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MARIA Contemporary Dance Oratorio by Heike Hennig Festival of Handel in “Neues Theater” (new theater) in Halle – Premiere: 8 of June 2010 The name Maria means the Shrew. Being a Shrew – not fitting any image: dancers, musicians and singers from Opera- and Ballet-Ensemble HEIKE HENNIG & CO are acting together and step on stage, regardless of their profession, as needy, passionate, people a one’s mercy: they tremble, pray and fall into Madonna’s…
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RITUALS a Dance Opera for Georg Frideric Handel by Heike Hennig (80min) Rituals and Ceremonies are anchorages in the flow of time. They are meetings to remove time and create a new ”time-room”, in which the big questions of human self-assurance become perceptible: funerals, weddings and birthdays, religious customs and personal rituals are the basis of the new production for the operatic arias of George Frideric Handel. We believe the music of Handel…
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Timeless - New Museum Berlin - ECHO Klassik Old classical music and modern dance – Lautten Compagney with Heike Hennig & Co in the ”Neues Museum Berlin” (“New Museum of Berlin”) Tension and transaction between old classical music, dance and modern architecture of the ”Neuen Museum Berlin”. A first glimpse into the „Neues Museum Berlin” on the „Museumsinsel Berlin“ (“Museum Island Berlin“): David Chipperfield and his team transfer the building to…
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LEAPS IN TIME Dance Theater of Generations by Heike Hennig Orginal: ZEITSPRÜNGE Tanztheater der Generationen von Heike Hennig ”Leaps in time” is the dance theater with autobiographic elements from the generations of dancers, choreographed by Heike Hennig. This is the new dance-theater according to the film ”dancing with time” and the choreography ”time – dancing since 1927”. This dance-theater is about the exchange between several generations of…
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DANCING WITH TIME by Trevor Peters Germany 2007, 103’, 35mm ma.ja.de film production in co-production with ZDF in collaboration with ARTE, (subtitled) Four dancers, nearing their eighties, take up the challenge posed by Heike Hennig of returning to the stage in Leipzig’s opera house. A performance of emotional richness combined with the stories of their lives. Nothing about them is old, except their age. Idea, Choreographer: Heike Hennig Dancer:…
Dance Opera by Heike Hennig & Co
Heike Hennig Choreographer and Director
Heike Hennig studied dance in the U.S. and formed in 2000 her own ensemble that consist not only of for dancers but of about 50 artists from all genres. With them she has created 15 independent cross-over pieces so far. She also works as choreographer for opera productions. Her production “Tanz mit der Zeit” (Dance with Time, 2007) was filmed for cinema and TV. As of 2008 she is being
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