ABOUT
PAULA ROSOLENHAPTIC HIDE
Paula Rosolen studied dance at Frankfurt University of Music and
Performing Arts and completed a master's degree in choreography at
Justus Liebig University in Giessen. In her choreographic pieces,
she works along the boundaries between dance, performance, music
and theater. Paula Rosolen aims to make visible the dance that is
inherent to popular culture and mundane activities. These subjects
are always studied from a distinct point of view and are usually
set in a foreign context. In Aerobics! – A Ballet in 3 Acts
(2015), for example, she dealt with this form of fitness training,
which was developed for the U. S. Air Force. She was invited to
show this piece at the 2016 German Dance Platform and was awarded
1st prize at international competition Danse Élargie, organized by
the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris and the Musée de la danse in
Rennes. In Puppets (2016) and PUNK‽ (2018) she continues to set
her focus on peripheral topics in dance – researching movements of
puppeteers or setting out in search of traces of Punk Rock. Her
last production is FLAGS in co-production with HELLERAU – European
Centre for the Arts and Künstlerhaus Mousonturm.
Her work has been shown at deSingel Arts Campus in Antwerp,
Theaterfestival Basel, the Théâtre de la Ville Paris, the Musée de
la danse in Rennes, the European Festival for Contemporary Dance
in Poland, the Centro Cultural de la Cooperación in Buenos Aires,
Theaterdiscounter Berlin, the Sophiensæle in Berlin, the Akademie
der Künste in Berlin, ZKM Karlsruhe, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm in
Frankfurt, the Museum Wiesbaden, Kampnagel in Hamburg, BE Festival
in Birmingham, DPAC Kuala Lumpur and Dance New Air Festival in
Tokyo.
Paula Rosolen has had residencies at K3 Center for Choreography in
Hamburg, Workspace Brussels, Hessian State Ballet,
Goethe-Institute’s Villa Kamogava in Kyoto and at Saison
Foundation in Tokyo.
She regularly teaches composition and dance technique at
institutions such as Justus Liebig University in Giessen,
Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts, Bilgi
University in Istanbul, the Boston Conservatory, the Shikoku
Gakuin University, the Monochrome Dance Company in Kyoto (JP), Owl
Spot Theatre Tokyo, Kyoto International Dance Workshop Festival
and many more.