Basement Dances - Survival Dance
FUTUR FESTiVAL 9, Teepavillon Grosse Wallanlagen, Hamburg 30 August 2025
Survival Dance
Installation - Workshop – Lecture, presenting the Viennese dance pedagogue Hilde Holger and her choreographic practice in Vienna, Mumbai and London.
Concept and realisation:
Claudia Kappenberg (GB) & Thomas Kampe (GB)
Festival Directors: Irmela Kästner & Birgit Dunkel
Videos by Claudia Kappenberg:
A Story in 11 Glitches video 12’14’’ (2025)
Eine Schule für Bewegungskunst video 6’14’’ (2025)
Repetition, Repetition video 2’30’’ (2025)
Dancing With video 4’27’’ (2025)
A Waltz in Bombay video 6’40’’ (2025)
Basement Dances continues to circulate at a time of global crises, driven by an aesthetics of care and performance activism. It raises awareness of women artists in exile, their persecution and forced migration, and of the potential of creative practice as acts of hope and resistance, as contribution to cultural healing and empathic transformation.
The project has been supported through Bath Spa University, University Brighton, Electro Studio Project Space Hastings, DockDigital Berlin, Paris-Lodron University of Salzburg, Leo Baeck Institute London, Gesellschaft für Tanzforschungg (GTF), The Hilde Holger Archives London, Primavera Boman–Behram, Marion Kant, James Bachelor, Liz Aggiss and many other individuals.
With thanks to Irmela Kästner & Birgit Dunkel of Futur9 Festival