Sabrina Sadowska

Sabrina Sadowska (* 17th December 1964 in Basel ) is a Swiss ballet - dancer , choreographer , ballet director and founder .

family

Sabrina Sadowska grew up in Kleinbasel . The father's family comes from the Rhine Valley , Balgach near St. Gallen , Switzerland. Her father Willy Oehler was an authorized signatory at the Mustermesse Basel , today MESSE BASEL, but passed away early.

On her mother's side, the great-grandmother Maria Lewandowski came from Poland and toured Europe and overseas with two cousins ​​as the Lewandowski dance trio in the late 19th century. In Bucharest she met William H. MacDuff, a Scottish “Engineer for Mining and Petroleum” who was active between South Africa and Ploiesti . Grandmother Wilhelmine Lewandowski was born in 1904 from the liaison. Love brought her to Italy, where she married Hugo Perucchini, a hotel clerk from Stresa . Their daughter, the mother of Sabrina Sadowska named Maria Pia Perucchini, grew up in Baveno on Lake Maggiore and came to Basel after completing her training as a nurse at the Hôpital de Malévoz in Monthey, known as Spital Wallis .

Live and act

Sadowska received her first ballet lessons in 1970 at the Maria Gorkin-Ise Leukern Ballet Academy in her hometown of Basel. During school she received ear training and studied classical guitar with Benjamin Buch at the Music Academy of the City of Basel . She attended the Bäumlihof grammar school and passed the university entrance qualification in 1983 with the Matura. In 1985 Sadowska graduated as a dancer and ballet teacher in the styles of classical dance training according to the methods of the Russian ballet dancer and dance teacher Agrippina Jakowlewna Waganowa and the Royal Academy of Dance (RAD).

In 1985 she got her first engagement as a dancer at the Trier Theater . Engagements followed in 1988 at the Stadttheater Bremerhaven and in 1992 at the Halle Opera House , Saale.

During her dance career, she regularly attended master classes and further education, for example with: Nikita Dolgushin, Galina Ulanova , Jelena Shemshushina, Maria Suroviak, Eunice Bartell as well as David Howard, Susan Pilarre, Adam Lüdders and Finis Jhung. As a scholarship holder of the Royal Danish Ballet Summer Academy, she studied the Bournonville style at the Royal Danish Ballet in Copenhagen from 1986 to 1992 . There she worked with Kirsten Ralov, Niels Bjørn Larsen, Fredbjørn Bjørnsen, Dina Björn, Flemming Ryberg, Frank Andersen, Anne-Marie Vessel-Schlüter, Eva Kloborg, Niels Kehlet, Solveig Østergaard, Ole Nørlying and Erik Aschengreen.

Her own work as a ballet master and teacher has been shaped by years of collaboration with the famous ballet master Peter Appel, as well as the teachers Gilbert Mayer and Christiane Vaussard of the Paris Opera . In particular, Peter Appel, ballet master and temporarily ballet director of the Cologne Opera , founding member of the Cologne Dance Forum, artistic director of the Institute for Dance Studies in Cologne, ballet master at the Hamburg Ballet , the Basel Ballet of the Theater Basel , the ballet of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein and the Zurich Ballet , the groundbreaking was for generations of dancers, influenced as a mentor significantly her way as a ballet master.

In 1997 she brought Ralf Dörnen , formerly a soloist with the Hamburg Ballet - John Neumeier , first as ballet master and then from 1999 as deputy ballet director at the Ballet Vorpommern of Theater Vorpommern GmbH, Greifswald / Stralsund / Putbus. Together they brought the art of dance in Western Pomerania out of its slumber and, in difficult, economic times, developed the ballet Western Pomerania into a top address in the north-east of the republic.

In 1998 Sadowska began to create his own choreographies for drama and music theater.

From 2001 to 2016 she was a curator, from 2003 also organizer of the international festival “Tanztendenzen”. The well-known first festival for contemporary dance and performance in the northeast of the republic successfully opened it to young choreographers.

In 2013 Sabrina Sadowska studied theater and music management at the theater studies of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and passed her advanced training diploma with the thesis: 2020 - Reform of the state financial equalization - Opportunity or catastrophe for German cultural institutions and cultural funding ?.

In 2013/2014 Reiner Feistel brought her to the Chemnitz City Theater as director of ballet operations and first ballet master , where she led the Chemnitz Ballet together with Reiner Feistel and took on various productions as a choreographer. In 2015 Sadowska founded the international festival “Dance | Modern | Dance "in Chemnitz and thus opened as artistic director" A mirror for a Europe full of stories and breaks, points of friction, thirst for action and future spirit! "In 2016, she accepted the invitation of the Federal President to" Deutschland Tanzt "for the 2016 dance year.

Since the beginning of the 2017/2018 season, Ballet Chemnitz has been under her direction as ballet director. With international guest choreographers, she designed a spectrum from classical to contemporary ballet. Sadowska established the Chemnitz BallettBenefizGala as an annual event, at which dance companies from all over Germany perform for charitable purposes free of charge. In addition, she founded and directs the festival for contemporary dance in Chemnitz, “Dance | Modern | Dance “, an international platform for contemporary dance. Your concept and presentation for the field of dance / ballet convinced the team in the application for the cultural capital Chemnitz.

Quote

“Women have only been allowed to work for a hundred years. We still have four thousand years to catch up. "

Choreographies (selection)

Since 1998 Sadowska has created over 50 of his own choreographies for the fields of drama and music theater:

The diary of Anne Frank (Grigori Frid) / Anatevka (Jerry Bock, Joseph Stein and Sheldon Harnick) / Simplicius Simplicissimus (Karl Amadeus Hartmann) / The King And I (Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein II) / Der Mann von La Mancha (Mitch leigh and Dale Wasserman) / The Gingerbread Man (David Wood) / The Frog Must Go (Peter Lund) / The Merry Widow (Franz Lehár) / Hoffmanns Stories (Jacques Offenbach) / The Fledermaus (Johann Strauss) / My Fair Lady (Frederick Loewe and Alan J. Lerner) / Die Csárdásfürstin (Emmerich Kálmán) / The Tsarevich (Franz Lehár) / The Count of Luxembourg (Franz Lehár) A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess) / Ladies Night (Stephen Sinclair and Anthony McCarten) / Das Ballhaus ( Steffen Mensching) / Die Baldkopfbande - Remembering Rock'n Roll (Werner Buhss and Wolfram Bodag) / Tango (Slawomir Mroźek) / Frau vom Meer (Henrik Ibsen) / Kick (UA Carita Holmström and Marina Meinander) / Der kleine Horrorladen (Roger Corman) / A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespe are) / Sugar - Some like it hot (Billy Wilder) / Six dance lessons in six weeks (Richard Alfieri) / Peer Gynt (Henrik Ibsen) / The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare) / Mother Courage (Brecht) / Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare) / Romeo and Juliet on Abbey Road (musical version) / Camino Real (Tennessee Williams) / Faust I + II (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Since 2001, Sadowska has also been honoring dance and theater mediation in schools as a director and choreographer, in cooperation with schools, youth associations, Caritas and prevention programs. School dance projects and a. for the Greifswalder Bachwoche and the Schauspielhaus Chemnitz: "The Blue Bird" (based on Maeterlinck) / A Midsummer Night's Dream (based on Shakespeare) / Macbeth (based on Shakespeare) / Romeo and Juliet (based on Shakespeare) / Aeneas (based on Virgil)

The following choreographies are particularly worth mentioning:

• 2016 - Stage Fright - It's Showtime! - Ballet revue by Sabrina Sadowska Choreography: Sabrina Sadowska, Reiner Feistel, MarK McClain, Götz Hellriegel, Peter Svenzon
• 2015 - Modern goes swimming - seasons
• 2019 - Swan Lake - Ballet by Eno Peci and Sabrina Sadowska
• 2019 - The Nutcracker - Ballet by Sabrina Sadowska

Ballet teacher

Numerous invitations as a ballet teacher led Sabrina Sadowska to state ballet schools and to several companies at home and abroad, including the State Ballet School Warsaw, the Leipzig Opera Ballet School , the Palucca University of Dance Dresden , the Polish Dance Theater in Poznan, National Theater Brno and Aalto-Theater Essen, Theater Nordhausen / Loh-Orchester Sondershausen GmbH, to the Landesbühne Sachsen, to the Nordharzer Städtebundtheater and Opera House Halle .

The special features of her repertoire include the dances from the Bournonville repertoire from the following works: La Sylphide / Napoli / Kermess in Bruges / Far from Denmark / la Ventana / Flowe Festival of Genzano / A folk Tale / Le Conservatoire / Divertissement from the opera “Wilhelm Tell ”and the Bournonville classes: Monday - Saturday.

Founder

On December 17, 2009, the “DANCE Foundation - Transition Center Germany” based in Berlin was set up by the founders Sabrina Sadowska and Inka Atassi with private funds. The foundation was established to support dance professionals (dancers during their training, career and after the end of their active dance career) in their professional transition processes and to support them with ideas and material. It serves as a competence center for all institutions and ministries relevant for transition. More than 1000 dancers have been supported since the foundation.

Personalities from the fields of dance, art, politics, society and business have been on the board of directors and the board of trustees. The Chairman of the Board of Trustees has been Prof. John Neumeier , artistic director and chief choreographer of the Hamburg Ballet since it was founded .

Voluntary engagement (selection)

• 2005–2017: Member of the presidium of the BBTK (Federal German Ballet and Dance Theater Directors Conference), co-initiator of a new TRANSITION discussion forum
• 2001–2016: Curator and organizational manager at the “Tanztendenzen” festival in Greifswald (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
• 2010–2013: Member of the Board of Trustees for Residency Programs / Schloss Bröllin
• 2004–2013: Member of the jury and jury president for dance grants at Migroskulturprozent
• 2009–2013: Chairwoman of the Works Council of Theater Vorpommern GmbH
• Since 2006: Head of the Working Group Transition of the Standing Conference Dance (SK-Tanz)
• Since 2010: Founder and chairwoman of the TANZ Foundation - Transition Center Germany
• Since 2015: Founder and director of the festival “Dance | Modern | Dance "- international platform for contemporary dance in Chemnitz (Saxony)
• Since 2017: Member of the program council in the course of the application for the European Capital of Culture 2025 of the city of Chemnitz
• Since 2019: Founding member and chairwoman of the Board of Directors of the Friends of Contemporary Dance Chemnitz - Tanz | Moderne | Tanz eV
• Since 2019: Member of the Cultural Capital of Chemnitz Program Council 2015

Awards (selection) and honors

• 2013 Entry in the Golden Book of the University and Hanseatic City of Greifswald, Hope Bearer 2010 Yearbook DANCE
• Sabrina Sadowska has been the recipient of the Federal Cross of Merit since 2016 .

Documentaries

• There is no such thing as perfection - Sabrina Sadowska
• Behind the scenes: a conversation with a ballet director
• 34th episode - dance interview with ballet director Sabrina Sadowska about the DANCE Foundation and your life
• Our ten for Chemnitz Sabrina Sadowska

Exhibitions

• 2013: 15 years of Ballet Vorpommern.

literature

• Heiner Barz, Meral Cerci: Women in Art and Culture - Between New Self-Confidence and Quota Demands . Springer Fachmedien, Wiesbaden 2015, ISBN 978-3-658-07264-3 .
• Sabine Gehm, Pirkko Husemann, Katharina von Wilcke: Knowledge in motion: perspectives of artistic and scientific research in dance . Transcript, Bielefeld 2007, ISBN 978-3-89942-808-7 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ballet director Sabrina Sadowska theater-chemnitz.de.
2. ↑ Emotions down to the tips of your toes. In: TagesWoche. March 21, 2012.
3. ↑ Rainer Hartmann: The dance forum saw the dawn of the modern. In: Kölner Stadtanzeiger. May 15, 2007 ( ksta.de ).
4. ↑ Festival Tanstendenzen 2018 Insider Greifswald, accessed on December 21, 2019.
5. ↑ Gunnar Decker: Shortly before the infarct In: Neues Deutschland. May 15, 2015 ( neue-deutschland.de ).
6. ↑ David Vössing: Theater: In 2011 bankruptcy threatens. July 9, 2010 ( webmoritz.de ).
7. ↑ Sabrina Sadowska finishes her work for the Ballet Western Pomerania. 2013 ( tanznetz.de ).
8. ↑ Anniversary gala with magical productions. In: Ostsee-Zeitung. May 29, 2013 ( ostsee-zeitung.de ).
9. ^ ^{A b} Festival for Contemporary Dance and Performance. tanztendenzen.de .
10. ↑ Tanztendenzen 2018 ( insidegreifswald.de ).
11. ↑ Exciting insights into the current dance scene. In: Ostsee-Zeitung. October 15, 2016 ( ostsee-zeitung.de ).
12. ^ Association of German Opera Choirs and Stage Dancers eV (ed.): Ballet director Lode Devos leaves the Chemnitz Theater. June 6, 2013 ( vdoper.de ).
13. ↑ Sabrina Sadowska. Tanz-sachsen.de, accessed on December 21, 2019.
14. ↑ Chemnitz becomes a stage for modern dance. In the world . Online June 14, 2016 ( welt.de ).
15. ↑ A world is dancing. In: Free Press. June 12, 2015 ( freiepresse.de ).
16. ↑ Sabrina Sadowska dance twice in Bellevue Palace 2016, accessed on December 21, 2019.
17. ↑ Ballet Benefit Gala. May 26, 2018, Tanz-sachsen.de.
18. ↑ chemnitz.de (PDF) tanzmodernetanz brochure 2019.
19. ^ Team Chemnitz - these ten are traveling to Berlin. October 23, 2019 ( mdr.de ).
20. ↑ Sabrina Sadowska operabase.com.
21. ↑ Dance like the Sun King. In: Ostsee-Zeitung. January 29, 2013 ( ostsee-zeitung.de ).
22. ↑ 66th Greifswald Bach Weeks - Romeo and Juliet - danced by young people from Greifswald. In: Musikland MV. June 9, 2012 ( musikland-mv.de ).
23. ↑ stiftung-tanz.com , accessed on December 21, 2019.
24. ^ Dancers on their way to a second career. In: Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine. March 24, 2015 ( hna.de , accessed December 21, 2019).
25. ^ Great ballerina Sabrina Sadowska. plzen2015.cz, accessed on December 21, 2019 (English).
26. ↑ Monika Fabry: After the great career: The step to the goal In: Hamburger Abendblatt. June 22, 2019 ( abendblatt.de ).
27. ↑ tanznetz , accessed on December 21, 2019.
28. ↑ www.stiftung-tanz.com Stiftung TANZ accessed on December 21, 2019.
29. ↑ Program Council Cultural Capital Chemnitz chemnitz2025.de, accessed on 21 December of 2019.
30. ↑ Kulturhauptstadt Chemnitz chemnitz2025.de, accessed on December 21, 2019.
31. ↑ 15 years BallettVorpommern honor for Sabrina Sadowska insidegreifswald 2013, accessed on December 21, 2019.
32. ↑ The Federal President: Awarding of medals to committed women on March 7, 2016.
33. ↑ Medal of Merit for Ballet Master. In: Ostsee Zeitung. March 14, 2016 ( ostsee-zeitung.de ).
34. ↑ die-stadt-bin-ich.de (Interview with Sabrina Sadowska of 7 December 2016).
35. ↑ youtube.com (conversation with Sabrina Sadowska on May 16, 2018).
36. ↑ youtube.com (interview with Sabrina Sadowska on April 5, 2019).
37. ↑ chemnitz2025.de (Interview with Sabrina Sadowska from December 6, 2019).