Master Class with Steve Valk

Open to all Duke students with all levels of performance interests. +++ Steve Valk is a cultural activist, contemporary dance dramaturge and director of the Institute of Social Choreography in Frankfurt, Germany. For 12 years (1992-2004), he was Head Dramaturge and creative collaborator for William Forsythe and Ballet Frankfurt. During this period his groundbreaking visual, installational and performative dramaturgy informed Forsythe's seminal choreographic works. From 1998 to 2004 Valk's dramaturgical focus on trans-disciplinary networking led to the development of new participatory situations for the institution of contemporary dance. In 2007 he founded the international dramaturgical and social choreographic design agency "r.i.c.e." (radical institute of cybernetic epistemology) with headquarters in Limerick, Ireland, Helsinki Finland and Frankfurt Germany.