Stephanie Thiersch

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Stephanie Thiersch (* 1970 in Wiesbaden ) is a German choreographer , director and media artist.

Career

After studying classical and modern dance in Wiesbaden and Montpellier, Stephanie Thiersch studied Romance philology , media and communication studies from 1992 to 1997 , which she completed with a Magister Artium (MA). Her master's thesis "Videódanse - a new genre" received the 1997 Science Prize from the University of Mannheim . She then completed postgraduate studies in media art with the performance artist Valie Export , the musician Anthony Moore and the media archaeologist Siegfried Zielinski at the Art Academy for Media in Cologne . Since 2000 she has been the artistic director of the dance company MOUVOIR (Cologne). Since 2003, the Goethe-Institut has listed Stephanie Thiersch as one of the most important contemporary choreographers in Germany. So far, she has produced more than 50 plays, films and installations, which have guested nationwide and worldwide and are co-produced internationally.

Stephanie Thiersch's works are characterized by their interdisciplinarity, their strong visual aesthetics and the focus on socially relevant topics. Stephanie Thiersch has received several prizes and awards for her productions, such as the Theaterzwang Prize, the Art Promotion Prize of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia , the German Video Dance Prize , the Leipzig Movement Art Prize and the Cologne Dance Theater Prize several times .

“ The works of Stephanie Thiersch seek confrontation with other media and yet remain at their core dance pieces. The choreographer's interest is always directed towards the body in the process of transformation and transition. Thiersch's bodies not only oscillate between their different media representations, but also embody heterogeneous emotional states. The confrontation of contexts is not just one of the various art forms and media. As in the encounter with Africa in As / If (We Would Be), it is also one of those cultures whose strange gestures reveal what is one's own with a strange gaze. In Bronze by Gold, the musicians of the Asasello string quartet move together with the seven dancers in the room, whereby the violent movement of the music passes into their bodies and drives them to physical exhaustion. The piece confronts our western party culture with the horror of terror and death that we could only imagine until now. Without us noticing it at first, the scratched tones of the Belgian DJ suddenly sound like rifle volleys, the ecstatic poses of the dancers turn into shouts for help in our eyes. They are neither one nor the other. Stephanie Thiersch suspends extreme conditions, dares to do the balancing act between contexts and challenges us to behave in the gaps. ”

( Gerald Siegmund , catalog dance platform 2016)

further activities

Stephanie Thiersch works as a guest choreographer for other companies and as a lecturer for choreography and composition (including the Institute for Applied Theater Studies in Gießen, the University of Music and Dance in Cologne and the University of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt am Main). Since 2011 she has been involved in a European-African artist network, MITUMBA , then JITTA-Collective, which promotes and produces exchange and collaborations.

From 2006 to 2016 she was artistic director of the international festival GLOBALIZE: COLOGNE , since 2017 she has been managing the URBÄNG! Together with the free trade zone ! Festival takes place in Cologne.

Stephanie Thiersch is a member of the Franco-German Cultural Council .

Stage productions (selection)

  • ba: from (2000) - intermedia performance for 3 dancers, 60 min
  • delay_01 (2000) - interactive dance performance for 6 dancers, 60 min
  • Le Coeur volé (2001) - Medial dance theater with 5 actors
  • son_ambulio (2001) - interactive performance - motion tracking for 6 dancers
  • Silence III (2002) - auditory performance for 6 dancers
  • ripple-re-vue (2003) - dance installation for 3 dancers
  • Notations (2003) - improvisation project for 2 dancers, 2 musicians + video artist, 60 min
  • attitudes passionnelles (2004) - telematic dance project for 8 dancers / deriveurs
  • Under Green Ground (2005) - dance performance for 1 dancer & 3 technicians, 75 min
  • helterskelter (2005) - dance theater for 4 dancers and 1 musician, 85 min
  • beautiful me (2006) - disco performance for 1 dancer and 1 djane 55 min
  • Wunderland (2006) - interactive children's theater for 1 dancer, 50 min
  • living room_ another eden (2007) - Solo for Flavia Tapias, 17 min
  • En passage (2007) - choreography for 18 dancers and 5 percussionists, 55 min
  • MOUVOIR special (2007) - 3 hours - improvisation project with 8 dancers
  • cactus bar (2007) - dance theater for 7 actors, 90 min
  • blind questions (2008/09) - performance & film for 2 dancers + 2 actors, 90 min
  • zauberEI (2009) - dance theater for 5 actors, 55 min (from 6 years)
  • unknown size (2010) - performance for 5 dancers, 55 min
  • Under cover (2010) - choreography for 4 dancers, 25 min
  • As if (we would be) (2010) - choreography for 7 dancers, 90 min
  • Cooking Sun (2011) - choreography for 4 dancers, 25 min
  • White Landing (2011) - Solo for I-Fen Lin / Part 1 of the Happy Living Trilogy, 25 min
  • Nature Morte (2011) - Duo / Part 2 of the Happy Living Trilogy, 45 min
  • MITUMBA (2011) - Research project with 10 dancers / choreographers
  • Flux - No Ends Land (2011) - Choreography for 10 dancers and 40 extras
  • Near Miss (2012) - Trio / Part 3 of the Happy Living Trilogy, 35 min
  • Deconstructing the best of us (2012) - with 3 performers
  • MITUMBA - The Happening (2013) - with 10 European and African artists
  • Corps Étrangers (2013/2014) - with 3 acrobats, 2 dancers and a sound artist
  • The Memory Machine (2014) - room installation and performances
  • for four (2014) - contemporary dance and the Asasello string quartet
  • Bronze by Gold (2015) - 7 dancers, Asasello Quartet & Dj Elephant Power, dance in August
  • City Dance Cologne (2016) - 12-hour open air performance with 600 participants, Cologne Philharmonic
  • Chombotrope (2017) - Europe-East Africa: dance, music, fashion design,
  • Bruixa (2018) - A solo for Viviana Escalé, Free Trade Zone, Tanzhaus nrw , Teatro del Canal Madrid
  • Bilderschlachten / Batailles d'Images (2019), for 8 dancers, the Asasello Quartet and the Les Siècles orchestra ( François Xavier Roth) under the direction of Benjamin Shwartz , production: Théâtre de Nîmes , Beethovenfest Bonn , Tanzhaus nrw , free trade zone Cologne

Movies

  • Piscènes (Berlin, 1999), experimental video, DV video, 4 min
  • Le Coeur volé (D / F, 2000), KHM graduation film, 16 mm, 14 min
  • Georgia (D / F, 2002) Arte / 3sat, S16mm, 27 min
  • short cuts 1-5 (2007) DV video, 25 min
  • blind.questions (D / F, 2008) HD video, short film, 30 min

Awards / scholarships (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DFKR
  2. ↑ 50 choreographers of contemporary dance in Germany. Retrieved January 26, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Gerald Siegmund: from the catalog for the German Dance Platform 2016. Accessed on January 26, 2018 (German).
  4. Jump up ↑ Dance Germany: Dance Germany / Tanz in Deutschland / MOUVOIR / Stephanie Thiersch. Retrieved February 6, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Prize winners and nominees: Prize winners and nominees 2014. Accessed on February 6, 2018 .
  6. ^ Leipziger Rundschau: Movement Art Prize for Mouvoir - A best of the independent scene on two festival days. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 2, 2017 ; accessed on February 6, 2018 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sachsen-sonntag.de
  7. ↑ Theaterkompass: MOUVOIR / Stephanie Thiersch nominated for the George Tabori Prize. Retrieved February 6, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Night review: George Tabori Prize 2015 to performance collective She She Pop Protagonistenlose Held *innen. Retrieved February 6, 2018 .
  9. ↑ SK Stiftung Kultur: The winners of the 28th Cologne Dance and Theater Awards 2017. Accessed on February 6, 2018 (eng).
  10. ^ Kölner Stadtanzeiger: Cologne Dance and Theater Awards: Women who go their own way. Retrieved February 6, 2018 .
  11. ↑ RheinEnergieStiftung: Cologne dance and theater awards recognize three projects funded by the RheinEnergieStiftung Kultur. Retrieved February 6, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Thiersch, Stephanie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German choreographer, director and media artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesbaden