Working with and on ice since 1993, Katja is seeking for the bridges between art and movement on the ice and the sustainable questions of our time. She is doing pioneering work in the arising art form of Contemporary Ice Skating, crossing various art genres like visual, media, light and sound artists, to find answers for my questions.
Born in the political exciting year of 1989 in Germany, she has always been torn between the needs of belonging and seperation, a rooted home and wanderlust, living in the interspace of past and present.
As educated coach, guide and pedagogue Katja challenges her fellowers and audience with the same questions and the vision of growing awareness and responsibility among them.
2022
Februar – April
Förderung durch DIS-TANZEN SOLO für die Untersuchung der Möglichkeiten von Augmented Reality in Verbindung mit Zeitgenössischem Tanz auf Eis.
Gefördert durch die Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien im Programm NEUSTART KULTUR, [Hilfsprogramm DIS-TANZEN/ tanz:digital/ DIS-TANZ-START] des Dachverband Tanz Deutschland.
July
Präsentation der Ergebnisse von no(t)ice im Ausstellungsformat
Festival DIS-TANZEN in Berlin
Ich bin zwei. Bewegungsrecherchen zur schwangeren Tänzerin
Gefördert vom Fonds Darstellende Künste aus Mitteln der Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien im Rahmen von NEUSTART KULTUR.
2021
June
Vernissage no(t)ice mit dem IceLab Leipzig
Juli – Dezember
Förderung durch DIS-TANZEN SOLO für die Evaluierung und Weiterentwicklung der Arbeitsweise im Projekt no(t)ice in Vorbereitung eines no(t)ice 2.0. Gefördert durch die Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien im Programm NEUSTART KULTUR, [Hilfsprogramm DIS-TANZEN/ tanz:digital/ DIS-TANZ-START] des Dachverband Tanz Deutschland.
2020
March
Founder of the IceLab Leipzig – movement research platform on ice
June
American Contemporary Skating Festival “Virtual Meet-Up”
initiated by American Ice Theatre, Boston
Representing UNFREEZE and the IceLab Leipzig leading the workshop “Breath to movement” with Vitale Vaugin (Berlin)
Reference: www.americanicetheatre.org
2019
Encounter // Begegnung
Artistic director, in Leipzig
Teaser
Creative Ice Skating Workshops
in cooperation with the LEC in Leipzig and Erfurt
Global Water Dances 2019
Canto Ostinato – Berlin, Germany
Hybrid Dance
at Sportgala in Salzwedel
Teaser
In the counter play between skate- and floor dance, they explore similarities and differences of the two reciprocal worlds while sharing the same habitat. The systems cooperate and influence, but can they persist to stay an individuum during a dance of interbreeding…?
Conference and Documentation Manager
at Unfreeze – 2nd Contemporary Ice Skating Festival in Berlin
Trailer
2018
Ein Stück über die Zeit (A piece about time)
in cooperation with LEC Leipzig and adult skaters from Berlin in Nordhausen and Berlin
Air Bridges
at Media Art and LUNA Festival in Leeuwarden, Netherlands
Connecting the very ground under my feet through my body with the frozen world and nature in a far distance in the projection with the goal to rise awareness in peoples minds to preserve the beauty of the ice. Using artifical ice also sets a statement for the absence of real ice.
Teaser
Creative Ice Skating Workshops
in cooperation with the LEC in Leipzig and Berlin
One minute of silence
at Unfreeze – 1st Contemporary Ice Skating Festival in Berlin
Conference and Documentation Manager
at Unfreeze – 1st Contemporary Ice Skating Festival in Berlin
Inpolar
at Spielwiese with Leipziger Tanztheater in Leipzig
2017
Anspannung
Media Art Festival/ Experiment on Ice in Leeuwarden, Netherlands
Teaser
Shortfilm – Collage
Collage from different scenes researching space in Erfurt. How does the movement quality of an ice skating dancer gets influenced by opening up the space around the movement: at a viewpoint, close to a river, next to a park with fountains.
Trailer
Workshop
Experiment on Ice in Leeuwarden, Netherlands
Photo project
in cooperation with photographer Ruslan Hrushchak and Designer Andreas Trommler
(unpublished) in Leipzig, Germany
The line
Skate’n Smile die Show in Berlin, Germany
2016
De Tocht van Morgen
Leeuwarden, Netherlands
Ice skating performer
First contemporary ice skating meeting in Berlin