THEATRE METHODS 07
PROGRAMME

Dietlind Bertelsmann (Belgium)
 
Presentation of "Treibgut" Project
An artist’s experience in which
she confronts visual arts, music and dance, solicitating all senses.

Dietlind Bertelsmann
Dietlind Bertelsmann is a visual artist and creator of staged works, German living in Brussels. Born into a family of painters at Worpswede. Drawn to painting, literature and music, she began her studies of stage design at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus, Hamburg.

After a period at the Meisterschule für Graphik, she continued her studies of scenography at the Munich Kunstakademie. She designed stage sets in Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and the U.S.S.R.

At the same time, drawing on her theatrical experience, Dietlind Bertelsmann expressed herself through painting and graphics, reflections of an inner quest for a language born of silence.

She held several exhibitions in Brussels and abroad.

For several years now, she has been working on a cycle of performances/spectacles called “Treibgut”. In these, she stages the mobile material of her sculptures face to face with man in symbiosis with contemporary music. The unity of the transdisciplinary project is imposed by monumental sculptures made from paper which, suspended and manipulated, undergo transformations and transform space.

Her first performance “Treibgut I - adrift”, at the Chapelle des Brigittines (Brussels) comes to light in 1998, parallel to her exhibition, with Carol Vanni (dance) and Dirk Descheemaeker (clarinet).

“Khalal” treibgut 2 is set at the Machine à Eau (Mons, Belgium) in 2002 and 2003 with Claudio Bernardo (dance) and Friedrich Gauwerky (cello).

“Atem” treibgut 2b is created at the BLAC (Brussels) in 2005 with Hisako Horikawa (dance butô), Friedrich Gauwerky (cello), David Nunez (violin) and Christophe Delporte (bayan).

“Shô” treibgut 3 is currently in preparation with Su Wen-Shi (dance), Pierre Laroche (actor), Friedrich Gauwerky (cello) and musicians from Musiques Nouvelles (soprano, flute, percussion and electronics).