Sven Niemeyer

Sven Niemeyer with Hauke Horeis (Odeville) during the video shoot for 'Phoenix' (2016)

Sven Niemeyer (born February 16, 1981 in Delmenhorst ) is a German actor , musical performer , dancer , choreographer , director , filmmaker and lecturer .

Life

At the age of 17, Niemeyer began training as a stage actor at the Stage School of Music, Dance and Drama in Hamburg , which he successfully completed in 2002. After two years with various engagements, he attended the Iwanson School for Contemporary Dance , under the artistic direction of Jessica Iwanson in Munich , from which he graduated in 2005 with a diploma as a stage dancer and dance teacher. Even during his training, Niemeyer worked as a lecturer for the dance studio "On Stage" and for the Stage School itself. Furthermore, he took over the choreographic management of various youth and addiction prevention programs in socially disadvantaged areas. In 2008 he trained for several months with the Pacific Northwest Ballet in Seattle and at EDGE-PAC in Los Angeles .

Sven Niemeyer is invited to international dance and musical competitions as a juror, such as B. to the ESDU World Dance Masters in Croatia , the Dance Fest Novi Sad in Serbia , the European Youth Musical Festival, or the Prague Dance Open in Prague. In the season 16/17 he is a member of the jury of the German Private Theater Days, which is about the award of the Monica Bleibtreu Prize, 18/19 of the jury for the German Musical Theater Prize.

In 2009, he choreographed and directed by Nina Kupczyk at the Hamburg State Opera Der Kaiser von Atlantis by Viktor Ullmann and 2010 under the direction of Matthias Engelmann Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno of George Frideric Handel . In summer 2012 Sven Niemeyer took over the choreography for the musical High Fidelity at the Altonaer Theater Hamburg, directed by Franz Joseph Dieken. He also took over the choreography at the Landestheater Coburg for the musical A Cage Full of Fools and Rent at Gruenspan in Hamburg for Avenue-A Productions. Further choreographies for theater productions followed.

As a guest lecturer he worked z. B. for the Freiburg Academy for Dance - Dance Emotion, Hamburg School of Entertainment, Hamburg School for Dance and Movement, the Iwanson School Munich, Corpa - School of performing Arts Bremen, Danceworks Berlin, European Musical Academy Bremen and Bremen Musical Company, international u. a. for New Style Motherload Studio in Oakland / USA, Polish Dance Theater - Dancing Poznan, Amsterdam Dance Center, Circle in Rotterdam / Netherlands and Studio Harmonic in Paris. In 2011, 2012 and 2013 Sven Niemeyer was part of the international team of lecturers at the International Summer Laboratory of contemporary dance in Chelyabinsk, Russia, in the southern Urals, where he also taught as a guest lecturer for musicals at the State Academy for Culture and Art in 2013 .

For Cie Yan Duyvendak he went on tour through French-speaking Europe as a solo singer and dancer in the socially critical piece Sound of Music , in choreographies by Olivier Dubois (including LaBatie Festival Geneva, ActOral Festival Marseille). The production was awarded the 'FEDORA - Van Cleef & Arpelz Prize for Ballet' and the 'Label + théâtre romand' award.

After his first dance theater production Conversation with dead people at the Hamburger Sprachwerk, he choreographed Vivaldi's last dance (based on Antonio Vivaldi's Four Seasons ) at the Philharmonie Luxembourg, where he also created the choreography for the staged concert The Sorcerer's Apprentice . Also at the Philharmonie he created the concept, direction and choreography for the children's music performance Amazonia with two dancers and the British percussionist ODuo.

From 2013 to 2015, Niemeyer was a lecturer in dance at the Institute for Music at the University of Osnabrück. In 2017 he directed and choreographed the short film KALT (COLD), which was invited to various international film festivals. So u. a. to the Flatlands Dance Film Festival Illinois / USA, the Bucharest International Dance Film Festival, to Moving Images Cyprus, the Filmfest Eichstätt, the LA Dance Film Festival, Dance on Camera in New York or to the FILMZ Festival of German Cinema in Mainz. At the 1st Buxtinale 2018 in Buxtehude, KALT was awarded the Bronze Hedgehog.

For the ARD film 'once son, always son' and a. with Christiane Hörbiger and Mario Adorf , directed by Thomas Jauch , Niemeyer is not only responsible for the choreography in the film, but also took on the supporting role of the teacher 'Jan Berger'. The shooting took place in Hamburg at the beginning of 2018.

Sven Niemeyer lives in Hamburg .

Memberships

Sven Niemeyer is an "Official Member of the International Dance Council - CID" of UNESCO and a full member of the German Professional Association for Dance Education e. V., where Niemeyer is also listed in the professional register, the "Deutsche Musical Akademie" and the "European Dance Union".

choreography

Sven Niemeyer works, among other things, as a choreographer for theater productions.

2020 - Men - Theater Heilbronn
2019 - Women on the verge of a nervous breakdown - Altonaer Theater
2019 - Jesus Christ Superstar - Theater Vorpommern
2019 - The Addams Family - Jagsthausen Castle Festival
2019 - Everyman - Theater Pforzheim
2018 - Cabaret - Theater Baden-Baden
2018 - The 3 Musketeers - Jagsthausen Castle Festival
2018 - Hair - Jagsthausen Castle Festival
2017 - Please do not poop while standing - Schmidt Theater Hamburg
2017 - Historicus - Hamburger Kammerspiele
2017 - The Moving Man - Thalia Theater Hamburg
2017 - Catch me if you can - Jagsthausen Castle Festival
2016 - Zorro - Jagsthausen Castle Festival
2016 - Amazonia - Philharmonie Luxembourg
2015 - Follow your nose - Schmidt Theater Hamburg
2015 - The Sorcerer's Apprentice - Philharmonie Luxembourg
2015 - Vivaldi's last dance - Philharmonie Luxembourg
2014 - Conversation with Dead People - Sprachwerk Hamburg
2013 - Rent - Hamburger Gruenspan
2013 - A cage full of fools - Landestheater Coburg
2012 - High Fidelity - Altonaer Theater Hamburg
2010 - Il Trionfo Del Tempo E Del Disinganno - Hamburgische Stasstoper / Opera Stabile
2009 - The Emperor of Atlantis - Hamburg State Opera / Opera Stabile
2009 - SALVATION - Stadeum Stade
2006 - Mystic Musical Gala - Waldau Theater Bremen
2006 - Andrew Lloyd Webber Gala - Waldau Theater Bremen

Engagements (selection)

The Moving Man - Ensemble - Altona Theater
Evita - Theater Kiel - Ensemble
La Cage Aux Folles - Theater Magdeburg - Hanna from Hamburg
Sound of Music - Cie Yan Duyvendak - European Tour
West Side Story - Landestheater Detmold - Action
A cage full of fools - Landestheater Coburg - Hanna from Hamburg
Märchenmond - Hamburger Kammerspiele - Kelhim, the bear
West Side Story - Landestheater Coburg - Action (could not appear after an injury in a previous production)
West Side Story - Theater Trier - Chino / Luis
The Csardasfürstin - Cologne Opera - Ensemble
My Fair Lady - Musiktheater im Revier Gelsenkirchen - Emergency Swing
Footloose - Theater for Lower Saxony - Lyle + Bickle
Evita - Musical Theater Bremen - Dance Captain
West Side Story - Bregenz Festival - Professor
West Side Story - Staatstheater Kassel - Big Deal / Baby John
Swinging St. Pauli - United Städt.Bühnen Krefeld / Mönchengladbach - Dance Captain
Jesus Christ Superstar - European Tour - Dance Captain
Kiss of the Spider Woman - Theater Lübeck - Ensemble
Parisian Life - Theater Bremen - Ensemble
A Midsummer Night's Dream - Opera Stabile Hamburg - Lysander
Radamisto - Hamburg State Opera - dancers
RTL Mania Shows - dancers
Ritter Rost - musical for children - Koks the dragon
Bavarian TV Prize 2002 - dancers
Instructor Schmidt - The Film - Dancer

Web links

Sven Niemeyer homepage
Sven Niemeyer International profile
[1] Crew United
Sven Niemeyer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
[2] Heilbronn Theater
[3] Theater Vorpommern

Individual evidence

↑ theater-trier.de ( Memento of the original from May 3, 2014 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. Retrieved November 13, 2011 @1@ 2

^ Premiere of "The Addams Family" at the Burgfestspiele - STIMME.de. Retrieved June 13, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Niemeyer, Sven
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German musical performer, dancer, choreographer and lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH	February 16, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH	Delmenhorst

[1] theater-trier.de ( Memento of the original from May 3, 2014 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. Retrieved November 13, 2011 @1@ 2

[2] Premiere of "The Addams Family" at the Burgfestspiele - STIMME.de. Retrieved June 13, 2019 .