da I sein – STADT.GESCHICHTE. TANZ. – Episode III
Katja Erfurth
The artistic journey begins at the Festspielhaus Hellerau and leads through the garden city to the Hellerau Werkstätten. It imparts knowledge and explores dance, music and words in an artistic and sensual way. Émile Jaques-Dalcroze’s vision of understanding rhythm as a life-determining principle and experiencing it in physical-rhythmic movement plays 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 make it possible to experience the past and relate it to the present.
Duration: ca. 2 h
Language: German
Katja Erfurth received her dance training at the Palucca School in Dresden. This was followed by an engagement in the ballet ensemble of the Saxon State Opera in Dresden, which she ended in 1997 in order to work as a freelance dancer and choreographer. Since then, she has created more than 30 solo dance productions. She was nominated for the Saxon Dance Award 2015 for the solo dance evening “Dances in BLACK and WHITE – Dedicated to the expressive dancer Dore Hoyer”. Her most recent productions were “KASSANDRA I Zunge: reißen” in cooperation with HELLERAU – European Center for the Arts and “… da I sein … I STADT.GESCHICHTE.TANZ. in cooperation with the Societaetstheater. She also choreographs for numerous music and spoken theater productions, as well as various school dance projects. She has been a lecturer in movement/dance/improvisation at the Dresden University of Music since 2006. In the past, she has created the choreographies for numerous university productions under the direction of Andreas Baumann. She is chairwoman of the board of the “Villa Wigman für TANZ” association and, together with Julia Amme, Thomas Dumke and Johanna Roggan, is a member of the VILLA WIGMAN management team. She is also a member of the Saxon Academy of Arts and Vice President of the Saxon Cultural Senate. Katja Erfurth received the Art Prize of the City of Dresden in 2020.
