5678 Rebecka Berchtold

5678
a podcast about dance training

episode 24 - Monumental Movement with Sheila de Val, Ursula Robb, Poul Helmer and Rasmus Ölme

This episode was recorded the 16th of December 2023 as a part of the event Monumental Movement at The Danish National School of Performing Arts.

For more than 20 years the dance studios at Philip de Langes Allé 3, at Holmen in Copenhagen, have been a place where generations of dancers received their dance education. In February 2024, The Danish National School of Performing Arts – formerly known as The National School for Contemporary Dance – will move out of these beautiful studios.

Monumental Movement was a two day-event to celebrate and acknowledge all the dancing that has happened at this place.

Episode 24 is a conversation between Sheila de Val, Rasmus Ölme, Ursula Robb and Poul Helmer, moderated by Rebecka Berchtold. We talk about teaching, memories from the studios at Philip de Langes allé, dancer-teacher-choreographer, being a faculty teacher, to get your ego out of the way, technique, students, to invest yourself in what's happening rather than think about what you could do, dance classes as experiments and much more.

Monumental Movement was organized by DDSKS in close collaboration with Danish Dance Stories (Andrea Deres and Carolina Bäckman), 5678 (Rebecka Berchtold) and the Alumni (Casper Albrektsen and Magalí Camps).

Take part of Danish Dance Stories archive here https://danskedansehistorier.dk

Thanks to sound technician Rasmus Cleve Christensen

picture by Thorunn Gudmundsdottir
music by Karin Bergman
contact: rebecka.berchtold@gmail.com

5678
a podcast about dance training
by Rebecka Berchtold

episode 23 - Chrysa Parkinson

We talk about understanding things from inside them, concert dancing, being around really good dancers, how perceptive is different from what is being seen, communities of practice, skillful experiencing, control, feeling what is happening as it is happening and much more

music by Karin Bergman
contact: rebecka.berchtold@gmail.com

5678
a podcast about dance training
by Rebecka Berchtold

This episode was recorded with a live audience at KBH-Huset in Copenhagen as a part of Dansehallernes peer to peer program.

music by Karin Bergman
contact: rebecka.berchtold@gmail.com

5678
a podcast about dance training
by Rebecka Berchtold

episode 21 - Robin Jonsson

We talk about digitization, martial arts, different kinds of training to understand contemporary dance, the performance Alone together and virtual reality, technological development and dance, making dance relevant for more people and ethics in virtual reality among other things.

music by Karin Bergman
contact: rebecka.berchtold@gmail.com

5678
a podcast about dance training
by Rebecka Berchtold

episode 20 - Jeanine Durning

We talk about dancing as a sensuous practice, gratefulness for a life in dance, desire(is fire), nonstopping, intention, having no agenda, horizontal value systems and performance as practice among other things.

Jeanine Durning is a practitioner in the field of dance, performance and choreography. Her work has been described by The New Yorker as having both “the potential for philosophical revelation and theatrical disaster.” Her research often concerns the interrogation of the dancing body as a mobilizing force for change, which has the potential to shift perception of self, other, and the spaces we (collectively) inhabit. She’s interested in choreography as a ways and means to frame how our thinking and feeling come to form and action, and how our basic need for connection and communication aligns, and often misaligns, in relation to our desires. Jeanine has an ongoing practice, nonstopping, which has been the foundation for her teaching and choreographic praxis since 2010. She’s performed her “signature” solo inging (based on her nonstop speaking practice) more than 50 times across the US, in Europe and Canada. Jeanine has had the privilege to collaborate with many choreographers, including Deborah Hay since 2005, working as performer, consultant, choreographic assistant, and coach. Durning has been invited to share some of her practices all over the world through teaching, mentoring/advising, and creating choreographies. Her most recent collaboration was with Candoco Dance Company creating Last Shelter which premiered at Sadler’s Wells/London in October 2021, and is currently working on a book project in collaboration with Jenn Joy and MANCC based on Jeanine’s practice. A native New Yorker, Jeanine has been working in Stockholm the last couple of years as one of the rehearsal directors for Cullberg.

music by Karin Bergman
contact: rebecka.berchtold@gmail.com

5678
a podcast about dance training
by Rebecka Berchtold

episode 19 - Theo Clinkard

We talk about agency of dancers, feeling like a collection of parts or one lump, hotspots, how to bring your person to the foreground as you are dancing, doing and/or demonstrating, mirror neurons and intention among other things

music by Karin Bergman
contact: rebecka.berchtold@gmail.com