For this session, Patscharaporn Distakul and Katelyn Skelley will share an insight into their film project on the topic of motherhood and dance. The work in progress shares portraits from three female dance artists who are mothers. The work explores the embodiments of caring; conversation between fluid bodies; the present state of stillness and the challenge of listening to the inside - outside. The film is narrated with excerpts from personal interviews and engages visually through movement practices sourced from the content of the interviews. Made with collaborators: Judith Nagel, Allison Brown, Filip Piskorzynski 

Patscharaporn Distakul is a dancer and mother. She received her bachelor’s in dance from

Codarts, Rotterdam Dance Academy and has completed a further education in cultural

management at Kölner Institut für Kulturarbeit. She has worked for various dance companies as

well as freelance projects around Europe. Currently she is developing her own work focusing on

the topic of female menstrual cycle in dance, documentation and retelling life experiences from

female perspectives.

Katelyn Skelley is a dancer working in education, research and performance. She holds a BFA in

dance from New York University and a MA in Contemporary Dance Education from the

Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts. Katelyn has a Lehrauftrag at HfMDK and

co-initiated the platform re-dance in 2020 that centers parenting dancers, through which she

pursues research on the topic of motherhood and dance.

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*20.05.22

*7pm at the studio

Please use the entrance at Henschelstrasse 18