PLACE OF BIRTH

Born in Ridgewood, New Jersey, USA

EDUCATION

• Amherst College, Amherst, MA, USA, Liberal  Arts Programme- Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Dance
• The Juilliard School NYC, New York, USA
• Training as a Feldenkrais teacher (Certificate of Feldenkrais Studies and acceptance as a certified teacher in the Feldenkrais Guild of America)
• MFA Candidate, State University of New York, Brockport NY, USA (focus on Somatics and Laban Movement Analysis)

CAREER

Dance career includes:

Dance theatre, Staatstheatre Darmstadt and St?dtische Bühnen Freiburg, worked with Tanzprojekt Munich, Susan Quinn and Company, Munich Art Ensemble, ETA-Tanztheatre, Tanztheatre Neger, Kei Takei’s Moving Earth Theatre, Tanzatelier Sebastian Prantl, Susan Marshall and Dancers, Philip Grosser Dances, Mark Taylor and Friends, Charles Moulton and Company, Daniel Lewis Dance Repertory Company, Juilliard Dance Ensemble; works by Paul Taylor, José Limón, Doris Humphrey, Anna Sokolow, Wendy Hilton, Daniel Lewis; role of deputy choreographer in the TV film: “Wenn ich die Antwort wüsste”(1997), WDR; TV shows include “Die Harald Junke Show”, “Verstehen Sie Spa??”

Choreography career includes:

Artistic director of the internationally active ensemble: Coogan Dancers, a repertoire company whose productions have been shown at many festivals including Spring Dance/Utrecht NL, Tanz im August/Berlin, Riverside Dance Festival/NYC USA, Spring Dance Week/Prague, Tanzwerkstatt Europa/Munich, Wiener Festwochen/Vienna, Tanzplattform Deutschland/Berlin, Mousonturm/Frankurt, Dokumenta/Kassel, Tage der Zeitgen?ssischen Musik/Dresden; commissioned works: Tanztheatre-Ensemble der St?dtischen Bühnen in Darmstadt, for the Ballett am Staatstheatre Nuremberg, for the Munich Art Ensemble, Tanztheatre Neger, for students at Towson University; USA and the State University of New York at Brockport

TEACHING EXPERIENCE/RESEARCH

• Teaching in the fields of:  Contemporary/Modern Dance, Composition, Methodology of Contemporary Dance, Laban Movement Analysis, Body Awareness Method
•  Professor of Contemporary Dance, Palucca University of Dance Dresden
• Assistant Professor, State University of New York, Brockport, NY

Additional teaching commitments include: TU Dresden, Faculty of Architecture; 捷报比分 Musik und Theatre, Zürich; Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Art, Berlin; Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, Dresden; University of Dance and Circus, Stockholm; Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts (HfMDK); Towson University Maryland USA, Limòn Institute NYC, New World School of the Arts, Miami USA; Rotterdamse Dansakademie; Dance ensembles of the St?dtischen Bühnen in Nuremberg, Oldenburg, Osnabrück, Freiburg, Gie?en, Darmstadt, Brunswick, Compagnie de Danca de Lisboa (P), Ballett Jeune d’Europe,(F); Ballet Junior de Genève, Geneva; Company Dance Berlin; Dance Center Iwanson, Munich; Tanzprojekt Munich; Tanztendenz München e.V.; Sinner Schauspielschule, Munich; Schauspiel Studio Gmelin, Munich; CompanyDance Berlin, Tanz im August, Berlin; Tanzwerkstatt Europa, Munich; Tanzfabrik Berlin