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Helena Waldmann (born 1962 in Burghausen) is a German choreographer and theater director.
Helena Waldmann | |
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| Known for | Choreographer, Theatre director |
Helena Waldmann (born 1962 in Burghausen) is a German choreographer and theater director.
Helena Waldmann studied Applied Theatre Studies at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen with Andrzej Wirth and Hans-Thies Lehmann from 1982 to 1987, graduating with a diploma in theatre studies. During her studies she worked with Heiner Müller, George Tabori, Adolf Dresen, Emma Lewis Thomas and Molly Davies, among others.
From 1993 to 1999 she lived in Frankfurt/Main, where she staged various multimedia dance productions at the Künstlerhaus Mousonturm in which the focus was on playing with the viewer's gaze. These early pieces are optical confusion games between reality, illusion and virtuality.
In 2000 she received a call from Berlin. She directs for 'Berlin Offene Stadt'/ Berliner Festspiele and is artist in residence at Podewil.
In 2003 she received the UNESCO prize for the production Headhunters choreographed with Brazilian dancers in Salvador de Bahia.
The political force of her choreographies, which tour worldwide, is unmistakable in her "Letters from Tentland", produced in Tehran for six Iranian women, as well as in her short film "emotional rescue", shot with a dance company in Palestine, in her responses to European asylum policy formulated by Iranian exiles in "return to sender", and in "feierabend! - the antidote", a celebration against the modern dictatorship of labour. In "BurkaBondage" she relates the Islamic veil and Japanese bondage. In "get a revolver" she shows the socially outlawed role of dementia. In "Made in Bangladesh", she addresses the frenzied and exploitative labour conditions of the present, in "Good Passports Bad Passports", she examines the prestige of the passport in terms of the freedom of movement it guarantees or takes away, in "We Love Horses", she looks at the dressage of humans by politics. In "The Intruder" she draws analogies between body/virus and politics.
In the winter semester 2018/19 she is Bertolt Brecht Visiting Professor at the Centre of Competence for Theatre at the University of Leipzig's Department of Theatre Studies. In the winter semesters 2004/05 and 1994/95 she held teaching positions at the Institute for Theatre, Film and Media Studies at the University of Frankfurt/Main and in the summer semester 1995/96 at the Institut d'Etudes Théâtrales de la Université Paris 8, Saint-Denis, Paris. Since 2018 she is juror for the German Dance Award.
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