Britta Lieberknecht

Britta Lieberknecht's theme is the collision of the archaic with contemporary western civilization. This confrontation leads to a clear aesthetic response: wild or meditative, with technical or with the simplest devices- always deep and humorous.

Britta Lieberknecht shows dance emphasizing its relationship to the visual arts and music. She relates dance and performance actions to installations and spacerelated concepts, landart, film, sculpture and painting. The visual media are designed by herself.

She presents an affirmative aesthetic generating energy exclusively from the presence of the actions performed - different from dancetheater wich always indicates the lack of something. 1989 she founded as dancer, choreographer and visual artist together with Reinhard Gerum (actor, performance artist) the label “Britta Lieberknecht & Technicians”. As well on stage as outdoors the pieces of Britta Lieberknecht and Reinhard Gerum are existencially bound to the installation so that you do not see a stage decor but a Gesamtkunstwerk of poetic radicalism. E.g. in BEBEN/ VIBRATO the soloist moves thoroughly connected with her body to a table. In „RIVER -TV“ the performers dance live for three hours on 70 TVs forming a circular land art sculpture. To the contrary in „IRXSPROCKS HORIZON“ the dance is not related to an object but a geometric choreographic score forms the dance like an invisible skeleton.

Britta Lieberknecht engaged in a close collaboration with live musicians, in exceptional ways with trombone player Paul Hubweber who plays music while partnering her physically acting as performance partner as well. Percussionist and jazzdrummer Christoph Hillman created the music for her pure dancepieces.