For this year’s iteration, Benjamin Pohlig will take the proposal as an invitation to explore the outlines of this “moveable community of disagreement”. Benjamin will propose texts to engage with as point of departure for the workshop and together we will decide where this format will take us.

We will read, write, talk and dance while asking what kind of community we are when we come together to think and dance, and to take note of what kind of ideas, notions and concepts rouse us and bring us into movement. We will not be looking for answers or even consensus, but rather for ways of staying with the questions, both in thinking and moving.

No prior theoretical or dance practice is required. Just curiosity and being comfortable with being lost.

Benjamin Pohlig is a choreographer, dancer and researcher originally from Berlin. He studied contemporary dance both in England and Belgium. In his choreographic work, he explores the theatre as agora, a place in which social and political behaviours are not only practised, but are also experienced physically. This concept appears across his works, including the participatory solo "dance yourself clean", and his collaborations "5 seasons" and "A Farewell to Flesh".

As a dancer, he has worked internationally with amongst others Martin Nachbar and Isabelle Schad, and from 2019 to 2022 he was an ensemble member of Cullberg. In 2024 he started his artistic PhD research project “Democracy in Movement – Bodies of Protest” as a research fellow in dance at KHiO, Oslo.

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