Bernd R. Bienert

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Bernd Roger Bienert (2013)

Bernd Roger Bienert (born January 17, 1962 in Vienna ) is an Austrian ballet dancer , choreographer , ballet director, director and set designer .

Life

Engravings by JF Götz for the melodrama Lenardo and Blandine , 1783

1978 to 1985 Bienert worked as a dancer at the Vienna State Opera and at the Nederlands Dans Theater . At the Zurich Opera House Bienert was engaged from 1991 to 1996 as a ballet director. 1999 to 2001 an engagement at the Saarland State Theater in Saarbrücken followed. In collaboration with dance scholars such as Anne Hutchinson-Guest, Claudia Jeschke and Millicent Hodson, Bienert has also rendered outstanding services to the reconstruction of choreographies that are significant in dance history, for example by Vaslav Nijinski , Ernst Börlin , Michel Fokine and Arthur Saint-Léon .

Since 2011, Bienert has also been reconstructing historical representation and staging practice in the field of opera and melodrama in the Teatro Barocco in Altenburg Abbey, based on the example of the copper engravings by JF Götz .

Projects (selection)

  • ÜberLeben (Ballet) Award: 1st Prize ( Christl Zimmerl Prize), Vienna Choreographic Competition, 1982
  • Un Re in Ascolto , Luciano Berio , world premiere: Salzburg Festival
  • 1 trazoM (ballet); Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ; Choreography: Bernd R. Bienert; World premiere: Nijmegen, Introdans , 1986
  • The Trojan Peace (Opera) Music: Max Beckschäfer ; Libretto: Herbert Rosendorfer ; Direction, choreography, set design: Bernd R. Bienert, world premiere: Munich, 1st Munich Biennale , 1988
  • Compass , Luciano Berio, world premiere: Zurich Opera
  • Medea fragment , music: Hans-Jürgen von Bose World premiere: Zurich, Opera House, 1994
  • Alpenglühn , Thomas Pernes , Vienna State Opera
  • The Nutcracker (ballet) based on motifs by ETA Hoffmann ; Music: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ; Choreography: Bernd R. Bienert, world premiere: Zurich: Zurich Ballet, Zurich Opera House, 1995
  • He, not as he (play by Elfriede Jelinek ; 1998) Director: Bernd R. Bienert, Volkstheater Wien , 1999
  • Bolero. Airplane Love Waltzes (Ballet) Choreography, production, equipment: Bernd R. Bienert, world premiere: Saarbrücken, Saarländisches Staatstheater, 2000
  • Restless living (dance theater) Text: Elfriede Jelinek, music: Roman Haubenstock-Ramati ; Direction, choreography: Bernd R. Bienert, world premiere: Linz: »Ars Electronica«, Neuer Posthof, 1991
  • Death and the Maiden II (Ballet) Text: Elfriede Jelinek; Music: Olga Neuwirth Choreography, staging, equipment: Bernd R. Bienert, commissioned by the Saarland State Theater in coproduction with the Center for Art and Media Technology (ZKM) Karlsruhe and the cultural program German Pavilion EXPO 2000
  • The Distance of the Moon (Ballet) Music: Karlheinz Essl ; Choreography, production, equipment: Bernd R. Bienert, premiere: June 28th in the Schömer-Haus, Klosterneuburg, 2002
  • alzburg: eutopa (dance piece for the Austrian jubilee year 2005) Music: Jay Schwartz, Karlheinz Essl ; Direction, choreography, text, equipment: Bernd R. Bienert, world premiere on November 23, 2005, Semperdepot , Vienna
  • since 2011 Teatro Barocco , Altenburg Abbey, Laxenburg Palace Theater, operas and melodramas by JA Hasse, GA Benda, Joseph and Michael Haydn, Peter von Winter.

Web links

Commons : Bernd Roger Bienert  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bienert's homepage
  2. ↑ Ursula Pellaton: Bernd Roger Bienert . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 1, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 197 f.
  3. ↑ Homepage Martina Haager
personal data
SURNAME Bienert, Bernd R.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bienert, Bernd Roger (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ballet dancer, choreographer, ballet director, director and set designer
DATE OF BIRTH 17th January 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna