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  • Comment: Recommend removing the lists of plays and films and publishing this draft as a biography only. (All the plays and films in the lists must be referenced to remain in this article). MurielMary (talk) 06:36, 22 December 2019 (UTC)
  • Comment: tone is still inappropriate for an encyclopedia. Theroadislong (talk) 09:23, 24 September 2019 (UTC)
  • Comment: This is written saying what she would want to say about herself, the way people write web pages and other promotional material ; An encyclopedia however is intended for the general public saying what they might reasonably want to know.
    Thisdoes not include her own value judgments upon her own work. Such things need to be quoted from references providing substantial coverage from third-party independent reliable sources, not press releases or announcements
    Start by removing adjectives, and also section 2.6 ,unless there is good 3rd party documentation that her efforts are important. DGG ( talk ) 20:31, 23 September 2019 (UTC)
Editta Braun (2008)

Editta Braun (born 25 May 1958) is an Austrian choreographer, stage dancer, dance pedagogue as well as founder and director of the Salzburg dance company editta braun company.[1]. She is known as a pioneer of contemporary dance in Salzburg and Austria[2][3][4] and chairwoman of tanz_house[5], the association of freelance choreographers based in Salzburg.[6]


Early life

Braun was born in Vöcklabruck in the Upper Austrian Salzkammergut.[7] As a child, she learned classical ballet and piano[7][8] and trained intensively in gymnastics; she was Upper Austrian state champion in 1974.[9]

From 1976 to 1982, she studied sports science and German language and literature at the University of Salzburg.[7] When she encountered the work 1980 of Pina Bausch at a performance in Vienna in 1982 she became interested in contemporary dance[10]

In 1983, she began her dance training in Paris and New York.[7][11] She was also influenced by acting lessons in method acting with Walter Lott and by a dance project with Wim Vandekeybus initiated by SZENE Salzburg, where she learned to combine her artistic gymnastics technique with contemporary, sporty dance.[10]

Artistic career

In 1982, Braun founded the "Kollektiv Vorgänge" together with Beda Percht,[7] which won the Bagnolet Choreography Prize (ex equo with Saburo Teshigawara) with Lufus in 1986.[12]

In 1989, she founded the editta braun company in Salzburg, with which she has since produced and internationally toured at least one full-length dance piece every year.[11] Her dance pieces have won numerous awards.[13]

In the field of dance filming, Braun worked with Othmar Schmiderer, Wolfram Paulus and Hannes Klein, among others, from an early age. Her short film "Collision", directed in 1993 by Othmar Schmiderer, was awarded the bronze medal at the New York Film Festival in 1995.[14]

Braun collaborates with composers, live musicians and artists from outside Austria[8][11] such as Jean-Yves Ginoux[15] and the Egyptian director Mahmoud Aboudoma.[16] With Jean Babilée she created the dance theatre piece "La vie, c'est contagieux" in 1993/94 in Paris[17][18][19] and Salzburg.[20][21] Since 1996, she has worked with Thierry Zaboitzeff,[7][22] who is her partner.[23]

planet LUVOS, 2012

Braun's most internationally successful production is Luvos, vol.2.[24][25][26][27] The "Dauerbrenner" (Ditta Rudle 2008) was developed further from the piece Lufus in Salzburg in 2001 and establishes a series of innovative, purely female body illusion theatres, including planet LUVOS (2012), Close Up (2015), Close Up 2.0 (2017) and Fanghoumé (2019). In this series, Braun and her company conduct continuous research into the visual overcoming of bodily boundaries.[28]

Since the 1980s, Braun has combined her creative impulse with a critical one to create decidedly political artistic works.[29][8] Pieces such as Voyage à Napoli, Luvos, vol. 2, King Arthur[30][31] already made this clear in the choice of themes. In 2011, schluss mit kunst[32] with text contributions by Kurt Palm and Christian Felber, among others, questioned the meaning of artistic creation in the face of hunger, war, environmental destruction, extinction of species and growing inequality.

Braun has also been rewarded for her intercultural mode of production: she frequently develops socially committed projects with local artists, especially in Asia and Africa, and contrasts their cultural, historical, and social identities with Central European traditions.[11] The resulting pieces include India (1998 in Bangalore and Salzburg)[33][34][35], manifest (2002 in Senegal and Salzburg)[36][37] and Coppercity 1001 (2007/08 in Alexandria/Egypt and Salzburg).

Teaching

Since 1987, Editta Braun has taught acrobatic gymnastics and gymnastic dance forms at the Interdepartmental Faculty of Sports and Movement Sciences of the Paris Lodron University Salzburg and since 1997 contemporary dance, physical theatre, choreography, improvisation and professional strategies at the Institute for Dance Arts of the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz (Austria).[7][8][11]

From 1992 to 1998, she worked as a lecturer at ImPulsTanz Wien (formerly Internationale Tanzwochen Wien)[38] and from 1994 to 1997 as a commissioned choreographer for the Vienna State Opera Ballet School.[39] In 2006, she supervised the youth project "wintertime" at the Festspielhaus St. Pölten.[40]

As part of her teaching activities, Braun developed a specific improvisation technique that combines acting and contemporary dance to create "Physical Theater".

Recognition

  • 1986: Second Prize and Award for Most Innovative Choreography at the Concours Chorégraphique International de Bagnolet in Paris for Lufus for the Kollektiv Vorgänge
  • 1995: bronze medal at the New York Film Festival for Collision, director Othmar Schmiderer
  • 2001: Award for Best Direction at the Cairo International Festival for Experimental Theatre for Nebensonnen
  • 2014: Internationaler Preis für Kunst und Kultur der Stadt Salzburg[7]
  • 2017: Großer Kunstpreis des Landes Salzburg[7]

Social-critical and ecological commitment


Works

(for full-length plays with editta braun company please consider: Editta Braun Company)

plays

  • 1986: Gitter (solo, short play)
  • 1986: Passion für Zwei (duo, short play)
  • 1987: Lego (quartet, short play)
  • 1987: Diva (duo, short play)
  • 1988: Felis (trio, short play)
  • 1988: Steinhof (solo, short play)
  • 1991: Bonjour Adieu (lfull-length play for the Luxemburg Dance Company)
  • 1991: if I listen to the moment (for Luxemburg Dance Company)
  • 1994: Welcome to Salzburg (short play for Ballettschule der Wiener Staatsoper)
  • 1995: Grey Blue Sky (short play for Ballettschule der Wiener Staatsoper, 15 min.)
  • 1996: Tutu. Ça va? (rock-ballet, 10 min., short play )
  • 1997: Fahrradwerkstatt (short play for Ballettschule der Wiener Staatsoper, 9 min.)
  • 1998: Fish (short play for 12 young female dancers, 15 min.)
  • 1998: Fragile (short play for 23 young female dancers, 20 min.)
  • 1999: Dornröschen schläft (short play for Ballettschule der Wiener Staatsoper, 8 min.)
  • 2000: Prêt-à-Porter (short play for 9 young female dancers, 20 min.)
  • 2000: kalt (short play for Bruckneruni Linz, 20 min.)
  • 2001: Mozart! (quartet, 13 min., short play)
  • 2002: Zwei Sonnen (duo, 30 min., short play for HumoFestival Taschkent/Usbekistan)
  • 2003: La Boîte (livemusic & dance, 25 min., short play)
  • 2006: Eurydike revisited (commission for Welttheaterfestival Carnuntum)
  • 2010: Kellerkids (short play for Bruckneruni Linz, dance, 20 min.)
  • 2011: We are the 99 % (short play for Bruckneruni Linz, physical theater, 20 min.)
  • 2014: instant (surprise performance)

films

  • 1986: Lufus (Kurt Liwehr, ORF-Kunststücke)
  • 1986: monaxiá (Rainer Berson, Tanzfiktion)
  • 1993: Collision (Othmar Schmiderer, Tanzfiktion; Bronzemedaille beim New York Film Festival)
  • 1994: La Vie, c’est contagieux (Wolfram Paulus, docu)
  • 2003: editta braun company at Kaay Fecc Festival in Dakar (Hannes Klein, docu for ORF)
  • 2007: e.poration (Hannes Klein, short film)

Further reading

  • "Editta Braun – Die Rebellin". In: Caroline Kleibel: Bühnen-Frauen. Linz: Fram-Verlag, 2001. pp. 45–57.
  • Editta Braun: "Levitationen". In: Rudolf Habringer, Josef P. Mautner (Hrsg.): Der Kobold der Träume. Vienna: Picus, 2006, pp. 157–160.
  • Gerti Krawanja: "Die Alphafrau". In: Echo, March 2008, pp. 68ff.
  • Österreich tanzt: Geschichte und Gegenwart. Hrsg. von Andrea Amort und Mimi Wunderer-Gosch. Vienna: Böhlau, 2001.
  • Ilse Retzek: "Die Löwenbändigerin". In: tanz affiche N° 100. Vienna, June 2000.
  • Ditta Rudle: "Eine wilde Hummel". In: Echo March 2008, p. 68f.
  • Tanz Kunst Leben. 20 Jahre editta braun company. Hrsg. von Gerda Poschmann-Reichenau und gestaltet von Bettina Frenzel. Norderstedt: Book on Demand, 2009.

References

  1. ^ "Editta Braun Company". DrehPunktKultur. Retrieved 2019-09-24.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. ^ Seidenauer, Gudrun (November–December 1996). "Sinn & Sinne: Die Tänzerin und Choreographin Editta Braun". Kunstfehler.
  3. ^ Prusa, Manuela (August 1994). "Ein Leben für den Tanz". Für Sie.
  4. ^ Rudle, Ditta (March 2008). "Eine wilde Hummel". Echo.
  5. ^ "About tanz-hose". tanz_house. Retrieved 2019-09-28.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. ^ Wolf Perez, Edith (2017-10-24). "Geehrt: Editta Braun". tanz.at. Retrieved 2019-09-24.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Großer Kunstpreis des Landes für Editta Braun". Salzburger Nachrichten. Salzburg, Austria. 9 October 2017. Retrieved 19 May 2019.
  8. ^ a b c d Kulturfonds Österreich. "Internationaler Preis für Kunst und Kultur: Mag.a Editta Braun" (PDF). kulturfons.at. Retrieved 2019-09-28.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  9. ^ "Editta Braun". Vöcklabrucker Wochenspiegel. 1975-03-27.
  10. ^ a b Feusthuber, Birgit (1992-04-17). "Die neue Leichtigkeit des Tanzes". Der Standard, Wien: 10.
  11. ^ a b c d e Land Salzburg (2017-11-28). "Editta Braun: Großer Kunstpreis für Darstellende Kunst 2017" (PDF). Broschüre-KunstuKultur2017_PreiseuPreisträgeronline. Retrieved 2019-09-28.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  12. ^ Amort, Andrea, Wunderer-Gosch, Mimi (2001). Österreich tanzt. Wien: Böhlau. pp. 158f. ISBN 3-205-99226-1.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  13. ^ Habringer, Rudolf, Mautner, Josef P. (2006). Der Kobold der Träume. 2006: Picus. p. 185. ISBN 3-85452-497-8.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  14. ^ "Othmar Schmiderer". Wikipedia (de). 2006-03-26. Retrieved 2019-09-28.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  15. ^ "Artist Archive: Jean-Yves Ginoux (+2009) (FR)". ImPulsTanz Archives. Retrieved 2019-09-28.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  16. ^ "Coppercity 1001". Al Dustur, Amman. 2008-04-05.
  17. ^ Bavelier, Ariane (1994-03-16). "L'éternelle jeunesse de Babilée". Le Figaroscope.
  18. ^ Vernay, Marie-Christine (1994-03-18). "Jean Babilée, le jeune homme et la vie". Libération.
  19. ^ Dupont, Pepita (March 1994). "A 71 ans, Jean Babilée remonte sur scène". Le match de Paris.
  20. ^ Retzek, Ilse (1994-05-28). "La vie, c'est contagieux". Oberösterreichische Nachrichten.
  21. ^ Grimm-Weissert, Olga (1994-03-22). "Editta Brauns geniale Idee: Die Wildkatze als Vater". Der Standard.
  22. ^ Geszti, Stefan (Summer 2002). "Archaische & synthetische Elemente". SIMs KULTUR Linz.
  23. ^ Rothe, Christian (March 1998). "Welcome in Salzburg: Thierry Zaboitzeff". Stadt:Leben.
  24. ^ "Curtain up: Manipulate Festival". International Arts manager. May 2009.
  25. ^ Groenewold, Anke (2003-08-12). "Mit Staunen und Zittern". Neue Westfälisch.
  26. ^ "editta braun comapny: Luvos, vol.2". Haaretz, Jerusalem. 2007-05-27.
  27. ^ MB (12–18 December 2002). "Parallel universe". Cesar.
  28. ^ divers (February 2014 – February 2016). "Tag archives: editta braun". manipulatefestivalblog. Retrieved 2019-09-24.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: date format (link) CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  29. ^ "Editta Braun scheut in ihrem künstlerischen Schaffen vor deutlichen politischen Statments nicht zurück." (Barbara Klein, director of KosmosTheater Wien) - in: Kulturfonds der Stadt Salzburg, awards brochure 2014
  30. ^ "Merlin kotzt". Vienna Online. 2010-10-20. Retrieved 2019-09-24.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  31. ^ "currently resident in..." dance.lv. Retrieved 2019-09-28.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  32. ^ "Editta Braun: Schluss mit Kunst / Enough of Art". City of Women. 2013. Retrieved 2019-09-24.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  33. ^ Ajita (1998-03-13). "Choreographer tests India". Indian Express.
  34. ^ Amort, Andrea (July 1998). "Editta Brauns "India"". Tanzaffiche: 26f.
  35. ^ Kishnasami, Christina (1998-03-15). "A crash test". Deccan Herald.
  36. ^ Esser, Doris (2002-07-13). "Welten der Sehnsüchte". Salzburger Nachrichten.
  37. ^ "editta braun company: manifest". The Experimental, Cairo. September 2003.
  38. ^ "Artist Archive: Editta Braun (AT)". ImPulsTanz Archiv. Retrieved 2019-09-28.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  39. ^ "Wiener Staatsoper - Archiv". Wiener Staatsoper Archiv. Retrieved 2019-09-28.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  40. ^ "Abendprogramm Landschaft" (PDF). Archiv Niederösterreich Kultur / Festspielhaus. Retrieved 2019-09-28.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)


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