PD Dr. Sabine Huschka
Research Projekt
Choreographing as knowledge practice
In direct connection with the DFG individual projectTransgressions: Energization of Body and Scene. Playing with Forces at the Inter-University Centre for Dance at the University of the Arts, I am planning for the research period to deepen the recently emerged question of the choreographic and to investigate inherent knowledge practices. In an examination of media dispositions and the physical performance of the choreographic as a resistant entity, the options, functions and utopias of the choreographic will be analytically questioned. The research question goes back to a contemporary development in the choreographic-dance art field, which is undergoing a historical change in the practices and meanings of the choreographic. A far-reaching change in function and the formation of a specific utopia can be observed, according to which the choreographic is attributed transformational organizational forces in a de-subjectifying way. A change in the concept of choreography is becoming apparent, with which it is perspectivated as a transformative and ordering practice of shaping time and space.
Biography
Sabine Huschka is a dance and theatre scientist living in Berlin. From 2015 to the beginning of 2020, she researched in the DFG research project Transgressions. Energizing Body and Sceneat the Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz Berlin (HZT) at the University of the Arts. Habilitated in Theatre Studies at the University of Leipzig with the study Wissenskultur Tanz: Der choreographierter Körper im Theater (2011), she held several assistant professorships in Performance Studies, Theatre and Dance Studies. Doctorate (summa cum laude) 1998 at Humboldt University in Cultural Studies with the work Merce Cunningham and Modern Dance. In addition to her academic work, she is a trained dance educator and works as a dance dramaturg.
Publications
Choreographierte Körper im theatron. Auftritte und Theoria ästhetischen Wissens, München: epodium Verlag, 2020.
Moderner Tanz. Konzepte – Stile – Utopien, Reinbek: rowohlts enzyclopädie, 2002. Zweite Auflage, 2012.
Merce Cunningham und der Moderne Tanz. Körperkonzepte, Choreographie und Tanzästhetik, Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2000.
Energy and Forces as Aesthetic Interventions. Politics of Bodily Scenarios, hg. von Barbara Gronau und Sabine Huschka, Bielefeld: transcript, 2019.
Wissenskultur Tanz. Historische und zeitgenössische Vermittlungsakte zwischen Praktiken und Diskursen, hg. von Sabine Huschka, Bielefeld: transcript, 2009.
“Aesthetic Scenarios of Energeia. Bodies as Transformational Fields of Force”, in: Energy and Forces as Aesthetic Interventions. Politics of Bodily Scenarios, hg. von Barbara Gronau und Sabine Huschka, Bielefeld: transcript, 2019, S. 55-70.
“Performing Bodies as a scenic playground of social realities: Choreographic Theatre at the Berlin Schaubühne”, in: The Schaubühne Berlin under Thomas Ostermeier: Reinventing Realism, hg. von Peter M. Boenisch, Clare Finburgh und Vicky Angelaki, London Oxford: Bloomsbury Methuen, 2020 (im Druck – 26 Seiten).
„Stil: Ein indifferentes Merkmal oder: die Arbeit an Erkenntnis“, in: Das Rauschen unter der Choreographie. Überlegungen zu „Stil“, hg. von Katja Schneider, Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag 2019, S. 14-25. (Schriftenreihe Forum Modernes Theater, Bd. 52), S. 13-25.
“Aesthetic strategies of transgression: The politics of bodily scenes of ecstasy”, in: Dance Research Journal Volume 51, Number 2, October 2019: Cambridge University Press, S. 4- 17. [Peer Re-viewed]
„Szenen der Entleerung und Transgression. Reflexionen zu Yvonne Rainers ‚No-Manifesto‘“, in: ‘Clear the Air‘. Künstlermanifeste seit den 1960er Jahren. Interdisziplinäre Positionen, hg. von Burcu Dogramaci, Katja Schneider, München, 2017, S. 51-68.
„Bewegung“, in: „Handbuch: Schweigendes Wissen. Erziehung, Bildung, Sozialisation und Lernen, hg. von Anja Kraus, Jürgen Budde, Maud Hietzge, Christoph Wulf, Weinheim: Beltz-Juventa, 2017, S. 629-642.