- 31.05.2013, 20.00 Uhr
- 01.06.2013, 8 p.m.
To conclude a critical mass, Paula Rosolen presents the queen of the entertainment: the musical. For this amusing dance piece, the Frankfurt choreographer scoured the history of the genre from Broadway to Hollywood, assembled images, videos and interviews with its stars. Inspired by historical choreographies, Paula Rosolen wove her research material to a story, her own libretto, in which she both disassembles as well as celebrates the legendary, carefully calculated as well as construed glamour of the giants of the genre.
Direction, Choreography: Paula Rosolen * Music, Composition, Arrangements, Performance: David Morrow * Dance, Performance: Natalia Gómez, Jungyung Bae, Marko Milić, Dan Thy Nguyen and 15 guests from Frankfurt * Stage, Costumes: Sophia Lund * A Paula Rosolen and Künstlerhaus Mousonturm production. * Based on Libretto (Sketchbook), K3 – Zentrum für Choreographie / Tanzplan Hamburg production * Supported by the Cultural Department of the city of Frankfurt, the Rudolf Augstein Stiftung, der FAZIT-STIFTUNG and Frankfurt LAB * The performances are made possible by the NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK and Tanzlabor_21.
Künstlergespräch am Sa. im Anschluss an die Aufführung
Biography
Paula Rosolen/Haptic Hide
Paula Rosolen studied dance at Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts and completed a master’s degree in choreography at Justus Liebig University in Giessen. In her choreographic pieces, she works along the boundaries between dance, performance, music and theater. Paula Rosolen aims to make visible the dance that is inherent to popular culture and mundane activities. These subjects are always studied from a distinct point of view and are usually set in a foreign context. In Aerobics! – A Ballet in 3 Acts (2015), for example, she dealt with this form of fitness training, which was developed for the U. S. Air Force. She was invited to show this piece at the 2016 German Dance Platform and was awarded 1st prize at international competition Danse Élargie, organized by the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris and the Musée de la danse in Rennes. In Puppets (2016) and Punk (2018) she continue to set her focus on peripheral topics in dance – sets out in search of traces of punk rock and the research movements of puppeteers.
Paula Rosolen has had residencies at Goethe-Institute’s Villa Kamogava in Kyoto, K3 Center for Choreography in Hamburg, Workspace Brussels, Hessian State Ballet and at the Saison Foundation in Tokyo, most recently.
Her work has been shown at deSingel Arts Campus in Antwerp, Theaterfestival Basel, the Théâtre de la Ville, the Musée de la danse in Rennes, the European Festival for Contemporary Dance in Poland, the Centro Cultural de la Cooperación in Buenos Aires, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm in Frankfurt, the Sophiensæle in Berlin, the Akademie der Künste in Berlin, ZKM Karlsruhe, the Museum Wiesbaden and Kampnagel, Hamburg.
She regularly teaches composition and dance technique at institutions such as Justus Liebig University in Giessen, Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts, Bilgi University in Istanbul, the Boston Conservatory, the Shikoku Gakuin University, the Monochrome Dance Company in Kyoto (JP), Owl Spot Theatre Tokyo, Kyoto International Dance Workshop Festival and many more.
Haptic Hide receives multi-year funding from the Cultural Office of the City of Frankfurt am Main and is supported by DIEHL+RITTER/TANZPAKT RECONNECT, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of the NEUSTART KULTUR initiative.