Vivienne Newport

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Vivienne Newport (born December 4, 1951 in Bristol ; † April 27, 2015 in Berlin ) was a dancer , choreographer and director of the company Vivienne Newport, founded in October 1981 at the Frankfurt Theater am Turm (TAT) .

Life

After studying dance in London , Vivienne Newport received her further dance training at the Folkwang University in Essen. The dancer, choreographer and dance teacher Kurt Jooss had set up master classes there in 1961, from which the “Folkwang Ballet” later emerged. In 1969 Pina Bausch succeeded Kurt Jooss as artistic director. With the beginning of the 1973/74 season she took over the direction of the ballet of the Wuppertaler Bühnen . In 1973 Vivienne Newport belonged to Malou Airaudo , Jan Minařík , Dominique Mercy , Tjitske Broersma and Gabriel Sala to the first generation of dancers of the newly founded dance theater Wuppertal Pina Bausch . The first piece was premiered on January 5, 1974: Fritz, a dance evening by Pina Bausch with music by Gustav Mahler and Wolfgang Hufschmidt , coupled with “Der Grüne Tisch” by Kurt Jooss and “Rodeo” by Agnes de Mille .

Vivienne Newport's grave is in the Friedrichswerder cemetery in Berlin.

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Dancer in pieces by Pina Bausch

  • 1973: Fritz
  • 1974: I'll take you around the corner
  • 1974: Adagio
  • 1975: Orpheus and Eurydice
  • 1975: Spring sacrifice
  • 1976: The Seven Deadly Sins
  • 1977: Bluebeard
  • 1977: Come dance with me
  • 1977: Renate emigrates
  • 1978: He takes her by the hand and leads her into the castle, the others follow
  • 1978: Kontakthof
  • 1978: arias
  • 1980: 1980
  • 1981: Bandoneon

Choreographies

  • 1982: crap
Premiere Theater am Turm (TAT) Frankfurt on January 15, 1982 with four dancers and one actor, the American Coral Lebleboojian, the French Florence Bonnefont, the Irish Finola Cronin, the Algerian Mourad Beleksir and the German Lothar Kompenhans.
  • 1982: An ox eats itself over behind the barn
Oeuvre with texts, music and songs by Erik Satie , Sophie Tucker and Louis Armstrong . Premiere Theater am Turm (TAT) Frankfurt on May 6, 1982 with Coral Lebleboojian, Florence Bonnefont and Finola Cronin. At the piano Peter Lamb.
  • 1982: Trigger
Premiere Theater am Turm (TAT) Frankfurt on October 28, 1982 with Uwe Wenzel, Jürgen Noll, Finola Cronin, Coral Lebleboojian, Florence Bonnefont and Lothar Kompenhans.
  • 1982: Back then (That Time). One-act play by Samuel Beckett.
First performed as a dance theater piece as part of the Beckett project of the Theaters am Turm (TAT) Frankfurt on December 10, 1982 with Coral Lebleboojian, Finola Cronin, Jürgen Noll and Gerhart Hinze.
  • 1983: Persicaire
Premiere Theater am Turm (TAT) Frankfurt on April 21, 1983 with Florence Bonnefont, Finola Cronin, Lothar Kompenhans, Coral Lebleboojian, Jürgen Noll, Uwe Wenzel and Zazie de Paris.
  • 1983: Neither the day nor the hour
Premiere Theater am Turm (TAT) Frankfurt on October 6, 1983 with Finola Cronin, Florence Bonnefont, Coral Lebleboojian, Jürgen Noll and Uwe Wenzel. Film: Rüdiger Geissler
  • 1984: drowning
Premiere Theater am Turm (TAT) Frankfurt on April 6, 1984 with Finola Cronin, Alexander Dombrowski, Armin Hauser, Coral Lebleboojian, Elfriede Müller, Jürgen Noll, Berna Uythof and Uwe Wenzel. Room: Alain Fressanges. Film: Rüdiger Geissler.
  • 1984: disappearing with the light
Premiere Theater am Turm (TAT) Frankfurt on November 2, 1984 with Florence Bonnefont, Armin Hauser, Coral Lebleboojian, Elfriede Müller, Jürgen Noll, Berna Uythof and Uwe Wenzel. Film: Rüdiger Geissler.
  • 1985: Scheiszegal
Premiere Theater am Turm (TAT) Frankfurt on January 10, 1985 with Florence Bonnefont, Finola Cronin, Berna Uythof, Coral Lebleboojian and Uwe Wenzel. With six sick songs for the piece devised, written, composed by Chris Newman . At the piano: Stefan Schädler.
  • 1987: Elbestraße 17
Premiere at the Gallus Theater Frankfurt on March 3, 1987, solo dance performance Vivienne Newport.
  • 1987: Savannah
Premiere at the Gallus Theater Frankfurt on October 1, 1987 with Florence Bonnefont, Armin Hauser, Andreas Kühl, Elfriede Müller and Berna Uythof.
  • 1988: Beggars Folies and Savannah Beggar`s Follies premiered in Munich Cafe Giesing (Konstantin Wecker's Cafe) in December 1988. Co-producer was Munich gallery owner Rüdiger Schöttle. Film: Rüdiger Geissler
Gallus Theater Frankfurt on November 11, 1988 with Florence Bonnefont, Armin Hauser, Elfriede Müller and Berna Uythof. A double evening.
  • 1992: Tooth for a tooth
Premiere high-bay warehouse of the former Adlerwerke Frankfurt on November 6, 1992 with Armin Dallapiccola, Ingrid Kerec, Kiri McGuigan and Udo Zickwolf. An event of the Gallus Theater Frankfurt as part of the Gallus Culture Weeks.
  • 1995: Hemlock
World premiere of the cored courtyard of the former Adlerwerke Frankfurt on August 24, 1995 with Toni Abbattista, Ingrid Kerec, Egmont Körner, Patricia Schmid, Namé Vaughn, Uwe Volkert and Yoshiko Waki. The spectators looked out of the hollow windows on the third floor into the empty courtyard. An event of the Gallus Theater Frankfurt.
  • 1997: Deep See Fishing
WP New underground car park under the Adlerwerke Frankfurt on August 28, 1997 with Toni Abbattista, Armin Dallapiccola, Ingrid Kerec, Hiekyoung Kim, Karin Lechner and Uwe Volkert. An event of the Gallus Theater Frankfurt.
  • 1998: distance
Premiere Gallus Theater in the Adlerwerke Frankfurt on July 9, 1998 with Armin Dallapiccola, Thomas Langkau, Karin Lechner, Uwe Volkert and Yoshiko Waki.
  • 2000: Not / Night / Not
Premiere at Gallus Theater Frankfurt on June 8, 2000 with Armin Dallapiccola, Thomas Langkau, Karin Lechner and Uwe Volkert.
  • 2000: Cabaret Physique
Premiere at the Gallus Theater Frankfurt on August 30, 2000 with Florian Eckhardt, Thomas Langkau, Karin Lechner, Sabine Lindlar and Uwe Volkert.
  • 2002: A look in the city
UA Berlin StaatsPOPerette in GRIPS Theater Berlin on 26 December 2002 by Eva Blum and Matthias Witting with Claudia Balko , Falk Berghofer , Eva Blum, Marie Cammin , Claudius Freyer , Christian Giese , Michaela Hanser , Bettina Theil
  • 2003: Dance of Death
Motet by Hugo Distler for choir and speaker. Production for the "Long Night in the Southwest Cemetery in Stahnsdorf" with members of the Vivienne Newport Company. Speaker: Karim Cherif, Peter Hahn, Thomas Langkau, Armin Dallapiccola, Anna Stock, Lisa Weber and Ruth Zschoche. Premiere on August 30, 2003.
  • 2005: Longing wants to dream
Premiere at the Kassel State Theater on March 12, 2005
  • 2005: The hour when we knew nothing about each other . From Peter Handke
Production at the State Theater Kassel

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personal data
SURNAME Newport, Vivienne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English dancer and choreographer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th December 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Bristol
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 2015
Place of death Berlin