Jörg Weinöhl

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Jörg-Oliver Weinöhl (born July 19, 1970 in Rüsselsheim ) is a German choreographer and dancer .

Life

At the age of 18, Jörg Weinöhl began his ballet training at the John Cranko School in Stuttgart . After graduating from high school , she was accepted into the training class of the state ballet academy. During this time he danced in performances with the Stuttgart Ballet . His teachers included Sigrid Habermann, Gillian Perry, Adriana Peeva, Heinz Clauss and Alex Ursuliak.

In 1993, after graduating from Marcia Haydée , he was hired by the Stuttgart company and has appeared in works by John Cranko , George Balanchine , William Forsythe , Jiří Kylián , Hans van Manen , Nacho Duato , Uwe Scholz , Stephan Thoss , Roberto de Oliviera and Daniela Kurz to see.

In 1996 he switched to the ballet of the Stadttheater in Bern under the direction of Martin Schläpfer . There he played the role of death for the first time in Kurt Jooss ' "The Green Table", which he reinterpreted several times in Mainz, where he worked for balletmainz from 1999 to 2009 . He danced in choreographies by Hans van Manen, Paul Lightfoot and Sol León, Nils Christe, Stijn Celis , Philipp Egli, Gisela Rocha and Antony Tudor . Together with Martin Schläpfer he created numerous and concise solo roles in his ballets: Beethoven in “Diabelli Variations”, the doubting person in “Reformations Symphony” and “Radetzky March”, to name just a few.

From 2009 to 2013 he danced as a soloist in the Ballett am Rhein in Düsseldorf / Duisburg. Here he created the main roles in the “Trout Quintet” and in “Neither” by Martin Schläpfer. The 2012/2013 season marked his 20th stage anniversary.

At the beginning of the 2015/2016 season he succeeded Darrel Toulon as ballet director at the Graz Opera House (artistic director: Nora Schmid ). At the end of 2017, he announced that he would not extend his current contract after the end of the 2017/2018 season.

He has been working as a freelance choreographer since September 2018.

Works

  • In 2009, Weinöhl's solo evening Das Wissen der Nacht, interpreted by Weinöhl himself, was his first own full-length dance piece at the Mainz State Theater . In changing perspectives, myths, fairy tales and contemporary texts overlap in an interplay of dance and spoken word.
  • In 2011, in the 200th year of death of the poet Heinrich von Kleist , the staged concert with Dance Not Me - was premiered by Kleist's puppet theater in Thun . A work that was written in close collaboration with the composer Isabel Mundry over a period of two years. Follow-up performances with ensemble recherche , the vocal ensemble Zurich and the soprano Petra Hoffmann followed in locations as diverse as the Tonhalle Zurich , the Museum Rüsselsheim , the Biennale for Music Theater in Lyon, the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf, the Gare Du Nord in Basel and the Festival for New Music Salzburg Biennale.
  • In 2012, on the occasion of the first solo exhibition “Staring into the Sun” by the American artist Chris Martin in the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf , Jörg Weinöhl created the interactive dance installation Gestelte Zeit des Verweilens . In it he turns himself into a living performance loop, guided by the visitors of the exhibition.
  • In 2013, for the Zurich University of the Arts, the work Solo on thresholds to the music of the same name by Isabel Mundry for dancer and solo trumpeter was created.
  • In 2015 Der Liebe Schlaf - A Sleeping Beauty Ballet to baroque music by Johann Sebastian Bach , Friedrich Händel , Antonio Vivaldi , Georg Philipp Telemann , Philipp Heinrich Erlebach , François Couperin and others will be premiered at the Graz Opera.
  • In 2016 the choreography And Heaven So Far - A Ballet Evening for Franz Schubert on the symphonic works of Franz Schubert and a selection of his songs, transformed by Isabel Mundry into the present day, premiered at the Graz Opera.
  • 2016: With the choreographic excursion Komm mit , Jörg Weinöhl created a walk-in dance installation in the park and Schloss Eggenberg together with the Graz Opera Ballet and musicians from the early music course at the Graz University of Art .
  • 2016: For the international ballet gala at the Landestheater Salzburg , the choreography revolving around trust and faith as the essential basis of partnership relationships was created. And whether for four dancers to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach in two arrangements by Ferruccio Busoni and György Kurtág .
  • 2016: In the run-up to Christmas, the choreography Nutcracker and Mäusetraum to music by Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowski premiered at the Graz Opera.
  • 2017: in April it became counterpoint. On the other side of Bach , a ballet to music by Johann Sebastian Bach in a choreography by Ainara Garcia Navarro and Jörg Weinöhl premiered at the Graz Opera.
  • 2017: For the 12th St. Gallen Festival , the choreography wreath address, which deals with the body as a temple of the spirit , was created with eight dancers in St. Gallen Cathedral to music by Heinrich Schütz and contemporaries, performed by the Basel Ensemble for Early Music " thélème ”, was premiered.
  • 2017: The dance evening My soul listens to vocal and instrumental music of the baroque in seeing was premiered at the Graz Opera.
  • 2018: the dance play Midsummer Night, Dreamed , Weinöhl's last premiere and world premiere as ballet director of the Graz Opera, is a work based on motifs from William Shakespeare's Midsummer Night 's Dream with music by Mendelssohn, Schubert and Mozart.
  • 2019: The first opera production Orlando by Georg Friedrich Händel was created for the Staatstheater Darmstadt
  • 2020: For the concert "The New Academy - a Beethoven Séance" by the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne , Jörg Weinöhl and the composer Isabel Mundry create connecting moments in which Beethoven's music is listening to itself. In it, the orchestra acts in the choreographic movement sequences developed by Jörg Weinöhl.

Dance film

  • 2008: I'm not alone - A dance film by Nick Hobbs, Dieter Schneider and Tom Neitzke. With Kirsty Ross, Jörg Weinöhl and Paul Pavey. Music: Paul Pavey. Camera: Norbert Busé. ZDFtheaterkanal .

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Awards

  • Nomination for the Austrian Music Theater Prize 2018 in the category Best Overall Ballet Production with the play Nutcracker and Mäusetraum .
  • Nomination for the theater prize Der Faust 2012 for the performance in the play Not Me - about Kleist's puppet theater .
  • The 2006, 2009 and 2011 critics' polls conducted by Tanz magazine named Jörg Weinöhl in the Dancer of the Year category
  • In 2010 and 2011 he was nominated as best dancer in the magazine Theater pur .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stefan Schmöe: A romantic evening with the great dancer Jörg Weinöhl. In: omm.de. Online music magazine, accessed December 12, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Jörg Weinöhl. Short biography. In: rheinoper.de. Deutsche Oper am Rhein - Theatergemeinschaft Düsseldorf-Duisburg gGmbH, archived from the original on May 28, 2013 ; accessed on December 29, 2017 .
  3. ^ Graz: Jörg Weinöhl becomes ballet director - new start in the Graz Opera from the 2015/2016 season. In: tanznetz.de. April 5, 2014, accessed May 7, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Ballet director Weinöhl leaves Graz Opera. In: steiermark.orf.at. November 9, 2017, accessed May 7, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Angela Reinhardt: The secret of the dancing princes - Jörg Weinöhl's solo "The knowledge of the night" at the Mainz Ballet. In: tanznetz.de. April 29, 2009. Retrieved May 15, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Der Bund, June 6, 2011: “Into the open sea of ​​thought” The Thun Castle Concerts will open with a spectacular premiere. Retrieved July 25, 2013 .
  7. ^ FAZ of December 8, 2011: Orpheus in the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf. Retrieved July 24, 2013 .
  8. ↑ Solo on thresholds - Performance for dance and double bell trumpet - 2013. In: jennifervogel.de. Retrieved April 18, 2018 .
  9. ↑ "The Love of Sleep", the slightly different Sleeping Beauty ballet. Retrieved October 22, 2015 .
  10. ^ "Graz: A Ballet Evening for Franz Schubert". Retrieved April 3, 2016 .
  11. ↑ "Come with me ...! In Graz". Retrieved October 16, 2016 .
  12. ↑ "Nutcracker is dancing again after 10 years at the Graz Opera". Retrieved December 3, 2016 .
  13. ↑ "Counterpoint. On the other side of Bach - Illuminating life with Bach ”. Retrieved April 10, 2017 .
  14. ↑ Wreath Speech - Harvested with joy. Retrieved June 30, 2017 .
  15. ^ New Weinöhl Ballet at the Graz Opera. Retrieved October 17, 2017 .
  16. ↑ Bernd Feuchtner: The voice of nature - Jörg Weinöhl's last production in Graz: "Summer night, dream". In: tanznetz.de. May 7, 2018. Retrieved May 7, 2018 .
  17. ↑ Manuel Brug: “Orlando” as a fragmented aria kaleidoscope: the choreographer Jörn Weinöhl makes his debut in Darmstadt with an unusual Handel as an opera director. In: THE WORLD. June 28, 2019, accessed June 28, 2019 .
  18. ↑ WDR: Beethoven: "Alone freedom, go further ..." February 10, 2020, accessed on February 13, 2020 .
  19. ↑ "I'm not alone" A dance film by Nick Hobbs. Retrieved September 16, 2013 .
  20. ↑ Austrian Music Theater Prize 2018: Nominations. Retrieved June 19, 2018 .
  21. ↑ Der Faust 2012: Nominations. Retrieved July 24, 2013 .
  22. ↑ Sema Kouschkerian: Ballet: A troublemaker is directing. In: wz.de. May 16, 2011, accessed on November 9, 2018 (registration required after the free minutes have expired).
personal data
SURNAME Weinöhl, Jörg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weinöhl, Jörg-Oliver (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German choreographer and dancer
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Ruesselsheim