WHAT WERE YOUR EXPECTATIONS?

• I felt a bit in the dark about what to expect as a teacher in terms of tech support, student number or backgrounds but it was okay as this is often the case
• to share practice
• to share my tools/practices and experience the tools/practices of others
• to meet new practitioners
• to share questions, knowledge, desires
• networking
• new inputs, new points of view, new concepts
• inspiration
• physicality, dancing, various formats of performance (lecture, teacing), exchange with others, time to reflect + get inspired
• to find new way to be together and enrich my life
• nothing
• tools for teaching, tools for documenting, very practical ones "tricks and tracks"
• overstimulation
• i expected to become a part of the community
• new inputs about practices
• to get more space
• admin
• interactions
• what did you expect of me?
• expected to meet many people, exchange new thoughts
• to make/meet new colleagues
• I came with few expectations. I expected a balance of emodied practice and more traditional presentations
• meeting curious people and creating a meaningful place space and time to exist in
• as it is my first time of participating in the Symposium... my expectations were all over the place, space, time. But basically to meet those people who created this beautiful and meaningful platform as a form of sharing. I was curious.
• to be remembered
• connecting / finding ground / exchanging information and feelings and movement
• multiplicity of exchanges
• support from staff (volunteers), organizers as a workshop presentor
• to be stimulated and engaged
• unexpected connections
• time to meet and talk and share out outside of scheduled workshop times
• how is modern dance education evolving?
• support ideas
• to find place to try out
• to listen, to be in dialgue with my peers, to learn of differenc experiences + approaches to a teaching practice
• what is contemporary dance?
• i hoped to become surprised of something
• conversation about (teaching) practice
• to have an open inquisitive place to share and experiment
• back in the project / see colleagues / refresh my understanding or the project, tool
• to be inspired
• interactions / meeting people / performance – experiences!
• inspiration, interdisciplinary
• My expectations were (1) to meet a community of professionals who are engaged with the matter "dance" and I found those in this Symposium. (2) To create more communication paths with other professionals and colleagues. (3) To access innovative information. (4) To share my finding with others. (5) To create more bonds with others. (6) To find a different space for reflection about dance rather than the academic space or training space.
• To learn more about how dance in connecting the world.
• space for sharing.
• to be transformed and moved on new questions and solutions
• my expectations were to learn from others not only with language but by the way they are; They are fullfuled.

WHAT HAPPENED?

• I found newconnections between my thougts thoughts
• I I experienced to be a part of a circle
• I feel at home
• I moved. I danced. I slept. I got excited. I got tired. I connected.
• Discovering the physical weight of Mind the Dance.
• self-knowledge sharing love inspiration community
• nice people who are interested in the well-being of all beings
• I had the opportunity to speak and question my feelings about difficult subjects
• I got to engage with experts in meaningful ways
• I was provoked to realise how strongly I feel about econimic inequality and spcial inequality
• space for wharing
• the connection cognitive + emotional happened big time
• my 4th IDOCE various / cohesive / inventive / novel / memorable / It all happened SO FAST!
• learned A LOT / + have more resources for my students + colleagues
• enriching experiences and beautiful encounters
• realising how process is so important; again and deeper
• broad view, concern about the "common good", education
• very rich and diverse propostions and folks / just go on that way for many years / Thank you.
• I felt supported, I found joy and hope again!
• I greatly appreciated bringing politics of every scale into our work
• truly (mind)open(ing) space
• I experienced making contact with people searching and becoming aware of
• new searches for myself 
• exhaistion
• I learned more about how dance connects to society and the world
• I am happy + proud that IDOCDE Symposium is in Vienna
• New approaches to moving, teaching, creating
• I received a lot of different inspirations / I had fun / I meet wonderful people / I felt safe to play / I felt human
• I am grounded. I slowed down. I feel content. I shared. I listened.
• comraderie. solidarity. courageous conversations.
• I appreciated the time between for reflection
• I was taken in with open arms
• space for sharing
• unexpected connections :)
• I sensed commitment among participants
• reaffirmed the importance of what I do
• nice encounters, enrighing
• encounters
• met colleagues
• drew with my bones
• lack of the other non-dancer etc.
• i chose to go to my "second choice" workshops to challenge my comfort level and am very happy I did.
• I saw that most of us have almost same fears and restrictions / we shoudle encourage each other to contact
• what happened happened. And I'm thankful for that. There was a lot of henerosity, diversity and passion, love and such a tremendous amoung or care and belief that sometimes it just blew me away... continues breathing.
• getting new ideas
• moving together
• what is the connection between IDOCDE and Mind the Dance?
• meeting friends / colleagues
• participate din dialogue and exchanges. Shared my knowledge. Gained new knowledge. Feel amowered by finding co-thinkers / participants / new colleagues
• rock, paper, scissors / grounded, context to reflect on specific pedagogic approaces
• spaces to reflect on what I do, what you do, how that is the same or different
• I sensed the concerns as more "felt", as if the hit closer to home? as if up until now we spoke of work and now we cannot but speak of life.
• (1) people shared knoledges and new ideas and future actions for the world I am sure will come! (2) subtle space; creativity; subtle perceptions; bringing up thoughts about communitarian inclusive living. (3) my question would be: how does my way of living affect my creativity – being an artist or not...
• what do I want in my artistic work as a teacher, dancer
• questioning my relation to compromise
• inspiration and energy to re-invigorate my teaching practice
• I feel free to express myself as I am (heart) I found acompany
• bringing the individual with the collective
• i couldnot see / attend enough
• breakthrough / massive appreciation
• have a book to take home, use and share
• conversation about power, agency, hierarchies – in dance teaching and elsewhere
• got new skills / networked
• very busy with our proposal / missed out on many things
• questioned my political activism
• seen heard
• embodiment of the knowledge
• welcomed
• vulnerability
• there are many different kinds of teachers as tehre are humans. witnessed different approaches be in dialogue with each other
• met lovely people
• discover the guide Mind the Dance
• inspiration
• reflection about dance education
• that we reinforced ourselves and grew a little bit together more
• I listened to people's stories about their work
• very connected lectureres :)

WHAT WOULD YOU WISH FOR THE FUTURE SYMPOSIA?

• I wish to reach out more – reach out to the people out of the dance scene.
• presentations from diverse dance practices/philosophies (katak, butoh, hip hop, african, folklorico, ...)
• more time in teaching presentations for class talk about methods + approaches
• focus on disability + different learning styles + bodies
• I wish to move and thin more
• I wish to listen more "other" people from "other" disciplines
• more resources (€, time...)
• I would to go into a deper research of dance knowledge/methods in relationship to other sectors/fields/disciplines/populations
• more meeting with non-dancer and/or "marginalised populations"
• small stipends for lectureres (at least travel) (added to the note: three ticks of support)
• time to get worked into work so that we wouldn't ahve to assume or pretend things were easy when they are not.
• library – books/resources to share – space for reflection + writing / thinking
• more time outside of scheduled workshops for connecting / networking
• it was not clear which workshops were movement based
• can there be more attention given to presentational methods?
• a week / to get there
• more stories
• (crossed out: maybe) dance party
• more outdoors activities (exploring city landscapes for example)
• hearing everyone's names + where they come from not just presenters
• more time to dialogue with special interest groups
• more brief introductions to people's work
• to have more time in each session / class
• I wish for more participants from other disciplines, backgrounds, interests
• I would love a sort of "formal" opening circle, maybe even saturday morning since so may people are not here friday night to make connections sooner
• It would be nice to have moment sin the day where nothign is happening... giving an opportunity for a pause, digestion + exchange...
• public political action
• EMPTY space
• more ways to connect with more participants
• get switzerland back into it
• more balance between contact impro and other kinds of contemporary dance proposals
• more time for sessions
• more structured time to talk
• I wish to hav emore time to eat and socialise + informal sharings
• more participants!
• incite all artists who took part into idocde / leap / reflex
• place for people's cards / books / materials
• not during ImPulsTanz would create more focus and allow a fuller program (probably less participants though)
• longer "food for thought" warm-ups
• more movement
• continue to work interdisciplinary
• orientation to idocde website
• focus on context and difference
• appreciation and respect for the technical staff
• how to bring the theoretical into movement (and vice versa)?
• simplicity
• more practice less talking
• what is the place of language in a Symposium about dance?
• keep it happening every year
• more people to know this exists
• should there be offerings in other languages?
• how can we name what we're learning without using verbal language?
• wish: more time for debate
• would be better to ask the workshop leaders to be more precise when they give a title to their workshops
• more time together
• diverse practices to be shared
• better cushions
• space for sharing
• I would like to bring more friends to the Symposium
• scheduled lunch breaks for everyone, please!
• cross–relating to creative process
• a bit more time i.e. start earlier on Friday
• maybe? try to stay together somehow? hotel or hostel?
• lunch breaks
• An understanding of how the chosen events fit into the theme
• I wish myself to be more participative
• add more moving / improv (I'm never here for Food for Thought)