Mario Schröder

Mario Schröder (* 1965 in Finsterwalde ) is a German dancer , choreographer and ballet director.

Life

Mario Schröder received his eight-year dance training at the Palucca School in Dresden from Gret Palucca , Hans-Joachim Metz and Patricio Bunster . From 1983 to 1999 he was principal soloist with the Leipzig Ballet of the Leipzig Opera - from 1991 under the direction of Uwe Scholz . He also studied choreography at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Art in Berlin .

In 1999 he was appointed ballet director and chief choreographer at the Mainfranken Theater in Würzburg , before moving to the Kiel Theater in the same position in the 2001/2002 season. Since the 2010/2011 season he has been ballet director and chief choreographer of the Leipzig Ballet at the Leipzig Opera .

Mario Schröder is a member of the Federal German Ballet and Dance Theater Directors Conference (BBTK).

plant

Mario Schröder has created well over 100 choreographies and has received several awards for his choreographic work. As a dancer and choreographer he worked a. a. in Japan, USA, Russia, Mongolia, France and other European countries. In Germany his works were a. a. at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Komische Oper Berlin , the Theater Dortmund , the Aalto Ballett Theater Essen and the Oper Leipzig . He worked choreographically a. a. with Ruth Berghaus , Maxim Dessau, Nikolaus Lehnhoff and Uwe Scholz .

Between 2002 and 2010 he created numerous world premieres for Ballet Kiel, such as Requie_M (to music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ), Guten Morgen - du Schöne du mein Leben (with the French avant-garde band Von Magnet , inspired by the protocols of Maxie Wander ) , Immersed in BLUE (dedicated to Uwe Scholz), The castle based on Franz Kafka's novel, The Wall (music: Pink Floyd ), Jim Morrison - King of the Lizards , Chaplin , Schließe Deine Li (e) der (music: songs of a traveling journeyman , Das Lied von der Erde by Gustav Mahler and Wesendonklieder by Richard Wagner in coproduction with Silvana Schröder), Fight! based on Chuck Palahniuk's cult novel Fight Club and Die Mörderballaden based on Nick Cave , also Ich² in coproduction with Muthesius Kunsthochschule Kiel or the Dada Republic (music: Stephan Max Wirth, based on the Dadaist script Der Pleitejazz ).

Ballet evenings and choreographies for the 40-person company of the Leipzig Ballet since the 2010/2011 season have included: Chaplin , Carmina Burana / A Dharma at Big Sur (music: Carl Orff and John Adams ), Herzbrennen (music: Sergej Rachmaninow , Béla Bartók , Carl Orff), A Christmas story (based on the novel by Charles Dickens ), Ein Liebestraum (music: Corrente II for orchestra by Magnus Lindberg, songs of a traveling companion by Gustav Mahler , Wesendon songs , prelude and love death from Tristan and Isolde by Richard Wagner in coproduction with Silvana Schröder), Jim Morrison (music by The Doors ), Mörderballaden (music: Nick Cave ), Das Nibelungenlied (music: Thomas Leboeg, electronics with the Hamburg band Kante and Andi Haberl , percussion with the Weilheim band The Notwist ) , Pax 2013 (two-part ballet evening with music by Udo Zimmermann and Johann Sebastian Bach, reconstruction by Uwe Scholz 'B., Supported by the Erbe Dance Fund of the Federal Cultural Foundation allett Pax questuosa from 1992). "Mozart Requiem" (music: Requiem in D minor KV 626 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart), "Rachmaninow" piano concerto No. 2 (music: Sergeij Rachmaninow), "Othello" (music by Henry Purcell, Arvo Pärt and Dmitri Schostakowitsch et al), “West Side Story” (music: Leonard Bernstein), “The fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm”, “Lobgesang” (music: Lobgesang op.52 / Figure humaine, cantata for double choir a cappella FPI20; Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy / Francis Poulenc). Schröder also created a version of the " Swan Lake ". In the Bach city of Leipzig, he also created " Johannes Passion " and "Magnificat". For "Magnificat" Schröder combined the music of Johann Sebastian Bach with Giovanni Battista Pergolesi's " Stabat Mater " and traditional Indian music by the group Indigo Masala.

Outside of the Leipzig Opera House, the Leipzig Ballet appears primarily through its project series Dance in the Houses of the City . In these productions, Mario Schröder and his company explore sensational and inspiring architectural locations for which architecture- and usage-specific choreographies are created, often in conjunction with electronic media and artists from contemporary art. So far, the Leipzig Ballet has danced in more than 20 locations in Leipzig. In October 2012 and for the anniversary year 2019, Mario Schröder created a choreography for the Festival of Lights on Augustusplatz in Leipzig , an event that annually recalls the Monday demonstrations of the peaceful revolution in autumn 1989 with up to 10,000 visitors .

Prices

• 1984: Prize for choreography at the ballet competition in Dessau
• 1986: Prize for choreography at the ballet competition in Dessau
• 1988: Prize for choreography at the ballet competition in Dessau (with Silvana Schröder)
• 1993: First prize for choreography at the International Choreography Competition in Hanover
• 1995: Prize of the City of Leipzig (with Silvana Schröder)
• 2002: First winner of the Rotary Culture Prize Würzburg
• Named three times as the best young choreographer in the critics' survey by Ballett International magazine
• 2010: Kiel seal of splendor

Web links

• Leipzig Ballet on the pages of the Leipzig Opera