Dr Stefanie Sachsenmaier

• Processes of performance-making
• Performance and Political Theory
• Philosophy and performance
• Practice-as-research
• Performer training
• Collaborative performance-making
• Cross-cultural practices
• Tai Chi Chuan/Martial Arts

List of Publications

Co-edited book

Colin, Noyale and Sachsenmaier, Stefanie (eds.), Collaboration in Performance Practice – Premises, Workings and Failures, Palgrave Macmillan – including co-written Introduction – 2016, ISBN 978-1-137-46245-9

Articles and chapters in edited collections

Bucther, R. and Sachsenmaier, S. 'Rosemary Butcher: After Kaprow – A Visual Journey', in: Nick Kaye, Simon Jones, Johanna Linsley, and Paul Clarke (eds.) Artists in the Archive, Routledge 2018

'Silent Transformations in Choreography-Making over Time: Rosemary Butcher’s Practice of ‘Looking Back and Ahead’' in: Main, Lesley (ed.) Transmissions in Dance, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017

‘Productive misapprehensions– ArtsCross as a cross-cultural collaborative zone of contestation of dance practice’ in: Colin, Noyale and Sachsenmaier, Stefanie (eds.), Collaboration in Performance Practice – Premises, Workings and Failures, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016

‘Studio Mind, The Empty Place; Gary Wragg’s Approach to Painting: An Interview by Stefanie Sachsenmaier’ in: Constant Within The Change: Gary Wragg – Five Decades of Paintings: A Comprehensive Catalogue, Bristol: Sansom and Company, 2014, ISBN – 978-1-908326-55-3

Contribution to Laban Sourcebook, ed. Dick McCaw, Oxon: Routledge, 2011 - preface to and selection of excerpts from Laban's The World of the Dancer; translation (with Dick McCaw) of excerpts from four of Laban's published books: The World of the Dancer, Gymnastics and Dance for Children, Gymnastics and Dance, Choreography, ISBN – 10: 0415543320, ISBN-13: 978-0415543323

Journal articles

‘Ways of Doing; Ways of Thinking; Ways of Moving Together: Considerations for Cross-Cultural Encounters and Exchanges in and through Dance Practice’, Choreographic Practices Journal, 2016

Melrose, S., Sachsenmaier, S. and Bucther, R. ‘Just in Time: Rosemary Butcher, Making Memories and Marks’, Performance Research Journal On An/Notations, 2015

‘Answer the Question: ‘How do you know when training is working?’’, Theatre, Dance and Performance Training, 2014 – edited interview by Dick McCaw 5:1, pp. 76-84, doi: 10.1080/19443927.2014.894384

‘Reinventing the Past: Rosemary Butcher encounters Allan Kaprow’s 18 Happenings in 6 Parts’, Choreographic Practices Journal, Vol. 4 No. 2, 2013, pp. 223-244, doi: 10.1386/chor.4.2.223_1

‘Beyond Allan Kaprow: An interview with Rosemary Butcher’, Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices 4: 2, pp. 267–281, doi: 10.1386/jdsp.4.2.267_1, 2012

”Vom Archiv zur Neuerfindung – Fragen zur künstlerischen Handschrift im kreativen Schaffensprozess zeitgenössischer Performance“ ["From the archive to a reinvention – questions on the artistic signature in the creative process of contemporary performance”], GTF-Jahrbuch 22 "Tanzerfahrung und Welterkenntnis", edited by Claudia Behrens, Helga Burkhard, Claudia Fleischle Braun & Krystyna Obermaier. Leipzig: Henschel-Verlag, 2012, ISBN-10: 3894877308, ISBN-13: 978-3894877309

Books reviews

Petra Maria Meyer (ed.), Intuition, Munich: Wilhelm Fink: Theaterforschung.de: http://www.theaterforschung.de/rezension.php4?ID=1817, 2013

Libby Worth with Jasmin Vardimon, Jasmin Vardimon's Dance Theatre: Movement, Memory and Metaphor, Dance Research Journal, Volume 35 Issue 2, Page 280-281, ISSN 0264-2875, 2017

Conference contributions

Sachsenmaier, Stefanie. “Negotiating the Commons: Solidarity Practices in and through Collaboration”, Dance Studies Association, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA, 2019

Colin, Noyale and Sachsenmaier, Stefanie. “Performing Solidarity: The Politics of Collaboration in Performance Practice”, Dance and Somatic Practices Conference, Coventry University, 2019

Sachsenmaier, Stefanie. “Forming Solidarities Through Collaboration: Towards a Politics of Togetherness”, Invited roundtable contribution, Performance and the Body Working Group, TAPRA: Agonistic politics in performance: practices of difference, disagreement, and respect in theatre, dance, and sport, Brunel University, London, 2018

Glenz, Sabine, Heun, Walter, Niederbuchner, Andrea and Sachsenmaier, Stefanie. “What was she doing then? Ein Gespräch über Rosemary Butcher [A conversation about Rosemary Butcher]”, Invited roundtable contribution, ‘Housing the Temporary. Zugänge zur eigenen Geschichte [Approaches to one’s own history]’, International and Interdisciplinary Symposium schwere reiter, Munich, 2018

Argyropoulou, Gigi, Colin, Noyale, Graziano, Valeria and Sachsenmaier, Stefanie. “The Politics of Collaboration” Roundtable, PSi#23 “OverFlow”, Hamburg, 2017

Melrose, Susan and Sachsenmaier, Stefanie. "Tracing Lost Legacies - Remembering Rosemary Butcher", Keynote, Memory at Work: Rosemary Butcher in the Present Tense, London, 2016

Butcher, Rosemary and Sachsenmaier, Stefanie “Making Marks and Memories – The Body in Recorded Time”, Invited Keynote, Memory Sentiment Body Space Object Symposium, Coventry, 2015

Langweiler, Mark and Sachsenmaier, Stefanie. “On Not Neglecting the Near for the Far – The Practice of Wu Style Tai Chi Chuan”, Martial Arts Studies Conference, Cardiff University, 2015

Melrose, Susan and Sachsenmaier, Stefanie. “Time’s Markings/Marking Time/s: Rosemary Butcher’s Secrets of the Open Sea”. IFTR “Theatre and Stratification”, University of Warwick, 2014

Sachsenmaier, Stefanie. “Productive misapprehensions – ArtsCross as a trans-cultural collaborative zone of contestation of performance practice”. PSi “Avant-Garde, Tradition, Community”, Theatre Academy Shanghai, 2014

Sachsenmaier, Stefanie. “Tai Chi intervention” at Research Lab Falling About, hosted by Independent Dance’s WinLab, Siobhan Davies Studios, London, 2013, research notes published: http://roehamptondance.com/falling/writings/

Sachsenmaier, Stefanie. “Articulating processes of performance-making – towards a philosophy of performance practice”, Invited Research Presentation as part of the ‘Performance Philosophy’ series at Trinity Laban, London, 2013

Melrose, Susan and Sachsenmaier, Stefanie. “Just in Time - ‘Momentary’ Events in the Making of Rosemary Butcher’s Signature Practices”, PSi “Now Then”, Stanford University, California, USA 2013

Bannerman, Christopher, Kolb, Alexandra, Lin, Yatin, Sachsenmaier, Stefanie, Yue, Yunyu, Wang, Xin. ‘ArtsCross’ Roundtable, SDHS Conference Dance ACTions—Traditions and Transformations, Trondheim, Norway, 2013

Sachsenmaier, Stefanie. “Work Me Out! Spontaneous Combustion, Remote Collaboration – Researching into various collaborative set-ups in performance-making”, Symposium on Collaboration, Middlesex University, London, 2013

Sachsenmaier, Stefanie. "Rosemary Butcher, After Kaprow and Beyond", Remake Symposium, Performing Documents, Arnolfini, Bristol, 2012

Bannerman, Christopher, Sachsenmaier, Stefanie and Welton, Martin. "Somebody’s other – crossing cultures in performance practice", PSi18 “performance, culture, industry”, Leeds, 2012

Sachsenmaier, Stefanie. "On ‘thinking’ and ‘not-thinking’ in performance-making: a cross-cultural philosophical investigation", How Performance Thinks, PSi Philosophy and Performance, London, 2012

Sachsenmaier, Stefanie. "Vom Archiv zur Neuerfindung – Fragen zur künstlerischen Handschrift im kreativen Schaffensprozess zeitgenössischer Performance", GTF Tanzforschung, TANZerfahrung und WELTkenntnis, Cologne, Germany, 2011

Sachsenmaier, Stefanie. "Reinventing the past: Rosemary Butcher", IFTR "Tradition, Innovation, Community”, Osaka University, Japan, 2011

Sachsenmaier, Stefanie. "A future beyond Allan Kaprow: Rosemary Butcher reinvents 18 Happenings in 6 Parts", Dance and Somatic Practices Conference, Coventry University, UK, 2011

Franglen, Nick, Lammers, Christoph and Sachsenmaier, Stefanie. "Spontaneous combustion (a performance enquiry into spontaneous live decision-making)", Colloquium on Artistic Research in Performing Arts, Theatre Academy Helsinki, Finland, 2011

Rothwell, John, McCaw, Dick and Sachsenmaier, Stefanie. "On Embodiment", Invited Roundtable, Central School of Speech and Drama, London, 2011

Butcher, Rosemary and Sachsenmaier, Stefanie. "Reinventing 18 Happenings in 6 Parts", Invited Research Presentation, De Montfort University, Leicester, 2011

Sachsenmaier, Stefanie. "Performance-making as a process-specific discipline: the “dispositif” as a conceptual tool for the theorisation of performance-making processes", contribution to "Performance as Research" Working Group, IFTR "Cultures of Modernity", Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany, 2010

Sachsenmaier, Stefanie. "How to Act?", Central School of Speech and Drama, London, UK, 2007

Invited guest lectures, masterclasses and research presentations

“Collaborating Across Cultures – Negotiating Contemporary Dance Practices”, student lecture, Beijing Dance Academy, 2015

“Devised performance-making processes – philosophy and performance practice”, research presentations to MA students at Central School of Speech and Drama, 2013

Tai Chi Masterclass to BA Dance students, University of Northampton, 2013

“Articulating processes of performance-making – towards a philosophy of performance practice”, invited research presentation as part of the ‘Performance Philosophy’ series at Trinity Laban, London, 2013

"On Embodiment', MA lecture series, Central School of Speech and Drama, London, 2012

"Practice-as-research in the performing arts: Rosemary Butcher reinvents Allan Kaprow's '18 Happenings in 6 Parts' - a case study" at "The International School for the Development of Graduate Students", Osaka City University, 2011

"Reinventing 18 Happenings in 6 Parts", research presentation with Rosemary Butcher, De Montfort University, Leicester, 2011

"On Embodiment", invited panel discussion with John Rothwell and Dick McCaw, Central School of Speech and Drama, London, 2011

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