiatives.

This is moving. Bodies. And Borders.

http://www.migrantbodies.eu/

I was lucky to teach and choreograph the inclusive project "BewegungsBegegnung" for a most wonderful group for "Tanz die Toleranz" and "BBA Laa" at Laa an der Thaya in Lower Austria. Thanks so much to Sophie, Veronika, my assisstant Mike and all the participants!

Check out the facebook-page from "Tanz die Toleranz" for updates and infos about their great projects:
https://www.facebook.com/tanzdietoleranz

"Give your ego a circle II" November 2017 at UNTEN Linz, I am very happy to announce my next performance "glitter" premiering March 2nd at #untenlinz. 
For closer details about UNTEN and breathtaking pictures of
"Give your ego a circle" taken by Florian Voggeneder at the last performance have a look at the official UNTEN facebook-page. 

Performing for and creating with Georg Blaschke, the wonderful team of M.A.P.-Vienna and my beloved fellow artists Manaho Shimokawa and Tomaz Simatovic was such a pleasureful experience. Thank you - You give me life! Big Thanks also to such a generous audience!

See here what the dance critcs wrote about "Antonio´s imaginary workshop". Short Spoiler: They liked it. ;)

Helmut Ploebst in "Der Standard":
http://derstandard.at/2000067233800/Mach-dir-deinen-Golem

Ditta Rudle in "Tanzschrift.at":
http://www.tanzschrift.at/20-pinnwand/642-georg-blaschke-antonio-s-imaginary-workshop

Edith Wolf Perez in "tanz.at":
http://www.tanz.at/index.php/kritiken/kritiken-2017/1884-georg-blaschke-antonio-s-imaginary-workshop

I was invited as a lecturer at the conference "tanz-körper-erweiterung" in berlin to talk about my thesis and discuss how "difference" could be taught in dance-educational institutions with my fellow lecturers Corinna Mindt, Susanne Schneider and Silke Schönfleisch  and many wonderful participants and colleagues.
Thanks so much to "tanzfähig", Evelyne Wohlfahrter und Bernhard Richarz, to HZT Berlin, Dachverband Tanz and to all the wonderful humans who joined the conference. I am grateful for your energy, warm heartedness and dedication!

Let's keep on stretching the physicality of dance!!!

You can download the transcript from my Lecture below. More infos about this wonderful conference you can find here:
http://www.tanzkoerper-erweiterung.de/home/

I´m extremely thankful, moved and touched from getting the chance to take part in this years danceWEB-scholarship-programme, which will happen in the frame of ImPulsTanz-Festival in Vienna. This is a once-in-a-lifetime-experience and I can´t wait to finally get started!
Find closer details about the danceWEB-Programme here:
www.lifelongburning.eu/projects/danceweb_scholarships.html

And there are still more good news to come - but this time in German:
Ich freue mich sehr das österreischische Startstipendium vom Bundeskanzleramt für Kunst und Kultur erhalten zu haben. Die Endergebnisse meiner sechsmonatigen künstlerischen Arbeitsphase darf ich Ende April 2018 in Wien präsentieren. Ihr dürft gespannt sein! Ich bin es auch!
Nähere Informationen zum Startstipendium findet ihr hier:
www.kunstkultur.bka.gv.at

I had the pleasure of doing another dance-photoshooting with wonderful photographer and curator Rudolf Sagmeister at Kunsthaus Bregenz in Vorarlberg.
This time amidst the breathtaking Art from Adrian Villar Rojas.

Find and enjoy more photos on my "senk.i" - Instagram Account:
www.instagram.com/senk.i/?hl=de

I am happy to officially announce my invitation as a guest-speaker to "tanz körper erweiterung - stretching the physicality of dance"-Conference in Berlin upcoming summer.
I can´t wait to share  and discuss my observations, experience and the findings of my Bachelor Thesis on Inclusion in Contemporary Dance Education-University-Programmes in Austria.
Special Thanks to "tanzfähig", Evelyne Wohlfahrter and Mirjam Steinbock.
Check out the Conference - It´s so wonderful to see how many people are dedicated to opening up the World of Contemporary Dance and making it more accessible for every_body!

http://www.tanzkoerper-erweiterung.de/home/

I was part of tanz.coop´s new piece "A Perfect Stranger" choreographed by Gisela Elisa Heredia which premiered at Kosmos Theater end of April 2017.
Performances were so much fun with this wonderful crowd!

Watch the teaser:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iRogWxdTa4
 
http://www.tanzcoop.com/
http://www.kosmostheater.at/

I´m happy to announce that I´ll be guiding a "saturdance"-Workshop for "Tanz die Toleranz" at Brunnenpassage on February 11th from 13:00-15:00. 
Best thing: It´s free and open for everyone to join! So, come and daaaance with me!

http://www.brunnenpassage.at/projekte/tanz/saturdance/

I had a fun time with my wonderful fellow dancer Sophi Hörmann and photographer and curator Rudolf Sagmeister at Kunsthaus Bregenz using Laurence Weiners amazing exhibition "wherewithal" as a playground for our dance.

In October 2016 I had the pleasure of choreographing for a big outdoor theatre re-opening in Den Bosch (Netherlands) in cooperation with "Vooropleiding Hedendaagse dans", "Bosch 500" and "d.id".

Choreography: Katharina Senk
Concept: Liz King

Thanks so much to anybody involved in this wonderful project. Especially to Liz King and Geraldine van de Griend!