Susanne Linke
Susanne Linke ( born June 19, 1944 in Lüneburg ) is a German solo dancer and choreographer of international reputation, which further developed the German dance theater.
Family
Susanne Linke is the daughter of Pastor Heinz Linke and his wife Rosi left - Schäfer ( born Peschko ). Her uncle Sebastian Peschko worked as a pianist and accompanist.
Early Career
Susanne Linke only began at the age of twenty, to deal with the dance. A speech and hearing disorder and the subsequent, delayed by more than ten years speaking and understanding of delayed its development as a child. Left in 1964 went to Berlin to Mary Wigman studio to take dance lessons. There, she met her idol Dore Hoyer. Three years later she moved to Essen to pursue their studies at the Folkwang -Hochschule. In 1970 she moved, encouraged by Pina Bausch, as a dancer in the directed by their " Folkwang Dance Studio ".
Susanne Linke choreographed since 1970. Their choreographies created in 1975 Danse funebre, doll? and Trop Trad were awarded prizes. Starting this year, she was joint with Reinhild Hoffmann the Folkwang Dance Studio in the absence of Pina Bausch and stayed for 10 years in this position.
It was followed by the choreography, the next one please (1978), In the bath tubs and Wowerwiewas (1980 ), Flood and woman ballet (1981 ), It schwant and we can not all just be Swans (1982). Your first full evening dance theater in 1983 after the Bacchae of Euripides called on dance space.
Solo career and international activities
The international solo career has been substantially funded by the Goethe -Institut. Follow steps (1985 ) Left was the first major solo ballet, which dealt with their problematic childhood and development as a dancer. 2007, this work has been in the equipment of the visual artist VA Wolfl of their reconstructed along with three dancers follow as steps - reconstruction and disclosure of 2007 traveled to all major festivals since the 1980s, danced their own solos and became world famous with their work.. In 1985, she stepped down from the management of the Folkwang Dance Studio and worked as a freelance choreographer, inter alia, for the José Limón Company in New York, for Grupo Corpo in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Paris Opera, and the Nederlands Dans Theater.
In 1987 she showed her own view of 4 of the 5 Solochoreografien from the Afectos Humanos cycle ( 1962) of Dore Hoyer, dedicated to the themes of vanity, lust, fear, and love and were found to be filming in Hoyer's estate. They added to their own choreography dolor (pain), which represents a confrontation with Hoyer's work and a farewell to the model.
The next work, the duo affects ( 1988) and affects / Yellow (1990 ), the basic themes of Afectos resumed and carried them to the relationship between two people. Left she danced with her partner Urs Dietrich.
Your shown internationally choreographies such as Egmont So, Please ( 1986) were very successful. In Ruhr- place ( 1991) they thematized very realistically the working world of the Ruhr and the parallelism of the previous work on the bill with today's modern computer controlled industrial exploitation of resources.
The early nineties founded Left the " Company Susanne Linke " at the Hebbel - Theater Berlin. 1994 she built together with Urs Dietrich, a new company at the Bremer Theater on. 2000/ 01 she was co-founder of the Choreographic Centre Essen and became its artistic director. Since 2001 Susanne Linke is working again as a freelance choreographer and dancer.
Awards
The German Professional Association for Dance Education eV recorded in 2007, the choreographer and dancer Susanne Linke for lifetime achievement with the German Dance Prize. On 14 June 2008 she was appointed to the Academy of Arts in Berlin by the French Counsellor for Culture, Mr Jean d' Haussonville, an officer of Arts and Letters / Officier des Arts et des Lettres. The Folkwang University in Essen 2010 she appointed Honorary Professor, to reaffirm their engagement there as a university lecturer.