Barbara Fuchs

Following her formal education at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen, Tanzprojekten Köln (James Saunders) and studies in New York, Barbara Fuchs worked as a dancer with various choreographers. She has worked with the Frey Faust company, danced with Gabrielle Staiger, with the Maja Lex Tanzensemble, Ingo Reulecke, Silke Z. A highlight in her dance career was her two years with the Teatro Viriato in Portugal, Companhia Paulo Ribeiro (touring in Europe and the United States).

Parallel to her activities as a dancer she developed her first choreographic works. She also amassed substantial experience as a light- and stage technician, producing light and stage designs for theatre and dance pieces. She worked on dramaturgy for Consol Theater and IP Tanz. With her first solo “Double-exposed”, she founded her own label: tanzfuchs productions. In 2004 she started her trilogy in which dance meets the movies: “Tanztat – a dance thriller”, followed by „ EXITUS a impious tragi-comedy about dance, death and the devil“ and finally „piece 2307,5: a dance fiction“.

In 2006, she founded together with Ilona Pászthy, Suna Göncü, Gerda König and Dyane Neiman the Choreographers-Network BARNES CROSSING. This dance-production center for Cologne provides professional dancers and choreographers a rooms and space for dance (performance space, rehearsal space, professional dance trainings). Recently she has completed work for the University of Cologne dance department , and a production for BARNES CROSSING: „VIA, three miniature dance-scenes“. “

It”, a solo for a body premiered in 2008. The following year she produced a quartet: “RAUSCHEN- white noise” an accessible dance sculpture and in September, her piece “SCRAP (SCHROTT)” had premiere. It is a dance and music performance created together with her long-term musical associate Jörg Ritzenhoff.She creates cleverly composed, and always humorous, irritations of our perception. These irritations have ledto a new artistic perspective concerning body, sound, and space. Like she did with her last production, „Lauschaffaire Winkler“ (Eavesdropping Affair Winkler). This research will continue in the new production below zero - a performative and sonic expedition which will premiere on November 25th 2011.

In 2009 she also made a performance piece for children with the title “Skyblue” in cooperation with the tanzhaus nrw and the sound studio, Tonhalle Düsseldorf.

Her production headwalker - a dance performance for children aged 0 to 4+  tours successful nationally and internationally. Headwalker was also nominated for the Cologne Children Theatre Award in 2010 and was invited to WestWind - the Theatre Meeting of Children and Youth Theatre in North Rhine-Westphalia.

In April 2012 she will premiere as a guest choreographer at the Comedia Theatre in Cologne with the production Out of the house