RECHTSRADIKAL - Broadcasting Kulturzeit
2013
Choreographer(s) : Winkler, Christoph (Germany)
Present in collection(s): Dachverband Tanz Deutschland e.V.
Video producer : 3SAT - Kulturzeit
RECHTSRADIKAL - Broadcasting Kulturzeit
2013
Choreographer(s) : Winkler, Christoph (Germany)
Present in collection(s): Dachverband Tanz Deutschland e.V.
Video producer : 3SAT - Kulturzeit
RechtsRadikal
RechtsRadikal investigates why women are increasingly active in right-wing movements. For a long time, they were merely treated as the men’s subordinate companions. Beate Zschäpe, the female part of the Zwickau terror trio, was first only seen as the men’s companion, as an insignificant housewife. But this in no way reflects the reality of the situation. Today every fifth neo-Nazi is female, and every tenth radical right-wing criminal offence is committed by a woman. They occupy key positions in all areas and do not hesitate to be violent. Especially young women in the right-wing comradeships are active in the street battles that accompany neo-nazi demonstrations. But despite their increasing importance for the radical right movement, they are still confronted with an ideology that not only wages war on everything that is different but is also based on an extremely biological understanding of gender roles. A superficial expression of this is the feathercut – a skinhead haircut that combines a shaved head with bangs. In “RechtsRadikal”, Christoph Winkler and four young dancers examine the external and internal signs for contradictions in which rightist women find themselves. The radicalisation of the body is a drama of the body, since rightist ideologies are extreme in the true sense of the word – on the surface and in the soul. Women who venture in this direction thus become protagonists, but also their male battle- mates’ objects.
Source: evening programme
More information : www.christoph-winkler.com/
Winkler, Christoph
Christoph Winkler is one of the most versatile choreographers in Germany. His work covers a wide range of formats and deals with topics both of a very personal nature as well as highly political contributions to current social discourse.
Born in Torgau in the former GDR, he was a multiple Spartakiad winner in the disciplines weightlifting and judo as a teenager. He then studied martial arts and breakdance, before being accepted at the National Ballet School in Berlin. After the fall of the wall, he danced in video productions for MTV and worked as a bodyguard and construction worker. In the early 1990’s, he performed in underground techno clubs. Then he studied choreography for four years at the prestigious School for Drama “Ernst Busch“ and founded Klangkrieg Productions, a platform for experimental music. Under this label, he produce work by numerous acclaimed musicians such as the Venetian Snares or Current Value. At the same time, he also curated the festival AvantPop and organized parties and concerts e.g. for the Fuckparade.
After graduating from the Ernst Busch in 1998, he consciously chose to continue working as an independent choreographer in Berlin. Right from the start, he received much critical acclaim and numerous invitations to festivals for his innovative dance style and minimalist, rigorously composed, discursive dance dramas.
In 2007, he founded the agency BERLIN GOGOS with "ehrliche arbeit – freelance office for culture” as a way to commercially market contemporary dance and address the economic situation of contemporary dancers today.
His works consistently deal with topics that reference issues currently discussed in society at large, but that also directly pertain to and affect the art form of dance.
Recent works are: “Dance! Copy! Right?” (2012) about copyright in art, especially in dance, “RechtsRadikal” about neo-Nazi women and “The True Face – Dance Is Not Enough”, an entertaining overview of protest art forms, both 2013. The solo “Baader – A Choreography of Radicalisation” was invited to the German Dance Platform in 2012 and dancer Martin Hansen was named Dance of the Year by the German leading dance journal “tanz” that same year for his role in the piece. In 2014, Winkler produced the solo “Hauptrolle” with Ahmed Soura from Burkina Faso about the role of people of color on German stages, as well as the dance heritage Tanzfonds Erbe piece “Abendliche Tänze” about the subjective process of memory. That same year “The True Face” won the FAUST Prize of the Deutsche Bühnenverein in the category “Best Choreography”; it was the first time that this prize was awarded to a piece produced entirely outside the German municipal and state theater system.
In spring 2015, he created the very intimate solo “La Fille- Portrait of a Child” together with Emma Daniel, in which Christoph Winkler reflected on his relationship with his own daughter, followed by “Golden Stars on Blue” about the European comunity and its symbolism. In 2016, he produced a series of shorter pieces entitled „Studies on Postcolonialism“ questions white dominance in an art form that prides itself in its internationalism. That same year, he was once again present at the FAUST awards, when Aloalii Tapu was named „Best Dancer“ for the solo „Urban Sou Café“ . In addition, he also initiated a co-curated „The Witch Dance Project“ with Franziska Werner/Sophiensaele. In 2017, within three months, he premiered five new pieces: an ensemble project, two new solos, his first work for younger audiences, and his first collaboration with the Cantus Domus Chor. For CTM 2018, he will present the wide-ranging project „The Complete Expressionist“, a tribute in music and dance to the multifaceted pioneer and pedagogue Ernest Berk.
In the last years he has performed with great success some musically inspired productions such as “Julius Eastman – Speak Boldly” or “We Are Going To Mars”.
In 2020 Christoph Winkler was awarded one of the Tabori and in 2022 he received the Deutschen Tanzpreis.
In May 2022 he received the German Dance Award, the highest award for dance professionals in Germany.
Rechtsradikal
Artistic direction / Conception : Christoph Winkler
Choreography : Christoph Winkler
Interpretation : Mercedes Appugliese, Emma Daniel, Shiran Eliaserov, Claire Vivianne Sobottke
Costumes : Lisa Kentner, Sina Schröppel
Technical direction : André Schulz
Production / Coproduction of the choreographic work : Christoph Winkler, ehrliche arbeit – freies Kulturbüro, LOFFT – DAS THEATER, Heinrich-Böll Stiftung, SOPHIENSÆLE, Hauptstadtkulturfonds and the City of Leipzig, Cultural Adminstration, Phase 7
Production / Coproduction of the video work : 3SAT - Kulturzeit
Yield Variations on dissuasive urban furniture
Noé Soulier Rethinking our movements
CHRISTIAN & FRANÇOIS BEN AÏM – VITAL MOMENTUM
40 years of dance and music
[1930-1960]: Neoclassicism in Europe and the United States, entirely in tune with the times
The “Nouvelle Danse Française” of the 1980s
In France, at the beginning of the 1980s, a generation of young people took possession of the dancing body to sketch out their unique take on the world.
When reality breaks in
Butoh
On 24th May 1959, Tatsumi Hijikata portrayed the character of the "Man" in the first presentation of a play called Kinjiki (Forbidden Colours).
The Ankoku Butoh was born,
States of the body
Explanation of the term « State of the body » when it’s about dance.
Dance in Quebec: Untamed Bodies
First part of the Parcours about dance in Quebec, these extracts present how bodies are being used in a very physical way.
Dancing bodies
Focus on the variety of bodies offered by contemporary dance and how to show these bodies: from complete nudity to the body completely hidden or covered.
The American origins of modern dance: [1930-1950] from the expressive to the abstract
La part des femmes, une traversée numérique
Charles Picq, dance director
A Rite of Passage
Black Dance
Why do I dance ?
Mexican Video Dance
Outdoor dances
Stage theater and studio are not the only places of work or performance of a choreographic piece. Sometimes dancers and choreographers dance outside.