Art stations fundation - by Grażyna Kulczyk

In a fascinating roundel, Berlin choreographer Isabelle Schad and visual artist Laurent Goldring celebrate the community-building power of dance together with 22 international dancers. Striding and swinging, circling, intertwining, swaying, separating and coming together again: the repertory of movements and formations that the group adopted from folk dances seems inexhaustible and universal. Liberated from familiar dance rituals, the movement material reveals how profoundly it touches and permeates the individual body. In a hypnotic flow of perpetually overlapping images and rhythmic variations, Collective Jumps allows ever-new choreographic landscapes to emerge. Our eyes are thus opened to the political dimension of this community of dancers. The endless body formed by the dancers dismantles established hierarchies and systems and allows us to experience the subjective, the individual as a site of resistance.

Dancer and choreographer Isabelle Schad studied classical dance in Stuttgart and worked with many choreographers until she started developing her own projects from 1999 on. Her research focuses on the body and its materiality, the body as process, place and space, the relationship between body, choreography, (re)presentation, form and experience, body practice as site for learning processes, community and political involvement. Her projects work at the interface of dance, performance and visual arts being featured internationally (world wide collaborations with local Goethe Institutes, international festivals, German Dance Platforms etc). She co-founded several projects/open collectives (Good Work, Praticable), that search for ways of linking different practices and researches whilst questioning the modes of production. She teaches all over the world and in different formats. She is co-organizer of the working space „Wiesenburg-Halle“ in Berlin and since this year also Zen Shiatsu Practitioner.