Iskra Zankova

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Iskra Zankova (born April 26, 1945 in Sofia , Bulgaria ) is a Bulgarian-German ballerina , ballet teacher and dance critic. She has made a name for herself as an advocate of classical-academic dance and professional ballet training in Germany and Switzerland. The university lecturer, president of the German Dance Council / German Ballet Council and author of numerous publications is one of the few stage artists who also work historically and scientifically and do public relations work on dance politics .

Life

Iskra Zankova received her ballet training in Sofia from Anastas Petrov, the founder of the Bulgarian ballet and himself a student of Evgenia Eduardova and Max Terpis in Berlin. Her teachers also included stars like Peter Tornev and prima ballerina Valia Verbeva.

At the age of 15 she made her debut on the stage of the State Theater of Youth in Sofia in the ballet comedy Der Bürger als Edelmann by Jean-Baptiste Molière . After completing her ballet training, Zankova studied English and history at the Sofia State University with a degree in philology. During her studies she was also active as a competitive athlete in the field of rhythmic gymnastics, won several prizes in national and international competitions as well as the gold medal in the master class at international student competitions in Riga, Kiev and Minsk (1964, 1965 and 1967).

Stage career

From 1966 to 1968 she was engaged as a dancer with the ballet of the State Music Theater in Sofia and from 1969 to 1977 as a soloist in the ballet of the Bonn Opera . There she shone especially in leading roles in the Bournonville ballets La Ventana , Conservatoriet and Napoli in the preparation of Hans Brenaa from Copenhagen. There were also guest appearances in the Federal Republic of Germany, Switzerland, Italy and Great Britain, mainly in the classical repertoire. She was a partner of the Varna Prize winners Konstantin Damianov and Ferenc Barbay. Iskra Zankowa has an entry in Who is Who in the Arts .

Choreographies

At the Bonn Opera House she choreographed in 1973, The Soldier's Tale by Igor Stravinsky and designed at the Bonn Beethoven House dance illustrations for the special exhibitions:

  • The Moonlight Sonata , 2004
  • The anger over the lost penny: Beethoven and the money , 2008
  • Moritz von Schwind and German Romanticism , 2009
  • Franz von Stuck and the Reform Dance , 2013

Iskra Zankova created the choreographic productions for the ballet studio of the University of Bonn in collaboration with the university choir , the university orchestra Collegium musicum and the university orchestra Bonn - Camerata musicale :

Bonn artist house

In 1979, Iskra Zankova married the science journalist and sinologist Eberhard Gockel (born November 23, 1938 - September 23, 2002 in Bonn), press spokesman for the Hermann von Helmholtz Association of German Research Centers and, for over 20 years, honorary editor and editor-in-chief of the specialist journal Das Ballett-Journal / The dance archive . Zankova and Gockel jointly initiated the Bonner Künstlerhaus ─ in 1979 with the idea of ​​uniting dance, painting, music and drama under one roof. Zankova opened her own ballet school here in 1979, the Ballet Studio Salvatore Viganò , named after Salvatore Viganò , the choreographer of the world premiere of the ballet The Creatures of Prometheus by Ludwig van Beethoven in 1801 in Vienna. Until 2001, Zankova taught many ballet-loving children and young people, some of whom made it to professional stage engagement.

University activity

In 1974, Iskra Zankova, succeeding Léon Wojcikovski, (an ex-star of Sergei Pavlovich Djagilev's Ballets Russes ) took over the artistic and organizational management of the Ballet Studio at the University of Bonn. This university ballet studio, founded in 1967 by Eberhard Gockel and the later ARD-Tagesthemen boss Ulrich Wickert , offers courses in connection with university sports, the studio for art education and the Studium Universale for students from all faculties. The University of Bonn is the only academic university in Germany that can claim to have its own ballet studio.

In 1989 Zankova began to teach ballet history and dance theory at the Cologne Institute for Stage Dance. Her students were both dance students from the Hochschule für Musik and students from the grammar school ballet training at the Rheinische Musikschule Köln. From 1998 to 2010 she also had a teaching position for classical ballet repertoire at the diploma course in dance at the Cologne University of Music. After the introduction of the Bachelor and Master system and the installation of the center for contemporary dance at the University of Music Cologne, these subjects were abolished.

Pioneering work in Switzerland

From 1973 to 1981 Zankova presented her programs The Language of Classical Dance and The Ballerina (consisting of ballet performances and a lecture) throughout Switzerland (as well as in Great Britain, Germany and Italy ) in close collaboration with the Swiss dance journalist Rudolf Liechtenhan . Contacts were established with the Swiss Migros Cooperative, which advertises the Swiss Migros Dance Study Prize in Zurich. From 1973 to 2010 Zankowa headed the training for the award of the ballet scholarships for this dance award. As a guest teacher, she gave summer courses in Lugano (1988 to 1996), Saignelegier (2003, 2004), Delémont (2005 to 2008) and Zurich (2004 to 2009). In addition, she worked as a training manager at the Swiss Concours national de danse in Geneva (1988, 1989, 1990) and at the International Swiss Ballet Competition in Solothurn (2008 to 2010).

Memberships

Iskra Zanjkova is a member of the jury at the German National Youth Dance Competition in Paderborn (2009, 2011, 2013, 2015), co-founder (1986) and President of the German Dance Council / German Ballet Council and a member of the Performing Arts section in the German Cultural Council . In October 1988 the German Dance Council / German Ballet Council organized the international symposium Dance as an Educational Phenomenon in the Rheinisches Landesmuseum in Bonn under the patronage of Jürgen Möllemann .

Publications

Web links

Press

  • Danced Wut , Bonner General-Anzeiger, April 12, 2008, performance of the Bonn Ballet Studio of the University of Bonn in the Beethoven House with choreographic sketches by Iskra Zankowa
  • Ballet competition in Solothurn women from all over the world, Basellandschaftliche Zeitung, 4th May 2009
  • Pictures, music and dance Franz von Stuck and the reform dance , performance by members of the Ballet Studio of the University of Bonn, October 6, 2013, 4 p.m., Beethoven House, Chamber Music Hall

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ goethe.de
  2. ↑ bnr.bg
  3. ↑ - ( Memento of the original from April 2, 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.berlin.de
  4. ↑ Thomas Blubacher: Max Terpis . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 3, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 1832 f.
  5. ↑ http://www.bis-dance.de/news.php?readmore=49
  6. ↑ merkur-online.de
  7. ^ Who is Who in the Arts, 1st edition, Munich 1975, ISBN 3-921220-07-6 .
  8. ↑ uniorchester-bonn.de
  9. ↑ eberhard-gockel.de
  10. ↑ Refuge on Roman soil. Away from the big cultural scene, the Bonner Künstlerhaus works almost in secret, in Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, 27./28. June 1998
  11. ↑ Everything under one roof. 20 years Bonner Künstlerhaus, in KABINETT ART 2.2000, journal for the federal city of Bonn, the cathedral city of Cologne and the federal capital Berlin
  12. ↑ https://www.uni-bonn.de/einrichtungen/kulturforum/ForumMusikUndTanz/ballettstudio/kuenstlerische-leiterin
  13. ↑ sportangebote.uni-bonn.de ( Memento of the original from February 20, 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. Ballet studio of the University of Bonn  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sportangebote.uni-bonn.de
  14. ↑ general-anzeiger-bonn.de General-Anzeiger Bonn, where Ulrich Wickert once danced
  15. ↑ sportangebote.uni-bonn.de
  16. ↑ hfmt-koeln.de
  17. ↑ zzt.hfmt-koeln.de ( Memento of the original from February 20, 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / zzt.hfmt-koeln.de
  18. ↑ dansesuisse.ch Migros Study Awards Dance in Zurich
  19. ↑ basellandschaftlichezeitung.ch International Swiss Ballet Competition in Solothurn
  20. ↑ culture-bildet.de
  21. ↑ dance-germany.org
  22. ↑ katalog.ub.uni-leipzig.de German Dance Council and German Ballet Council (ed.): Dance as an educational phenomenon . International symposium; Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn October 28 and 29, 1988; Conference documentation. Bonn 1989, OCLC 889982454
personal data
SURNAME Zankova, Iskra
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bulgarian-German ballet dancer, ballet teacher and dance critic
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Sofia , Bulgaria