Dance to the "Alpine Symphony": Pupils perform as part of the Strauss Days

Created: 05/16/2022Updated: 05/16/2022 8:14 am

By: Franziska Pavel

The rehearsals with dance artist Ellen Steinmüller and her three-person dance team have already started.

The school works with a performance-oriented way of working, which is specifically aimed at inexperienced dancers.

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GAP – "Young people show what they're made of," dance artist Ellen Steinmüller puts it in a nutshell.

That is the goal of the project "Alpine Symphony - a dance project", which was initiated by the Kiwanis Club Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

Expressive and having a lot of fun, the participating students move through the sports hall during rehearsals.

It is already the fourth dance project that is being organized at the Mayor Schütte School.

As in the past, the school is working hand in hand with the Kiwanis Club and the Richard Strauss Institute to implement this.

In the last year, the students implemented the "Alpine Symphony" by Richard Strauss (1864-1949) in an art project.

The resulting works were presented at a vernissage during the Strauss Days.

This year the lively program music, which was first performed in 1915, is to be danced to.

As a 15-year-old, the passionate mountaineer Strauss went on a hike to the Heimgarten and got caught in a storm on the way down.

The next day he fantasized about this experience at the piano.

From this memory came the concept of describing an all-day mountain ascent in a symphonic poem.

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Dominik Sedivy from the Richard Strauss Institute knows how important the "Alpine Symphony" is in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

"Strauss is within reach here," says the Strauss connoisseur.

He is happy that he can convey the local culture to the children through the project.

All of the sensations in the work are transported through the choreography by dance artist Ellen Steinmüller.

The rehearsals with her and her currently three-person dance team have already started.

The school works with a performance-oriented way of working, which is specifically aimed at inexperienced dancers.

All you need to get started is energy and, according to Steinmüller, the children have “tons of that”.

It is important to her that she does not want to make dancers out of the children, but gives them skills for life.

Headmistress Stefanie Schmidt is also enthusiastic about the project, because she can “give the children something from every side”.

The 5th to 8th graders can then show what they have learned on Thursday, July 28, 2022.

During the Strauss Days, they will perform at 10:30 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. in the Werdenfels Hall in the Kongresshaus.

The morning performance is intended as a school event.

Around 100 schoolchildren will appear on the stage in July.

Until then, there will be regular training every week in the school gym.

The intensive phase begins 14 days before the performance and after the closing date for grades.

From then on, there will be six hours of dancing every day.

In order to manage the workload, a fourth dance artist joins the training.

Peter Bitzl, President of the Kiwanis Club, looks forward to being on stage to see what the children have achieved.

And hopes that they can take something away from the project for themselves and for life.

The morning performance is intended as a school event.

Around 100 schoolchildren will appear on the stage in July.

Until then, there will be regular training every week in the school gym.

The intensive phase begins 14 days before the performance and after the closing date for grades.

From then on, there will be six hours of dancing every day.

In order to manage the workload, a fourth dance artist joins the training.

Peter Bitzl, President of the Kiwanis Club, looks forward to being on stage to see what the children have achieved.

And hopes that they can take something away from the project for themselves and for life.

The morning performance is intended as a school event.

Around 100 schoolchildren will appear on the stage in July.

Until then, there will be regular training every week in the school gym.

The intensive phase begins 14 days before the performance and after the closing date for grades.

From then on, there will be six hours of dancing every day.

In order to manage the workload, a fourth dance artist joins the training.

Peter Bitzl, President of the Kiwanis Club, looks forward to being on stage to see what the children have achieved.

And hopes that they can take something away from the project for themselves and for life.

The intensive phase begins 14 days before the performance and after the closing date for grades.

From then on, there will be six hours of dancing every day.

In order to manage the workload, a fourth dance artist joins the training.

Peter Bitzl, President of the Kiwanis Club, looks forward to being on stage to see what the children have achieved.

And hopes that they can take something away from the project for themselves and for life.

The intensive phase begins 14 days before the performance and after the closing date for grades.

From then on, there will be six hours of dancing every day.

In order to manage the workload, a fourth dance artist joins the training.

Peter Bitzl, President of the Kiwanis Club, looks forward to being on stage to see what the children have achieved.

And hopes that they can take something away from the project for themselves and for life.