Isabelle Schad

Isabelle Schad

Isabelle Schad (born April 21, 1970 in Stuttgart ) is a German dancer and choreographer .

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Isabelle Schad studied classical dance in Stuttgart from 1981 to 1990. She then danced for six years for various ballet companies before she became a member of Ultima Vez ( Wim Vandekeybus ) in Brussels and worked with choreographers such as Olga Mesa, Angela Guerreiro, Felix Ruckert and Eszter Salamon. Since 1999 she has been creating her own choreographic works and projects, which are shown internationally.

In 2003, Schad founded the international artist network and project “Good Work” together with Bruno Pocheron and Ben Anderson. a. with Manuel Pelmus, Frédéric Gies and Hanna Hedman. In 2006 she created a piece in collaboration with Germana Civera and Laurent Goldring and a solo in collaboration with Dalija Acin, which u. a. was invited to the Balkan Platform in Athens. In 2005 she started an open collective called “Praticable” with Alice Chauchat, Frédéric Gies, Frédéric de Carlo and Odile Seitz.

She is also a co-founder of the “Verein Wiesen 55” - a group of artists who work in the areas of choreography, dance, light design , sculpture and multimedia . Together they operate the Wiesenburg-Halle production facility.

Schad teaches within her group work and also at the HZT (Inter-University Center for Dance Berlin) in Cologne, Helsinki and Stockholm as well as worldwide in workshops or short-term projects of the Goethe Institutes. In the Open Practice Sessions (OPS) format she developed , body practice, training and choreographic work are put in relation to each other and made communicable.

Schad was a jury member at the International Choreographers Competition in Sofia and a mentor at DanceWeb 2011 and the Performing Arts Program (PAP) Berlin. She received numerous artist in residence stays, including a. at Podewil / TanzWerkstatt Berlin, Espace Pier Paolo Pasolini and Monty Antwerp. She received numerous scholarships, nominations and awards such as "Hope Bearer of the Year", "Choreographer of the Year" and an award for outstanding artistic developments in contemporary dance as part of the German Dance Prize 2019.

Projects and works (selection)

Inside Out Kindl Museum Berlin

Collective jumps

Schad headed the mentoring project Tanztage Berlin in 2007 , created Bach for two dancers in Sofia, which was incorporated into the repertoire there at Red House Sofia, and her solo Without Words . In 2008, the Unturtled # 1-4 project was created in collaboration with Laurent Goldring . In addition, new community projects arose, including Tüddeldüddel-Lüd in Hamburg , which was resumed at the 2009 Dance Congress.

In 2010 and 2011 the group pieces Glazba and Music for 14 dancers each, Communicare for 25 dancers in Lima , Experience # 0.1 for 20 dancers in Bogota , Experience # 0.2 in Lagos for 10 dancers. In 2011/2012 she developed Experience # 0.3 for 3 Bulgarian dancers; a collaboration with the Goethe-Institut Sofia.

In her choreographic group work Experience # 1 , Schad and 26 dancers from 11 countries examined the connections between embryonic developmental patterns, their directions of movement, folds and protuberances in their spatio-temporal relationships. The piece was last seen at Tanznacht Berlin in August 2012. In 2013 she developed a choreography for K3 in Hamburg as part of the project “heute: Volkstanzen”.

In 2012 and 2013 her solo projects Der Bau in Valenciennes and Form und Masse in Berlin premiered with subsequent international performances. Her works Der Bau , Still Lives and California Roll were invited to the International Dance Platform Germany in Hamburg in 2014, in Stuttgart in 2006 and in Hanover in 2008.

In 2014 Schad choreographed in collaboration with the Croatian director Sasa Bozic and the visual artist Laurent Goldring for the group piece Der Bau - Group for 12 performers. The piece was developed in 2019 as a version for children at the Purple Dance Festival and Young Dance House NRW. In 2014 her group choreography Collective Jumps was released in Hebbel am Ufer (HAU) and in a local version in Poznań , for which further local versions were created, including a. at Kampnagel in Hamburg and at the German Cultural Institute in Timișoara ( Romania ). The retrospective On Visibility and Amplifications at HAU presented the artistic collaboration between Isabelle Schad and Laurent Goldring. The solo work Fugen premiered at HAU and was then shown in Moving in November in Helsinki and in the NEXT Festival in Valenciennes .

In 2016 her group piece Pieces and Elements premiered in the Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin and was also shown in the Pact-Zollverein in Essen and in the Berlinische Galerie. In 2017 the two portraits Double Portrait and Turning Solo were created . Her performative exhibition Inside Out , developed in 2018, premiered at Tanz im August Berlin . Her trilogy on collective bodies was concluded in 2019 with the world premiere of the play Reflection (HAU1 Berlin).

Artistic style

Schad's work is at the interface between dance, performance and the visual arts. The focus is on group work, whereby bodies and movements are examined for their materiality, processuality and experience, and physical practice is viewed as a place for learning processes, community and political participation. It is based on somatic body practice such as body-mind centering , significantly influenced by an embryology workshop with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. Shiatsu and Asian movement lessons such as u. a. Meridian work, Aikido Zen and Qigong are important elements of her artistic expression. References between western and eastern ways of thinking are reflected in her solo and group works.

Community formation in dance and the body as a place of resistance are also formulated and norm, competition, discipline, conformity and the status of collective processes are examined and the collective body is examined for its visceral and cognitive dimensions. She worked several times with the visual artist Laurent Goldring.

literature

• Katarina Kelter, Timo Skrandies: Movement Material . Production and materiality in dance and performance (TanzScripte) , Transcript Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-8376-3420-4

Web links

Commons : Isabelle Schad  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Isabelle Schad Good Work Productions website
• Isabelle Schad / Praticable
• Isabelle Schad / Wiesen55 e. V.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 2012_Ruckert_Schad ( Memento of the original from December 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ^ Dance platform 2008: good work productions. Retrieved December 4, 2019 . 
3. ^ Sophiensæle: Isabelle Schad: Music (Praticable). August 19, 2019, accessed December 4, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Wiesen55 e. V. In: Wiesenburg - Halle. February 20, 2013, accessed December 4, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Inter- University Center for Dance Berlin. Retrieved December 4, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Dance and Theater - Goethe Institute. Retrieved December 4, 2019 . 
7. ↑ PAP - class 2017 (Performing Arts Program). Retrieved December 10, 2019 . 
8. ↑ German Dance Prize 2019. October 24, 2019, accessed on December 4, 2019 (English). 
9. ↑ Bach_Red_House_Sofia ( Memento of the original from June 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
10. ↑ Theater Kampnagel Hamburg: Tüddeldüddel-Lüd. Retrieved December 4, 2019 . 
11. ↑ Communicare ( Memento of the original from June 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
12. ↑ Experience # 1 ( Memento of the original from June 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
13. ↑ Heute_volkstanzen_2013_kampnagel ( Memento of the original from June 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
14. ↑ ^{a b} Isabelle Schad in the Uferstudios. Retrieved December 4, 2019 . 
15. ↑ Theater Kampnagel Hamburg: Dance Platform Germany 2014. Accessed December 4, 2019 . 
16. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from June 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
17. ↑ tanzplattform_2008 ( Memento of the original from June 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
18. ↑ Coregrafa Isabelle Schad creeaza la Timisoara un spectacol intr-o formula speciala. Retrieved December 4, 2019 (ro-RO). 
19. ↑ joints - Liikkeellä marraskuussa. Retrieved December 4, 2019 (American English). 
20. ^ Code d'Or: Fugues. Retrieved December 4, 2019 (French). 
21. ↑ Taller Especial. Retrieved December 4, 2019 . 
22. ^ ^{A b} Tanzforum Berlin: Isabelle Schad. Accessed December 4, 2019 (German). 
23. Jump up ↑ Tanz im August - Die Freiheit der Form. Retrieved December 4, 2019 . 
24. ↑ The freedom of form. Retrieved December 8, 2019 . 
25. ^ Tanznacht Berlin. Retrieved December 8, 2019 . 
26. ↑ Like a chain reaction. Retrieved December 8, 2019 . 
27. ↑ Kulturserver NRW. Retrieved December 8, 2019 . 
28. ↑ Dance Platform 2016 ( Memento of the original from June 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.