Arila Siegert

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Arila Siegert (2020)
Arila Siegert in "Afectos humanos"
Arila Siegert (2019)

Arila Siegert (born September 18, 1953 in Rabenau near Dresden ) is a German dancer , choreographer and opera director.

life and work

Siegert studied New Artistic Dance at the Palucca School Dresden with Gret Palucca and classical dance with Nina Ulanova. In 1970 she got an engagement at the dance theater of the Komische Oper Berlin . In 1979 she switched to the Staatstheater Dresden as a solo dancer . Here she was seen in Harald Wandtke's Apocalyptica (music: Milko Kelemen ) as “you”.

Siegert began to develop choreographies while still a student. From 1985 she gave her first solo evenings. She also created reconstructions of choreographies of German expressive dance by Mary Wigman ( Hexentanz) , Dore Hoyer ( Afectos humanos) and Marianne Vogelsang ( Bach Praeludien ). International guest performances followed.

In 1987 she founded her own dance theater at the Dresden State Theater and a dance company at the Anhaltisches Theater Dessau . From 1996 to 1998 she was in charge of the stage at the Bauhaus Dessau . Her first major ballet choreographies were the world premieres of Gerald Humel's Othello and Desdemona (1988) and Hans Werner Henze's Undine (1992), Circe and Odysseus (1993) in Berlin, Set sail for the sun by Karlheinz Stockhausen in Vienna (1989) as well Medealandschaft after a composition by Sofia Gubaidulina in Leipzig (1992). In Dessau she created reconstructions of Wassily Kandinsky's The Yellow Sound and new creations of Gustav Mahler's Song of the Earth , Giuseppe Verdi's Requiem and Igor Stravinsky's Le sacre du printemps .

In 1986 she assisted Ruth Berghaus in the choreography of Hans Werner Henze's Orpheus Ballet at the Vienna State Opera , followed in 1987 in collaboration with Peter Konwitschny with the ballet The Seven Deadly Sins by Kurt Weill at the Dresden State Theater. She organized her own evenings at the Bauhaus, including the Ursonate by Kurt Schwitters . She also created the urban spaces with the stage architect Hans Dieter Schaal . Together with Schaal, she staged Verdi's Macbeth, their first opera in Ulm in 1998 .

As part of the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus Dessau, the stage composition Violet by the painter Wassily Kandinsky with music by Ali N. Askin was premiered at the Anhaltisches Theater Dessau in September 2019 .

Siegert lives in Berlin .

Productions (selection)

Awards

Publications

In an anthology published by Rotbuch Verlag in 2010, Siegert published an essay about her collaboration with Ruth Berghaus . A detailed monograph about her work was published under the title Arila Siegert - Dancer Choreographer Director in the archive series of the Akademie der Künste Berlin ( ISBN 978-3-88331-167-8 ) with many documents and photos, including by Jim Rakete . The archive of the Berlin Academy also keeps its materials.

Web links

Commons : Arila Siegert  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Salzburger Landestheater: Arila Siegert. Retrieved September 13, 2019 .
  2. ^ Agency Marx: Arila Siegert. Retrieved September 13, 2019 (German).
  3. ^ Arila Siegert - Central Saxon Theater. Retrieved September 13, 2019 .
  4. ↑ FOCUS Online: Dessau-Roßlau: Bauhaus premiere "Violet" at the Anhaltisches Theater. Retrieved November 11, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Irena Štěrbová: Idomeneo - DJKT - Divadlo JK Tyla v Plzni. Retrieved November 11, 2019 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Siegert, Arila
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dancer, choreographer and opera director
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Rabenau (Saxony)