2018 – 2024

choreographer . performer . dancer . outside eye 

Staatstheater Cottbus / Ich mach ein Lied aus Stille / Armin Petras / choreography  & choir
Bühnen Bern / Eurotrash / Armin Petras / co-directing & choreography
Theater Bremen / Pique Dame / Armin Petras / choreography
Kaserne Basel / YES! YES! YES! / Corinne Maier / artistic collaboration, outside eye
Bühnen Bern / Die schwarze Spinne / Armin Petras / choreography & choir& actors training
Staatstheater Cottbus / Two Penny Opera / Jentzsch - Perkin - Petras / co-directing & choreography & performance
Oper Bremen / Jenufa / Armin Petras / choreography & training
Hans Otto Theater Potsdam / Lysistrata – In den Gärten / Anna Frick / choreography & actors training
Oper Augsburg / La clemenza di Tito / Wojtek Klemm / choreography & body work
Sopiensäle Berlin / Alter Hase / choreography & training
Uferstudios Berlin, Heizhaus / Chöre des Spekulativen / S. Blasius / performance & choreography
Kaserne Basel / DieZufügung / Corinne Maier / choreography & outside eye
TJG Dresden / Als ich mit Hitler Schnapskirschen ass / Nils Zapfe / choreography & actors training
Sophiesäle Berlin / Tanz in der DDR: Was bleibt? / Sasa Asentic /performance
Hamburg Bahnhof Berlin / Retrospective / Xavier le Roy / performance
Volksbühne Berlin / Das 1. Evangelium / Kay Voges / performance
Theater Bremen / Die tote Stadt / Armin Petras / choreography & performance & training
Theater Mannheim / Würgeengel / Anna Frick / choreography
Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf / Blick von der Brücke / Armin Petras / choreography
Theater Bremen / Lulu / Petras - Perkin - Jentzsch / co-directing & choreography & performance
Vierte Welt / Cracks – Ein Familienportrait mit Lücke / Malte Schlösser / outside eye
Kaserne Basel / The end oft the world us we know it / Corinne Maier / choreography & actors training

educator . mentor . jury member

Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln, Zentrum Zeitgenössischer Tanz / Professorship
Hochschule für Musik, Theater and Medien Hannover / Movement & Movement research / Lectureship
Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main / Master of Contemporary Dance Education / Mentoring
mdw Wien Department Singing / Movement & Movement research / Lectureship
htm Rostock Department Acting / Movement & Movement research / Lectureship
Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes / Jury Dance / Jury member
Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes / Jury Choreography  / Jury member
Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main/ Master of Contemporary Dance Education / Work with different target groups in the field of performance / Lecturer 
Orff Institut Salzburg Mozarteum / Improvisation & Composition / Lectureship
Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main/ Master of Contemporary Dance Education  / Work with different target groups / Lecture

2013 – 2018 

choreographer and ensemble member at Staatsschauspiel Stuttgart

Artistic collaboration with Armin Petras, Kay Voges, Schorch Kammerun, Anna Frick, Dominik Friedel, Wojtek Klemm
Development and leadership of participation formats (AlleXTanzen!, meet the performer)
Body and movement training for actors

2009 – 2013  - 2023

freelance dancer . choreographer . teacher

Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin / Armin Petras / guest choreographer & guest performer
Kammerspiele München / Armin Petras / Choreography 
Dorky Park / Constanza Marcras / Performer
Contemporary Dance Teachings & Movement research & Partnering & improvisation & composition:
@ Tanzhaus Zürich, Palucca Hochschule für Tanz Dresden, Ecole des Beaux Arts Metz, Conservatoire de Metz, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm Tanzlabor 21 FFM, Tanzkompanie Bielefeld, Tanzkompanie Braunschweig, Tanzkompanie Osnabrück, Tanztreffen der Jugend - Berliner Festspiele, Altana Stiftung Frankfurt, mehrTanz! Leipzig, Theater Görlitz, Marameo Berlin, mehrTanz!Leipzig, Tanzkompanie Görlitz, Company Van Grimde Corps Secrets, Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin

What Isabelle Van Grimde / Van Grimde Corps Secrets said:“In Master classes Berit communicates her large artistic knowledge and experience of contemporary dance by facilitating an atmosphere of joy and respect with the students while integrating physical, theatrical and intellectual aspects of dance. I value Berit as a creative, versatile and talented artist."

1998 – 2013 

company member . international touring

Van Grimde Corps Secrets / Isabelle Van Grimde (CAN)
Ultima Vez / Wim Vandekeybus (BE)
The Forsythe Company & Schauspielhaus Zürich / William Forsythe (CH) "Human Writes" - Choreographic Objects
Galili Dance / Itzik Galili (NL)
En-knap / Iztok Kovac (SL)

Education

2021 – 2025  Feldenkrais Practitionerin®

Education Patrick Grunner / Berlin

2023 – 2024 Laban Movement Studie & Bartenieff Fundamentals

EUROLAB / Antje Kennedy / Berlin

2021 – 2022  Transformationsmanagerin Nachhaltige Kultur

Aktionsnetzwerk Nachhaltigkeit - Betriebsökologiefür Klimaneutrale Kultur und Medien

2011 – 2013  Master of Contemporary Dance Education  (MA CoDE)

Master of Contemporary Dance Education / Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts

1989 – 1998 University Dance Degree

Diploma classical dance, modern dance and improvisation / Palucca University of Dance Dresden

What Wim Vandekeybus / ultima vez said:“Berit proved to be a very gifted and remarkable performer with amazing capability on the technical, creative and executive level of dance. She is a very open-minded person with a great interest in all the aspects of contemporary dance and has a strong desire for experiment and research of movement.”

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