Nicole Beutler
Nicole Beutler è coreografa, regista, performer e curatrice. Nata a Monaco, vive e lavora ad Amsterdam dal 1993. Ha studiato arte alle Arts Academies di Münster e München, Letteratura Tedesca all'Università di Münster, e Danza e Coreografia alla SNDO Theaterschool di Amsterdam. E' co-fondatrice di LISA, piattaforma per produttori teatrali. Il suo lavoro si colloca tra danza, performance e arti visive, e si focalizza sull'articolazione del senso e dell'esperienza in progetti performativi, installativi ed editoriali. Le sue performance hanno un andamento musicale e sono soffuse di un sottile humor. Si caratterizzano per un apparato scenico minimo e un'attenzione al performer come persona. In tutti i suoi lavori prende in esame la funzione della danza nel contesto della performance e del teatro. Le sue produzioni per la scena includono: 5:Echo, 4:Still Life, Antigone, 3: The Garden, 2: Dialogue with Lucinda, 1:Songs, Lost is my quiet forever, Les Sylphides, Enter Ghost, The Sensation is Real, the exact position of things (2005), several species of small furry animals… e Sonntag. Nicole Beutler ha fatto parte del team curatoriale della rassegna di incontri-conferenze The Old Brand New. Ha collaborato con la performer e coreografa Paz Rojo, col regista David Weber-Krebs, e col live-art-group Private Thoughts in Public Places. Tra le altre collaborazioni: Hooman Sharifi, Edit Kaldor e Jérôme Bel. E' stata curatrice per la danza e la performance al Teatro Frascati di Amsterdam, è stata consulente artistica per colleghi coreografi, e insegna alla School for New Dance Development e al Mimeschool/Theatre School ad Amsterdam.
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Nicole Beutler, born in Munich, lives and works in Amsterdam as choreographer and theatremaker. After studies of Fine Arts at Münster and München Arts Academies and of German Literature at the University of Münster, she studied Dance and Choreography at the SNDO at the Theaterschool, AHK in Amsterdam. Her work is situated on the threshold of dance, performance and visual arts. She works from the conviction that all fixed categorizations should be destabilized. She refers in her contemporary work often also to the history of dance and theatre. She engages in works with amateurs and professionals, old and young. Her performances are composed with a high sense for musicality, and suffused with subtle humor. Her latest works include 5:Echo, 4:Still Life, Shirokuro, Antigone, 3:The Garden, 2:Dialogue With Lucinda, 1:Songs, Diamond Dancers. After being a member of the collective of theatremakers LISA for five years, she set up her own organization NBprojects in 2009. Her company is a regular player at Frascati Theater in Amsterdam, tours in the Netherlands and abroad (a.o. Spain, Austria, Germany, Great Britain, Belgium, USA, Switzerland, Norway, Italy, Romania). Nicole continuously engages and initiates projects that enable reflection and encounter. With that ambition she co-curates various events: the yearly event We Live Here: An Academy, Back To Nature, in 2014 Come Together: Beauty, Bauhaus & The Beast, in 2011 Gardening #1. She co-curated the lecture series The Old Brand New in collaboration with a team of curators from the visual arts field. As Dance and Performance curator at Frascati Theatre (2008 till 2010), she signed for the programming of the Something Raw Festival for innovative dance and performance-makers (2009 and 2010).Nicole has been a permanent cast member of The Show Must Go On by Jérôme Bel since 1999. She is a regular guest teacher at the School for New Dance Development, the department for Modern Theaterdance and the Mimeschool, AHK.
