CV - Research

Dr. Paula Kramer, Rixdorfer Str. 9, 12487 Berlin
dance / research / outdoor
paula@paulakramer.de & 0176.23429456 & www.paulakramer.de
*18.03.1977, Aurich (Germany)
Languages: German, English, Spanish, French
EDUCATION
Oct 2009 – Nov 2015
PhD, Coventry University (UK), Centre for Dance Research
Dancing Materiality – A Study of Agency and Confederations in Contemporary
Outdoor Dance Practices
Practice-as-research, supervision: Prof. Sarah Whatley & Dr. Natalie
Garrett Brown, RAE scholarship, completed with no corrections
Oct 1998 – June 2005
Free University of Berlin, M.A. Political Science (Diplom)
Thesis: Co-creating Transformation – Theatre for Change in South Africa
Grade: A (1,1)
DAAD thesis research grant for South Africa, 2004
IRSEP Scholarship and Fulbright Travel Grant 2001 – 2002
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, U.S.A.
June 1996
Abitur, Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Gymnasium, Weinheim, N.C. 1,0 (A)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2016, 2010 – 2012
UPC Barcelona (ES), Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura del Vallès
Movement, Material & Spacial Awareness, yearly lecture and workshop
BA/MA Architecture, invited by Prof. José-Luis Oyon
2015
Inter-University Centre for Dance (HZT), Berlin
May 2015: Moving, Writing, Living - Experimental Documentary Practices in SiteSpecific Dance Research, Workshop & 3 week research project in collaboration
with Dr. Alys Longley (NZ)
2010 - 2014
Coventry University (UK), Centre for Dance Research (C-Dare)
March 2014, Dec 2014: The Daffodil Lab and Working Across Materials –
Dancing in Confederation, one-off graduate seminars
March 2011, 2012: Site-specific Choreography, BA Dance, lecture
Jan 2011: Art as Research, one-off seminar, MA Dance and Performance Making
June – July 2010: BA Module Site-specific Choreography, Assistant for Dr.
Natalie Garrett Brown
2014
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI (USA), Center for Intl. Education
July 2014: Movement, Environment and Mindfulness, day seminar with High
School students during a summer school for Human Rights
2013
SMASH Berlin (Physical Performance Training)
Nov 2013: Constructing bodies in a cul de sac: evoking the abstract or provoking
the explicitness? Lecture and workshop with Marc Carrera & Michael Neuber
Nov 2009
HCU Hamburg, Metropolitan Culture
Nov 2009: Artistic Research, one-off BA seminar, invited by Prof. Gesa Ziemer
Since 2006
Movement Labs in the environment (mostly weekends)
Dec 2015 – Feb 2016: Weekly winter class, Königsheide Berlin
July 2008: Common Place Farm, Barnum, MN, USA (WS with Emily Hughes)
2006 – 2011: Yearly workshop in the Catalan Pyrenees, for example in
collaboration with the Centre for Art and Nature, Farrera
PROJECT MANAGEMENT + COMMUNICATION
Mai 2016
AREAL – Artistic Research Lab Berlin
Concept for 2 day intensive workshop/mentoring with Prof. Efva Lilja
July 2011
Coventry University, UK
Co-organisation & evaluation of the first conference for Dance and Somatic
Practices, Coventry University
Sept 2009 – July 2012
Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices
Editorial Assistant
Jan 2008 – July 2012
CHECK.point eLearning, Berlin/Munich
Project Assistant and Newsletter editor, part-time
April 2007 – June 2008
studio klv, studio for exhibition design, Berlin
Project and Team-Assistant, full-time, www.studioklv.de
Sept 2002 – Dec 2008
sabisa – performing change e.V., Berlin
Project manager and artist-educator (selected projects)
- 2008: Family Matters, documentary film project with 7th graders, cooperation
with filmmaker Neelesha Barthel
- 2007: X-Berg or Magix?!, theater + video project, Falkenstein elementary
school, Berlin-Kreuzberg, Cooperation Grips-Theater
- 2006: Kinder-Kiez-Erkundung (kids explore their neighborhood), Video-Project
in Berlin-Wedding with multi media artist Victor Viña (ES)
- 2003, 2005, 2006: Communication in Conflict, exchange projects with theatre
practitioners from the Global South and Berlin
- co-founder of sabisa – performing change e.V. in 2003, www.sabisa.de
PERFORMANCES (SELECTION)
Jul 2015
the sheep are black and white and they are not black and not white
trials, correlations, incidences and independencies, practiced in performance
Third Dance & Somatic Practices conf., Coventry University, with Bettina Mainz
Aug 2013
AREAL: geöffnet / ausufern Festival / Uferstudios Berlin
Research installation + workshops by AREAL – Artistic research lab Berlin
May 2012
body, trees and things / Stoneleigh (UK)
final PhD performance (practice-as-research)
2009 – 2012
Ensemble free : flight with musician Miriam Akkermann
e.g. at Festival 100° Berlin (2012), 2010 Festival Inselglück Berlin-Moabit (2010),
Festival MIAU, Caldes, Spain (2010), Festival of New Music at Berlin Central
Station (2009)
Apr 2007
Beneath the Warmth of a Smile / Kairo and Alexandria (Egypt)
With out of the mu, Choreography: Bettina Mainz
PUBLICATIONS
2016
Working with Physical Exposure in Contemporary Outdoor Movement Practice.
In: Art Research Journal (ARJ), Special Issue on Theatre in the Expanded Field, 3:1, p.
107-128, http://periodicos.ufrn.br/artresearchjournal/issue/view/450/showToc
2015
Producing the Golden Calf. Notes on the ritual of thesis writing in the context of
artistic research. In: Quaresma, José, Dias, Fernando Rosa, Longley, Alys (Hrsg.):
Ironic Assmblies. Assimilating methods in Practice-Led Research, p. 138 – 145.
Lissabon: University of Lisbon Press.
2012
Bodies, Rivers, Rocks and Trees: Meeting agentic materiality in contemporary
outdoor dance practices. In Performance Research: A Journal of the Performing Arts,
17:4, p. 83-91.
2012
Dancing in Nature Space – Attending to Materials. In Ravn und Rouhiainen:
„Dance Spaces: Practices of Movement”, p. 155 – 168, University Press of Southern
Denmark, Odense
2011
Body of Becoming and Progressing into No-Progress, Part 1 (Mainz) and Part 2
(Mainz & Kramer), Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices 3: 1+2, p. 145–150.
2011
Of Not Getting Lost: Making Use of Materials. In kunsttexte.de/Auditive
Perspektiven, No. 2, 2011, 7 pages, 1 audio file, http://www.kunsttexte.de
2011
Book Review Sensing Movement, Living Spaces: An Investigation of movement
based on the lived experience of 13 professional dancers, Susanne Ravn (2009). In
Journal for Dance and Somatic Practices, 2:1, p. 113 – 116.
2007
Performing Research – Researching Performance: Methodological Musings on
Research Praxis and Theatre as Research. In Bülow-Schramm et al: „Bühne frei
für Forschungstheater", p. 171 – 181, Paulo Freire Verlag, Oldenburg.
CONFERENCES, RESEARCH NETWORKS
2016
ROCK / BODY, Performative Interfaces between the geologic and the body
AHRC Research Network, invited artist-scholar, http://rockbody.exeter.ac.uk/
July 2015
Dance & Somatic Practices Conference, Coventry (UK)
Conference paper: Working from Receptivity, with Physical Exposure and Across
Materials. Forum for Early- to Mid-Career Researchers and Artists & Performance
May 2015
NOFOD – Nordic Forum for Dance Research, Reykjavik, Island
Work-in-Progress presentation with Dr. Alys Longley (NZ): Moving, Writing, Living Experimental Documentary Practices in Site-Specific Dance Research
June 2014
Scholarship for the Mellon Dance Studies Summer Seminar
Stanford University, CA, USA
Dance Studies in / and the Humanities, http://www.mellondancestudies.org
Jul 2013
Dance & Somatic Practices Conference, Coventry, UK
Research installation + Workshop: The Walk-In PhD
Jun 2013
Dance Congress Düsseldorf, Performing Translations
Artistic Research Lab with Wallace Heim, AREAL Tandem Series
Workshop: Shifting the Human: Touching Matter
Jan 2011
NOFOD – Nordic Forum for Dance, Odense, Denmark
Research installation + Workshop: Dancing in Nature Space
2010 – 2011
Performance Footprint - Site, Performance and Environmental Change
AHRC Research Network, invited PhD researcher, http://performancefootprint.co.uk/
2009
Co-initiator of AREAL – Artistic Research Lab Berlin with Joa Hug, since 2011
in Co-operation with Tanzfabrik Berlin, https://arealberlin.wordpress.com/
May 2004
Performing Africa, Leeds, UK
Lecture: Performing Research – Researching Performance: Methodological
Musings on Research Praxis and Theatre as Research
Apr 2002
Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed, Toledo, USA
Workshop: Intersections of Privilege and Oppression in our lives
Professional Enhancement Grant, IIE (Institute for International Education)
For more info on workshops, artistic projects, publications etc. see: www.paulakramer.de