CARLOS CORTIZO

Dunas

Carlos Cortizo Choreographer/Videomaker worked at Statetheater Nuremberg and with Jean Renshaw, William Forsythe and Rui Horta, at Opera Wuppertal, Theater of Augsburg and Kaiserslautern. In Brasil he worked at the operas in Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, Curitiba and with the choreographer Maurice Béjart. He practiced his teaching and choreographing work in Brasil, Austria, Switzerland and Germany. Since 1998 the in Nurenberg living free choreographer creates under the name "Carlos Cortizo Tanzprojekt" dance works with multimedial elements. He was choreographer at the State Theater Kiel, at the City Theaters Hildesheim and Gießen and at the City Theater Fürth/Kulturforum. The videoproductions of his choreographies "Ansichtssache" (point of view) and "Fließend - wie Wasser" (flow like water) were accepted at the archives of the Jiri Kylian Foundation in Prague and at the Deutsches Tanzarchiv in Cologne. He is the winner of the award "Kulturpreis der Stadt Nürnberg" of 2006, Artistic Director of the Duettbiennalle in 2009.

Dunas

Two people melt with the sand matter and contrasting colours of the dunes. A netting, meshwork of connection and release, rest and movement exists, is woven out of dance scenes and happening, a natural freedom of movement.

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