Susanne Linke is a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 dance

Dance

Dance is an art form that generally refers to movement of the body, usually rhythmic and to music, used as a form of expression, social interaction or presented in a spiritual or performance setting....

r and freelance

Freelancer

A freelancer, freelance worker, or freelance is somebody who is self-employed and is not committed to a particular employer long term. These workers are often represented by a company or an agency that resells their labor and that of others to its clients with or without project management and...

 choreographer

Choreography

Choreography is the art of designing sequences of movements in which motion, form, or both are specified. Choreography may also refer to the design itself, which is sometimes expressed by means of dance notation. The word choreography literally means "dance-writing" from the Greek words "χορεία" ...

 important in the development of Tanztheater in Germany and contemporary dance

Contemporary dance

Contemporary dance is a genre of concert dance that employs compositional philosophy, rather than choreography, to guide unchoreographed movement...

 internationally.

Career

Linke, who was born in Lüneburg

Lüneburg

Lüneburg is a town in the German state of Lower Saxony. It is located about southeast of fellow Hanseatic city Hamburg. It is part of the Hamburg Metropolitan Region, and one of Hamburg's inner suburbs...

, started dance at age 20. She took dance lessons in the Mary Wigman Studio in Berlin

Berlin

Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...

 and then studied at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen

Essen

- Origin of the name :In German-speaking countries, the name of the city Essen often causes confusion as to its origins, because it is commonly known as the German infinitive of the verb for the act of eating, and/or the German noun for food. Although scholars still dispute the interpretation of...

 with Pina Bausch

Pina Bausch

Philippina "Pina" Bausch was a German performer of modern dance, choreographer, dance teacher and ballet director...

 (1967–1970). She danced at the Folkwang Dance Studio and the Rotterdam Dance Center from 1970 to 1973. She directed the Folkwang Dance Studio in the period 1975–1985.

She founded the Susanne Linke Company in the 1990s and directed the Bremer Tanztheater (1994–2000) and was artistic director of the Choreographisches Zentrum Zeche Zollverein (2000–2001).

Choreography

Linke has choreographed since 1972, and her works include:

• Danse funèbre (1975) the first major solo ballet
• Puppe?
• Trop Trad Die Nächste bitte (The Next please) (1978)
• Im Bade wannen (In the Bath) and Wowerwiewas (1980)
• Flut (Flood) and Frauenballett (Women's Ballet) (1981)
• Es schwant (It continues) and Wir können nicht alle nur Schwäne sein (We can not all be just swans) (1982)
• Bakchen von Euripides (Bacchae of Euripides).
• Egmont, bitte (1986)
• Humanos Affectos cycle of 1962 by Dore Hoyer (1987)
• die Duos Affekte (1988)
• Affekte/Gelb (1990)
• In Ruhr-Ort (1991)
• Steps – Reconstruction and Passing 2007

She has worked with:

• Folkwang Dance Studio
• José Limón
  José Limón
  José Arcadio Limón was a pioneer in the field of modern dance and choreography. In 1928, at age 20, he moved to New York City where he studied under Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman. In 1946, Limón founded the José Limón Dance Company...
  
   Company in New York
• Paris Opéra
• Nederlands Dans Theater

External links

• Susanne Linke: 50 choreographers of contemporary dance at the Goethe Institute