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On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of TANZWERKSTATT EUROPA, the symposium/podium "Against all Odds - a sympodium of movements of body and thought" poses the question "How to continue dancing (against)? In a discursive parcour, performative-artistic, theoretical and personal reactions to the central question will be presented in analogue and digital form. Further the evening documents, discusses, appreciates and celebrates 30 years of TANZWERKSTATT EUROPA. Developments in dance theory and socio-politics will be placed in the context of the history of the festival as a meeting point and place of artistic exchange for the (inter)national dance scene. The Viennese artist and performer Nikolaus Gansterer will transform the spoken contributions and lectures live in the form of his translecture performances by building dynamic and diagrammatic sculptures that visualise the movements of thought in relation to the contributions. With performances by Esther Balfe, Jérôme Bel, Jonathan Burrows, Ramsay Burt, Boris Charmatz, Nikolaus Gansterer, Janez Janša, Jin Lee, Lucas Lopez, Àngels Margarit, Anna Mendelssohn, Jeremy Nelson, Ceren Oran, Moritz Ostruschnjak, Virginie Roy, Ana Vujanović, Frank Willens among others. Curated by Walter Heun. Admission free at Muffathalle Munich, Germany.

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