Editta Braun Company Explained

The Editta Braun Company is a dance company founded in Salzburg, Austria in 1989 by the Austrian choreographer,[1] dancer and dance instructor Editta Braun. Members of the multi-national team include dancers, composers, dramatic advisors and light designers. The Editta Braun Company’s work pursues political themes, including intercultural communication and feminist questions. The company is particularly known for the body theatre performance pieces Lufus, Luvos, vol. 2, planet LUVOS, Close Up, Close Up 2.0 and Fanghoumé. The Editta Braun Company has toured in Europe, Asia, Africa and performs at both large and specialty festivals.[2]

History

Editta Braun was one of a group of students who formed the dance collective Vorgänge in 1982. She founded her own company shortly before the group broke up in 1989.[3] In 1997, French composer and musician Thierry Zaboitzeff began creating sound tracks to accompany the group's productions; most have been released as albums.[4] [5] Thomas Hinterberger and Peter Thalhamer have designed the lighting for many pieces.

The company collaborated with Egyptian director Mahmoud Aboudoma and his drama ensemble to create Coppercity 2001, based on one of the tales from 1001 Nights.

In 2002, the company began to incorporate texts into their productions, for example, Manfred Wöhlcke’s sociological essay Soziale Entropie and literary variations of the Arthur myth. In 2004, Austrian author Barbara Neuwirth wrote the text for Eurydike, a piece which was commissioned for the Brucknerfest in Linz, and included a chamber orchestra, drama and dance ensemble. In 2004, the company increased its staff of artistic directors and choreographers to include Arturas Valudskis, Rebecca Murgi, Shlomo Bitton, Teresa Ranieri, Mahmoud Aboudoma, Robert Pienz and Iris Heitzinger.

Over the years, outstanding artists from various disciplines (besides dance: drama, composition, direction, writing, dramaturgy, video, light design) have contributed their creative potential to the company. In the beginning, the company’s dance style was especially influenced by Céline Guillaume and Georg Blaschke, the work together with dance legend Jean Babilée, for whom Jean Cocteau and Roland Petit created Le jeune homme et la mort, was particularly sensational, immensely furthering the company’s international acclaim. Composer Peter Valentin contributed his work during this time.

For ten years, dancer Barbara Motschiunik played a main role in each production; in 2006, Anna Maria Müller and Tomaz Simatovic joined the group, together with Juan Dante Murillo Bobadilla.

Since 2010, several younger performers have joined the company, including Iris Heitzinger, Martyna Lorenc, Jerca Roznik Novak and others. Many performances have been developed with dramatist Gerda Poschmann-Reichenau.

The Luvos series

Luvos is a series of body theater performances.[6] The series premiered in 1985 as Kollektiv Vorgänge’s Lufus.

Between 2001 and 2012, Luvos, vol.2 was performed worldwide before audiences totalling about 15,000 people, in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, Thessaloniki, Novosibirsk and Moscow, Marseille, Limassol and Nicosia, Brussels, Tallinn, Kaunas, Riga, Vienna, Salzburg and Linz. In 2012, the piece was performed at the Manipulate Visual Theatre Festival in Edinburgh[7] [8] [9]

planet LUVOS was performed in 2012 during the Brucknerfest in Linz and at Manipulate in 2014.

Close Up was performed at Manipulate in 2016.[10]

The Editta Braun Company has mounted more than 100 performances of Luvos, and has been reviewed positively among others in Neue Westfälische,[11] Neue Kronenzeitung,[12] and TV Bomb[13]

Publication

In 2009, to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Editta Braun Company, the volume Tanz Kunst Leben. 20 Jahre Editta Braun Company, edited by Gerda Poschmann-Reichenau and designed by Bettina Frenzel, was published. It contains reminiscences from people who have accompanied the company on its journey, descriptions and pictures from the dance-theater productions presented in the past 20 years in chronological order, as well as interviews with founder Editta Braun and participating artists.

Selected full-length productions

Awards

References

External links

Notes and References

  1. https://books.google.com/books?id=Zx_sAAAAMAAJ&q=editta+braun++dance World Ballet and Dance
  2. http://www.progvisions.net/reviews_uk/zab_min_uk.htm "album review Zaboitzeff & Crew - Miniaturen: Zoydian suite in three movements - 2000"
  3. https://books.google.com/books?id=1fDaAAAAQBAJ&dq=editta+braun++dance&pg=PA70 World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre: Volume 1: Europe, Volume 1
  4. http://www.progvisions.net/reviews_uk/zab_min_uk.htm "album review: Zaboitzeff & Crew - Miniaturen: Zoydian suite in three movements - 2000"
  5. http://www.expose.org/index.php/articles/display/thierry-zaboitzeff-planet-luvos-3.html "José Nafría - October 2000 "Thierry Zaboitzeff — Planet Luvos (Booster BTZ972, 2012, CD)"
  6. http://www.jpost.com/Arts-and-Culture/Entertainment/Israel-Festival-Reviews "Israel Festival Reviews"
  7. http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts_ents/13142712.Puppetry_fuses_with_mixed_media_for_festival/ "Puppetry fuses with mixed media for festival"
  8. https://www.list.co.uk/article/58018-stephen-mottram-editta-braun-and-duda-paiva-among-the-highlights-of-manipulate-2014/ "Stephen Mottram, Editta Braun and Duda Paiva among the highlights of Manipulate 2014"
  9. http://www.edinburghguide.com/reviews/dance/luvostraversetheatrereviewmanipulatefestival-9844 "Luvos, Traverse Theatre, Review (Manipulate Festival)"
  10. Web site: Editta Braun Company's "Close up". Bissett. Christiana. 2017-02-15. manipulatefestivalblog. 2019-09-16.
  11. Anke Gronewold in: Neue Westfälische, Bielefeld, August 2003.
  12. Andrea Hein in: Neue Kronenzeitung, Klagenfurt, Juli 2001.
  13. http://www.tvbomb.co.uk/2012/02/luvos/ TV Bomb, Edinburgh, February 6, 2012.
  14. Kulturfonds der Stadt Salzburg
  15. Web site: Großer Kunstpreis des landes salzburg für editta braun - Google Search. 2017-10-09. Salzburger Nachrichten. 2019-09-16.

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