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'Creative movement and styling, including Silke Fischer’s costumes, deliver the humour. Big Wig begins with female performers in matching wigs dancing en pointe to Irish music. The wigs get sillier as dancers flick the fake hair, toss it aside, and wear it as shoulder pads and tails. The final section, set to industrial music, pares down to suggest a new generation with barely-there costumes and sexy, energetic movement.'

- Melissa Strong, Broad Street Review

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​'The given concentration of acoustic and visual power accompanies Silke Fischer with restrained clear costumes. The lighting design for which Bacovich himself is convincing in its symbolic, space-giving structuring colouring.'

- Eveline Koberg, Tanz.at

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'What is the Truth of a story? Orlando lives through more than three Centuries of English History The Architectural projections and the inspired androgynous costumes by Silke Fischer and through the music (almost exclusively) British Composers and composers nest from the Baroque become alive in the present.'

- Kleine Zeitung 

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'Skilfully she plays a role both in her movement language and also in the costumes (Silke Fischer) with the different epochs of this movement-epic.' 

- Kronen Zeitung 

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'Sketching epochs and people with a few strokes: the costumes of Silke Fischer. Due to quick and repeated changes in this area, probably also necessary reductions are as apt as they are in their (partially) symbolic allusiveness. visual pleasure and at the same time a soothing relaxation factor  in the turbulence of the action.'

- Eveline Koberg, Tanz.at  

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'Silke Fischer plays with gender identity in the costumes. In part, the dancers in timeless full-body leotards that make them appear androgynous. Towards the end then the women in trouser suits. Only some figures are dressed in clothes that are reminiscent of the Victorian times. An important element are neck braces, which are available in different shapes – sometimes also as sleeves – occur again and again.'

- Tanznetz.de 

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'There was much to see- Set Designer Silke Fischer and Stage Director Karl M. Sibelius had organized wonderfully turbulent theater scenes with lifting and lowering stage platforms for the wondrous story of The Dream Eater. The stage set and costumes (also Silke Fischer) were magical, which culminated in the hairstyle of the title character and also in the footwear of the dancers.'

- Kronen Zeitung

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Silke Fischer

Stage & Costume Designer

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Silke Fischer was born in Graz, Austria. After attending Fashion School, she studied Stage and Costume Design in Utrecht, The Netherlands and finished her studies in Graz with an honorary degree in the Arts from the University of Graz.

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Her first experience with dance was during her studies in The Netherlands working in the Costume Atelier of Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT) in Den Haag during the artistic direction of Jiří Kylián.

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On completing her studies at the age of 27, Silke was appointed Costume Director of Landestheater Linz in Austria. She worked on all opera, ballet  and drama productions in three seasons from 2005-2007. During this time, she started her collaboration with Jörg Mannes which continued at Staatsoper Hannover.

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In the following years, until 2015, Silke worked as a freelance Stage and Costume designer for various productions in opera, drama and mainly ballet and dance. During this period, she worked with Marguerite Donlon, Jörg Mannes, Peter Breuer, Daniel Morales Perrez, Darrel Toulon, Catherine Guerin and Rosamund Gilmore among many others.

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In 2015, Silke became Costume Director at Opera Graz where she mainly designs costumes for ballet productions. She also continues her collaboration with Marguerite Donlon in Graz and at BalletX in Philadelphia. In Graz - has also started new collaborations with Iratxe Ansa/Igor Bakovich, Pablo Girolami, Beate Vollack and Helge Letonja.

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In the coming 2025/26 season, Silke will collaborate with Nicolas Blanc, Iratxe Ansa/Igor Bakovich and Jann Gallois at the Ballet du Capitole in Toulouse and with Marguerite Donlon on the world premiere of Dorian Gray for the National Ballet Ljubljana in Slovenia.​

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@silke.fischer.freifrau

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