Wiener Taschenoper (Vienna pocket opera) is an Austrian opera company based in Vienna. Insight Guides cite them and the Neue Oper Wien as "two of the independent groups which perform exclusively 20th and 21st-century opera".
13-477: Choreographer Saskia Hölbling staged in 2002 Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda by Claudio Monteverdi combined with A-Ronne by Luciano Berio . In 2004 she developed a choreography with four dancers for Labyrinth in collaboration with the composer Wolfgang Mitterer and the video artist Alexej Paryla, It was performed at the Semper Depot of Vienna by DANS.KIAS, with Katia Plaschka , soprano. In 2008,
26-640: A call from the University of Music and Performing Arts in 1929 to create a drama seminar. Initially, this Seminar was taught at the Schlosstheater Schönbrunn , the imperial theatre in the Schönbrunn Palace . After Reinhardt's emigration in 1937, the seminar moved to the nearby Palais Cumberland in 1940. From 1948 until 1954, Helene Thimig (Reinhardt's widow) directed the Seminar. The Seminar offers
39-758: Is the School of Drama at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna , Austria. It is located in the Palais Cumberland, Penzingerstraße 9, in Vienna's 14th district ( 48°11′21″N 16°18′44″E / 48.18917°N 16.31222°E / 48.18917; 16.31222 ). A Lehrgang für Declamation und Mimik (Course in Declamation and Mimics) had been in existence in Vienna since 1852, when Max Reinhardt received
52-621: The Konservatorium der Stadt Wien (Vienna Conservatory) in the field of “contemporary dance” and gives seminars at the Max Reinhardt Seminar for actors at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna . In June 2009 Hölbling worked as a mentor, taking over the coaching for young choreographers in the framework of Stückwerk09 at the Tanzquartier Wien, in a joint project with the University of Vienna . In 2000 she received
65-693: The Konservatorium der Stadt Wien in from 1991 to 1995. She then continued her training until 1997 at Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s PARTS in Brussels . In 1996 she received a DanceWeb scholarship and in 2001 a scholarship to the Atelier du Monde/Montpellier Danse 2001. In 1995 Hölbling founded her company DANS.KIAS . Since then she has been one of the few Austrian female choreographers with their own company. She has written some 20 works for her Vienna-based troupe. Saskia Hölbling has also created choreographies for existing contemporary music . In 2002 in collaboration with
78-551: The Wiener Taschenoper she produced the two music-theatre productions Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda by Claudio Monteverdi and A-Ronne by Luciano Berio . In 2004 she developed a choreography with four dancers for the interactive live performance Labyrinth in collaboration with the composer Wolfgang Mitterer and the video artist Alexej Paryla, It was performed at the Semper Depot of Vienna by DANS.KIAS, with Katia Plaschka , soprano. In 2009 she again worked with
91-599: The Prix d’Auteur du Conseil Général de Seine-Saint Denis/Bagnolet for Do your desires still burn , and in 2002 she was awarded the Austrian Dance Production Prize for other feature. In the context of the opening of the Tanzquartier Wien in 2001 she presented her solo rrr… (“reading, readings, reading”) , which she had developed jointly with the choreographer Benoît Lachambre and the video artist Laurent Goldring. While in intent/frame I und II (2000 und 2001) she
104-569: The Wiener Taschenoper, producing three further works by Luciano Berio: Naturale , Visage and Sequenza V . Alongside this she has repeatedly worked with artists from other branches, as in 2005, when Hölbling contributed the lecture performance Vom Sinn des Sinns for the project Philosophy on Stage by the philosopher Arno Böhler and the actor Susanne Ganzer. In 2008 together with the French dancer and choreographer Fabrice Ramalingom she created
117-423: The duet fiction in between . In 2009 Hölbling went into theatre direction for the first time and together with students of the Max Reinhardt Seminar produced Die Hamletmaschine (by Heiner Müller ). As a dancer Saskia Hölbling has also been involved in works by Bob Wilson (USA), the W. Dorner company (Austria), Laurent Pichaud (France) and Benoît Lachambre (Canada) among others, and she also gives workshops at
130-531: The second act of Karlheinz Stockhausen's Donnerstag aus Licht , titled Michaels Reise um die Erde (Michael's Journey Around the Earth) was staged, in collaboration with the Wiener Festwochen , by Carlus Padrissa of La Fura dels Baus , with stage direction by Roland Olbeter. It was performed by Marco Blaauw (trumpet), Nicola Jürgensen (basset horn), and musikFabrik , directed by Peter Rundel . The production
143-597: Was also shown in Cologne, Venice, Warsaw, Dresden and Paris. In 2009, Hölbling produced three works by Berio: Naturale , Visage and Sequenza V . Since 2006 the Wiener Taschenoper has produced contemporary operas for children. A series of operas based on fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm have included Wolfgang Mitterer's Das Tapfere Schneiderlein , Ali N. Askin's Eisenhans , and in 2010 Die Gänsemagd by Iris ter Schiphorst . In 2008 John Cage 's A House Full of Music
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#1733093624942156-501: Was staged, accompanied by detailed background information and material for teachers. Walther Soyka 's Das kleine Gespenst after Otfried Preußler 's book was performed in 2010 in collaboration with the Graz Opera . Saskia H%C3%B6lbling Saskia Hölbling (born 6 March 1971) is an Austrian choreographer and dancer ( contemporary dance ) Hölbling was born in Vienna . She created her first works during her degree course at
169-500: Was still working with interpersonal relations and behaviour patterns, in other feature (2002) she took up the human body as a mobile, organic mass. This continued with the solo exposition corps (2003) and superposition corps (2004). Secret sight (2009) observed and explored the interstices and lines between the bodies. Finally, pictographic events (2010) works with a large pool of signs and body images. Max Reinhardt Seminar The Max Reinhardt Seminar (Reinhardt Seminar)
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