MEDIATHEK

Tänzerin und Choreographin. Typisch für ihre Arbeiten ist die Reduktion. Michaela Fünfhausen, dancer and choreographer, was born in Frankfurt am Main. She received dance training at the Folkwang Hochschule, Essen and at the Hochschule for Music and Dance in Hannover. In 1989 she became an ensemble member at the Schauspielhaus Bochum under direction of Reinhild Hoffmann, and collaborated with numerous choreographers and directors, such as Kei Takei, Gerhard Bohner, Valentin Jeker, Einar Schleef, Jürgen Gosch and Frank-Patrick Steckel. In 1995 she established dance group 'Condanza' with singer Maria Jonas. Since 1995 she has choreographed of numerous of her own productions in Germany and abroad, funded by Land NRW, Stiftung Kunst und Kultur NRW, Fonds Darstellende Künste Bochum, Hauptstadtkultur Fond Berlin, and has performanced at the Salzburger Festspiele, the Opera Frankfurt and the Steirischer Herbst Festival, Graz. Fünfhausen received the Ellis Gregor Award by the Mary Wigman Society in 1996, and continued her studies with Trisha Brown, New York (Modern Dance Company) and Anna Halprin, California. In 1999 she received the Artist Prize from the Berliner Akademie der Künste, who subsequently commissioned her for the project "Composers and Choreographers", in collaboration with composer Jüri Reinvere. (Quelle: ear - electroacoustic revue)