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Gret Palucca, 1927 | Foto: Hugo Erfurth

Mary Wigman, 1920 | Foto: Hugo Erfurth

Gret Palucca, 1920 | Foto: Hugo Erfurth

Mary Wigman, 1926 | Foto: Hugo Erfurth

Dance / Discourse

"I don't want to dance prettily
and lovingly!" Gret Palucca

25.10.2025
2 p.m.–10 p.m.

Location: villa\wigman

Free admission

A day dedicated to dance to mark the 100th anniversary of the Palucca University of Dance Dresden, featuring panel discussions, talks and insights into dance practice.

As part of a one-day event featuring artistic, participatory and discursive formats, contemporary dance practice, archive materials and discussions with contemporary witnesses come together to shed light on the development of modern dance in Saxony. The history and institutionalisation of modern dance is characterised above all by strong female personalities, primarily Mary Wigman and Gret Palucca in Dresden. The anniversary of the school founded by Palucca is an opportunity for the cooperation partners to link different perspectives on the beginnings with current dance practice, to question the emancipation processes associated with the emergence of modern dance in Dresden and to reflect on these processes through artistic means.

The villa\wigman, as Wigman's former school, is a place of historical significance for dance, and its current use as a laboratory for contemporary dance and other performing arts makes it the ideal venue for this event.

The event is part of a series in which the cooperation partners jointly encourage the exploration and further development of the tradition of modern dance in eastern Germany.

Programme

2 p.m.	Great Hall	Workshop for everyone aged 14 and over with Helena Fernandino
	Small Hall	Visiting Palucca: Accompanying exhibition with objects, media and documents from archives
2.45 p.m.	Red Hall	Artistic intervention “Parunzel“ with Nora Schott
3 p.m.	Small Hall	Talk: ‘Stories and Memories – Building Tradition in Modern Dance’ with Caroline Helm, Arila Siegert, Mario Schröder and Prof. Dr. Patrick Primavesi
3.45 p.m.	Red Hall	Artistic intervention ‘Final steps’ Return No. 1 with Anna Till and Barbara Lubich
4 p.m.	Great Hall	Artistic intervention “Entrance of the Artists” by Irina Pauls with Victoria McConnell
	Small Hall	Visiting Palucca: Accompanying exhibition with objects, media and documents from archives
4.30 p.m.	Great Hall	Artistic intervention ‘torque’ with Katja Erfurth
4.45 p.m.	Red Hall	Artistic intervention “Parunzel“ with Nora Schott
5 p.m.	Great Hall	One-on-one discussions with alumni of the Palucca University of Dance Dresden
		Guided tour through villa\wigman
6 p.m.	Red Hall	Artistic intervention „Out of my mind“ with Sophie Hauenherm
6.15 p.m.	Small Hall	Talk: ‘Development and limitations – personality development in dance training’ with Prof. Katharina Christl, Dr Melanie Gruß, Dr Angela Rannow and Prof. Dr Ralf Stabel
6.30 p.m.	Red Hall	Artistic intervention ‘Final steps’ Return No. 1 with Anna Till and Barbara Lubich
7 p.m.	Great Hall	Artistic intervention ‘torque’ with Katja Erfurth
7.15 p.m.	Red Hall	Artistic intervention „Out of my mind“ with Sophie Hauenherm
	Small Hall	Visiting Palucca: Accompanying exhibition with objects, media and documents from archives
7.30 p.m.	Great Hall	Artistic intervention “Entrance of the Artists” by Irina Pauls with Victoria McConnell
8 p.m.	Small Hall	Talk: ‘Intervention and Self-Empowerment – Working Methods in Contemporary Dance’ with the artistic contributors

Contributors

Talks	with: Prof. Katharina Christl, Dr. Melanie Gruß, Prof. Dr. Patrick Primavesi, Dr. Angela Rannow, Mario Schröder, Arila Siegert, Prof. Dr. Ralf Stabel
Artistic interventions	with: Katja Erfurth, Sophie Hauenherm, Victoria McConnell/ Irina Pauls, Nora Schott, Anna Till/ Barbara Lubich
Alumni	Amit Abend, Niko Adachi, Kornelija Aleksaite, Michael Apel, Sabine Bohlig, Dan Datcu, Kanata Iljima, Noé Valdes Vega, Katrin Wolfram, Hannes-Detlef Vogel
Workshop	Helena Fernandino
Guided tour	Julia Amme and Josefine Wosahlo
Artistic direction	Katja Erfurth and Irina Pauls
PR	Frieda Pirnbaum

Cooperation partners

An event organised by Tanzarchiv Leipzig e.V. in cooperation with Palucca University of Dance Dresden, Villa Wigman für Tanz e.V., the Saxon Academy of Arts, the Institute for Theatre Studies at Leipzig University and the German Dance Association.