Stefan Maria Marb
Butohdancer, choreographer, producer, teacher and a psychologist with a teaching position based in munich/Germany. He trained as a contemporary dancer at the Dance Centre Iwanson and has many years danced for both national and international companies, such as the Ko Murobushi Dance Company Tokyo, Man Act London, Dance Energy Munich, TAW Vienna, the Salzburg Festival, the Kammerspiele Munich and for 20 years for the Opera Ballet of the Bavarian State Opera.
Bio
Since over 35 years he has been intensively involved with Butoh and its main Japanese representatives like Ko Murobushi, Yoshito Ohno, Carlotta Ikeda, Min Tanaka and Mitsutaka Ishi. Marb is working as a teacher for Butoh regularly for over 30 years in the form of workshops and courses at home and abroad. He invited several times his main teachers Ko Murobushi and Yoshito Ohno to munich to give workshops for his students From 1991 to 2003 he was co-founder and co-director of IN_OUT, a platform for stage choreography, dance performance and workshops. He is a member of Tanztendenz München, an association for independent and freelanced choreographers.
He has been developing his own choreographies for over 30 years. In 1988, his solo Men of good Fortune was awarded first prize at the choreography competition in Hanover. Since then, he has created a wealth of full-length, publicly funded dance productions and performance cycles, including the five-part cycle HONG 32 and the three-part Prometheus. In 2004, he created the piece Golem Part II, which was produced in Slovenia and nominated for the Slovenian Dance Award. Together with the Slovenian choreographer and butohdancer Tanja Zgonc, Marb staged and coproduced together with PTL the full-length duet Betweeen in 2008, which was performed in Ljubljana and Tokyo. After that followed the site-specific project Nevada_Body in the USA, which was later on presented as an interdisciplinary project consisting of a photo exhibition, film projection and dance performance at whiteBOX Munich. In 2016, he developed his anthology Welten.Tänzer, in which he collaborated with a philosopher and named sculptors. The performance Pygmalion's Desire he showed at the Glyptothek in Munich with the dancers of his yearly butohatelier in collaboration with the actor Gerd Lohmeyer. To mark his ‘30 years of Butoh by Stefan Maria Marb’ anniversary, he presented 2018 APRES - a transformation with a large photo exhibition and a Butohperformance at the Gasteig Munich. In 2020, he took some time out and travelled around the world.
Most recently, he produced and performed Lazarus-a white shadow, a solo stage production with live music at the Einstein theatre in Munich. In addition, Marb regularly creates special performances, which he develops in consultation with writers or with visual artists such as the painter and director Henning von Gierke.