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Dance is the most poetic and sensual of all art forms, because it exists in the moment and is no longer tangible after just a few seconds, rather fleeting - like a memory, an ode to the senses.
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13.-15. November:
„I AM WAITING FOR YOU"

DanceTheatre by Jacqueline Beck and Jochen Heckmann

Schaan (FL)

Dancer

I dance, therefore I am. 

Feel my body, my heartbeat, my limits. Sound things out deep inside. Stretch,lengthen, contort and fall into myself. Ground under my feet. Breathe air. Burn in my heart. Float in the flood of thoughts. A dialogue. Several. Countless dialogues with me, the viewer, the unknown. Playing with expectation, devotion and distance. Permeable. Full of light. Honest.

I dance, therefore I am.

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Dates

Career Highlights

LOOPING
contemporary dance company

CH-Zürich | 1995-1999

Founder, director and in-house choreographer

 

Fun Facts:

13 works (solo group), 11 dancers, 2 guest choreographers, 1 actor, 2 musicians/correpetitor/composer, 9 countries, 97 performances

 

Works (Jochen Heckmann):

Gentlemansong No. 1-3, Unfolding I-III, In our sleep, Little Fields, Unfolding Skins, Nightprayers (full-length), A break in the glass of sky, 4 Letters 2 Lovers (full-length), Sextet + 1, Every Which Way, Trans-Pass, Beyond Silent Shades, In the corner, not quite middle center


Performances a.o.:

Prague State Opera (CZE), Laterna Magica/Prague (CZE), Bolshoi Theatre Moscow (RUS), Nagoya Grand Theatre (JAP), Bern City Theatre (CH) - Swiss Dance Gala, Laban, Centre London (GB)

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BALLETT-THEATER AUGSBURG

Staatstheater Augsburg | 1999-2007

Ballet director & chief choreographer

Fun Facts:

35 productions, 9 musicals, operas and operettas, 24 dancers, 6 guest dancers, 4 elevens, 1 dramaturge, 7 set designers, 5 costume designers, 9 guest choreographers, 17 guest trainers, 2 répétiteurs, 1 musician/correpetitor/composer

Works (selection, Jochens favourites):

Silent Games, Bed & Breakfast, Cinderella,

Happy and Station, La Pasión, Le Coeur Battant, Giselle, Cumulus, Swing Alive

THEATER IN KEMPTEN

2007-2011 & 2015

Artist in Residence / in-house choreographer / set and custome design

 

Fun Facts:

28 dancers, 5 set designers, 4 costume designers, 1 orchestra, 1 percussion trio, 2 lighting designers

 

Works:

Cumulus Currendus, Empfänger verzogen,

Die Wohnsinnigen, Match Point, TWO's a couple,

THREE's a crowd, Better Fail(l)ing 


Full production trailer “Better Fail(l)ing” (Youtube)

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COLLEGE FOR CONTEMPORARY AND URBAN STAGE DANCE (HF ZUB)
& BA Urban and Contemporary Dance

CH-Zürich | 2012-2024

Artistic director, main lecturer

 

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