The project explores the potential for intervention offered by choreographic formats and practices that are understood in ecological terms – that is, as an interdependent network of human and more-than-human actions and situations – whilst at the same time engaging with decolonising strategies that challenge the hierarchical epistemologies of the Global North. Four subprojects (SP) contribute to differentiating the area concepts ‘moving – disrupting’ with regard to techniques of movement as well as social and epistemic structures. Our aim is to develop a previously non-existent theory of choreographic intervention by applying a praxeological method that incorporates the knowledge of choreographers. Intervention is examined, on the one hand, as an activity geared towards body politics and, on the other, as a singular aesthetic of artistic productions based on bodily practices and techniques. SP 1 and SP 2 focus on infrastructures of choreographic practices, which involve processes of production that are characterised by the deconstruction of existing (power) hierarchies and shaped by diverse decolonial and ecological modes of relation. SP 3 and SP 4 turn to the ways in which dance and performance art reconceptualise temporality and spatiality by implementing decolonial and ecological agendas through choreographic decisions.

Head of Project

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Kirsten Maar (SP 1)

Prof. Dr. Lucia Ruprecht (SP 4)

Doctoral Researcher

Francesca Karmrodt (SP 2)

Student Assistant

Friederike Hartge