Marcel Leemann – 3rd prize 2009

Choreography "100 m² "

Title of the choreography 100 m²
Videoclip 111 Seconds
Dancers
  • Azusa Nishimura
    Eugene W. Rhodes
    Marcel Leemann
Music
  • Iker Gomez de la Hoz
Video production
  • Oliver Neubert, ABAKU Filmproduktion

"Does the bullet feel warm when it hits the brain? Does one actually hear the shot? Can one feel the tear in the moment of realising: it shouldn’t have been? „I don't want to live", „I want to die" are dark verbalisations in a suicidal atmosphere. The protagonists enjoy the glamour of being dangerous and the athleticism of their challenge. But why should someone with such a high (pretended) self confidence want to kill himself?"

Zur Person

Nationality Swiss
Year of birth 1969

Marcel Leemann first finished a carpentry apprenticeship before he received his dance education at the John Cranko-school in Stuttgart and at the school of the Hungarian state ballet school in Budapest. In the course of his career, he also danced in Rome, Dresden (Semperoper) and at the theatres of Bern and Luzern. He showed his own works at festivals in Germany, Belgium and Switzerland. In 2001, he was chosen for the SIWIC as choreographer. Since 2003 he works as freelance choreographer, dancer and teacher for dance and theatre – amongst others with the companies Da Motus in Freiburg and Alias Company in Genf as well as Königsfelder Festspiele, Pablo Ventura Dance Company in Zürich, öff öff Production, Carole Meier and in the new production of Gilles Jobin, Genf.

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