About Gabriele Klein

Gabriele Klein is an internationally renowned dance and performance scholar and has held the Hans van Manen Chair for Ballet and Dance at the UvA since 2022. With her early, influential sociological studies of Berlin techno (Electronic Vibration. Pop – Kultur – Theorie, Rogner & Bernard 1999) and hip-hop (Is this real? Die Kultur des HipHop, together with Malte Friedrich, Suhrkamp 2003), she is one of the pioneers of German-language popular music studies.

Her English-language book publications include Emerging Bodies: The Performance of Worldmaking in Dance and Choreography  (transcript 2011, together with Sandra Noeth), Dance (and) Theory (transcript 2013, together with Gabriele Brandstetter), and the recent edited volume Materialities in Dance and Performance (transcript 2024, together with Franz Anton Cramer).

Programme

As usual, the “Amsterdance Day with Gabriele Klein” will consist of two events:
- 12:00 - 14:00: an exclusive workshop for members of the research group (a separate invitation to Amsterdance members will be sent via the internal mailing list);
- 15:30 - 17:00 a public lecture UT 3.01.

The title of Gabriele Klein’s lecture is Researching club culture. A praxeological approach
"Electronic dance music (EDM) was originally made for nightclubs, raves, and festivals. Here, dancing takes center stage, and the success of a DJ stands or falls with a full or empty dance floor. While the music has been and continues to be studied in many different ways, the dance itself is rarely the subject of research. Drawing on studies of techno and hip-hop culture, in this talk I will outline both social and dance studies approaches to dance practices in club culture. Using these examples, I will present a praxeological approach to dance research that I have developed in my research projects".