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professional dancetraining with own repertory

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Trisha Brown Technique and Repertory

a) Professional Class: warm up and repertory
b) Workshops: warm up, repertory and choreography

Professional Class
The Trisha Brown Company uses releasetechniques. There is no fixed form of warming up but every dancer of the company teaching repertory applies her own warm up. Britta Lieberknecht passes on these warm ups fitting to each part of the repertory. The focus is on the openess of the joints, sequential building of alignment and grounding and the sense of direction and flow. In the main part of the class she teaches combinations from the repertory. It consists of flowing and precise movement patterns which are spacially complex and show their beauty in the details. The exact guiding of energy and control of momentum often confronts dancers with their tension patterns and lead to the ease and groundedness which made Trisha Brown's choreography famous. As one of the „mothers of postmodern dance“ she influenced dance especially with her works in the eighties and nineties.

Workshops
Beginning with a technical dance class on advanced or professional level Britta Lieberknecht teaches choreography techniques she learned in workshops from Trisha Brown ( and Robert Ellis Dunn):

The Cube
Creating from Scores
Molecular Reactions
Improvising with fixed Materials
Basics of Choreography ( Robert Ellis Dunn)

SHORT BIO Teacher

After a classical dance education in Düsseldorf Britta Lieberknecht studied postmodern dance in Amsterdam and Berlin and different forms of acting in Poland, Berlin and Rome. She studied the voice and singing and focused on the dance and the voice. For three years in NYC she studied modern and postmodern dance and voicework with the leading figures and developed her own danceperformances. Back in Europe she taught „ Dance and Voice“ and „Dancing with Gravity“ in Europe and danced in the ensemble of PLANK- Frédéric Flamand in Brussels. She continued to study releasetechniques and choreography in Europe and NYC and lead the group „Britta Lieberknecht & Technicians“. For a period of time she also became a physiotherapist and Polestar Pilates Rehabilitation Trainer living in Cologne, Germany, while she continued her artwork. Presently she teaches „Trisha Brown Technique and Repertory“in Germany and shows danceperformances internationally.

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