2024: Pre-Professionals Summer Academy
The upcoming Pre-Professionals Summer Academy, is aimed at students from professional dance schools in Switzerland and abroad, who are in the final stages of their dance education. This programme has been carefully designed to support and facilitate the transition from the academic dance environment to the reality of the professional world.
Over the course of five weeks, the students will gain an intensive and valuable experience by learning three different choreographic languages in a short period of time. Renowned choreographers as Marco Goecke, Maša Kolar and Filipe Portugal have been recruited to work on pieces with the students under the same conditions as in a professional company. In addition to the training and rehearsals at the Residenzzentrum tanz+, nutritional counselling and workshops are offered in the guest house in order to provide the dancers with the best possible support, including with regard to their health.
«Mind the Gap» Edition I
- Premiere – Kurtheater Baden – Friday, 23 August 2024, 7:30 p.m. – Presale Baden
- Stadttheater Langenthal – Saturday, 24 August 2024, 7:30 p.m. – Presale Langenthal
- Theater Chur – Sunday, 25 August 2024, 5 p.m.
Highlight: A dance prize will be awarded at the premiere.
The application process is already underway and the selection will be announced shortly.
Support from well-known personalities
Tanz und Kunst Königsfelden is delighted to have the renowned patronage of:
- Doris Leuthard, Former Federal Council
- Jason Beechey, Head of Dance at University of Arts ZHdK
- Kathleen McNurney, President of Danse Suisse, the Swiss Association for Dance, Artistic Director of 'Tanz Luzerner Theater' (2009-2021), winner of the Art and Culture Prize of the City of Lucerne 2022
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For further information please send us an email: conctact_at_tanzundkunst.ch
Salomé Martins
Projektleiterin
Salomé Martins ist in Setúbal/Portugal geboren, wo sie ihre professionelle Tanzausbildung an der Contemporary Dance Academy begann und abschloss. Nach ihrem ersten professionellen Engagement in Portugal folgte eine internationale Karriere an verschiedenen Theatern und Compagnien in Deutschland, Frankreich und der Schweiz, wie dem Balletttheater München (DE), dem Ballet National de Marseille (FR) und dem Tanz Luzerner Theater (CH), wo sie sieben Spielzeiten lang als Solotänzerin unter der künstlerischen Leitung von Kathleen McNurney tätig war und 2017 ihre Bühnenkarriere beendete. 2022 erlangte Salomé einen Master in Teaching and Coaching Dance Professionals der Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, wo sie neben anderen Institutionen als Gastdozentin für den Bachelor-Studiengang BA Contemporary Dance unterrichtet.
Seit 2023 ist Salomé Martins Koordinatorin des Rezidenzzentrum tanz+ in Baden in der Trägerschaft des Vereins Tanz & Kunst Königsfelden.
Filipe Portugal
Artistic Director
Filipe Portugal was born in Lisbon, Portugal 1978 and began his dance studies at the National Conservatory in Lisbon with Georges Garcia as his main mentor. After his graduation he was invited by the director Jorge Salavisa to join the National Ballet of Portugal, starting his career as a professional dancer. Six years later he joins the Ballet Zürich under the direction of Heinz Spoerli, where he becomes a principal dancer.
Between these two companies he had the opportunity to dance pieces by choreographers such as George Ballanchine, John Cranko, Patrice Bart, Jiri Kylian, Matz Ek, William Forsythe, Hans Van Manen, Nacho Duato, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Marco Goecke, Crystal Pite, Edward Clug, Douglas Lee, Martin Schläpfer, Nils Christie, Heinz Spoerli, Christian Spuck, Vasco Wellenkamp, Rui Lopes Graça and others.
He made his choreographic debut in Portugal for a choreographic workshop with the piece ‘Anfractus’, which was the one chosen to be part of the Company's repertoire. Later, already in Zurich, he began creating pieces for the Ballet Zürich and the Junior Ballet under the direction of Heinz Spoerli and later Christian Spuck.
Filipe Portugal has been Artistic Director of Tanz und Kunst Königsfelden since January.
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