Richard Siegal

[2] Siegal has been commissioned by institutions including Bayerisches Staatsballett, Berlin Staatsballett, Ballet National de Marseille, Ruhrtriennale, GöteborgOperans Danskompani, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, Sao Paulo Dance Company, Bodytraffic, Festival d'Automne, Munich DANCE Biennial, The Forsythe Company, Ircam, Centre Pompidou, Tanz im August, Ballett Frankfurt, Théâtre National de Chaillot, Tanztheater Wuppertal, and Kolumba Museum Köln.

[3] He has collaborated with composers including Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch, Alva Noto, Alberto Posadas, L’Ensemble Intercontemporain, Diane Labrosse, Arto Lindsay, and Hubert Machnik, Markus Popp, and Njamy Sitson.

Collaborations with visual artists, architects and industrial designers include Anish Kapoor, Konstantin Grcic, François Roche, and Didier Faustino.

Collaboration with costume and fashion designers include Alexandra Bertaut, Flora Miranda, Bernhard Wilhelm, Becca McCharen/Chromat, and Marta Jakubowski, together with stylist Edda Gudmundsdottir.

The evening was interdisciplinary, featuring dance performances and electronic music from Raster Norton—a label headed by Carsten Nicolai, who would become one of Siegal’s foremost collaborators.

In December 2018, Siegal’s first full-length production made at the Schauspiel Köln, entitled Roughhouse, had its world premiere, with additional funding from Kulturstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen.

New Ocean featured lighting by Matthias Singer, music by Alva Noto (Carsten Nicolai), and costuming by Flora Miranda—a combination typical of most of Siegal’s works which make use of novel contributions from fashion, sound, and technology as means of advancing the artistic ideas underscoring his creations.

After revising New Ocean for a series of durational six-hour performances adapted to the conditions of the pandemic in October 2020, All for One and One for the Money—a multimedia work for which a unique interactive digital platform was developed—premiered online.

As If Stranger (2006) The New 45 (2008) ©oPirates (2010) Civic Mimic (2011) Black Swan (2012) the world to the darkness and to me (2013) Unitxt (2013) If/Then for Strings (2014) Metric Dozen (2014) In a Landscape (2015) My Generation (2015) Model (2015) Excerpts of a Future Work on the Subjects of Chelsea Manning (2017)