Biography
Born in Austria, Georg Reischl began his dance training with Rosa Hartlieb in Salzburg and attended the Vienna Opera Ballet School under the direction of Michael Birkmeyer. In 1993, he joined the ensemble of Liz King in Heidelberg. Thereafter, Reischl danced 4 years with Scapino Ballet Rotterdam.
In 1999, Georg Reischl joined Ballet Frankfurt, where he experienced the repertoire and the collaborative creative process with William Forsythe. After the closing of Ballet Frankfurt, Reischl continued with the newly formed “The Forsythe Company”.
Asked to become the resident choreographer for Scapino Ballet Rotterdam, Reischl left the company in 2006. As resident choreographer of Scapino Ballet, from 2006-2010, Reischl has created numerous pieces for the company, as well as formed important relationships on an international level.
As a choreographer, Georg is known for his abstract and highly energetic work that appeals to the fantasy and the concentration of the viewer. The clarity of structure and detailed physicality result in pieces that evoke emotions and create an unpredictable and intense edge, without telling a linear story. In his work, he is not afraid of the experimental but also understands, how to embed the idea of tradition and repertoire. His choreography involves the dancer entirely, and preparing their sensibility to the “moment of performance”not to fall into patterns of reproduction. Not a symbolic delivery, but a pure physical outcome create the atmosphere and the content of each piece.
Choreographic Timeframe:
| 2019 | “Creations” Ballett Kiel (30.3.2019) “t.b.a.” Artez Arnheim “t.b.a.” HfMDK Frankfurt am Main |
| 2018 | “Let’s Bowie!” Tanz Luzerner Theater (13.10.2018) |
| 2017 | “Variationen des Seins” Tanz Luzerner Theater (15.9.2017) “Nowness” MUK Wien “ground of nothing” Artez Arnheim (8.6.2017) “Zeitsprünge” Staatsballett Hannover (14.1.2017) “Maybe pink” HfMDK Frankfurt am Main |
| 2016 | “Up/Beat” Tanz Luzerner Theater (23.9.2016) |
| 2015 | “Verflixte Nähe” Ballett Augsburg (21.3.2015) “Frankfurt Diaries” Gärtnerplatz München (19.11.2015) |
| 2014 | “Straying Stardust Fringe Arts Festival Philadelphia (5.9.2014) “Arie für Zehn” Ballett Kiel (15.5.2014) |
| 2013 | “Golden Trash” Kölner Tanztheaterpreis 2013 “Golden Trash” eine Produktion des MichaelDouglas Kollektiv in Kooperation mit der Orangerie-Theater im Volksgarten und dem Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum “7,8.” Tanz Luzerner Theater “Zwischen3Raum” Tanz Luzerner Theater “Feedforward” in cooperation with Michael Steinbusch für das ZZT Köln “Minutemade” Act Three, Gärtnerplatz München “Medienpreis 2013” mit Tanz Luzerner Theater, 3.Verleihung der Schweizer Medienpreise und des Schweizer Preises für Pressefotografie |
| 2012 | “Serenade” MD Kollektiv in Kooperation mit dem Schauspiel Köln, Nominierung für den Tanztheaterpreis 2012 (29.2.2012) |
| 2011 | “corpus spiritus” MD/Schauspiel Köln “Mozarts Kammertanz” Ballett Luzerner Theater “7, 8.” new version Ballett Mainz “as me” HfMDK Frankfurt |
| 2010 | “mentre dorme” HfMT Köln “Schrittmacher Festival Aachen” trible bill by Georg Reischl/Scapino “[framework] 7, 8.” Scapino Ballet |
| 2009 | “Zeitgeister” Ballet Luzern “Kleines Allegro” Scapino Ballet Rotterdam “Evening” Pretty Ugly Tanz Köln, MichaelDouglas Kollektiv Köln “September Virgin” Scapino Ballet Rotterdam “Nosy” Rotterdamse Dansacademie |
| 2008 | “7,8.” Scapino Ballet Rotterdam “Matter for a poem” Scapino Ballet Rotterdam “Signals” Cadance Den Haag: a collaboration with cora bos croese “Just boogie!” Scapino Ballet Rotterdam |
| 2007 | “Go with the flow” Tilburg “Geraum” Scapino Ballet Rotterdam “Wandelba(a)r” Frans Hals Museum Haarlem “Die Suche nach dem Kleid” Scapino Ballet Rotterdam |
| 2006 | “fo(4)r” Scapino Ballet Rotterdam “State disrupted” „Its a beautiful world“ Scapino Ballet Rotterdam |
| 2005 | “Die Suche nach dem Kleid” abcdance St. Pölten |
| 2004 | Set for “Morning Ground” (David Dawson) The National Ballet Amsterdam |
| 2003 | “State Disrupted”, in 3 acts Ballet Frankfurt and Scapino Ballet Rotterdam “Located behavior, shaped in attitude” Reprise: Scapino Ballet Rotterdam |
| 2002 | “Temporary Spaces” Scapino Ballet Rotterdam |
| 2001 | “State Disrupted” Scapino Ballet Rotterdam “INdirIRGENDWO” Volksoper Wien |
| 1999 | “SOMEWHERE around, AROUND somewhere” Scapino Ballet Rotterdam |
| 1998 | “Located behaviour, shaped in attitude” Scapino Ballet Rotterdam |
| 1997 | “Insert the start from” Tanz Theater Wien |
| 1996 | “One-but not the same” Scapino Ballet Rotterdam |
