Cardoon Club
Henrietta Horn
Choreographer and dancer Henrietta Horn studied at the Deutsche Sporthochschule (German Academy of Sport) in Cologne where she majored in Elementary Dance. It was here that she gained a practical and theoretical understanding of the functional workings of the body and first became interested in choreography during improvisation-based classes.
In 1992 she co-founded the dance group Terza e Uno where she worked as a dancer and choreographer and developed her first works. She went on to study professional dance at the Folkwang Academy in 1996, where the purely dance environment gave her the scope to concentrate on the fundamentals of technique at the same time as pursuing her development as a choreographer.
After her studies Henrietta began work as freelance choreographer, creating a number of works that were shown in Germany and abroad. Together with Pina Bausch she took over the artistic directorship of the Folkwang Tanzstudio in 1999.
Henrietta’s work is influenced by her own movement research, background and energy. She considers movements down to the last detail, traces them to their beginnings, deciphers them and reveals the original driving forces behind them. Her work centres on the phenomena of movement and the diverse means of perceiving and creating it. Her choreography tends more towards pure dance than dance theatre. She has developed a highly personal body language that is hallmarked by formal stringency, clear structures and a highly adept use of space, dynamic and rhythm. Her movements, which seem to come from the everyday, are filtered and reduced to the essential. Seen like this, they transpose inner motivating forces in physical images that wake emotional associations on the viewer’s part.