- Children's Dance Company 2
- Davide Camplani
- Davide Camplani * in Marone/ Italien, studied contemporary dance with Giulia Gussago and at Folkwang Universität der Künste. He has worked, among others, with Malou Airaudo, since 1999 with Sasha Waltz and realized fillm projects with Gianluca Vallero and Karsten Liske. He leads Sasha Waltz & Guests’ children’s dance company and directs choreographies of his own – among others for Frank Krug’s »Liliths Return« and »Drei Schwestern«, and with Medhat Aldaabal »Amal«.
- Gabriel Galindez Cruz
- Choir 2
- Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin
- Vocalconsort Berlin
- Composition 13
- Mark Andre
- Ivo Bal
- Jonathan Bepler
- Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola
- Born in Legazpi (Spain), Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola completed his musical studies in San Sebastián and Amsterdam, where his artististical career took off auspiciously. In 1995 he met Sasha Waltz, who invited him to take part of the core ensemble she founded in 1996. He followed the different stages of Sasha Waltz & Guests and is one of the pillars of its core group. Within the company and Sasha Waltz’s work, besides his contribution as a dancer and performer, he has been responsible for the muscial direction and musical composition of various pieces, and is rehearsal director and artistic assistant to Sasha Waltz. Other important collaborators have included Luc Dunberry, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Damien Jalet, Joanna Dudley, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, loscorderos.sc, MOPA and Stephanie Thiersch.
- Joanna Dudley
- Pascal Dusapin
- Tristan Honsinger
- Toshio Hosokawa
- Damien Jalet
- Hans Peter Kuhn
- Burak Özdemir (baroque bassoon)
- Wolfgang Rihm
- Rebecca Saunders
- Composition, Concept
- Rebecca Saunders
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- Medhat Aldaabal
- MEDHAT ALDAABAL * in Damascus, Syria. He studied Drama Arts at the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts in Damascus. He performed with diverse dance groups in the Arab region like among others the Enana Dance Theatre in Syria (2009-2011), the Koon Theater Group in Beyrouth before coming to Berlin in 2015. Since then he took part in various contemporary dance workshops and teaches dance to refugee children. One of his recent collaborations was Schlaraffenland - Rückkehr zum Mythos (2016) in St. Elisabeth-Kirche in Berlin-Mitte.
- Davide Camplani
- Davide Camplani * in Marone/ Italien, studied contemporary dance with Giulia Gussago and at Folkwang Universität der Künste. He has worked, among others, with Malou Airaudo, since 1999 with Sasha Waltz and realized fillm projects with Gianluca Vallero and Karsten Liske. He leads Sasha Waltz & Guests’ children’s dance company and directs choreographies of his own – among others for Frank Krug’s »Liliths Return« and »Drei Schwestern«, and with Medhat Aldaabal »Amal«.
- Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
- Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola
- Born in Legazpi (Spain), Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola completed his musical studies in San Sebastián and Amsterdam, where his artististical career took off auspiciously. In 1995 he met Sasha Waltz, who invited him to take part of the core ensemble she founded in 1996. He followed the different stages of Sasha Waltz & Guests and is one of the pillars of its core group. Within the company and Sasha Waltz’s work, besides his contribution as a dancer and performer, he has been responsible for the muscial direction and musical composition of various pieces, and is rehearsal director and artistic assistant to Sasha Waltz. Other important collaborators have included Luc Dunberry, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Damien Jalet, Joanna Dudley, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, loscorderos.sc, MOPA and Stephanie Thiersch.
- Luc Dunberry
- Damien Jalet
- Frans Poelstra
- Antonio Ruz
- Sasha Waltz
- Sasha Waltz was born in Karlsruhe, Germany and studied dance and choreography in Amsterdam and New York. In 1993 she founded her company Sasha Waltz & Guests, together with Jochen Sandig in Berlin. In 1996 she opened the Sophiensæle, a theatre she co-founded with Sandig. From 2000 – 2005, Waltz was named one of the artistic directors of Berlin’s Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz where –amongst others– she created pieces such as the »Körper«-trilogy (2000-2002). During the following years various works of Sasha Waltz – among them »Dido & Aeneas« (2005), »Medea« (2007), »Roméo et Juliette« (2007) and »Passion« (2010) – constituted a whole new genre: the choreographic opera. Furthermore she implemented various »Dialoge”-projects: »Dialoge 09 – Neues Museum” at the Neue Museum Berlin and »Dialoge 09 – MAXXI« at the new MAXXI Museum in Rome, for example. In 2012 she was invited by the Berliner Philharmoniker to choreograph the dance project »MusicTANZ – Carmen« for their Education programme, with over 100 pupils performing to Rodion Schtschedrin’s Carmen Suite. In 2013 Sasha Waltz created a choreography on Strawinsky’s »Le Sacre du Printemps«, a collaboration between Sasha Waltz & Guests and the Mariinsky Ballet, which premiered at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg in May 2013. Together with Peter Weibel Sasha Waltz curated the exhibition »Sasha Waltz. Installationen. Objekte. Performances«, which presented her work for the first time in the context of visual arts. In April 2014 Sasha Waltz staged Wagner’s »Tannhäuser« under the musical direction of Daniel Barenboim at the Staatsoper im Schiller Theater Berlin. In September 2014 Claudio Monteverdi’s »Orfeo« choreographed by Sasha Waltz with the Freiburger Barockorchester directed by Pablo Heras-Casado, premiered in Amsterdam. In 2016 Sasha Waltz developed the new format »ZUHÖREN« and opened up a »third dimension« for art and politics. Together with musicians and dancers from her compagnie, she inaugurated the Foyers of the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg with her choreographic installation »Figure humaine« in January. Her latest work »Kreatur«, a collaboration with the artist and fashion designer Iris van Herpen, was premiered in June 2017 at Radialsystem V Berlin.
Sasha Waltz was awarded several prizes, among them the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2011. Since June 2013, Sasha Waltz is also a member of the Academy of Arts, Berlin.
Besides leading her compagnie Sasha Waltz & Guests, together with the Royal Swedish Ballet director, Johannes Öhman, Sasha Waltz will become the joint artistic directors of the Staatsballett Berlin in 2019.
- Sasha Waltz was born in Karlsruhe, Germany and studied dance and choreography in Amsterdam and New York. In 1993 she founded her company Sasha Waltz & Guests, together with Jochen Sandig in Berlin. In 1996 she opened the Sophiensæle, a theatre she co-founded with Sandig. From 2000 – 2005, Waltz was named one of the artistic directors of Berlin’s Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz where –amongst others– she created pieces such as the »Körper«-trilogy (2000-2002). During the following years various works of Sasha Waltz – among them »Dido & Aeneas« (2005), »Medea« (2007), »Roméo et Juliette« (2007) and »Passion« (2010) – constituted a whole new genre: the choreographic opera. Furthermore she implemented various »Dialoge”-projects: »Dialoge 09 – Neues Museum” at the Neue Museum Berlin and »Dialoge 09 – MAXXI« at the new MAXXI Museum in Rome, for example. In 2012 she was invited by the Berliner Philharmoniker to choreograph the dance project »MusicTANZ – Carmen« for their Education programme, with over 100 pupils performing to Rodion Schtschedrin’s Carmen Suite. In 2013 Sasha Waltz created a choreography on Strawinsky’s »Le Sacre du Printemps«, a collaboration between Sasha Waltz & Guests and the Mariinsky Ballet, which premiered at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg in May 2013. Together with Peter Weibel Sasha Waltz curated the exhibition »Sasha Waltz. Installationen. Objekte. Performances«, which presented her work for the first time in the context of visual arts. In April 2014 Sasha Waltz staged Wagner’s »Tannhäuser« under the musical direction of Daniel Barenboim at the Staatsoper im Schiller Theater Berlin. In September 2014 Claudio Monteverdi’s »Orfeo« choreographed by Sasha Waltz with the Freiburger Barockorchester directed by Pablo Heras-Casado, premiered in Amsterdam. In 2016 Sasha Waltz developed the new format »ZUHÖREN« and opened up a »third dimension« for art and politics. Together with musicians and dancers from her compagnie, she inaugurated the Foyers of the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg with her choreographic installation »Figure humaine« in January. Her latest work »Kreatur«, a collaboration with the artist and fashion designer Iris van Herpen, was premiered in June 2017 at Radialsystem V Berlin.
- Charlotte Zerbey
- Conductor 3
- Bassem Akiki
- Nicolas Fink
- Leonardo García Alarcón
- Costume Design 13 4
- Annette Bätz
- Christine Birkle
- Beate Borrmann
- Guillaume Bruère
- Hussein Chalayan
- Sylvia Hagen-Schäfer
- Margaretha Heller (in maternity leave - Direction)
- Nicola Mascia
- Federico Polucci
- Sasha Waltz & Guests
- Bernd Skodzig
- Iris van Herpen
- Sasha Waltz
- Sasha Waltz was born in Karlsruhe, Germany and studied dance and choreography in Amsterdam and New York. In 1993 she founded her company Sasha Waltz & Guests, together with Jochen Sandig in Berlin. In 1996 she opened the Sophiensæle, a theatre she co-founded with Sandig. From 2000 – 2005, Waltz was named one of the artistic directors of Berlin’s Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz where –amongst others– she created pieces such as the »Körper«-trilogy (2000-2002). During the following years various works of Sasha Waltz – among them »Dido & Aeneas« (2005), »Medea« (2007), »Roméo et Juliette« (2007) and »Passion« (2010) – constituted a whole new genre: the choreographic opera. Furthermore she implemented various »Dialoge”-projects: »Dialoge 09 – Neues Museum” at the Neue Museum Berlin and »Dialoge 09 – MAXXI« at the new MAXXI Museum in Rome, for example. In 2012 she was invited by the Berliner Philharmoniker to choreograph the dance project »MusicTANZ – Carmen« for their Education programme, with over 100 pupils performing to Rodion Schtschedrin’s Carmen Suite. In 2013 Sasha Waltz created a choreography on Strawinsky’s »Le Sacre du Printemps«, a collaboration between Sasha Waltz & Guests and the Mariinsky Ballet, which premiered at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg in May 2013. Together with Peter Weibel Sasha Waltz curated the exhibition »Sasha Waltz. Installationen. Objekte. Performances«, which presented her work for the first time in the context of visual arts. In April 2014 Sasha Waltz staged Wagner’s »Tannhäuser« under the musical direction of Daniel Barenboim at the Staatsoper im Schiller Theater Berlin. In September 2014 Claudio Monteverdi’s »Orfeo« choreographed by Sasha Waltz with the Freiburger Barockorchester directed by Pablo Heras-Casado, premiered in Amsterdam. In 2016 Sasha Waltz developed the new format »ZUHÖREN« and opened up a »third dimension« for art and politics. Together with musicians and dancers from her compagnie, she inaugurated the Foyers of the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg with her choreographic installation »Figure humaine« in January. Her latest work »Kreatur«, a collaboration with the artist and fashion designer Iris van Herpen, was premiered in June 2017 at Radialsystem V Berlin.
Sasha Waltz was awarded several prizes, among them the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2011. Since June 2013, Sasha Waltz is also a member of the Academy of Arts, Berlin.
Besides leading her compagnie Sasha Waltz & Guests, together with the Royal Swedish Ballet director, Johannes Öhman, Sasha Waltz will become the joint artistic directors of the Staatsballett Berlin in 2019.
- Sasha Waltz was born in Karlsruhe, Germany and studied dance and choreography in Amsterdam and New York. In 1993 she founded her company Sasha Waltz & Guests, together with Jochen Sandig in Berlin. In 1996 she opened the Sophiensæle, a theatre she co-founded with Sandig. From 2000 – 2005, Waltz was named one of the artistic directors of Berlin’s Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz where –amongst others– she created pieces such as the »Körper«-trilogy (2000-2002). During the following years various works of Sasha Waltz – among them »Dido & Aeneas« (2005), »Medea« (2007), »Roméo et Juliette« (2007) and »Passion« (2010) – constituted a whole new genre: the choreographic opera. Furthermore she implemented various »Dialoge”-projects: »Dialoge 09 – Neues Museum” at the Neue Museum Berlin and »Dialoge 09 – MAXXI« at the new MAXXI Museum in Rome, for example. In 2012 she was invited by the Berliner Philharmoniker to choreograph the dance project »MusicTANZ – Carmen« for their Education programme, with over 100 pupils performing to Rodion Schtschedrin’s Carmen Suite. In 2013 Sasha Waltz created a choreography on Strawinsky’s »Le Sacre du Printemps«, a collaboration between Sasha Waltz & Guests and the Mariinsky Ballet, which premiered at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg in May 2013. Together with Peter Weibel Sasha Waltz curated the exhibition »Sasha Waltz. Installationen. Objekte. Performances«, which presented her work for the first time in the context of visual arts. In April 2014 Sasha Waltz staged Wagner’s »Tannhäuser« under the musical direction of Daniel Barenboim at the Staatsoper im Schiller Theater Berlin. In September 2014 Claudio Monteverdi’s »Orfeo« choreographed by Sasha Waltz with the Freiburger Barockorchester directed by Pablo Heras-Casado, premiered in Amsterdam. In 2016 Sasha Waltz developed the new format »ZUHÖREN« and opened up a »third dimension« for art and politics. Together with musicians and dancers from her compagnie, she inaugurated the Foyers of the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg with her choreographic installation »Figure humaine« in January. Her latest work »Kreatur«, a collaboration with the artist and fashion designer Iris van Herpen, was premiered in June 2017 at Radialsystem V Berlin.
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- Medhat Aldaabal
- MEDHAT ALDAABAL * in Damascus, Syria. He studied Drama Arts at the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts in Damascus. He performed with diverse dance groups in the Arab region like among others the Enana Dance Theatre in Syria (2009-2011), the Koon Theater Group in Beyrouth before coming to Berlin in 2015. Since then he took part in various contemporary dance workshops and teaches dance to refugee children. One of his recent collaborations was Schlaraffenland - Rückkehr zum Mythos (2016) in St. Elisabeth-Kirche in Berlin-Mitte.
- Moufak Aldoabl
- MOUFAK ALDOABL * in Damascus, Syria. He studied Drama Arts at the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts in Damascus (2011-2014) and started performing with the Enana Dance Theatre, Damascus before becoming a primary dancer in the Jollanar Dance Theater. Since 2016 he is graduating his dance studies at the Tanzakademie balance 1 in Berlin.
- Firas Almassre
- FIRAS ALMASSRE * in Damascus, Syria studied Law at the Islamic University in Beyrouth, Lebanon. 2010 he started as a dancer with the dance group Ornina and then kept on dancing and choreographing in Lebanon and in the wide Arab region. 2015 he came to Germany and is since then pursuing his dance practice in Berlin.
- Israel Aloni
- Liza Alpízar Aguilar
- Liza Alpízar Aguilar * in San José/ Costa Rica, studied dance at Conservatorio El Barco in Costa Rica. Since 2006 she has worked with Sasha Waltz, furthermore with Losdenmedium Dance Company, Lemi Ponifasio and Vanessa Enríquez. She can be seen in dance films and projects with Christian Möller (Camera) and gives workshops in many countries worldwide.
- Lindy Annis
- Rita Aozane Bilibio
- Clyde Emmanuel Archer
- Mikel Arístegui
- Ayaka Azechi
- Blenard Azizaj
- Alexandra Bachzetsis
- Jean-Louis Badet
- Jíři Bartovanec
- Jirí Bartovanec * in Mariánské Lázn/Czech Republic, studied at the Duncan Centre Conservatory, Prague. He has worked with Sasha Waltz since 2003 and has created his own choreographies and fashion collections since 2007. He has danced with Petra Hauerova, Toula Limnaios, Jochen Roller and Helga Davis and teaches at the Dance Conservatory Prague.
- Robert Beyer
- Justin John Billy
- Marco Blaauw
- Laurie Booth
- Julie Bougard
- Jule Böwe
- Davide Camplani
- Davide Camplani * in Marone/ Italien, studied contemporary dance with Giulia Gussago and at Folkwang Universität der Künste. He has worked, among others, with Malou Airaudo, since 1999 with Sasha Waltz and realized fillm projects with Gianluca Vallero and Karsten Liske. He leads Sasha Waltz & Guests’ children’s dance company and directs choreographies of his own – among others for Frank Krug’s »Liliths Return« and »Drei Schwestern«, and with Medhat Aldaabal »Amal«.
- Alexander Carrillo
- Claudia Catarzi
- Matteo Ceccarelli
- Alessandro Certini
- Hervé Chaussard
- Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
- Padmini Chettur
- Maria Marta Colusi
- Nadia Cusimano
- Giannalberto de Fillippis
- Koen de Preter
- Claudia de Serpa Soares
- Claudia de Serpa Soares * in Lisbon/Portugal, studied with Isabel Merlini and Luis Xarez at the Conservatório National Lisboa, the Escola Superior de Dança and the CNDC d’Angers. She has worked with Iztok Kovac, Paulo Ribeiro, Luc Dunberry, Benoît Lachambre, Isabelle Schad, Grayson Millwood, Eve Sussmann, Lilo Baur and since 1999 with Sasha Waltz. She also creates choreographies of her own.
- Clémentine Deluy
- Clémentine Deluy * in Marseilles/ France, studied at the school of Ballet National de Marseille, at CNSMD, Lyon and at Folkwang Universität der Künste, Essen. Since 2002 she worked with Sasha Waltz, in 2006 she became a member of the ensemble of Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch. Since 2014, she has been taking part in several works from Pascal Merighi, Fabien Prioville and Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola and realizes projects of her own.
- Lisa Densem
- Davide Di Pretoro
- Davide Di Pretoro, * Colleferro/Italy, studied ballet and contemporary dance at the Accademia Nazionale di Danza Rome, Balletto di Roma and Cunningham Dance School, New York City. He has worked with Thierry Smits/Cie THOR, Ballet Preljocaj, Itzik Galili-Krisztina DeChatel/Dansgroep Amsterdam, Wayne McGregorIRandom Dance, Andonis Foniadakis, the Compagnia Virgilio Sieni and, since 2015, with Sasha Waltz. He teaches and is among others a rehearsal assistant for Wayne McGregor|Random Dance.
- Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola
- Born in Legazpi (Spain), Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola completed his musical studies in San Sebastián and Amsterdam, where his artististical career took off auspiciously. In 1995 he met Sasha Waltz, who invited him to take part of the core ensemble she founded in 1996. He followed the different stages of Sasha Waltz & Guests and is one of the pillars of its core group. Within the company and Sasha Waltz’s work, besides his contribution as a dancer and performer, he has been responsible for the muscial direction and musical composition of various pieces, and is rehearsal director and artistic assistant to Sasha Waltz. Other important collaborators have included Luc Dunberry, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Damien Jalet, Joanna Dudley, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, loscorderos.sc, MOPA and Stephanie Thiersch.
- Joanna Dudley
- Luc Dunberry
- Aurélie Dupont
- Charlotte Engelkes
- Edivaldo Ernesto
- Lisi Estaràs
- Matija Ferlin
- Delphine Gaborit
- Gabriel Galindez Cruz
- Tian Gao
- Maya Gomez
- Alan Good
- Ageliki Gouvi
- Renate Graziadei
- Peggy Grelat-Dupont
- Peggy Grelat-Dupont * in Evreux/ France, studied at the balletschool of Opéra national de Paris. She has worked at the ensemble of the Opéra national de Paris, at the Frankfurt Ballett (William Forsythe), »La La La Human Steps« ensemble of Edouard Locks, the ballet of Opéra de Lyon, with Maguy Marin, Carolyn Carlson, Fearghus O’Conhuir, Ben Aim, Boris Charmatz,
and since 2013 with Sasha Waltz.
- Peggy Grelat-Dupont * in Evreux/ France, studied at the balletschool of Opéra national de Paris. She has worked at the ensemble of the Opéra national de Paris, at the Frankfurt Ballett (William Forsythe), »La La La Human Steps« ensemble of Edouard Locks, the ballet of Opéra de Lyon, with Maguy Marin, Carolyn Carlson, Fearghus O’Conhuir, Ben Aim, Boris Charmatz,
- Akos Hargitay
- Saju Hari
- Swantje Henke
- Hwanhee Hwang
- Damien Jalet
- Kitt Johnson
- Josh Johnson
- Lorena Justribó Manion
- Lorena Justribó Manion
- Siggi Keil
- Mamajeang Kim
- Gyung Moo Kim
- Annette Klar
- Norbert Kliesch
- Hans-Werner Klohe
- Anna Koch
- Benoît Lachambre
- Stephan Laks
- Florencia Lamarca
- Annapaola Leso
- Annapaola Leso * in Verona/Italy, studied at the Academy of Contemporary Dance and Theatre in Milan. She has worked with Shang-Chi Sun, Neon Dance Company/London, the chamber ensemble Neue Musik Berlin and, since 2015, with Sasha Waltz.
- Jude Letullier-Grelat
- Oscar Linahan
- Anthony Lomuljo
- Elia Lopez
- Maureen López Lembo
- Constanza Macras
- Vladimir Malakhov
- Luis Malvacias
- Jérôme Marchand
- Margaux Marielle-Tréhoüart
- Jared Marks
- Nasser Martin-Gousset
- Ross Martinson
- Nicola Mascia
- Sergiu Matis
- Johnny McMilllan
- Todd McQuade
- Thusnelda Mercy
- Thomas Michaux
- Grayson Millwood
- Fátima Miranda
- Hervé Moreau
- Jeroen Mosselman
- Michal Mualem
- Elena Murcia Pinto
- Jeremy Nelson
- Maria Öhman
- Erna Ómarsdóttir
- Pinar Ömerbeyoglu
- Shaun Parker
- Manuel Alfonso Pérez Torres
- Friederike Plafki
- Frans Poelstra
- Virgis Puodziunas
- Virgis Puodziunas * in Kaunas/Lithuania, studied dance there at the Modern Dance Theater, at Tisch School of Arts New York, Bennington College and London Contemporary Dance School. He danced at Nationaltheater Weimar, Staatstheater Kassel and also develops his own multimedia projects. He has worked with Sasha Waltz since 1999.
- Sasa Queliz
- Kevin Quinaou
- Zaratiana Randrianantenaina
- Zaratiana Randrianantenaina * in Antananarivo/Madagascar, studied at CNSMD Paris, among others has worked with Ballet Preljocaj and since 2009, with Sasha Waltz.
- Carme Renalias
- Maria Eugenia Rivas Medina
- Aladino Rivera Blanca
- Orlando Rodriguez
- Antonio Ruz
- Mata Sakka
- Judith Sánchez Ruíz
- László Sandig
- Sophia Sandig
- Sasha Waltz & Guests
- Yael Schnell
- Yael Schnell * in Haifa/Israel, from 1994–2002 danced at the Batsheva Dance Company and worked among others with Ohad Naharin, Jirˇí Kylián, Wim Vandekeybus and Angelin Preljocaj. In Berlin, since 2002 she has worked with Christoph Winkler and Jörg Schiebe and since 2007 with Sasha Waltz – for her »Sacre« she worked as a rehearsal assistant as well as a dancer. Yael Schnell is a certified gaga teacher.
- Corey Scott-Gilbert
- Corey Scott-Gilbert * in Washington DC/USA, graduated at the Juilliard School New York City. He then worked among others with Lyon Opera Ballet, Alonzo King LINES Ballet and Cirque du Soleil. Currently he is collaborating with Richard Siegal and Eszter Salamon in Berlin. He has been working with Sasha Waltz since 2006.
- Gil Shachar
- Xuan Shi
- Laura Siegmund
- Kirstie Simson
- Davide Sportelli
- Norbert Steinwarz
- Norbert Steinwarz
- Wibke Storkan
- Joel Suárez Gómez
- Shang-Chi Sun
- Takako Suzuki
- André Szymanski
- Nir Tamir
- Nima Thiem
- Mohan Christopher Thomas
- Stylianos Tsatsos
- Ygal Tsur
- Antonios Vais
- Junko Wada
- Fadi Waked
- FADI WAKED * in Damascus, Syria started to dance in 2010 with Khota Theatrical Dance Company after studying Law at Damascus University. He worked with various dance companies in Syria before coming to Berlin in 2015, where he continues his dance practice, taking part in different dance workshops.
- Sasha Waltz
- Sasha Waltz was born in Karlsruhe, Germany and studied dance and choreography in Amsterdam and New York. In 1993 she founded her company Sasha Waltz & Guests, together with Jochen Sandig in Berlin. In 1996 she opened the Sophiensæle, a theatre she co-founded with Sandig. From 2000 – 2005, Waltz was named one of the artistic directors of Berlin’s Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz where –amongst others– she created pieces such as the »Körper«-trilogy (2000-2002). During the following years various works of Sasha Waltz – among them »Dido & Aeneas« (2005), »Medea« (2007), »Roméo et Juliette« (2007) and »Passion« (2010) – constituted a whole new genre: the choreographic opera. Furthermore she implemented various »Dialoge”-projects: »Dialoge 09 – Neues Museum” at the Neue Museum Berlin and »Dialoge 09 – MAXXI« at the new MAXXI Museum in Rome, for example. In 2012 she was invited by the Berliner Philharmoniker to choreograph the dance project »MusicTANZ – Carmen« for their Education programme, with over 100 pupils performing to Rodion Schtschedrin’s Carmen Suite. In 2013 Sasha Waltz created a choreography on Strawinsky’s »Le Sacre du Printemps«, a collaboration between Sasha Waltz & Guests and the Mariinsky Ballet, which premiered at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg in May 2013. Together with Peter Weibel Sasha Waltz curated the exhibition »Sasha Waltz. Installationen. Objekte. Performances«, which presented her work for the first time in the context of visual arts. In April 2014 Sasha Waltz staged Wagner’s »Tannhäuser« under the musical direction of Daniel Barenboim at the Staatsoper im Schiller Theater Berlin. In September 2014 Claudio Monteverdi’s »Orfeo« choreographed by Sasha Waltz with the Freiburger Barockorchester directed by Pablo Heras-Casado, premiered in Amsterdam. In 2016 Sasha Waltz developed the new format »ZUHÖREN« and opened up a »third dimension« for art and politics. Together with musicians and dancers from her compagnie, she inaugurated the Foyers of the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg with her choreographic installation »Figure humaine« in January. Her latest work »Kreatur«, a collaboration with the artist and fashion designer Iris van Herpen, was premiered in June 2017 at Radialsystem V Berlin.
Sasha Waltz was awarded several prizes, among them the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2011. Since June 2013, Sasha Waltz is also a member of the Academy of Arts, Berlin.
Besides leading her compagnie Sasha Waltz & Guests, together with the Royal Swedish Ballet director, Johannes Öhman, Sasha Waltz will become the joint artistic directors of the Staatsballett Berlin in 2019.
- Sasha Waltz was born in Karlsruhe, Germany and studied dance and choreography in Amsterdam and New York. In 1993 she founded her company Sasha Waltz & Guests, together with Jochen Sandig in Berlin. In 1996 she opened the Sophiensæle, a theatre she co-founded with Sandig. From 2000 – 2005, Waltz was named one of the artistic directors of Berlin’s Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz where –amongst others– she created pieces such as the »Körper«-trilogy (2000-2002). During the following years various works of Sasha Waltz – among them »Dido & Aeneas« (2005), »Medea« (2007), »Roméo et Juliette« (2007) and »Passion« (2010) – constituted a whole new genre: the choreographic opera. Furthermore she implemented various »Dialoge”-projects: »Dialoge 09 – Neues Museum” at the Neue Museum Berlin and »Dialoge 09 – MAXXI« at the new MAXXI Museum in Rome, for example. In 2012 she was invited by the Berliner Philharmoniker to choreograph the dance project »MusicTANZ – Carmen« for their Education programme, with over 100 pupils performing to Rodion Schtschedrin’s Carmen Suite. In 2013 Sasha Waltz created a choreography on Strawinsky’s »Le Sacre du Printemps«, a collaboration between Sasha Waltz & Guests and the Mariinsky Ballet, which premiered at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg in May 2013. Together with Peter Weibel Sasha Waltz curated the exhibition »Sasha Waltz. Installationen. Objekte. Performances«, which presented her work for the first time in the context of visual arts. In April 2014 Sasha Waltz staged Wagner’s »Tannhäuser« under the musical direction of Daniel Barenboim at the Staatsoper im Schiller Theater Berlin. In September 2014 Claudio Monteverdi’s »Orfeo« choreographed by Sasha Waltz with the Freiburger Barockorchester directed by Pablo Heras-Casado, premiered in Amsterdam. In 2016 Sasha Waltz developed the new format »ZUHÖREN« and opened up a »third dimension« for art and politics. Together with musicians and dancers from her compagnie, she inaugurated the Foyers of the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg with her choreographic installation »Figure humaine« in January. Her latest work »Kreatur«, a collaboration with the artist and fashion designer Iris van Herpen, was premiered in June 2017 at Radialsystem V Berlin.
- Idan Yoav
- Laurie Young
- Matan Zamir
- Charlotte Zerbey
- Niannian Zhou
- Sigal Zouk-Harder
- Direction, Choreography
- Sasha Waltz
- Sasha Waltz was born in Karlsruhe, Germany and studied dance and choreography in Amsterdam and New York. In 1993 she founded her company Sasha Waltz & Guests, together with Jochen Sandig in Berlin. In 1996 she opened the Sophiensæle, a theatre she co-founded with Sandig. From 2000 – 2005, Waltz was named one of the artistic directors of Berlin’s Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz where –amongst others– she created pieces such as the »Körper«-trilogy (2000-2002). During the following years various works of Sasha Waltz – among them »Dido & Aeneas« (2005), »Medea« (2007), »Roméo et Juliette« (2007) and »Passion« (2010) – constituted a whole new genre: the choreographic opera. Furthermore she implemented various »Dialoge”-projects: »Dialoge 09 – Neues Museum” at the Neue Museum Berlin and »Dialoge 09 – MAXXI« at the new MAXXI Museum in Rome, for example. In 2012 she was invited by the Berliner Philharmoniker to choreograph the dance project »MusicTANZ – Carmen« for their Education programme, with over 100 pupils performing to Rodion Schtschedrin’s Carmen Suite. In 2013 Sasha Waltz created a choreography on Strawinsky’s »Le Sacre du Printemps«, a collaboration between Sasha Waltz & Guests and the Mariinsky Ballet, which premiered at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg in May 2013. Together with Peter Weibel Sasha Waltz curated the exhibition »Sasha Waltz. Installationen. Objekte. Performances«, which presented her work for the first time in the context of visual arts. In April 2014 Sasha Waltz staged Wagner’s »Tannhäuser« under the musical direction of Daniel Barenboim at the Staatsoper im Schiller Theater Berlin. In September 2014 Claudio Monteverdi’s »Orfeo« choreographed by Sasha Waltz with the Freiburger Barockorchester directed by Pablo Heras-Casado, premiered in Amsterdam. In 2016 Sasha Waltz developed the new format »ZUHÖREN« and opened up a »third dimension« for art and politics. Together with musicians and dancers from her compagnie, she inaugurated the Foyers of the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg with her choreographic installation »Figure humaine« in January. Her latest work »Kreatur«, a collaboration with the artist and fashion designer Iris van Herpen, was premiered in June 2017 at Radialsystem V Berlin.
Sasha Waltz was awarded several prizes, among them the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2011. Since June 2013, Sasha Waltz is also a member of the Academy of Arts, Berlin.
Besides leading her compagnie Sasha Waltz & Guests, together with the Royal Swedish Ballet director, Johannes Öhman, Sasha Waltz will become the joint artistic directors of the Staatsballett Berlin in 2019.
- Sasha Waltz was born in Karlsruhe, Germany and studied dance and choreography in Amsterdam and New York. In 1993 she founded her company Sasha Waltz & Guests, together with Jochen Sandig in Berlin. In 1996 she opened the Sophiensæle, a theatre she co-founded with Sandig. From 2000 – 2005, Waltz was named one of the artistic directors of Berlin’s Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz where –amongst others– she created pieces such as the »Körper«-trilogy (2000-2002). During the following years various works of Sasha Waltz – among them »Dido & Aeneas« (2005), »Medea« (2007), »Roméo et Juliette« (2007) and »Passion« (2010) – constituted a whole new genre: the choreographic opera. Furthermore she implemented various »Dialoge”-projects: »Dialoge 09 – Neues Museum” at the Neue Museum Berlin and »Dialoge 09 – MAXXI« at the new MAXXI Museum in Rome, for example. In 2012 she was invited by the Berliner Philharmoniker to choreograph the dance project »MusicTANZ – Carmen« for their Education programme, with over 100 pupils performing to Rodion Schtschedrin’s Carmen Suite. In 2013 Sasha Waltz created a choreography on Strawinsky’s »Le Sacre du Printemps«, a collaboration between Sasha Waltz & Guests and the Mariinsky Ballet, which premiered at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg in May 2013. Together with Peter Weibel Sasha Waltz curated the exhibition »Sasha Waltz. Installationen. Objekte. Performances«, which presented her work for the first time in the context of visual arts. In April 2014 Sasha Waltz staged Wagner’s »Tannhäuser« under the musical direction of Daniel Barenboim at the Staatsoper im Schiller Theater Berlin. In September 2014 Claudio Monteverdi’s »Orfeo« choreographed by Sasha Waltz with the Freiburger Barockorchester directed by Pablo Heras-Casado, premiered in Amsterdam. In 2016 Sasha Waltz developed the new format »ZUHÖREN« and opened up a »third dimension« for art and politics. Together with musicians and dancers from her compagnie, she inaugurated the Foyers of the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg with her choreographic installation »Figure humaine« in January. Her latest work »Kreatur«, a collaboration with the artist and fashion designer Iris van Herpen, was premiered in June 2017 at Radialsystem V Berlin.
- Direction, Concept 4
- Luis Malvacias
- Jeremy Nelson
- Jochen Sandig
- Jochen Sandig was born in Esslingen, Germany. In 1990 he moved to Berlin to study psychology and philosophy. Following the founding of the Tacheles Art Centre in 1990, in 1993, together with Sasha Waltz, he founded Sasha Waltz & Guests. In 1996 he co-founded Sophiensaele, an independent venue for dance and theatre productions in Berlin-Mitte, which he directed until 1999. From 2000 to 2004 Jochen Sandig was a member of the artistic direction as well as a dramaturge at the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz. Since 2004 he has been the director of the independent Sasha Waltz & Guests GmbH. In 2006, together with Folkert Uhde, Jochen Sandig founded Radialsystem V. In 2010 he was awarded the french cultural order »Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres«. In February 2012 he celebrated his first direction work with »human requiem«, a staging of Johannes Brahms' »Ein Deutsches Requiem« in cooperation with the Rundfunkchor in Berlin and Simon Halsey. Since its premiere the production travelled to Hamburg, Amsterdam, Paris, Granada, Rotterdam, Athens, Hong-Kong and New York. The production was awarded with the »Classical Next Innovation Award 2016«. In 2019, Jochen Sandig will become executive director of the Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele.
Jochen Sandig was born in Esslingen, Germany. In 1990 he moved to Berlin to study psychology and philosophy. Following the founding of the Tacheles Art Centre in 1990, in 1993, together with Sasha Waltz, he founded Sasha Waltz & Guests. In 1996 he co-founded Sophiensaele, an independent venue for dance and theatre productions in Berlin-Mitte, which he directed until 1999. From 2000 to 2004 Jochen Sandig was a member of the artistic direction as well as a dramaturge at the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz. Since 2004 he has been the director of the independent Sasha Waltz & Guests GmbH. In 2006, together with Folkert Uhde, Jochen Sandig founded Radialsystem V. In 2010 he was awarded the french cultural order »Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres«. In February 2012 he celebrated his first direction work with »human requiem«, a staging of Johannes Brahms' »Ein Deutsches Requiem« in cooperation with the Rundfunkchor in Berlin and Simon Halsey. Since its premiere the production travelled to Hamburg, Amsterdam, Paris, Granada, Rotterdam, Athens, Hong-Kong and New York. The production was awarded with the »Classical Next Innovation Award 2016«. In 2019, Jochen Sandig will become executive director of the Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele.
- Jochen Sandig was born in Esslingen, Germany. In 1990 he moved to Berlin to study psychology and philosophy. Following the founding of the Tacheles Art Centre in 1990, in 1993, together with Sasha Waltz, he founded Sasha Waltz & Guests. In 1996 he co-founded Sophiensaele, an independent venue for dance and theatre productions in Berlin-Mitte, which he directed until 1999. From 2000 to 2004 Jochen Sandig was a member of the artistic direction as well as a dramaturge at the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz. Since 2004 he has been the director of the independent Sasha Waltz & Guests GmbH. In 2006, together with Folkert Uhde, Jochen Sandig founded Radialsystem V. In 2010 he was awarded the french cultural order »Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres«. In February 2012 he celebrated his first direction work with »human requiem«, a staging of Johannes Brahms' »Ein Deutsches Requiem« in cooperation with the Rundfunkchor in Berlin and Simon Halsey. Since its premiere the production travelled to Hamburg, Amsterdam, Paris, Granada, Rotterdam, Athens, Hong-Kong and New York. The production was awarded with the »Classical Next Innovation Award 2016«. In 2019, Jochen Sandig will become executive director of the Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele.
- Sasha Waltz
- Sasha Waltz was born in Karlsruhe, Germany and studied dance and choreography in Amsterdam and New York. In 1993 she founded her company Sasha Waltz & Guests, together with Jochen Sandig in Berlin. In 1996 she opened the Sophiensæle, a theatre she co-founded with Sandig. From 2000 – 2005, Waltz was named one of the artistic directors of Berlin’s Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz where –amongst others– she created pieces such as the »Körper«-trilogy (2000-2002). During the following years various works of Sasha Waltz – among them »Dido & Aeneas« (2005), »Medea« (2007), »Roméo et Juliette« (2007) and »Passion« (2010) – constituted a whole new genre: the choreographic opera. Furthermore she implemented various »Dialoge”-projects: »Dialoge 09 – Neues Museum” at the Neue Museum Berlin and »Dialoge 09 – MAXXI« at the new MAXXI Museum in Rome, for example. In 2012 she was invited by the Berliner Philharmoniker to choreograph the dance project »MusicTANZ – Carmen« for their Education programme, with over 100 pupils performing to Rodion Schtschedrin’s Carmen Suite. In 2013 Sasha Waltz created a choreography on Strawinsky’s »Le Sacre du Printemps«, a collaboration between Sasha Waltz & Guests and the Mariinsky Ballet, which premiered at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg in May 2013. Together with Peter Weibel Sasha Waltz curated the exhibition »Sasha Waltz. Installationen. Objekte. Performances«, which presented her work for the first time in the context of visual arts. In April 2014 Sasha Waltz staged Wagner’s »Tannhäuser« under the musical direction of Daniel Barenboim at the Staatsoper im Schiller Theater Berlin. In September 2014 Claudio Monteverdi’s »Orfeo« choreographed by Sasha Waltz with the Freiburger Barockorchester directed by Pablo Heras-Casado, premiered in Amsterdam. In 2016 Sasha Waltz developed the new format »ZUHÖREN« and opened up a »third dimension« for art and politics. Together with musicians and dancers from her compagnie, she inaugurated the Foyers of the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg with her choreographic installation »Figure humaine« in January. Her latest work »Kreatur«, a collaboration with the artist and fashion designer Iris van Herpen, was premiered in June 2017 at Radialsystem V Berlin.
Sasha Waltz was awarded several prizes, among them the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2011. Since June 2013, Sasha Waltz is also a member of the Academy of Arts, Berlin.
Besides leading her compagnie Sasha Waltz & Guests, together with the Royal Swedish Ballet director, Johannes Öhman, Sasha Waltz will become the joint artistic directors of the Staatsballett Berlin in 2019.
- Sasha Waltz was born in Karlsruhe, Germany and studied dance and choreography in Amsterdam and New York. In 1993 she founded her company Sasha Waltz & Guests, together with Jochen Sandig in Berlin. In 1996 she opened the Sophiensæle, a theatre she co-founded with Sandig. From 2000 – 2005, Waltz was named one of the artistic directors of Berlin’s Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz where –amongst others– she created pieces such as the »Körper«-trilogy (2000-2002). During the following years various works of Sasha Waltz – among them »Dido & Aeneas« (2005), »Medea« (2007), »Roméo et Juliette« (2007) and »Passion« (2010) – constituted a whole new genre: the choreographic opera. Furthermore she implemented various »Dialoge”-projects: »Dialoge 09 – Neues Museum” at the Neue Museum Berlin and »Dialoge 09 – MAXXI« at the new MAXXI Museum in Rome, for example. In 2012 she was invited by the Berliner Philharmoniker to choreograph the dance project »MusicTANZ – Carmen« for their Education programme, with over 100 pupils performing to Rodion Schtschedrin’s Carmen Suite. In 2013 Sasha Waltz created a choreography on Strawinsky’s »Le Sacre du Printemps«, a collaboration between Sasha Waltz & Guests and the Mariinsky Ballet, which premiered at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg in May 2013. Together with Peter Weibel Sasha Waltz curated the exhibition »Sasha Waltz. Installationen. Objekte. Performances«, which presented her work for the first time in the context of visual arts. In April 2014 Sasha Waltz staged Wagner’s »Tannhäuser« under the musical direction of Daniel Barenboim at the Staatsoper im Schiller Theater Berlin. In September 2014 Claudio Monteverdi’s »Orfeo« choreographed by Sasha Waltz with the Freiburger Barockorchester directed by Pablo Heras-Casado, premiered in Amsterdam. In 2016 Sasha Waltz developed the new format »ZUHÖREN« and opened up a »third dimension« for art and politics. Together with musicians and dancers from her compagnie, she inaugurated the Foyers of the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg with her choreographic installation »Figure humaine« in January. Her latest work »Kreatur«, a collaboration with the artist and fashion designer Iris van Herpen, was premiered in June 2017 at Radialsystem V Berlin.
- Dramaturgical Assistance 4
- Luc Dunberry
- Sibah Pomplun
- Harriet von Froreich
- Anne Wagner
- Dramaturgy 6 4
- Steffen Döring
- Jochen Sandig
- Jochen Sandig was born in Esslingen, Germany. In 1990 he moved to Berlin to study psychology and philosophy. Following the founding of the Tacheles Art Centre in 1990, in 1993, together with Sasha Waltz, he founded Sasha Waltz & Guests. In 1996 he co-founded Sophiensaele, an independent venue for dance and theatre productions in Berlin-Mitte, which he directed until 1999. From 2000 to 2004 Jochen Sandig was a member of the artistic direction as well as a dramaturge at the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz. Since 2004 he has been the director of the independent Sasha Waltz & Guests GmbH. In 2006, together with Folkert Uhde, Jochen Sandig founded Radialsystem V. In 2010 he was awarded the french cultural order »Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres«. In February 2012 he celebrated his first direction work with »human requiem«, a staging of Johannes Brahms' »Ein Deutsches Requiem« in cooperation with the Rundfunkchor in Berlin and Simon Halsey. Since its premiere the production travelled to Hamburg, Amsterdam, Paris, Granada, Rotterdam, Athens, Hong-Kong and New York. The production was awarded with the »Classical Next Innovation Award 2016«. In 2019, Jochen Sandig will become executive director of the Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele.
Jochen Sandig was born in Esslingen, Germany. In 1990 he moved to Berlin to study psychology and philosophy. Following the founding of the Tacheles Art Centre in 1990, in 1993, together with Sasha Waltz, he founded Sasha Waltz & Guests. In 1996 he co-founded Sophiensaele, an independent venue for dance and theatre productions in Berlin-Mitte, which he directed until 1999. From 2000 to 2004 Jochen Sandig was a member of the artistic direction as well as a dramaturge at the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz. Since 2004 he has been the director of the independent Sasha Waltz & Guests GmbH. In 2006, together with Folkert Uhde, Jochen Sandig founded Radialsystem V. In 2010 he was awarded the french cultural order »Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres«. In February 2012 he celebrated his first direction work with »human requiem«, a staging of Johannes Brahms' »Ein Deutsches Requiem« in cooperation with the Rundfunkchor in Berlin and Simon Halsey. Since its premiere the production travelled to Hamburg, Amsterdam, Paris, Granada, Rotterdam, Athens, Hong-Kong and New York. The production was awarded with the »Classical Next Innovation Award 2016«. In 2019, Jochen Sandig will become executive director of the Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele.
- Jochen Sandig was born in Esslingen, Germany. In 1990 he moved to Berlin to study psychology and philosophy. Following the founding of the Tacheles Art Centre in 1990, in 1993, together with Sasha Waltz, he founded Sasha Waltz & Guests. In 1996 he co-founded Sophiensaele, an independent venue for dance and theatre productions in Berlin-Mitte, which he directed until 1999. From 2000 to 2004 Jochen Sandig was a member of the artistic direction as well as a dramaturge at the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz. Since 2004 he has been the director of the independent Sasha Waltz & Guests GmbH. In 2006, together with Folkert Uhde, Jochen Sandig founded Radialsystem V. In 2010 he was awarded the french cultural order »Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres«. In February 2012 he celebrated his first direction work with »human requiem«, a staging of Johannes Brahms' »Ein Deutsches Requiem« in cooperation with the Rundfunkchor in Berlin and Simon Halsey. Since its premiere the production travelled to Hamburg, Amsterdam, Paris, Granada, Rotterdam, Athens, Hong-Kong and New York. The production was awarded with the »Classical Next Innovation Award 2016«. In 2019, Jochen Sandig will become executive director of the Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele.
- Agnes Scherer
- Ilka Seifert
- Sasha Waltz
- Sasha Waltz was born in Karlsruhe, Germany and studied dance and choreography in Amsterdam and New York. In 1993 she founded her company Sasha Waltz & Guests, together with Jochen Sandig in Berlin. In 1996 she opened the Sophiensæle, a theatre she co-founded with Sandig. From 2000 – 2005, Waltz was named one of the artistic directors of Berlin’s Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz where –amongst others– she created pieces such as the »Körper«-trilogy (2000-2002). During the following years various works of Sasha Waltz – among them »Dido & Aeneas« (2005), »Medea« (2007), »Roméo et Juliette« (2007) and »Passion« (2010) – constituted a whole new genre: the choreographic opera. Furthermore she implemented various »Dialoge”-projects: »Dialoge 09 – Neues Museum” at the Neue Museum Berlin and »Dialoge 09 – MAXXI« at the new MAXXI Museum in Rome, for example. In 2012 she was invited by the Berliner Philharmoniker to choreograph the dance project »MusicTANZ – Carmen« for their Education programme, with over 100 pupils performing to Rodion Schtschedrin’s Carmen Suite. In 2013 Sasha Waltz created a choreography on Strawinsky’s »Le Sacre du Printemps«, a collaboration between Sasha Waltz & Guests and the Mariinsky Ballet, which premiered at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg in May 2013. Together with Peter Weibel Sasha Waltz curated the exhibition »Sasha Waltz. Installationen. Objekte. Performances«, which presented her work for the first time in the context of visual arts. In April 2014 Sasha Waltz staged Wagner’s »Tannhäuser« under the musical direction of Daniel Barenboim at the Staatsoper im Schiller Theater Berlin. In September 2014 Claudio Monteverdi’s »Orfeo« choreographed by Sasha Waltz with the Freiburger Barockorchester directed by Pablo Heras-Casado, premiered in Amsterdam. In 2016 Sasha Waltz developed the new format »ZUHÖREN« and opened up a »third dimension« for art and politics. Together with musicians and dancers from her compagnie, she inaugurated the Foyers of the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg with her choreographic installation »Figure humaine« in January. Her latest work »Kreatur«, a collaboration with the artist and fashion designer Iris van Herpen, was premiered in June 2017 at Radialsystem V Berlin.
Sasha Waltz was awarded several prizes, among them the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2011. Since June 2013, Sasha Waltz is also a member of the Academy of Arts, Berlin.
Besides leading her compagnie Sasha Waltz & Guests, together with the Royal Swedish Ballet director, Johannes Öhman, Sasha Waltz will become the joint artistic directors of the Staatsballett Berlin in 2019.
- Sasha Waltz was born in Karlsruhe, Germany and studied dance and choreography in Amsterdam and New York. In 1993 she founded her company Sasha Waltz & Guests, together with Jochen Sandig in Berlin. In 1996 she opened the Sophiensæle, a theatre she co-founded with Sandig. From 2000 – 2005, Waltz was named one of the artistic directors of Berlin’s Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz where –amongst others– she created pieces such as the »Körper«-trilogy (2000-2002). During the following years various works of Sasha Waltz – among them »Dido & Aeneas« (2005), »Medea« (2007), »Roméo et Juliette« (2007) and »Passion« (2010) – constituted a whole new genre: the choreographic opera. Furthermore she implemented various »Dialoge”-projects: »Dialoge 09 – Neues Museum” at the Neue Museum Berlin and »Dialoge 09 – MAXXI« at the new MAXXI Museum in Rome, for example. In 2012 she was invited by the Berliner Philharmoniker to choreograph the dance project »MusicTANZ – Carmen« for their Education programme, with over 100 pupils performing to Rodion Schtschedrin’s Carmen Suite. In 2013 Sasha Waltz created a choreography on Strawinsky’s »Le Sacre du Printemps«, a collaboration between Sasha Waltz & Guests and the Mariinsky Ballet, which premiered at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg in May 2013. Together with Peter Weibel Sasha Waltz curated the exhibition »Sasha Waltz. Installationen. Objekte. Performances«, which presented her work for the first time in the context of visual arts. In April 2014 Sasha Waltz staged Wagner’s »Tannhäuser« under the musical direction of Daniel Barenboim at the Staatsoper im Schiller Theater Berlin. In September 2014 Claudio Monteverdi’s »Orfeo« choreographed by Sasha Waltz with the Freiburger Barockorchester directed by Pablo Heras-Casado, premiered in Amsterdam. In 2016 Sasha Waltz developed the new format »ZUHÖREN« and opened up a »third dimension« for art and politics. Together with musicians and dancers from her compagnie, she inaugurated the Foyers of the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg with her choreographic installation »Figure humaine« in January. Her latest work »Kreatur«, a collaboration with the artist and fashion designer Iris van Herpen, was premiered in June 2017 at Radialsystem V Berlin.
- Yoreme Waltz
- Film Direction 2
- Karsten Liske
- Stephan Talneau
- Lighting Design 9 5
- Tomski Binsert
- David Finn
- Valentin Gallé
- Martin Hauk
- Martin Hauk, born in in Berlin, studied Theatre and Event Technology. After working for Art Lab Studios, Berlin he created among others the lighting for Cora Frost, Gayle Tufts, Tim Fischer and Alex B. He has worked with Sasha Waltz since 1996, lighting »Zweiland«, »Körper«, »S«, »noBody«, »insideout«, »Impromptus«, »Gezeiten«, »Jagden und Formen (Zustand 2008)«, »Continu«, »Métamorphoses«, »MusicTANZ - Carmen«, »Matsukaze«, »Dialoge 2013 - Kolkata«, the choreographic opera »Orfeo« and recently »Figure humaine« at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg.
- Rudolf Heckerodt
- Sung-Uk Hwang
- André Pronk
- Thilo Reuther
- Urs Schönebaum
- Music Dramaturgy
- Steffen Döring
- Music Ensembles 6
- Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
- Ensemble Modern
- Ensemble Musikfabrik
- Freiburger BarockConsort
- Musica Sequenza
- Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop
- Musical Direction 16
- Daniel Barenboim
- Sylvain Cambreling
- David Robert Coleman
- Marcus Creed
- Attilio Cremonesi
- Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola
- Born in Legazpi (Spain), Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola completed his musical studies in San Sebastián and Amsterdam, where his artististical career took off auspiciously. In 1995 he met Sasha Waltz, who invited him to take part of the core ensemble she founded in 1996. He followed the different stages of Sasha Waltz & Guests and is one of the pillars of its core group. Within the company and Sasha Waltz’s work, besides his contribution as a dancer and performer, he has been responsible for the muscial direction and musical composition of various pieces, and is rehearsal director and artistic assistant to Sasha Waltz. Other important collaborators have included Luc Dunberry, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Damien Jalet, Joanna Dudley, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, loscorderos.sc, MOPA and Stephanie Thiersch.
- Titus Engel
- Pablo Heras-Casado
- Domingo Hindoyan
- Torsten Johann
- Georg Kallweit (Violin)
- Christopher Moulds
- Franck Ollu
- Donald Runnicles
- Thomas Søndergard
- Simone Young
- Orchestra 4
- Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin
- Tokyo Symphony Orchestra
- Staatskapelle Berlin
- Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich
- Rehearsal Direction 12 4
- Jíři Bartovanec
- Jirí Bartovanec * in Mariánské Lázn/Czech Republic, studied at the Duncan Centre Conservatory, Prague. He has worked with Sasha Waltz since 2003 and has created his own choreographies and fashion collections since 2007. He has danced with Petra Hauerova, Toula Limnaios, Jochen Roller and Helga Davis and teaches at the Dance Conservatory Prague.
- Davide Camplani
- Davide Camplani * in Marone/ Italien, studied contemporary dance with Giulia Gussago and at Folkwang Universität der Künste. He has worked, among others, with Malou Airaudo, since 1999 with Sasha Waltz and realized fillm projects with Gianluca Vallero and Karsten Liske. He leads Sasha Waltz & Guests’ children’s dance company and directs choreographies of his own – among others for Frank Krug’s »Liliths Return« and »Drei Schwestern«, and with Medhat Aldaabal »Amal«.
- Claudia de Serpa Soares
- Claudia de Serpa Soares * in Lisbon/Portugal, studied with Isabel Merlini and Luis Xarez at the Conservatório National Lisboa, the Escola Superior de Dança and the CNDC d’Angers. She has worked with Iztok Kovac, Paulo Ribeiro, Luc Dunberry, Benoît Lachambre, Isabelle Schad, Grayson Millwood, Eve Sussmann, Lilo Baur and since 1999 with Sasha Waltz. She also creates choreographies of her own.
- Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola
- Born in Legazpi (Spain), Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola completed his musical studies in San Sebastián and Amsterdam, where his artististical career took off auspiciously. In 1995 he met Sasha Waltz, who invited him to take part of the core ensemble she founded in 1996. He followed the different stages of Sasha Waltz & Guests and is one of the pillars of its core group. Within the company and Sasha Waltz’s work, besides his contribution as a dancer and performer, he has been responsible for the muscial direction and musical composition of various pieces, and is rehearsal director and artistic assistant to Sasha Waltz. Other important collaborators have included Luc Dunberry, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Damien Jalet, Joanna Dudley, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, loscorderos.sc, MOPA and Stephanie Thiersch.
- Luc Dunberry
- Renate Graziadei
- Nicola Mascia
- Michal Mualem
- Virgis Puodziunas
- Virgis Puodziunas * in Kaunas/Lithuania, studied dance there at the Modern Dance Theater, at Tisch School of Arts New York, Bennington College and London Contemporary Dance School. He danced at Nationaltheater Weimar, Staatstheater Kassel and also develops his own multimedia projects. He has worked with Sasha Waltz since 1999.
- Antonio Ruz
- Yael Schnell
- Yael Schnell * in Haifa/Israel, from 1994–2002 danced at the Batsheva Dance Company and worked among others with Ohad Naharin, Jirˇí Kylián, Wim Vandekeybus and Angelin Preljocaj. In Berlin, since 2002 she has worked with Christoph Winkler and Jörg Schiebe and since 2007 with Sasha Waltz – for her »Sacre« she worked as a rehearsal assistant as well as a dancer. Yael Schnell is a certified gaga teacher.
- Takako Suzuki
- Repetition 3 2
- Claudia de Serpa Soares
- Claudia de Serpa Soares * in Lisbon/Portugal, studied with Isabel Merlini and Luis Xarez at the Conservatório National Lisboa, the Escola Superior de Dança and the CNDC d’Angers. She has worked with Iztok Kovac, Paulo Ribeiro, Luc Dunberry, Benoît Lachambre, Isabelle Schad, Grayson Millwood, Eve Sussmann, Lilo Baur and since 1999 with Sasha Waltz. She also creates choreographies of her own.
- Davide Di Pretoro
- Davide Di Pretoro, * Colleferro/Italy, studied ballet and contemporary dance at the Accademia Nazionale di Danza Rome, Balletto di Roma and Cunningham Dance School, New York City. He has worked with Thierry Smits/Cie THOR, Ballet Preljocaj, Itzik Galili-Krisztina DeChatel/Dansgroep Amsterdam, Wayne McGregorIRandom Dance, Andonis Foniadakis, the Compagnia Virgilio Sieni and, since 2015, with Sasha Waltz. He teaches and is among others a rehearsal assistant for Wayne McGregor|Random Dance.
- Sergiu Matis
- Scenic Arrangement, Concept
- Jochen Sandig
- Jochen Sandig was born in Esslingen, Germany. In 1990 he moved to Berlin to study psychology and philosophy. Following the founding of the Tacheles Art Centre in 1990, in 1993, together with Sasha Waltz, he founded Sasha Waltz & Guests. In 1996 he co-founded Sophiensaele, an independent venue for dance and theatre productions in Berlin-Mitte, which he directed until 1999. From 2000 to 2004 Jochen Sandig was a member of the artistic direction as well as a dramaturge at the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz. Since 2004 he has been the director of the independent Sasha Waltz & Guests GmbH. In 2006, together with Folkert Uhde, Jochen Sandig founded Radialsystem V. In 2010 he was awarded the french cultural order »Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres«. In February 2012 he celebrated his first direction work with »human requiem«, a staging of Johannes Brahms' »Ein Deutsches Requiem« in cooperation with the Rundfunkchor in Berlin and Simon Halsey. Since its premiere the production travelled to Hamburg, Amsterdam, Paris, Granada, Rotterdam, Athens, Hong-Kong and New York. The production was awarded with the »Classical Next Innovation Award 2016«. In 2019, Jochen Sandig will become executive director of the Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele.
Jochen Sandig was born in Esslingen, Germany. In 1990 he moved to Berlin to study psychology and philosophy. Following the founding of the Tacheles Art Centre in 1990, in 1993, together with Sasha Waltz, he founded Sasha Waltz & Guests. In 1996 he co-founded Sophiensaele, an independent venue for dance and theatre productions in Berlin-Mitte, which he directed until 1999. From 2000 to 2004 Jochen Sandig was a member of the artistic direction as well as a dramaturge at the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz. Since 2004 he has been the director of the independent Sasha Waltz & Guests GmbH. In 2006, together with Folkert Uhde, Jochen Sandig founded Radialsystem V. In 2010 he was awarded the french cultural order »Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres«. In February 2012 he celebrated his first direction work with »human requiem«, a staging of Johannes Brahms' »Ein Deutsches Requiem« in cooperation with the Rundfunkchor in Berlin and Simon Halsey. Since its premiere the production travelled to Hamburg, Amsterdam, Paris, Granada, Rotterdam, Athens, Hong-Kong and New York. The production was awarded with the »Classical Next Innovation Award 2016«. In 2019, Jochen Sandig will become executive director of the Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele.
- Jochen Sandig was born in Esslingen, Germany. In 1990 he moved to Berlin to study psychology and philosophy. Following the founding of the Tacheles Art Centre in 1990, in 1993, together with Sasha Waltz, he founded Sasha Waltz & Guests. In 1996 he co-founded Sophiensaele, an independent venue for dance and theatre productions in Berlin-Mitte, which he directed until 1999. From 2000 to 2004 Jochen Sandig was a member of the artistic direction as well as a dramaturge at the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz. Since 2004 he has been the director of the independent Sasha Waltz & Guests GmbH. In 2006, together with Folkert Uhde, Jochen Sandig founded Radialsystem V. In 2010 he was awarded the french cultural order »Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres«. In February 2012 he celebrated his first direction work with »human requiem«, a staging of Johannes Brahms' »Ein Deutsches Requiem« in cooperation with the Rundfunkchor in Berlin and Simon Halsey. Since its premiere the production travelled to Hamburg, Amsterdam, Paris, Granada, Rotterdam, Athens, Hong-Kong and New York. The production was awarded with the »Classical Next Innovation Award 2016«. In 2019, Jochen Sandig will become executive director of the Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele.
- Set Design 11 6
- Guillaume Bruère
- Joanna Dudley
- Martin Hauk
- Martin Hauk, born in in Berlin, studied Theatre and Event Technology. After working for Art Lab Studios, Berlin he created among others the lighting for Cora Frost, Gayle Tufts, Tim Fischer and Alex B. He has worked with Sasha Waltz since 1996, lighting »Zweiland«, »Körper«, »S«, »noBody«, »insideout«, »Impromptus«, »Gezeiten«, »Jagden und Formen (Zustand 2008)«, »Continu«, »Métamorphoses«, »MusicTANZ - Carmen«, »Matsukaze«, »Dialoge 2013 - Kolkata«, the choreographic opera »Orfeo« and recently »Figure humaine« at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg.
- Sung-Uk Hwang
- Pia Maier Schriever
- Pia Maier Schriever was born in Stuttgart in 1972 and studied architecture at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart and the Bartlett School of Architecture in London. She has worked as an architect in the offices of hg merz architekten in Berlin, 1100 architect in New York and sauerbruch hutton architekten in Berlin.
In 2004, she opened her own Atelier for Architecture and Set-Design in Berlin.
Her ongoing collaboration with Sasha Waltz on Stage Installations for Opera- and Dance productions started some years ago with »Roméo et Juliette« in 2007 at the Opéra National de Paris / Opera Bastille, »Continu« in 2010 at the Schauspielhaus Zurich, »Matsukaze« in 2011 at theThéâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels and working between 2012-2013 on the repertoire at the Staatsoper in Berlin, and »Roméo et Juliette« 2013 at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan.
In 2013 Pia Maier Schriever received an artist’s scholarship from the Deutsche Akademie Villa Massimo in Rome.
In 2014 she created the stage design for Sasha Waltz’ »Tannhäuser« at Staatsoper im Schiller Theater Berlin.
Pia Maier Schriever lives and works in Rome and Berlin.
- Pia Maier Schriever was born in Stuttgart in 1972 and studied architecture at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart and the Bartlett School of Architecture in London. She has worked as an architect in the offices of hg merz architekten in Berlin, 1100 architect in New York and sauerbruch hutton architekten in Berlin.
- Thilo Reuther
- Thomas Schenk
- Heike Schuppelius
- Chiharu Shiota
- Barbara Steppe
- Sasha Waltz
- Sasha Waltz was born in Karlsruhe, Germany and studied dance and choreography in Amsterdam and New York. In 1993 she founded her company Sasha Waltz & Guests, together with Jochen Sandig in Berlin. In 1996 she opened the Sophiensæle, a theatre she co-founded with Sandig. From 2000 – 2005, Waltz was named one of the artistic directors of Berlin’s Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz where –amongst others– she created pieces such as the »Körper«-trilogy (2000-2002). During the following years various works of Sasha Waltz – among them »Dido & Aeneas« (2005), »Medea« (2007), »Roméo et Juliette« (2007) and »Passion« (2010) – constituted a whole new genre: the choreographic opera. Furthermore she implemented various »Dialoge”-projects: »Dialoge 09 – Neues Museum” at the Neue Museum Berlin and »Dialoge 09 – MAXXI« at the new MAXXI Museum in Rome, for example. In 2012 she was invited by the Berliner Philharmoniker to choreograph the dance project »MusicTANZ – Carmen« for their Education programme, with over 100 pupils performing to Rodion Schtschedrin’s Carmen Suite. In 2013 Sasha Waltz created a choreography on Strawinsky’s »Le Sacre du Printemps«, a collaboration between Sasha Waltz & Guests and the Mariinsky Ballet, which premiered at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg in May 2013. Together with Peter Weibel Sasha Waltz curated the exhibition »Sasha Waltz. Installationen. Objekte. Performances«, which presented her work for the first time in the context of visual arts. In April 2014 Sasha Waltz staged Wagner’s »Tannhäuser« under the musical direction of Daniel Barenboim at the Staatsoper im Schiller Theater Berlin. In September 2014 Claudio Monteverdi’s »Orfeo« choreographed by Sasha Waltz with the Freiburger Barockorchester directed by Pablo Heras-Casado, premiered in Amsterdam. In 2016 Sasha Waltz developed the new format »ZUHÖREN« and opened up a »third dimension« for art and politics. Together with musicians and dancers from her compagnie, she inaugurated the Foyers of the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg with her choreographic installation »Figure humaine« in January. Her latest work »Kreatur«, a collaboration with the artist and fashion designer Iris van Herpen, was premiered in June 2017 at Radialsystem V Berlin.
Sasha Waltz was awarded several prizes, among them the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2011. Since June 2013, Sasha Waltz is also a member of the Academy of Arts, Berlin.
Besides leading her compagnie Sasha Waltz & Guests, together with the Royal Swedish Ballet director, Johannes Öhman, Sasha Waltz will become the joint artistic directors of the Staatsballett Berlin in 2019.
- Sasha Waltz was born in Karlsruhe, Germany and studied dance and choreography in Amsterdam and New York. In 1993 she founded her company Sasha Waltz & Guests, together with Jochen Sandig in Berlin. In 1996 she opened the Sophiensæle, a theatre she co-founded with Sandig. From 2000 – 2005, Waltz was named one of the artistic directors of Berlin’s Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz where –amongst others– she created pieces such as the »Körper«-trilogy (2000-2002). During the following years various works of Sasha Waltz – among them »Dido & Aeneas« (2005), »Medea« (2007), »Roméo et Juliette« (2007) and »Passion« (2010) – constituted a whole new genre: the choreographic opera. Furthermore she implemented various »Dialoge”-projects: »Dialoge 09 – Neues Museum” at the Neue Museum Berlin and »Dialoge 09 – MAXXI« at the new MAXXI Museum in Rome, for example. In 2012 she was invited by the Berliner Philharmoniker to choreograph the dance project »MusicTANZ – Carmen« for their Education programme, with over 100 pupils performing to Rodion Schtschedrin’s Carmen Suite. In 2013 Sasha Waltz created a choreography on Strawinsky’s »Le Sacre du Printemps«, a collaboration between Sasha Waltz & Guests and the Mariinsky Ballet, which premiered at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg in May 2013. Together with Peter Weibel Sasha Waltz curated the exhibition »Sasha Waltz. Installationen. Objekte. Performances«, which presented her work for the first time in the context of visual arts. In April 2014 Sasha Waltz staged Wagner’s »Tannhäuser« under the musical direction of Daniel Barenboim at the Staatsoper im Schiller Theater Berlin. In September 2014 Claudio Monteverdi’s »Orfeo« choreographed by Sasha Waltz with the Freiburger Barockorchester directed by Pablo Heras-Casado, premiered in Amsterdam. In 2016 Sasha Waltz developed the new format »ZUHÖREN« and opened up a »third dimension« for art and politics. Together with musicians and dancers from her compagnie, she inaugurated the Foyers of the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg with her choreographic installation »Figure humaine« in January. Her latest work »Kreatur«, a collaboration with the artist and fashion designer Iris van Herpen, was premiered in June 2017 at Radialsystem V Berlin.
- Soloists 49 5
- Michael Bennett (Tenor)
- Thomas Blondelle (Tenor)
- Nikolay Borchev (baritone)
- Klaus-Martin Bresgott
- Alessio Carbone
- Marie-Claude Chappuis (mezzo soprano)
- Nicolas Courjal (Bass)
- Ana Durlovski
- Ilse Eerens (soprano)
- Kai-Uwe Fahnert (Baritone)
- Yannis Francois (bass-baritone)
- Byung Gil Kim
- Jun Hagiwara
- Barbara Hannigan (Soprano)
- Charlotte Hellekant (Mezzo-soprano)
- Konrad Jarnot (Baritone)
- Tobias Kehrer (Bass)
- Cécile Kempenaers (Soprano)
- Kaspar Kröner (Alto)
- Sebastian Lipp (Tenor)
- Eberhard Francesco Lorenz (Tenor)
- Germain Louvet
- Luciana Mancini (Mezzo-soprano)
- Fabrice Mantegna
- Peter Mattei (Baritone)
- Julián Millán (Baritone)
- Ronnita Miller (Mezzo-soprano)
- David Moss
- Georg Nigl (Baritone)
- Frode Olsen (Basso)
- Ludmila Pagliero
- Aphrodite Patoulidou (soprano)
- Marlis Petersen (Soprano)
- Ann Petersen (Soprano)
- Céline Ricci (Mezzo-soprano)
- Anna Lucia Richter (Soprano)
- Jürgen Sacher (Tenor)
- Ruth Sandhoff (Mezzo-soprano)
- Peter Seiffert (Tenor)
- Grigory Shkapura (bass)
- Kevin Skelton (Tenor)
- Peter Sonn (Tenor)
- Caroline Stein (Soprano)
- Christianne Stotijn (Mezzo-soprano)
- Fabio Trümpy (Tenor)
- Terry Wey (countertenor)
- Hans Wijers (Bariton)
- Reuben Willcox
- Deborah York (Soprano)
- Soloists Instrumental 23 2
- Nicholas Altstaedt (Violoncello)
- Guy Ben-Ziony (Viola)
- James Bush (Violoncello)
- Uwe Dierksen (Trombone)
- Dietmar Diesner (Saxophone)
- Valentin Garvié (Trumpet)
- Alexej Gerassimez (Percussion)
- Ali Hasan (Percussion)
- ALI HASAN * in Damascus, Syria, studied at the Technical Institute of Medicine at Tishreen University in Latakia, Syria. During the Syrian crisis, he worked as a physiotherapist before coming to Berlin in 2015. Here he founded the music band Matar and started to play percussion in several intercultural projects. He is one of the founders of the new German-Arabic Library Baynetna – Between Us, which opened by the end of 2016 in Berlin.
- Peter Hollinger (Percussion)
- Sven-Åke Johansson (Percussion)
- Georg Kallweit (Violin)
- Alexander Lonquich (Piano)
- Cristina Marton (Piano)
- Rajesh Mehta
- Philip Moll (Piano)
- Burak Özdemir (baroque bassoon)
- Krisztián Palághyi (Accordeon)
- Pauline Sachse (Viola)
- Robyn Schulkowsky (Percussion)
- Sava Stoianov (Trumpet)
- Frances-Marie Uitti (Violoncello)
- Michael Weilacher (Percussion)
- Carolin Widmann (Violin)
- Sound Installation 4 2
- Jonathan Bepler
- Hans Peter Kuhn
- Burak Özdemir (baroque bassoon)
- Soundwalk Collective
- Video 9
- Philip Bussmann
- Elliot Caplan
- Rudie Ewals
- Sung-Uk Hwang
- Virgis Puodziunas
- Virgis Puodziunas * in Kaunas/Lithuania, studied dance there at the Modern Dance Theater, at Tisch School of Arts New York, Bennington College and London Contemporary Dance School. He danced at Nationaltheater Weimar, Staatstheater Kassel and also develops his own multimedia projects. He has worked with Sasha Waltz since 1999.
- Thilo Reuther
- Heike Schuppelius
- Tapio Snellman
- Sasha Waltz
- Sasha Waltz was born in Karlsruhe, Germany and studied dance and choreography in Amsterdam and New York. In 1993 she founded her company Sasha Waltz & Guests, together with Jochen Sandig in Berlin. In 1996 she opened the Sophiensæle, a theatre she co-founded with Sandig. From 2000 – 2005, Waltz was named one of the artistic directors of Berlin’s Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz where –amongst others– she created pieces such as the »Körper«-trilogy (2000-2002). During the following years various works of Sasha Waltz – among them »Dido & Aeneas« (2005), »Medea« (2007), »Roméo et Juliette« (2007) and »Passion« (2010) – constituted a whole new genre: the choreographic opera. Furthermore she implemented various »Dialoge”-projects: »Dialoge 09 – Neues Museum” at the Neue Museum Berlin and »Dialoge 09 – MAXXI« at the new MAXXI Museum in Rome, for example. In 2012 she was invited by the Berliner Philharmoniker to choreograph the dance project »MusicTANZ – Carmen« for their Education programme, with over 100 pupils performing to Rodion Schtschedrin’s Carmen Suite. In 2013 Sasha Waltz created a choreography on Strawinsky’s »Le Sacre du Printemps«, a collaboration between Sasha Waltz & Guests and the Mariinsky Ballet, which premiered at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg in May 2013. Together with Peter Weibel Sasha Waltz curated the exhibition »Sasha Waltz. Installationen. Objekte. Performances«, which presented her work for the first time in the context of visual arts. In April 2014 Sasha Waltz staged Wagner’s »Tannhäuser« under the musical direction of Daniel Barenboim at the Staatsoper im Schiller Theater Berlin. In September 2014 Claudio Monteverdi’s »Orfeo« choreographed by Sasha Waltz with the Freiburger Barockorchester directed by Pablo Heras-Casado, premiered in Amsterdam. In 2016 Sasha Waltz developed the new format »ZUHÖREN« and opened up a »third dimension« for art and politics. Together with musicians and dancers from her compagnie, she inaugurated the Foyers of the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg with her choreographic installation »Figure humaine« in January. Her latest work »Kreatur«, a collaboration with the artist and fashion designer Iris van Herpen, was premiered in June 2017 at Radialsystem V Berlin.
Sasha Waltz was awarded several prizes, among them the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2011. Since June 2013, Sasha Waltz is also a member of the Academy of Arts, Berlin.
Besides leading her compagnie Sasha Waltz & Guests, together with the Royal Swedish Ballet director, Johannes Öhman, Sasha Waltz will become the joint artistic directors of the Staatsballett Berlin in 2019.
- Sasha Waltz was born in Karlsruhe, Germany and studied dance and choreography in Amsterdam and New York. In 1993 she founded her company Sasha Waltz & Guests, together with Jochen Sandig in Berlin. In 1996 she opened the Sophiensæle, a theatre she co-founded with Sandig. From 2000 – 2005, Waltz was named one of the artistic directors of Berlin’s Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz where –amongst others– she created pieces such as the »Körper«-trilogy (2000-2002). During the following years various works of Sasha Waltz – among them »Dido & Aeneas« (2005), »Medea« (2007), »Roméo et Juliette« (2007) and »Passion« (2010) – constituted a whole new genre: the choreographic opera. Furthermore she implemented various »Dialoge”-projects: »Dialoge 09 – Neues Museum” at the Neue Museum Berlin and »Dialoge 09 – MAXXI« at the new MAXXI Museum in Rome, for example. In 2012 she was invited by the Berliner Philharmoniker to choreograph the dance project »MusicTANZ – Carmen« for their Education programme, with over 100 pupils performing to Rodion Schtschedrin’s Carmen Suite. In 2013 Sasha Waltz created a choreography on Strawinsky’s »Le Sacre du Printemps«, a collaboration between Sasha Waltz & Guests and the Mariinsky Ballet, which premiered at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg in May 2013. Together with Peter Weibel Sasha Waltz curated the exhibition »Sasha Waltz. Installationen. Objekte. Performances«, which presented her work for the first time in the context of visual arts. In April 2014 Sasha Waltz staged Wagner’s »Tannhäuser« under the musical direction of Daniel Barenboim at the Staatsoper im Schiller Theater Berlin. In September 2014 Claudio Monteverdi’s »Orfeo« choreographed by Sasha Waltz with the Freiburger Barockorchester directed by Pablo Heras-Casado, premiered in Amsterdam. In 2016 Sasha Waltz developed the new format »ZUHÖREN« and opened up a »third dimension« for art and politics. Together with musicians and dancers from her compagnie, she inaugurated the Foyers of the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg with her choreographic installation »Figure humaine« in January. Her latest work »Kreatur«, a collaboration with the artist and fashion designer Iris van Herpen, was premiered in June 2017 at Radialsystem V Berlin.
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