Bunker Talk #162: Tanztheater Adrian Look

Talk #162: Tanztheater Adrian Look

“The Human in the Art” through Tanztheater Bunker Talks
In this Bunker Talk, hosted by Andrea Maciel (Manchester School of Theatre), Adrian Look—director of Tanztheater London—will offer an in-depth reflection on his creative processes and artistic trajectory. Drawing on his formative training with Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch school in Grman, Adrian will discuss how he develops choreography and performance through a blend of community-focused practice, pedagogical approaches, and philosophical inquiry. His work expands the possibilities of observing and expressing human experience through the distinctive lens of Tanztheater. With over two decades of experience as a lecturer, director, and creator, Adrian brings a rich perspective that invites us to rethink Tanztheater as a space where embodied knowledge, creativity, and critical reflection intersect.

Adrian Look (born in Germany 1983) is a Tanztheater practitioner working as teacher and choreographer in London. He studied at the Folkwang University in Essen (Germany) whose almuni include leading figures in German Dance Theatre including Pina Bausch. After a relatively short career as a dancer (5 years) Adrian gravitated more towards teaching and choreographing his own works which ultimately led him to London in 2014.

His mission for the past 11 years has been to make his Tanztheater Philosophy accessible to a wider audience and to position the beautifully fragile, subtle and fundamentally human art form of emotional storytelling through states into a bigger context beyond the realms of dance and theatre towards a life philosophy.

To do so, Adrian is teaching regular dance classes in London (The Place, Morley College) as well as workshops and intensives in universities and dance institutions in the UK (Rambert School, Trinity Laban, University of East Anglia) and abroad (Mexico, Brazil, China, Japan)

Bunker Talks

This event is part of Bunker Talks. Bunker Talks invite artists and researchers to talk about who they are and what they do. Curated by the Performance Research Group at Manchester School of Art and the School of English, Bunker Talks explore geopolitical, ecological or economic concerns. The talks create space for critical encounters, presentations, provocation and dialogue as part of a civic conversation.

Originally conceived in the pandemic to explore how artists, writers, curators and researchers continued to make and share their work, live Bunker Talks now take place at The Salutation every month. Since 2020, over 160 talks have been hosted by Performance Researchers and colleagues from across the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. All talks are recorded, edited, captioned and then archived to create an online catalogue, capturing how artists, makers and curators think about the world today. Find previous talks here: https://www.art.mmu.ac.uk/bunkertalks/

Main Event Contact and URL

Michael Pinchbeck [email protected]

https://www.art.mmu.ac.uk/bunkertalks/talk-162/

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