Body Politics

Twenty minutes of nonstop talking: The seminar “Body Politics – Archive, Practice, Presentation” introduces the Pecha Kucha format. The idea originated in Tokyo, conceived by two architects with the goal of making presentations within the design scene more engaging. But Pecha Kucha became a global sensation. Because it does away with boring, monotonous PowerPoint presentations: Pecha Kucha sets the pace for the speakers. And it’s fast-paced. Students of theater studies in Munich are taking advantage of this. Pecha Kucha presentations allow only 20 slides in PowerPoint. And for each one, there are only 20 seconds to discuss it. When it goes well, a pulsating rhythm emerges from thinking, seeing, and speaking.

The presentations this evening explore the question: How can the body be conceived and represented politically and from a dance studies perspective as “Body Politics”? A multifaceted and entertaining perspective on the body in theater over the last 100 years unfolds: spanning history and the present, choreography and archives, documents and personal experience.