LAB 1
TERESA RAINIERI (Italy)
Choreography: A personal interpretation
JULY 19–23, 2010
K3-Zentrum für Choreographie | Tanzplan Hamburg | 1–4 pm
Open door day July 23 | 3 pm
As a choreographer, more than looking for a form, I am interested to the intention that generates a form. In other words, what interests me is not how I move but why I move. Therefore, during a creation process, I shift myself in different states of mind that suggest my body to move, following clear images. In this LAB my purpose is to share such a process with the dancers and create choreographic material, for solo and/or partner work. On this journey, we will look for strategies that will allow the dancers to achieve a very personal understanding of my choreographic material. As a frame of work, we are going to play with images and episodes that are part of my recent creation based on the idea of how a body can reproduce memories.
Teaching language: English
Maximum number of participants: 20
For dancers with an intermediate / high-level experience in Modern and Contemporary Dance
Teresa Ranieri, born in Bari in 1966, lives in Portugal. Works in Germany since 1985, dancing as a soloist in various theatres like Würzburg, Darmstadt, Saarbrücken. 1994 she joined the ”Tanzwerk Nürnberg” under the direction of Dirk Elvert and Jean Renshaw, where she worked with different choreographers like Roberto Galvan, Jenny Coogan, Rik Kam, Dyane Elsout and Frank Händler, Amanda Miller, Rui Horta, Jacopo Godani and Willyam Forsythe. 1998 she followed the direction of Tanzwerk Nürnberg to Dortmund Theatre. There she worked again with Rui Horta, Amanda Miller and Marc Dandy. 1999 danced for one season at the Landestheater Linz (Austria) under the direction of Robert Pool. Since July 2000 worked as freelance dancer, choreographer and teacher for contemporary ballet and contemporary dance (Vera Sander Art Connect in Köln, Unterwegs Theatre Heidelberg, Mouvoir/Stephanie Thiersch in Köln, Micha Purucker in Munich).
With the group Mouvoir, under the direction of Stephanie Thiersch, she has been working as a dancer/choreographer, taking part in the productions “Ripple -revue” and “Helter Skelters”. With these productions she toured in Belgium, Palestine, France and Germany. For the season 2001/2002 she was invited as Guest Choreographer at Theatre Nordhausen (Germany), where she created the 30 minutes long piece "From one to zero" December 2002, she choreographed at the world premiere of Stanley Walden Opera ”Bach letzte Opera” at Theatre Erfurt (D ). She was selected to be one of the 6 choreographers of the SIWIC in August 2003 in Zürich (CH), under the direction of Carolyn Carson.
In July 2003 she was invited as choreographer to take part in the project "Colina (Collaboration In Arts)" from Rui Horta, organised in Montemor-o-Novo (Portugal). She was selected to be one of 3 choreographers from Tanzhaus NRW (D), to take part at the "Dance Link NL & NRW" in December 2003 at Korzo Theatre / Den Haag (NL). In March 2004 she was the winner of the third choreography price at the "8th. Tanz Solo Festival" in Stuttgart (D), with the solo "Libero Arbitrio". She performed this solo in a tour in Germany during November 2004. She was invited with "Libero arbitrio" to the Festival "TanzTendenzen" in Greifswald (D) in October 2005. During the “Summer semester” 2006 she choreographed “Headmatter” for the graduating students at the Bruckner University. Performances in April in the “Jerger Saal” in Linz (A). In July 2006 she is one of the five choreographers invited to create a piece for the youth project “Sommertanz” in Wuppertal (D). Performances during the season 2006/07 in Germany. In October 2006 she is invited to choreograph a 30 minutes long piece for the postgraduate company “X.IDA” in Linz (A). Invited for the Festival Tanzzug 06 in Zug (CH) with the solo “Garden State”. For the season 2006/07 she is invited to choreograph a 40 minutes long piece for the dance company of the Theatre Vorpommern in Greifswald (Germany). In December 2007 she had premiere in Lisbon (P) with a new creation for three dancers “0º” and in January 2008 with “Green blankness”, a piece for 8 dancers of the High School for dance in Antwerpen (B) as part of program of the International dance festival “Amperdans”. Between July and September 2008 she created and danced the solo evening “In the land of p....” as a co production with Espaço do tempo. This evening had premiere in Montemor-o-novo (P) and is going to tour in Europe starting from January 2009. With the same solo she is invited to participate at the Portuguese Dance Platform 2009.