Workshop with Moritz Ostruschnjak
Vysoká škola múzických umení
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UNCREATIVE DANCING Why bother coming up with ideas when the internet has already done it for you?
Let’s be honest: Why waste time racking your brain for something “new”? A quick Google search – and boom, someone else already beat you to it. Everything’s been done, everything’s been seen, everything’s been danced. Welcome to the age of overflow: clips, memes, TikToks, tutorials, dance challenges – endless, on demand, everywhere.
But what does this constant flood of images actually do to us? To our bodies? And what does it do to dance itself?
In this lab, we celebrate losing control over the idea of “owning” something. We’ll collect, copy, loop, and remix movements from the internet, pop culture, and social media. Copy & paste becomes a choreographic strategy. Reenactment turns into a statement. Remix becomes an attitude.
It’s not about inventing something new. It’s about putting the already-there together in a new way. Stealing gestures, borrowing moves, messing with existing material – while asking: Who actually owns what? What does “original” even mean today? And is originality still relevant at all in the age of AI, memes, and TikTok?
Instead of desperately searching for that one move nobody’s ever done before, we take the overflow as an invitation: everything is material. Everything is remix.
Moritz Ostruschnjak
Moritz Ostruschnjak was part of the sprayer scene for a long time, which is how he came into contact with breakdance and discovered his interest in contemporary dance. He first studied at the Iwanson International School of Contemporary Dance in Munich, later he deepened his dance training with Maurice Béjart in Lausanne. After that, he worked as a dancer for several years in Germany and abroad.
Since 2013 he has worked as a freelance choreographer in Munich and has created, among other things, the ensemble pieces Boids, Unstern, Autoplay, Yester:now, Terminal Beach and most recently Rabbit Hole in 2023.
His pieces have already been shown at numerous European festivals, and three of his productions have been invited to the Tanzplattform Deutschland: Unstern in 2020, the solo Tanzanweisungen in 2022 and Terminal Beach in 2024. The pieces Tanzanweisungen and Autoplay were shown in Mainz at the tanzmainz festival #4.
Moritz Ostruschnjak is one of the Aerowaves Twenty21 Artists and was awarded the City of Munich Dance Promotion Prize in 2020. He is a member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts and Tanztendenz München e.V. Trailer Park is his first production with the tanzmainz ensemble.