University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (mdw)
Rennweg 8
1030 Vienna, Austria
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Artistic Research Center (ARC), University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (mdw)
as well as the Institute for Theatre, Media, and Popular Culture at the University of Hildesheim

The topic of “resonance” has been around since the publication of Hartmut Rosa’s comprehensive monograph Resonance. A Sociology of Our Relationship to the World (Berlin 2016, trans. James Wagner, Cambridge 2019), but it remains a topic of ongoing relevance – especially with regard to its artistic and artistic-research potential. Rosa’s numerous references to music may seem to illustrate his concept at first glance, but they must also be examined critically (cf. Müller-Brozović 2024). In the context of our symposium, which focuses on dance, choreography, and performance, we also want to examine the implications of the concept of resonance for (physical) movement – and to what extent these resonances in movement can be linked to musical resonances.

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Lecture-Demonstration: Ruth Anderwald + Leonhard Grond

Apart at the Seams: Spinning, Falling, Staggering.

This contribution focuses on the three body movements of spinning, falling and staggering, drawing from the artistic research on dizziness, and in view of the climate crisis as the greatest instance of dizziness and anxiety today. Climate anxiety threatens to stifle and petrify emerging action and agency. Søren Kierkegaard’s concept of anxiety as the reflection of freedom for possibility and action is the outset of this artistic-research reflection on movement. Thinking dizziness with Kierkegaard allows us to understand states of dizziness and anxiety as providing the possibility of possibilities, creating a compossible space. Exploring the concept of the compossible space and introducing the fields of somaesthetics and somatic practices, such as Feldenkrais, this contribution proposes sensory and somatic cognition at the core of an intra-active growing together, based on the premise that animate beings and inanimate elements permeate and co-constitute each other’s movements.

Demonstration: The lecture is to be followed by an inclusive Balance Training, a practice-based training session focused on our vestibular system, which is responsible for our sense of balance, gravity, and orientation; it will invite participants to a guided balance training. No prior experience is necessary, and all bodies and abilities are welcome.