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Dan Pelleg: CV | ||
| Surname, first name: | Pelleg, Dan | |
| Place of birth: | Tel-Aviv, Israel | |
| Address: | Lychener Str. 28, D-10437 Berlin | |
| Email: | dan@wee-dance-company.de | |
| Web: | www.wee-dance-company.de | |
| Education and training: | ||
| 1985 – 1993 | Dance training / concert dance at the Bikure HaItim, Bat Dor & Thelma Yelin schools / Tel Aviv (ballet and modern dance) | |
| 1986 – 1995 | Singing classes (private) | |
| 1990 – 1992 | Interdisciplinary studies, Tel Aviv University, focus: linguistics, musicology | |
| Scholarships: | ||
| 1995 | Scholarship for singing classes as dancer / singer, America-Israel Cultural Foundation | |
| 1990 – 1992 | Full scholarship for academic studies in the Adi Lautman Interdisciplinary Program for Outstanding Students, Tel Aviv University (Prof. Yehuda Elkana) | |
| 1989 – 1991 | Dance training partial scholarship at the Bat-Dor Dance School, Tel Aviv | |
| Professional experience / choreography: | ||
| 1999 – 2011 | Co-founding of the "wee dance company", artistic co-director, co-choreographer and dancer (7 full-length stage pieces and several short pieces, tours to 11 countries and 25 German cities, multiple commendations) | |
| 2011 | Guest choreographer at the Görlitz City Theatre for ballet • "La Traviata", Opera by Giuseppe Verdi, choreography in collaboration with Marko E. Weigert, director: Sebastian Ritschel | |
| 2010 | Guest choreographer at the Görlitz City Theatre for soloists, ballet ensemble and choir • "Carmen", an opera by Georges Bizet, director: Sebastian Ritschel • "Orpheus und Eurydike", an opera by Chr. W. Gluck, choreography in collaboration with Marko E. Weigert, director: Sebastian Ritschel • "New York, New York", an opera ball directed by Ronny Scholz | |
| 2009 | Guest choreographer at the Görlitz City Theatre for soloists, ballet ensemble and choir • "Linkerhand", an opera by Moritz Eggert, choreography in collaboration with Marko E. Weigert, director: Sebastian Ritschel • "Café Oriental", an opera ball by Sebastian Ritschel | |
| 2008 | Guest choreographer at the Opera House Kiel for soloists and choir • "The Abduction from the Seraglio" by W. A. Mozart, director: Dedi Baron | |
| 2008 | Guest choreographer for the ballet ensemble of the Saarländisches State Theatre, coaching in collaboration with Marko E. Weigert of the short piece “box” from the repertoire of the wee dance company | |
| 2007 | guest choreographer for the Görlitz City Ballet, choreography in collaboration with Marko E. Weigert • "Diskutanz" (a dance-theatre piece) | |
| 2006 | Guest choreographer for the Vorpommern Ballet • "Simplest" (a dance-theatre piece) | |
| 2003 – 2010 | Choreographer for end-of-school performances of graduates of the Dance Academy Balance1, Berlin | |
| Professional experience / teaching (dance training): | ||
| 2002 – 2011 | Dance Academy Balance1, Berlin: contemporary partnering, contemporary technique, composition | |
| Dock11 Dance Studios Berlin: courses for professionals and amateurs | ||
| 1999 – 2009 | wee dance company workshops, abroad: Zimbabwe (HIFA Festival), Den Haag (Holland Dance Festival), Cyprus (European Dance Festival), Israel, Chicago / USA, St. Petersburg (Deutsche Woche); in Germany: Schwerin City Ballet, Tenza Schmiede Dresden, Marburger Tanztage, European Youth Dance Festival START! Berlin. | |
| 2006 – 2007 | School project "TanzZeit: Zeit für Tanz in Schulen", contemporary dance classes at elementary schools | |
| 1999 - 2003 | Guest teacher at various institutions in Berlin (musical theatre studies at the HdK Berlin, Tanzfabrik Berlin, acting school INAC Berlin) | |
| 1995 - 1997 | Company training (occasional) for the toladá dance company, Berlin | |
| Professional experience / dancer: | ||
| 1993 – 1995 | Tel Aviv, Bat Sheva Ensemble (junior company), pieces by Lara Barsacq, Lionel Hoche, Jiři Kilian, Ohad Naharin, Inbal Pinto, Anjelin Preljocaj, Rina Shenfeld | |
| 1996 – 2010 | Berlin, freelancer in productions by Ahn Eun-Me, Alex B., Yaara Dolev and Amit Goldenberg, Chanoch Ben Dror, Christian von Borries, De La Guarda (Berlin), Dominique Efstratiou, Helge Musial, Elisabeth Orlowsky, Tomi Paasonen, Gundula Peuthert, Norbert Servos, Joseph Tmim, Sommer Ulrickson, Marko E. Weigert, Christoph Winkler, Mark Wuest | |
| Professional experience / theatre: | ||
| 2011 | Scenic commentary / scenic reading at "The Political Theatre of Alain Badiou" (scenes from "Incident at Antioch" and "Ahmed the Philosopher") – directed by S. Ulrickson | |
| 2011 | Author and director: Dance. A Play | |
| Summer of Love (actor / dancer / singer) – director: Coy Middlebrook, choreographer: S. Ulrickson | ||
| 2010 – 2011 | "Britney Britney" – by Stephan Thiel & Tilla Kratochwil (actor / dancer / dance coach) | |
| 2010 | "Lovesick", "Kurs: Liebe" – by S. Ulrickson (actor / dancer) | |
| Professional experience / singer (semi-professional), musical arrangements and composition: | ||
| 2011 | Singer / dancer / actor in "Summer of Love", director: Coy Middlebrook, choreographer: S. Ulrickson | |
| 2010 | Singer / dancer in the Pieces "Lovesick" and "Kurs: Liebe" by Moritz Gagern / S. Ulrickson | |
| 1999 – 2009 | Singer / dancer in various stage productions (wee dance company, Helge Musial, Norbert Servos) | |
| 2009 | Partial composition for the dance piece "Schwarz, ohne Zucker" / wee dance company | |
| 2007 | Partial arrangement of 3-voice vocal pieces ("nebenan" / wee dance company), participated also as singer | |
| 2007 | Musical participation, together with Marko E. Weigert, in the radio play "Die Geschichte vom Franz Biberkopf" by Kai Grehn, adapted from the novel "Berlin Alexanderplatz" by Alfred Döblin | |
| 2005 | Short composition to text fragments from Edmond Jabés' "The Book of Questions" for die radio play adaptation by Kai Grehn "Das Buch der Fragen", participated also as singer | |
| 2005 | Composition to a poem fragment by Chantal Maillard, "en los bordes del sueńos" for "Q", a piece by the wee dance company together with Chantal Maillard (production: "phase 7 performing arts", commissioned by the Literaturwerkstatt Berlin), participated also as singer | |
| 1991 – 1995 | Arranger of Israeli songs and Tenor in a-cappella ensemble "Troubadour Quintet", Tel-Aviv / Kfar-Saba; artistic director: Dina Avni. Repertoire: madrigals and Israeli music. Tours: Denmark, Singapore. Commendation: 2nd prize at the International Competition Riva del Garda, Italy | |
| 1992 – 1995 | Singer / dancer in various dance-theatre pieces (choreogr.: Rina Shenfeld, Lionel Hoche) | |
| 1995 | Arrangement of a Medley for a cappella trio in the video-dance production "Le Chant de la Violette" by Ruth Walk and Lionel Hoche, participated also as singer / dancer | |
| 1995 | Arrangement of a Medley of children’s songs for a cappella quartet and participation also as tenor for anniversary program of the Israeli children’s channel | |
| 1994 | Arrangement for a cappella choir (of dancers, participated also as singer) in the video-dance production "Adlibitum" by Gabriel Bibliowicz and Dana Parness | |
| 1992 | Singer for recording of the electronic opera "The Kastner Trial" by Arie Shapira, 1991 - 1994 (AS-001) | |
| 1987 – 1989 | Tel-Aviv Philharmonic Choir; choirmaster: Steven Sloane | |
| 1986 – 1988 | Tel-Aviv Conservatory Youth Choir, choirmaster: Steven Sloane. | |