Karin Hermes

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Karin Hermes (* 1966 in Zurich ) is a choreographer , dancer , dance teacher and specialist in dance notation and the cinetography of Laban .

Live and act

Karin Hermes was trained as a stage dancer at the Zurich Ballet Academy and at the School of American Ballet in New York City . After subsequent engagements and a. At the Schauspielhaus Zürich and the Staatstheater Stuttgart she completed a degree in dance pedagogy at the Institute for Stage Dance at the Cologne University of Music . With a scholarship, she studied movement analysis and movement notation according to the Laban system at the Paris Conservatory . Here in 1998 she received the first prize in the focus on reconstruction for her "Cycle de perfectionnement". From 2004 to 2007 Hermes was artistic director of the atempo repertory dance ensemble and from 2005 to 2008 she was a guest artist at the Center National de la danse Pantin / Paris . She worked as a ballet master for the Atelier d'Envol and specialized in the rehearsal and adaptation of notated dance works from the 20th century.

In 2007 she founded hermesdance in Bern. With this professional ensemble she completes international tours and realized a. a. Coproductions with the Center National de la danse Pantin / Paris and the Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern . In 2009 and 2017 she received work grants from the canton of Bern for her choreographies “In the green corner of the circle” and “human rights”. From 2011 to 2015 she headed the Research Panel of the International Council of Kinetography Laban .

She is currently a lecturer in dance education at the Bern University of the Arts .

Hermes has worked as a guest lecturer and guest artist at universities and theaters in Germany, Paris, Lyon , The Place and Trinity Laban London and Israel .

In addition to the choreography of numerous dance theater productions, she reconstructs historical productions and researches reinterpretation processes of historical works. In addition, she made several dance film documentaries and noted choreographies a. a. by François Malkovsky, Lucinda Childs and Ether Winter and continued with works a. a. by Yvonne Rainer Anna Sokolow , Helen Tamiris and Lester Horton apart.

The choreography “Big City” by Kurt Jooss from 1932, which she reconstructed in collaboration with Anna Markard for the Junior Ballet Lyon , was recorded by WDR . The work Betwixed and Between - Dialogue with “Rooms” by Anna Sokolow was recorded for the 2009 Arte production “Dance-Rebells”.

Awards

  • 2016: Swiss Dance Prize, Cultural Heritage Dance, awarded for the Sigurd Leeder project
  • 2017: Cultural Education Award of the Canton of Bern

Choreographies (selection)

  • Floating Bodies , studies on the Paintings by Vladimir Referencelov , Tiengen, 1994
  • The Circle's Green Corner , coproduction with Zentrum Paul Klee , for 3 dancers, 2 actors and piano, Bern, 2007
  • Carmina Burana , choreography with 200 singers, 7 musicians, 3 dancers, 15 teenagers (young ensemble), 25 children (stage tigers), Kultur Casino Bern, courtyard generation house, co-operation with the Burgergemeinde, Bern, 2014
  • Betwixt and Between - Dialogue with Rooms by Anna Sokolow , coproduction with the Center National de la Danse, for 7 dancers and 3 musicians, Paris and Bern, 2008
  • Wing to wing ( Wing to Wing ), Part 2 of the trilogy of "Betwixt and Between - Dialogue between the I and the You," Coproduction with Dampfzentrale Bern, for two dancers and one musician, Bern, 2008
  • Hic salta! , 5 attempts to deal with the other, part 3 of the trilogy of "Betwixt and Between - Dialogue between the I and the You", for 5 dancers, 1 actor, 2 musicians, composition by Daniel Glaus , Bern, 2010
  • Pigeons et Palmiers , dance performance about human rights, 2 dancers, 1 musician, Hehre Fahne, Bern, 2018

Films (selection)

  • “ Switzerland moves,” 100 years of dance in Switzerland , short film, commissioned by the Federal Office of Culture, in cooperation with pkproductions, Bern, 2013
  • Sigurd Leeder - The overflowing bucket, work-in-progress film choreography, recordings from the exhibition “Sigurd Leeder - Traces of Dance”, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich , Toni Areal Zürich, 2017. Art Museum Appenzell , 2017–2018

Literature (selection)

  • Claudia Fleischle-Braun: Sigurd Leeder's dance pedagogical concept and its transnational spread .
  • Karin Heres: Choreography in the hermeneutic process, artistic-methodical research using examples , in: Original and Revival, Historiography in Dance , edited by Christian Thurner and Julia Wehren, Chronos Verlag , 2010, ISBN 978-3-0340-1009- 2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Federal Office of Culture: Karin Hermes :: Swiss Dance Awards. Retrieved October 11, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i gtf- WORKSHOP FESTIVAL “Transnational Concepts in Modern Dance”: Biographies - Karin Hermes. Retrieved October 11, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Bern University of the Arts: Karin Hermes. Retrieved October 11, 2019 .
  4. ^ Canton of Bern, Education Directorate: Awards for the Théâtre de la Grenouille and Karin Hermes. August 29, 2017. Retrieved October 11, 2019 .
  5. ^ Cultural heritage dance :: Swiss dance awards. Retrieved October 10, 2019 .
  6. ^ Claudia Fleischle-Braun: The dance education concept of Sigurd Leeder and its transnational spread. Retrieved October 10, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Hermes, Karin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Choreographer, dancer and dance teacher
DATE OF BIRTH 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich