Book Launch:
Noa Eshkol –Movement Notation
17 March 24, 3 pm
In English
Venue: Georg Kolbe Museum, Sensburger Allee 25, 14055 Berlin
Registration via info@georg-kolbe-museum.de
Ticket 8 Euro regular / 5 Euro reduced incl. admission to the exhibition
As the event takes place within the exhibition rooms, the entrance fee must be paid.
Image Credits: Noa Eshkol and Abraham Wachmann – Movement Notation
Movement Notation is considered to be the first publication of the “Eshkol-Wachman Movement Notation” (EWMN) developed by Noa Eshkol and Abraham Wachmann. With this polyphonic notation system, Eshkol and Wachmann focused dance on its basic element: the movement of the human body. They treated the different parts of the body as separate instruments, similar to the musical instruments of an orchestra–each with its own rules for the movements to be performed. This new edition of the 1958 publication is supplemented by contributions from Eshkol’s companions and further archive material, which contextualizes and supplements the history of the EWMN’s origins and embeds it in contemporary discourses on dance and movement.
The publication is published in the context of the performance Pause: The Noa Eshkol Chamber Dance Group at KW Institute for Contemporary Art (August 2023), as well as the exhibition Noa Eshkol: No Time to Dance at the Georg Kolbe Museum (March–August 2024). The new edition was developed together with the Noa Eshkol Foundation for Movement Notation.
On the occasion of this year’s 100th birthday of Noa Eshkol (1924–2007), the book publication will take place on the opening weekend of the exhibition Noa Eshkol: No Time to Dance on March 17, 2024 at the Georg Kolbe Museum.
The publication is supported by the German Federal Cultural Foundation. The German Federal Cultural Foundation is supported by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.
With generous support of Artis
With support of neugerriemschneider and Freundeskreis Georg Kolbe Museum.
In cooperation with Georg Kolbe Museum