Dear,
I would like to invite you to our studio.
This is important to me because without you, what I do doesn't make a lot of sense. My art, my projects arise from working together with the audience.
Why should such a meeting be important for you too? This question is relevant to me. Can you maybe tell me something about that? Why would you accept my invitation?
When we meet, I can assure you that we’ll have something to share – an artistic question, a situation, a gesture, a movement, a choreography that is slowly growing between us. And when you come back, you will be able to see where our exchange is going.
There isn't much more I could write about right now. We need to get together first to find out more about our meeting. What is the OPEN STUDIO? An attempt at an encounter? A time to work together? A rehearsal for a new piece? In any case, a moving-together.
I hope to meet you soon,
Jenny
Since 2014, Jenny Beyer, together with her artistic partners, has been offering OPEN STUDIOS in Hamburg and researching practices of encounter, movement and sharing of interests between artists and people interested in dance. For Jenny Beyer, the OPEN STUDIOS are a two-way mediation practice: sharing movements and choreographic practices enables a dialogue between those who produce dance and those who watch dance. In close exchange with curious spectators, whose profession is not dance, six pieces have been created since 2014 (Liebe, 2015, Glas, 2016, Fluss, 2017, Début, 2019, DEUX 2021 and ENSEMBLE, 2023). As part of the three-year project TO GIVE–TO TAKE–TO NEED, funded by TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund, the OPEN STUDIOS take place not only at Kampnagel but also at Hamburg's district cultural centres HausDrei (Altona), Kulturhaus Eidelstedt and the studio 'Alte Post' since 2022.
The OPEN STUDIOS have developed into a regular and continuous format since 2014 and take place monthly – regardless of whether they are part of a rehearsal process or not. This is because they invite people to exchange ideas with each other in motion.