Manfred Aichinger

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Manfred Aichinger (born September 24, 1960 in Vienna ) is an Austrian choreographer and dance teacher. He lives and works in Vienna.

Career

Aichinger studied pedagogy for modern dance at the Vienna Conservatory as well as philosophy , theater studies and German at the University of Vienna . In 1981 he founded the Homunculus dance theater , which he directed together with the Viennese choreographer Nikolaus Selimov for thirty years . In addition to his choreographic work at the Homunculus dance theater, Aichinger also works for well-known ballet and dance companies. Aichinger has been the curator of the Festival Österreichtanzt at the Festspielhaus St. Pölten since 2008 together with Nikolaus Selimov. From 1987 to 2004 he was the artistic director of Das Studio. Center for Modern Expressive Dance. Since 1990 he has been teaching music interpretation, improvisation, choreography and methodology / didactics at the Vienna Conservatory Private University . From 2004 to 2009 he taught at the ballet school of the Vienna State Opera .

Choreographies

Choreographies for Homunculus

  • 1983 pas de deux
  • 1984 KM
  • 1985 Gallery of Errors - The Congress is dancing (short work)
  • 1987 The Last Night in Cannes - Five Seasons; Viennese dance of death
  • 1988 Happy days
  • 1989 Elektra
  • 1990 The door - For Rosalia Chladek: ... and yet they carry winter in their heads
  • 1991 In the quiet
  • 1992 ... through the night
  • 1994 L´ange blessé: In the greenhouse ”
  • 1996 How to Kick Silence
  • 1997 Summer vacation and other excuses 1 Future has just begun
  • 1998 nature morte: rimbaud-verlaine 1
  • 1999 Odysseia 1
  • 2000 GATE 7
  • 2001 Visionen (co-production with the piano duo Kutrowatz)
  • 2002 Do you hear the touch of time?
  • 2003 Everything was a lie
  • 2004 On the way to the promised land - childhood and youth under the dictatorship
  • 2005 12 minutes of confusion
  • 2006 Fragile - Variation on a theme by Hanna Berger
  • 2007 On the roofs of St. Petersburg
  • 2010 THE ophelia MACHINE

1 = choreographies together with Günther Mörtl

Choreographies together with Nikolaus Selimov

  • 1992: Angels slaughterhouse
  • 1994: Jacqueline du Pré - A gymnastics lesson
  • 1998: Ice Mountain
  • 1998: [dialog: // virtual]
  • 2004: On the way to the promised land - childhood and youth under the dictatorship
  • 2006: Viennese cuisine
  • 2008: Mind mapping 1020 - slides of memory

Guest choreographies

  • 1989 Epilogue - Ballet of the Salzburg State Theater
  • 1989 The hands of the potter - Ballet of the Vienna State Opera
  • 1991 Pas de famille - Ballet of the Graz Opera
  • 1997 Time that is ... - Ballet of the Vienna State Opera
  • 1998 Intervalle - Ballet of the Vienna State Opera
  • 2000 Winter was hard and summer freshness and other excuses - ballet of the Landestheater Tirol
  • 2001 Historia by D. Johann Fausten - New Opera Vienna
  • 2009 I am Ophelia! - Ballet department of the Vienna Conservatory Private University
  • 2012 Geometrical arrangement - dance department at the Conservatory Vienna private university

Awards

  • 1985 Christl-Zimmer-Preis - For the choreography The Congress dances
  • 1989 Art piece of the month for the ORF - for the choreography Elektra
  • 1990 Adolf Scherf Prize for Science and Art
  • 2003 together with Nikolaus Selimov: Special Prize 2003 from the jury of the Austrian Dance Production Prize
personal data
SURNAME Aichinger, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian choreographer and dance teacher
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna