Heidi Vierthaler
Dance education
1980 – 1986 Full scholarship at Pacific Northwest Ballet School, Seattle, WA. USA Director, Francia Russell
!974- 1980 Snohomish County Dance Center Director, Katie Bruce , Lynnwood, Wa.USA Work experience
Professional
2004 – 2006 The Forsythe Company, Frankfurt, Germany Director: William Forsythe Dancer & collaborator in works by William Forsythe – Repetoire: Three Atmospheric Studies, The Loss of Small Detail, First Detail, Room as it was, One Flat Thing Reproduced,Kammer/Kammer – Touring: Brussels, Dresden, Montpelier
2005 Guest artist,at the “Side Step festival”in Helsinki,Finland, performing William Forsythes “Vile Parody of Address”
2004 Guest Artist,for the Contemporary Art Network,tokyo ,Japan. Improvisation Performance with members of the Forsythe Company 2002 – 2004 Ballet Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany Director: William Forsythe Dancer & collaborator in works by William Forsythe – Repetoire: The Loss of Small Detail, Second Detail, Eidos:Telos, Kammer/Kammer, The Vile Parody of Address, 33/3, Decreation, We live Here, Enemy in the Figure,including the creations and collaberations with company members Georg Reischel, Prue Lang, and Sang Jijia,as well as film work with Talal Alamuhana Touring:Madrid, Rio de Janeiro, San Paolo , London, Paris, Berlin ,London, New York City, Düsseldorf, Lille, Antwerpen, Washington D.C.
2002 Tero Saarinen Company,Guest artist for “Kaze”,performed at the Kuopio Dance festival 2002, and The Bruckner Fest 2002 in Linz Austria 2002 Guest Artist,”Dance Salad”Houston, Texas,performing William Forsythe’s, Herman Schmerman Pas de Deux
1999 – 2002 Göteborgs Operan Ballet, Göteborg, Sweden Under the direction of Anders Hellström Performing experience: William Forsythe – Herman Schmerman Pas de Deux, Enemy in the Figure, Artifact part 2-1st pas de deux Ohad Naharin – Axioma, Perpetum Jyri Kylian – Petit Mort Taro Saarinen – Transfigured Nights Nacho Duato – Duende Jacopo Godani – Digital Secrets, Magnitude, Twilight Arias Pascal Touzeau – My Other Hand Martino Muller – R.A.M., Romeo and Juliet Brigitte Ehgerblad – From me to you touring :Tampere,Finland, Tanz Festival Bregenz, Austria 2001
1998 – 1999 Ballet Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany Under the direction of Dirk Elwert – Performing experience: Mark Dendy – Swan Lake-Odette, Odile (modern version) Jean Renshaw – Bedtime Stories, Ikarus
1996 – 1998 Tanzwerk Nurnberg, Nurnberg, Germany Under the direction of Dirk Elwert & Jean Renshaw – Performing experience: William Forsythe – Vile Parody of Address Rui Horta – Color Blind. Jacopo Godani – Radical, Mistaken Frank Handler & Diane Elshout – Skin Trade, Kopf Sprung Jean Renshaw – Short Ride, Romeo and Juliet,including childrens ballets,Die Vier Jahreszeiten and Rumpelstilchen
1995 – 1996 Spectrum Dance Theater, Seattle, USA - Performing experience: Dwight Rhoden – Igneous Rhapsody Lynne Taylor Corbet – Appearances Anne Reinking – Nilson Schmilson
1990 – 1994 Ballet Chicago, Chicago, USA Daniel Duell,, artistic director Performing Experience: David Parsons creation, A Hairy Night on Bald mountain – Balanchine – Apollo, Allegro Brilliante, Square Dance, Rubies Many works created on me by Daniel Duell and resident choreographer Gordon Pierce Schmidt Touring, Participating twice at the Jacobs Pillow Dance festival ,including a tour of New England,and performances at B.A.M. in Brooklyn NY
1986 – 1990 Pacific Northwest Ballet, Seattle,Wa.USA – Under the direction of Kent Stowell & Francia Russell – Performing experience: Balanchine – Theme and Variations, Four Temperaments, Violin Concerto, Rubies, Symphony in C, A Midsummers Night Dream, Brahms Schoenburg Quartett, La Valse, Stars and Stripes, Western Symphony Including many works by resident choreographer Kent Stowell - touring,Kennedy Center Washington DC,annual performances of The Nutcracker in Minneapolis, and Vancouver B.C.
Additional courses
1998 Certified Gyrotonics Instructor, certification NYC,
2008 Renewed Gyrotonics license in Vienna ,Austria with master trainer Michele Cross Teaching Septmber 2008 Teaching movement research and ballet at the Hooge School voor de Kunsten in Amsterdam, for SNDO and the MTD.
2008 Organized a 2 day workshop with 16 students of SEAD , together with the Forsythe Company 2007-2008 Teaching improvisation and ballet -SEAD (Salzburg experimental Academy of Dance)
2004 Teaching improvisation workshop for the Contemporary Art Network, Tokyo Japan
2000-2002 Certified Gyrotonics Instructor for the Göteborg Operan Ballet,Göteborg, Sweden
!994-1995 Teaching Ballet: Olympic Ballet Theater, Directors , John and Helen Wilkins
1994 -1995 Teaching beginning to advanced ballet,at the Kirkland Dance Academy
Knowledge of languages English & German
