{"id":1354,"date":"2013-09-29T15:42:39","date_gmt":"2013-09-29T15:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.msschrittmacher.de\/?page_id=1354"},"modified":"2025-08-31T12:57:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T12:57:15","slug":"zur-gruppe","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.msschrittmacher.de\/en\/zur-gruppe\/","title":{"rendered":"ON THE COMPANY"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/strong>MS Schrittmacher was founded in Berlin in 1998 by the choreographer Martin Stiefermann.<\/p>\n

From the beginning, MS Schrittmacher saw itself as a pool of freelance and long-term group choreographers, dancers, composers as well as stage, costume and lighting designers. This continuity in the work and the further development of forms and ideas were and are important aspects of the group\u2019s identity. Over the last few years, the group and its broad spectrum of pieces received increased recognition and enthusiastic responses from audiences as well as the critics.<\/p>\n

\u201cMS Schrittmacher is currently one of the impulse-giving companies in Germany. Since 1998, their pieces have been created in a field of tension between art, dance and social realities.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0(Tip Berlin)<\/p>\n

MS Schrittmacher\u2019s idiosyncratic signature is created by dealing with daily life, sociological theory and questions about general social phenomena. The dance pieces are choreographic phenomenology, always in a tension with a city\u2019s \u2013 and its inhabitants\u2019 \u2013 daily lives. Thus the group is constantly searching for traces, and in past productions has told stories of the human and typical\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cStiefermann has both x-ray vision to see social pitfalls and the ability to translate his observations into a dance language that everyone understands, without it seeming facile or obvious. Intellect combines with sensuality here, the power of dance expression with scenic confidence of form.\u201d <\/strong>(Bernd Feuchtner, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not just the bodies that tell the story; the character of the performers is also essential. On a foundation of dance and performance qualities, Martin Stiefermann develops a language of movement for the stage that can vary from piece to piece, but is always characterized by a choreographic wittiness and grotesque humor.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe dancers unveil an incredible presence, not just because the audience is so physically close. Their sometimes marked poses, their vehement physical play, their bodies\u2019 flexibility and the roughness of their physical language seems to directly penetrate the audience\u2019s nervous system. No, it\u2019s not so easy to escape the presence of these excellent (self-)performers.\u201d (<\/strong>Elisabeth Nehring, Tanzjournal)<\/p>\n

Stiefermann and his dancers are moving storytellers (in both senses), because they don\u2019t just convey their own stories; they make the audience their accomplices and demand that they accompany them on the search for the core of the piece \u2013 to re-discover stories and emotions. MS Schrittmacher\u2019s pieces are a structure made of abstract movement and action sequences, traversed by motifs with strong images and concrete stories.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe result is a new kind of theater, understandable for the audience not as a piece of pure aesthetics, but rather a piece of themselves. The objective has been reached when everyone can say \u2018That\u2019s me\u00b4 and then has to laugh about themselves.\u201d (<\/strong>Gerda Kaltwasser, Rheinische Post)<\/p>\n

Stage designs are created parallel to the choreography, which is often developed via improvisation in the rehearsal process. The designs create spaces for the language of movement and moving images.<\/p>\n

\u201eMartin Stiefermann is his own stage designer; he connects contemporary dance to the visual arts. The result? Expressive images of movement with strong visual effects.\u201d (<\/strong>Klaus Witzeling, Hamburger Abendblatt)<\/p>\n

The company received numerous individual project grants and Basisf\u00f6rderung from the Senatskanzlei f\u00fcr Kulturrelle Angelegenheiten, Berlin as well as support from the Hauptstadtkultur Fonds, Fonds DAKU, Siemens AG and the Kulturamt Prenzlauer Berg. Tours have been supported by the Goethe Institute and the International Performance Network and have brought the company to Siberia, Hungary, D\u00fcsseldorf, Herne, Nuremburg, Essen, Ludwigshafen, Freiburg, Potsdam, Leipzig, etc. From 2001-2006, the company cooperated with the Oldenburg State Theater.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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