DIN A 13 tanzcompany is a dance ensemble comprised of dancers with different bodily capabilities. By means of continual artistic and conceptual development of their productions, DIN A 13 tanzcompany managed to become a globally renowned mixed-ability dance ensemble.<\/p>\n
The artistic approach taken by the company is marked by the exploration and visualization of the quality of movement inherent in “differing bodies” whose diversity forms the basis for the choreographical work. Gerda K\u00f6nig challenges viewing habits and normative ideals found in contemporary dance, enriching it in the process through new impulses. Assumed frontiers and evaluations between special bodily dispositions and a dancer\u2019s peak performance become dissolved in choreographical pictures, posing questions, inviting one to enter into an artistic dialogue. She perpetually searches for contrast and provocation in her choreographical pictures, mirroring the human tension between inner and social conflicts. The unexpectedness of another body becomes the aesthetic experience whose expressiveness shows new benchmarks of quality.<\/p>\n
Since 2005, in cooperation with the Goethe Institute, there have been coproductions with regional and international artists in Ethiopia, South Africa, Brazil, Kenya, Ghana, Senegal, Sri Lanka, Venezuela, Israel and Spain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":2946,"template":"","tags":[],"artist-theme":[],"artform":[6,12],"curated":[],"country":[25],"acf":{"simple_layout":false,"featured_image":2946,"featured_image_alt_text":"Two dancers, which look like cyborgs, on a table. A women and a man with a leg prosthesis.","strapline":"DIN A 13 tanzcompany is a dance ensemble exploring the quality of movement inherent in \"differing bodies\"","artistic_directors":"Gerda K\u00f6nig","contact_name":"Gerda K\u00f6nig","contact_title":"Artistic Director dancecompany and education \/ Choreographer","company_address":"Gereonshof 4, 50670 K\u00f6ln, Germany","company_email":"gerda.koenig@din-a13.de","company_url":"https:\/\/www.din-a13.de\/","twitter":"","facebook_url":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DINA13tanzcompany\/","instagram_url":"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/dina13_tanzcompany\/","wrap_around_work":"In 2019 DIN A 13 tanzcompany started the M.A.D.E. program.\r\n\r\nM.A.D.E. Mixed-Abled Dance Education\r\nProfessional artistic further education in the area of mixed-abled dance\r\nfor dance students and dancers with and without physical characteristics.\r\n\r\nIn dance, there is hardly no educational institution in Germany that offers people with specific physical characteristics the prospect of an artistic dance education and career. Against this backdrop, the DIN A 13 tanzcompany has developed a program that enables further education for mixed-abled dance at a professional level and is aimed at the following target group:\r\n\r\n\u2022 talented dancers with physical characteristics without previous experience, who \r\n are looking to further develop and \r\n professionalize their artistic abilities and professional interests.\r\n\u2022 professional dancers with and without physical characteristics and dance students \r\n who are interested in a well-founded \r\n further education offer for mixed-abled dance.\r\n\r\nWith this further education offer, the DIN A 13 tanzcompany creates a basis from which mixed-abled dance can professionalize itself as an art form in the long terms and establish itself as a natural component of the art.\r\n\r\nIn addition DIN A 13 tanzcompany offers:\r\n\r\nDance workshops\r\nOur workshops, covering:\r\n\u2022 Integrated dance\r\n\u2022 Choreography and mixed ability\r\n\r\noffer new approaches to broadening artistic work by looking at special qualities\r\nof physical movement and how these can enrich the choreographic process through\r\nproviding a new stimulus.\r\nThese workshops are aimed at both disabled and able-bodied people interested in dance\r\nas well as choreographers, dancers and dance educationalists.\r\n\r\nLectures\r\nDIN A 13 tanzcompany offers lectures on the following topics:\r\n\u2022 Danceability in the intercultural context\r\n\u2022 Aestheticising the other\r\n\r\n\u201cParticularly dance appears to be a suitable measure for breaking down the barriers between cultures and between people with and without disabilities.\u201c Gerda K\u00f6nig\r\n\r\nDocumentary films\r\n\u2022 \u201eInvitation to the dance\u201c\r\n\u2022 \u201eMaking the difference\u201c\r\n\r\nDocumentary filmmaker Gerhard Schick accompanied the DIN A 13 tanzcompany to Kenya and Brazil during their unusual international project \u2018Dance meets differences\u2019. Viewers gain an intimate glimpse of the creative process behind the pieces, with the camera present from the auditions to the premiere.\r\nThe full-length documentary films were produced for WDR and 3sat in co-operation with the Goethe Institute.\r\n\r\n\r\n","press_comments":"\"The DIN A 13 Dance Company from Cologne liberates beauty from convention.\" [...]\r\nThe measure of things suppressed pales and what was a shadow becomes mere distinction.\u201d\r\nStadtRevue<\/strong><\/em>\r\n\r\n\"K\u00f6nig's choreography takes simple images and turns them into a driving force. [...]\r\nThe intimacy created by DIN A 13 is not put on display; it is intervention:\r\nthe open-minded audience has the limits of physical ability paraded before them without the merest hint of shame. The disabled body is transformed beyond this into a source of additional power. The apparent physical incapacity is the very factor that lets the frugal, expressionistic gestures of long and brittle fingers emerge in such an unexpected manner.\"\r\nBallettanz aktuell<\/strong><\/em>\r\n\r\n\u201cBecause the movement which characterises the dance-like expression of DIN A 13 is so unusual, their pieces can be freely seen as a platform for physical intervention when emotions are the key. DIN A 13 reshapes the human body - the company brings movement onto the stage which can be performed by no other than very special, very different bodies.\u201d\r\ndie TAZ<\/strong><\/em>\r\n\r\n\u201cSpeaking with some people after the show, I learned that after that initial surprise wore off, the audience seemed to experience a sense of exhilaration from the beauty of the dance.\u201d\r\nSunday Nation, Kenya<\/strong><\/em>","video":[{"video_introduction":"in BETWEEN us, mixed-abled stage dance performance (2022)","youtube_video_id":"","vimeo_video_id":"740140052"},{"video_introduction":"inbetweenPOWER,\r\nDigital and live stage performance (2021)","youtube_video_id":"","vimeo_video_id":"710428573"},{"video_introduction":"DIN A 13 tanzcopany_PORTR\u00c4T","youtube_video_id":"","vimeo_video_id":"386045130"},{"video_introduction":"cellar and secrets - BEYOND REASON (2020), Digitale live Performance (Germany\/Spain)","youtube_video_id":"","vimeo_video_id":"462988643"},{"video_introduction":"techNOlimits\r\nSITE-SPECIFIC PROJECT\r\n(2018)","youtube_video_id":"","vimeo_video_id":"287299380"},{"video_introduction":"bodyRealities - cityCodes (2017), Germany \/ Ghana","youtube_video_id":"","vimeo_video_id":"248121233"}],"photo_slider":[{"upload_photo":4787,"photo_title":"in BETWEEN us - stage dance performance in 2 parts, 2022","copyright_text":"John Hermann","alt_text":"Two female dancers on stage, white dressed. 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