{"id":43442,"date":"2025-08-21T10:42:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T08:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/?post_type=news&p=43442"},"modified":"2025-08-22T11:47:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T09:47:51","slug":"pina-bausch-fellowship-for-solitude-alumni","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/news\/pina-bausch-fellowship-for-solitude-alumni\/","title":{"rendered":"Pina Bausch Fellowship for Solitude Alumni Mounir Saeed & Rachel C. Walker"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"template":"","news_type":[664],"class_list":["post-43442","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news_type-news-en"],"acf":{"bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","custom_color_css_variable":"","content_type":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","bgcolor":"has-bg-custom","bgcolor_custom":"rgb(255,255,255)","layout_col_size":12,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"

Congratulations to Solitude alumni Mounir Saeed<\/a> and Rachel C. Walker<\/a>!\r\nThe two have been awarded the prestigious Pina Bausch Fellowship for Dance and Choreography<\/b><\/span>. We are especially happy that their artistic collaboration began at Akademie Schloss Solitude and will now continue and be supported beyond the fellowship.<\/span><\/p>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","bgcolor":"has-bg-lila","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":12,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"Mounir Saeed<\/span> is an Egyptian artist working with dance and music. In his artistic research, he explores chaos, instinct, and survival \u2013 through both body and sound. Key stages of his career include a fellowship at Akademie Schloss Solitude (Sphere of Practice Aural & Physical, 2020\/2022), participation in La Biennale di Venezia, and a research stay at the Max Planck Institute for Animal Behavior (Field Trip Fellowship in cooperation with Akademie Schloss Solitude, 2025). His choreographies have received multiple awards, among them the 3rd Prize at the Solo Dance Festival Stuttgart and the prize for \u00bbBest Theme\u00ab at the Festival Teatri Riflessi in Sicily. Through his work, Mounir investigates how movement and sound can reflect social and emotional questions.\r\n\r\nAs part of the Pina Bausch Fellowship, Mounir will spend six months collaborating in Dresden with composer Rachel C. Walke<\/span>r (Akademie Schloss Solitude fellow in the Aural & Physical Sphere of Practice, 2022). Her interdisciplinary approach bridges music composition, collaboration with living writers and theoretical reflection \u2013 a perspective that plays a vital role in this collaboration.\r\n\r\nTogether, they will explore how chaos theory can be applied to music and choreography. Combining theoretical inquiry with practical research\u2014such as workshops\u2014they will examine new ways of artistically expressing group dynamics, employing notation, and integrating musical actions into performance. Rachel\u2019s interdisciplinary practice and her diverse artistic background form a valuable foundation for this joint project."},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"rgb(255,255,255)","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"From the jury statement:\r\n\u00bbThrough the last decades, dominant contemporary dance aesthetics have been largely Eurocentric and these narratives have also heavily biased dance pedagogy in the Global South. Mounir Saeed is a choreographer from Cairo who's work intelligently pushes against this norm, not through a return to the past, but rather, via a well-researched move into the interstices of body and sound \u2013 evocative of, but not parodying ideas of breathwork and repetition from the country he resides in.\r\n\r\nWe hope that through this conversation across disciplines, the interdisciplinary will be defined by more than just multiplicity, but rather, by the complexity of hearing and seeing the other.\u00ab\r\n\r\nA programme of the Arts Foundation of North-Rhine Westphalia and the Pina Bausch Foundation"}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/43442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_type?post=43442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}