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The artistic journey begins at the Festspielhaus Hellerau and leads through the garden city to the Hellerauworkshops. It builds a bridge between knowledge transfer and artistic and sensual exploration through dance, music and words. The visions of Émile Jaques-Dalcroze of understanding rhythm as a life-determining principle and experiencing it in physical-rhythmic movement play just as much a role as the reform pedagogical, holistic concepts of life that shaped the philosophy of the Gesamtkunstwerk Hellerau around 100 years ago. The dancer Katja Erfurth, the singer Julia Böhme and the violinist Florian Mayer allow the past to be experienced and to enter into a relationship with the present.
Biography
Photo: Volker Metzler
Katja Erfurth trained at the Palucca School in Dresden and danced in the ballet ensemble of the Saxon State Opera. She has been working as a freelance dancer and choreographer since 1997 with over 30 solo productions, including "WANDELN" (HELLERAU) and "Aber ich höre nicht auf ..." (Societaetstheater). in 2015, she was nominated for the Saxon Dance Award, and in 2020 she received the Art Award of the State Capital of Dresden. She choreographs for theatre productions, leads dance projects with pupils and has taught at the Dresden University of Music since 2006. She is also Chair of the Board of the "Villa Wigman für Tanz", a member of both Academies of Arts and Vice President of the Saxon Cultural Senate.
Cast & Credits
| Choreography and dance | Katja Erfurth |
| Vocals | julia Böhme |
| Violin | Florian Mayer |
| Artistic assistance | Nicole Meier |
| Music | Claudio Monteverdi, Helmut Oehring, Florian Mayer and others. |
| Artistic consultation | Helmut Oehring |
| Co-production | HELLERAU - European Centre for the Arts Dresden |
Funding
Supported by the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony, the City of Dresden - Office for Culture and Monument Protection and the Dresden Art & Culture Foundation of the Ostsächsische Sparkasse Dresden.
