Heike Hennig

Heike Hennig (born November 8, 1966 in Leipzig ) is a German director , choreographer and visiting professor at the University of Leipzig .

Heike Hennig (2008)

Live and act

Hennig experienced her first stage appearances as a child in Leipzig. She studied modern dance / choreography and body mind centering in Cologne and performing arts at the Moving On Center - School for Participatory Arts and Research, in Oakland , California , USA , as a scholarship holder of the Carl Duisberg Society . This was followed by several months of work in theater groups in Brazil and Portugal.

In 1995 Hennig returned to Leipzig, where she worked as a freelance choreographer and dancer from 1998. First she worked with the composer Bernd Franke in the Ensemble Solo Xfach and taught at the Palucca School in Dresden , the University of Leipzig and the Academy of Graphics and Book Art . In interdisciplinary seminars with anatomy , painting and choreography , Hennig conveys body and movement-oriented teaching content.

Together with Friedrich U. Minkus, Hennig founded the FZTM - Forum Contemporary Dance and Music in 2000 and her ensemble Heike Hennig & Co in Leipzig as its artistic director, developing more than 15 plays and 30 interdisciplinary art projects at various stages and institutions. Its staff includes over 50 artists of various genres, from architects to video artists .

The trilogy Fremde was created in 2001/2002 in cooperation with the LOFFT and the International Dance Week Dresden . In 2003 the euro-scene Leipzig commissioned the dance piece “Soshamma” at the Schaubühne Lindenfels and the dance piece “Still” in the LOFFT in collaboration with the installation and video artist Till Exit. In 2004 Hennig developed the dance piece "Estha" which was shown for the first time at international festivals outside the Free State of Saxony . In 2004 the dance piece “Mendel” was commissioned by the Jewish Culture Days Berlin and in 2005 the dance performance “Harzer Roller” as part of Heimat Moderne, an initiative of the German Federal Cultural Foundation . In 2006 Hennig developed the dance piece “Encounters with Bach” for the Thuringian Bach Weeks at the German National Theater Weimar in collaboration with the composer Steffen Schleiermacher .

From 2005 the dance piece Zeit - Tanz seit 1927 was created at the Leipzig Opera , which was filmed in 2007 by the New Zealand director Trevor Peters in the documentary Tanz mit der Zeit by Ma.Ja.De Filmproduktion Leipzig in coproduction with ZDF in collaboration with ARTE and in 2008 was brought into German cinemas by Ventura-Film. Hennig lets the former members of the Leipzig Opera, Ursula Cain , Christa Franze , Siegfried Prölß and Horst Dittmann, who were approaching 80 years of age, tell their dance and life stories from Mary Wigman , Dore Hoyer , Tatjana Gsovsky to Gret Palucca . During the filming, the dance piece Zeit Jump was created , in which the protagonists meet their young colleagues from Heike Hennig & Co and DJ cfm. In the dance piece is about the encounter and confrontation of generations, which is also reflected in the various dance styles from the free dance on street dance and contact improvisation to classical ballet can be read. Since the first performance, ZeitSprünge since 1927 and the sequel ZeitSprünge have been performed over 30 times in Leipzig and at international festivals.

In spring 2008 the Plöttner Verlag Leipzig published the book of the same name for the film “Tanz mit der Zeit” by the author Marion Appelt and a foreword by Renate Schmidt . The protagonists tell from their lives and the common path with Hennig. It contains numerous rehearsal and stage photos as well as archive photos of the protagonist and dance photographer Siegfried Prölß .

For the 2007/8 season, Hennig developed and curated the cross-genre series oper unplugged with Musik Tanz Theater Neue Medien in the cellar theater of the Leipzig Opera. In the first four editions of the cycle Subculture meets high culture , artists such as the countertenor and vocal artist Alex Nowitz , the percussionist Günter Sommer , the double bass player Tobias Lampelzammer, the soprano Marie Schuppan, the dancer Friederike Plafki and many others came together. Here Hennig led an open direction with few directing instructions, which gave the stage-active artists a lot of freedom for improvisation and artistic interaction . The master student Hagen Wiel transported with his videos oper unplugged from the old world of opera to the new world of the internet .

At the Kulturinsel Halle - new theater , Hennig developed the movement track in the play Der Mann, der ... ( Brook , Estienne, Sachs) for the repertoire with the Dutch theater director Paul Binnerts and Jochen Kiefer . In the opera production Alcina for the Handel Festival in Halle (Saale) in 2008, Hennig's choreography and direction led to one of the highlights.

In the 2008/9 season the collaboration with the baroque ensemble Lautten Compagney Berlin began, which opened up new dimensions to European music theater in the dance opera Rituale at the Leipzig Opera and in the production Timeless in the Neues Museum on Museum Island Berlin . The reopening of the Neues Museum in March 2009 developed Hennig and Wolfgang Katschner with Timeless an art form of cultural performing hybridity , the genre-crossing architecture, dance and music to intertwines interactivity. The dancers and musicians met the wandering receptionists in the midst of the architecture, structures and sculptures. David Chipperfield himself merges the most modern and traditional architecture: authentic rooms with high columns, round artistic rooms with arched vaults and modern stairs with glass constructions. The staging of music, dance and architecture metaphorically reflected the hybrid constitution of the Neues Museum as a building and also its artistic pluralistic discourse with the outside world through this genre-rich opening ceremony.

In addition to her stage and teaching activities, Hennig was involved in sociocultural projects in 2006. In juries and artistic advisory boards z. For example, the euro-scene Leipzig, the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony and the Dresden Cultural Foundation of the Dresdner Bank , Hennig campaigned for the promotion of contemporary performing arts and music.

Hennig was included in the 50 portraits of the German dance landscape with the 2008 program manual of the German Dance Platform . She has emerged through her innovative work and distinctive artistic positions and is perceived beyond national borders as an “outstanding representative of contemporary dance ”. 2009 traveled Hennig at the invitation of the University of British Columbia as a "Visiting Speaker" to a three-week lecture tour of Canada . Since 2010 she has been teaching regularly at the Zurich University of the Arts . In the 2013 winter semester, Hennig was appointed as an artistic guest professor at the Institute for Theater Studies at Leipzig University.

From 2012 to 2017 she choreographed and directed a number of theater productions at permanent houses, a. a. Schauspielhaus Leipzig, Theater der Junge Welt and Oper Leipzig. In 2015 she received the Federal Theater Prize for her play "Crystal" . In addition, the production was awarded the "Prize of the Saxon Theatertreffen" in 2016. At the same time, other side-specific productions such as E.g. the year-round staging of the alluvial forest Leipzig in Wald (2015), opthophobia (2015) in the Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig, his last day, Max Reger (2016), Krich (2017), The Read Thread (2017) and the choreography in the documentary by Susanne Kim Trockenschwimmen (cinema release 2017).

As part of the European Capital of Culture 2019 Matera , she developed the "Atlas of Emotions", an art project of the Teatro dei Sassi, together with the writer Alessandro Baricco , the painter Stefano Favarelli, the set designer Paolo Baroni and the filmmaker Luca Acito. With over 300 participants, she developed an interactive performance and an emotional map of the city in the form of a film, which is shown all year round in Matera. At the invitation of the Italian Embassy Berlin, she presented the project to the President of Italy Sergio Matarella and the Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier in a cultural event as part of the European Year of Cultural Heritage in the House of World Cultures in Berlin. In spring 2019 a concert for Clara Schumann will be performed by [Abtnaundorf | Leipzig-Abtnaundorf] as part of CLARA19 , she is invited again to the University of British Columbia in Canada.

She is the great-granddaughter of the Leipzig women's rights activist Auguste Hennig .

Awards

• Movement Art Prize 2009
• Visiting Speaker University of British Columbia 2009
• Visiting speaker at the Zurich University of the Arts from 2010
• Visiting professor at the University of Leipzig (WS 2013)
• Piece of the month (by the Federal Ministry of Health) 2014
• Federal Theater Prize 2015
• Prize of the Saxon Theatertreffen 2016

Works

• 2002: World premiere : “Fremde” at LOFFT , Leipzig. (Third part of the trilogy)
• 2002: World premiere: “Soshamma” for the euro-scene Leipzig in the Schaubühne Lindenfels Leipzig
• 2003: World premiere: “Sosha” for Westend unfinished at LOFFT, Leipzig
• 2003: World premiere: “still.” At LOFFT, Leipzig
• 2004: World premiere: “Estha” for the Dresden International Dance Week
• 2004: World premiere: “Mendel” for the Jewish Culture Days Berlin
• 2005: World premiere: "Harzer Roller" as part of Heimat Moderne , in the Villa Sieskind, Leipzig
• 2006: World premiere: “Time - dancing since 1927”, Leipzig opera filmed by Trevor Peters as Tanz mit der Zeit by ma.ja.de film production in coproduction with ZDF and ARTE
• 2006: World premiere: “Encounters with Bach” for the Thuringian Bach Weeks, in the German National Theater Weimar
• 2006: World premiere: "ZwieLicht" for the autumn dance in the Kleinen Szene Dresden
• 2007: World premiere: “ZeitSprünge” Oper Leipzig
• 2007: World premiere: “Oper unplugged” No 1-4 of the cycle “Subculture meets high culture”, Leipzig Opera
• 2007: German-language premiere : “The man who…” Kulturinsel Halle - new theater
• 2008: Opera production : " Alcina " for the Handel Festival in Halle (Saale)
• 2008: World premiere: "Solo xfach - in Distance and Approach" from the cycle "Half-way house for Joseph Beuys" by Bernd Franke in the Grassimuseum , Leipzig
• 2008: Theater production: " Peter Pan " new version by Sven Grunert for the Tollwood Winter Festival, Munich
• 2009: World premiere: "Rituals a dance opera for Georg Friedrich Händel " Oper Leipzig unplugged
• 2009: World premiere: "Timeless through the ages", music by Tarquinio Merula and Philip Glass , Neues Museum on Museum Island , Berlin
• 2010: World premiere: “Maria XXX” a dance oratorio for the Handel Festival in Halle in the New Theater Halle
• 2011: World premiere: “Wagner Aufstellen” a systemic staging of the triangular relationship between Richard Wagner , Mathilde Wesendonck and Otto Wesendonck for the Wagner Festival in Leipzig
• 2011: World premiere: “Turn! by the turn Look for Flashmob "a mass choreography at the Red Bull Arena Leipzig
• 2011: World premiere: “Das Schicksal der Johanna” a staged production of the unhappy love of Johanna Nathalie Schulz, née. Seyfferth in the Johannapark Leipzig
• 2012: Opera production: " The Cunning Little Vixen " by Leoš Janáček in the directing team under the direction of Lotte de Beer at the Leipzig Opera
• 2012: World premiere: "Unhappy, why are you cheering?" in the directing team under the direction of Kristof Spiewok at the Leipzig Opera
• 2012: World premiere: "Total Weight" a play at the Theater der Junge Welt in Leipzig
• 2012: Theater production: "Human Being Parzival" by Bernhard Studlar based on Eschenbach and Wagner in the directing team under the direction of Jürgen Zielinski at the Theater der Junge Welt Leipzig
• 2012: Theater production: "Preparadise sorry now" by Rainer Werner Fassbinder in the directing team under the direction of Wolfgang Maria Bauer at the Schauspiel Leipzig
• 2012: Theater production: "The story of the uncle" by Tomas von Brömssen and Lars-Eric Brossner based on Barbro Lindgren at the Theater der Junge Welt Leipzig
• 2014: World premiere: "Crystal" by Heike Hennig in Leverkusen as a coproduction by the Theater der Junge Welt Leipzig with Bayer Kultur
• 2014: World premiere: Production for 12 dancers by Heike Hennig on behalf of the Saxon State Chancellery on the Day of German Unity in Hanover
• 2015: Theater production "Transit" by Anna Seghers, arranged by Paul Binnerts, Frankfurt am Main
• 2015: Forest, year-round staging of the riparian forest Leipzig
• 2016 Optophobia, Gallery for Contemporary Art Leipzig
• 2017: World premiere: "Bräute" a play by Heike Hennig in the Theater der Junge Welt in Leipzig
• 2017: Always on the move
• 2018: Emergence, submergence - interventions at Lake Zurich, ZHdK Switzerland
• 2019: World premiere: "Atlas of Emotions" on behalf of "Teatro dei Sassi Matera" in coproduction with the Matera Basilicata Foundation 2019 as part of the European Capital of Culture

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Portrait on Tanzplattform Deutschland (PDF; 67 kB), on tanzplattform.danceinfo.de, accessed on April 10, 2019
2. ↑ FZTM - Forum of Contemporary Dance and Music
3. ↑ Heike Hennig & Co
4. ↑ Tanz mit der Zeit , on ventura-film.de, accessed on April 10, 2019
5. ↑ 17th International Dance Week Dresden April 19-29. 2008 - ZeitSprünge a dance piece by Heike Hennig & Company , on tanzwoche.de, accessed on April 10, 2019
6. ↑ Schedule Opera unplugged on the Internet
7. ↑ Heike Hennig. Retrieved April 10, 2019 .  , on http://tanzplattform.danceinfo.de
8. ↑ About me. Retrieved March 16, 2019 . 
9. ↑ Awards. Retrieved March 16, 2019 . 
10. ^ ARD Studio Rome: Capital of Culture 2019: Matera in Italy. December 31, 2018, accessed on March 16, 2019 (original sound Heike Hennig at 1:07). 
11. ↑ Atlas of Emotions. Retrieved March 16, 2019 . 
12. ^ Page of the Italian President: Tavola Rotonda La Cultura Europea come Patrimonio del Futuro. Retrieved March 16, 2019 . 
13. ↑ Hennig, Auguste (nee Wechsung). Retrieved March 16, 2019 (co-author). 

Literature / DVD

• Marion Appelt: Dance with Time , Leipzig, Plöttner Verlag 2008, ISBN 978-3-938442-45-6
• Sigrid and Hansdieter Hoyer about time - have been dancing since 1927 in: Left, where Faust's shoe flashes: Leipziger Passagen , Vienna, Picus Verlag 2008, ISBN 978-3-85452-938-5
• Trevor Peters: Tanz mit der Zeit , Berlin, Good Movies / Ventura 2009, Indigo, DVD 926328
• Sebastian Göschel about Estha in: Arbeit und Rhythmus , Munich, Wilhelm Fink 2009, ISBN 978-3-7705-4766-1
• Hagen Wiel: Maria XXX - Der FILM , Leipzig, DVD on the label of Heike Hennig & Co 2011
• Heike Hennig u. a .: Autodidact model , Berlin, Panama Verlag 2011, ISBN 978-3-938714-17-1

Web links

• Heike Hennig & Co official homepage