Proximity and distance action day
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Program overview
We look forward to receiving your registration for the workshops at paul.marwitz-2@hfmt-hamburg.de However, spontaneous participation without registration is also possible.
10:00 Opening
10:15 Lecture "Das Band der Kommunikation" / Prof. Stefanie Köhler
11:00 Workshop "Über angemessene Nähe und Distanz im Einzel- und Gruppenunterricht" (only for teachers) / Prof. Eva Bleckwedel & Magdalena Appelhans
11:00 Student workshop "Das Machtproblem" / Awareness-Team
13:00 Workshop "Affekt und Bürgerlichkeit" / Laura Jakschas & Dr. Benjamin Sprick
14:00 Interactive performance "Der Aggressionsraum" / Amelie Werner & Viola Bierich
15:00 Workshop "Über angemessene Nähe und Distanz im Einzel- und Gruppenunterricht" (only for students) / Prof. Eva Bleckwedel & Magdalena Appelhans
15:00 Workshop "Closeness and distance" from an ethical perspective / Prof. Dr. Eckhard Weymann & Lovis Determann
16:30 Musical interventions / Vlatko Kucan and spiic+Ensemble
17:00 Lecture performance on the music theater "Nicht zu nah" / Michelle Affolter & Mara Nitz
18:00 Workshop presentation "Close to You" / Rama Nicholas & acting students
20:00 Closing podium in the fish bowl principle / Moderation: Viola Bierich and Paula Oscar Rüdiger
(detailed program below)
Artists work on the development of artistic expression with a high level of emotional and physical commitment. This inevitably leads to relationships that are strongly influenced by the personalities of the participants. It is the responsibility of teachers, mentors and supervisors to shape these relationships in a reflective manner. This includes being able to regulate the ratio of closeness and distance in the relationship in an appropriate way - physically, spatially, emotionally and mentally.
The dependencies on teachers and supervisors that artists experience during their studies and in their careers must be considered just as sensitively as the role model function that a teacher, for example, fulfills. At the same time, it is important that artists learn to recognize and name their own boundaries and to demand respectful interaction with each other during their studies, also with a view to their later professional life.
After a digital edition in 2021 and a day of encounters in May 2022, the Proximity & Distance Action Day will take place for the third time. Performances, workshops, lectures and discussion forums are intended to further promote the examination of this topic at our university on the Proximity & Distance Action Day on November 22, 2023 and contribute to a lively and respectful culture of togetherness. Students are expressly invited to contribute their perspective on their experiences.
We cordially invite all students, teaching staff and employees to take part in the Proximity & Distance Action Day, either individually or as a group. We will open up the stages - the real stages in the Theaterakademie am Wiesendamm and the imaginary stages within us - to explore, critically examine and exchange our different experiences and wishes on the topic of "closeness and distance". Interested guests are welcome!
The Proximity & Distance Action Day on November 22, 2023 will be declared a joint "academic day" on this topic, which will be supported and organized by the entire university with all its specialist groups, institutes and deaneries, employees in technology and administration and the Presidential Board. Artistic interpretations of this area of tension are particularly relevant at this point.
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Program
Interested guests are welcome at all events on the Small Stage!
Subject to change without notice
10:00 Small stage
Opening
by Prof. Karin Holzwarth (Equal Opportunities), Jonas Dietrich (Vice President Teaching) & the Awareness Team. Moderation: Elli Neubert
10:15 Small stage
Lecture "Das Band der Kommunikation"
How we structure the common space and create clear teaching relationships through professional contact.
(Stefanie Köhler, Professor at the Frankfurt University of Music)
In my lecture on the subject of closeness and distance, role behavior and the creation of a positive teaching relationship, I focus on the teaching body as an active instrument of communication. I show how we use our physicality to create a professional space for contact in which both teachers and students find their clear place. In this contact space, teachers are able to fulfill their role as a teacher through clearly defined boundaries. Students have enough space to develop freely. In addition, I will name a few tools that help us to promote a clear understanding of roles and foster positive teaching relationships.
11:00-12:30 Seminar room 6
About appropriate closeness and distance in individual and group lessons (for teachers only)
(Prof. Eva Bleckwedel & Magdalena Appelhans)
During the workshops, participants learn about three different levels of closeness and distance and their respective functions. Using practical teaching situations, the extent to which these appear appropriate will be examined together. Is there a generally valid consensus or are situations perceived differently by individuals (or both?) What do they depend on? The perception of signals to shape and mark boundaries will also play a role. Through input and discussions as well as practical exercises, participants will be given an experience-based approach to the topic. The focus will be determined by the needs, wishes, experiences etc. of the participants.
This workshop is aimed specifically at all teachers at the HfMT Hamburg.
11:00-14:00 Seminar room 3
Student workshop "The power problem"
(Awareness team)
Do you have to listen to derogatory remarks about your instrumental playing and/or yourself? Do you sometimes cry after your main subject lesson? Do you feel unfairly treated or humiliated by your teachers? Are you stressed because you can't express yourself as musically/artistically as you would like or your teacher doesn't tolerate any opinions other than their own? Do you feel pressured in some situations to take part in voluntary events/make certain performances?
We students don't actually have to put up with this and other things that cross boundaries, but the power structures at conservatoires are very pronounced and place us in unbalanced relationships of dependency. Often you may not even be aware of how transgressive and problematic a situation is or was. In addition, the opportunities to do something about this kind of abuse of power and/or to get real help are sometimes very limited or unknown.
This is the subject of the workshop "The power problem" at this year's day of action on "Closeness and distance" on 22.11. in Wiesendamm at 11 am. In a future workshop, we will talk about what is going well or badly at our university in this respect, what we are missing and what we demand and what needs to change.
Participation in courses in the morning is optional, so you are excused from your seminars and lectures if you come to the day of action. If your teachers complain or put pressure on you to go to their classes, we have a good example for the workshop.
We therefore cordially invite you to our program and to all other events on the day of action. From 3 p.m. onwards, there will be no more teaching on the day, so everyone will have time to come to the Theaterakademie and take part in the afternoon program.
We look forward to seeing you!
Your AStA and Awareness Team
13:00-14:30 Seminar room 3
Workshop "Affekt und Bürgerlichtkeit"
(Laura Jakschas & Dr. Benjamin Sprick)
The bourgeoisie has a divided relationship to affect. On the one hand, affects should be made productive and incorporated into the fit of a successful life. On the other hand, affects threaten the regulated traffic of 'stimulus' and 'reaction': they can only be restrained and coordinated through calculated rigor. The workshop explores the relationship between affect and civility both practically and theoretically. The focus will be on a relationship of closeness and distance that can hardly be controlled, which finds its counterpart - increasingly - in "bourgeois coldness" (Kohpeiß 2023).
Literature: Henrike Kohpeiß, Bürgerliche Kälte. Affekt und koloniale Subjektivität, Frankfurt am Main: Campus 2023.
14:00-16:00 Drama Studio 2
Interactive performance "Der Aggressionsraum"
(Amelie Werner & Viola Bierich)
In our everyday university life, we live and work together intensively. When we are confronted with social tensions, abuse of power or abusive behavior on top of our daily workload, we often don't know what to do with our feelings of being overwhelmed, annoyed, angry and exhausted. This is where the temporary aggression space comes into play: book your 10-minute slot and let off steam at various stations to the anger soundtrack of your choice. Experience the cathartic effect of your anger now - #nurfürkurzezeit
Afterwards (from 4 p.m.), we invite you to a relaxed exchange of experiences, including questions about the benefits, necessity and dangers of "anger spaces" and safer spaces.
Time slots from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., without prior registration
15:00-16:30 Seminar room 6
About appropriate closeness and distance in individual and group lessons (for students only)
(Prof. Eva Bleckwedel & Magdalena Appelhans)
During the workshops, participants will learn about three different levels of closeness and distance and their respective functions. Using practical teaching situations, the extent to which these appear appropriate will be examined together. Is there a generally valid consensus or are situations perceived differently by individuals (or both?) What do they depend on? The perception of signals to shape and mark boundaries will also play a role. Through input and discussions as well as practical exercises, participants will be given an experience-based approach to the topic. The focus will be determined by the needs, wishes, experiences etc. of the participants.
This workshop is aimed specifically at all students of the HfMT Hamburg.
15:00-16:30 Seminar room 3
Workshop "Closeness and distance" from an ethical perspective
(Prof. Dr. Eckhard Weymann & Lovis Determann)
Regulating closeness and distance in professional relationships requires "differentiated professional considerations and ethical guidelines" (Volmer, 2019). Which ethical considerations are helpful here? Aspects of regulating closeness and distance are related to ethical principles in a brief introduction. The discussion of concrete examples, also from the participants' own experience, will make the considerations practical.
16:30 Everywhere & Nowhere
Musical interventions
(Vlatko Kucan and ensemble)
The SPIIC+ ensemble presents musical improvisations that introduce the evening program on the Small Stage. SPIIC+ stands for Social Performance, Interdisciplinary Improvisation & Creativity and is a sub-project of the ligeti center/ creative research lab. which, under the direction of Vlatko Kučan, understands and investigates improvisation as an independent position in the sense of a fundamental ethical attitude, as social interaction design and as a universal creative method not only of artistic production - whereby aspects of proximity and distance are of course also highly relevant.
17:00 Small stage
Lecture performance on the music theater "Nicht zu nah"
(Michelle Stoop, Mara Nitz, Dulguun Chinchuluun & Ben Boresch)
Siblings can be the world to each other. But if the closeness of the other becomes unbearable, if the touch hurts more than it heals, the family turns from a protective space into a space of fear. The music-theatrical performance Nicht Zu Nah (2019) with new music for countertenor, piano and electronics deals with the complex issue of sexualized violence by siblings, deconstructs the family system and questions it as a sacred and wholesome construct.
Knowing that sexualized violence by siblings is a socially taboo subject that requires great artistic sensitivity, the development of Nicht Zu Nah was a challenge for the entire team. Director Michelle Stoop and dramaturge Mara Nitz, together with pianist Dulguun Chinchuluun and countertenor Ben Boresch, will reflect on their play development process by means of a joint discussion, video excerpts of the performance and live music (composition: Carlos Andrés Rico).
18:00-19:30 Small stage
Workshop presentation & lecture "Close to You - Intimacy of Improvisation"
(Rama Nicholas & acting students)
Love stories are everywhere, and whether we want to admit it or not, these stories fascinate us and draw us in with the thrill of emotion and pain as much as the characters themselves. And yet romantic love is an area that improvisers rarely venture into. This intimate show, however, bravely lifts the veil on our secret lives and loves. It gives the audience the chance to see love in its rawest form, improvised on stage.
For two workshop days, acting students from the Theaterakademie Hamburg worked with Australian actress, author and director Rama Nicholas on ways to portray love and romance on stage. They present the results of the workshop in this performance. A lecture by Rama Nicholas contextualizes the presentation and introduces the methods of intimacy coordination.
20:00 Small stage
Closing podium using the fish bowl principle
(Moderation: Viola Bierich and Paula Oscar Rüdiger)
The diverse topics of the action day will be discussed together in this closing panel. In addition to the organizers of this action day, we invite you to participate in the joint discussion and share your thoughts.
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Planning group:
Awareness team and AStA (contact persons: Viola Bierich, Eileen von Hoyningen Huene, Sarah Jablonski); stage manager Birgit Stoehr; the HfMT Equal Opportunities Officers Karin Holzwarth and Silke Wenzel; for social media Christel Jurkeit; the Equal Opportunities and Diversity Management Officer Dr. Philipp Dorestal; the Vice President for Diversity, Social Responsibility and Legal Affairs Bilinc Ercan-Catanzaro and the Vice President for Studies and Teaching Jonas Dietrich.
Project coordination: Paul Marwitz, Mobile 0152-51693508.
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