Atelier 1
Dancing with a company
Participants work on an excerpt from John Neumeier’s repertoire: Orphée et Eurydice.
John Neumeier has always exceeded common expectations by not letting himself be defined solely as an artist in the role of a choreographer. With the premiere of Christoph Willibald Gluck’s Orphée et Eurydice at the Lyric Opera Chicago in 2017, he directed the opera as well as taking the responsibility of the choreography, the stage design, costume and lighting design – thus enabling an unexpected fusion of ballet and opera. The inspiration for this innovative production was the Parisian version of 1774, for which the composer provided extensive dance performances.
For John Neumeier, however, the dynamic coupling of music and dance is not an end in itself. His modern adaptation of the plot framework is inspired by Gluck’s idea of making human emotions intuitively tangible: “We have all had experiences of loss –even if they do not reach the dimensions of madness that I think can be shown in ‘Orphée’.”
Teacher: Janusz Mazoń
Feb 18 + 19, 11-12 am, room Fokine
Ballettzentrum Hamburg John Neumeier, Caspar-Voght-Straße 54, 20535 Hamburg
Atelier 3
Yondering
Participants work on an excerpt from John Neumeier’s ballet: Yondering.
In 1996, John Neumeier choreographed the Ballet Yondering for Canada’s National Ballet School to the music of Stephen Foster. The title was chosen from pioneering days in America, when the first settlers made their way in the unknown west und discovered a new country. They left their familiar surroundings and everything they knew behind, looked “over yonder” and went beyond this frontier although nobody knew what to expect. This journey and the courage going beyond this frontier was known as “Yondering”. The link between the word and the ballet Yondering manifests itself in the fact that John Neumeier choreographed this ballet only for students to perform and not for professional dancers.
Most of the students who dance Yondering are facing their own frontier. They have almost completed their training and are about to begin their first engagement in a professional company. These students are also looking “over yonder”, looking towards their new world as professional dancers. Only these students at this time in their lives have the ability to express the feelings of this ballet. The lyrics and Thomas Hampson’s interpretation accentuate the deep emotion and the innocence of youth.
Teacher: Kevin Haigen
Feb 18 + 19, 11-12 am, rooms Petipa, Nijinsky
Ballettzentrum Hamburg John Neumeier, Caspar-Voght-Straße 54, 20535 Hamburg
Training Ballet
The classical training of the School of the Hamburg Ballet is based on the Vaganova method and is used individually by the teachers of the school to build the focus of the training.
John Neumeier, speaking about the School of the Hamburg Ballet: “As a choreographer I have created a company with a unique image and founded a school that combines two important elements. A school with and without its own style. The school has its own style because it is closely associated with the Hamburg Ballet and with myself as its chief choreographer. It is also without a particular style because we offer a solid, all-round dance education. This training equips young dancers with the tools required to establish themselves in the dance world of today, preparing them for a fulfilling professional life.”
Teachers: Gigi Hyatt, Kevin Haigen, Anna Urban, Carolina Borrajo, Leslie Hughes, Christian Schön, guest teachers: Rosemarie Helliwell, Jason Beechey
Feb 18/19/21/22, 9:15 -10:45 am, rooms Fokine & Petipa
Feb 19/21, 10:45 – 12:00 noon, room Nijinsky
Feb 20, 9:15 – 10:30 am, rooms Fokine & Petipa
Ballettzentrum Hamburg John Neumeier, Caspar-Voght-Straße 54, 20535 Hamburg
Training Contemporary
Among the techniques that will be appropriated, contemporary training will be held in Horton technique and according to the methodology of Sigard Leeder.
Teachers: Stacey Denham, Raymond Hilbert, guest teachers: David Russo, Stephan Brinkmann
Feb 18/19/21/22, 9:15 -10:45 am, room Nijinsky
Feb 18/19/21/22, 10:45 – 12:00 noon, room Cranko
Feb 20, 10:45 – 12:00 noon, room Cranko
Ballettzenturm Hamburg John Neumeier, Caspar-Voght-Straße 54, 20535 Hamburg
Do-Shop Programme
In this Biennale, we concentrate on being and creating together in all themes and methods. For this reason, we have decided to call the workshops Do-Shops.
Please find below an overview of the Do-Shop programme which takes place from Tuesday, Feb 18 to Saturday, Feb 22 from 3:00 pm to 5:30 pm at Kampnagel, Do-Shop #9 on Feb. 19 starts at 10:00 am. A variation of the programme builds Thursday, Feb. 20 with the symposium. No further Do-Shops will take place on this day.
Participation in the Do-Shop programme will be drawn by lot. Please check your individual welcome folder!
Students take part in the Do-Shops#1 to #8 and teachers join the Do-Shop #9, whereas the symposium can be attended by teachers and students together.
Feb. 18 to 22, 15:00 to 17:30
Symposium on Feb. 20, 15:00 to 17:30
Kampnagel, Jarrestraße 20, 22303 Hamburg
Short Pieces, Feb. 17, 8 pm
HOCHSCHULÜBERGREIFENDES ZENTRUM TANZ BERLIN
The specialty of the three courses at HZT Berlin is the close connection of academic training and artistic practice. The programs offer an experimental approach to study and nurture a critical reflection of art and art practice. You will see a students’ work from the Bachelor’s degree, »Dance, Context, Choreography«.
GLS _LA FABRIQUE CULTURELLE ABIDJAN, IVORY COAST
The artistic educational center’s concept focuses on cultural democracy: a culture for everyone, accessible to everyone. It offers instruction in various disciplines. The performance “La Transformation” expresses the search for a contemporary identity with the means of dancing.
SCHOOL OF THE HAMBURG BALLET JOHN NEUMEIER
Founded in 1978 by John Neumeier, today 196 students (7-18 years old) from all over the world are trained in classic academic dance as well as in modern techniques, dance composition and character dance. On Kampnagel, they will show excerpts from »Beethoven Dances«, a work by John Neumeier, which he created for the 40th school anniversary.
Tickets € 10 (€ 5 concession, free entrance for holders of tickets for FOKUS TANZ performances on the same night)
Kampnagel K2
Peter Boragno
Peter Boragno is a graduate in business administration and has worked in cultural management since 1995. His clients include the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, the Federal Cultural Foundation, the Federal Ministry of Culture and Media, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the Goehte Institute. From 2010 onwards he accompanied the Ausbildungskonferenz Tanz and headed the office for the Biennale Tanzausbildng. Since January 2020, he has taken over the management of the Europäische Theaterakademie GmbH “Konrad Ekhof” Hamburg and is in charge of the Bundeswettbewerb deutschsprachiger Schauspielstudierender and, in the future, the Bundeswettbewerb Biennale Tanzausbildung.
Fabrice Mazliah
Nach seinem Tanzstudium in Genf, Athen und Lausanne war Fabrice Mazliah einige Jahre Teil des Nederlands Dans Theatre, schloss sich 1997 dem Frankfurter Ballett unter William Forsythe an und war bis Sommer 2015 Teil der Forsythe Company.
Parallel dazu produzierte Fabrice mehrere eigene Werke und Arbeiten in Zusammenarbeit mit anderen Künstlern, darunter “The Manufactured Series” (2018-2020), “In Act and Thought” (2015) für die Forsythe Company, “Eifo Efi” (2013) ) und “Cover up” (2011) mit dem Kollektiv MAMAZA. Diese Stücke werden auf wichtigen Festivals und Veranstaltungsorten weltweit präsentiert. Fabrice unterrichtet in Workshops, Seminaren und Ateliers auf der Basis von Recherche und Improvisation.
Boy Henry and Boy Bernd
Boy Henry and Boy Bernd are members of „the other kind of coverband“ (discogs) Boy Division for over 20 years. They have been organizing shows for themselves as well as for other bands, released their own and other bands´ records, performed in their own theater plays, released fanzines, directed videos. They work as DJs and spend their spare time planning and running various events of all sorts. They also contributed to works by God`s Entertainment, Geheimagentur and Showcase Beat Le Mot. All below mainstream`s radar for over 30 years and still loving it.
Bea Carolina Remark
Bea Carolina Remark is a dance teacher, performer, creative dance and movement therapist, body therapist, dance and theatre practitioner, poet and alternative practitioner (HP). Spastically paralyzed since birth, she is an expert in her own field.
She has worked for years with choreographers, dance and theatre professionals, therapists, colleges, universities and other institutions and gives workshops at home and abroad. The development of diversity in cultural and political education, the development of equivalence in the world, but also the development of peace processes – in the sense of reflecting on and changing the view of the normal ideal of a society – is a major concern of hers.
Her curiosity is especially directed towards a constant examination and encounter with the foreign, the other, nature and life itself. Movement must be found, is always new. A pendulum between attention and devotion. After each deep encounter, we are no longer who we were, each encounter transforms us.
Numerous further education and training courses in the fields of dance, theatre, bodywork, body therapy, trauma therapy, systemic therapy, yoga.
Behörde KuMe
