Minding the Gap: The Choreographer as Hyper-Historian in Oral History-Based Performance
Jeff Friedman
2015
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Key Takeaway Key Takeaway: Paula Rosolen's choreographic documentary theatre work, Die Farce de Suche, explores the influence of German expressionist dancer and choreographer Renate Schottelius in Buenos Aires, Argentina, using oral history interviews and archival documentary sources.
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Argentinian dancer and choreographer Paula Rosolen, who holds a Masters degree in Applied Theater Studies at Justus Liebig University, Giessen in Germany, represents a generation of choreographers working in the sub-genre of choreographic documentary theatre. In 2010, Rosolen trained under my direction as a Fulbright Fellow in Frankfurt where I taught theory, method, and practice of oral history-based documentary performance to a variety of dance, and theatre and opera students at the Hochschule fur Musik und Darstellende Kunst. Rosolen’s MA thesis performance work, titled Die Farce de Suche: Ein Solo von und uber Renate Schottelius (A Farcical Search: A Solo for and from Renate Schottelius) uses oral history interviews and other archival documentary sources for a choreographic inquiry on the influence of German expressionist dancer and choreographer, Renate Schottelius, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.