Playground

Play-dance is a space for potentials, an invitation to celebrate heterogeneity and non effectiveness together in the space. The Playground team prepares a Playlist of one hour and opens the studio to dance during that timeframe, on, within and along the songs. No experience needed, no phones, no alcohol, no shoes, no dance restrictions.  All welcome. Play-dance  ist ein Raum für Potenziale, […]

On Resonance with Eric Thielemans. On Resonance: Scores & Notes A compilation of both personal notes on resonance and scores written between 2020 and 2022; an invitation to the Other to explore daily magic and resonance in their practices. On Resonance: Conversations A selection of informal conversations with friends about how we prepare for, create, […]

(EN) The Gathering will begin with an Impulse Lecture Performance by KDM Queen of Power called Community as Rebellion. Afterwards we invite you to a cozy exchange. Please register at playground@annakonjetzky.com (DE) Das Gathering beginnt mit einer Impuls Lecture Performance von KDM Königin der Macht namens Community as Rebellion. Anschließend laden wir zu einem gemütlichen […]

Gathering with Barbara Raes. From 2000-2014, Barbara worked as a programmer and artistic director of Arts Centres BUDA and Vooruit. In 2014, she said goodbye to the arts sector and took a year to recharge and reorient. In that context, she trained as a facilitator of farewell rituals at Green Fuse in Totnes (UK). She […]

The Playground opens its doors on the evening of the 8th of June for an open space/party and ground to 'play' with the all things associated with gender. A space to meet, to dance, to chat, to dress up, to find your drag persona or just chill. With music from queer DJ Bimän, costumes and […]

Play-dance is a space for potentials, an invitation to celebrate heterogeneity and non effectiveness together in the space. The Playground team prepares a Playlist of one hour and opens the studio to dance during that timeframe, on, within and along the songs. No experience needed, no phones, no alcohol, no shoes, no dance restrictions.  All welcome. Play-dance ist ein Raum für […]

'About accessibility' a Gathering with Tanja Erhart. Discussion on accessibility with guest dance maker Tanja Erhart.  What does access mean for a dancer, for a choreographer, for an audience, for an arts and culture  institution? Togehter we will dive into questions like these and I will share from my 10 years  experience of being a crip queer dancer: Stories of lack of access, ramp crushes, the aesthetics of  access, activism, ableism, allyship, finances, hinderences, solutions, access desires, access riders,  access pleasures and more. Access is love and a human right... let's find out what the dance floor  has to say to that.  Tanja Erhart (she/her), born in Austria based in London, identifies as a queer, crip - chronically ill  and physically disabled - dance artist, cultural anthropologist and intersectional pleasure activist.  Tanja performs, creates her own work, teaches, choreographs, holds lectures & talks about  disability, ableism and dance at various events worldwide. Her collaborators include Sarah Blanc,  Candoco Dance Company, Claire Cunningham Projects, Farah Saleh, Michael Turinsky etc. Currently  she’s curious exploring movement practices of her 3 different bodyminds - onelegged, with her  wheelchair or threelegged with her crutches - and pleasure activism in dance and disability justice,  focusing on access, care, desires, access riders, exploring the vastness of the aesthetics of access  and dismantling oppressive structures like ableism in her practices. The dance production j_e_n_g_a  premiered in 2022, in collaboration with Tanja’s crutches and her dance colleague Katharina Senk,  is an interactive dance film and a live performance about pleasure as a juicy resource of movement  in interaction with the 2 crutches and as an interface in the discourse between disability and  feminism.  j_e_n_g_a © Franzi Kreis 2022 image description: Blurry in the back of the image, there are two sign language interpreters  signing, wearing black and sitting on black chairs on a purple rug. Tanja, wearing a burgundy  tracksuit with a velvety feel and black long trousers, is leaning on her left buttock and forearm on  the white dance floor while she’s smiling, gesturing something undefinable, but clearly enjoying the  conversation with someone behind the camera. 

Play-dance is a space for potentials, an invitation to celebrate heterogeneity and non effectiveness together in the space. The Playground team prepares a Playlist of one hour and opens the studio to dance during that timeframe, on, within and along the songs. No experience needed, no phones, no alcohol, no shoes, no dance restrictions.  All welcome. Play-dance ist ein Raum für […]

SCORE CARDS CLASS Saturday 2nd of December . 11-1pm Playground Studio / Dachauer Straße 112d, München (Halle 6) Anna Konjetzky & Co will give a training around the nomadic scores cards that they have been creating since autumn 2022. two hours of exploring scores and playing with the set of cards, reading and doing tasks, […]

(Deutsche Unter) On Monday 18th we invite you to our last Event of the year: one hour Training for everybody, followed by a PLAY-Dance, and some drinks. Let's dance the year off together! Start at 18:30 Am Montag, den 18. laden wir euch zu unserem letzten Event des Jahres ein: eine Stunde Training for everybody, gefolgt von einem PLAY-Dance und ein […]

GATHERING with Jonathan Burrows ( Rethinking choreography) Tuesday 9th of January 2024 . 7-8:30pm Playground Studio / Dachauer Straße 112d, München (Halle 6) Jonathan Burrows shares some of his recent reflections on why people like to choreograph, and when choreography might be useful or not. The talk draws from his recent book Writing Dance (Varamo Press, 2022), and from […]

Join us on the 1st of February for a Gathering with deufert&plischke where they share their work of AnArchive in a casual setting. 7-8.30pm  "Since 2005, AnArchives have been created alongside our artistic work as open collections of traces of our circular work processes. The aim is to make these available again and again so […]

In February the Playground will be hosting two artists as part of our Nomadic Solidarity program. As a continuation of the NOT-residency program, which was initiated by Anna Konjetzky/Playground in February 2022 in response to the war in Ukraine. We are continuing and expanding the residency program under the name Nomadic Solidarity, exploring ourselves how […]

Adam Linder Gathering-special edition 3rd of March 7 pm Mothering The Tongue is a lecture-performance where Linder dances through a rumination on the practice of “free form” and the layers of danced experience that rise to the surface in real time. Linder’s text weaves theoretical, cultural and personal ingredients that contribute to a “writing in real-time”, which he […]

This gathering is with the significant queer theorist and writer Jack Halberstam (author of Female Masculinities, the Queer art of Failure and many more!), come join us for a talk on Trans Anarchitectures in an informal setting with wine and hanging out. About Trans Anarchitectures: My work on anarchitecture and collapse began, predictably perhaps, with […]

On the 19th of June we have a Gathering with the professor Nikita Dhawan on “(Im)Possible Solidarities”  (19:00-20:30) Short description: On a daily basis we are flooded with images of suffering and pain. While some respond to this with solidarity and empathy, others complain of “compassion fatigue”. In my talk I will address the role of art in pursuing […]

To change the soul. Collaborative art practice and post-capitalist imaginaries. On the 29th of October at 7-8.30pm the Playground welcomes interdisciplinary artist Alicja Rogalska. The artist talk and screening will focus on a few examples from Alicja Rogalska's socially-engaged art practice from the last decade with topics ranging from critique of affective labour to creating […]