Dance Platform 2010

An initiative to provide a stage where those engaged with contemporary dance in India and Europe can facilitate an exchange on its current practice and discourse in the field of contemporary choreography.

Pro Helvetia Swiss Arts Council and Goethe-Institut Max Mueller Bhavan 
present    
Dance Platform 2010

New Delhi 7 – 14 March 2010   
with participation by choreographers 
Philippe Saire from Switzerland and 
Eszter Salamon from Germany.

The Dance Platform 2010 is an initiative jointly developed by the Goethe-Institut/ Max Mueller Bhavan and Pro Helvetia New Delhi. It will bring together artists from Switzerland, Germany and India for a week of workshops and work-in-progress performances.  

The dance platform seeks to provide a stage where those engaged with contemporary dance in India and Europe can facilitate an exchange on its current practice and discourse in the field of contemporary choreography. It is a project designed to share ideas and increase an understanding of each participant's notion of 'contemporary' along with initiating a professional exchange between all participants.  

PROGRAMME:      
Dance For Nothing
a performance by Eszter Salamon 
on Sunday 7 March 2010 at 6.30 pm at the arts-i, Scindia House, Kasturba Gandhi Marg      
open to public  

Seminar 
understanding the contemporary in dance 
chaired by the cultural theorist, Sadanand Menon 
on 8 March 2010 from 10 am to 5 pm at the Lecture Room at India International Centre Annexe      
open to public  

Workshops 
with Eszter Salomon and Philippe Saire from 9 to 13 March 2010      
at the Conference Room (2nd Flr) India International Centre and GATI      
open to selected participants only   
Film Screenings

Cartographies 
presented by Philippe Saire / Thursday 11 March 2010 at 6:30 pm      
venue: India International Centre Auditorium            
open to public  

Rhythm is it 
by Thomas Grube and Enrique Sánchez Lansch / Friday 12 March 2010 at 6:30 pm         
venue: India International Centre Auditorium            
open to public  

Work-in-progress presentations         
14 March 2010 from 11am to 4pm 
at Siddhartha Hall, Max Mueller Bhavan, 3 Kasturba Gandhi Marg  
entry by invitation only

Biography of Philippe Saire 
Philippe Saire was born in Algeria and lives in Switzerland. In 1995, the Compagnie Philippe Saire inaugurated its own creative workspace, the Théâtre Sévelin 36. Situated in Lausanne, the theatre is entirely dedicated to contemporary dance. The Theatre is host to performances of international stature, but also programmes dance by local companies in order to encourage their development. Amongst the highlights of the theatre’s annual programme are the Lausanne International Dance Festival and the Printemps de Sévelin Festival, which is dedicated to the work of young, contemporary choreographers. Artists-in-residence programmes complete the list of the theatre’s regular activities.   

The Compagnie Philippe Saire has created 25 shows to date, with more than 1'000 performances in 160 towns and cities across Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East and the Americas. The Company also performs regularly at exhibitions and art galleries, in gardens, urban spaces and other outdoor venues. Parallel to his work as a choreographer, Philippe Saire has also created and directed several video films about the universe of dance, often inspired by shows performed by his own company.  

Biography of Eszter Salamon 
Eszter Salamon is a Hungarian choreographer living in Berlin. Following her classical dance studies at the National Academy of Dance in Budapest, she moved to France in 1992 and worked with choreographers such as Mathilde Monnier and Francois Verret.   Since 2001, she creates her own work: the solos "What A Body You Have, Honey" and "Giszelle" in collaboration with Xavier le Roy for 'Le vif du sujet' at the Festival d'Avignon and the group pieces "Reproduction" at Podewil (Berlin) where she is artist-in-residence. She also worked with Hungarian folk dancers and musicians at the Les Intranquilles festival in Lyon and at the PACT Zollverein (Essen). 

Eszter created the film-choreography "AND THEN" (2007) at Les Subsistances (Lyon) and the concert-performance "Without You I Am Nothing" in collaboration with Aranxta Martinez. Her latest work is a duo with Christine De Smedt. In 2008, she participated in 6Month1Location, an artistic research project based on self-organisation and self-education at the Centre Chorégraphique National de Montpellier.   Salamon assisted in the direction of the opera Theater der Wiederholungen by Bernhard Lang at Steirischer Herbst (Graz - cultural capital 2003). She also staged the music of Karim Haddad in the frame of the project Seven Attempted Escapes from Silence at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden (Berlin).