Richard Siegal
Richard Siegal is an American dancer and choreographer. He is founder and artistic director of The Bakery, an interdisciplinary platform for performance art based in Munich, Germany.
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For his pieces, Siegal has cooperated with people from different fields such as architecture (e.g. François Roche, fr:Didier Faustino),[1] design (e.g. de:Konstantin Grcic)[2] and composing (e.g. USA/br:Arto Lindsay, it:Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch).[3] Siegals works were awarded with the New York Dance and Performance Bessie Award, The German National Theater Faust Award, S.A.C.D. Prize, a Beaumarchais, The Mouson Award, and Optionsförderung für Tanz in München (2010).[4]
Siegal has been a resident artist of the ZKM/Karlsruhe, Bennington College and The Baryshnikov Arts Center, and Festspielhaus Sankt Polten. He has further worked as a faculty member of the American Dance Festival where he curated the annual Forsythe Festival. Siegal is a MacDowell fellow and honorary member of The Bolshoi Ballet's Benoit de la Danse.[5]
In 2016, Siegal founded the touring company Ballet of Difference[6] together with ecotopia dance productions, missioned with creating new pertinence to ballet in the 21st century. The company is based both in Munich and Cologne, Germany.
References
- The Bakery: The world to the darkness and to me. Retrieved November 16. 2016.
- The Bakery: UNITXT. Retrieved November 16. 2016.
- Sophiensaele: RICHARD SIEGAL / ARTO LINDSAY (THE BAKERY) MUSCLE. Retrieved November 16. 2016.
- Goethe Institut: Richard Siegal. Retrieved November 16. 2016.
- The Bakery: About Richard Siegal. Retrieved November 16. 2016.
- "Home". Ballet of Difference. Retrieved 2017-03-21.