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Podcast No.1 Release date: 3.18.22
Robert Solomon is an international choreographer, dancer, stage designer and dance teacher.
He began his career 1965 in NYC with Alwin Nikolais and Murray Louis and danced soloist in Nikolais‘ Ensemble on Broadway. With his own company Solomon toured throughout the USA.
In Europe he worked with Pina Bausch and other ambassadors of contemporary dance. Solomon taught improvisation, technique and choreography at London School of Contemporary dance and at Folkwangschule in Essen. Solomon is co-founder of the “Werkstatt e.V./ tanzhaus nrw” in Dusseldorf and currently acts as artistic director of
“Jazz-Dance-Theater” and “Placement”, a school for contemporary dance in Berlin.
Solomon developed his own movement style. His “Jazz-Dance-Theatre” is based on his African-American roots, on Laban’s conceptions of movement and Nikolais’ interdisciplinary approach of dance, music and arts. With “Jazz-Dance-Theatre” Solomon promotes his students’ individual creativity as the basic idea of dance and establishes relationships between professionals and amateurs of different backgrounds.
Podcast No.2 Release date: 3.26.22
Morris Perry comes from Detroit, Michigan/USA. He studied dance and theater at the renowned Juilliard School in New York. Over the past 40 years he has performed both in the USA and in Europe. His film debut in New York was in the dance classic “Saturday Night Fever”. In Germany, he first toured with André Heller’s show “Flick-Flack”. This was followed by guest appearances in various television shows on ARD, ZDF, MDR, SWF, SAT 1, MTV and Viva. He has choreographed films such as “The Tigress”, “Das Sams”, “Rosenstraße”, “The Three Musketeers”, as well as theater productions such as “The Kings Speech” at the Schloss Park Theater Berlin, “Comedian Harmonists” and “Jekyll & Hyde” at the Theater Osnabrück and events for companies such as Daimler, Fiat, Opel, Esprit or Deutsche Telekom. In the past years Morris Perry worked as resident director, choreographer and entertainer of the show “Pomp Duck & Circumstance” in Berlin and Stuttgart and as producer of the Fujiama Nightclub Urban Music and Dance Show in Berlin, Neukölln. Morris Perry is the founder and board member of Spotlight Talent e.V. in Berlin, Neukölln – a non-profit association dedicated to promoting young talent and fostering a tolerant and inclusive society (patron Dr. Franziska Giffey).