CLAUDIA HEINLE 

As a choreographer, dancer, and expert in dance and ritual in Egypt, Claudia's work revolves around uncovering and analyzing movement in dance rituals. She liberates these practices from constrictive traditions, transforming them into modern choreographies and improvisations.

She learned the oral tradition from artists and artist families in Egypt. She contributes to broadening the narrow, Western-centric perspective of contemporary dance that still exists today. Her pieces convey wholeness and strive to transcend boundaries between tradition and modernity, spirituality and science, East and West.

Claudia has amassed a wealth of knowledge in the discipline of trance movements from masters in Egypt. She is a generous teacher who takes her students to unexpected energy levels. In addition, Claudia has been writing a book over the past years and has undertaken in-depth research in the field.

She worked and performed at Tanzhaus Zürich I Tanz Haus Düsseldorf I Phönix Theater Steckborn I Garage Theater Alexandria I Institut du Monde Arabe Paris I JCC Kuwait City I Theatre Altigone Toulouse I La Croisée des Cultures Genf I Offene Kirche St. Gallen I Tanzhaus Zürich I Universität Konstanz I Dreispitz Kreuzlingen I Center for African Culture Oslo I Tanz- Theaterwerkstatt Ludwigsburg I Helferei Zurich I Stadttheater Konstanz I Münster Konstanz I Klosterkirche St. Katharinental I Bibliotheka Alexandria. Claudia also managed dance productions at Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin I Café de la Danse Paris I Queen Elisabeth Hall London I Cankarjew Dom Ljubliana I Tanzhaus Stockholm I Theaterspektakel Zürich.

Born 1966 in Stuttgart (GER)