ZWISCHENRUF: Susan Leigh Foster /// Los Angeles CHOREOGRAPHY AS TESTIFYING 20 AUG / 18.00 h CHOREOGRAPHY AS MAKING 22 AUG / 18.00 h CHOREOGRAPHY AS COLLABORATING 24 AUG / 18.00 h HAU 1 / FOYER /// EUR 6 Lecture Performances in English Ausgehend von ihrem Buch READING DANCING und verschiedenen Vorstellungen des Festivals untersucht Susan Leigh Foster, Professorin an der Riverside University of California, in drei verschiedenen Lectures unterschiedliche Aspekte der Bedeutungsbildung im Tanz. In READING DANCING umreißt Foster am Beispiel der Arbeiten von Merce Cunningham, Martha Graham u.a. vier Arten der Repräsentation im Tanz. Foster beschreibt Tanz als System von Bedeutungen, die interpretiert und verstanden werden können, wenn der Zuschauer die ihnen zugrunde liegenden choreografischen Konventionen begreift. Susan Leigh Foster, choreographer, dancer, and professor in the Department of Dance at the University of California at Riverside, has been a leader in the establishment of dance as an academic discipline, founding the first doctoral-level program in dance history and theory in the United States. In her book “Reading Dancing” Foster outlines four models for representation in dance. Foster posits the view that dance is a system of meaning that can be interpreted and comprehended if the viewer understands its choreographic conventions. Foster compares and contrasts aesthetics of ideas, historical antecedents and models, and specifics of composition, such as style, movement vocabulary, and means of representation.