Art Summer 2009 - Contemporary Dance   with Jochen Heckmann

Jochen Heckmann and Adriana Mortelliti

Jochen Heckmann
Adriana Mortelliti

Born in 1968 | Dance training in Germany and Paris with Solange Golovine, Peter Goss and Martine Hamel | Work in the ensemble and as a soloist with Paula Landslay, Zurich and Richard Werlock, Hagen | Since 1990 instruction e.g. at the Swiss Professional Ballet School | International Master Classes in Denmark, England, Italy and the Czech Republic | 1995 foundation of the ensemble »Looping contemporary dance company« in Zurich | Prizes in Germany, Denmark, Japan | Choreography in Lisbon, Prague, London, Saarbrücken, Braunschweig and Glynedebourne | Since the 1999/2000 season Jochen Heckmann has been the ballet director and head choreographer at the Augsburg Theater | | Foundation of the Ballet Theater in Augsburg with international members | Summer 2007 choreography for the opera Armida (J. Haydn) with Christof Loy (director) of the Salzburg Festival/Felsenreitschule | Theater prize 2007 Augsburg for “Best Production & Best Dancer” | Artistic director of the international choreograph course SWWC 2008 in Zurich

Adriana Mortelliti
Born in Reggio Calabria, Italy | Training as a dancer and dance teacher at the Italian Professional Dance School, Milan | Simultaneous studies of painting at the Academy of the Arts, Milan | 1993–1999 solo dancer in the Movers Dance Company and 1995–1999 with LOOPING c.d.c. (J. Heckmann) in Zurich | Guest dancer at various theaters and opera houses such as the Teatro alla Scala Milano and the Zurich Opera House | 1996 International Ballet & Modern Dance Competitions: Nagoya, Japan, Silver Medal | 1999–2007 Solo dancer at the Ballet Theater Augsburg | 2000 Augsburg Theater Prize as best dancer | 2002 Special Jury Award, 2005 Bronze Medal | 2004 Choreographic Competition Burgos-New York, 2004 2nd Prize, 2005 1st Prize, 2008 2nd Prize – Category solo dance | 2008 Choreography assistant for the Mörbisch Lake Festival, Grand Theater, National Ballet Berlin and Balletto di Milano

This year the course will not only be entrusted to the successful contemporary dancer, Jochen Heckmann, but also to the dancer, choreographer, and pedagogue Adriana Mortelliti. Both have been working together as artists for more than 14 years. Jochen Heckmann will be responsible for technical training in the morning, while following choreographic and interpretational activities will be conducted by Adrian Mortelliti and Jochen Heckman, sometimes together, and sometimes separately in individual sequences.

Dance between fantasy and gravity 

The lively, sensual dance, which often flourishes for just a short moment before withering – it has the uniquely beautiful potential of overcoming the boundaries between imagination and expression, between internal and external, between silence and movement, emptiness and fullness, and between asceticism and sensuality… to curl away, jump and wildly gesticulate while surrendering into the universe of fantasy and still knowing not how to escape the force of gravity … that is our aim.

The course will familiarize the participants with both technical aspects of contemporary dance as well as creative processes in the development of stage entertainment.

Participation requirements and application documents: 
The course is aimed at both career dancers as well as graduates of professional dance training academies. Minimum age 18 years. CV, description of current commitments, portrait photo, video with clearly recognizable solo or duo work. Maximum number of participants: 12