Prof. Gabriele Klein (University of Hamburg, Germany)
Gabriele Klein, Dr. rer. soc. Since 2002 she is Professor of Sociology with focus on Human Movement Science, Dance and Performance Studies at Hamburg University. Since 2022 she is also Professor of Ballet and Dance (Hans van Manen Chair) at the University of Amsterdam.
From October 2022, she has been invited to the LMU Munich for one year as a fellow in the ‘global dis:connect’ cluster. She has been director of the research group ‘Translation and framing. Practices of Medial Transformations’, deputy speaker of the graduate school ‘Collectivity in Urban and Digital Spaces’ and PI of the graduate school ‘Virtuality of the Aesthetic’, Director of Performance Studies Hamburg and President of the Society for Dance Research. She is PI of the Cluster of Excellence ‘Understanding Written Artefacts’ at Hamburg University.
She was a Guest Professor i.a. at the University in Bern, Switzerland, the ‘Mozarteum’ Salzburg/ Austria, the Smith College (USA), the University of Stellenbosch/ South Africa and Osaka City University/Japan.
Her English book publications include books like Dance (and) Theory (2013, with G. Brandstetter), Emerging Bodies (2011, with S. Noeth) and issues like ‘On Labour and Performance’ (Performance Research 2012, with B. Kunst) as well as numerous articles like ‘Urban Choreographies’, in The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Politics (2017). Her latest English monograph was titled Pina Bausch’s Dance Theater. Company, Artistic Practices, and Reception (2020).
Prof. Jill Carter (University of Toronto, Canada) special guest online keynote
Jill Carter (Anishinaabe/Ashkenazi) is a Toronto-based theatre practitioner and scholar. She has worked as a Performer, Director, Dramaturg, and Acting Instructor. She earned her Honors BA (Joint Specialist English/Drama) from the University of Toronto and her Master of Arts (Drama) from the Graduate Centre for Study of Drama (at the University of Toronto). And in 2010, she received her Doctorate also from the University of Toronto's Graduate Centre for Study of Drama (re-named The Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies). Her dissertation, which documents the Storyweaving methodology, authored by Muriel Miguel and developed by Spiderwoman Theater, won the Alumnae Dissertation Award in 2011.
In recent years, she has directed the remount of Monique Mojica's Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way, developmental workshops of Omushkego Cree Water Stories, the 2014 developmental workshop of Sideshow Freaks and Circus Injuns (with Monique Mojica and LeAnne Howe), and the Canadian premiere of Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue (written and performed by Gloria Miguel) at Native Earth Performing Arts Aki Studio in fall 2014.
Currently, she is an Assistant Professor with the Centre for Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies; the Indigenous Studies Program; and the Transitional Year Programme at the University of Toronto. The research questions she pursues revolve around the mechanics of story creation (devising and dramaturgy), the processes of delivery (performance on the stage and on the page), and the mechanics of affect.
Apart from her teaching, theatre work and academic writing, Jill serves on the artistic team of Talking Treaties, works as a researcher and tour guide with First Story Toronto, serves on the editorial board of alt. magazine: cultural diversity and the stage, serves the Canadian Association for Theatre Research (CATR) as Board Member-at-Large and Equity Officer, and sits on the Grand Council of the Indigenous Performing Arts Alliance (IPAA).
Dr. Zubin Kanga (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
Zubin Kanga is a pianist, composer, and technologist. For over a decade, he has been at the forefront of curating and creating interdisciplinary musical programmes that seek to explore and redefine what it means to be a performer through interactions with new technologies.
In 2020, following his appointment as Lecturer in Musical Performance and Digital Arts at Royal Holloway University, Kanga was awarded a £1.4 million UK Research and Innovation Future Leaders Fellowship to fund his latest multi-year project Cyborg Soloists, which is unlocking new possibilities in composition and performance through interactions with AI and machine learning; interactive visuals and VR; motion and biosensors, and new hybrid instruments.
Zubin has premiered more than 130 works and collaborated with many of the world’s leading composers. He has performed at many international festivals including the BBC Proms, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (UK) Melbourne Festival (Australia), Festival Présences (France), Time of Music (Finland), Klang Festival (Denmark), PODIUM Festival (Germany), and November Music (Netherlands).
Recent collaborations include Neil Luck’s Whatever Weighs You Down, using MiMU’s multi-sensor gloves to interact with deaf performance artist Chisato Minamimura (recently featured in the New York Times), Philip Venables’ Answer Machine Tape, 1987, using an experimental KeyScanner to allow the piano to type text onto a screen, Alexander Schubert’s internet-based score WIKI-PIANO.NET (performed 30 times across 9 countries as well as the BBC World Service) as well as a new collaboration with Schubert, Steady State, that will use EEG brain sensors to control sound and light.
www.zubinkanga.com
www.cyborgsoloists.com
