General Notes on Workshops

post theater generates workshops for various reasons, including their believe in sharing artistic, academic and other forms of experience amongst artists − on all career levels and including students of all disciplines. post theater believes that educational work should be part of a complete job profile for professional artists, since it allows artist a reflection of their own experiences gained in professional art practice.

There are no standard post theater workshops, as post theater intends to customize each workshop for a specific group of participants, a specific length and specific goals. post theater prefers site- and / or occasion-specific workshops with local artists. post theater strongly recommends workshops that aim at presenting a performance or installation at the end of the workshop to an audience.
Frequent topics in post theater workshops are: haptic media, site-specific-multi-media performances, over-all dramaturgy, spatial dramaturgy, documentary-based performance work, media-dance, media-environments − just to name a few of post theater’s working methods that can be explored in post theater works.

In the case of “Express Fight Club”, the aim of the workshop is to create a new interpretation of the post theater performance by the same name. This has been done in Taiwan in 2009 and will be happening in Bulgaria in the Fall of 2010 again.

post theater prefers to conduct workshops for heterogenic groups of people with different artistic / professional / or other backgrounds. Often, the participants are performers, choreographers and media artists etc., but depending on the context, non artists and artists of other disciplines are welcome.
All post theater workshops are conducted by one or both of the artistic directors of post theater, Max Schumacher and Hiroko Tanahashi. Depending on the focus and length of the workshop, other post theater artists are joining.

Selected workshop references

Title, Workshop Topic	Year, Place	Hosting Organization
Magic! (creating magic using video effects for children)	2011, Stuttgart	Maria Montessori School, Hausen
Post-documentary theater	2011, Cologne	Theaterszene Europa, Studiobühne Köln
Idea, Rules, Space (main ingredients in conceptual work)	2010, Berlin	Kosmos in Motion / Tanzfabrik
What Rules? (game theory and practice and the perf. arts)	2010, Cologne	Theaterszene Europa, Studiobuehne Koeln
Digitalization of Space (Express Fight Club)	2009, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan	National ChaoTung Universtiy
Decadance (site specific-video dance on decadance)	2009, Tokyo Dance Video Festival, Asahi	Dance Video Festival, Asahi Art Square, DMJ
Digital Kamishibai (multi-media art with only a digital photo camera)	2008, Cologne Theaterszene Europa,	TTheaterszene Europa, Studiobuehne Koeln
Family History (story-telling with family picture archive)	2008, Singapore	Thespis, National University of Singapore
Convince and Conceive	2007 Tokyo- Osaka-Berlin	DOCK11 Berlin
Survival of the Fittest (Online workshop )	2006, 2007 Tokyo- Osaka-Berlin	Dance and Media Japan
Hunger Artist (Presence of multiple bodies in media)	2006 Zagreb, Croatia	ekS-scena (Triatlon project)
Digital Kamishibai (site-specific multimedia performance in public space)	2006 Milan, Italy	Reuter's Foundation
Apphabet City Topography (momentLAST, Haptic Media)	2005 Ljubljana, Slovenia	City of Women Festival
Site-specific performance	2005 Tokyo, Japan	Dance and Media Japan
Dream House Worshop for school children	2004 Belgrade, Serbia	SKART