Paula Rosolen/Haptic Hide
(Frankfurt/München)
100:100 | tribute to Merce Cunningham
Location: Metzlerpark, Museum Angewandte Kunst
Dance
- 28.04.2019, 4 p.m.Admission free
The Rhein-Main Region celebrates the Centennial of Merce Cunningham birth
Merce Cunningham is one of the most famous choreographers in the world. He has revolutionized the understanding of dance and movement with his Cunningham-Technique, philosophy and his constructive-situational approach. His life-long collaboration with John Cage has been influential for the whole arts avant-garde beyond the limits of dance.
Therefore Paula Rosolen/Haptic Hide, Tanzplattform Rhein-Main, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, the MAK, the Hochschule für Gestaltung and a group of professional dancers, choreographers and dance-amateurs, join forces to pay tribute to the great choreographer. They assemble dance sequences into a large group score, embodying Cunningham’s movement principles and create together an outdoor performance with a live music score by Nicolas Fehr and David Morrow.
Open-Air-Performance at Metzlerpark Frankfurt am Main
Cast & Credits
Idea, Score: Paula Rosolen/Haptic Hide
Concept: Paula Rosolen & J. M. Fiebelkorn
Choreography: Dancers and Choreographers from the region
Choreography Assistants: Maria Kobzeva, Tamara Saphir
Music: Nicolas Fehr and David Morrow
Production Management: Ingrida Gerbutavičiūtė
Production Assistant: Raimonda Gudaviciute-Haun
Photography: Jörg Baumann
Partners: Kulturamt Frankfurt, Tanzplattform Rhein-Main, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Museum Angewandte Kunst, Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach, Paula Rosolen/Haptic Hide. Die Tanzplattform Rhein-Main, ein Projekt von Künstlerhaus Mousonturm und Hessischem Staatsballett, wird ermöglicht durch den Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain und ist gefördert vom Kulturamt der Stadt Frankfurt am Main, dem Hessischen Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst und der Stiftungsallianz [Aventis Foundation, BHF BANK Stiftung, Crespo Foundation, Dr. Marschner-Stiftung, Stiftung Polytechnische Gesellschaft Frankfurt am Main]. Unterstützt von Klaus Schreck Tanz- und Theaterbedarf.
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.
