Britta Lieberknecht creates performances relating dance to other media since 1979. After a classical dance education in Düsseldorf she studied acting and singing in Berlin and enrolled a contemporary dance education in NYC at the Merce Cunningham School of Dance and with many other protagonists of the NYC contemporary dance sceene. Qualified by her visual arts major she participated in projects of the Academy of Fine Arts Düsseldorf and Academy for Film and Television in Berlin and developed her own crossmedia artform. Dancer with PLAN K/ Frédéric Flamand in Brussels Belgium.In many group- and solopieces she related dance to videofilms, sculpture, land art, painting, concepts related to architecture and installations all of her own design. Her visual work has been presented on stages, in public spaces and exhibitions. 89 she founded the group “Britta Lieberknecht & Technicians” together with actor and performance artist Reinhard Gerum. Since 92 based in Cologne, Germany, they produced more than 25 dancepieces. 81- 93 she developed and taught “dancing and voicing” and “dancing with gravity” and taught also at the private institute “freiraum theaterschule Bremen”. Since 07 she teaches professional trainings related to repertory from Trisha Brown. 96 she became physiotherapist and worked a few years halftime in this profession. She has increasingly focused on the relationship of dance and music, staging livemusicians as interacting performance partners. She also emphasizes the musical relationship of pure dance to livemusic. Britta Lieberknecht has pushed the crossmedia performancework as a pioneer and part of the avantgarde of the 80s and 90s in Germany. Her continuous working process being independet from trends has led to the production of ingenuine pieces of high quality showing depth and humor. |
