Richard Siegal

Video: „Copirates“

In 2005, Richard Siegal founded The Bakery, a research and production platform for innovative choreographic projects based in Germany and France. With an interdisciplinary team, Siegal’s focus lies on the nexus between performance and digital media in various different aesthetic formats and new models of artistic-scientific cooperation. Intermedial and interactive artistic strategies are developed in dialogue with international partners; they include dance and movement researchers, software programmers, visual artists, dramaturges, exhibition architects, as well as sound and video artists.

“As if Stranger” reecived the Mouson Award in 2007-08, and a Bessie Award in 2008. Siegal is a member of the American Dance Festival and curates an annual Forsythe festival there. He was dancer with the Ballet Frankfurt until 2004. Siegal received 2010 the German Theatre Prize DER FAUST for his performance in "Logobi 05" by Monika Gintersdorfer.