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Sarah Ludi
Sarah Ludi (1971) is a Swiss dancer who is based in Brussels and is best known for her work with the choreographers Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / Rosas and Thomas Hauert / ZOO. Training Sarah Ludi was born in Switzerland and grew up in Geneva. As a dancer, she was formed at the Ballet Junior de Genève, and by the Argentinian but in Geneva working choreographer Noemi Lapzeson. Collaboration with Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / Rosas From Geneva she traveled to Paris and then to Brussels, where she joined the dance company Rosas of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. The first new Rosas production in which danced was ''Kinok'' (Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / Rosas, 1994). After that, a handful of other new productions followed, plus the restagings of three older productions (including ''Rosas danst Rosas'' (Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / Rosas, 1983). Collaboration with Thomas Hauert / ZOO From 1998 she also started dancing in productions of the dance company ZOO of the Swiss, but in Brussels res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
Anne Teresa, Baroness De Keersmaeker (, born 1960 in Mechelen, Belgium, grew up in Wemmel) is a contemporary dance choreographer. The dance company constructed around her, , was in residence at La Monnaie in Brussels from 1992 to 2007. Biography De Keersmaeker did not study dance until her last year of high school, instead studying music, specifically the flute. She studied from 1978 to 1980 at Mudra in Brussels, a school with links to La Monnaie and to Maurice Béjart's Ballet of the 20th Century. She has said that the percussionist and her music teacher at MUDRA, , was a major influence on her. In 1981, she attended the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. While at the Tisch she presented her first production, ''Asch'' (1980), in Brussels. In 1982 upon her return from the U.S.A. she created '', four movements to the music of Steve Reich''. It was this production that brought her "a breakthrough on the international dance scene, performing, among other places, at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Hauert
Thomas Hauert is a Swiss dancer and choreographer, leader of the Brussels-based company ZOO. Early life and education Born and raised in Switzerland, Thomas Hauert studied at the Rotterdam Dance Academy in the Netherlands. Career He moved to Brussels in 1991 to work in Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s company Rosas. He then collaborated with David Zambrano, Gonnie Heggen and Pierre Droulers. After the creation of the solo ''Hobokendans'' (1997), he founded his company ZOO (based on the name of a book used by the group as study material) with fellow dancers Mark Lorimer, Sarah Ludi, Mat Voorter and Samantha van Wissen. Their first performance, ''Cows in Space'' (1998), was awarded two prizes at the Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis. The work of Hauert first developed from research on movement, with a particular interest in improvisation-based processes exploring the tension between freedom and constraint, individuals and the group, order and dis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noemi Lapzeson
Noemi Lia Lapzeson (28 June 1940, Buenos Aires, Argentina – 11 January 2018, Geneva, Switzerland) was an Argentine dancer, choreographer and educator. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship for the field of choreography in 1999. In 2002 Lapzeson was the first recipient of the Swiss Prize for Dance. Life Lapzeson as a child began to study movement through the Jaques-Dalcroze method. When she was 14 her mother brought her to study with Ana Itelman. She won a scholarship from the Juilliard School. There she studied classical dance, but she returned to contemporary dance in order to study under American teacher Martha Graham. By the age of 19 she danced and was a teacher at Graham's dance company in New York. Lapzeson helped to create the London Contemporary Dance School in 1968. In Geneva, Noemi Lapsezon taught ''Technique corporelle'' in the Institute Jaques-Dalcroze. She was also instrumental in the creation of the ADC (Association of Contemporary Dance for its acronym in F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Lorimer
Mark Lorimer is a British dancer and choreographer, best known for his work with the Brussels-based choreographers Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Thomas Hauert. Early life and education Mark Lorimer was a student at the London Contemporary Dance School, and graduated in 1991. Dance career After that, he joined the dance company The Featherstonehaughs (a sister company of The Cholmondeleys) of choreographer Lea Anderson. Until 1993, he worked with them on various stage art projects, but also on films, local projects and an adaptation of Pasolini's ''Teorema'' with theatre and opera director Lucy Bailey. In 1993, he moved to Brussels to work with the Compagnie Michèle Anne De Mey on ''Pulcinella'', a dance production with a live version of the ''Italian Suite'' from Igor Stravinsky's ''Pulcinella''. Collaboration with Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / Rosas His most important (and longest) collaboration, however, was the one he started with Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / Rosas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samantha Van Wissen
Samantha van Wissen (born 1970 in Roermond) is a Dutch dancer who is mostly known for her work with the Brussels-based choreographers Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / Rosas and Thomas Hauert / ZOO.Biography of Samantha van Wissen on the website of the RuhrtriennaleBiography of Samantha van Wissen on the website of ImPulsTanz - Vienna International Dance Festival] Training and start as a dancer She studied at the Hogeschool voor Muziek en Theater Rotterdam (High School for Music and Theater, renamed[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mette Edvardsen
Mette Edvardsen (1970, Lørenskog) is a choreographer, dancer and performance artist from Norway, but who lives and works in Brussels, Belgium. Collaboration with les ballets C de la B Since 1996, Mette Edvardsen has her home base in Brussels, Belgium, where she started working as a dancer and performer for the choreographers Hans Van den Broeck (1996-2000) and Christine De Smedt (2000-2005) when they were still connected to les ballets C de la B. She was a performer in ''(They feed we) Eat, eat, eat'' (Hans Van den Broeck / les ballets C de la B, 1996), ''Au Progrès'' (Hans Van den Broeck / les ballets C de la B, 1997), ''La sortie'' (Hans Van den Broeck / les ballets C de la B, 1999) and ''9 X 9'' (Christine De Smedt / les ballets C de la B, 2000). She also assisted director / choreographer Hans Van den Broeck on ''Lac des singes'' (Hans Van den Broeck / les ballets C de la B, 2001). These productions toured internationally. She also contributed to ''1, 2, 3 / Propositions'' (2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thierry De Mey
Thierre De Mey (born 28 February 1956 in Brussels) is a musician and filmmaker from Belgium. Biography After studying film at the Institut des Arts de Diffusion, he continued to studying music composition and contemporary dance after meeting Fernand Schirren, for whose works he has written original incidental music. He works primarily with Rosas & Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Wim Vandekeybus and Michèle Anne De Mey, his youngest sister. He is the founder of the contemporary music ensemble Maximalist!, and he has participated in other important projects such as and Ictus Ensemble, for which he has composed several works. In 1993 he joined a class at IRCAM, where he developed his interest in electronic music. He was composer in residence at the Conservatory of Strasbourg and the Musica Festival in 2001 and 2002. Since 2005 he has been one of four new directors of Charleroi / Danses, coordinating the multidisciplinary activities of the center choreography. Main compositions * 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swiss Dancers
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Swiss Female Dancers
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Swiss Choreographers
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