Jean Renshaw

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Jean Renshaw (born November 4, 1964 in Manchester ) is a British choreographer and director .

Training and engagements as a dancer

Jean Renshaw studied classical dance in London with Ruth Silk, Michael Holmes and Richard Gladstone . Her first engagement took her as a dancer to the London Ballet Theater . This was followed by further engagements at the Darmstadt State Theater , the Nuremberg State Theater and the Hessian State Theater Wiesbaden .

Choreographer

In 1987 she made her debut as a choreographer at the Städtische Bühnen Münster and a little later at the State Theater in Nuremberg . Together with Dirk Elwert and Uwe Müller, she founded Tanzwerk Nürnberg in 1994 , where, in addition to her own work, the repertoire also included choreographies by William Forsythe , Rui Horta , Jacopo Godani and Amanda Miller . With Tanzwerk Nürnberg she developed choreographies such as Catching Unicorns , Ikarus or Die Kunst des Landens and De Tijd . In 1998 she became the head choreographer at Theater Dortmund . In addition to her contemporary pieces, she also devotes herself to the classical repertoire - such as Cinderella (1991), Medea (1999), Romeo and Juliet (1997) - as well as ballets and musicals for children and young people such as Rumpelstiltskin (1999), Seven Fables after La Fontaine ( 2002) or the bilingual children's musical Leckerschmecker (2009).

Jean Renshaw choreographed a. a. at the Vienna State Opera , the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe , the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden , the Nationaltheater Mannheim , the Theater Erfurt , the Staatstheater Braunschweig , in Amsterdam, Monte-Carlo and Innsbruck, as well as in Düsseldorf, Gießen, Dortmund, Fürth, Stuttgart, Cottbus, Hildesheim and Hof. In October 2008 she celebrated a sensational success at the Trier Theater with her dance piece Piaf , which is dedicated to the French chansonist Edith Piaf . With her own dance company at the Fürth Theater in November 2008 , she developed a new interpretation of The Emperor's New Dresses based on the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, set to music by Jean Françaix . It was there that her next big dance evening, Modern Times , took place, which premiered in May 2011 at the Kulturforum Fürth . Jean Renshaw made guest appearances with his own choreographies a. a. in Japan, Italy, France and England. Together with the director Hermann Schmidt-Rahmer , she worked on Paris Life by Jacques Offenbach and The Black Rider by Tom Waits / Robert Wilson for the Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf .

Director

For several years now, Jean Renshaw has also been working increasingly as a director of operas, revues and musicals as well as in spoken theater. She staged and choreographed a. a. at the Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck the ballet opera Fairy Queen by Henry Purcell and the musical Kiss Me, Kate ( Cole Porter ) and at the Stadttheater Fürth the musicals A Little Night Music - The Smile of a Summer Night by Stephen Sondheim (2006) and The Last Five Years - Die last five years by Jason Robert Brown (2008). There she also designed the revue for a singer and big band Love Me Gershwin with singer Jutta Czurda and the Thilo Wolf Big Band (2010). At the Landestheater Coburg Jean Renshaw staged the German premiere of the musical Curtains - Curtains up for Mord by John Kander and Fred Ebb after Anything goes by George Gershwin in November 2011 and at the Stadttheater Fürth in the season 2015/16 the world premiere of the musical Der Tunnel nach dem eponymous novel by Bernhard Kellermann .

In the same position, she was previously the overall artistic director of the generation project If I could wish for something and the ballet comedy Les Fâcheux ( The Troublesome ) by Jean-Baptiste Lully and Molière . In addition, Jean Renshaw has dealt repeatedly with plays for children and young adults in recent years. At the invitation of Artistic Director Peter Carp, five different productions have been created for the Oberhausen Theater alone since 2009, most recently the world premiere in December 2016 by Nils Holgersson based on Selma Lagerlöf .

Recently, Jean Renshaw has turned increasingly to opera. She staged the comic opera L'elisir d'amore ( Der Liebestrank ) by Gaetano Donizetti and Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck at the Landestheater Coburg, as well as the baroque opera spectacle Il re Teodoro in Venice ( King Theodor in Venice ) at the Hamburg chamber opera Giovanni Paisiello . Since 2015 she has been a regular guest at the Vienna Chamber Opera / Theater an der Wien . The dramma giocoso Gli uccellatori ( The Bird Catchers ) by Florian Leopold Gassmann was premiered or re-performed in 2017 by Antonio Salieri's School of Jealousy / La scuola de 'gelosi and in September 2018 the world premiere of her opera pasticcio Die Zauberinsel based on Shakespeare's Der Sturm / The tempest to music by Henry Purcell , like the two previous works, also a coproduction with the Cologne Opera , at which Gassmann's Gli uccellatori could already be seen in spring 2018 . Other important stations were her debut at the Vienna State Opera in October 2016 at the invitation of Marc Minkowski with Christoph Willibald Gluck's magic opera Armide (choreography and co-direction) as well as her staging of Mozart's Così fan tutte at the Saarbrücken State Theater .

Honourings and prices

Jean Renshaw is the recipient of the Nuremberg Culture Prize for the Tanzwerk Nürnberg initiative and has also twice received the "Star of the Year" from the Nuremberg evening newspaper for her special services to Nuremberg's cultural life (for the Nürnberg Tanzwerk and for the Orlando dance marathon in aid of AIDS relief organizations in the Nuremberg Tafelhalle ). In 2007 she received this award again, this time for her dance creation Kings in the Kulturforum Fürth. This production was also nominated in the same year by the magazine Die Deutsche Bühne for the category “Best Dance Production”.

Directorial work

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

2008

2006

2005

2003

Choreographic work

1987

1988

1991

1993

  • Witches (premiere) - Theater Rudolstadt
  • Image description (premiere) - Theater Rudolstadt

1994

  • Orlando is Dead (world premiere) - Tafelhalle Nürnberg
  • 24 hour dance marathon - Tafelhalle Nuremberg

1995

  • Catching Unicorns (world premiere) - Tafelhalle Nürnberg
  • Jumping Lessons (world premiere) - Tafelhalle Nürnberg

1996

1997

1998

1999

2000

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

  • Piaf - Teatro di Bastia (Corsica)

2011

2012

2016

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ mir media - Digital Agency - www.mir.de: Gli Uccellatori - Cologne Opera. Retrieved June 4, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Saarland State Theater: detail. Retrieved on June 4, 2018 (German).
  3. ↑ https://www.theater-wien.at/de/programm/production/819/Die-Zauberinsel : Die Zauberinsel. Retrieved October 2, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Kerstin Krämer: SST Christmas fairy tale: This is how the olle moon trip is fun. Retrieved January 11, 2019 .
  5. ^ Wuppertaler Bühnen und Sinfonieorchester GmbH: DER RÄUBER HOTZENPLOTZ. Retrieved November 6, 2017 .
  6. ↑ The School of Jealousy. Retrieved May 13, 2017 .
  7. ↑ a b Orgies of loveliness in shades of rust and gold . In: DiePresse.com . ( diepresse.com [accessed December 8, 2016]).
  8. ↑ pieces. In: www.theater-oberhausen.de. Retrieved December 8, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Gli uccellatori (The Bird Catchers). In: Theater an der Wien. Retrieved October 3, 2016 .
  10. ↑ ESIRION4WEB - www.esirion.com: Stadttheater Fürth - The tunnel. In: www.stadttheater.de. Retrieved October 3, 2016 .
  11. ↑ Dieter Stoll: Klettermax in training. In: The German Stage. Retrieved October 3, 2016 .
  12. ↑ CLICKSPORTS Digital Solutions: Hansel and Gretel - Landestheater Coburg. In: www.landestheater-coburg.de. Retrieved October 3, 2016 .
  13. ↑ The love potion. In: www.region-coburg.tv. Retrieved October 3, 2016 .
  14. ↑ Pitt Herrmann, Julia Vetter, Philipp Stark, Sebastian Olle: Sunday News | Peter Pan. (No longer available online.) In: www.sn-herne.de. Archived from the original on October 3, 2016 ; accessed on October 3, 2016 .
  15. ↑ Otfried Preußler: The little witch. Retrieved October 3, 2016 .
  16. ↑ Enjoyment of the unknown: - WORLD. In: THE WORLD. Retrieved October 3, 2016 .
  17. ↑ a b If I could wish for something. Retrieved October 3, 2016 .
  18. ^ Ghost hunters on an icy trail, Theater Oberhausen | trailer culture. Movie theater. Dysentery. In: www.trailer-ruhr.de. Retrieved October 3, 2016 .
  19. ↑ Andreas Gundelach, Robin Jantos, Claudia Leonhardt, Jan-M. Studt: musicalzentrale - Crazy for you - Landestheater Coburg - No current performance dates. In: www.musicalzentrale.de. Retrieved October 3, 2016 .
  20. ↑ Gudrun Mattern: Theater Oberhausen brings the children's book “The Little Aquarius” to the stage | WAZ.de. In: www.derwesten.de. Retrieved October 3, 2016 .
  21. ↑ Susann Winkel: The murderer is always the critic. In: The German Stage. Retrieved October 3, 2016 .
  22. ↑ ESIRION4WEB - www.esirion.com: Stadttheater Fürth - play details. In: www.stadttheater.de. Retrieved October 3, 2016 .
  23. ↑ a b Michael Schmitz: At the Oberhausen Theater there is “Gourmet” | WAZ.de. In: www.derwesten.de. Retrieved October 3, 2016 .
  24. ^ Nordbayern.de, Nuremberg, Germany: In the kingdom of heaven of double meaning - culture - nordbayern.de. In: www.nordbayern.de. Retrieved October 3, 2016 .
  25. ↑ KULTURpur.de: Jean Renshaw: Modern times Stadttheater Fürth KULTURpur.de. In: www.kulturpur.de. Retrieved October 3, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Renshaw, Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British dancer, choreographer and director
DATE OF BIRTH 4th November 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Manchester