Crossover-55-2 » teacher http://crossover-55-2.eu internationally mixed Thu, 03 Apr 2014 14:23:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 Hardt, Yvonne http://crossover-55-2.eu/hardt-yvonne/ http://crossover-55-2.eu/hardt-yvonne/#comments Mon, 28 Nov 2011 13:46:39 +0000 http://crossover-55-2.eu/?p=777 Yvonne Hardt is a dancer, choreographer and dance scholar. She is professor of Applied Dance Studies and Choreography at the University of Music and Dance Cologne.  Besides her initial contemporary dance formation, she studied theatre studies and history in her hometown Berlin and Montreal, Canada.
After graduating with an MA in history at Concordia University, Montreal, she wrote her dissertation on the political dimensions of German Ausdruckstanz. She was a faculty member of the Theatre Studies department of the FU, and for the academic year 2008/9 she was Assistant Professor for Dance, Choreography and Dance Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
Her special fields of interests are: development of dance studies on methodological grounds with a special focus on theories of the body and gender, relations between performance and politics, dance history, post-colonial studies, the relationship between choreography and media. Next to her academic career Yvonne Hardt has pursued a successful career as a dancer and choreographer, continuously developing her own choreographic projects.
Her publications include: Politische Körper: Ausdruckstanz, Choreografien des Protests und die Arbeiterkulturbewegung in der Weimarer Republik (Münster: Lit 2004); Sasha Waltz. Interviste sulla coreografia contemporenea. Torino: L’Epos 2006, zusammen mit Martin Stern ist sie Herausgeberinnen von: Choreographie und Institution. Zeitgenössischer Tanz zwischen Ästhetik, Produktion und Vermittlung (Bielefeld: transcript 2011).

]]> http://crossover-55-2.eu/hardt-yvonne/feed/ 0 Imada, Kojiro http://crossover-55-2.eu/kojiro-imada/ http://crossover-55-2.eu/kojiro-imada/#comments Fri, 11 Nov 2011 09:40:11 +0000 http://crossover-55-2.eu/?p=601 Teacher, dancer, choreographer, GYROTONIC®  certified Trainer and Pre-trainer, and GYROKINESIS® certified trainer and pre-trainer.

Born in Tokyo and trained in Tokyo and London. After working as a classic ballet dancer at the Performing Arts Council Transvaal (PACT) Ballet in Pretoria, South Africa (92-97), he moved to Germany to work as a contemporary dancer at Ballett Schindowski (Schillertheater NRW, Gelsenkirchen-Wuppertal, 1998-2000), Tanzcompagnie Gießen (Stadttheater Gießen, 2000-2002) and Tanztheater Osnabrück (Staedtische Bühnen Osnabrück, 2002-2005). From 2005, he continued his career as freelance dancer, teacher and choreographer based in Berlin, Germany. From April 2010 till August 2011, he returned to Tokyo to take a position as a faculty in the dance major at Japan Women’s Collage for Physical Education. Since September 2011, Kojiro is faculty at Cologne University of Music and Dance (Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln) in Germany.

Throughout the years, he developed his own style as teacher/choreographer. He has been teaching contemporary dance as well as ballet classes at dance companies in Osnabrück, Bielefeld, Oldenburg, Kassel among others His choreographic works include Kokoro  (2002), Coppelia – A girl with CCD eyes –  (2004), Guten Morgen Tokio (2005), A Cat in a Box (2008), Zeitsprung – Blick Zueruck (co-working with S. Wiersma, 2010), The Other Side of Picture frame (2011) and others.

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