Breakdance, Gangsta-Rap und hegemoniale Männlichkeit

Kurz vor Weihnachten gibt´s den Beitrag "Breakdance, Gangsta-Rap und hegemoniale Männlichkeit" aus dem (noch unveröffentlichten) Buch "Awesome HipHop Humans" als Vorab-Artikel zu lesen!

Einfach auf die Webseite von muratundhannes klicken und das PDF anwählen.

Der Beitrag dreht sich um die Frage, ob HipHop männlich ist - oder vielleicht nur die Erzählung darüber? Wie zeigt sich Männlichkeit bzw. was ist der Gegenentwurf dazu? Dr. Bettina Lösch von der Universität zu Köln hat dazu Murat Göngür, Hannes Loh und Frieda Frost im Herbst 2018 befragt, entstanden ist ein spannendes Interview!

Info zum Buch: Sookee & Gazal Köpf (Hg.) (2019): Awesome HipHop Humans. Queer_Fem_Rap im deutschsprachigen Raum. Mainz: Ventil Verlag.

Weitere Literatur zum Thema Gender im Breaking:
-Johnson, I. K. (2014): From blues women to b-girls: performing bad ass femininity. In: Women & Performance. A journal of feminist theory. Pages: 15-28. Volume 24. Issue 1: All hail the Queenz.
-Langnes, T. F. & Fasting, K. (2017): Gender constructions in Breaking. In: Sport in Society. Cultures, Commerce, Media, Politics. Pages: 1596-1611. Volume 20. Issue 11.

Factory Artists at Tanzhaus nrw 2020-2022

Big News! With my collective nutrospektif, we will be Factory Artists at the Tanzhaus nrw from 2020-2022!

We are thrilled to announce the news and to have this great plattform to develop our ideas, present our concepts and give a higher visibility for our work with urban dance.
The Tanzhaus nrw is known to be a supporter of the urban dance scene, to trust and value the urban dancers, the dance and the culture. Therefore we feel honored to be trusted as the first collective and the first urban dance artists to become Factory Artists.

Stay tuned for NEWS!
Find more info on the Website of Tanzhaus nrw and the Facebook page.

GET TOGETHER X Oper Köln: Trailer online!

Have you been to our performance of Get Together at the Oper Köln? Yes? No? well, here is the trailer. Take a look! More info at the Website of the Oper Köln.

Soundings #20 Urbaner Tanz als Dialogic Movement

Urbaner Tanz und die Kraft des Call & Response

Die beiden urbanen Tänzerinnen mit Wurzeln im Breaking (Breakdance) Viola Luba und Frieda Frost von nutrospektif treten in einen Dialog mit sich selbst, miteinander und dem Publikum. Wie kann sich eine Bewegung verändern? Wie kann sich Bewegung leiten lassen? Was passiert, wenn Spontanität und Improvisation die Performance in eine neue Richtung lenkt? Dabei spielen der Tanz und die Musik eine ebenso wichtige Rolle wie auch das Publikum, das zum Mitspieler in der Lecture-Performance der zwei Tänzerinnen wird.

Mit: Viola Luba und Frieda Frost (nutrospektif)

Redaktion — Juliane Kuhn

Die Reihe soundings # (ehemals Nocturnes) präsentiert Konzerte, Performances, Soundart und expanded Lectures aus dem Klanglabor der KHM.
Donnerstag, 21. November 2019, 20 Uhr, Aula
Filzengraben 2
50676 Köln
Moderation: Tobias Hartmann

LINK zum Programm

GET TOGETHER - a performance at Oper Köln in November 2019

foto by Almut Elhardt

Big News! With nutrospektif, the MichaelDouglas Kollektiv and the musician Gregor Schwellenbach we will present the performance GET TOGETHER at Oper Köln from 06.11.-09.11.2019!
The performance asks about togetherness in today´s world of seperation, modern ways of party and protest and finally - what is a celebration?
More information on the project, programm and tickets here!

Diplom Thesis on German Breaking Scene now ONLINE!

Frieda Frost, Paris 2019. Foto: @yoriyas

My diplom thesis "Zwischen Lifestyle und Professionalisierung - Analyse der deutschen Breakdance-Szene" (2011) is now online on researchgate and academia (only german language)!
> click on the links provided to get it.
It´s an analysis on the German Breaking Scene and studies the possibilities of professionalization of a subcultural scene and informal dance culture...sorry guys, no english version available yet!

"Elements Bristol" the next hiphop studies conference!

EHHSN, Dortmund, 2019

The next hiphop conference taking place not too far from Germany will be "Elements Bristol" from 06.-08. June 2019 at the University of Bristol, UK. 

Elements Bristol is also the second meeting of the 2018 founded "European HipHop Studies Network" (EHHSN) and aims to rise awaresness and visibility on hiphop research in Europe and to create networks between scholars, students and practicioners.

University of Turku, Finland

As i am (founding) member of the network and applied to present some of my research on breaking as a cultural practice, i will be there for sure and hope to see some of you guys there as well!

HERE the full program and information!

Check also our facebook-group :)

Kinder der Nacht @Schauspiel Köln

New year, new project! With nutrospektif, we got invited to work with Melanie Kretschmann at Schauspiel Köln for the new theatre production "Kinder der Nacht", the stage version of the classic "Les Enfants Terrible" by Cocteau. The result is a crazy, vivid and unexpected theatre piece with a dark introduction... Premiere: 26.01.2019
More information at the Schauspiel Köln website!

Floor on Fire! Battle of Styles in Hellerau

End of the year, time to battle! Representing Renegade/Pottporus e.V., i was invited for the concept battle "Floor on Fire" on 28.12.2018 presented by The Saxons, the local famous and professional Breakdance Crew, and Hellerau, Europäisches Zentrum der Künste in Dresden.
After a short introduction performance with my crew colleges Lin Verleger, Janis Heldmann and Robozee presenting the aesthetic approach of the Renegade Company, we entered the battle in teams of two on different genres of music. It was fun and we could reach the second place :)
>A trailer of the event as impression of the battle.