Vivienne Newport


Vivienne Newport was an English dancer, choreographer and director of the Theater am Turm. She founded the "Vivienne Newport company" in October 1981 in Frankfurt.

Life

Newporta was born in Bristol. After studying dance in London, Newport received her further dance training at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen. There, the dancer, choreographer and dance teacher Kurt Jooss had established master classes in 1961, which later became the "Folkwang Ballet". In 1969, Pina Bausch succeeded Kurt Jooss as artistic director. At the beginning of the 1973/74 season, she took over the direction of the ballet of the Wuppertaler Bühnen. In 1973, Newport belonged to the first generation of dancers of the newly founded Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch alongside Malou Airaudo,, Dominique Mercy, Tjitske Broersma and Gabriel Sala. The first piece had its premiere on 5 January 1974: Fritz, a dance evening by Pina Bausch with music by Gustav Mahler and Wolfgang Hufschmidt, coupled with "The Green Table" by Kurt Jooss and "Rodeo" by Agnes de Mille.
Newport died in Berlin at the age of 63. Her grave is located at the in Berlin.

Work

Dancer in pieces by Pina Bausch

  • 1973: Fritz
  • 1974: Ich bring dich um die Ecke
  • 1974: Adagio
  • 1975: Orpheus und Eurydike
  • 1975: Frühlingsopfer
  • 1976: Die sieben Todsünden
  • 1977: Blaubart
  • 1977: Komm tanz mit mir
  • 1977: Renate wandert aus
  • 1978: Er nimmt sie an der Hand und führt sie in das Schloß, die anderen folgen
  • 1978: Kontakthof
  • 1978: Arien
  • 1980: 1980
  • 1981: ''Bandoneon''

Choreographies

  • 1982: Mist
  • 1982: Behind the Barn, an Ox Overeats.
  • 1982: Trigger
Premiere Theater am Turm Frankfurt on 28 October 1982 with Uwe Wenzel,, Finola Cronin, Coral Lebleboojian, Florence Bonnefont and Lothar Kompenhans.
Premiered as a dance theatre piece as part of the Beckett project of the Theater am Turm Frankfurt on 10 December 1982 with Coral Lebleboojian, Finola Cronin, Jürgen Noll and Gerhart Hinze.
Premiere Theater am Turm Frankfurt on 2 November 1984 with Florence Bonnefont, Armin Hauser, Coral Lebleboojian, Elfriede Müller, Jürgen Noll, Berna Uythof and Uwe Wenzel. Film: Rüdiger Geissler.
  • 1985: Scheiszegal
Premiere Theater am Turm Frankfurt on 10 January 1985 with Florence Bonnefont, Finola Cronin, Berna Uythof, Coral Lebleboojian and Uwe Wenzel. With six songs devised for the piece, written, composed by Chris Newman. On the piano: Stefan Schädler.
  • 1987: Elbestraße 17
Premiere Gallus Theater Frankfurt on 3 March 1987 Solo dance performance by Vivienne Newport.
  • 1987: Savannah
Premiere Gallus Theater Frankfurt on 1 October 1987 with Florence Bonnefont, Armin Hauser, Andreas Kühl, Elfriede Müller and Berna Uythof.
  • 1988: Beggars Folies and Savannah Beggar`s Follies premiered in Munich's Cafe Giesing in Dec. 1988.Co-producer was the Munich gallery owner Rüdiger Schöttle.Film: Rüdiger Geissler
  • 1992: Tooth for Tooth
  • 1995: Hemlock
  • 1997: Deep See Fishing
  • 1998: Distance
  • 2000: Not/Night/Not
  • 2000: Cabaret Physique
  • 2002: n Blick in der Stadt
  • 2003: Totentanz
  • 2005: Sehnsucht will träumen
premièred at the Staatstheater Kassel on 12 March 2005.
  • 2005: The hour when we knew nothing of each other. By Peter Handke. Production at the Staatstheater Kassel