The Tanja Liedtke Foundation (
German
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: Tanja Liedtke Stiftung) is a German-based charity supporting
modern
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and
contemporary
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dance.
History
The foundation was established in July 2008 in honour of the dancer and choreographer,
Tanja Liedtke
Tanja Michaela Karin Liedtke (6 October 1977 – 17 August 2007) was a German-born professional choreographer and dancer. She was most noted as a dancer, choreographer and director of contemporary dance in Australia and Europe.
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who was killed in August 2007 before in a car accident in
Sydney
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, Australia,
two months after starting in the role as artistic director of the
Sydney Dance Company
Sydney Dance Company is a contemporary dance company in Australia. The company has performed on stages around the world, including the Sydney Opera House in Australia, the Joyce Theater in New York, the Shanghai Grand Theatre in China, and the ...
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Description
The Foundation's purpose is "to support the enrichment and advancement of contemporary dance theatre, and the development of Australian/European artistic connections."
Fellowship
The inaugural Tanja Liedtke Fellowship was offered, in partnership with Radialsystem V – New Space for the Arts (Berlin), and the contemporary dance company Sasha Waltz & Guests (Berlin), to an Australian dancer/choreographer between the ages of 20 and 35 years. It was awarded to Anthony Hamilton of Melbourne.
The 2011 Tanja Liedtke Fellowship was awarded to Katarzyna Sitarz, a Polish dancer/choreographer with a broad international experience in Poland, the Netherlands, Lithuania and Germany. She will direct her creative residency at Arts House Melbourne in March 2011 and participate in the development of a new collaboration by Australian choreographer Lucy Guerin.
International Choreographic Competition Hannover
The Foundation has collaborated for several years with the International Choreographic Competition Hannover
Choreography is the art or practice of designing sequences of movements of physical bodies (or their depictions) in which motion or form or both are specified. ''Choreography'' may also refer to the design itself. A choreographer is one who cr ...
at Staatstheater Hannover
Hanover State Opera (german: Staatsoper Hannover) is an opera company in Hanover, the state capital of Lower Saxony, Germany. The company is resident in the Hanover Opera House (), and is part of a publicly-funded umbrella performing arts organ ...
, in 2021 introducing a new production award at the competition.
References
External links
*{{official, https://www.tanja-liedtke-foundation.org/
Dance organizations
Charities based in Germany
Non-profit organisations based in Baden-Württemberg
Organisations based in Stuttgart