Rolf Kasteleiner
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BIOGRAPHY |
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22.3.1966 |
born in Kassel |
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1988-1995 |
studies in art and music at the
University GhK, Kassel qualified on guitar,
piano and singing |
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1995 |
final examination: conception &
directing of "HAUT" (skin) a performance
for five actors / dancers with the theme: sensoric perception in a
room |
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1995-1995 |
research studies:
cultural education at the university of Hildesheim
cultural and music studies at the Humbold-Universit&amul;t,
Berlin |
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1997-1998 |
dancing studies at:
Pauline de Groot, Amsterdam (the Netherlands)
Moving Arts, Köln (Vera Sander, Lisa Schmidt
etc.) |
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1998 |
assistant director to Dirc Cieslak /
Group "Lubricat" |
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1999 |
dramaturge for "DIE UNBEKANNTE MIT
DEM FÖN" (the unknown with
the hair-dryer) directed by Gundula Weimann´s "Sfinx
Theater" |
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In 1998, Rolf Kasteleiner directed
"PARADE", an adaption of a play from J. Cocteau;
with the group "Richtungswechsel", performed at the Kurt Weil
Festival, Dessau (Germany).
"HERE TO SEE", a short film
developed from a dance performance, which combines sign
language with dance, expanding the experience of body
language.
Rolf Kasteleiner: "The challenge was to work with deaf
actors and non deaf dancers by using
the sign language to create a new form of silent film. The goal
was to make a film for a dance
performance, where the expression of the body and the sound are
becoming more important
than in a normal film by using the sign language. Although the
film was originally destined
to a dance performance it holds its autonomy."
To prepare this project, the director of the film assisted the
deaf choreographer Joel Liennel
from the International Visual Theatre in Paris, who has also been
working with the dancers in
order to learn them how to use sign language for creating dances.
This was necessary to get a
view of how the communication structure changes by not using the
audio sense.
After the premier at the Lichtblick
Kino and the Kultur-fabrik the film has been showed at youth
park 2000, the festival of off-culture 2000, and the deaf theatre
(ZfK) in Berlin and at "THE
SQUAD" in Paris.
His second film "STILLE"
(silence) also treats of sign-language. The main
question of the film was how music can be known by a person who is
not able to hear. This
searching leads him to a point where the unexpected can
happen.
More about "STILLE" on this
place after the première in September ( 29.9.2001
at the Nikelodeon in Berlin ).
In autum Rolf Kasteleiner starts to
work with the International Visual Theater in Paris.
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