Editta Braun

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Editta Braun (born May 25, 1958 in Vöcklabruck , Austria ) is an Austrian choreographer, stage dancer, dance teacher and founder and director of the Salzburg dance company editta braun company .

Life

Editta Braun was born as the youngest of four children of Margarethe and Martin Braun in the Upper Austrian Salzkammergut. At the age of six she received lessons in classical ballet and piano and trained intensively in artistic gymnastics (Upper Austrian state champion among young female gymnasts in 1974).

From 1976 to 1982 she studied sports science and German at the University of Salzburg , became involved in student politics and completed her studies with work on the subjects of “Sport at alternative schools” and “Art is lamenting, doubting everything that is beyond question - Maria Erlenberger's work from a feminist perspective ”. In 1983 she began her dance training: in Paris mainly in the École Peter Goss and in New York in the Studio Eleo Pomare. She also shaped her dance lessons with Cristina Caprioli, Sônia Mota and Germaine Acogny as well as acting lessons (method acting) with Walter Lott. Stylistically she was also influenced by a dance project initiated by SZENE Salzburg with Wim Vandekeybus , where she learned to combine her artistic gymnastics with contemporary, sporty dance.

The impulse to turn to contemporary dance came from an encounter with the work of Pina Bausch at a performance in Vienna in 1980.

Artistic career

2009, Offside, editta braun company

In 1982 Editta Braun founded the “collective processes” together with Beda Percht, which in 1986 won the internationally coveted choreography award from Bagnolet with Lufus (ex equo with Saburo Teshigawara).

In 1989 she founded the editta braun company in Salzburg , with which she has worked on at least one full-length dance piece every year and toured internationally. Her dance pieces have been or are performed in numerous countries in Europe, Africa and Asia at renowned festivals and have won numerous awards.

Braun worked early on in the field of dance film adaptation. a. with Othmar Schmiderer , Wolfram Paulus and Hannes Klein. Her most successful film is "Collision", made in 1993 under the direction of Othmar Schmiderers. The short film was awarded a bronze medal at the New York Film Festival in 1995.

Teaching

Editta Braun has been teaching acrobatic-gymnastics and gymnastic-dance forms of movement at the inter-faculty department for sports and movement sciences at the Paris Lodron University in Salzburg and, since 1997, contemporary dance, physical theater and choreography at the Institute for Dance Arts at Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz (Austria) , Improvisation and professional strategies.

From 1992 to 1997 she worked as a lecturer at ImPulsTanz Vienna (formerly International Dance Weeks Vienna) and from 1994 to 1997 as a commissioned choreographer for the ballet school of the Vienna State Opera . In 2006 she was in charge of the youth project “wintertime” at the Festspielhaus St. Pölten .

As part of her teaching activities, Editta Braun developed a specific improvisation technique in which acting and contemporary dance are combined to form "physical theater".

Style and way of working

2001, Luvos vol. 2, editta braun company

Editta Braun's dance pieces have an expressive, theatrical style that gives them an unmistakable character. Humor and pathos are often close together, always interwoven with a decidedly socially critical commitment.

The special style of Editta Braun's dance theater pieces also results from the choreographer's special way of working in the creative process:

Editta Braun is a dancer, choreographer, artist, may be a “grande dame”, maybe also a “wild bumblebee”, as others say ... but above all else she is a person. As a person, she works with people and for people. What sounds banal is essential. Is central for you, for your creative work and for the results of this work. Humanity is the essence of their work and shapes the result, which - quite humanly - is never finished, never really "result" and thus an object, but always in the process of becoming, a project.

The close cooperation with composers, live musicians and artists outside Austria is characteristic of Editta Braun's creative work. The collaboration with the French dancer and choreographer Jean-Yves Ginoux, with the Egyptian director Mahmoud Aboudoma and with the legendary Jean Babilée was particularly influential . With him in 1993/94 in Paris and Salzburg, the dance theater piece "La vie, c'est contagieux" was created:

Lots of small lamps, a comfortable sofa and a composition of honest lampshades on the stage. Nothing else but a father confronted with the various stages of his daughter. First the 13-year-old, playful, spirited, individual, but walking in his steps - arm in arm. Then the 22-year-old, growing up. Strong but not independent. The first love, like the following, is shaped by the father figure. Still with the 33-year-old.

Since 1996, the creation of her pieces has been closely linked to the music of the composer and musician Thierry Zaboitzeff , with whom she also lives.

One of the internationally most successful productions and generally one of the most frequently performed pieces is Luvos, vol.2 . The "long-running hit" (Ditta Rudle 2008) emerged as a further development of the play Lufus (see above) in 2001 in Salzburg and with this established a series of innovative, purely female body illusion theater from now six pieces by Editta Braun, which also includes planet LUVOS (2012), Close Up (2015) or Close Up 2.0 (2017) and Fanghoumé (2019). In this series, Editta Braun and her company conduct continuous research into visually overcoming body boundaries. (see editta braun company : the "Luvos" series)

Socially critical and ecological commitment

Born out of a creative and at the same time critical impulse of the eighties, which continues to this day, Editta Braun's artistic work has always been decidedly political. Pieces like Voyage à Napoli , Luvos, vol. 2 , King Arthur or currently residing in made this clear in the choice of topics. no more art with text contributions and a. by Kurt Palm and Christian Felber in 2011 painfully questioned the meaning of artistic creation in the face of hunger, war, environmental destruction, species extinction and growing inequality.

Braun's political approach is also reflected in a decidedly intercultural production method: the choreographer repeatedly developed socially committed projects, especially in Asia and Africa, with local artists and confronted their cultural, historical and social identity with Central European traditions. The pieces thus created include India (1998 in Bangalore and Salzburg), manifest (2002 in Senegal and Salzburg) and Coppercity 1001 (2007/08 in Alexandria / Egypt and Salzburg).

Works

Full evening pieces

  • 1989: The Hunt (quintet)
  • 1990: Materials for dance & music (dance and live music)
  • 1991: Collision (duet with Jean-Yves Ginoux)
  • 1991: Bonjour Adieu (commissioned work for the Luxemburg Dance Company)
  • 1992: but kind old sun will know ... (dance theater)
  • 1993: La vie, c'est contagieux (dance theater with Jean Babilée)
  • 1994: Voyage à Napoli (dance and rock'n roll live)
  • 1995: Titania (picture in motion to Sisi, Empress of Austria, Queen of Hungary; duet with Celine Guillaume)
  • 1996: In the Pianist's Jungle (dance fable for young hearts)
  • 1997: Heartbeat - concerto for dance & music, op. 1 (Duo music and dance with the musician and composer Thierry Zaboitzeff )
  • 1998: India (originated in Bangalore, South India)
  • 1999: Miniatures (dance and live music, commissioned for the opening party of the Salzburg Festival )
  • 2000: Nebensonnen (quartet)
  • 2001: Luvos, vol. 2 (quintet, body illusion theater)
  • 2002: manifest (acting, dance and martial arts; originated in Senegal)
  • 2003: Tajine (improvisation project with dance, drama, live music)
  • 2004: Eurydike (symbiosis of three branches for the play Eurydike by Barbara Neuwirth )
  • 2005: oXalis (originated in Greece and Austria)
  • 2006: Eurydike revisited (commissioned work for the Carnuntum World Theater Festival )
  • 2006: Matches of Time (dance theater; made in Italy and Austria)
  • 2007: Coppercity 1001 (drama and dance; originated in Egypt and Austria)
  • 2008: Once I'm dead, I'll go to paradise (dance and live music)
  • 2009: Offside (dance theater; originated in Portugal and Austria)
  • 2010: King Arthur (dance and drama)
  • 2011: no more art (dance and drama)
  • 2012: planet LUVOS (dance and body illusion theater)
  • 2013: currently residing in (dance theater, solo)
  • 2014: Paula (Solo)
  • 2014: instant (surprise performance)
  • 2015: close up , piano concert with Aysedeniz Gökcin and physical theater
  • 2016: LoSt (dance theater, duo)
  • 2017: Close Up 2.0 , piano concert with Cécile Thévenot and physical theater
  • 2018: trails , dance theater, quartet using images from the film Homo Sapiens by Nikolaus Geyrhalter .
  • 2019: Fanghoumé (body illusion theater)
  • 2019 Layaz (dance duo Urban Dance)

Short pieces

  • 1986: Grid (Solo)
  • 1986: Passion for Two (Duo)
  • 1987: Lego (quartet)
  • 1987: Diva (Duo)
  • 1988: Felis (Trio)
  • 1988: Steinhof (Solo)
  • 1991: if I listen to the moment (commissioned work for the Luxemburg Dance Company)
  • 1994: Welcome to Salzburg (commissioned work for the ballet school of the Vienna State Opera)
  • 1995: Gray Blue Sky (commissioned work for the ballet school of the Vienna State Opera, 15 min.)
  • 1996: tutu. Ça va? (Rock ballet, 10 min.)
  • 1997: Bicycle workshop (commissioned work for the ballet school of the Vienna State Opera, 9 min.)
  • 1998: Fish (12 young dancers, 15 min.)
  • 1998: Fragile (23 young dancers, 20 min.)
  • 1999: Sleeping Beauty Sleeps (commissioned work for the ballet school of the Vienna State Opera, 8 min.)
  • 2000: Prêt-à-Porter (9 young dancers, 20 min.)
  • 2000: Kalt (commissioned work for Bruckner University Linz, 20 min.)
  • 2001: Mozart! (Quartet, 13 min.)
  • 2002: Zwei Sonnen (Duo, 30 min., Commissioned work for the HumoFestival Tashkent / Uzbekistan)
  • 2003: La Boîte (livemusic & dance, 25 min.)
  • 2010: Kellerkids (commissioned work for Bruckner University Linz, dance, 20 min.)
  • 2011: We are the 99% (commissioned work for Bruckner University Linz, physical theater, 20 min.)

Movies

  • 1986: Lufus (Director: Kurt Liwehr, ORF-Kunststücke)
  • 1986: monaxiá (director: Rainer Berson, dance fiction)
  • 1993: Collision (director: Othmar Schmiderer , dance fiction; bronze medal at the New York Film Festival)
  • 1994: La Vie, c'est contagieux (Director: Wolfram Paulus , documentary)
  • 2003: editta braun company at Kaay Fecc Festival in Dakar (director: Hannes Klein, documentary for ORF)
  • 2007: e.poration (Director: Hannes Klein, short film)

Prices

  • 1986: Second prize and prize for the most innovative choreography at the Concours Chorégraphique International de Bagnolet in Paris for «Lufus» of the collective processes
  • 1995: Bronze medal at the New York Film Festival for "Collision", directed by Othmar Schmiderer
  • 2001: Award for best director at the Cairo International Festival for Experimental Theater for “Nebensonnen”
  • 2014: International Prize for Art and Culture of the City of Salzburg
  • 2017: Great Art Prize of the State of Salzburg

literature

  • Edith Wolf Perez: "Honored: Editta Braun". http://www.tanz.at/index.php/magazin/people/1880-geehre-editta-braun , accessed on May 18, 2019
  • "Editta Braun - The Rebel". In: Caroline Kleibel: Stage Women . Linz: Fram-Verlag, 2001. pp. 45-57.
  • Editta Braun: "Levitations". In: Rudolf Habringer, Josef P. Mautner (Ed.): The goblin of dreams . Vienna: Picus, 2006, pp. 157–160.
  • Gerti Krawanja: "The Alpha Woman". In: Echo, March 2008, pp. 68ff.
  • "Great State Art Prize for Editta Braun". Salzburger Nachrichten, October 9, 2017. https://www.sn.at/salzburg/kultur/grosser-kunstpreis-des-landes-fuer-editta-braun-19096552 , accessed on May 19, 2019.
  • Austria dances: past and present . Edited by Andrea Amort and Mimi Wunderer-Gosch. Vienna: Böhlau, 2001.
  • Ditta Rudle: "A wild bumblebee". In: Echo 03/2008, pp. 68f.
  • Dance art life. 20 years of the editta braun company . Edited by Gerda Poschmann-Reichenau and designed by Bettina Frenzel. Norderstedt: Book on Demand, 2009.

Web links

Commons : Editta Braun  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Editta Braun . In: Vöcklabrucker Wochenspiegel . March 27, 1975.
  2. ^ College . Anton Bruckner Private University. Retrieved August 17, 2019.
  3. ↑ Gerda Poschmann-Reichenau: Dance Art Life: 20 years of the editta braun company . Ed .: Gerda Poschmann-Reichenau. bod, Norderstedt 2009, ISBN 978-3-8370-9762-7 , p. 116 .
  4. ↑ Ilse Retzek in Oberösterreichische Nachrichten, Linz, May 28, 1994
  5. ^ City of Salzburg: Cultural Fund of the State Capital Salzburg - Prize Winners 2003-2018. In: Kulturportal Stadt Salzburg. City of Salzburg, November 21, 2018, accessed on September 9, 2019 .
  6. ↑ kg / jus: Great State Art Prize for Editta Braun. In: Land Salzburg Landeskorrespondenz. Office of the Provincial Government of Salzburg, October 9, 2017, accessed on September 9, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Braun, Editta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian choreographer
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Vöcklabruck