Stockholm City Hall. Photo: Alexander Dokukin
About the Conference
Date
September 13th – 15th 2012 .
Venue
Dansens Hus, City Conference Centre, Danscentrum and Balettakademien all in central Stockholm, Sweden.
Organisation
Hosted by Balettakademien in partnership with ArtEZ School of Dance, Arnhem, The Netherlands and in co-operation with the Juilliard School, New York, U.S.A.
Ballet: Why and How? An international conference for all those who regard ballet as an essential part of a dancer’s life.
This conference Ballet: Why and How? will illuminate the role of ballet in the dance of today. It will provide an international forum for the exchange of ideas and expertise concerning the role of ballet in the professional life and education of the dancers of the future – especially those whose goal is contemporary or commercial dance.
Professional dance, whether commercial, contemporary, jazz dance or ballet, depends for its future development and success on the maintenance of optimal artistic standards. Ballet has a central role in this; but “why and how”?.
The conference will assemble international expertise of the highest calibre to debate as many aspects of the subject as possible; delegates will be stimulated, provoked, given opportunities for reflection, exposed to arguments and exchanges of views and, not least, given new insights. There are no given conclusions. What “Ballet: Why and How?” will offer is open debate, the opportunity to gain from others’ experience and to see established practices in a new light.
We hope very much that you, whether choreographer, dancer, cultural policy maker, teacher, artistic director, head of a school, student or whatever, will want to join us and add your voice, experience and commitment to the future of Dance.
There will be three full days of debate, presentations, master classes, movement sessions and forums with social and cultural events in the evenings.
Welcome to Stockholm September 2012!
