Sasha Waltz

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Sasha Waltz (2007)

Sasha Waltz (born March 8, 1963 in Karlsruhe ; first name actually Alexandra ) is a German choreographer , dancer and opera director .

introduction

In 1993 she founded the dance company Sasha Waltz & Guests with Jochen Sandig in Berlin . With the piece Allee der Kosmonauten she opened the Sophiensæle Berlin , of which she has been a partner ever since. In the 1999/2000 season she took over the artistic direction of the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz with Thomas Ostermeier , Jens Hillje and Jochen Sandig . Due to a dispute with Ostermeier, Waltz canceled her contract with the Schaubühne and went into business again with her company.

Waltz's dialogues are small productions as well as large-scale projects to explore selected public spaces. She developed dialogues in buildings before they opened, including in 2009 for the Neues Museum Berlin and the Radialsystem V , which has been her company's rehearsal and performance location in Berlin since then.

Waltz received various awards. ballettanz chose her as the “best choreographer” of the 2006/07 season. In 2009 she received the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and was awarded the Caroline Neuber Prize 2010 by the City of Leipzig and the Federal Cross of Merit 2011 . Waltz was elected as a new member of the Performing Arts section by the Berlin Academy of the Arts in 2013 . From 2019 Waltz will lead the Staatsballett Berlin together with Johannes Öhmann . Against this, dancers from the State Ballet and more than 19,500 people protested in an online petition because they consider Sasha Waltz unsuitable for this task, as the qualities of a dance theater choreographer are “different to those developed by a classically trained ballet dancer and to which he is committed. "

Private life

Waltz is the daughter of an architect and a gallery owner . She has four siblings. At the age of five Waltz received her first lessons in expressive dance from Waltraud Kornhaas in Karlsruhe. Courses in ballet and modern dance followed . In her childhood and youth, Waltz wanted to be a painter. It wasn't until Laurie Booth's workshop, which she attended in Freiburg when she was 16, that she decided to become a dancer. Waltz is married to Jochen Sandig . They have a son László (* 1997) and a daughter Sophia (* 2002). Some of her children appear in Sasha Waltz's plays, such as in Medea (2007). Waltz has worked with Sandig and her sister Yoreme Waltz since the beginning of her professional life. She shares the artistic direction of Sasha Waltz & Guests with Sandig , and Sandig is also the company's managing director. Yoreme Waltz works as a dramaturge at Sasha Waltz & Guests .

Career

education

After graduating from high school, Waltz studied dance at the School For New Dance Development in Amsterdam from 1983 to 1986 . This was followed by further training in New York from 1986 to 1987. In New York she was engaged as a dancer in the companies of Pooh Kaye, Yoshiko Chuma & School Of Hard Knocks and Lisa Kraus & Dancers. There followed a collaboration with choreographers, visual artists and musicians, including Tristan Honsinger , Frans Poelstra, Mark Tompkins and David Zambrano. During her training in Amsterdam and New York, Waltz created her first own choreographies, including Das Meer in mir (1985), Goldstaub (1986), How come we go (1987), Black Siren (1987) and Rifle (1987).

1990s

In 1992 Waltz received a grant from Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin as an artist in residence . Her first five dialogues were created here in collaboration with the dancers Frans Poelstra, Nasser Martin-Gousset , Takako Suzuki, Kitt Johnson, Carme Renalias and David Zambrano as well as the musicians Tristan Honsinger , David Moss , Dietmar Diesner , Sven-Åke Johansson and Peter Hollinger . Waltz has shown his own dance productions at various locations in Berlin, including the solos False Trap ( Tanzfabrik Berlin , 1991) and Paulinchen - alone at home ( Kunsthaus Tacheles , 1996) and the duet Bungalow ( Hackesche Höfe , 1993). The Travelogue trilogy was also created with Twenty to Eight (1993), Tears Break Fast (1994) and All Ways Six Steps (1995). After the premiere of Twenty to eight in 1993, Waltz founded Sasha Waltz & Guests in order to perform with the piece on the dance platform in Berlin in 1994. Sasha Waltz & Guests toured Europe with the Travelogue trilogy and, in 1995, with the support of the Goethe-Institut through North America and Canada (including Atlanta, New York, Chicago, Montreal, Houston and Los Angeles). In 2007 a new generation of dancers studied the first piece in the Twenty to Eight trilogy . It has been in the company's repertoire ever since and is performed regularly.

Sophiensæle Berlin

In 1996 Waltz founded the Sophiensæle with Sandig, Jo Fabian and Dirk Cieslak as "one of the first independent, cross-disciplinary production and performance venues". At the opening, Waltz showed the piece Allee der Kosmonauten (1996). She has been described as "the most exciting innovator in dance theater since Pina Bausch ". The piece about the bleak everyday life in a prefabricated housing estate for which Sasha Waltz u. a. Interviewed residents in Berlin-Marzahn , was invited to the 34th Berlin Theatertreffen (1997) and was the official German contribution to the theater festival Theater of Nations in Seoul in the same year . In 1999 Waltz toured India with Allee der Kosmonauten at the invitation of the Goethe Institute. The film adaptation of the production under the direction of Waltz in 2000 was awarded the Adolf Grimme Prize .

After Allee der Kosmonauten , Waltz created Zweiland (1997), Na Zemlje (1998) and Dialoge '99 / I in the Sophiensælen before moving to the Schaubühne on Lehniner Platz .

Sasha Waltz is still a partner of the Sophiensæle with Amelie Deuflhard and Jochen Sandig . On the basis of a new lease for 15 years from 2011, the renovation of the building with funds from the Deutsche Klassenlotterie Foundation and the establishment of a new team for artistic management, the three shareholders have decided to continue the Sophiensæle beyond 2010.

Schaubühne

In 1999 Waltz became the first female choreographer to work at the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz and took over the artistic direction together with Thomas Ostermeier , Jens Hillje and Jochen Sandig. On January 22nd, 2000 the Schaubühne opened with two premieres under the new management: Thomas Ostermeier showed Lars Noréns Group 3.1. in German premiere. Sasha Waltz presented the world premiere of Körper , which was invited to the 37th Berlin Theatertreffen (2000) and whose cross-disciplinary approach represented a symbolic new beginning for the Schaubühne, which has been shaped by Peter Stein's spoken theater since 1970 .

Body - Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz , Berlin

Body , first part of the trilogy of the same name. Critics praised the haunting images, “for example when the 14 dancers crawl almost naked into a large vertical glass case, when their bodies twist around one another and are flattened against the panes. Like large reptiles in an aquarium without water, of uncanny intimacy and alienation at the same time. ”The Berliner Zeitung spoke of“ magic scenes ”and“ a new, never-before-seen beauty ”. Other press voices missed the narrative elements and criticized the mere sequence of scenes that“ not fit into a choreographic or staging whole ”.

Choreographing in the theater of the Schaubühne for the first time was important for Waltz in turning away from the style of earlier works:

“The sheer size of the stage space has put me away from the intimate nature of the previous pieces. I had the feeling that there are such gaps here, that is not possible. I don't know whether I would have made 'bodies' if I hadn't gone to the Schaubühne. By going into this room, something different and new has developed. Because of this gigantic height, this depth, it's not really a theater space. However, there were also other substantive reasons. "

Even if, in the opinion of the press, the production was far from a “masterpiece” or “dance event”, the body was considered a promising new beginning and had a lasting effect, not least on the audience: in Berlin it became the “most popular production of the house”. In terms of the number of performances and the range of tours worldwide, it is the most successful piece by the Sasha Waltz & Guests company.

The other two parts of the trilogy followed after the body : S (2000) and noBody (2002).

At the Schaubühne, Waltz created the installation insideout (2003) for the cultural capital Graz (2003) as well as Impromptus (2004) and Gezeiten (2005). Impromptus emerged from the examination of the music of Franz Schubert .

In 2004, after a dispute with Thomas Ostermeier, Waltz left the Schaubühne, “in order to gain more independence, artistic freedom and opportunities for cooperation”. She re-founded the company Sasha Waltz & Guests with Jochen Sandig and Yoreme Waltz . She signed a contract with the Schaubühne, which obliges the company to play 25 performances there per year.

Sasha Waltz & Guests

Waltz and Jochen Sandig founded their dance company in 1993. Individual members also work as independent producers, such as Nasser Martin-Gousset , dancer of the Travelogue trilogy , whose own pieces Sasha Waltz & Guests co-produced. Other associated choreographers are Charlotte Engelkes, Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola and Luc Dunberry, who were or are also dancers in Sasha Waltz's company.

In 2005, after the time at the Schaubühne, Sasha Waltz & Guests was founded as an independent cultural company with 25 permanent and 40 freelance employees. In 2011 the company has 17 pieces in its repertoire. Around 100 performances are shown around the world every year. The company comprises a total of 15 ensemble members, 33 repertoire dancers and 17 employees. In addition, around 150 guests have been associated with the company since it was founded in 1993.

Since it was founded, Sasha Waltz & Guests has received institutional funding from the State of Berlin with its own budget. Until 2009, the company received 675,000 euros per year, since 2010 it has been 975,000 euros per year.

The Capital Cultural Fund also supports the company as part of the Tanzschwerpunkt Berlin program . In 2004, the funding totaled 360,000 euros and was intended for the realization of Dido & Aeneas and two Dialoge projects. From 2005 to 2007 Sasha Waltz & Guests received a three-year grant, in the first year in the amount of 575,000 euros, in the following two years in the amount of 875,000 euros. Then the capital city culture fund decided to continue the funding of 875,000 euros per year. This was initially guaranteed for the years 2008 and 2009 and later set up to and including 2011.

This public funding covers around 40 percent of the costs of Sasha Waltz & Guests. The company generates 60 percent itself through guest performances and international co-productions.

The rehearsal and performance location for Sasha Waltz & Guests has been the Radialsystem V since 2006 . As chairman of the board of trustees of the Radial Foundation , Waltz was involved in its establishment. She opened the new house with the work Dialoge 06 - Radiale Systeme .

In February 2013 Waltz announced that she wanted to leave Berlin and "find a new location for a solid and long-term sustainable situation for the work of the ensemble [...]", which she did not. She justified the wish to leave with unbearable financial burdens.

Sasha Waltz & Guests was appointed Cultural Ambassador of the European Union in 2013.

Choreographic opera

Dido & Aeneas (2005)

Since it was re-established in 2005, Waltz and her company have primarily devoted themselves to creating opera choreographies. With Dido & Aeneas (2005) Waltz developed a choreography for an opera for the first time and thus created a new link between music, song and dance. Her approach was to use the arts on an equal footing and to dissolve the "static nature of what is happening in common operatic forms". As a result, she produced other pieces in which singers, choristers, musicians and dancers are embedded in a total work of art . With these creations, Waltz founded "her very own opera dance theater", if not a new genre - choreographic opera.

Dido & Aeneas, based on the opera of the same name by Henry Purcell in coproduction with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin , premiered at the Grand Théâtre de la Ville de Luxembourg and developed into one of the company's most internationally successful opera productions with around 50 performances in 15 countries.

In September 2007 the German premiere of the opera choreography Medea took place in the Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin , based on the musical work of Pascal Dusapin on the basis of the text medeamaterial by Heiner Müller , also a co-production with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin.

The world premiere of Romeo et Juliette followed in October 2007 at the Opéra Bastille in Paris. Valeri Gergiev took over the musical direction of this opera by Hector Berlioz .

The following year, Sasha Waltz & Guests presented the opera choreography Jagden und Formen (2008) to the music of Wolfgang Rihm . The work celebrated its world premiere in May 2008 as part of the Frankfurt Positions 2008 at the Schauspiel Frankfurt .

Continu (2010)

Continu is the name of another work by Waltz in this series, premiered in 2010 in the Schiffbauhalle Zurich. This time the musical center was the Symphony Arcana of Edgar Varèse . The production uses material from ten years of company history and includes a. Elements from the museum displays in Berlin's New Museum and in the MAXXI Museum in Rome (2009).

Thomas Hahn describes the special features of Waltz's interdisciplinary productions in a review of her opera choreography Passion (2010) to the music of Pascal Dusapin , which premiered on October 6, 2010 at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris:

“Waltz builds bridges, very physically, when Hannigan's hair falls into the orchestra pit, when musicians suddenly stroll on the stage, when the wonderfully musical dancers carry or support, push or push, when Georg Nigl claps rhythmically and the musicians join in . What is a 'choreographic opera'? She is 'Passion'! "

In the same year, Métamorphoses (2010) was created with the soloist ensemble Kaleidoskop, which, like Sasha Waltz & Guests, works as a house ensemble in Radialsystem V Berlin . The evening, consisting of three duets and three group pieces, was shown there for the first time on November 19, 2010.

The opera Matsukaze by Toshio Hosokawa was premiered by Sasha Waltz & Guests on May 3, 2011 at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels. The work, the title of which goes back to a classic from Japanese Nō theater , is a co-production with the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, the Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg, the State Opera Unter den Linden and the Teatr Wielki (Warsaw) .

Waltz ' choreographic concert, folded with the music of Mark Andre and Carolin Widmann, was the opening performance of the Mozart Week in Salzburg on January 27, 2012 , which was then performed in Berlin in March 2012 and in Zurich in May 2012.

In 2014, the latest choreographic opera Orfeo to the music of Claudio Monteverdi was created. Orfeo premiered at the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam on September 3, 2014 .

Projects

Dialogues

A special series of projects from Waltz are the dialogues and research that she works out and performs in preparation for a new piece.

Waltz's first dialogues arose from a need to engage with different artists. They were initiated as places of artistic encounter and joint research. Some of them were preliminary studies for later pieces, others were improvisations .

“The interdisciplinary 'Dialoge' projects form creative power centers for Sasha Waltz's work. The dialogue takes place on various levels, the focus is on the free spirit of improvisation and the joy of experimenting [...]. There are short and intensive encounters between musicians, visual artists, dancers and choreographers in very specific rooms. "

It started with five studies on the subject of everyday life, which she showed in 1993 as part of her scholarship at Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin and served as research for her piece Twenty to eight . In 1999, in preparation for Körper , her piece for the reopening of the Schaubühne on Lehniner Platz, Waltz again resorted to the Dialoge process and created Dialoge '99 / I - Sophiensaele and Dialoge '99 / II - Jewish Museum .

Finally, she created her Dialoge projects, for example Dialoge '99 / II in the Jewish Museum Berlin or Dialoge 06 - Radial Systems , with which Sasha Waltz & Guests opened Radialsystem V :

“Over a hundred artists are involved. There is dancing, music and singing throughout the building, not just in the theaters, but also in the basement, in the hallways and on the roofs. Music by Purcell, Telemann and Vivaldi wafts through the halls and stairwells, plus percussions by Xenakis and old chorales, and dancers lean against panes of glass, silent and motionless, lying on roofs, gliding over the floor. 'Dialoge 06 - Radiale Systeme' is an enormous exploration of space, and it is the preparatory work for a new opera: 'Medea' (2007). "

In addition to smaller dialogues , this series also includes large-scale projects. The Dialoge - Les grandes Traversées (2003, Bordeaux) for the tenth anniversary of Sasha Waltz & Guests are another example. Almost all of the artists who had worked for the company were involved here. Over three days there was a twelve-hour program in several locations in the city.

The venue plays a special role , especially in the newer Dialoge projects. Usually the dialogues don't take place in a theater, but in empty, public buildings. So were dialogues I / 99 an exploration of the emptied ballroom of Sophiensæle. The dialogues II / 99 explored the Jewish Museum before it was opened. Dealing with these specific spaces and their architecture was the starting point for Sasha Waltz's choreography. Sasha Waltz on her work in the Jewish Museum:

“Daniel Libeskind drew the homes of Holocaust victims like a network through his architecture. For this purpose he developed certain lines and lines, and so the whole building is topographically criss-crossed with the biographies of murdered people. In our work we tried to trace the walls and follow this topography. If you stay in it for a long time, the atmosphere of this building penetrates you physically, the oppressive historicity of this architecture with all the concrete, and if you don't take the right door, you won't come out. "

In 2001, with the piece S, the gutted Berlin Schaubühne was taken over by the dancers inside and outside with physical movement art. On the occasion of the opening of the Neues Museum in Berlin in March 2009, the dancers again tried out the interaction of movement in an empty building ( Dialoge 09 - Neues Museum ).

Dialogues 09 - MAXXI in Rome (2009)

Sasha Waltz also performed with her ensemble at the unofficial opening of the Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo (MAXXI) on November 14th and 15th, 2009 in Rome without exhibits.

The author Dorita Hannah writes about Waltz, her dialogues and her relationship to architecture:

“Sasha Waltz is an artist who speaks about architecture and demands an answer from it. With her dancers, she listens and responds to their special accents, their murmurs and the many stories that have accumulated over time. These ongoing 'dialogues' not only result in unique events that expand the actual area of ​​presentation and influence the work, they also suggest that the potential of presentation spaces in the 21st century should be rethought. "

Promotion of young talent

To promote a new generation of choreographers, Sasha Waltz & Guests launched the Choreographers of the Future program. Between 2007 and 2010, BASF was the main sponsor of the series of programs in which associated choreographers were supported in the development of their careers under the artistic direction of Waltz and Jochen Sandig.

Projects within the framework of the Choreographers of the Future funding program
year Artists and productions
2008

Performances in the Radialsystem V Berlin and Theater im Pfalzbau Ludwigshafen:

  • Juan Kruz Diaz de Geraio Esnaola: ars melancholiae
  • JirÌ Bartovanec: When my mind is rocking I know it's 7
  • Xuan Shi and Niannian Zhou: Parallel. Moving
  • Nasser Martin-Gousset: Comedy
2009
  • Luc Dunberry: Aliens! - Grand Théâtre de la Ville de Luxembourg, Radialsystem V Berlin
  • Renate Graziadei: Backward - Radialsystem V Berlin
  • Xuan Shi and Niannian Zhou: Parallel - Radialsystem V Berlin
  • Takako Suzuki: Empire - semper small scene / Semperoper Dresden
2010

Performances in the Theater im Pfalzbau Ludwigshafen and Radialsystem V Berlin:

  • Jiri Bartovanec: Aného
  • Xuan Shi and Niannian Zhou: The sound of Qin
  • Renate Graziadei: Backwards
  • Fabián Barba: A Mary Wigman Dance Evening

Performances in the Festspielhaus Hellerau / Dresden

  • Takako Suzuki: Collavocation

Sasha Waltz on her motivation to start the program:

“My first productions would never have come about without the support of a partner like Jan Stelma, director of the Grand Theater Groningen. I would like to pass on this experience and therefore see the promotion of young talent as a cornerstone of my work as a choreographer. "

In 2010 Waltz received the Caroline Neuber Prize awarded by the City of Leipzig , whereby the jury based its decision on, among other things, its work in the field of promoting young talent: "Your company 'Sasha Waltz & Guests' stands [...] for an artistic force field in the young dancers and choreographers get the chance for aesthetic examination and further development. "

In addition, Waltz initiated a children's dance group in Radialsystem V together with Hannah Hegenscheid and Livia Patrizi in 2007. The resulting children's dance company is a continuation of the TanzZeit- Zeit für Tanz inschulen project, sponsored by the Berlin Senate , in which Waltz is also involved as patron.

Solo for Vladimir Malakov

With the solo for Vladimir Malakov , Vladimir Malakhov and Waltz presented their first joint project on April 20, 2006 at the House of World Cultures during the German Dance Congress Knowledge in Motion in Berlin.

Unity monument

Together with Milla und Partner, Sasha Waltz designed a draft for the planned German Freedom and Unity Monument in Berlin as part of the second competition in 2010 . Citizens on the move won one of the three first prizes despite the “kitschy title”. Based on the recommendation of the competition jury, all three designs were initially revised again. On April 13, 2011, Minister of State for Culture Bernd Neumann announced the final decision: The unified monument should be built according to the design by Milla and Waltz. In the end, the jury decided in favor of Citizens in Motion , as it “solves the subject of the Freedom and Unity Monument in the best and most impressive way”.

The design is a large, walkable arch that can be set in a slight movement when visitors cleverly distribute their weight:

“The concept was created in the spirit that every person can contribute to the well-being of the community through creative action and thus have a creative impact on society. The visitors - the citizens who set the entire object in motion - become an active part of the monument themselves. This also formulates a constantly changing choreographic expression for the peaceful revolution of 1989. "

The decision to build a unitary monument in Berlin met with heavy criticism. The two competitions and the final decision for the design by Milla and Waltz were also controversial. Meinhard von Gerkan gave up the chairmanship of the jury - as a protest against the foreseeable vote for citizens on the move during the second round of the competition. For him, the design is “a voyeuristic, populist toy”, the symbolism of which is “superficial and misleading”. Wolfgang Wippermann described the design with the words "salad bowl", "nonsense" and "simply kitsch". He sees his thesis confirmed that the monument language is over. The GDR civil rights activist and co-initiator of the monument building, Günter Nooke, on the other hand, regards citizens in motion as a symbolically “very coherent monument” that offers the opportunity to “redefine the location”.

Exhibition at the ZKM

From September 28, 2013 to January 30, 2014 the Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe showed the exhibition Sasha Waltz - Installations, Objects, Performances with music by Jonathan Bepler, Pascal Dusapin, Hans Peter Kuhn, Henry Purcell and Franz Schubert. On the occasion of her birthday, the ZKM brought the Karlsruhe-born choreographer back to her hometown. The 20th anniversary of Compagnie Sasha Waltz & Guests provided the opportunity to present their work in a completely new context outside of the world's stages. The choreographer had long played with the idea of ​​removing these installation and multimedia elements from the stage context and presenting them as independent installations. From 27. to 29. September 2013 saw the opening weekend with a performance program from Compagnie Sasha Waltz & Guests. During the entire duration of the exhibition, performances with dancers selected by Sasha Waltz in a workshop at the ZKM could be seen at different times of the day. A total of around 60,000 visitors experienced the exhibition over the four months that it ran.

Awards

  • 1993: Scholarship from Künstlerhaus Bethanien , Berlin
  • 1994: Critics' award of the Berliner Zeitung for Travelogue I - Twenty to Eight
  • 1994: 2nd prize for choreography for Travelogue I - Twenty to Eight at the International Choreographers Competition Groningen
  • 1997: Invitation to the 34th Berlin Theatertreffen with Allee der Kosmonauten
  • 1998: Kulturpreis der Berliner Zeitung
  • 1999: German Critics' Prize in the field of dance
  • 2000: Adolf Grimme Prize for Allee der Kosmonauten
  • 2000: Invitation to the 37th Berlin Theater Meeting with Body
  • 2000: Grand Prix 2000 for the body as part of the BITEF festival in Belgrade
  • 2000: The film Body was nominated for an Emmy Award
  • 2000: Prize of the Association of German Critics in the dance category
  • 2001: Grand Prix Scènes d'Ecran for the film Body in Brussels
  • 2002: OPUS Prize for “Best Stage Design of the Year” for insideout
  • 2007: “Best Choreographer” of the 2006/07 season, survey of critics by the specialist journal ballettanz
  • 2007: “Most remarkable female artist” in the dance division of the 2006/07 season, survey of critics by the magazine of the German stage association Die Deutsche Bühne
  • 2007: Bronze for the film adaptation of Dido & Aeneas in the “Performing Arts” category at the New York Festival
  • 2008: European Theater Prize 2008 New Theatrical Realities
  • 2009 internship at the German Academy Rome Villa Massimo
  • 2009: 1st prize in the theater critic survey of the magazine Die Deutsche Bühne
  • 2009: German Record Critics' Prize 2009 for the DVD Dido & Aeneas (2008, Arthaus Musik)
  • 2009: Officier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
  • 2010: Caroline Neuber Prize of the City of Leipzig
  • 2010: First prize for the design Citizens in Motion for the planned German unified monument in collaboration with the architects Milla und Partner
  • 2011: Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon

Works

Sasha Waltz

  • 1985: The sea in me. Direction / Choreography: Sasha Waltz. World premiere in Amsterdam .
  • 1986: gold dust. Direction / Choreography: Sasha Waltz. WP in Amsterdam.
  • 1987: How come we go. Direction / Choreography: Sasha Waltz. Music: Tristan Honsinger. WP in Amsterdam.
  • 1987: Black Siren. Direction / Choreography: Sasha Waltz. WP in Amsterdam.
  • 1987: Rifle. Dance / Choreography: Ronald Fleming, Sasha Waltz, David Zambrano. Premiere in New York .
  • 1987: David and Goliath. Dance / Choreography: Ronald Fleming, Sasha Waltz, David Zambrano. WP in Caracas , Venezuela .
  • 1990: Anna is no longer homesick. Direction / Choreography: Sasha Waltz.
  • 1991: Tomorrow she was speechless. Direction / Choreography: Sasha Waltz.
  • 1991: False Trap. Dance / Choreography: Sasha Waltz. Music: Micha Schilling. WP in the Tanzfabrik Berlin.
  • 1993: bungalow. Direction / Choreography: Sasha Waltz. Choreography / Dance: Sasha Waltz, Takako Suzuki. Music: Peter Hollinger. Premiere in the Hackesche Höfe Berlin .
  • 1994: Paulinchen - at home alone. Dance / Choreography: Sasha Waltz. Music: Jochen Sandig. Premiere at the Kunsthaus Tacheles Berlin .
  • 2006: fantasy. Music: Franz Schubert. Choreography for the dance company of the Opéra de Lyon .
  • 2006: Solo for Vladimir Malakhov UA on April 20, 2006 at the House of World Cultures in Berlin .
  • 2014: Tannhäuser. Opera by Richard Wagner. Direction / Choreography: Sasha Waltz. Musical director: Daniel Barenboim. Music: State Opera Choir and Staatskapelle Berlin. Premiere on April 12, 2014 in the State Opera in the Schiller Theater Berlin .

Sasha Waltz & Guests

  • 1993: Twenty To Eight. World premiere (WP) at the Grand Theater Groningen . First part of the "Travelogue Trilogy".
  • 1994: Tears Break Fast. WP at Podewil Berlin . Second part of the "Travelogue Trilogy".
  • 1995: All Ways Six Steps. Premiere at the Theater am Halleschen Ufer . Third part of the "Travelogue Trilogy".
  • 1996: Avenue of the Cosmonauts. Premiere in the Sophiensælen Berlin .
  • 1997: Two countries. Premiere in the Sophiensælen as part of the 48th Berlin Festival .
  • 1998: Na Zemlje ( On Earth ). Premiere in the Sophiensælen. German-Russian co-production.
  • 1998: redness. Direction / Choreography: Sasha Waltz. Dance / Choreography: Benoit Lachambre, Robert Meilleur. Sophiensæle Berlin.
  • 2000: body. Piece for 13 dancers. World premiere on January 22nd, 2000, Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz . Production: Schaubühne Berlin. Coproduction: Théâtre de la Ville Paris.
  • 2001: p . Premiere in the Schaubühne on Lehniner Platz.
  • 2002: noBody. World premiere on February 23, 2002 in the Schaubühne at Lehniner Platz. Coproduction: Festival d'Avignon . Adaptation for the Cour d'honneur of the Papal Palace in Avignon , July 19-29, 2002.
  • 2003: insideout. Development for Graz Capital of Culture 2003 . World premiere on September 19, 2003 in Graz , German premiere on October 10, 2003 in Berlin.
  • 2004: Impromptus. Premiere in the Schaubühne on Lehniner Platz.
  • 2004/2005: Dido & Aeneas. Opera project based on music and motifs by Henry Purcell .
  • 2005: tides. Premiere on November 19th, 2005 in the Schaubühne at Lehniner Platz.
  • 2007: Medea. World premiere on May 23, 2007 at the Grand Théâtre de la Ville de Luxembourg
    Based on the opera medeamaterial by Pascal Dusapin (music) / Heiner Müller (text),
  • 2007: Roméo et Juliette. Premiere on October 5th, 2007 at the Paris Opera .
    Choreography for the symphony by Hector Berlioz .
  • 2008: Hunts and Forms. Premiere on May 7th, 2008 at the Schauspiel Frankfurt as part of the Frankfurt Positions 2008 . Music: Wolfgang Rihm .
  • 2010: Continu. World premiere on June 20, 2010 in the shipbuilding hall in Zurich. With elements from the museum displays in Berlin's New Museum and in MAXXI Rome.
  • 2010: Passion. Opera by Pascal Dusapin . Premiere on October 6th, 2010 at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris.
  • 2010: Métamorphoses. Direction / Choreography: Sasha Waltz. Music: Kaleidoskop soloist ensemble. Premiere on November 19, 2010 in Radialsystem V Berlin .
  • 2011: Matsukaze. Opera by Toshio Hosokawa . World premiere on May 3, 2011 at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie , Brussels. Co-production: Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg, State Opera Unter den Linden and Teatr Wielki (Warsaw) .
  • 2013: Sacre. New choreography of the ballet Le Sacre du Printemps by Igor Stravinsky , premier May 13, 2013 at the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, in a comparison with the reconstructed original choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky ; Second performance of the double program with the same cast at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées Paris on May 29, 2013, the 100th anniversary of the premiere. 2014 world premiere with the cast Sasha Waltz & Guests at the Brussels Opera House La Monnaie / De Munt together with the choreography Jagden und Formen. German premiere October 27, 2014 in a combined evening with the Scène d'Amour from Roméo et Juliette by Hector Berlioz and the world premiere of the choreography L'Après-midi d'un faune to the music of Debussy.
  • 2014: Orfeo. Opera by Claudio Monteverdi. Direction / Choreography: Sasha Waltz. World premiere on September 3, 2014 at the Dutch National Opera Amsterdam . Co-production: Dutch National Opera Amsterdam, Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Bergen International Festival and Opéra de Lille .
  • 2017: Women . Elisabethkirche , Berlin, dance piece as part of the Tanz im August festival . With this work, Waltz referred to the installation The Dinner Party by Judy Chicago .

Dialogues projects

  • 1993: Dialoge - Künstlerhaus Bethanien (showings IV). Berlin.
  • 1999: Dialoge '99 / I - Sophiensæle. Berlin.
  • 1999: Dialoge '99 / II - Jewish Museum. Berlin.
  • 2000: Dialogues - La chapelle des Pénitents blancs. Festival d'Avignon.
  • 2000: Dialoge - Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz. Berlin.
  • 2001: Dialogues - Bombay. India.
  • 2001: Dialogues 17–25 / 4. Schaubühne at Lehniner Platz Berlin.

Project 17–25 / 4 appropriated the cadastral lot number of the Schaubühne, a rotunda by Erich Mendelsohn . Conversions within the theater were used for a play that largely played on the building all around and the roofs. In the finale, Waltz used the emptiness of a gutted stage for maximally expansive dance tables horizontally and with ladders up to the ceiling vertically.

  • 2003: Dialogues - Les grandes Traversées. Grand Theater Bordeaux.
  • 2004: Dialogues - Paris. Le ferme du Buisson-Noisiel, Paris; Festival Les Presqu'iles de danse.
  • 2004: Dialogues - Passage. Studio Bagouet / Les Ursulines Montpellier, Festival Montpellierdanse.
  • 2004: Dialoge 04 - St. Elisabeth I-IV in coproduction with Tanz im August Berlin , funded by the Capital Cultural Fund, St. Elisabeth Church Berlin .
  • 2004: Dialoge 04 - Palace of the Republic. Palace of the Republic in Berlin.
  • 2005: Dialogues - Happy Day. Opera de Lille.
  • 2006: Dialogues - Bologna. Chiostro di San Martino, Bologna.
  • 2006: Dialoge - Freiburg. E-Werk Freiburg.
  • 2006: Dialoge 06 - Radial Systems. Premiere on September 14, 2006 in Radialsystem V Berlin.
  • 2007: Dialogues - Bangalore. Ranga Shankara, Bangalore, India.
  • 2007: Dialogues - Pergamon Museum. Pergamon Museum Berlin .
  • 2009: Dialoge 09 - New Museum. Premiere on March 17th, 2009 in the Neues Museum Berlin before the exhibition objects are put away.
  • 2009: Dialogues 09 - MAXXI. MAXXI art museum in Rome.
  • 2013: Dialogues 2013 - Kolkata . Jorasanko Rajbatiti in Pathuriaghata in northern Calcutta .

Movies

  • 1998: Avenue of the Cosmonauts. Director: Sasha Waltz. Production: kosmonaut film production Berlin in cooperation with arte and ZDF. First broadcast: April 7, 1999. Length 58 min.
  • 2000: body. Direction: Jörg Jeshel, Brigitte Kramer. Choreography: Sasha Waltz. Production: Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz Berlin, arte and ZDF, in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut. First broadcast: April 11, 2000. Length: 57 min.
  • 2002: noBody. Director: Sasha Waltz. Production: Nachtaktiv-Film / Brigitte Kramer, Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz Berlin. First broadcast: December 5, 2002. On behalf of ZDF / arte. Length: 85 min.
  • 2005: Dido & Aeneas. Music: Henry Purcell. Libretto: Nahum Tate. Direction / Choreography: Sasha Waltz. Production: Sasha Waltz & Guests, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, arte, ZDF, ZDFtheaterkanal. Coproduction: State Opera Unter den Linden Berlin, Grand Theater de Luxembourg, Opéra de Montpellier. Length: 90 min.
  • 2006: Garden of Earthly Delights. The choreographer Sasha Waltz. [DVD] / Brigitte Kramer [Director, Prod. Screenplay]; Henning Brümmer [camera]; Jörg Jeshel [camera]; Sasha Waltz [actor]. - [Sl], Goodmovies, 2008. - 1 DVD video (approx. 59 min. + 20 min. Bonus): sound format: DD / mono; Aspect ratio: 4: 3. - Country code: 0. - German, English, French - Orig .: Germany. Production: nocturnal film. On behalf of ZDF / arte. First broadcast: May 19, 2007.
  • 2009: Sasha Waltz & Guests. Dialogues 09 - New Museum. Documentation, Germany, 2009, 53 min., Director: Sasha Waltz, production: ZDF , arte , orchestra: Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop, singer: Vocalconsort Berlin, first broadcast: October 19, 2009, summary by arte
  • 2010: Development of a choreography for the opening sequence of Tom Tykwer's film Drei

literature

  • Hans Georg Bögner: Dance Talk VII: Sasha Waltz. In: German Dance Archive Cologne. SK Foundation Culture (ed.). Dance talks. Contemporary dance in dialogue. M7 Verlag KBE kiosk book event, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-934511-13-9 .
  • Michaela Schlagenwerth: Close-up of Sasha Waltz: Conversations with Michaela Schlagenwerth. Alexander Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-89581-182-1 .
  • Karl Stocker, Nadia Cusimano, Katia Schurl: Insideout. Springer Verlag, Vienna / New York 2003, ISBN 3-211-40782-0 .
  • Sasha Waltz: Tides. Henschel Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-89487-548-8 .
  • Sasha Waltz: Cluster. Henschel Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-89487-572-5 .
Nadja Kadel: Review of the band Cluster on tanznetz.de

Web links

Meetings

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ tagesspiegel.de
  2. ↑ Akademie der Künste Berlin - AdK blog from June 27, 2013 , accessed on July 17, 2013
  3. ↑ change.org
  4. ↑ Hans Georg Bögner: Dance talk VII: Sasha Waltz. In: German Dance Archive Cologne. SK Foundation Culture (ed.). Dance talks. Contemporary dance in dialogue. M7 Verlag KBE kiosk book event, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-934511-13-9 , p. 136.
  5. ↑ Michaela Schlagenwerth: Close-up of Sasha Waltz: Conversations with Michaela Schlagenwerth. Alexander Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-89581-182-1 , p. 33.
  6. ↑ a b c d Sasha Waltz . In: Munzinger Archive, 39/2008. Munzinger biography: [electronic resource].
  7. ^ Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten
  8. ↑ a b Measures necessary for survival . Press release on nachtkritik.de , September 1, 2010. Accessed March 31, 2011.
  9. ↑ Michaela Schlagenwerth: Giving up means giving up . In: Berliner Zeitung , May 20, 2010
  10. ^ A b c Franz Anton Cramer: After a long wait: appearance of the body . ( Memento of the original from October 12, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Märkische Allgemeine , January 2000. Accessed March 31, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sarma.be
  11. ↑ Anke Dürr: "Body" in Berlin. Dance the liver! In: Spiegel Online , August 21, 2010. Retrieved March 31, 2011.
  12. ↑ Arno Widmann: body . In: Berliner Zeitung , July 26, 2000.
  13. ↑ a b Anke Dürr: "Body" in Berlin. Dance the liver! Spiegel Online , August 21, 2010. Retrieved March 31, 2011.
  14. ↑ Michaela Schlagenwerth: Close-up of Sasha Waltz: Conversations with Michaela Schlagenwerth. Alexander Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-89581-182-1 , p. 59.
  15. ↑ Horst Vollmer: Body-Show-Stage. Berlin: Sasha Waltz starts from scratch. ( Memento of the original from December 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tanznetz.de 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. Tanznetz.de , January 22, 2000. Retrieved March 31, 2011.
  16. ↑ Katrin Bettina Müller: Reconstruction of the labyrinth. In: taz , November 24, 2006.
  17. ^ Website of Sasha Waltz & Guests GmbH
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  19. ↑ a b Frederik Hanssen: Blood tackle . In: Der Tagesspiegel , September 16, 2009.
  20. ^ Public yes to contemporary dance Press release on nachtkritik.de , October 7, 2009. Accessed March 31, 2011.
  21. ↑ Publication of the Capital Cultural Fund ( Memento of the original from March 4, 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. (PDF) accessed on March 31, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.berlin.de
  22. ↑ Publication of the Hauptstadtkulturfonds  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 31, 2011.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.hauptstadtkulturfonds.berlin.de  
  23. ↑ Publication of the Capital Cultural Fund ( Memento of the original from January 28, 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 March 31, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hauptstadtkulturfonds.berlin.de
  24. ↑ Publication of the Capital Cultural Fund ( Memento of the original from March 3, 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 March 31, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hauptstadtkulturfonds.berlin.de
  25. ↑ Publication of the Capital Cultural Fund ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2008 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 March 31, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hauptstadtkulturfonds.berlin.de
  26. ↑ Publication of the Capital Cultural Fund ( Memento of the original dated February 2, 2009 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 March 31, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hauptstadtkulturfonds.berlin.de
  27. ↑ Sasha Waltz & Co. build new center of Berlin. Tagesspiegel , March 21, 2006. Retrieved March 31, 2011.
  28. ↑ zeit.de
  29. ^ WDR 3 (Westdeutscher Rundfunk) Kulturnachrichten from February 5, 2013 ( Memento from February 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on February 6, 2013
  30. ↑ TDZ (Theater der Zeit) reports from May 3, 2013 , accessed on February 18, 2015
  31. ↑ Michaela Schlagenwerth: Close-up of Sasha Waltz: Conversations with Michaela Schlagenwerth. Alexander Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-89581-182-1 , p. 71.
  32. ↑ Michaela Schlagenwerth: Close-up of Sasha Waltz: Conversations with Michaela Schlagenwerth. Alexander Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-89581-182-1 , p. 70.
  33. ↑ Irmela Kästner: United in a single great movement. Welt am Sonntag , January 3, 2010. Retrieved March 31, 2011.
  34. ↑ Thomas Hahn: Hellishly funny. kultiversum.de, October 6, 2010. Accessed March 31, 2011.
  35. ↑ Women in wings . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung , January 29, 2012, p. 22
  36. ^ Sasha Waltz: Cluster. Henschel Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-89487-572-5 , pp. 88f.
  37. ↑ Michaela Schlagenwerth: Close-up of Sasha Waltz: Conversations with Michaela Schlagenwerth. Alexander Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-89581-182-1 , p. 24.
  38. ↑ Michaela Schlagenwerth: Close-up of Sasha Waltz: Conversations with Michaela Schlagenwerth. Alexander Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-89581-182-1 , p. 10f.
  39. ↑ Michaela Schlagenwerth: Close-up of Sasha Waltz: Conversations with Michaela Schlagenwerth. Alexander Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-89581-182-1 , p. 17.
  40. ↑ Photo: dancers in the north dome hall. Tagesspiegel , March 2009, accessed on March 31, 2011.
    Anna Pataczek: Nefertiti's lead dancer . In: Der Tagesspiegel , March 15, 2009.
  41. ↑ Julia Bonstein: Sasha Waltz inaugurates the Hadid building. Spiegel Online , October 2, 2009, accessed on March 31, 2011.
    Paul Kreiner: Rome's New National Museum: A summer night space . In: Der Tagesspiegel , November 15, 2009.
  42. ^ Sasha Waltz: Cluster. Henschel Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-89487-572-5 , p. 77.
  43. ↑ Sasha Waltz & Guests: Choreographers of the Future. ( Memento of the original from March 4, 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. Theaterkompass.de, January 15, 2010. Retrieved March 31, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.theaterkompass.de
  44. ^ Website of Sasha Waltz & Guests GmbH , accessed on March 31, 2011.
  45. ↑ Sasha Waltz & Guests is promoting future choreographers together with BASF. Goldman Public Relations press release , December 19, 2007. Accessed March 31, 2011.
  46. ↑ Sasha Waltz receives the Caroline Neuber Prize of the City of Leipzig 2010. ( Memento of the original from March 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.leipzig.de archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Citizen portal of the city of Leipzig, November 23, 2009. Accessed March 31, 2011.
  47. ^ Children's dance company . ( Memento of the original from April 24, 2011 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. TanzZeit - time for dance in schools, contemporary dance Berlin e. V. Accessed March 31, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tanzzeit-schule.de
  48. ↑ Alexander Cammann: Unity Monument. Germany kneel down! In: Die Zeit , No. 41/2010.
  49. ↑ Alexander Cammann: Decision on the Unity and Freedom Monument  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.bundesregierung.de   Federal government website, April 13, 2011. Accessed July 1, 2011.
  50. ↑ Unity monument . Award-winning competition entry. ( Memento of the original from April 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.milla.de 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. Website of Milla & Partner GmbH. Retrieved March 31, 2011.
  51. ↑ sueddeutsche.de Interview on the online portal of the Süddeutsche Zeitung , May 2, 2011. Accessed July 2, 2011.
  52. ↑ Video aspects: Contra Einheitsdenkmal - Wolfgang Wippermann  in the ZDFmediathek , accessed on July 2, 2011. (offline)
  53. ↑ Video aspects: Pro Einheitsdenkmal - Günter Nooke  in the ZDFmediathek , accessed on July 2, 2011. (offline)
  54. ↑ Villa Massimo | Sasha Waltz. Retrieved August 21, 2019 .
  55. ↑ Sasha Waltz receives the Federal Cross of Merit on rp-online.de, March 7, 2011
  56. ^ Project description on the Sasha Waltz website
  57. ↑ Wiebke Hüster: The enigmatic woman. In: FAZ.net . September 3, 2017. Retrieved September 4, 2017 .
  58. ↑ Dorion Weickmann: A woman thing. History-conscious choreographers dominate the second half of the Berlin festival Tanz im August. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, No. 201, September 21, 2017, p. 13.
  59. ^ As Chekhov, only in Indian in FAZ of January 23, 2013, page 28
  60. ↑ Anna Pataczek: Nefertiti dance leader ; Tagesspiegel , March 15, 2009. Retrieved March 31, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Waltz, Sasha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German choreographer and dancer
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe