| Reviews
Videos
Curriculum Vitae
Eva Weißmann is a dancer and choreographer
specializing in the creation of TextDance pieces
and performances/improvisations. She has created
and performed over 100 solos and pieces with her
ensemble group we are we.
 |
Eva is known for her courageous
and far out creativity, her unusual combinations
with other genres, and special integration
of dance forms with music and texts from
Gertrude Stein.
She has performed complementary dances
to the art work of Richard Serra at the
Basel Kunsthalle and Theaterplatz and has
presented Gertrude Stein's "Doctor
Faustus Lights The Lights" on invitation
to the Archa Theatre in Prague. |
Upcoming work includes the preparation of RaumklangTanz,
a cooperation with the composer Gerhard Stäbler,
and a research project examining how to compose
and integrate dance performance with an open forum
for conflict awareness/conflict solution.
Eva Weißmann is always on the lookout for
talented and passionate performers, dancers, singers,
musicians, and other artists for the ensemble
group we are we. If you are interested,
please consult the audition
schedule and contact Eva
Weißmann for further information.
Reviews
“A wild Look, to which everything is strange:
Eva Weißmann has it. A chair, a coat, a
body, in empty space as if created anew. Actually
nothing happens at all. Actually everything happens
which is important in theatre.”
(Christine Richard, MANTEL HAUT STUHL 1987)
“The Sound frame of sentences and words
is transformed to an acoustic atmosphere, expanding
boundaries on all corners and ends. In reality
it is not about a “dance”. “Irondance”
is dance – music – speech –
theatre: Convincing: the intensity and precision
with which Eva Weißmann carries out her
movements.”
(Dance Ballet Aktuell 1989)
“ … Play-To-Day, a funny, playful,
wakeful, crystal clear approach and
translation of Stein text. Everything is here
and now, and nowhere else.”
(Badische Zeitung to: Play-To-Day 1989)
“So what’s it all about? Abstractly
expressed, a discourse concerning that which is
the essence of art itself.”
(Culture Joker 1989: Eva Weißmann and
her dance theatre)
Eva Weißmann takes the spiral-formed speaking
rhythm of Gertude Stein so to speak, as a melody
for her art of moving.
(Culture Joker to: Irondance 1991)
“Stage-experienced Weißmann has created
a funny Dada piece, charming and insightful.”
(Basler Zeitung 1997)
“Eva Weißmann is anything other than
a rat catcher of the dance. She leads the audience
from on space to another, from picture to picture,
but not by the nose. No stereo-bombast, no video-nut.
The dancer works with that which she has, the
space, the body – and the audience.”
(Basler Zeitung 1988)
“… the leader presents her group
of seven with a score, each one different than
the other. How they harmonise, or not, is unforeseeable.
The work of movement and music develops spontaneously
and directly, in purely (Stein presence).”
(Bettina Schulze 1998)
A body writhes, how should I know what is tormenting
it
Do you really understand
I want to try
Truthfully: no
Only what but what
does it have to do with war
…Encounter with criticism of the times
using very unusual aesthetic means.
(Badische Zeitung 1991)
“Eva Weißmanns’s dance, of
it’s kind, as inaccessible as Richard Serra’s
art work, was completely unpretentious, just there
– and still arouses attention within this
scope, the effect of art in public spaces becomes
visible.”
(BZ 1996)
Peace and War Dance Performance “50 years
with no end to war”
with Eva Weißmann.
The year 1945 saw not only the end to a world
war, but the unsolved problems created new potential
conflict as well. Not lastly rests the building
of Germany’s peace and prosperity on the
pillars of poor and tension – filled areas
of this earth. How war often lies so closely to
peace – and vice versa: This solo is an
hommage to a monument …
Videos
Coming soon!
|
