Barbara Fuchs

Barbara Fuchs

In 2003 she began creating her own pieces as a free choreographer under the label tanzfuchs PRODUKTION. Under this label she directed altogether 15 productions for adults and 5 productions for children. Barbara has a special focus on pieces for the very young ones. In 2009 she called attention in Dusseldorf at concert hall with her successful piece "skyblue", which is a work for the very youngest audience from 0 to 24 months. Her production „Headwalkers“ – a dance performance for children from 0 to 4 years, which both were invitated to westwind 2011, theatre-meeting of the children- und and youth theatre in NRW – whereby about 8 – 11 outstanding productions of the children and the youth theatre of NRW are presented annually. “Headwalkers was presented to great acclaim at Dansens Hus Oslo, Norway in 2012 and 2013.
Her education Barbara Fuchs received at Folkwang school in Essen with James Saunders and during a longer stay in N.Y. As a dancer she was a member of the company of Fey Faust for three years, she danced with Gabrielle Staiger, at the Maja Lex dance ensemble, Ingo Reulecke, Silke Z. and was engaged at Teatro Viriato in Portugal for two years, Companhia Paulo Ribeiro (touring shows through Europe and USA). In 2002/2003 she gathered comprehensive experience as a lighting and stage engineer at Consol theatre, Gelsenkirchen.
Her pursuits were nominated and honored several times: Cologne dance theatre award, invitation to tanzstrasse, Bienaletanz nrw 09+ 11, 1. prize and audience award of the Szolo Duo Festival in Budapest, nomination Theaterzwang) and was invited to several festivals at home and abroad. Since 2009 she produces dance pieces for the very young ones – like for example „headwalkers“ in 2010 - performance for kids from 0 to 4 years which is a communal-production with the tanzhaus nrw, Dusseldorf (invitation to Krokus festival, Belgium, festival WestWind – theatre-meeting NRW 2011, duets Biennale Nürnberg ...)

pffhh..., 16. - 20. March 2022