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Toaspern | Moeller

toaspern|moeller, founded in 2020 by dancer/choreographer Alma Toaspern and singer/composer Mathias Monrad Møller, explores the intersection of movement and sound. In the pair’s creation processes music and dance are not created separately, but form the necessary conditions for each other. Recent works include The Combat, a combination of a ‘musicle‘ by Monrad Møller with an operatic scene by Claudio Monteverdi, as well as ERNST, a solo for Alma Toaspern, in which the dancer inhabits the role of the show monkey Ernst, who is celebrating his 80th birthday, in a festive yet clinical (electronic) environment. In their most recent duet LIEBE, Toaspern and Moeller explore the many states of being in love - from illusory harmony to desperate dissonance, while singing and dancing through a poetic stage set by artist Christian Friedländer. Their work is currently co-produced by LOFFT (GER), Theater Basel (CH) and Theater Freiburg (GER) and funded a.o. by Bikubenfonden, Augustinusfonden, Knud Højgaards Fond, Statens Kunstfonds, the German National Art Foundation Fonds Darstellende Künste and the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony, Germany.

Dancer, choreographer Alma Toaspern 🍓 studied classical and contemporary dance in Frankfurt/Main (GER) and later at P.A.R.T.S., Brussels (BE), under the direction of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. For her studies she was granted a scholarship by the German National Academic Foundation. Between 2018-2022 she was a member of the experimental dance company Corpus as part of The Royal Danish Ballet and hast been guesting at Danish Dance Theater and Ballett Basel. She works internationally among others with Bobbi Jene, Tilman O’Donnell, Ioannis Mandafounis, Renan Martins, Trajal Harrell, Ben Frost, Adolphe Binder, Alexandra Bachzetsis, The Royal Danish Orchestra and Symphonieorchester Basel, appearing at venues such as MoMA New York, Kaaitheater Brussels, Beirut Art Center and Centre Pompidou Paris.

Mathias Monrad Møller 🍭 is a Danish-German tenor and composer. Born in Odense, Denmark, Mathias grew up in Germany, and was a member of St. Thomas Boys Choir in Leipzig. He studied composition at HfMDK Frankfurt am Main and holds a BA in singing from HfM ‘Hanns Eisler’ Berlin, and an MA from RDAM in Copenhagen. He attended the Opera Academy at the Royal Danish Opera, and has sung several productions at the house. His compositions are performed throughout Europe and the US and broadcast on several national radios. He has received numerous awards, among others Hans Voigts Mindelegat as a singer, the Carl Nielsen and Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen Talent Prize as a composer and he Sonning Talent Prize. His debut album as a composer, 'The Best Version of Myself', co-produced by Deutschlandfunk Kultur, was released on the Austrian label col legno in 2021.

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