With: Harald Baluch, Susanne Kirnbauer-Bundy, Doris Uhlich
Dramaturgy: Andrea Salzmann
Choreography: Doris Uhlich
Lighting: Andrea Korosec
Sound: Stefan Geissler
Production, Tourmanagement: Nicole Schuchardt

A coproduction by Doris Uhlich and brut Wien. Supported by Kulturabteilung der Stadt Wien and Bundesministerium für Unterricht, Kunst und Kultur.

Duration: ca 60 min

Classical ballet is a form of art determined by hierarchy, rules, and strict patterns of movement. What would happen if you were to destroy these pillars? When an aged former prim ballerina dances, a pas de deux turns into a solo, and movements become deconstructed.

In “SPITZE” Doris Uhlich challenges the conflicts of body images, the illusions of ballet, and the people behind it.

 

Doris Uhlich was born in Upper Austriain 1977. She studied educational science of modern dance in Vienna and taught at the Tanzwerkstatt Wien, at the Impulstanz and as a guest lecturer at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. Since 2002, she has worked on projects with the theatercombinat Wien; since 2006, she has created her own choreographies, such as “und,” “Loggia”, “Johannen” and “Uhlich”. In the process, she has often worked with older amateur actors and their real biographies. Stipends and artist-in-residence positions followed. In 2008, Doris Uhlich was selected by the critic’s survey of “ballettanz” as the “notable young choreographer”. With “Spitze”, created for brut in Viennain 2008, she was invited to Salzburg, Lyon, Frankfurt/Main and Marseilles, to name a few.