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Claudia Rosiny (born February 15, 1960, in
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) is a German-Swiss academic in Dance and
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, a festival director and cultural manager. She became internationally known as an expert on video dance. Having served as a co-director of the Berne Dance Days for many years, she is in charge of the Performing Arts at the
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Berne and teaches at the
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Biography

Claudia Rosiny grew up the eldest of six siblings in the ''Herler Mühle'', an old water mill in Cologne-Buchheim. Her father, Nikolaus Rosiny (born July 19, 1926, in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany, died March 16, 2011, in Cologne) was an architect, her mother Johanna Rosiny née Riedel (born June 4, 1936, in Prague), a psychotherapist for children and adolescents. After completing her training as a gymnastics teacher, Rosiny studied Theatre, Film and Television, German and Education at the
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(1983–1989). For three semesters, she also attended the Play-Music-Dance (Spiel-Musik-Tanz) course as a guest student at the
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(Deutsche Sporthochschule Köln). In 1987/88 she did one semester of Theatre Studies at the
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. In 1997, she did a PhD with her dissertation being on Video Dance at the Institute of Theatre Studies at the University of Berne. Since her studies Claudia Rosiny has devoted herself to her specialist fields of ''Video Dance'' and ''Intermediality'' in Dance: "Inter- and transdisciplinary cultural studies are needed in an art context of convergence, in which the disciplines come together, connect and enable new experiences of perception.(...) If time travel was possible, I would like to talk to the pioneers of film and dance, like
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, and ask them what, back then, fascinated them most in the interplay of movement of dance and film." She is married to Reto Clavadetscher (born 1961), they have a daughter and live in
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Awards

* 2005 Cultural Prize Canton of Berne (Berne Dance Days) ulturpreis Kanton Bern (Berner Tanztage)* 1992 Cultural Prize Municipality of Berne (Berne Dance Days) ulturpreis Burgergemeinde Bern (Berner Tanztage)


Berne Dance Days

This festival of
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was established in 1987 by Reto Clavadetscher and co-directed by Claudia Rosiny from 1991 to 2007. Highlights of the Berne Dance Days include the themed festivals ''Danseimage'' (1996, re. dance and film) and ''Kunststückkörper'' (1997, re. dance and diverse body forms, including disabilities), and guest performances by renowned dance artists such as Maguy Marin,
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and many others. The Berne Dance Days are documented on several media platforms: * Around 250 video recordings of performances and projects from the years 1988 to 2007 were digitised and handed over to the ''Swiss Dance Archive'' (Schweizer Tanzarchiv/Collection Suisse de la Danse, today SAPA Swiss Archive of the Performing Arts) at the Zurich branch. Thus these recordings of historic significance were preserved and made available to interested members of the public. * An extensive collection of documents on the companies that performed at the Berne Dance Days, a complete set of posters and programmes as well as other relevant documents were handed over to the ''Swiss Dance Archive'' (Schweizer Tanzarchiv/Collection Suisse de la Danse, today SAPA Swiss Archive of the Performing Arts) at the Lausanne branch for research purposes. * In 2007, Rosiny, together with Reto Clavadetscher, published ''Contemporary Dance. Bodies, Concepts, Cultures – a Survey'' (Zeitgenössischer Tanz. Körper, Konzepte, Kulturen – eine Bestandsaufnahme). The book was published on the occasion of the 20th anniversary and final staging of the Berne Dance Days, in the meantime can be downloaded for free on the publisher’s website and is the first to be dedicated to contemporary dance in the German-speaking world.


Kornhausforum Bern

Since its foundation in 1998, the Kornhausforumhas been a venue for design and social politics. The concept for its occupancy, demonstrating a pronounced bias towards culture, was determined via a referendum of the Bernese people. Over ten years (1998–2007) – first as a co-director (with Peter Eichenberger), then, from 2006 onwards, solely in charge – Claudia Rosiny steered its development as a cultural centre focusing on architecture, design, photography, video, new media and socio-political issues. In addition to around 300 events per year, more than 100 exhibitions were held during this time, including: * ''Playfulness & Clarity. Swiss Architecture, Graphic Arts and Design 1950–2006 '' (Spielwitz & Klarheit. Schweizer Architektur, Grafik und Design 1950–2006), 2006 * ''Sex Work. An Exhibition on Prostitution'' (Sexarbeit. Eine Ausstellung zum Thema Prostitution), 2007


Swiss Dance Archive

From 2009 to 2012, Rosiny worked as a specialist consultant on
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for the Swiss Dance Archive in Zurich, where she co-ordinated lecture programmes, acquired, amongst others, the Nachlass (estate) of
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in 2011, oversaw a video project on early
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in Western Switzerland and, until the end of 2010, project-managed the fusion of the ''Archives suisses de la danse'' in Lausanne with the ''mediathektanz.ch'' in Zurich into the ''Swiss Dance Archive ''(Schweizer Tanzarchiv/Collection suisse de la danse) with branches in
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and
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. It has existed in this new form since January 1, 2011. In 2018, it was merged with the Swiss Theatre Collection to form the SAPA – Swiss Archive of the Performing Arts.


Teaching in higher education

As a lecturer, Rosiny is strongly committed to integrating dance practice, dance studies and
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. From 1994 to 2005, she led seminars on Video Dance and
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at the Institute for Theatre Studies at the University of Berne, and from 2006 to 2011 proseminars on intermediality, postmodernism, dance, theatre and performance at the Institute for Media Studies at the
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. From 2002 to 2015, she was a member of the programme management team and a lecturer on the continuing education course TanzKultur (designed for students in employment) at the
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. Since 2016, she has been working there in the same capacity at the Institute for Theatre Studies on the newly introduced Master of Advanced Studies in Dance/Performing Arts course: "This unique Continuing Education Study Programme, with its interdisciplinary design and international network, will reflect the current state of research." She has been teaching Cultural Management Practice (continuing education) at Lucerne University since 2012.


Dance film programming

Rosiny curated, academically contextualised and evaluated numerous
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programmes: * 1990 Dance films for the ''34th International Summer Academy of Dance Cologne'' (34. Internationale Sommerakademie des Tanzes Köln) * 1993–1997 Dance films ''Kellerkino Bern'' * 1993 Video programming, ''Gulbenkian Foundation Lisbon'' * 1994 ''Dance Screen Club Dada'' at the ''Styrian Autumn'' Graz * 2000 Selection panel member, Dance for the Camera 6 for the BBC and Arts Council London * 2003 ''Moving Dance Images'', ''Dance Film Festival'' Kino Xenix MGB Zurich * 2012 ''Women in Dance'' for the ''Migros Co-operative Federation'' * Zurich as part of the ''Steps Dance Festival''


Jury and board memberships

Rosiny was on the jury panel of the
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of the Swiss Society for Theatre Culture (Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Theaterkultur SGTK) from 2001 to 2006, of the ''German Video Dance Prize'' 2003–2004, the ''Swiss Dance and Choreography Prize'' 2002–2010 and the ''Dance Screen'' competition in Cologne (1999). She also participated in the pre-selection for the 37th ''Dance on Camera Festival'' New York City (2008/9) and ''VIPER '01'', the International Film & Videofestival Basel (2001). From 1995 to 2005, she advised the ''Migros Cooperative Aare'' on dance funding and promotion, from 1993 to 2010 she was a board member of the Archives suisses de la danse, Lausanne, and from 1997 to 2003 President of the Commission for Theater and Dance, Canton of Berne. Since 2009, she has been a board member of ''Teatro San Materno'',
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Federal Office of Culture Berne

Since 2012, Claudia Rosiny has been in charge of Dance and Theatre, since 2021 for the Performing Arts at the Federal Office of Culture Berne in the Department for Cultural Creation and has been developing the new national awards policy of the federal government for these areas, with the aim of recognising the quality of professional artistic dance and theatre practice in all its diversity and strengthening it on a national level.


Swiss Dance Awards

The Federal Office of Culture has been awarding the ''Swiss Grand Award for Dance'' (CHF 40,000) from 2013 until 2019 every two years, as well as a ''Special Dance Award'' (CHF 40,000), two awards in the category ''Outstanding Female Dancer/Outstanding Male Dancer'' (CHF 25,000 each) and four ''Swiss Dance Awards'' (25,000 Francs each). In addition, the ''June Johnson Dance Prize'' in partnership with the ''Stanley Thomas Johnson Foundation'' (CHF 25,000). The ''Grand Award for Dance'' is awarded to honour a recipient's artistic career on the recommendation of the ''Swiss Federal Dance Jury''. The first person to win this award was in 2013 the Swiss choreographer Martin Schläpfer, former artistic director of the Ballet am Rhein of the
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Düsseldorf Duisburg. In 2015, the award went to the Geneva choreographer
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, in 2017 to Noemi Lapzeson, Geneva choreographer and founder of ''Vertical Danse'', and 2019 to La Ribot, spanish-swiss choreographer and dancer.


Swiss Theater Awards

In the field of theatre, the Federal Office of Culture awarded the annual ''Swiss Grand Award for Theatre/Hans-Reinhart-Ring'' (CHF 100,000), a ''Swiss Cabaret (Kleinkunst) Prize'' and five ''Swiss Theatre Awards'' (CHF 40,000 each). In 2014, Omar Porras was the first recipient of the ''Swiss Grand Award Theatre'', followed by Stefan Kaegi –
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in 2015, the Zurich-based Theater HORA in 2016,
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in 2017, Theater Sgaramusch in 2018, Yan Duyvendak in 2019 and Jossi Wieler in 2020.


Swiss Performing Arts Awards

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, comedy, contemporary circus, puppet theatre and street arts closer together, and increase the visibility of the performing arts. It will also allow the Hans Reinhart Ring to be presented once again in all areas of the performing arts, notably dance. All awards are listed and archived on the Swiss Cultural Awards.


Selected publications


Monographs

* Claudia Rosiny: ''Video Dance: Panorama of an Intermediate Art Form''. (""). Theatrum helveticum, ed. V. ITW Bern, vol. 5, Chronos, Zurich 1999, * Margrit Bischof, Claudia Feest, Claudia Rosiny (eds.): ''e_motion'', Series: Dance Research Almanach (Jahrbuch Tanzforschung), Vol. 16, Lit, Münster 2006, , out of stock * Claudia Rosiny and Reto Clavadetscher (Eds.): ''Contemporary Dance. Bodies, Concepts, Cultures – A Survey'', (Zeitgenössischer Tanz. Körper, Konzepte, Kulturen – eine Bestandsaufnahme), Transcript, Bielefeld 2007, * Margrit Bischof, Claudia Rosiny (Eds.): ''Concepts of Dance Culture: Knowledge and Methods of Dance Research'' (Konzepte der Tanzkultur. Wissen und Wege der Tanzforschung), Transcript, Bielefeld 2010, * Hedy Graber, Dominik Landwehr, Veronika Sellier (eds.), Peter Haber and Claudia Rosiny (co-editors): ''Digital Culture. Terms, Backgrounds, Examples '' (Kultur digital. Begriffe, Hintergründe, Beispiele), Merian, Basel 2011, * Claudia Rosiny: ''Dance Film. Intermedial Relations between Media History and Modern Dance Aesthetics'' (Tanz Film. Intermediale Beziehungen zwischen Mediengeschichte und moderner Tanzästhetik), Transcript, Bielefeld 2013,


Articles in encyclopediae

* ''Video Dance'' (Videotanz), In: Manfred Brauneck, Gérard Schneilin: Encyclopedia of Theatre (Theaterlexikon), 3rd New Edition, Reinbek 1992, pp. 1085–1086 * Encyclopedia articles on: Jean Deroc, ''Ricardo Duse, Susana Janssen''. In: Historical Encyclopaedia of Switzerland (Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz (HLS)): Schwabe Basel, published 2002 onwards in 13 volumes. * Articles on Dance: ''Deroc, Dietrich, Flamencos en route, Fritsche, Kreissig, Malfer, Mattis, Swiss Chamber Ballet (Schweizer Kammerballett), Steps, Susana, Video Dance (Videotanz), Zöllig''. In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Theatre Switzerland (Theaterlexikon Schweiz), Chronos Zurich, 2005 * ''Change in Perception – From Dance Video to Video Dance'' (Wandel in der Wahrnehmung – Vom Tanzvideo zum Videotanz). In: Frieder Reininghaus & Katja Schneider (Eds.): Experimental Music and Dance Theatre. Compendium of Music in the 20th Century (Experimentelles Musik- und Tanztheater. Handbuch der Musik im 20. Jahrhundert), Volume 7, Laaber-Verlag Laaber, 2004, pp. 356–359. New edition ''Change in Perception – From Dance Video to Video Dance'' (Wandel in der Wahrnehmung – Vom Tanzvideo zum Videotanz). In: Siegfried Mauser, Elisabeth Schmierer (Eds.): Handbook of Musical Genres (Handbuch der musikalischen Gattungen), Volume 17,1: Community Music, Wind Music, Movement Music (Gesellschaftsmusik, Bläsermusik, Bewegungsmusik), Laaber-Verlag Laaber, 2009, pp. 299–301 * ''Lemmata Tanzfilm'' (Lemmata Tanzfilm), ''Video Dance'' (Videotanz), ''Motion Capturing, Amélia, Roseland, Lloyd Newson''. In: Monika Woitas and Annette Hartmann (Eds.): Encyclopedia of Dance (Lexikon des Tanzes), Laaber-Verlag Laaber, 2013 * List of Publications Claudia Rosiny (1997–2016)


References


Further reading

* UIrich Völker
''An Excellent Reference Book for Browsing'' (Excellentes Fachbuch zum Schmökern)
* Peter Dahms
''Dance Film'' (Tanzfilm)
* Richard John Ascárate
''In Focus: Dance Film'' (Im Blickpunkt: Tanz Film)
In: MEDIENwissenschaft 04/2013, University of Marburg * Kristina Köhler
''Reviews of Claudia Rosiny Tanz Film'' (Rezensionen zu Claudia Rosiny Tanz Film)
In: Kiel Contributions to Film Music Research (Kieler Beiträge zur Filmmusikforschung) 11/2014 * Helmut Dworschak
''The trend towards documentary theatre continues'' (Der Trend zum dokumentarischen Theater hält an)
Interview. In: Der Landbote, May 29, 2015


External links






SAPA Archive for the Performing Arts

Berne Dance Days



You Tube


Development of the art form Dance Video. How the Camera Gets Its Own Role in Dance (Entwicklung der Kunstform Tanzvideo. Wie die Kamera eine eigene Rolle bekommt). Contributor: Claudia Rosiny. Broadcast in 2001 on 3sat

Presentation by Claudia Rosiny: Dance in Silent Movies and on Youtube. Analogue Attractions in the Digital Medium (Referat von Claudia Rosiny: Tanz im Stummfilm and auf Youtube. Analoge Attraktionen im Digitalen Medium)
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