Tanz
Aerobics! – A ballet in 3 Acts
von Paula Rosolen / Haptic Hide
September 2 (French Premiere), 3, 4 and 5 at 8.30 pm at Théâtre de la Ville - Abbesses, Paris
October 1 (German Premiere), 2, 3 and 4 at the festival Every Step You Take - ein überoptimiertes Tanzfestival at Sophiensaele, Berlin
October 22, 23 and 24 at Mousonturm, Frankfurt
October 26 at Cultural Center Magacin, Belgrade
Invitation to the opening of the Tanzjahr 2016 / Dance Year 2016 on February 19, 2016, at Schloss Bellevue/Berlin.
Invited to the Tanzplattform Deutschland / Dance Platform Germany 2016:
On 3 and 4 March 2016 in the Kurtheater Bad Homburg
On 15 April 2016 at the »BOUGE B 2016 - Festival for Dance and performance« at the International Arts Center deSingel in Antwerp/Belgium.
On 1st and 2nd September 2016 at the Theaterfestival Basel
The dancer and choreographer Paula Rosolen was awarded for her sketch of "Aerobics!" with the first price of the international competition "Danse Élargie" in June 2014, organized by the Théâtre de la Ville Paris and the Musée de la Danse Rennes.
Here the trailer:
https://vimeo.com/140917112
CONCEPT and CHOREOGRAPHY: Paula Rosolen
CREATED WITH and DANCED BY: Jungyun Bae, Teresa Forstreuter/Sanna Lundström,Gabriela Gobbi, Christopher Matthews, Marko Milic, Sabine Prokop, Paula Rosolen
LIGHT DESIGN and TECHNICAL DIRECTOR: Tanja Rühl
COSTUMES: Juan M. Morales / Anika Alischewski / Takako Senda
ARTISTIC ADVISE: Juan M. Morales
DRAMATIC ADVISE: Anna Wagner / Marcus Droß
CHOREOGRAPHIC ASSISTENCE: Christopher Matthews
RESEARCH ASSISTENCE: David Morrow
TECHNICAL ASSISTENCE: Lea Schneidermann
TRAINER: Berchy da Silva, Henrik Goehle
PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT: Jana Lüthje (M.i.C.A. – Movement in Contemporary Art) and Haptic Hide
PUBLIC RELATIONS: Kathrin Schäfer KulturPR
Special thanks to: Miriam Würtz, Friederike Thielmann, Jeff Friedman.
A production by Paula Rosolen / Haptic Hide and M.i.C.A in coproduction with Théâtre de la Ville Paris, Musée de la Danse Rennes
Musée de la Danse/Centre chorégraphique national of Rennes and Brittany, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt and SOPHIENSÆLE.
Funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds Berlin, Fonds Transfabrik – German-French Fund for performing arts, the City of Frankfurt am Main and the Hessian Ministry for Science and Art.
»Next generation: Paula Rosolen – Injecting something alien into the cance world« an interview by Esther Boldt (goethe.de, August 2015)
"Aerobics! A ballet in 3 Acts", a piece for 7 dancers, develops a new perspective on aerobics, a sport and physical training practice that conquered the world in the 1980s. During the three-acts structure, dancers investigate the relationship of dance, choreography and aerobics from its aesthetics and coordinated movements. The piece develops a precise study and reinterpretation of the subsurface structure of this fitness practice. The aerobic movement vocabulary is brought in an unusual structural and spatial relationship, disassembled and put back together. It will be treated as dance material for choreography, applying a dramaturgical line and content for the development of movements and changes of rhythm.
Paula Rosolen graduated from the University for Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt. She holds a MA in Choreography and Performance from the JLU in Gießen. Granted with DanceWEB. She was choreographer in residence at K3-Zentrum für Choreographie in Hamburg and Workspace Brussels. Paula was also funded by Goethe Institut’s young talent program.
Paula Rosolen’s works have been shown at ZKM Karlsruhe, Pact Zollverein, Museum Wiesbaden, Frankfurt LAB, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Akademie der Künste Berlin/Feldforschung Festival, Festival 150%Hamburg, Biennale Tanzausbildung 2008/2012, Kampnagel, European Festival for Contemporary Dance Poland, Theaterdiscounter Berlin, Centro Cultural de la Cooperación in Buenos Aires.
in her works, beginning in 2010 with "Die Farce der Suche" (2010), "Libretto" (2012) and "Piano Men - A Tanzfonds Erbe Project" (2013), she examines the relationship between documentary theatre, oral history and dance.
Paula Rosolen works with the goal of making visible the inherent dance present in popular culture and everyday life. These subjects are always studied from a distinct point of view, and are usually set in a foreign context.
It is in this spirit that "Aerobics!" - was born, a 10-minute piece, which won 1st prize at the 3rd edition of Danse Élargie (2014), a competition organized by Theatre de la Ville, Paris, and Musee de la Danse in Rennes. "Aerobics! - A ballet in 3 Acts" is a continuation of that theme.