Lutz Forster
Lutz Förster (born January 2, 1953 in Solingen ) is a German ballet dancer and dance teacher.
Life
Förster received his dance training at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen , among others with Hans Züllig and Jean Cébron . Förster was a member of the Folkwang Dance Studio until 1978 , after which he switched to Pina Bausch's Tanztheater Wuppertal , where he had been dancing since 1975. From April 2013 to 2016 he was artistic director.
In the season 1981/1982 and 1984 to 1986 Förster worked in New York City , mainly for the Dance Company of José Limón , where he danced in choreographies by Limón, Anna Sokolow and Meredith Monk .
In addition to his work in Wuppertal, he also worked freelance with Robert Wilson in productions for La Scala in Milan and in 1988 in Cosmopolitan Greetings at the Hamburg State Opera .
Förster has been professor for contemporary dance since 1991 and responsible for the dance course at the Folkwang University of the Arts . He stopped teaching while he was artistic director of the Wuppertal Pina Bausch dance theater from 2013 to summer 2016.
His appearance in the play Nelken , in which he accompanied the song " The Man I Love ", sung by Sophie Tucker , with sign language for the deaf and dumb, remained a special memory of the audience . Since the Spring Dance Festival 2008 in Utrecht he has appeared on international stages with his biographical solo piece "Portrait of a Dancer", in which he also portrays his relationship with Pina Bausch.
Award
- 2015: Positano Premia la danza - Léonide Massine for his life's work
Fonts (selection)
- Folkwang Dance = Folkwang Dance . Edited by the Folkwang University of Applied Sciences, Essen.
- Lutz Forster . dance doc. GI, Lyon 2000.
Web links
- Lutz Förster at Folkwang University of the Arts
- Anne Linsel : The man I love. In: Kulturwest.de ( K.WEST ), 2009, No. 12, portrait
- Norbert Servos: Lutz Förster at Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch , accessed on August 6, 2013
- Daniel Finkernagel : dancer and choreographer Lutz Förster in Saturday's conversation: Grand Seigneur of the dance theater. In: WDR 3 , September 12, 2015, audio file, 34:30 min.
Individual evidence
- ^ Bos / dpa : New management: Lutz Förster takes over the dance theater Pina Bausch. In: Spiegel Online , April 17, 2013.
- ↑ a b c Award for Lutz Förster. Léonide Massine dance award in Positano. In: tanznetz.de , September 23, 2015.
- ^ Anne Linsel : The man I love. In: Kulturwest.de ( K.WEST ), 2009, No. 12.
- ↑ Lutz Förster at tanzweb Cologne , February 2, 2013.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Forester, Lutz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German ballet dancer and dance teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd January 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Solingen |