Dance Techniques 2010

Who’s Who
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Friederike Lampert, PhD, studied ballet at the University
of Music and the Performing Arts in Frankfurt
and applied theater studies at the Justus Liebig
University in Giessen. Afterwards she worked for
ten years as a professional dancer and choreographer.
From 2002–2006 she worked as research
assistant at the Department of Performance Studies
at the University of Hamburg and taught dance
theory and practice there. Her doctorate was on the
topic of Improvisation im künstlerischen Tanz and in
2006 she was awarded the North Rhine–Westphalia
Dance Studies Prize for this work. She organizes
dance conferences and is the artistic director of the
K3 Jugendklub at the K3 Zentrum für Choreographie
/ Tanzplan Hamburg at Kampnagel. From 2008–
2010 she was a research assistant at Tanzplan Deutschland
and senior editor (together with Ingo Diehl)
of the publication Dance Techniques 2010—Tanzplan
Germany. In September 2010 she took on the position
of an associate researcher with Jiří Kylián at the
Rotterdam Dancy Academy (Codarts). Aside from
diverse professional articles, she has also published
the following books: Choreographieren reflektieren.
Choreographie–Tagung an der Hochschule für Musik
und Tanz Köln (Lit Publishing) and Tanzimprovisation.
Geschichte, Theorie, Verfahren, Vermittlung
(transcript publishing).
Mia Lawrence, originally from New York, currently
works as the coordinator of the First Cycle at
P.A.R.T.S., Brussels, where she switches between
teaching yoga, contemporary, and creative work. She
spent eight years touring internationally as a member
of the Stephen Petronio Company. In 1997 she began
creating her own work and teaching workshops
in festival and schools in the United States and Europe.
In 1998 she received the prestigious New York
Dance and Performance Awards (‘Bessie’) for her
first evening–length solo Kriyas. She relocated to
Munich in 2002 where she continued creating pieces
with the support of the Kulturreferat and other institutions.
She received the Förderpreis Tanz in 2005
from the city of Munich for her artistic achievement.
She continues to create pieces utilizing movement,
text, and sound.
Anna Markard was born in Germany in 1931, eldest
daughter of Kurt and Aino Jooss, and grew up in
England after her family emigrated there in 1933. She
studied at the Sigurd Leeder School of Dance, the
Folkwang School Essen, and with Nora Kiss in Paris.
She was a dancer at the Düsseldorf Opera House but
soon followed her educational interests, becoming
an assistant at the Folkwang School before teaching
modern European dance in the United States, and
from 1960 taught at the Folkwang School. Together
with her father, she redeveloped some of his most
important ballets for the stage and has been responsible
for many productions of the Jooss repertoire
all over the world. She set up the Jooss Archive and
was working on the publication of partitures from
Jooss’s works in Labanotation. Markard lived in Amsterdam
and was married to the painter Hermann
Markard; she died in 2010.
Gisela Müller, Prof., studied dance in Paris, Amsterdam
(SNDO), and New York. She has been a member
of various dance companies and in 1992 founded
the Move Company, for which she has also choreographed
numerous pieces and received scholarships
in Germany and abroad. She has taught at various
training and educational institutions and studios in
Germany and beyond since 1988, and has been a
board member and principal for the Tanzfabrik Berlin
since 2004. From 2006–2009 she was a guest professor
at the Cooperative Dance Education Centre
/ Berlin, responsible for the Bachelor of Arts
program in contemporary dance, context, and choreography.
Jennifer Muller, an influence in the dance world for
over forty years, is known for her visionary approach
and innovations in multidisciplinary dance / theater
productions incorporating the spoken word, live and
commissioned music, artist–inspired décor, and unusual
production elements. She has created over one
hundred works including six full–evening productions.
Artistic director of Jennifer Muller / The Works
since 1974, she has toured with the company to forty
countries on four continents. An internationally renowned
teacher, she has developed a personalized
technique and developed innovative programs in creative
thinking. Her choreography has been commissioned
by twenty-four international repertory companies
including Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater,
Nederlands Dans Theater, NDT3, Ballet du Nord, and
Lyon Opera Ballet. Her work for theater includes The
Public Theater, Second Stage, New York Stage and
Film, and the Metropolitan Opera. Creating work
since she was seven years old, she graduated from
the Juilliard School, New York City. She danced with
the Pearl Lang and José Limón Dance Companies,
and was associate artistic director of the Louis Falco
Dance Company.
Janet Panetta studied ballet with Margaret Craske,
Antony Tudor, and Alfredo Corvino at the Metropolitan
Opera Ballet School. At fourteen she became
Margaret Craske’s teaching assistant, which served
as on–the–job training for her lifelong career in dance
education. She joined the American Ballet Theatre in
1968, and later began her foray into modern dance as
a member of Paul Sanasardo’s company. She went on
to work with Robert Kovich, Neil Greenberg, Susan
Salinger, Peter Healey, and numerous other modern
companies, while continuing to teach. In the 1980s
she began working internationally. She has been a
guest teacher at P.A.R.T.S. and Tanztheater Wuppertal
Pina Bausch. In addition, she teaches at Impulstanz
in Vienna each summer, and maintains the
Panetta Movement Center in New York, where she
serves as artistic director of International Dance Dialogues,
a program that hosts many European artists’
workshops and lectures.
Chrysa Parkinson is a performer and teacher living
in Brussels. She teaches regularly at P.A.R.T.S. and
works as a mentor / coordinator for the Second–
Cycle students. She also teaches regularly at La
Raffinnerie and Danscentrum Jette in Brussels,
Panetta Movement Center in New York, and at Impulstanz
in Vienna. In 2010 / 11 she is touring and
performing with Jonathan Burrows, Mette Ingvartsen,
and Rosas / Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. She
is a member of ZOO / Thomas Hauert, and has also
worked with Jonathan Burrows, Deborah Hay, John
Jasperse, Meg Stuart, and David Zambrano. She was
a member of Tere O’Connor Dance for many years
in New York where she also performed with Irene
Hultman and Jennifer Monson, among other artists.
During that time she taught at Movement Research
and at NYU. She was awarded a Bessie for sustained
achievement as a performer in 1996. In 2008
Chrysa Parkinson worked as a teacher researching
performance practices in Montpellier with 6M1L and
Ex.e.r.c.e. Based on her work in Montpellier, she created
an illustrated DVD essay called Self-Interview on
Practice.
Barbara Passow trained under Hans Züllig as a
dancer at the Folkwang University of the Arts Essen
from 1968–1972, also completing a one-year dance
education program specializing in dance for children
and amateurs. In 1979 she was awarded a scholarship
by the state of North Rhine–Westphalia that enabled
her to travel to New York for a year where she
studied Limón Technique intensively. She worked as
a dancer at the Cullberg Ballet under Birgit Cullberg
in Stockholm from 1972–1984, at the Tanztheater
Wuppertal under Pina Bausch, and at the Folkwang
Tanz Studio under Susanne Linke. Since 1986 she
has taught modern dance at various universities and
dance companies (Bremen Theater, among others)
and workshops for professional and non-professional
dancers, as well as working as a dancer and choreographer
with Michael Diekamp. Since 1995 she has
taught at the Palucca Schule Dresden—Hochschule
für Tanz.
Jerry Remkes recieved his masters in Arts and Arts
Administration at the University of Groningen. After
graduation he was a cultural policy manager for
the city governments of Eindhoven and Amersfoort
and the managing director for theater company Het
Oranjehotel. Since 2001 he has been working for
anoukvandijk dc, first exclusively as managing director
and from 2003 also as dramaturg for Anouk van
Dijk’s performances.