10th anniversary Alma Mater Europaea Scholarly Conference with International Participation

IT’S ABOUT PEOPLE 2022: EMBRACING DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION, FOR A SUSTAINABLE AND ETHICAL FUTURE

Ever since its establishment, Alma Mater Europaea has been committed to addressing the issues that are relevant to the Danube region: ecology, intercultural communication, transition and reintegration, archival studies, health, physical therapy, integrative medicine, humanities, philosophy, anthropology and social gerontology.

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Dance section of the Dance Academy

March 18, 2022

The one who can establish a relationship with Space

and can conquer it physically, gains Attention. The one who can establish

a relationship with the action drive of Weight

has a Purpose and the one adapted to Time, has a Resolution

                                                                                                                         Rudolf Laban

Dear pedagogues, students and dance artists!

We would like to inform you that AMEU – Dance Academy is once again preparing a separate dance section within the 10th anniversary Alma Mater Europaea Scholarly Conference with International Participation It’s About People 2022 that is organised annually by Alma Mater Europaea. The title of the dance section is:

The pandemic circumstances have brought about challenges that have stirred all levels of our life, reached into economic and political flows, and the very existence of the artistic sector. The turbulent period of transformation into the digital world shaped new paradigms within educational institutions and created approaches outside the usual parameters. The conventions have become challenges that once again assessed ethical, social and traditional aspects of dance education. Time has come for redefining and reconceptualising the fundamental systems of dance fields that have, in the period of transformation, proven to be applicable, have left a positive imprint and have, in a difficult environment, manifested permanent values and the ability to upgrade in the future. It is time for new artistry and decisions; it is a time of new interpretations and expectations through mutual enrichment and participation between all complementary sectors of dance art.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Kathrina Farrugia-Kriel and dr. Michelle Groves
Royal Academy of Dance
London

Dr Kathrina Farrugia-Kriel

Dr Kathrina Farrugia-Kriel is Head of Research in the Faculty of Education.  Her research interests are in 20^th and 21^st century ballet and performance histories. She is widely published, and her books include Princess Poutiatine and the Art of Ballet in Malta (2020), and an extensive anthology The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Ballet, co-edited with Dr Jill Nunes Jensen and recently published by Oxford University Press in 2021. She is editor of Focus on Education, and also curates the Guest Lecture Series events.  More recently Kathrina has conceptualised, researched and written the webinar series:  Pioneers of the RAD (2020), and Ballet in the 20th Century (2021).

Since joining the Faculty of Education in 2005, Kathrina has also guest lectured at universities in South Africa and Malta, as well as taught at Rambert School. She is an experienced External Examiner (University of Winchester, 2015-2019), as well as examined postgraduate dissertations (University of Cape Town), and PhD theses for the University of Melbourne and the University of Roehampton. She is a former member of the Board of Directors (2012-2018) of the Society of Dance History Scholars, now the Dance Studies Association (USA).

Dr Michelle Groves,
Director of Education

Having gained professional dance experience in Australia and the United Kingdom, she trained as a Labanotation practitioner and teacher with Ann Hutchinson Guest in London. Before joining the Faculty of Education i n 2000, she taught extensively as a freelance tutor and dance teacher. In her previous role as Dean, she provided academic and administrative leadership across all FoE programmes, working closely with tutors, students and administrators in developing and promoting the   dance teacher education and training globally.

Michelle has written several modules for distance learning programmes, supervised Masters Dissertations and continues to deliver guest lectures and presentations as part of initial and continuing dance teacher education. She is Co-Chair of the Independent Higher Education Research and Innovation Network, and sits on advisory boards of the Royal Opera House and OneDance UK.  She is also an assessor for the Quality Assurance Agency, UK.  Michelle’s research interests are in teacher education within higher and professional education, and identity formation of dance teachers.

Jan Linkens,
Principal of the Dance Department

Jan Linkens was born in Maastricht and followed the Dance programme at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague. In 1977 he was engaged by the Dutch National Ballet in Amsterdam, where he spent 17 years as a dancer and choreographer in addition to various other positions as a choreographer and (guest) teacher at many companies and courses all over the world. His first choreography was for the Workshop of the Dutch National Ballet in 1979 and he has since created over 60 ballets for numerous companies in the Netherlands and abroad. His works have been performed in many countries in Europe, as well as in Japan, Israel, Cuba, the Philippines, Turkey and Brazil.

After his dance career, he worked as Artistic Director and Chief Choreographer of the Tanztheater der Komischen Oper in Berlin, together with Marc Jonkers. He has since been a guest lecturer and choreographer with many companies and teaching programmes around the world. From March 2011 until July 2016, Jan was artistic director of the International Dance Theatre in Amsterdam. Jan has been director of the Dance programme at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague since 1 September 2014.

General information:

The conference will be held online from March 11 to 18, 2022, starting with the plenary session on March 11, 2022. The program of the dance section will take place on March 18, 2022. We kindly invite you to participate actively with your contribution. We look forward to your participation.

The conference will be organised by AMEU – ECM, Slovenska ulica 17, Maribor, Slovenia and will be conducted in an online mode.

Conference dates: March 11 to 18, 2022
Official languages of the Conference: Slovene, English
Contact email: conference@almamater.s
Web page: https://conference.almamater.si

At the links below you will find:

• Livestream recording of a dance miniature by a students of the Dance Academy entitled Concert for Eight…, which was hosted by the festivals in Giessen – Giessener Auftritte and TanzArt ostwest digital 2021
• Proceedings of peer-reviewed professional papers for dance It’s about people from 2018-2021

Koncert za osem, 2021

Premiera: Festival TanzArt Digital, Giessen, Germay 2021

Nastopajo: Nataša Djurić, Daša Janičijevič, Maša Kunovac, Nina Vončina, Johanna Greiner, Tina Habun, Neža Blažič, Daša Resnik

Mentor: Rosana Hribar

Lučno oblikovanje/Light design: Danilo Pečar

Video directing, camera and editing: Matjaž Mrak FRIENDLY GROUP / FRIENDLY Production