My professional education as a contemporary dancer at Danceworks berlin taught me different dance techniques as well as experience as performer and choreographer, having worked with different choreographers and teachers. My master’s degree in Critical Dance Studies at Free University Berlin, that I am currently studying, allows me a critical outlook on dance. The combination of a very practical with a more theoretical dance education builds my foundation as a dancer and choreographer.
Currently, I work as a freelance dancer, performer, choreographer and dance pedagogue, while advancing my training especially in acrobatics.
I started dancing in my early twenties, in the African-American social dance styles Lindy Hop, Charleston and Blues. This background is still tangible in my work, as I kept a passion for partnering, improvisation and musicality.
My bachelor’s degree in philosophy makes me an artist that highly values research and enjoys engaging with language.
Growing up in a musician’s family, I had the chance to “inherit” practical and theoretical knowledge of classical and contemporary music. I loved theatre in terms of acting as well as directing and worked as a director’s assistant (first as internship, later as job) for several opera, theatre and dance productions in Hamburg and Hanover. Having experienced other performance arts before ending up in dance, I offer an interdisciplinary approach both as dancer and choreographer.
I am president of the NGO Beyond Borders e.V. for arts and culture, international understanding and education. With my friends and co-founders of the
association, I coordinated various youth exchanges and sociocultural performance projects since 2017. Besides learning how to get things done, my
work at Beyond Borders taught me the importance of the social dimension of creative work and performance projects.