| Grace Ellen Barkey (IND / NL) |
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| Grace Ellen Barkey (IND/BE), born in Surabaya in Indonesia, studied dance expression and modern dance at the theatre school in Amsterdam and afterwards worked as an actress and dancer. Before co-founding Needcompany in 1986 and becoming its full-time choreographer, she had choreographed several other productions. She created the choreography for ›Need to Know‹ (1987), ›ça va‹ (1989), ›Julius Caesar‹ (1990), ›Invictos‹ (1991),›Antonius und Kleopatra‹ (1992) and ›Orfeo‹ (1993). She also acted in several of these productions, as well as in ›The Snakesong Trilogy - Snakesong/Le Voyeur‹ (1994), ›Caligula‹ (1997), ›Needcompany’s King Lear‹ (2000), ›Images of Affection‹ (2002), ›No Comment‹ (2003), ›The Lobster Shop‹ (2006) and ›The Deer House‹ (2008). She was one of the cast of ›Goldfish Game‹ (2002), Jan Lauwers & Needcompany’s first full-length film. For ›Isabella’s Room‹ (2004) she joined forces with Lot Lemm to create the costumes under the name Lemm&Barkey.
Since 1992 she has been steadily and successfully building an international career with her own stage creations. Her first pieces, ›One‹ (1992), ›Don Quijote‹ (1993) and ›Tres‹ (1995) were coproduced by Theater AmTurm in Frankfurt. These were followed by the Needcompany productions ›Stories‹ (Histoires/Verhalen) (1996), ›Rood Red Rouge‹ (1998) and ›Few Things‹ (2003). With ›(AND)‹ (2002) she transcends all the boundaries of theatre, dance and music. In 2005 Grace Ellen Barkey presented her new stage show, ›Chunking‹ and was nominated for the Flemish Community Culture Prizes (2005). For ›The Porcelain Project‹ (2007) she created a porcelain installation together with Lot Lemm.
2010: THIS DOOR IS TOO SMALL (FOR A BEAR)
2008: The Porcelain Project
2005: Chunking Premiere
2003: [AND]
1999: Der wunderbare Mandarin
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