Ulrike Quade

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Ulrike Quade

Intense, innocent, open

Language: 

English

Contact: 

Artistic director: Ulrike Quade

T +31 (0)20 – 789 27 67 (Ton Driessen)

E tondriessen@ulrikequade.nl

I www.ulrikequade.nl

Ulrike Quade is one of the most outstanding visual theatre makers in the Netherlands. With her extraordinary and highly acclaimed technique and acting, she brings her characters to life. The figures are creations sculpted by Ulrike Quade herself and they have human features and move gracefully. They are so real that you forget that they are not of flesh and blood. Ulrike Quade’s productions are a combination of sculpture and dance, mime and performance, language and music. Sometimes performing solo, sometimes with other performers and musicians, sometimes as director, Quade’s theatre is engaged, and surprisingly nimble, surreal, ironic and poetic.

Ulrike Quade graduated from the Utrecht School of the Arts with a Masters in Theatre Design. She was inspired to take up puppetry in Japan by Hoichi Okamoto and his quirky solo puppet theatre and butoh dance.

International: 

Since her start as a theatre maker, Ulrike Quade has achieved worldwide fame with her performances. The Company has performed in venues and festivals in Europe (UK, Norway, Belgium, Germany, France, Slovenia, Italy, Serbia, Macedonia, Luxembourg), the United States, China and Taiwan. Together with Duda Paiva, she made a number of successful shows between 2002 and 2005 like Dead Orange Walk, based on the diary of the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo; Two Old Ladies, based on the collection of short stories of the same name by Toon Tellegen; and the double programme Nude Volume/Angel.

Ulrike Quade has been working independently since 2006 and almost all of her productions in the last few years have been international collaborations, such as The Writer (2009), based on the life and work of the Norwegian author and Nobel Prize winner Knut Hamsun, and Radio Exit Live (2011). Both were made in collaboration with Norwegian partners and both are still touring internationally. Another international co-production was The Wall (2008), about three historical figures pursuing their convictions with a disregard for all else.