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One question that comes up frequently in beginner classes or even some intermediate classes is: “why do we have to count the music?”. The answer is very simple. Counting is THE way to navigate inside music. All western music that is based on notes (and this is at least 99% of the music that we […]
Fill in the Blanks is a simple concept to create variation within your vocabulary of movement. It works with every movement that has multiple parts. In between two parts of the same move there is some free “space” where we can insert something new. Let’s take any regular two step movement as an example. It […]
During the christmas holidays Elsewhere was screened at CHHATRAPATI SHIVAJI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL and received an award in the category “Best Editing”. Congratulationsto to the whole team and this time especially to Berni Weiß. Good job.
When you are deep in a creative project and force yourself to work on it every day, chances are high that you will encounter some sort of mental block on your way. For people who write we call it writer’s block. It is a state where you seem to can not proceed any further in […]
I am not quite sure if I’ve become intolerant or if our society cultivated a certain kind of behaviour where it seems more important to talk about stuff, than actually doing it. For every guy out there that is creating something or doing his own thing there are five that talk stupid behind his back […]
When I teach advanced students I put the focus of education on understanding conceptual work inside the dance and understanding the music. I already started the dance concepts series and I will start a series of texts about music soon. I wanted to call it “music theory for dancers” but that would be misleading because […]
Using the space that is available for your dance is one of the most widespread concepts out there. What it means is that you consciously work with the space that surrounds you. This can be as easy as trying to remain stationary or being everywhere in the space at some time during your dance or […]
In my last post for this year 2017 I am doing nothing but recommending 5 books that I enjoyed very much this year. All of them gave me some new insights and helped shaping the work I do. Without further bla bla, here are my top 5 book recommendations to read, if you haven’t read […]
Most forms of enternainment can serve as inspiration for getting your own creative juices going. But the abundance of options and the volume of material that can be consumed might become a source of further procrastination. If you are diving into movies, books, videogames or music for inspiration you should know that these different types […]
At the moment I am reading “die empty” from author Todd Henry. It is a book about doing your work as good and as commited as possible, so that you “empty yourself from everything you can give”. This idea of not saving anything for later cultivates an urgency to look for new stuff every day, […]
If you do good work, they will come. A lot of good people live by that belief. But in my own experience and within of the range of research I did for an upcoming project, it looks like this is not true. I guess most of us have that friend that is creating either great […]
This post is a follow up to last weeks introduction article about dance concepts. I introduced the following key-principle. You should understand every move as an abstract set of instructions that can be applied in different ways. Yo, right. But what do I do with that information? When you see every movement you learn in […]
As I am still working on my book about dance concepts I will start to put some of the content online to test how it resonates with readers and to get some additional feedback. If you have suggestions or something is not easy to understand, let me know in the comments or send me an […]
Since last week filmfestivalagency Aug & Ohr is taking care of sending our movie Elsewhere to additional festivals for the next half year. We are happy to have them doing this important work for our movie. Go and check out the Aug & Ohr filmfestivalagency and our movie Elsewhere in their catalogue.
Usually I do not comment on battles and recent stuff but at the moment the Tight Eyez vs Junior thing is getting a little bit out of control because a lot of people miss the context of what happened. Everybody who does not know what I am talking about can check the video here. The thing […]
When active in a nice market people tend to avoid working with other people in the same niche. One is afraid of losing possible customers to the others. In most cases it is much better to do the opposite and connect with as many active people in your field as possible. I use an example […]
Today I sent in the last papers for my application to the austrian artists social insurance fund. It pays a part of your social insurance if your work is considered art. Before 2016 the rules were pretty strict and it was very hard to get accepted. In the beginning of 2016 the rules have been […]
Todays post is about laziness … and how it does damage to people that did work that some of us make their money with. DJs that play only their own stuff can stop reading here. The following stuff is based on laws in Austria. Most countries have their own societies for that and the details […]
At the Red Bull Beat Riders Camp in 2007 we had a lot of discussions about topics related to dance and life in general. One evening was about musicality in dance. B-Girl Asia 1 made the following statement: When dancing I don’t follow the music. It is more like I am playing the missing instrument […]
Yesterday we got news that Elsewhere was nominated for the Golden Statue in the category “Best Shortfilm” from Vienna Independent Film Festival. We could not attend the festival in person this year, so we did not know this yet. Thank you for the ongoing support to VIFF.
In workshops or interviews with OGs of our dances you hear the phrase “back in the days we danced to the whole song” a lot. I am sure their reasons were different, but here is a list of reasons why we should dance to the whole song. A good song has different parts that can […]
Sometimes you meet people that don’t listen to the things you say, but they get upset about the things they think you said. I know that can happen when there is a language barrier. So people have to communicate in languages they don’t fully understand. Or the topic might be totally boring and therefore somebody […]