Arthur Kuggeleyn

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Arthur Kuggeleyn (* 1960 in Zeist , Netherlands) is a Dutch choreographer , theater maker, actor and performer .

Life

Arthur Kuggeleyn grew up in the Netherlands and Curacao . In 1979 he moved to Berlin . He lives at Schloss Bröllin in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , and in Berlin.

job

Arthur Kuggeleyn joined the Freie Theateranstalten Berlin in 1982 ; there he played in the play ( King Ubu ) after Alfred Jarry . In 1984 Kuggeleyn founded the RA-Theater in Berlin, for which he created new versions of classical theater pieces such as Philoktet (after Heiner Müller) and Lear (after Shakespeare) as well as his own pieces and performances. From 1985 he played in experimental films, a. a. by Hartmut Jahn and Ika Schier, and created choreographies, a. a. for the former performance group Notorische Reflexe . He organized various theater and performance festivals such as: "All adventures of this earth", "Offscoene" or "Civilization anti-civilization". In 1986 Arthur Kuggeleyn founded the RA.MM Theater, a Berlin spectacle and performance group. After a studio scholarship in 1988 at Künstlerhaus Bethanien , he co-founded the RAMMZATA venue in Berlin in 1989. In 1991 David Vostell made a video about Bestia Pigra .

After the fall of the Berlin Wall , he founded the cultural institution “Broellin Castle” in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania with the RA.MM. From 1997 to 2000 he danced in Felix Ruckert's company and was mainly known for his solo in the dance piece “Hautnah”. During this time his own dance company Arthur Kuggeleyn + Co. was established. With his dance group he developed his "Trance-Hypnotic" dance style in the Arsenic Theater in Lausanne, which is characterized by minimal, reduced and repetitive movements. Some of his provocative dance theater pieces, such as "Heizkörper" or "Masters of Complications", found worldwide success. Kuggeleyn has created several commissioned works for dance , ballet and theater companies, the most famous of which are "Dios Mio" with the ballet Teatro del Espacio by Michel Descombey in Mexico City , "Friendly Fire" for the Kosovo ballet and "Cage Birds" for the Jin Xing Dance Theater in Shanghai.

Choreographies and plays

  • 1987: RIDIKI
  • 1987: 750,000 sec rush hour
  • 1988: THING
  • 1988: Apis
  • 1988: Braindrops
  • 1989: Embryonic evolutionary congestion research
  • 1989: file
  • 1990: mass drive
  • 1991: Bestia Pigra
  • 1992: Casa de locos
  • 1993: Kaerlek me
  • 1994: buys brains
  • 1994: BED
  • 1995: Save
  • 1995: signs of shock
  • 1996: Short shocks
  • 1996: I
  • 1998: Lost
  • 1999: Superuschi
  • 1999: Red Light
  • 2000: Sticky couple
  • 2000: testosterone
  • 2001: How to mange a hiccup
  • 2001: Hiccups
  • 2002: heating element
  • 2003: Comix trip
  • 2003: Enormous flying flower jelly job
  • 2004: Ubiquitrip
  • 2004: Intimintime
  • 2005: Masters of complications
  • 2006: Headless
  • 2006: Nothing possible
  • 2006: After effects '06
  • 2007: Dios Mio
  • 2007: Okidoki
  • 2007: Cash
  • 2011: After effects '11
  • 2011: Friendly fire
  • 2012: Hi-story
  • 2013: Endless
  • 2013: Cage Birds

Publications

  • Berlin Wonderland
  • Exposition "Heizkoerper de Arthur Kuggeleyn" by Isabelle Ginot, édition l'Arsenic de Lausanne, 2002
  • The somanbul
  • RA.MM Theaterart, 1990
  • Florian Vogelfrei

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry Superuschi on www.dock11-berlin.de ( Memento from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Berlin Wonderland website
  3. ↑ Article on the Somnabules
  4. ↑ RA.MM on www.bethanien
  5. ↑ Catalog Florian Vogelfrei
personal data
SURNAME Kuggeleyn, Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch choreographer, theater maker, actor and performer
DATE OF BIRTH 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Zeist , Netherlands