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

“Forming Solidarities Through Collaboration: Towards a Politics of Togetherness”, Invited roundtable provocation, 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

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

‘The Politics of Collaboration’ Roundtable with Gigi Argyropoulou, Noyale Colin and Valeria Graziano, PSi#23 “OverFlow”, Hamburg, 2017

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

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

“On Not Neglecting the Near for the Far – The Practice of Wu Style Tai Chi Chuan”, Martial Arts Studies Conference, co-authored paper with Mark Langweiler, Cardiff University, 2015

“Time’s Markings/Marking Time/s: Rosemary Butcher’s Secrets of the Open Sea”. IFTR “Theatre and Stratification”, co-authored paper with Susan Melrose, University of Warwick, 2014

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

“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/

“Just in Time - ‘Momentary’ Events in the Making of Rosemary Butcher’s Signature Practices”, co-authored paper with Susan Melrose, PSi “Now Then”, Stanford University, California, USA 2013

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

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

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

"Somebody’s other – crossing cultures in performance practice" (with Chris Bannerman and Martin Welton), PSi18 “performance, culture, industry”, Leeds, 2012

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

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

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

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

"Spontaneous combustion (a performance enquiry into spontaneous live decision-making)", Colloquium on Artistic Research in Performing Arts, Theatre Academy Helsinki, Finland, 2011

"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

"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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