Tanzcompagnie Oldenburg, Oldenburgisches Staatstheater
Tanzcompagnie Oldenburg is the permanent contemporary dance company of the Oldenburgisches Staatstheater in Northwest Germany. Currently it comprises 11 dancers.
The company is lead by its Director Honne Dohrmann and is distinguished by its Choreographer in Residence. Israeli-born Guy Weizman has been Choreographer in Residence at Tanzcompagnie Oldenburg since 2010. He also enjoys national and international success with the Groningen based company Club Guy & Roni that he directs together with Roni Haver.
Tanzcompagnie Oldenburg is a commissioning company and is creating around three new programmes each season and performs them in Oldenburg, in the neighbour city of Bremen and abroad. Among the guest choreographers are prestigious artists like Tero Saarinen, Ina Christel Johannessen, Omar Rajeh, Arco Renz, Iztok Kovac, Marcel Leemann, Sharon Eyal or Ann Van den Broek.
Networking, cooperation and coproduction play an important role in the companies artistic policy. Dancers and collaborators are encouraged to invest ideas and commitment in order to develop a self-responsible open minded collective of artists, which understands and reflects in its work the hybrid challenges of the 21st century.