Contemporary DanceJochen Heckmann
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 lessons e.g. at the Swiss Professional Ballet School | International master classes in Denmark, England, Italy and the Czech Republic | 1955 foundation of the ensembles “Looping contemporary dance company” in Zurich | Prizes in Germany, Denmark, Japan | Choreography work in Lisbon, Prague, London, Lodz, Saarbrücken, Braunschweig and Glynedebourne | Since the 1999/2000 season Jochen Heckmann has been the ballet director and head choreographer at the Augsburg Theatre | Foundation of the multinational Augsburg Ballet Theatre | In Summer 2007 choreography of the opera Armida (J. Haydn) with Christof Loy (Director) of the Salzburg Festival/Felsenreitschule.
Adriana Mortelliti
Cooperation with Jochen Heckmann for 12 years | Involvement in the Zurich dance ensemble “Looping contemporary dance company” and “The Movers” among others | Since 1999 she has been involved with the Augsburg Ballett Theatre as a soloist | Choreographed numerous works, won various international prizes for her artistic work and is additionally a sought-after costume designer.
Typical daily schedule in this workshop: 9:00 – 10:45 Training, 11:00 – 12:00 Repertoire, 2:00 – 6:00 Setting themes/choreographic work. The training begins on Sunday with Adriana Mortelliti. Jochen Heckmann will arrive on Monday due to his committment at the Salzburg Festival.
Participation requirements and application documents
Professional dance training (mind. Abschlussjahr), involvement in a fixed ensemble or in a freelance production (not older than two years), minimum age 18 years. CV, current commitments (ensemble, production), portrait photo, video with clearly recognizable solo or duo work.
Dance from space and time
This year the course will not only be left up to the time-tested skills of Jochen Heckmann, but will partially be artistically supplemented by the dancer, choreographer, and teaching specialist Adriana Mortelliti. In the bloc courses, she will draw on her more than 12 years of experience of creative cooperation with Jochen Heckmann and other artists in this course both as a teacher and an artist.
The course shall familiarize the dancing professionals and soon-to-be professional dancers with both technical aspects of dance as well as creative processes in the development of stage productions. By means of concrete themes such as space, time, rhythm, dynamics, emotions, dealing with requisites and music, you will be able to enhance your skills, gather experience, and analyze your own work from the outside with clear structures. Besides the obligatory technique class, the main focus for the dancers will be placed on the actual work on examples of repertoires and newly created dance sequences.
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