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Ballet Director at Theater Pforzheim / Artistic Director – Center for Choreography Bleiburg-Pliberk
AWARDS
| 2026 | “Schwanensee” proposed for the German Theatre Prize “Der Faust”. |
| 2025 | Proposed for the German Theatre Prize “Der Faust”. |
| 2024 | “Nussknacker und Mausekönig” selected by Andrea Kachelrieß (Stuttgarter Nachrichten / Stuttgarter Zeitung) as the season’s most interesting production in the critics’ survey of tanz Yearbook 2024 (p. 144). Proposed for the German Theatre Prize “Der Faust”. |
| 2023 | Cultural Prize Winner of the City of Villach, Austria. Proposed for the German Theatre Prize “Der Faust”. |
| 2022 | Elected Head of the Year 2022 for Culture in Austria in 2022. |
| 2019 | Honor for outstanding achievements in contemporary dance with the Isadora Prize from the Iwanson Sixt Foundation and the City of Munich. |
| 2018 | Proposed for the German Theatre Prize “Der Faust”. |
| 2014 | “Cage” (co-choreography: Daniela Rodriguez Romero) for the I Move Company at the Saarland State Theater is honored as an award-winning production at 1st Youth Dance Meeting of the Berliner Festwochen in Berlin and awarded as the opening piece in the national competition. The production receives a further award from the Federal Ministry of Education and Science. “Da-heim” receives the Federal Prize at the Berliner Festwochen. |
| 2012 | Proposed for the German Theatre Prize “Der Faust”. |
| 2011 | Proposed for the German Theatre Prize “Der Faust”. |
| 2009 | “Wild Times” is honored by the jury of the educational initiative of the Cultural Foundation of the States to open the “Children to Olympus” congress. “Wilde Zeiten”, tanzhaus NRW Düsseldorf; nominated for the German Theatre Prize “Der Faust”. Production year: 2009. |
NEWS
| 2027 | Returning to work at the State Opera Ankara. |
| 2026 | Master of Arts in Choreography, Palucca University of Dance Dresden. Schwanensee proposed for the German Theatre Prize “Der Faust”. |
| 2024 | Artistic Director, Center for Choreography Bleiburg/Pliberk – Choreografie Zentrum Johann Kresnik – Koreografski center. |
Under Guido Markowitz’s direction, Tanz Theater Pforzheim has participated in the federal Tanzland funding programme three times, represented Baden-Württemberg at Expo Dubai and joined the state’s Minister of Culture on a delegation to India. The City of Pforzheim has sent the company to Irkutsk, Gernika and Osijek. The federal Tanz Digital programme grew out of a concept developed by Tanz Theater Pforzheim.