Susanne Linke

Susanne Linke (born 19 June 1944 in Lüneburg) is a German dancer and freelance choreographer important in the development of Tanztheater in Germany and contemporary dance internationally.

Career

Susanne Linke started dance at age 20, she took dance lessons in the Mary Wigman Studio in Berlin and then studied at the Folkwang Hochschule Essen with Pina Bausch (1967-1970). She danced at the Folkwang Dance Studio and the Rotterdams Dans Center from 1970 to 1973. She directed the Folkwang Dance Studio in the period 1975-1985.

She has founded "Susanne Linke Company" in the 1990s and directed the "Bremer Tanztheater" (1994-2000) and was artistic director of the "Choreographisches Zentrum Zeche Zollverein" (2000-01).

Choreography

Susanne Linke has choreographed since 1972, her works include:
*Danse funèbre (1975) the first major solo ballet
*Puppe?
*Trop Trad Die Nächste bitte (The Next please) (1978)
*Im Bade wannen (In the Bath) and Wowerwiewas (1980)
*Flut (Flood) and Frauenballett (Women's Ballet) (1981)
*Es schwant (It continues) and Wir können nicht alle nur Schwäne sein (We can not all be just swans) (1982)
*Bakchen von Euripides (Bacchae of Euripides).
*Egmont, bitte (1986)
*Humanos Affectos cycle of 1962 by Dore Hoyer (1987)
*die Duos Affekte (1988)
*Affekte/Gelb (1990)
*In Ruhr-Ort (1991)
*Steps - Reconstruction and Passing 2007

She has worked with:
*Folkwang Dance Studio
*José Limón Company] in New York,
*the Paris Opera and
*the Nederlands Dans Theater.

External links

* [http://www.goethe.de/kue/tut/cho/cho/hl/lin/enindex.htm Susanne Linke: 50 choreographers of contemporary dance] at the Goethe Institute