The NORDPLUS for Higher Education’s Creative Arts Pedagogy and the Environment / The CAPE Network ZOOM Webinar #4 Dr. Rasmus Ölme, National Danish School of Performing Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark. May 11, 2021.

 

Dr. Rasmus Ölme title of his presentation is “Dancing on the threshold between body and place – a presentation of my current research interest”

Rasmus writes: “When we look at the world we are doing so through the perceptual apparatus available to us in our bodies. In that sense, what we experience as outside is an extension of our inside. There is thus an uncanny interface between body and place, in which it not that obvious where one end and the other begins.”

Rasmus speaks about aspects of dance and choreography based on the felt experience of such a threshold between body and place, through the phenomenon of camouflage.

After an international career as a dancer, Rasmus Ölme founded the production unit REFUG in 2001. He produced and toured several works around Europe until 2008 as he started a PhD in choreography at DOCH/Uniarts (SE). In 2014 he successfully defended the doctoral thesis From Model to Module – a move towards generative choreography. In January 2015, Ölme was appointed head of education at the Dance and Choreography program at the National Danish School of Performing Arts in Copenhagen, where he consequently, in 2019, became professor and today acts as head of the program for the BFA in Dance and Choreography and the newly started MFA in Choreography. His latest research project Movement Material (2016-18) was funded by the Danish Ministry of Culture and he is currently developing future research on the interface between body and place.

The NORDPLUS Creative Arts and Pedagogy in the Environment / The CAPE Network is supported by the Nordic Council of Ministers and the Baltic Countries through the Nordplus Higher Education Programme. The Arts Academy, Turku University of Applied Sciences, Turku, Finland acts as the coordinator of the CAPE Network. 

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Contact David Yoken david.yoken@turkuamk.fi