Martin Nachbar

Germany (residence) °1971
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 Martin Nachbar, Berlin, is a performer and choreographer. He trained at the AMCh and the SNDO, Amsterdam, in New York, and at PARTS, Brussels. Nachbar collaborated with artists of different fields: Thomas Plischke, Vera Mantero, Les Ballets C. de la B., Meg Stuart, Jochen Roller, Paul Hendrikse, Martine Pisani, Benjamin Schweitzer a.o. His pieces include „Urheben Aufheben“, with a reconstruction of Dore Hoyer’s „Affectos Humanos“, and „Repeater“, in which Nachbar invited his non-dancer father to dance with him. In Nachbar's "The Walk" he and his five collaborators look at walking as dancing. The piece has seen an indoors version and it took place outdoors, once around the block of the theater. "Animal Dances", an exploration of animal-human relatinships through imitation, and "Thingamajig", an attempt to look at dance and watching dance as interwoven physical work, are Nachbar's latest productions. Nachbar teaches and tours internationally. He is currently member of the research and PhD group "Assembly & Participation" at the HCU Hamburg, where he conducts transdisciplinary reserach on walking in groups as a mode of communal and performative influencing city spaces.

 

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  • choreographic things, dancing (2012) author(s): Martin Nachbar published in: Research Catalogue
    How are the body's sensations connected to what the mind imagines? An investigation through a series of choreographic practices, which all graft at least two existing movement and/or performing practices onto each other, accompanied by several drawing exercises, which act as two-dimensional renderings of the three- or four-dimensional practice of choreography, and with the attentive, mindful body as a hinge between the sensory and the imaginary. In my contribution to the ARC I try to trace the trajectory of the research during its two-year course in its chronological order. This seems to be in place especially for a time-based art-form such as choreography, in which an audience witnesses any research findings over the time of the choreography.
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