Johannes Wieland

Johannes Wieland ( born November 20, 1967 in Berlin) is an international German dancer, choreographer and dance educator. Since the season 2006/2007 he is dance director of the Staatstheater Kassel.

Biography & Career

His training as a dancer received Wieland in Berlin at Ellys Gregor and at the Academy of Ballet of the Deutsche Oper. There was a fellow at the Hamburg State Opera Ballet under John Neumeier ( 1987/1988 ). After the study of classical and contemporary dance at the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in Amsterdam, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, Wieland was a soloist at the State Theater Braunschweig (until 1993 ) and 5 years a soloist at the Berlin State Opera. Here he collaborated with several well-known choreographers, including Roland Petit and Maurice Béjart. In 1998 he was a soloist in Béjart's company in Lausanne and took part in their world-wide tours.

Looking for new artistic challenges Wieland moved the millennium in 2000 to New York, where he choreography and contemporary dance studies at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and his studies deepened and this graduated in 2002 with a Master of Fine Arts. In the same year he founded his own company johannes wieland. His first choreography tomorrow was referred to in the New York Times as " spectacular exploration of relationships." It was the beginning of a series of more powerful and concise dance pieces that created Wieland for his company, so that the renowned trade magazine Dance Magazine took him in 2003 in the list of 25 to watch. Except in New York were to see his works in Toronto, Chicago, Philadelphia, Cologne and Berlin.

Wieland has made a name as Tänzpädagoge. He gave or gives lessons, inter alia, at New York University, at the Juilliard School (New York), the AURA Dance Theatre in Kaunas ( Lithuania), at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen, at the Oldenburg State Theatre and at the Hochschule für Musik Köln.

Style

Wieland's choreographies point to an architecturally embossed understanding of the body, movement and space; he explores them in the human psyche, creating an abstract, metaphor -rich repertoire for his company. The development of the pieces subjected to a sophisticated process in order to explore a variety of situations of causality. This intensive and laborious process promotes an intimate and innovative relationship between the actors / dancers, composers, designers and other artists who are involved in Wieland's works and creates a flowing border to the fields of drama and performance art. Therefore Wieland uses in his plays often a video installations, texts, photographs, and original compositions. Wieland and the members of the company let their audience often sympathize with the way they work and their knowledge. This includes before and after performances to participate in discussions, offering " lecture- demonstration " of public rehearsals and training in different styles.

Awards, honors, promotions

  • 2002: 16th International Choreography Competition Hannover, semifinalist
  • 2003: 25 to Watch, Dance Magazine
  • 2004: Kurt Jooss Prize
  • 2004: Hubbard Street, Chicago: Winner of Choreografiewettbewerbs
  • 2004 - 2006: Funding from the Goethe -Institut
  • 2004: Financial support from the Harkness Foundation for Dance
  • 2004: Financial support from the Choo- San Goh & H. Robert Magee Foundation
  • 2004 - 2006: Financial support from the Greenwall Foundation
  • 2006: Guglielmo Ebreo Competition, Italy: Semifinalist
  • 2006: Financial support from the Poseidon Services
  • 2007: Funding from the Trust for Mutual Understanding
  • 2007, 2009: Financial support from the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation
  • 2009: William J. Cooper funding
  • 2005, 2008, 2010, 2011: Funding from the New York State Council on the Arts

Artistic collaborations

  • Staatstheater Kassel
  • Folkwang -Hochschule
  • Juilliard School
  • Jacob 's Pillow Dance
  • Bard College
  • New York University
  • Ben Frost, composer
  • Diane von Furstenberg, fashion designer
  • Os Gêmeos, graffiti artist
  • Carmen de Lavallade, performance artist
  • Espen Sommer Eide, composer
  • Gus Solomons Jr., performance artist
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