The “Dance Education Biennale/Tanzplan Deutschland” was held from the 26th of February to the 4th of March 2008 in Berlin. This event was financed and organised as a cooperation between Tanzplan Deutschland and Berlin’s Hebbel am Ufer (HAU) theatre. The Biennale was designed to be a platform for bringing students’ projects and work to a wider audience and for promoting exchanges among institutions. The aim is to for it to be hosted in following years at different school locations throughout Germany.
A key focus for the Biennale was the introduction of new learning tools and multimedia projects into dance training, and three workshops and lecture evenings were organised around the “Improvisation Technologies”, CD-Rom by William Forsythe; the new Forsythe on line education environment created in collaboration with The Ohio State University “Synchronous Objects for One Flat Thing, reproduced“; and the “Capturing Intention project was also invited to set up an educational experiment integrating live Double Skin/Double Mind workshops with the interactive installation and study of the interactive DVD-Rom.
Full documentation, entitled “Yearbook 08 Biennale Documentation”, of the Biennale can be found here.
