theaterhagen
why. what. how. 2014
Lectures and Research
The Secret: What do dancers know?
‘Dance is at the bottom of the food chain.’ (William Forsythe 2009)
Neuroscientists, philosophers, and also dance academics of all sorts have been trying to figure out what it is: what do dancers know that other people can’t grasp? Unless they’ve been through the mill of arduous training and rehearsing, they have no way of knowing it. Call it embodied knowledge, somatic intelligence and so forth, it is rarely articulated by dancers, so there’s little understanding of it outside the dancer’s circle. It is a secret. A secret not by intention but by virtue of its nonverbal nature.
Inventing Futures
Der Froschkönig
3. Biennale Tanzausbildung
Blue Danube revisited for the
3. Biennale Tanzausbildung
Dance is worth every minute
For this performance-installation I revisited a solo I created based on issues I was dealing during my own studies – a lecture with no explanatory texts.
Blue Danube DanceSpace NYC 1986
Kurzbio
Ricardo Viviani wurde in São Paulo, Brasilien geboren.
Er studierte Choreographie bei der legendären Bessie Schoenberg, später dann an der Joffrey Ballet School in New York und war Stipendiat an verschiedenen Tanzinstituten in Brasilien und den USA. Danach wurde er Solotänzer beim Balé da Cidade de São Paulo, der Manuel Alum Dance Company und am Nationaltheater Weimar. In den Musicals „A Chorus Line“ und „Oh! Calcutta!“ wirkte er als Darsteller am Broadway mit. Als Choreograph brachte er eigene Tanzabende in São Paulo, New York und Köln heraus. Im Bereich Musiktheater choreographierte er u.a. die Operette „Im weißen Rössl“ am Nationaltheater Weimar, „Gegen die Wand“ am theaterhagen und am Theater Heilbronn das Musical „The Wild Party“.
internationale tanzmesse nrw
choreography slide show
Sinus Studie 2009
The Power of Statistics
Published in April 2010 by Land NRW – Abteilung Kultur, this is a study by Sinus Sociovision GmbH of the social positioning of immigrants in Germany today. It features a large amount of pictures of the production QuaaDriDuuo, even thou it doesn’t talk about it at all.
It intends to be free from preconceptions and cliches. The study delivers a great amount graphical statistics making it a basic instrument for decision making. It has a strong focus on the cultural production of immigrants in Germany or as the officially correct term defines: „Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund“ *.
It can be downloaded as a PDF file: Sinus-Studie_2009.pdf 6.6Mb.
* The European concept ‘nationality’ is very different from the one in the American continent. The German language Wikipedia entry for the word Migrationshintergrund is elucidating and also makes for an amusing read defining the term ‘Biodeutsch’ as an antonym to immigrants.