Workshops | Hilde Holger – Central European Expressionist Dancer

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A series of practical creative workshops given by students of Hilde Holger (1905-2001)

ROYSTON MALDOOM, OBE		all young people from the ages of 10 onwards
WOLFGANG STANGE, AMICI		all people with and without disabilities
CARL CAMPBELL		contemporary Caribbean dance for everyone. ages 14 -50
THOMAS KAMPE		a dancer’s mix with Feldenkrais
JACQUELINE WALTZ		seniors to increase mobility and shake the blues
PRIMAVERA BOMAN		Alignment Therapy for all, from the ages of 18 to 78

At the end of October 2010, as part of Hilde Holger’s Centenary Project, six of her dance students taught two inclusive weekend workshops, each targeting the various aspects of her legacy. Teachers and therapeutic professionals were also invited to participate or watch any of the workshops. The series, supported by Camden City Council, took place at the InterChange Studios, and culminated in a Forum Discussion entitled ‘The lost link Hilde Holger.’

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Hilde Holger (1905–2001), was an avantgarde expressionist Viennese dancer who quickly made waves in the Secession and Hagenbund, as well as across Europe dancing in Gertrud Bodenwieser’s company and her own. Teaching fascinated her unusually early, at the height of her solo career. Forced into exile in 1939, she lived in India, finally resettling ten years later in England. With her ever broadening life experiences, she broke yet another boundary when, due to her son having severe learning disabilities, she pioneered Inclusivity, with similar boys and a professional dancer at Sadlers Wells in 1967/8.

ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES:

Royston Maldoom OBE

Founder Director of Dance United, Royston Maldoom studied with Hilde Holger in the nineteen sixties. Maldoom’s creative work, inspired by Holger’s belief that all people should be given the opportunity to express themselves, has since taken him to a range of diverse and marginalized communities throughout the globe. Maldoom is recognized internationally for his inspirational creative work with struggling communities such as in Northern Ireland, South Africa, the Balkans and Eastern Europe. In Lima over the last 30 years, he is also renowned for his work with the San Marcos Ballet and the National Ballet.
Holger’s ideals, formed by the era of the 1960’s, of transcending barriers of language, race and gender, with the po-tential to bridge the gap of differing economic, social, religious and cultural backgrounds, is mirrored in Maldoom’s own belief that, through dance it is possible for people to connect both to their inner selves and to others.
Film documentaries such as Rhythm is It! and Overture 2012: Power and Passion, show Royston Maldoom working with over two hundred untrained teenagers for dance performances with the Berlin Philharmonic and the London Symphony Orchestra. One sees a tremendous increase in these young peoples’ confidence, focus and motivation as these large-scale events unfold.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royston_Maldoom
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-717137015521779972&ei=UDNwS-K3M9bB-Abbh_nVBg&q=royston+Maldoom&client=safari#
http://www.royston-maldoom.com/start/intro

Wolfgang Stange

WOLFGANG-Stange

Artistic Director of the AMICI Dance Theatre Company,Wolfgang Stange first became Holger’s student in 1969. AMICI is the first integrated disabled dance theatre company in the UK. Since the establishment of the Amici, Stange has also developed a similar dance company in Japan, and in Sri Lanka he has a company comprising mainly of amputees, which he has brought to the Lyric, Hammersmith, London, to perform. Over several decades, inces-santly teaching workshops around the world, and in keeping with Holger’s beliefs, Stange has staunchly upheld his pioneering vision that disabled or not, everyone must be granted the opportunity to share and acknowledge each other.
In 1996 at the Riverside Theatre, Wolfgang Stange created and staged Hilde, a full length dance work performed by the AMICI, and dedicated to the life and work of his mentor, and teacher Hilde Holger. Two years later, the AMICI performed this again at the Odeon Theatre in Vienna. —The ballet master of the Opera Ballet there, inspired by these performances, later successfully produced on the stage of the Viennese State Opera House, performers having similar learning disabilities.

http://www.londondance.com/content.asp?CategoryID=914
http://www.amicidance.org/
https://vimeo.com/41429929

Carl Campbell ACP Soc.

Carl-Campbell

Carl Campbell, Jamaican born, from the District of Epsom, began his career as an actor and dancer in the West End, in productions such as the musical “Hair”, “Black Mikado”, “Jesus Christ Superstar”, “West Side Story”, “Joseph” and plays such as “The Emperor Jones”. As a dancer, Carl has worked with members of the Royal Ballet, Festival Ballet, Central School of Ballet, London Contemporary Dance School, and the Laban Centre. Disillusioned with the lack of opportunities for black dancers and actors he formed the Carl Campbell Dance Company 7 in 1978. The Company’s work and profile led to recognition of the only contemporary Caribbean Dance Theatre company in the UK. CCDC7 works with children, adults and young people. He also formed the Recycled Teenagers, an older peo-ple’s dance program both in the UK and Jamaica. Having studied with Holger in the sixties, in Carl’s work, one can recognize the roots formed by the Central European Expressionist dance as well as various other cross-cultural in-fluences. Carl’s first performance with Hilde was a joint choreographic work entitled “Towards the Light”, with young people with disabilities, and was staged at Sadlers Wells Theatre, London.

http://www.ccdc7.co.uk/carl-CV-ccdc7.htm

Thomas Kampe

THOMAS-KAMPE

Thomas Kampe studied and performed with Hilde Holger from the 1980’s until her death in 2001. Kampe is an ex-pert on the Central European Tradition within dance, both in terms of choreographic artistry, and in the historical developments of movement/awareness body techniques. Kampe has regularly taught at various universities includ-ing University of Chichester, London Metropolitan University, Limerick University in Ireland, Central School of Dance and Drama, and has put on countless performances internationally. Kampe’s most monumental work to date is a site-specific choreography with a cast of 150 performers staged in St. Pauli Stadium in Hamburg, Germany, in 2003.

http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/depts/hal/staff/thomas-kampe.cfm
http://contactimprovisation.co.uk/teacher_6.htm
http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/thefacility/researchers/kampe.cfm

Jacqueline Waltz

JackieWALTZ

Jacqueline Waltz is a registered Dance Movement Therapist. She promotes the use of creative expressive dance movement therapy with older adults and those with special needs, using the Holger Method, which she has been organizing into a codified teaching system since Holger’s death. Waltz has also danced with the Isadora Duncan Heritage Group in New York and was a founding member of Tanz Theatre Wien, Vienna Austria 1981 -1983.

http://www.movementforlife.vpweb.co.uk

Primavera Boman

Primavera Boman studied dance with Holger, then sculpture with Sir Anthony Caro at St Martins, and film at Lon-don School of Film Technique. Winner of a Martha Graham Scholarship to New York, National Diploma Fine Art and Design, with honors at St Martin’s School of Art, London, Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship to New York, Bronze Medal in International Film & Television Festival of New York, and Ludwig Vogelstein Award. Boman produced an important Dance-Sculpture series at the Mermaid Theatre and later in New York, continued to produce multi media events as the Ballet and Alignment Instructor at Theatre Dance, and Alvin Ailey American Dance Centre. Boman was a Post Graduate teacher at New York University in Related Arts, and Dance Instructor to the Fine Arts Workshop, Carnegie Hall. Alignment Therapy Workshops have been delivered by Boman in the States, Europe and UK since 1969. Workshops in London were taught at The Place.

http://www.alignmenttherapy.net/

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