cie. toula limnaios
The cie. toula limnaios is a contemporary dance company that was founded in 1996 by the choreographer Toula Limnaios and the composer Ralf R. Ollertz in Brussels and has been based in Berlin since 1997 .
portrait
In 1996 the choreographer and interpreter Toula Limnaios founded the cie with the composer Ralf R. Ollertz in Brussels. toula limnaios. After one and a half years as artist in residence at the Theater L'L, she moved her headquarters to Berlin in 1997 and has since expanded her ensemble, with which she works continuously. In 2001 she was awarded a sponsorship prize from the New Dance Meeting . In 2003 she opened her own venue, Halle Tanzbühne Berlin . In 2004 her Beckett trilogy was produced as a dance film for ZDF / arte under the title breath . Since 2005 the company has received basic funding from the Berlin cultural administration. For the years 2008–2010 she was awarded the Performing Arts Fund with a conceptual grant for top ensembles in independent theater and dance . The extensive repertoire of the cie. toula limnaios, which now comprises 29 full-length works, can be seen on German and international stages around the world. In 2011 it celebrated its 15th anniversary. The dance company works with the Bregenz Festival , for which it staged reading tosca as a commissioned work, the Goethe Institute and the Federal Foreign Office . The tours took the ensemble through Europe, Africa and South America. In 2012 she was awarded the george tabori prize .
Work structure
The cie. toula limnaios is not a temporary, project-related ensemble, but follows the immanent need to produce with permanent employees, long-term planned productions throughout the year at regular working hours and with its own stage with year-round schedules, which is a condition for your artistic success and yours Persistence is. Its formal development is characterized by two new productions per year, which since 2006 have been characterized by a juxtaposition of a polyphonic group production and an intimate chamber piece or an experimental work that breaks new ground. Alongside Sasha Waltz , she is the only Berlin company that is able to present their work regularly thanks to the permanent employment of their dancers.
literature
- Sandra Luzina: demons of the soul. In: Der Tagesspiegel , July 25, 2006.
- Sandra Luzina: A complicated affair. In: Der Tagesspiegel , June 14, 2008.
- Not one with yourself, you know that. In: the daily newspaper , August 3, 2008.
- Eva-Maria Nagel: Tosca crime scene. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , August 22, 2008.
- Karin Schmidt-Feister: Simmering Power of Destruction. In: Neues Deutschland from November 19, 2009.
- Sylvia Staude: A body under your feet. In: Frankfurter Rundschau , December 7, 2009.
- Sandra Luzina: German-African dance theater in Berlin. In: Der Tagesspiegel , June 15, 2010.
- Michaela Schlagenwerth: Like Siamese twins . In: Berliner Zeitung , June 19, 2010.
- Sandra Luzina: Every woman has a dark secret. In: Der Tagesspiegel , October 27, 2010.
- Karin Schmidt Feister: If this continues ... In: tanznetz , November 27, 2011.
- Juliane Wieland: A feeling for the body . In: tanzpresse , December 8, 2011.
- Volkmar Draeger: The search for meaning in this world . In: tanznetz , August 5, 2011
Web links
- Homepage of Cie. toula limnaios
- Halle Tanzbühne Berlin
- Overwhelming images of fragmented relationships. on tanznetz.de , June 14, 2008.