Britta Artist

1973-79

• classical dance training in Düsseldorf
• Performance art course with Sigrid Schwarz (student of Beuys)
• Kunstakademie Düsseldorf: Painting and Movement Project
• Workshops in Modern Dance and Jazz Dance at Centre de Danse Rosella Hightower Cannes; Dance Centre London and in Copenhagen

1980

• Amsterdam Theaterschool: Opleiding Moderne Dans, one training year

1981

• Clown at Roy Bosier, Rome
• Commedia dell’Arte with Ferruchio Soleri
• plays street theatre in Italy

1981-84

• Berlin, Method Acting – Strasberg Method with Walter Lott
• Acting studies with Grotowski in Wroclaw (PL) and at the Roy Hart Theatre (F)
• Breath, speech and voice training according to Schlaffhorst-Andersen
• Voice, voice and movement by composer Vladimir Rodzianko
• Member of the theatre company Ratibor Theatre
• Dance project with Sara Shelton-Mann SF in Freiburg (BewegungsArt)
• Dancer in the film project of Monika Vogel (DFFB)

1979-84

• Solo dance pieces, films, street performances

1984-86 (NYC)

• Training at the Merce Cunningham School, studies with the Trisha Brown Dance Company and Viola Faber
• Contactimprovisation, Releasework, Dance Therapy with Nancy Stark-Smith and other faculty from Movement Research and Naropa Institute (Boulder)
• Releasework after Alan Wayne with Tamar Rogoff
• Choreography Workshops with Robert Ellis Dunn and Trisha Brown
• Jazz singing with Jeanne Lee, voice through the body with Lisa Sokolov
• Dancing in pieces by Meredith Monk, Bread and Puppet Theatre, Tamar Rogoff, David Finkelstein
• Own Duo – Productions in NYC

1986-89

• Tour with solo evening Aquarium
• Interdisciplinary performances in Switzerland

1989-2003

• Foundation of the group Britta Lieberknecht & Technicians with the physical actor Reinhard Gerum, numerous interdisciplinary dance productions and guest performances, presented among others at the Tanzhaus NRW, Opéra de Lille, The Place Theatre London, Akademie der Künste Berlin, Skulpturenmuseum Marl, Charleroi Danse, Dies de Dansa Barcelona
• The successful piece Bombsville has had 30 guest performances

1989-91

• Ensemble member at PLAN K – Frédéric Flamand, Brussels

since 1992

• lives in Cologne, invited by Madeline Ritter to found the production company Mammut Tanzproduktion with Keith Ormand and Ricardo Viviani

1994

• Start of collaboration with the trombonist Paul Hubweber, development of several performance works and series. Exploration of the possibilities of equal performative interaction of dance and music with physical partnership

2000

• Cancellation of the Mammut Studio and opening of the company’s own production facility in Bergisch Gladbach

since 2003

• Drawings and exhibitions, including Städtische Galerie Neuss

2006

• nominated for the Kölner Tanztheaterpreis with Beben Vibrato

2007/2009

• Repertory workshops at the Trisha Brown Dance Company

since 2007

• Dancer, choreographer and co-director for the theater monteure for young audiences

2007

• Start of collaboration with the visual artist Brele Scholz

2009

• Kölner Tanztheaterpreis for Berühren – Zerreissen

2013

• Foundation of Britta Lieberknecht & Company with Die Kunst des Staubsaugens with five dancers and the pianist Laurenz Gemmer as musical collaborator
• Start of the choreographic exploration of new and early music

2014

• Begin of the collaboration with the visual artist Reni Scholz with the performance for her work Krisenhocker

2017

• As host and participant of the Galerie im Wiesengrund with her studio in Bergisch Gladbach.
• Begin of the collaboration with the visual artist Jutta Dunkel
• Begin of the collaboration with the dancer and performance artist Susanne Helmes

2018

• Start of collaboration with PAERsche Aktionslabor, platform for performance art
• Start of the exploration of improvisation as performance
• Development of her form of dance action painting with the performance Momentschicht in the Betonbox Düsseldorf

2020

• Founding member of the Performance Kollektive PML

2023

• Start of the collaboration with the dancer and choreographer Christiane Budden with the performance à table
• Begin of the collaboration with the accordionist Eva Zöllner with the production Leise schäumt das Jetzt