Penelope Scheidler
Penelope Scheidler (born 1996 in Salzburg ) is an Austrian circus performer and dancer .
life and work
Scheidler began dancing and training at the age of four. Her first teacher was her own mother, the dancer and dance teacher Sonja Scheidler. She later took artistry lessons from Doris Kirschhofer , with whom she subsequently performed regularly at home and abroad. This was followed by lessons in acting and artistry from the artist, choreographer and director Ulfried Kirschhofer , who teaches at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg. In 2013 she completed further training at the École Nationale de Cirque in Montréal, the circus school of the Cirque du Soleil .
She made her first appearance - at the age of eleven - at a gala in the Salzburgarena in front of around six thousand spectators. The show was conceived by her teacher Doris Kirschhofer. She has also performed all over Austria, Germany, Switzerland and Italy, in the circus , in the variety show , on classical stages . Her best-known venues include the Circus Roncalli and the Salzburg Festival .
Scheidler's main disciplines are standard hand arts , aerial arts and contortion .
Appearances
Penelope Scheidler was seen at the following events and productions, among others:
- in winter 2011/12 for two months as a handstand and aerial artist at Circus Roncalli in Tempodrom Berlin
- since 2013 in the new Jedermann production at the Salzburg Festival , directed by Brian Mertes and Julian Crouch ,
- At the beginning of 2015 in the show Varieté à la Burlesque in the Varieté Starclub in Kassel,
- in summer 2015 in Mackie Messer , an experimental new version of the Threepenny Opera by Brecht and Weill at the Salzburg Festival (in the Felsenreitschule ), directed by Julian Crouch and Sven-Eric Bechtolf .
Web links
- Penelope Scheidler in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Salzburg Festival , short biography of Penelope Scheidler (with photography)
- Aerial Silks Sweet dreams Penelope Scheidler , short video (on YouTube) from 2015
Other sources
- Karin Portenkirchner: The dream of circus life , portrait Penelope Scheidler, Salzburger Nachrichten , January 25, 2014, p. 17, accessed on June 26, 2016.
- Bundesrealgymnasium Seekirchen : A class of its own , a portrait of Penelope Scheidler (photo gallery), accessed on June 26, 2016.
Individual evidence
- ^ University of Mozarteum Salzburg : Univ. Prof. Ulfried Kirschhofer ( Memento of the original from June 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 26, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Scheidler, Penelope |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian circus artist and dancer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1996 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Salzburg , Austria |