Pia Neises

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Pia Neises (2019)

Pia Neises (* 22. April 1967 in Cologne ) is a German tap dancer , choreographer and teacher .

Life

Pia Neises began her tap dance training in Cologne in 1987, followed by workshops with tap dancers such as Brenda Bufalino and Barbara Duffy . She has been working professionally as a tap dancer, choreographer and lecturer since the early 1990s.

In 1993 she followed Bufalino, the director of the American Tap Dance Orchestra , to tap dance festivals in the USA ( Portland / Oregon and New York City ) and in 1994 became a company member of Bufalino's European International Tap Dance Orchestra . From 1995–1996 she studied with Bufalino and Duffy in New York, where she began her professional career as a founding member of Susan Hebach's Tap Collective and a dancer with Robbin Tribbles Tap Express .

Neises is a member of Barbara Duffy & Company and Sarah Petronios Monk In Motion . From 1996–1999 she was a member of the jazz prize- winning production Tap It Deep .

Pia Neises has danced at international tap dance festivals such as Tap City , the first New York City Tap Festival . In the production About Tap vol. 2 by the Hamburg tap dancer and choreographer Thomas Marek, Neises performed in February 2006 together with Josh Hilberman ( Boston ), Sarah Petronio ( Paris ) and her daughter Leela as well as Brenda Bufalino (New York City) in the Hamburg culture factory Kampnagel . Her repertoire also includes Duke Ellington's “Sacred Concert” .

Pia Neises is considered "one of the German tap dance pioneers". Brian Seibert interviewed Neises for his book What the Eye Hears: A History of Tap Dancing . As a dancer and tap dance coach, Pia Neises also worked in television productions. As a lecturer, she teaches at international tap dance festivals and in her own tap dance studio in Cologne.

Act

Pia Neises & Martin Sasse Trio

Since 2015 Pia Neises has been working with her trio ( Martin Sasse , Martin Gjakonovski , Markus Rieck), with whom she was a guest at Erholungshaus-Leverkusen, the Alten Pfandhaus-Köln, at Winterjazz-Köln and the Jazz Festival Hilden .

Morton Gould Tap Dance Concerto

The tap dance Concerto of Morton Gould danced Pia Neises with the WDR broadcasting center orchestra under the direction of the conductor Eckehard bull in the Philharmonie .

In 2018 she presented this work as part of the 4th Philharmonic Concert with the Bremen Philharmonic under the musical direction of General Music Director Marko Letonja in the concert hall Die Glocke .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ work and Kultur.de: From the idea expressed - A Choreografiewerkstatt. In: kultur-und-schule.de. 2018, accessed August 1, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Werk und Kultur.de: move and groove - rhythm with the body. In: kultur-und-schule.de. 2015, accessed August 1, 2020 .
  3. ^ Dorothee Schackow: Workshop: 9/8 Blue Rondo alla Turk. In: tanzhaus-nrw.de. 2018, accessed September 18, 2019 .
  4. ^ Dorothee Schackow: Workshop: Basic grooves for Swing & Latin. In: tanzhaus-nrw.de. 2019, accessed September 18, 2019 .
  5. ↑ a b PIA NEISES . Biography (French). Program of the Festival International de Claquettes 2014. Accessed August 6, 2020.
  6. ^ Constance Valis Hill: Tap Dancing America: A Cultural History . Oxford University Press , 2010, 2nd edition 2014 (p. 357)
  7. ↑ Barbara Duffy & Co, "Speedball", Tanz Haus, Dusseldorf, Germany, 2004 on YouTube , September 16, 2019, accessed on August 3, 2020.
  8. ↑ LaVaughn Robinson, Ya'acov Kalusky et al. a .: Tap masters, tap mentors: the New York City Tap Festival, July 7-15, 2001 . VHS video, 2001
  9. ^ Tap City, The New York City Tap Festival (First Annual) . Retrieved August 6, 2020.
  10. ↑ Fabulous foot acrobats . Performance review. In: WELT am Sonntag on February 5, 2006. Retrieved on August 6, 2020.
  11. ↑ Style and demeanor of a tap dancer . Performance review. In: WELT dated February 10, 2006. Retrieved on August 6, 2020.
  12. ↑ a b c d Pia Neises . Biography. InterKULTUR2019 program. Bread factory Bonn . Retrieved August 6, 2020.
  13. ^ Acknowledgments, p. 576, NYC: Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 2015.
  14. ↑ Stadtgarten Cologne: Pia Neises & Martin Sasse Trio LA FIESTA. In: winterjazzkoeln.com. January 14, 2017, accessed August 1, 2020 .
  15. ↑ Music in Hilden: Pia Neises & Martin Sasse Trio. In: www.hildener-jazztage.de. May 31, 2018, accessed August 1, 2020 .
  16. ↑ Schd @ Philharmonic: WDR - Concerto for Myself. In: www1.wdr.de. January 13, 2017, accessed August 1, 2020 .
  17. ^ Bremer Philharmoniker GmbH: Winter Magic. In: www.glocke.de. December 16, 2018, accessed August 1, 2020 .
  18. ↑ Ute Schalz-Laurenze: History with your feet. In: www.kreiszeitung.de. December 16, 2018, accessed August 1, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Neises, Pia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German tap dancer, choreographer and lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne