BARBARA KAUFMANN

Rehearsal Director – The Rite of Spring

Barbara Kaufmann trained at Iwanson International School of Contemporary Dance in New York and Paris, the Royal Ballet Academy Stockholm, Folkwang University of the Arts under Hans Züllig and Jean Cébron, and with Maestro Alfredo Corvino.

She has danced with the Jessica Iwanson Dance Company, Tanzprojekt München with Birgitta Trommler, the Folkwang Tanzstudio with Susanne Linke, and with Pina Bausch (since 1987).

Since 2002, Kaufmann has been working as rehearsal assistant for The Rite of Spring, Iphigenie auf Tauris, and The Tannhäuser Bacchanal and as rehearsal director for Since She by Dimitris Papaioannou. She has also been a rehearsal director for the Pina Bausch Foundation at English National Ballet and Ballet Flanders for The Rite of Spring and at the Semperoper for Iphigenie auf Tauris.

Additional affiliations include her appearance in the Wim Wenders film Pina (2011) and collaborating on the development of video annotation, oral history projects, and direction of documentation at the Pina Bausch Foundation. She was awarded the Isadora Tanzpreis in 2012.