ABOUT / INFLUENCES
SUSANNE ANNA ELISABETH SCHNEIDER
Based in Munich, Susanne works as a dancer, dance educator, researcher, dramaturge, choreographer and pilates-/personal trainer.
Her movement practice is informed by somatic and movement approaches such as counter technique, release technique, acrobatics, breakdance, BMC, Feldenkrais, Ideokinesis and Klein Technique, as well as by diverse choreographic languages and anatomical limitations. She values both: wild-and-crazy-physicality and anatomically-informed-movement.
In formats such as Physical Introduction and Physical Traces, she creates sensorial entry points for audiences before and after dance performances.
Susanne teaches classes for professional dancers, workshops for less experienced dancers and projects in schools with a focus on kinesthetic empathy. A central aspect of her work is bringing artistic research into educational contexts and blurring the boundaries between studio and stage, training and performance. This approach is reflected in her research with dance artist Katelyn Skelley on breath as a possible practice of coexistence; in “Kleine Entdecker:innen” at Schauburg and in “Bewegte Anatomie”, a format for schools developped together with artist Judith Hummel. She was part of the Nomadic Academy by Anna Konjetzky and together with the Playground & Co team, co-organized various exchange formats for professional dancers and interested participants in Munich. Until 2026 she served as a guest artistic director of the Bad Lemons Project. In 2024, “Viva Wasser” , a dance performance for babies, co-created with the dance artist Laura Saumweber , premiered at Schauburg München.
Susanne began her dance training in Barcelona in 2007. She studied Educational Science, European Ethnology and Comparative Religious Studies at the LMU in Munich, before graduating in 2014 with a BA in Dance from the University of University of Dance and Music in Cologne (HfMT Köln).
Since 2013 she has worked closely with CocoonDance, taking on different roles and exploring multiple ways of contributing to collaborative artistic processes. As a freelance dancer she has co-created works situated between contemporary dance, new circus and fine arts with Overhead Project and Özlem Alkis as well as with Stephan Herwig.
To deepen her interest in education and artistic transmission, she completed the MA Contemporary Dance Education at HfMDK Frankfurt. In 2020, she graduated with a master's thesis on kinesthetic empathy in contemporary dance training.
Photo by Alessandro De Matteis
︎ ︎ Kontakt
PRESSE
AVISO - Magazin für Kunst und Wissenschaft in Bayern
Verbindungen schaffen Partizipation 02/22 (link)
