Tian Rotteveel - Music composer and maker of dances

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Aug 1

Tian Rotteveel is featured with an in-depth video call in our magazine “Music & Theatre”

Tian Rotteveel is a Berlin based composer and maker of dances. He studied music at the HKU Music and Technology (NL) and Royal Conservatory of The Hague (NL) between 2004-2010 and dance and choreography at HZT-UDK in Berlin 2010-2014.

His artistic practice is operating between sound and movement. Embracing regenerative and self-composing dance and sound practices that are not per se guided by an aesthetic creation process of decision making. Often starting with simple activities that via repetition develop over time in unforeseen aesthetic material.

Movement and sound to his understanding are phenomenas which can materialize into the production of meaning but as well can materialize into the production of mere sensation and affect. Playing with that notion is often visible in his works.

He has been making and presenting stage works and performance installations since 2014 in different places. Such at Kampnagel - Hamburg (D), Sophiensaele in Berlin (D), Skogen in Gothenburg (SE), Tanzhaus NRW

in Dusseldorf (D), Mousonturm Frankfurt (D) Frascati - Amsterdam (NL), Tanzhaus Zurich (S), Spring festival Utrecht (NL) Ecole d’ Sable - (Senegal), Jakarta Dance Festival Indonesia, OzAsia festival Adelaide (Australia), Chocolate Factory (New York-USA), Impuls Tanz Vienna (A), Oper Dortmund (D)

As a composer and performer he has been collaborating with Claire Vivianne Sobottke, Meg Stuart, Tino Seghal, Jeanine Durning, Diego Gil, Igor Dobricic, Herman Heisig, Oper Dortmund, MAE ensemble, ArteDuo, Rosa ensemble, Post & Mulder among others.

He teaches a movement practice on voice and listening to theatre companies, universities and festival workshops such as to Meg Stuart/Damaged Good, Impulz Tanz Vienna, DOCH Stockholm, Koln Hochschule fur Muzik und Tanz, Oper Dortmund, Hamburg Hochschule fur Musik und Theater, Spring Festival Akademie Utrecht and others.

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