Bojana Cvejic: The Alliance Is Over! "Conceptual Dance" and "Performative Theory" - East and West Mobile Academy Bojana Cvejic The Alliance Is Over! "Conceptual Dance" and "Performative Theory" - East and West

Bojana Cvejic: To end with judgment by way of clarification... Mobile Academy Bojana Cvejic To end with judgment by way of clarification... The debate about conceptual dance in the recent issues of Etcetera coincides with a panel within the conference "INVENTORY: Dance and Performance Congress / Live Act / Intervention / Publication", 3 - 5 March 2005, Tanzquartier Wien. At the invitation of Tanzquartier to curate a panel under the title "Research and Laboratory", Xavier Le Roy decided to hold a public discussion between Gerald Siegmund, Christophe Wavelet, Mårten Spå ngberg, Bojana Cvejic and himself, as well as a vigorously joining-in audience, on the questions of the terminology "conceptual dance", "research" and "laboratory". Here we produce an excerpt from the conference proceedings by Bojana Cvejic and Xavier Le Roy. CVEJIC: The term 'conceptual dance' has never been theorized, introduced in a programmatic way by the makers, i.e. the choreographers who are attributed the label, nor has it been elaborated theoretically in the European or American discourses of performing arts who would be following the so-called conceptual dance practices today. CVEJIC: Until the 90s, one could go away with talking dance performances by way of asking what kind of object 'dance' a performance is: what is its dancing 'matter', body-instrument-technique-style, and then, perhaps, some subject matter, what the performance speaks by way of a metaphor. CVEJIC: Investigation is a set of procedures of discovering, developing, describing, explaining and interpreting the functions, methods, values and sense of art.

Bojana Cvejic: Collectivity? You mean Collaboration Mobile Academy Bojana Cvejic COLLECTIVITY? YOU MEAN COLLABORATION Collect-if by Collect-if, Collect-if: Bojana Cvejic (ed.), Ugo Dehaes, Alix Eynaudi, Emil Hrvatin, Rebecca Murgi, Katarina Stegnar, Varinia Cantovila, Ljubljana: Maska, 2003.

Bojana Cvejic, Performing Arts Theorist, Performer, Author [Brussels/Belgrad]