Bettina Wagner-Bergelt

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Bettina Wagner-Bergelt (born September 15, 1958 in North Rhine-Westphalia ), artistic director and artistic director of the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch . She is a dance manager, curator and active in various cultural and political committees for dance. She was Deputy Director of the Bavarian State Ballet until August 2017 and Artistic Director of the Bauhaus100 Festival from October 2017 to February 2019 (opening January 13, 2019 by Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier) on the 100th birthday of the Bauhaus.

Life

Wagner-Bergelt grew up with three brothers in East Westphalia. She attended a modern-language grammar school, first studied human medicine and switched to a master's degree in German, film and theater studies and Spanish literature in Cologne and Berlin.

Professional career

She began her theater career in 1981 at the Theater am Turm in Frankfurt am Main as head of public relations, then dramaturge and member of the artistic management team. During this time she decided to dedicate herself more to dance and its related disciplines in the future.

In 1985 Bettina Wagner-Bergelt became deputy head of the music, theater and dance department in the cultural department of the state capital of Munich. She was responsible for the events of the LH Munich at the Gasteig cultural center. There she specialized in dance, contemporary experimental theater and new music. With organizational support from the department, she founded the LH Munich's biennial dance festival DANCE from 1987 onwards and also worked for the Bavarian State Opera as curator of the New Dance Festival in the Marstall , the experimental stage of the Bavarian State Opera. There she also worked as a dance advisor for the experimental stage Der Marstall.

In 1989 Konstanze Vernon founded the Bavarian State Ballet as an opera and drama ensemble. In 1990 she hired Bettina Wagner-Bergelt as a dramaturge for the development of the modern repertoire. In these years Wagner-Bergelt laid the foundation for the later programmatic series of topics American Program with the pioneers of American modernism, Lucinda Childs, Twyla Tharp and others. a., brought Kylians Svadebka to Munich, organized the first "Portrait van Manen " as a choreographer and photographer and later hired many young choreographers who made their debuts at the State Ballet, such as Angelin Preljocaj, Ohad Naharin, Richard Siegal, Aszure Barton, Itzik Galili u. a.

Since 1998 she has created choreographer portraits from works by Mats Ek , Jiří Kylián , Hans van Manen and Neumeier , which she completed in 2015 with the portrait of Richard Siegal and in 2018 with Wayne McGregor. Wagner-Bergelt developed season concepts and promoted collaboration with choreographers from the international independent and established scene. Concepts in the field of dance and visual arts emerged; the ballet laboratory developed productions in cooperation with the city's DANCE festivals. In April 2016, Wagner-Bergelt initiated the first external re-production of a dance theater piece by Pina Bausch for the children of yesterday, today and tomorrow (Prod. 2002). After the 2016/17 season, she left the Bavarian State Ballet after 27 years.

In November 2018, Wagner-Bergelt was appointed artistic director of the Tanztheater Pina Bausch in Wuppertal .

CAMPUS education program

In 1991 she started a program to convey dance and performance to children and adolescents, which ran from 2006 to 2017 under the title Campus - Children and Youth Program of the Bavarian State Ballet and with various social groups and artists under the heading "Learning differently with art" worked together. Projects such as Das tanzende Klassenzimmer and Anna tanzt I - V , "Heinrich tanzt I-VI" and the festival "Think Big!" have received several awards, the follow-up project Heinrich tanzt went into the 2013 Tanzfonds-Partner of the Federal Cultural Foundation . In 2015, the collaboration with the Altana Foundation and the Nantesbuch Foundation followed in the so-called “Culture Day Year”. In 2016 the Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne supports its CAMPUS projects, especially the "Think Big Festival", which it curated in 2018 together with Simone Schulte-Aladag as part of Dance and School.

Juries, commissions, publications

Bettina Wagner-Bergelt writes book chapters for various publications, gives lectures at the Evangelical Academy Tutzing and organized exhibition projects in the context of ballet productions at the State Ballet, including the first presentation of William Forsythe's work in 2006 at the Pinakothek der Moderne together with Bernhart Schwenk. She was a juror for the Philip Morris Art Prize , for the "Münchner Tanzpreis", art in public space in the city of Munich, Tanzfonds Erbe and curator for the Munich art funding project "Young Art and New Media". She was a juror for the KSB Erbe dance fund, the Bauhaus Today Fund and a member of the advisory board for the 2016 to 2022 dance congress. In 2016, she was jointly responsible for the program at DEUTSCHLAND TANZT in Bellevue Palace, an event organized by former Federal President Joachim Gauck for the German dance scene .

Wagner-Bergelt is a member of the BBTK, (Federal German Ballet and Dance Theater Directors' Conference), board member of BLZT (Bavarian State Association for Contemporary Dance) and board member of the umbrella organization for dance in Germany.

Private

Bettina Wagner-Bergelt is married to Martin Bergelt and has two children. She has been looking after a six-member Nigerian refugee family on a voluntary basis since 2006.

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DANCE LAND OF GERMANY
  2. ↑ Astrid Kaminski: Artistic Director of the Tanztheater Wuppertal: “You only make art with people” . In: The daily newspaper: taz . December 9, 2018, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed January 10, 2019]).
  3. ↑ Wuppertaler Tanztheater Pina Bausch gets new management , message, in: Wuppertaler Nachrichten, November 13, 2018
  4. ↑ Article www.muenchen.de Grüß Gott at the Munich city administration
  5. ↑ See e.g. B. DANCE 2008.
personal data
SURNAME Wagner-Bergelt, Bettina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dance manager and curator
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH North Rhine-Westphalia