T H E D U T C H O N T O U R - Theater Instituut Nederland

Language
English/German
Contact
Artistic director: Ulrike Quade
Agency: Bureau Berbee,
www.bureauberbee.nl
T +31 (0)20 – 627 04 55
E info@ulrikequade.nl / info@bureauberbee.nl
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Ulrike Quade
Intense, innocent, open
Productions by Ulrike Quade are directly engaging thanks to their intensity and innocence, their
open character and the astonishing way she brings objects and characters to life. It is expressive
theatre with powerful musical elements, which makes optimum use of the eloquence of effect
and body language.
Quade considers it important to merge form and content to create to single entity. This corresponds
with a contemporary worldview whereby boundaries are fading and people and the
world itself are constantly on the move. By assigning the terms content and form an equal status
on the main issue, she is embracing a dynamism that becomes both inspirational and questioning
due to the very absence of this distinction. She searches for creative room and inspiration
from a whole range of angles. By keeping personal control of the direction, scenography and
the acting, she allows these individual components to flow into each other unchecked.
As Quade & Paiva (2003-2005), she and the dancer Duda Paiva created the successful
productions Dead Orange Walk, (based on the diaries of the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo),
Two Old Ladies and the double programme Nude Volume/Angel.
International
Ulrike Quade has spent a lot of time touring abroad during the past few years. She has put
on shows in countries including Great Britain, Canada, US, Germany, Switzerland, France,
Scandinavia, Bolivia and Brazil. In 2004, she was the first Dutch director to receive a Directors
Lab stipend from the Lincoln Center in New York. In June 2007, she was made artist in residence
at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Arts in the United States, where she devised her
production The Wall (2008). She produced the show The Second Goodbye (2007) together with
the Taiyuan Puppet Theatre Company in Taipei, Taiwan under the direction of Jos van Kan.
Me Too – a sideshow
Photo: Sergio Gridelli
The Dutch on tour Physical, site-specific and object theatre
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