Marko E. Weigert is co-founder, choreographer, dancer and, together with Dan Pelleg, artistic director of the wee dance company since 1999 (04.1999 - 07.2011 in Berlin,
08.2011 - 07.2024 as head of the dance department of the Gerhart-Hauptmann-Theater Görlitz-Zittau, since 08.2024 again freelance based in Berlin).
During his 13-year tenure at the GHT as ballet director, Weigert was administrative head of the dance department. His responsibilities included budgeting, scheduling,
interdepartmental coordination and the administration of school performances and other special performances. In addition, he handled the lighting design for all dance
creations by himself and Mr. Pelleg and occasionally gave the daily dance training. Together with Mr. Pelleg, he co-choreographed 17 new full-length dance pieces, several
other dance creations, and dozens of musical and spoken theater productions. In addition, he shared responsibility with Mr. Pelleg for the company's artistic profile and
all related tasks.
Marko E. Weigert trained as a dancer, choreographer and dance teacher at the Palucca Schule Dresden and the Hochschule für Musik und Theater “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy”
Leipzig. Between 1985 and 1991, he gained additional acting experience in the ATL Leipzig theater ensemble under the direction of acting professor Bernd Guhr
(Theaterhochschule “Hans Otto”, Leipzig).
He has worked with the toladá dance company Berlin (Joseph Tmim), Compagnie Smafu Vienna (Elisabeth Orlowsky), DanceLab Berlin (Norbert Servos), Tel Aviv Dance Company
(Amit Goldenberg, Ya'ara Dolev) at the Space Dream Musical Theater Berlin (Marc Wuest), with Christoph Winkler, Sommer Ulrickson, Helge Musial, Alex B, Gundula Peuthert,
Dominique Efstratiou, Rami Levi as well as with Pyro Space Ballet, Phase7 performing. arts, Les Lionnes and art & performance.
In 1998 and 1999 he was assistant choreographer to Joseph Tmim at the toladá dance company in Berlin and Szeged, Hungary and in 1999 choreographer for the opera production
“Dido and Aeneas” at the Lausitzer Opernsommer. In 2000, his first own piece “Y” (Why) was shown at Podewil Berlin. In 2008, he choreographed for the theater production
“Bartleby” by babylon works at Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin and in the same year, together with Dan Pelleg, for the ballet of the Saarländisches Staatstheater Saarbrücken,
for the Tanztheater Görlitz the piece “Diskutanz”, and before his permanent engagement at the GHT for the world premiere of the opera “Linkerhand” by Moritz Eggert and the
operas “Orpheus and Eurydice” and “La Traviata”, both directed by Sebastian Ritschel at the Theater Görlitz. Also under the direction of Sebastian Ritschel, he choreographed
the musical “Cabaret” at the Magdeburg Opera House in 2016.
Marko E. Weigert was a guest teacher at the Staatstheater Oldenburg (Martin Stiefermann), at the Stadttheater Hildesheim (Carlos Matos) and at the cie. toula limnaios, Berlin.
He taught modern dance, composition and partnering at the balance1 dance academy in Berlin until 2011.
Together with Pelleg, Weigert has brought 20 full-length dance premieres and 5 revivals to the stages of the GHT Görlitz-Zittau (2 with guests, 3 choreographed by guests).
Together they are responsible for the choreography of 24 premieres of musical theater and drama on these stages.
In 2000, the wee dance company was appointed “Artist in Residence” at the Podwil Berlin. Until 2011, 7 full-length dance pieces and several short dance pieces were created in
Berlin. Guest performances have taken the company to theaters in 16 countries with the support of various Goethe Institutes and German consulates and to over 30 locations in
Germany.
In addition to the audience award at the “20th International Choreography Competition” at the opera house in Hanover in 2006, the company has repeatedly received final
nominations such as the “Kurt-Joos-Award” Essen (2007), the “Ursula-Cain-Award” (2017 & 2019), was a competition finalist at the dance competition “no ballet” in Ludwigshafen
(2006 & 2007) and was nominated as “Best Company 2007” for the “Dance For You Magazine”.
