Workshop Description
How does a dancer become a dancing human being? How do the concept and the idea of dance dissolve to make one feel free about what dancing really is? Where do we find this dance in us and what makes it alive? Where is the beginning and what tools does the person need to find this movement language?
Through training and working with repertoire material the body should be given the best conditions to provide the dance within us a language. Through creative processes the work deals with ways to find your own language, to make the invisible visible and to go on your own way designing your own creative work.
On the 27th of July 2023 from 6:30 – 9:30 pm, dancer and choreographer Rainer Behr together with the Goethe Institut Sri Lanka is hosting an evening dance workshop, focused on dance techniques and new ways of exploring your personal practice. Dancers of all ages with some previous experiences are welcome to apply. The registration deadline is the 23rd of July 2023.
Biography
Rainer Behr was born in Neustadt an der Waldnaab in 1964 and after training as a gymnastics teacher, he studied dance at the Folkwang University of the Arts. From 1990 to 1995 Behr danced at the Folkwang Tanzstudio in Essen and worked with Susanne Linke, Raffaella Giordano, Urs Dietrich and Mark Sieczkarek and as a guest dancer at the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch before Pina Bausch hired him as a permanent member of the ensemble in 1995.
In 1989 he created his first choreographies. He was awarded first prize in Cagliari/Italy for The Turn of Things. In 1990 he received the Claasen Dance Award. He choreographed four pieces for the Folkwang Tanzstudio in Essen (Red Rose, Solo, Lonely Kingdom and ButterflyRiverMountainSun-Moon) and during the International Dance Festival NRW - 3 weeks with Pina in 2004 Der Eiserne Pudel. He also created several works as part of the UNDERGROUND series by Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch. In 2012, Behr worked as a guest choreographer in Bielefeld. He was part of the 2020 Encounters choreographer team and will create his first major piece for the Tanztheater im Opernhaus Wuppertal in March 2021.
