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Announcement: BIT research
What are the opportunities for freelance choreographers to do artistic research?
What is the importance of artistic research in their development?
Under what conditions does this take place?
If and how are they involved in creating their own conditions?
And in what way do they exchange their experiences of the research process?
Danslab asked BIT dansdramaturgie to investigate the
need for artistic research and exchange according to freelance choreographers in the Netherlands.
For BIT this is an interesting question: as a platform for knowledge and exchange in the field of dramaturgy of dance and performance art, the process of creating and researching dance is in line with our interest. As a group with analytical and practical expertise, BIT tries to contribute to a refreshing view on the dynamics of the freelance scene from an independent position.
It is from this position we have started the investigation:
The last few weeks BIT interviewed freelance choreographers about their view on artistic research, artistic discourse and peer-to-peer exchange.
What are the opportunities for freelance choreographers to do artistic research?
What is the importance of artistic research in their development?
Under what conditions does this take place?
If and how are they involved in creating their own conditions?
And in what way do they exchange their experiences of the research process?
By asking these questions BIT hopes to find out what the needs of choreographers entail. BIT tries to contribute to the discourse by analysis of information that will clarify the needs for independent choreographic research, how it takes place and what obstacles the choreographers face. It can also give an insight into the position that choreographic research has in the whole of development and innovation in dance.
In BIT’s vision, peer-to-peer exchange of knowledge and experience is of great importance. BIT is an initiative of a group of dance dramaturges to create a platform for research in perfomance studies and the practice of creating dance and performance. An initiative to exchange, to develop and to deepen the craft of dramaturgy. This exchange, innovation and deepening of creating dance, is in line with Danslab. This need seems also to be shared by the choreographers that were interviewed so far.
From the preliminary results of our investigation, it became apparent that the aims of Danslab’s independent research possibilities are in line with the needs of freelance choreographers, but seem to be in tension with a product oriented market. One of the interviewed artist claimed: “According to funders your work is still useless unless you make a product, this has to change.”
After summer you can expect the results of this investigation.
We will keep you posted via the Danslab newsletter (subscribe at info@danslab.nl)
and BIT’s website www.bit-dansdramaturgie.nl
On behalf of
Danslab: The artistic team & Jette Schneider (Danslab coordinator)
& BIT: Anne-Marije van den Bersselaar - Diane Elshout - Jochem Naafs - Lotte Wijers