Irène Ginger gehört zu den profiliertesten Vertreterinnen des französischen Barocktanzes. Seit Jahrzehnten wirkte sie als Mitglied verschiedener Barocktanzkompanien wie Ris et Danceries, L'Éclat des Muses und L'Eventail an ungezählten Auftritten mit. Seit vielen Jahren ist sie auch in der Quellenforschung tätig, zuletzt veröffentlichte sie beim "Colloque Jean Noverre", Paris, 2010. Derzeit unterrichtet sie Barocktanz in Paris am Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique et de Danse und am Conservatoire à Rayonnement Regional. Irène wird den Hauptteil des Kurses leiten
Karin Modigh comes from Stockholm, Sweden, where she took her first baroque dance steps in her mid-teens. She quickly developed a passion for early dance that has since taken her throughout most of Europe. Today she works professionally as a dancer, choreographer and teacher of baroque and renaissance dance, both within her company Stockholm Baroque Dancers, as well as under her own name. To Karin, baroque dance is a living dance form, just as relevant and fascinating today as it was 300 years ago.
EDUCATION
Karin has a broad training background encompassing classical ballet, contemporary dance, jazz and Swedish folk dance. In early dance, she has primarily studied at the University of Dance and Circus in Stockholm, with Marie-Geneviève Massé and Françoise Denieau in Sablé-sur-Sarthe, France, with Irène Ginger and Béatrice Massin in Paris, and at various courses in the UK and Italy. She has also studied commedia under Barry Grantham and Gino Samil, mime under Ika Nord, as well as musicology, dance and theatre science at Stockholm University.
DANCER AND CHOREOGRAPHER
Karin has performed in dance and opera productions in France, the US, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Sweden with choreographers such as Marie-Geneviève Massé (Compagnie l'Eventail), Françoise Denieau (Fondation Royaumont), Caroline Copeland and Carlos Fittante (Boston Early Music Festival Dance Ensemble), Sigrid T’Hooft (Corpo Barocco), Lieven Baert, Kaj Sylegård, and Bétina Marcolin. She has danced at Casino Théâtre de Bordeaux, Théâtre de l'Athénée in Paris, the Drottningholm Theatre and the Royal Palace in Stockholm, Cutler Majestic Theatre in Boston, Badisches Staatstheater in Karlsruhe, Lucent Danstheater in Den Haag and Palladium in Malmö, among others.
Karin’s work as a choreographer comprises collaborations with Les Paladins/Jerôme Corréas at the Stockholm Early Music Festival, Suzanne Persson (Completely Baroque), and the Swedish Royal Dramatic Theatre. In August 2010 she did her first solo performance, Le Visage Humain, in collaboration with luthenist Magnus Andersson. Both as a dancer and choreographer, she has a penchant for dance theatre, taking her general starting point from baroque or renaissance movement material.
Karin has received grants from the Swedish Arts Grants Committee, Nordic Culture Point, the Carina Ari Foundations, and the friends of the University of Dance and Circus in Stockholm.
PEDAGOGUE AND LECTURER
After completing the one-year post-graduate pedagogy programme at the University College of Dance and Circus in 2006, Karin was for five years teaching regular classes in baroque dance at the Ballet Academy of Stockholm and in early dance at the Stockholm School of the Arts. She is now a freelance teacher, being regularly invited to the Stockholm University College of Opera. She has also given classes at the University College of Dance and Circus, the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, at an early dance festival in Moscow, at professional dance education programme in Gothenburg, and at schools and conservatories in Sweden and France.
In addition, Karin has collaborated on productions for Swedish radio and TV, and given lecture demonstrations at the baroque dance seminar in Rothenfels am Main, at the Stockholm City Archives, and at the international symposium La Sallé, held at the 18th-century court theatre Confidencen. In October 2010 she lectured together with Irène Ginger at Colloque Noverre, a research conference at Sorbonne in Paris.
Karin Modigh
www.karinmodigh.eu
Stockholm Baroque Dancers
www.baroquedancers.se
Karin Modigh
The City
Welcome to the City!
Where people meet and roads are crossed, here buildings and lives grow and fall apart. Layer upon layer in a refined, ongoing choreography.
As a part of the Capital of Culture in Umeå 2014, the dance collective Nomodaco presents a diverse performance in installation form.
As a city holds a variety of expressions, construction and coincidence blends together, as the real city and its residents become part of the piece. The City comes to life at sunset, within a shifting set design outside at the Arts Campus and inside the newly opened Sliperiet.
The project brings together local and international artists with a wide range of exciting expressions. The piece is built on modules created by the artistic team, as well as invited choreographers from Finland, France and Vietnam.
Nomodaco – Northern Movement Dance Company – is a contemporary dance collective run by the dancers and choreographers Anna Ehnberg, Carolina Bäckman and Tove Skeidsvoll. Based in Umeå since 2002, they collaborate with artists and institutions, and create new projects in local and international residencies.
Artistic Direction: Nomodaco
Choreography: Carolina Bäckman (SE), Tove Skeidsvoll (SE)
Karin Modigh (FRA/SE), Cao Dúc Toàn (VNM)
Dance: Anna Ehnberg (SE), Minttu Pietilä (FIN), Veronika Yakushevich (RUS), Irène Ginger (FRA), Cao Chí Thành (VNM), Vu Van Nguyen (VNM)
Music- and Sound design: Johannes Burström (SE), David Sandström (SE)
Set Design: Anna Misharina (RUS), Peter Öhgren (SE)
Light Design: Tobias Leira (NO)
Video Design: Linus Andersson (SE)
Costume Design: Marie Schulz (DK)
General Manager/Producer: Emmy Astbury (SE)
Project manager: Lina Lundin (SE)
Free entrance, but limited seats
Booking: boka@nomodaco.com
Performance Dates:
13 September kl. 19:11, PREMIERE
17 September kl. 18:57, performance
18 September kl. 18:54, performance
19 September kl. 18:50, performance
20 September kl. 18:47, performance
Location: Sliperiet/Umeå Arts Campus, Östra Strandgatan 30
Supported by: Umeå 2014, The Municipality of Umeå, Umeå University- Umeå Arts Campus, Sliperiet & Culture on Campus, The Swedish Arts Grants Committe, The Swedish Arts Council, Nordic Culture Point, The Regional Danse Centre of Ostrobothnia, WATT - Dance artists in the region of Vaasa, KFUM Umeå Dansskola, Culture in the City of Skellefteå, USTAB, Dunderdans/Åland. Centre National de la Danse, Pantin/Paris.
