About

Künstlerin/Choreografin, Kuratorin, Dramaturgin

Barbara Schmidt-Rohr is a freelance artist, curator, choreographer, dramaturge and filmmaker. She studied German language and literature, philosophy and politics in Heidelberg and dance and choreography in Amsterdam and New York in the early 1980s. She has lived in Hamburg since 1992 and has repeatedly developed new performance formats in the context of the artists' collective Tanzinitiative Hamburg, which were consistently generated in the encounter of artists from different genres along the lines of artistic questions. She has worked as a curator and dramaturge in numerous local and international collaborations.
In her own work, she currently realizes productions at the interfaces of choreography, scenic installation, video art and the digital with changing co-authors and teams. She combines her concerns with a very unique aesthetic signature, resulting in creations that are very close to the visual arts and film. She has been dealing with the increasingly urgent ecological crises for years and also collaborates with children and young people, whose fears and aspirations for the future flow into her works. As a dance dramaturge, consultant and mentor, she currently accompanies numerous choreographers from Hamburg and Berlin. She was on the board of the umbrella organization for the independent performing arts in Hamburg for 8 years and is now active in cultural policy on the association's advisory board. She has been a member of the Senate Dance Jury in Bremen since 2021.

Kontakt

Barbara Schmidt-Rohr
b.schmidtrohr@tanzinitiative.de
Instagram: @barbaraschmidtrohr

Current

Dramaturgy

a Place called Home

by Monique Smith-Macdowell

November 13.
—
November 16. 2024 → Kampnagel Programm
dramaturgical advice

Id: Your Girlfriends

by Sujin Lee & Team

November 08.
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November 09. 2024 → Lichthof-Theater
Damaturgy

I want to be a swamp by Yolanda Morales

Fabrik Potsdam, Festival Kunst und Klima

October 11.
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October 12. 2024 → Fabrik Potsdam
Dramaturgy

Touch ID

by Linda Lou Matzke & Sylvester Röpcke

October 11.
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October 13. 2024 → erotic art museum
Installation

Rest and Resistance

Theater-Modell for:
Theater der Zukunft - 30 years Lichthof-Theater

September 14. 2024 → Theater der Zukunft
Dramaturgy

The garden of falling sands-Festival Hamburg

Fringify, Festival of the independent art
Hamburg

June 06.
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June 06. 2024 → Fringify
Festival

&Friends Festival

Festival 10 Tage freischwimmen / Stuttgart

May 01.
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May 05. 2024 → 10 Tage freischwimmen
Dramaturgy

I want to be a swamp

by Yolanda Morales and Team

March 20.
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March 24. 2024 → Choreografisches Zentrum auf Kampnagel
Dramaturgy

München HochX The Garden for falling sands

The garden of falling sands

March 01.
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March 02. 2024 → Horch X
Dramaturgy

The Garden of falling Sands

Danceperformance by Yolanda Morales
Tanzplattform Deutschland 2024

February 24.
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February 25. 2024 → Tanzplattform Deutschland
Dramaturgy / Mentoring

Solaris: Theaterproduktion

Theater: Director: Alina Sobotta

January 19.
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January 21. 2024 → Programm Kampnagel
Dramaturgy

The Garden

Tanzperformance by Yolanda Morales

October 20.
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October 21. 2023 → Schwankhalle Bremen
Performance

Commitment

Lichthof-Theater Hamburg

October 07.
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October 08. 2023 → Lichthof Theater
award

Award ceremony Kindertheaterpreis

award for STEINSTAUB 2021
Fundus Theater Hamburg, 11.00

August 27. 2023 → https://www.kulturstiftung-hh.de/
Filmrelease

shortfilm draußen

Releaseparty 17.30-22.00
Lichtmesskino / Altona

August 24. 2023 → Trailer
Touring

Stay Romantic

Stay Romantic

June 10.
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June 11. 2023 → Schwankhalle
Dramaturgy

COLOR 色

A Dance Performance by Jasmine Fan
Wiese / Hamburg

May 18.
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May 20. 2023 → Jasmine Fan
Dramaturgy

YUM YUM / Ballhaus Ost / Berlin

Performance by Haus Sommer

May 12.
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May 14. 2023 → Ballhaus Ost
Dramaturgy

Horses

a dance performance by Yolanda Morales / Gastspiel

April 28.
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April 29. 2023 → Schwankhalle Bremen Güterbahnhof
Dramaturgy

The Rest of Dance / Radialsystem / Berlin

by Anna Laura Lozza & Barbara Hang

April 27.
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April 29. 2023 → Radialsystem
Dramaturgy

The Garden of falling Sands

by Yolanda Morales and Team
Lichthof-Theater

March 17.
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March 25. 2023 → Lichthof-Theater
Lecture

Lecture: KEIN DRAMA Universität Hamburg

Digitality and Liveness

January 16. 2023 → Uni Hamburg
Guest Performance

Future Dreams

Schwankhalle/Bremen

December 16.
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December 17. 2022 → Schwankhalle
Dramaturgy

The endless skin of the Axolotl

Dancesolo by Yolanda Morales and Team, with Sara Ezzell:
basement of the Kraftwerk Bille, Hamburg

December 08.
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December 10. 2022 → https://www.yolandamorales.net/
Dramaturgy

Nerven

Dance-Performance by Yolanda Morales

November 10.
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November 12. 2022 → Lichthof-Theater
Podium

Podium

Network meeting free music theater

October 15.
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October 15. 2022 → Stimme X
Dramaturgy

What if you fly..

Danceproduction by Niss/Potapov

October 01.
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October 02. 2022 → Lichthof-Theater
Performance

Steinstaub / Festival Hauptsache Frei

Kampnagel Hamburg
Multimedia Show for young audience

June 30. 2022 → Kampnagel
Dramaturgy

Glutamat:2

Performance / Fleetstreet Theater Hamburg

June 29. 2022 → Dasniya Sommer
Performance

Stay Romantic

Kampnagel Hamburg

May 25.
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May 28. 2022 → Kampnagel
Award

Award

Hamburg Children's Theater Award Ceremony 2021
St. Pauli Theater

April 24. 2022 → Hamburgische Kulturstiftung
Dramaturgy

Das Revier

by SV Szlachter
Urban Intervention / Hansaplatz Hamburg

April 14.
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April 24. 2022 → Kampnagel
Dramaturgy

Achterbahn

by THORD1S

March 03.
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March 06. 2022 → Lichthof-Theater
Dramaturgy

Perestaltik

A Music-Show by Thord1s
Club TURTUR, Hamburg

December 15.
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December 18. 2021 → Thord1s
Dramaturgy

Tanzproduktion: Horses

by Yolanda Morales
Kraftwerk Bille Hamburg

October 21.
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October 24. 2021 → Tickets: Lichthof Theater Hamburg
Dramaturgy

LǡrLår

LǡrLår – a Danceperformance by Victoria Hauke
Hamburg, Studio Lämmersieth

September 25.
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September 30. 2021 → Victoria Hauke
Art Installation

Future Dreams 2021

Festival Hauptsache Frei
Kraftwerk Bille Hamburg

September 03.
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September 04. 2021 → Festival Hauptsache Frei
Research

The Tenderness of Materials

Researchproject in progress with Ana-Laura Lozza, Barbara Hang, Jimena Pérez Salerno

August 01. 2021 → Vimeo
Performance

We love Maria and Maria loves us

Galerie Melike Bilir, Admiralitätstr. 71, Hamburg

July 10.
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July 11. 2021 → Galerie Melike Bilir
Dramaturgy

The Rest of Dance

by Anna-Laura Lozza & Barbara Hang
k3 Tanzplan Hamburg / Kampnagel

June 26. 2021 → Kampnagel
Dramaturgy

Online-Show: Imagines

by Lois Bartel
Lichthof Theater

April 01. 2021 → Lichthof Theater
Dramaturgy

Danceproduction: Nerven

by Yolanda Morales
Lichthof Theater Hamburg

March 11. 2021 → Lichthof Theater
Dramaturgy

Performance: Schlagsahne

by Regina Rossi
Kampnagel Hamburg

September 24. 2020 → Kampnagel
Text

Contribution in Book-Publication: »Masters of the Universe«

Publisher: Theater der Zeit

June 08. 2020 → Theater der Zeit
Interview

Plateau #29

now! sustainable funding

May 20. 2020 → Listen to it
Panel discussion

Jetzt weiter

… move on to promote free art in Hamburg!
The DfdK invites cultural politicians on the occasion of the elections to the Hamburg parliament.

February 10. 2020 → DfdK
World premiere

Die Kommenden Träume

Barbara Schmidt-Rohr and Daniel Hengst
Kampnagel Hamburg

February 07.
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February 09. 2020 → Kampnagel
World premiere

Steinstaub

Barbara Schmidt-Rohr and Helen Schröder
Kampnagel Hamburg

February 06.
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February 09. 2020 → program Kampnagel
Dramaturgy

Copycats

»Copycats 2019« with Annika Scharm and Hannah Wischnewski
Kampnagel Hamburg

October 16.
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September 21. 2019 → Kampnagel

ProjectsProjects

Future Dreams

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First Showings: 3th - 4th September 2021  Festival Hauptsache Frei 
Kraftwerk Bille, Hamburg

Next: 17th of December 2022, Schwankhalle Bremen

Future Dreams 2021 explores the role of new technologies in art. The language of choreography and that of algorithmic thinking are equally involved in this work, revisited in 2021. Presented in a big screen installation are picturesque video portraits of 42 very different children. Their looks, gestures and movements seem as if they were caught in their dreams. They follow objects and stories in imagined virtual spaces and games that are not visible in the videos. Beyond the algorithmic systems revealed in the choreographies and arrangements of the videos, the audience, while lingering in the installation on a carpet, enters a melancholic atmosphere in which associative narratives emerge, that tell of the ecological crisis and of the longing of the next digital native-generation for future healing.

Concept, Choreography, Camera: Barbara Schmidt-Rohr, Daniel Hengst
Performance: children and teenagers from Hamburg
Setdesign Videos and Installation: Marie-Luise Balzer
Editing: Jens Hasenberg
Sound: Iason Roumkos
Costumes: Lanika
Make-up: Ilona Klein
Thanks to all families and children

Fotos: Bente Stachowske, Barbara Schmidt-Rohr

Supported by the Hamburg Ministry of Culture and Media, the Hamburg Cultural Foundation in cooperation with the PwC Foundation, the Performing Arts Fund with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of TakePart.