Ulrike Quade
Ulrike Quade is one of Holland’s most outstanding visual theatre makers. She has created her personal theatrical signature by combining puppetry, dance, (physical) theatre and scenography. She consistently explores her personal theatrical language, in which the expressive power of visual images is of the greatest importance. The productions speak directly to audiences through their intensity, naivety and openness, and in the surprising way that objects and subjects come to life.
Quade graduated from the theatre making department of the Utrecht School of the Arts with a Master’s degree in scenography. Quade was the first Dutch director to be awarded a Directors Lab Scholarship by New York’s Lincoln Center in 2004.
Together with Duda Paiva, she created the successful performances Dead Orange Walk, Two Old Ladies and the double bill Nude Volume/Angel. Dead Orange Walk was nominated the most remarkable and innovative performance of the New Theatre Makers Series of the 2003/2004 season.
Me too – a sideshow (2006), about Siamese twins, was her first solo project. In 2007, Quade collaborated with director Jos van Kan on The Second Goodbye; a co-production with the Taiyuan Puppet Theatre Company in Taipei, Taiwan. In the same year, she was invited by the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Arts in the USA to make a first version of The Wall, which she created in 2008. Besides touring the Netherlands, The Wall was also presented at the Figurentheater Festival in Germany and at the Biennale Internationale des Arts de la Marionnette (BIAM) ‘09 in Paris, France.
The Writer, her most recent project, is an international co-production with the Nordland Visual Theatre Festival Stamsund in Norway and the Norwegian company Jo Strømgren Kompani. In 2009 and 2010, The Writer will tour the Netherlands and several other countries in Europe.
Ulrike Quade is supported by het Nederlands Fonds voor Podiumkunsten+.
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