Michio Woirgardt

Before & After is the starting clip of a new live looping series, which will be extended in the coming weeks.

At the moment Michio is composing the stage music for the full-length guest choreography by Maura Morales “Verwandlung/ Fremdkörper” at the Theater Münster for the 11-member ensemble of “TanzTheater Münster”.

Unfortunately, the premiere of the new piece of the Cooperativa Maura Morales could not take place in front of an audience. However, here are a few visual impressions of this powerful production

Michio composed the music for the new dance piece “Shaping” by the Swiss company Idem. Here is the trailer with Michio’s music:

Michio composes the music for Marguerite Donlon’s new piece “Fragile” as part of the dance evening “ZART” at Theater Hagen. Premiere is on the third of October 2020

After surviving lockdown, Cooperativa Maura Morales is back on tour with the award-winning solo “Wunschkonzert”, for which Michio composed the music. Performances in September and October at the Pumpenhaus/Münster, at the Staatstheater Darmstadt, at the International Dance Theater Festival in Erfurt, and at the Theater im Ballssal in Bonn.

Rehearsals for “Efecto Mariopsa”, the new dance theater production of Cooperativa Maura Morales, have begun with a one-month residency at Ringlokschuppen Ruhr. This is also where the premiere will take place on Nov. 27, 2020. Michio is composing the stage music and will perform it live.

Michio composes and produces the stage music for the contemporary dance theater piece “The Robbers” after Friedrich Schiller for Marguerite Donlon’s new production at the Theater für Niedersachsen

Michio is participating in the Westworld Scoring Competition 2020.

This is a competition announced by HBO and Spitfire Audio, where the music for a film sequence from the 3rd season of Westworld had to be composed and produced.

Good luck to all participants and thanks for the great opportunity!

Please keep your fingers crossed! Here is my entry:

In the inspiring environment of Cuba, Michio talks about his workflow and his compositional approach

In der inspirierenden Umgebung von Kuba spricht Michio über seinen kompositorischen Ansatz

Here is the new live looping clip “Speaking Images”, an excerpt of the stage music to “Cherchez la femme” by the Cooperativa Maura Morales

Here are some musical excerpts from the stage music for “Othello”, which Michio composed for the “Ballet Vorpommern” under Ralf Dörnen

Currently Michio is composing, arranging, recording and producing the ballet music for “Othello”, the new ballet production of Theater Vorpommern under Ralf Dörnen

Here is the official trailer of the current production of Cooperativa Maura Morales “Cherchez la femme”

At the moment the Cooperativa Maura Morales is in the middle of the production phase of “Cherchez la femme”, a piece for three dancers and a live musician about the US-American photographer Francesca Woodman
Premiere is on 20.11.2019 at the FFT-Juta in Düsseldorf

The Cooperativa Maura Morales is very much looking forward to showing the solo piece “Exceso de la nada” on October 3 and 4 in St. Petersburg and feels honored to represent the dance section of our state capital with the same piece during this year’s “Düsseldorf Days in Moscow” from October 10 to 13. In Germany, the piece will again be shown on 24 October at the Schwankhalle in Bremen and on 26 October at the Eintanzhaus in Mannheim.

The Cooperativa Maura Morales has created a commissioned work for the “Stado Compagnia Danza” within the framework of “TanzGedichte”. Premiere is on 1.8.2019 in the Stathaus Ulm.

In July the Cooperativa Maura Morales was a guest at the international dance festival Haba Na Haba in Dar Es Salam, Tanzania, with her piece “Exceso de la nada”.

Here are a few impressions of the performance:

In the first week of July 2019 the Cooperativa Maura Morales performed and taught at the “Festival Dansez Maintenant” at the “Chateau de Vetets” in France.

Here are a few impressions away from the official program: