Jutta Czurda

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Jutta Czurda (born January 18, 1955 in Coburg ) is a German choreographer and singer. She lives in Fürth and San Francisco .

Life

In 1980 she founded the Forchheim dance workshop and in 1983, together with Michael Bader, the Langenfeld dance academy, a training school for dance pedagogy and the seat of her ensemble “Theater of Moving Arts”. As a seminar leader for modern dance and dance theater, Jutta Czurda is in demand nationwide. 1986 Jutta Czurda and her company find a new home in Fürth. She founded the Czurda dance theater, of which she was artistic director until 1997. Together with her company, an international ensemble of dancers, she works on commissioned productions for the Städtische Bühnen Nürnberg, the Tafelhalle Nürnberg and the Stadttheater Fürth . Your theater works are invited to national and international festivals.

In the past ten years, instead of dance theater productions, her work as a singer has come to the fore. Her repertoire ranges from classical chansons and contemporary lyric poetry to jazz and blues. Jutta Czurda has been an ensemble member of the Stadttheater Fürth since 1998, for which she has worked on outstanding music productions. She excelled as Lola Blue, directed by Werner Müller, in Georg Kreisler's eponymous musical, and with her long-time musical partner, the composer and pianist Heinrich Hartl , in the late-night program if ick am once dead ... . In 2004, together with Angelika Aliti and Werner Müller , she launched a new literary genre, the Magical Salon , at the Stadttheater Fürth . In 2005 the album Lonely House was created with chansons and songs by Kurt Weill with Richie Beirach , Gregor and Veit Hübner . The production Love Me Gershwin followed in 2010 with Thilo Wolf's Big Band .

Awards and honors

In 1986 Jutta Czurda received the Nuremberg City Promotion Prize . In 1988 she was awarded the Wolfram von Eschenbach Prize . In 1989 the city of Fürth received the cultural award , in 1995 the cultural award of the city of Fürth and finally in 1998 the Bavarian Theater Award .

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SURNAME Czurda, Jutta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German choreographer and singer
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Coburg