Profile

Professional career

• since 10/1998
  Since 1998 lecturer for dance science and dance history at Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, FU Berlin, University Bern, Palucca Schule Dresden, among others
• 04/2000 - 12/2011
  Managing Director Tanzarchiv Leipzig e.V.
• since 01/2004
  Birth and Death of the first son
• since 11/2005
  Birth of the second son
• since 01/2011
  Birth of the daughter
• since 01/2012
  Research Assistant at the Faculty of History, Art and Oriental Studies (GKO), in succession:
• 09/2012 - 03/2013
  Research assistant at the Institute for Theatre Studies and at the University Library (Department of Special Collections / Cataloguing)
• since 04/2013
  Research assistant at the Institute for Theatre Studies and in the office for study affairs of the faculty (curricular manager)
• since 12/2019
  Expert for the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)

Education

• 10/1989 - 03/1995
  Studied Applied Theatre Studies at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen, Germany
• 04/1995 - 10/1997
  Doctoral student in the Research Training Group "Gender Difference and Literature" at the Ludwig Maximillians University Munich, Germany
• since 07/1997
  Doctorate at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen, subject: "Dancing Bodies Dancing Gender - Dance in the 20th Century from the Perspective of Gender Theory", Germany
• 10/1998 - 03/2000
  Postdoctoral research fellow at the Graduiertenkolleg "Theater als Paradigma der Moderne" at the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany

Panel Memberships

• since 01/2022
  Board member of the Center for Women's and Gender Studies at UL (FraGes).

• Dance from the perspective of gender, queer, masculinities and feminist studies
• Dance and the practices of its archiving
• Dance and film/dance in film
• Dance and visual arts
• Dance history from the 16th century to the present
• Techniques of dance analysis

• Construction of Bodies and Gender in Early Dance (16th to 18th century, with the focus on Saxonia)

  Schulze-Fellmann, Janine

  Duration: 01/2014 - ongoing

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Institut für Theaterwissenschaft; Studienbüro/Fakultät für GKO; Theaterwissenschaft
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• Schulze-Fellmann, J.

  Tanz, in: Männlichkeit, ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch

  In: Horlacher, S. (Ed.)

  Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler Verlag. 2016.

  ISBN: 978-476-02393-3
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• Artwinska, A.; Schulze-Fellmann, J. (Eds.)

  Gender Studies im Dialog. Transnationale und transdisziplinäre Perspektiven

  Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. 2022

  DOI: 10.14361/9783839458075
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• Schulze-Fellmann, J.

  Zigarettenalben - Archive und Bewegungsbühnen des Tanzes

  Tanz in Bildern. Plurale Konstellationen der Fotografie. Bielefeld: transcript. 2022. pp. 147-168

  ISBN: 978-3-8376-6462-1
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• Schulze-Fellmann, J.

  The Male Dancer - Grenzen übertanzen oder der ewige Kampf der Körper mit dem Binären

  In: Schulze-Fellmann, J.; Artwinska, A. (Eds.)

  Gender Studies im Dialog. Bielefeld: transcript. 2022. pp. 267-291

  ISBN: 978-3-8376-5807-1
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• Artwinska, A.; Schulze-Fellmann, J.

  Gender Studies – Grenzen und Entgrenzungen

  In: Artwinska, A.; Schulze-Fellmann, J. (Eds.)

  Gender Studies im Dialog. Transnationale und transdisziplinäre Perspektiven. transcript Verlag. 2022. pp. 11-28

  DOI: 10.14361/9783839458075-001
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• Sommerakademie

  Gender Studies 1989–2019. Bilanzen und Perspektiven im transnationalen und transdisziplinären Vergleich

  Slawische Literaturwissenschaft und Kulturstudien (Schwerpunkt Westslawistik); Institut für Theaterwissenschaft; Zentrum für Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung (FraGes)

  Event Organiser: Artwinska, Anna; Schulze-Fellmann, Janine

  14/07/2019 - 20/07/2019
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Dance studies describes, interprets and analyzes practices of body staging. The bodies and the changing movement techniques and styles are always regarded as historically, politically and socially relevant. Whether in everyday life or on stage, bodies are effects of performative practices.

• The search for the lost body -. Questioning dance and body discourses of the 17th century (summer 2022)

• Dance films: Archives of Dance and Body History (summer 2022)

• From movement description to dance analysis - An introduction (winter 2021/22)

• Performing Masculinities: Move it! (winter 2021/22)

• Dance/paintings - On the affinity between stage dance and the visual arts (19th-21st c.) (summer 2021)

• Crossing the Straight? – Crosscasting in dance, theatre and film (16.-21. century) (summer 2021)

• Women (parts) on the theater (17th c. until today) (winter 2020/21)

• From movement description to dance analysis - An introduction (winter 2020/21)

• Dancing Beyond Boundaries - The Rebellious Potential of Dance in Movies, Music Videos and Commercials (summer 2020)

• From the Symbolic to the 'Natural' - Dance-Body-Gender in Theater Productions and Theories (summer 2020)

• Introduction to dance analysis (winter 2019/20)

• Seminar: Lamento - Of great feelings on the (dance) stage (winter 2019/20)

• Seminar: BodyPower - An Introduction to Historical Dance and Body Discourses (summer 2019)

  
  

  
  

• Seminar: Masculinity as Costume (summer 2019)

• Seminar: Introduction to dance analysis, with a focus on the staging of gender differentiation (winter 2018/19)

• Seminar: On the tradition of gender exchange - crosscasting/dressing in dance, theatre and film (from the 16th century until today) (winter 2018/19)

• Male, Female, Divers - Body stagings and their inherent gender differentiations (SoSe 2018)

• Seminar: When the Images Learned to Dance - About the Interaction between Dance and Film (summer 2018)

• Seminar: When the Images Learned to Dance - About the Interaction between Dance and Film (summer 2018)

• Seminar: Work in Progress- Le Sacre du Printemps (accompanied by Mario Schröder's new production for the Leipzig Ballet) (winter 2017/18)

• Seminar: Dancing Gender - An Introduction to Dance History from the 18th to the 21st Century From the Perspective of Gender Studies (summer 2017)

• Seminar: Missing Links in the History of Dance..: Danced images of women and dancing women in European dance before 1800 (summer 2017)

• Seminar: Talking about Movement/Writing about Movement (winter 2016/17)

• Seminar: Dance and Visual Arts - Mario Schröder's new production "van Gogh" (winter 016/17)

• Seminar: Art-Body-Politics - Introduction to Courtly Dance and Festival Culture (16th-18th Century) (SoSe 2016)

• Seminar: Cross-Casting - from Baroque Performance Practices to Body Staging in 21st Century Fashion ( summer 2016)

• Seminar: Once upon a time: The preference for fairy tale material as ballet material - (Mario Schröder's new product "Die Märchen der Gebrüder Grimm") (winter 2015/16)

• Seminar: Once upon a time: The preference for fairy tale material as ballet material - (Mario Schröder's new product "Die Märchen der Gebrüder Grimm") (WiSe 2015/16)

• Seminar: Occupied by manhood (summer 2015)

• Seminar: Between Ecstasy and Discipline: Body Theories, Techniques and Knowledge in the Baroque (summer 2015)

• Seminar: Shakespeare's Othello as Ballet (Mario Schröder's new production for the Leipzig Ballet) (winter 2014/15)

• Seminar: Festival/Dancing - Stagings of Body and Gender in Dance and Festival Culture (16th - 18th Century, Focus Saxony) (winter 2014/15)