About
short bio
Welcome – my name is Anne (she/her). I am a dance artist who relocated from Berlin to Ireland in late 2024 and am now based in Portlaoise in the Irish Midlands. Since moving, I have focused on developing my choreographic voice while sharing my passion for dance through teaching and community engagement.
My recent work includes the creation of my solo dance project SWAMP, which I performed on several occasions in 2025, with further guest performances planned for 2027. I also created two works in collaboration with the second-year BA Contemporary Dance students at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick: PURPLE CLOUDS as part of Springboard ’26 and HOLDING IT TOGETHER for the Hunt Museum, Limerick.
Other notable choreographic projects include the conception and choreography of the performative walk RHYTHMS OF LIVING, created in collaboration with Laure Catugier and other artists, as well as FLUID BODIES, TIDAL VOICES, developed together with Teresa Maria Forthaus and FREYAS.connective, of which I am a founding member.
As a teacher and facilitator, I have been working since 2025 as a lecturer in Contemporary Dance, Improvisation, and Choreography at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance. I also lead Inclusive Dance sessions for people experiencing mental health challenges and for older adults, and collaborate with Tipperary Dance as a producer and workshop facilitator. From September to December 2025, I was Artist-in-Residence with the Laois Youth Dance Ensemble. In addition, I am a certified Pilates instructor with Polestar and have been teaching Pilates alongside my dance career since 2012. In early 2025, I completed the Rambert Grades Syllabus Training to further develop my pedagogical skills in Contemporary Dance.
My journey as a professional dancer began with my studies at the Cologne University of Music and Dance (HfMT Köln) and the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp/AP University of Applied Sciences and Arts. Since graduating in 2010, I have worked as a performer and choreographer across the fields of contemporary dance, dance theatre, performance art, opera, and contemporary music theatre.
For many years, I collaborated closely with director Simon Möllendorf and his company DORFPRODUCT at studioNAXOS in Frankfurt am Main, as well as with opera director Claus Guth, primarily at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin. Among others, I have worked with the following choreographers: Verena Steffen/Company STEVE, Mathieu Guilhaumon, Sommer Ulrickson, Ramses Sigl, Yu Otagaki, Maria Rutanen, Carina Otte, Dorothea Eitel/company urbanReflects, Matan Zamir, Alexandra Pirici, Sarah Vella, Liz Erber, and Willi Dorner.
In autumn 2023, I completed a Master's degree in Dance Studies at Freie Universität Berlin, where I also worked as a mentor for the programme for two years. These studies continue to inform and enrich my work as both an artist and educator.
A detailed record of my artistic and professional experience can be found in my CV (click to download).
artistic statement
My choreographic work is mostly collaborative and includes artistic research, choreographic works and video projects that are centered around the exploration of psychosomatic states: In what ways can psychological phenomena express themselves physically? What expression, form and qualities of movement can they take on? To what extent can these observations be the starting point for artistic processes, which in turn address socially relevant issues? These questions shape my artistic handwriting, which is characterised by a subtle interplay of abstraction, clarity and complexity.
Another focus of my work are site-specific projects in urban and rural spaces. Associations to elements of architecture, nature as well as imagined and fantastical worlds are brought to life and sometimes humanised through the language of movement.
The combination of dance and music - or rather the musicality of movement - forms another important element of my artistic work.
What drives me is the search for what lies hidden - for what can be glimpsed behind the obvious. What is it that really moves us?
It is important to me to ask uncomfortable questions and open up new perspectives which create access to our inner experiences and feelings and, in doing so, focus on personal and collective challenges.