Paula Rosolen/Haptic Hide
(Frankfurt/München)
Piano Men – A choreographic concert for 2 pianists
Location: Frankfurt LAB (Gallus)
Performance
- 18.10.2013, 19.30 Uhr
- 19.10.2013, 19.30 Uhr
- 20.10.2013, 6 p.m.
They see everyone, hear everything, are always there and yet never in the spotlight. The pianists, who accompany dance rehearsals as co-repetiteurs. As participatory observers, they form the living archives of dance and are capable of describing dance on a level that truly makes it come alive. Frankfurt choreographer Paula Rosolen has explored the memory of repetiteurs together with pianist David Morrow, who worked for 20 years with the Ballet Frankfurt as well as for the Forsythe Company, and a guest pianist. Paula Rosolen visited many who work for famous dance makers. In her piece, she uses collected visual, acoustic, written and physical material to provide a perspective on the history of dance, which focuses on the description and perception of movement and music without recourse to the presence of actual live dancers.
Direction, Choreography: Paula Rosolen * Performer, Pianists: David Morrow, Thorsten Larbig * Set: Wooyeon Chun * Light: Rosa Wernecke * Sound Design: Sebastian Schottke * A Paula Rosolen production, co-produced by Künstlerhaus Mousonturm * Funded by: TANZFONDS ERBE – An Initiative of the Federal Cultural Foundation * Supported by the Hessian Ministry for Science and Art, the City of Frankfurt am Main, and The Forsythe Company. Many thanks to the Palucca School Dresden and the Kurt-Schwaen-Archiv.
World Premiere. In English and German.
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.