Embodied into a family of passionate dancers and artisans, my journey on this earth began on Rose Monday (the highest carnival holiday in my area). They put a funny hat on my head & shoved me through the hallway, while outside colourful street-parades took part. I was born into art in motion.
This filled my childhood from the beginning, drawing while sitting on potty, swinging & singing wherever I could. Found my way from Standard to Jazzdance to Rock'n'Roll (with Showdancing) to modern-dance, contact improvisation and butoh... Curiosity about how the arts speak through, connect and serve us, lead me to study arts & art therapy.
In 2003, right after my Diploma, this guided me into my first 5Rhythms exploration-group, and I never left on my way to find a place for my offerings as servant with & through the arts.
I never met Gabrielle physically, and always meet her in our dances and visions. She taught us "...the art of inspiring people to turn themselves inside out, transform their suffering into art, their art into awareness and their awareness into action.“ So I embraced the pain in paintings, danced my 2nd son into this world, transformed heartbreaks to breakthroughs and fell in love with the whole "holy shit" - the art of being human.
Nowadays I'm working as performance artist in nature & urban settings, painter, art-teacher and I'm teaching 5Rhythms Waves in several classes and workshops (also online & outdoors) in Bonn and around and travel for teaching and co-creative projects.
At the end of this strange year of 2020, we'll take 5 days to relax, recover and regain strength. At the beautiful terrain of my former art University, surrounded by nurturing nature and in company with other art courses, we'll dance our inside out, soothe our hearts with sounds, find poetry in the chitty-chatter of our minds, explore ritual theater & stretch into the medicine of being art in motion.
Dostojewski wrote: "To dare to take a new step, to utter a new word is what people fear most." But what could be more refreshing than to dance beyond your limits, to jump into the dark and to let yourself be carried only by your trust that you can become a living work of art?
