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BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC RUSSIA ANTENNA THEATER SUSANNE LINKE

- ~-~=~-- I F EST I V A L • 8 5 BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Harvey Lichtenstein, President and ChiefExecutive Officer !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LEPERCQ SPACE Th~, December 3, 1985 at 7:00 pm Wednesday, December 4, 1985 at 8:00 pm Thursday, December 5, 1985 at 8:00 pm Friday, December 6, 1985 at 8:00 pm Saturday, December 7, 1985 at 8:00 pm Sunday, December 8, 1985 at 2:00 pm SUSANNE LINKE in SOWS New York debut Choreography Susanne Linke Lighting Johan Delaere Stage Management Merce ·Mayor General Management Anne Neumann SWANS WEIGH ... (Es schwant...) music: Pathetique (6th symphony 3rt! movement)' by Peter Tchaikovsky BATH TUBBING ... (1m Bade wannen) music: Gymnopedies. & En Habit de ChevaZ·for orchestra by Erik Satie intermission ORIENT-OCCIDENT music: Orif'Tlt-Occident by· Yannis Xenakis FWOD (Flut) music~ recording of a rehearsal with Pablo Casals as conductor of the piece EZegie by Gabriel Faure. This solo guest performance was made possible by the kind support of the Goethe-Institute.

NEXT WAVE Festival Traffic Control: Bob Thlipan NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL 1985 The NEXT WAVE Production and Touring Fund is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts. the National Endowment for the Humanities. the Rockefeller Foundation. the Ford Foundation. the Pew Memorial Trust. Remy Martin AmeriLila Acheson Wallace. the National Institute for Music Theater, the William and Mary Greve Foundation. Inc.• the Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation. Schlumberger Foundation. Inc.• the New York City Department ofCultural Affairs:arid Cointreau America. Inc. WNYC-FM 94 is the official radio station of the·NEXT JomVE. . The presentations ofthe Pina Bausch Tanz~ate~-Wt;PPe~C the Reinhild Hoffmann Tanztheater Bremen, Mechthild Grossmann and Susanne Linke , have been made possible in part by a special grant from Goethe House New York. "- Joseph V. Melillo, Director Michael O'Rand, General Manager Julia·Gillett, Director ofProduction

23 SUSANNE LINKE Essen, West-Germany Folkwang-center of music and art, in which resided Freya, the goddess of beauty in Germanic mythology_ This is the place which proVided the name for the school of Music and Performing Arts in Essen, whose dance department was installed by Kurt Jooss in 19Z7_ The most important and influential chore­ ographers of contemporary dance theater in Germany have emerged from this school. Along with Pina Bausch and Reinhild Hoff­ mann, Susanne Linke is one of those acclaimed dancers who is closely connected with the Folkwang School. Susanne Linke first studied dance with Mary Wigman in Berlin from 1964 to 1967. There it became possible for her to work ORIENT-OCCIDENT (1984) Solo from Susanne Linke with Dore Hoyer, a famous German solo dancer, whom Linke admired and venerated. Susanne Linke came to Essen in 1967, and there completed her studies in dance. For three years after that, she belonged to the school's small dance-ensemble, which was directed at that time by Pina Bausch, the suc­ cessor to Kurt Jooss. In 1973 Susanne Linke (together with Reinhild Hoffmann for the first two years) took over the direction of this group herself, which proved to be so aestheti­ cally important for German dance theater, and which became internationally known as Folkwang Tanzstudio. In 1978 she was awarded the Folkwang prize for her achievements with the ensem­ ble, and in 1979 she studied in New York with the hel'p of a scholarship from the Cul­ ture Ministry of North-Rhine-Westphalia. In 1981, Susanne Linke was invited to Lima, Peru through the Goethe Institute, to FLOOD (1981) Solo from Susanne Linke work as guest choreographer with dancers from the Peruvian National Ballet, and in 1983 she worked with the biggest Modern Dance Company in Argentina, in the Teatro San Martin in Buenos Aires. The premiere of her new solo choreog­ raphy in four acts, Schritte verfolgen, in which she collaborated with the visual artist VA Walfl, took place at the Berliner Festspiele in September. A particular style, which combines Ger­ man dance tradition as well as influences from American modern dance, characterizes Susanne Linke's choreographic work. Her themes are the basic conditions of human existence, the individuals' quarrel with self and surroundings, and the never-ending search for the sense and essence of life. As a master of quiet, flowing sequences of movement, whose forcefulness recall the body-harmonics of expressionist dancing, Susanne Linke presents the solo-program, which she has performed with great success in recent years at German and international festivals, among others in France, Holland, Italy, Great Britain, India and South America. FLOOD (1981) Solo from Susanne Linke