Sasha Waltz is a renowned German choreographer and dancer who has made significant contributions to the world of contemporary dance. Known for her innovative and unique approach to choreography, she has created numerous captivating performances that have garnered international acclaim.
Waltz’s choreographic style often integrates elements of theater, music, and visual art, blending them together to create multidisciplinary works of art. Her pieces are known for their physicality, emotional depth, and thought-provoking themes.
Throughout her career, Sasha Waltz has collaborated with a diverse range of artists, including composers, designers, and fellow dancers. This collaborative approach has resulted in the creation of memorable performances that push the boundaries of contemporary dance and challenge conventional notions of movement.
Waltz has also founded her own dance company, Sasha Waltz & Guests, which serves as a platform for her creative vision and allows her to collaborate with talented dancers from around the world. The company’s repertoire includes a wide range of works, from large-scale productions to intimate solos, each showcasing Waltz’s distinct artistic vision.
With her innovative choreography and dedication to pushing the boundaries of dance, Sasha Waltz continues to inspire and captivate audiences worldwide. Her contributions to the field of contemporary dance have solidified her status as one of the foremost choreographers of our time.
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Henry Purcell’s “Dido & Aeneas” is often described as the oldest love story in English opera. The production was a premiere for Sasha Waltz, marking the beginning of her work on “choreographic opera”. Together with 12 dancers from her ensemble and 51 musicians choristers and soloists, Sasha Waltz has created her own interpretation of the…
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In 2021, the dance company Sasha Waltz & Guests began an innovative artistic process that results in the continuous production of both digital and live formats. Terry Riley’s “In C” (1964) forms the musical foundation of this, an open composition that was revolutionary at the time and is generally considered the first piece of minimalist…
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Life’s substance can be pulled this way and that, thrown about, piled up and dissected. Through a sober recognition of the body’s materiality, this piece tries to understand the fundamental split imposed on us by our physical nature. It interrogates cultural templates for movement, brutal forms of pleasure, enhanced performance and cosmetic improvement: the body…
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Kreatur is about the human body. Isolated or attached to a community, it becomes distorted under pressure. The show’s based on the ideas of taking or losing power, of thinking about otherness or looking at oneself, of loving or hating oneself. And in visiting a former Stasi prison in Berlin, Sasha Waltz and her dancers…
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noBody completes a choreographic cycle of three pieces about humans and their bodies which Sasha Waltz created in the years around the turn of the millennium. In her piece “Körper“, she investigated the materiality of the human being, relating the dancers‘ bodies to architecture, science and history. “S” searched for the origin of life, explored…
