For the last few years, I’ve been working as a guest lecturer in the following institutions, sharing knowledge in the fields of choreography and composition.
Please contact me, if you are interested in a seminar.
This can go, for ex. hand in hand with the book “Symmetry, Alibis & Intuition“(2023) – see below – a collection of working methods that I wrote together with dramaturg Matthias Quabbe.
Festivals / Workshops:
- b12 Festival for Dance and Performance 2024, Berlin:
5.- 8.7.2024 Workshop “Trust and Symmetry” Eden***** studios, Berlin - Conference of the Dramaturgical Society 2022, Dresden:
26.6.2022 Workshop “Inventory of Choices”, theater der jungen Generation, Dresden - Cheers for Fears Festival 2018, Mühlheim
Workshop for the TRANSIT project “THE THROWN”, with Daniel Rademacher
Universities/ Higher Learning Institutes:
- Universität zu Köln (University of Cologne)
Institute for Art & Art Theory:
WS 2024: Seminar: Dance in Pop Culture and Social Media 9.11 – 7.12.2024
SS 2024: Loud and Tender Springschool Arts Education, 21. – 25. March 2024
Workshop: “My family and I – Tolerance, Family and Political Views“
Workshop: “Choreography and Composition”
Since 2016 ongoing: Seminars combining choreographic pratices with subjects such as: Photography, Pop Culture, Dance History, Dance Critique, Feminist ideas etc. - ZZT Köln (Zentrum für Zeitgenössischen Tanz / Center for Contemporary Dance)
WS 2024: Seminar: Choreography and Instant Composition
WS 2019, SS 2020: Seminar subject: Experimental Dance Film - HSD Düsseldorf (Hochschule Düsseldorf / University of Applied Sciences)
Master Communication Design, Faculty of Design
WS 2020, SS 2021: Seminar: Experimental Dance Film - HHU Düsseldorf (Heinrich-Heine-Universität /Heinrich-Heine University)
Institute for Media and Cultural Studies
2015-2018 Block Seminar: Performative Research: Reut Shemesh, Theoretical input: Prof. Daniel Rademacher
Student Productions:
- ZZT Köln (Center for Contemporary Dance, Cologne) GOLA 5th Movement (2022), ATARA (2021), LEVIAH (2020)
- Maslool School of Contemporary Dance Tel Aviv (IL), GOLA 3rd Movement (2022)
Publications:
Symmetry, Alibis & Intuition: An Inventory of Choreographic Choices
A book by Reut Shemesh & Matthias Quabbe, Illustrations by Mona Kakanj
With Symmetry, Alibis & Intuition – an Inventory of Choreographic Choices, Reut Shemesh and dramaturg Matthias Quabbe present a book about Reut’s choreographic handwriting combined with vivid illustrations by Mona Kakanj. A wide variety of working methods, thought processes, and procedures are presented in thematic order, creating a ‘toolbox’ that can inspire and frame choreographic work.
Published in 2023, 67 pages, in English language.
Reading Sample Order via Books on the Move
You Cannot Make Mistakes, it’s Art!
What is my role as an ‘artist-teacher’ within the academic structure?
A publication from the book by Jane Eschment / Hannah Neumann / Aurora Rodonò / Torsten Meyer (Hrsg.):
Click here for further information on the project
Arts Education in Transition
Ästhetische Bildung im Kontext kultureller Globalisierung und Digitalisation
Schriftenreihe Kunst Medien Bildung Band 5,
München 2020, 390 Seiten mit zahlr. Abb.
Photo above: GOLA 5th Movement (2022) with students of the ZZT, credit: Paul Leclaire Soest