Stilles Ich | © Mirco Dalchow
Todsünden | © Mirco Dalchow
You're all I need | © Mirco Dalchow
Stilles Ich | © Mirco Dalchow
Todsünden | © Mirco Dalchow
You're all I need | © Mirco Dalchow
Tanzcompagnie Volkstheater Rostock is the smallest division of Rostock theater with eight dancers, currently from five nations. Each season, the ensemble develops two dance productions with the choreographer Katja Taranu as well as with various guest choreographers and is also involved in interdisciplinary productions. Due to a lot of innovation, openness and great initiative, the dancers are able to meet the wide range of artistic requirements. In the mainly modern and contemporary oriented works, not only the technical skills but also great performing skills of the dancers are required. The topics of their productions are always up to date. It is important for the ensemble to be close to the audience, to feel in dance what moves the people and the world. The range of repertory ranges from world premieres of contemporary material to productions for children and experimental presentations. The members of Tanzcompagnie traditionally arrange workshops and projects that contribute a lot to dance education for children and young people. They increase their regional presence by participating in major cultural projects in the Hanseatic City of Rostock. The dance company knows about its fan community, but is aware that acceptance from the audience has to be gathered again and again with versatile works.
Artistic direction: Katja Taranu
Assistent and guidance of training: Natalie Shults, Daniele Varallo
Dancers: Alan González Bravo, Tim Grambow, Anna Jirmanova, Miriam Kaya, Linda Kuhn, Hung-Wen
Mischnick, Katharina Platz, Antonio Spatuzzi, Flurin Stocker
On the company’s history
Volkstheater Rostock is the municipal theater of the Hanseatic and university city of Rostock. Ballet and dance have been part traditionally since it was founded in 1895.
In 2009, the Volkstheater made a consistent change from classical ballet to modern dance theater with a contemporary style of movement and its own aesthetics. The dance company was founded as Bronislav Roznos Dance Theater in 2009 with ten dancers and Roznos as main choreographer. Difficult cultural- political times caused Roznos to leave the Hanseatic city. Since 2013 Katja Taranu has been the artistic director of the dance devision. Through the conceptual improvement of the ensemble, she also delivers new impulses of the contemporary dance scene to the audience and points out the diversity of this genre.
Katja Taranu
Katja Taranu studied dance in Leipzig, her first employment lead her to Zwickau. During her 15 years of work there she moved up from soloist dancer to artistic assistant of Bronislav Rosznos. In her times as assistant she also involved herself with great choreographic input for many music- and dramaproductions. Taranu opened her first season in Rostock in 2013 with the premiere of Lorca's tragedy "Bernarda Alba's house”, accompanied by the North German Philharmonic Orchestra. Since that time, full-length world premieres and smaller works have been part of her work. Interdisciplinary collaborations are just as important to Katja Taranu as pure dance productions to make dance more visible. In 2016 Handel's "Messiah" premiered under her direction.
Productions from the 2021/2022 season
Life Letters 3
Choreography: Dancers of the Tanzcompagnie
7 dancers
Stage 8 x 10m, 90 min
Saturn Return / The Great Migration
Choreography: Lester René González Álvarez (Saturn Return), Blenard Azizaj (The Great Migration)
Composition: Johann Pätzold (Saturn Return), Diego Noguera Berger (The Great Migration)
8 dancers
Stage 9 x 12m, 140 min.
Productions from the 2020/2021 season
Life Letters 2 – Video and Dance - mobile production
Portraits, stories of migrant women
Choreografie: Dancers of the Tanzcompagnie
6 dancers
Stage: 8 x 10m, 90 min
Productions from the 2019/2020 season
Der Garten der Lüste // nach Hieronymus Bosch
Choreography: Hung-Wen Mischnick, Katja Taranu
Music: works by Henryk Gorecki, new compositions by Jan Paul Werge
8 dancers, + 5 members of the "Freigeister" artist colletive
Stage 9 x 12m, 140 min.
Life Letters
Choreography: dancers of the company
8 dancers,
Stage 8 x 10m, 90 min
Productions from the 2018/2019 season
Herz.Stand.Still
Based on stories by Edgar Allan Poe
Choreography: Hung-Wen Mischnick, Anton Shults, Katja Taranu
8 dancers,
Stage 9 x 12m, 160 min.
Sturm und Drang
Choreography: dancers of the company
8 dancers,
Stage 8 x 10m, 90 min
Productions from the 2017/18 season
Premiers:
HAVE A LOOK V - To reinvent oneself (2018)
Choreography dancers from the company
8 dancers, stage 8 x 10 m, 90 min
VIER JAHRESZEITEN(2017)
Choreography Elias Lazaridis, music Antonio Vivaldi/Max Richter, David Lang and Sir John Tavener
8 dancers and 5 breakdancers, stage 9 x 12 m, 120 min.
Productions from the 2016/2017 season
Rock 'n' Rostock (2017)
Choreography: Katja Taranu,
8 dancers, stage:16 x 7 m, 90 min
DER MESSIAS (2016)
Production and choreography: Katja Taranu, music: G. F. Händel
Tanztheater with 8 dancers, singer soloist, opera choir and Norddeutschen Philharmonie Rostock, stage 9 x 12 m, 150 min
HAVE A LOOK IV (2017)
Choreography: dancers from the company8 dancers, stage 8 x 10 m, 80 min
Productions from the 2015/2016 season:
ROBIN HOOD for Kids from 5 Years (2015)
Choreography: Katja Taranu
8 dancers, stage 9 x 12 m, 60 min
HAVE A LOOK 3
BACH & BEATS (2016)
Choreography: Dancers of the company, music: Johann Sebastian Bach
8 dancers, stage 8 x 10 m, 80 min
CAFÉ COLORÉ (2016)
Choreography: Katja Taranu
8 dancers, + Citizen participation, stage 9 x 12 m, 60 min
Productions of the 2014/2015 season
LE SACRE DU PRINTEMPS (2015)
Choreography: Katja Taranu, music: Igor Strawinsky
8 dancers, Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock, stage 9 x 10 m, 40 min
Osternacht (2015)
annual performance with the Tanzcompagnie and the Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock (Holy Saturday in the St.- Nikolai- Kirche)
(No) Satisfaction Rock und Rebellion am DDR-Meer (2015)
Choreogaphy: Katja Taranu, Johannes Härtl
8 dancers, stage 9 x 12 m, 90 min
SCHWARZ // WEISS // SCHWAN (2015)
Choreography: Katja Taranu
8 dancers, stage 9 x 12 m, 90 min
Have a look II (2014)
Choreography: dancers of the Tanzcompagnie
8 dancers, stage 8 x 10 m, 75 min
Private Rooms (2014)
Choreography: Johannes Härtl, music: Jan Paul Werge
8 dancers, stage 12 x 6 m, 70 min
Productions of the 2013/2014 season
Bernarda Albas Haus (2014)
Choreography: Katja Taranu
11 dancers, stage 9 x 12 m, 115 min
Osternacht (2014)
annual performance with the Tanzcompagnie and the Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock (Holy Saturday in the St.- Nikolai- Kirche)
Private Rooms (2014)
Choreography: Johannes Härtl, music: Jan Paul Werge
8 dancers, stage 12 x 6 m, 70 min
Schneewittchen und die sieben Zwerge (2013)
Choreography: Bronislav Roznos
10 dancers, stage 9 x 12 m, 75 min
Mensch werden
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Saturn Return /
The Great Migration
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Life Letters 3
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