Edith is a Berlin-based Danish Dancer, Choreographer & Teacher. She graduated from the Ballet Academy Copenhagen and Iwanson International School of Contemporary Dance in Munich in 2011.
Edith began her career as a dancer working with a wide spectrum of choreographers, Jiří Kylián/Karine Guizzo, Dali Touiti, Sebastian Prantl/TanzAtelier Wien, Stephan Dreher, Ilona Roth/Transitheart Productions, Rasmus Soerinus/CampNorr/Varq de Alvo Co., Joao Cidade, Corinna Speith, FIGURA Ensemble, Doris Schäffer/Regenbogen Tanztheater, Frank Balve, Martin Eder, RP Kahl, Jahman Davine, Zawirowania Dance Theatre, and DOT504 with Thomas Steyart, to name just a few.
2018-2025 Edith was part and co-founder of Company HAA. She is now part of Collective Project Pomegranate. Her work has been supported by and presented in Ada Studios, ROZBARK Dance Theater Bytom, FITS Festival Sibiu, Sophiensaele with Fate of the Galaxies (Winner of the Jury Award at 100° Berlin), Acker Stadt Palast, Schäxpir Festival in Linz, and Nationaltheater Radu Stanca Sibiu, Romania, where she currently has two productions in their repertoire: you.topia and Woyzeck. For the latter, she was nominated for Best Directing with her co-director Hunor von Horvath at the Uniter Gala 2024. In 2021, Edith began exploring dance on film, and in 2022, she premiered her award-winning film Os, Ingen, which received, among others, the FIFF Award for Best Experimental Film and selections at On Art and the Saint Kilda Film Festival. Currently, Os, Ingen is screening on a tour in Mexico through the traveling festival Coctelito de Videodanza. Her latest works include Passion for the contemporary ballet company Cisne Negro in São Paulo, which premiered in May 2024 at SESC Consolação, and Freedom nr. 35–149, which premiered in April 2025 with students from Athanor Academy. It will also be presented at Universitatea Tehnică in Bucharest and the FITS Festival in Sibiu in June 2025. And The Love project no. 1 that will show in Berlin Uferstudios Juli 2026.
Edith was granted the “Peter, Ingrid og Ralph Hernöe’s Fond” honorary scholarship in 2021 as an acknowledgment of her work as a dance artist. Furthermore, Edith develops choreographies and body language for feature films, plays, and operas, in collaboration with directors such as Rolf Heim (Royal Opera, Copenhagen), Morten K. Rosen, Per Linderoth, Florian von Hoerrmann, Valquire Velkovicq, Michael Venus (Sleep, premiered at the Berlinale 2020), and Florin Vidamski, most recently at Tomca Sandor National Theater in Robbers (nominated for the Uniter Prize), Antigone, ein Requiem, and with Hunor von Horvath for The Maids—both at Teatrul Național Radu Stanca.
Edith is a trained Intimacy Coordinator by Sag Aftra approved training CINTIMA under mentorship by Yehuda Duenyas. Edith is an associated lecturer at the Athanor Academy, where she teaches dance and choreography to acting and directing students. Furthermore, she is a visiting professor at West University in Timișoara.
Artistic practice
I see my work as a maker with great responsibility for what my work does. I believe that art in general has the power to create a sense of social empathy and a sense of “us”, it can help us to see the things we have in common rather than the things we don’t.
The central question of my practice is: “Can we do love?” I began asking myself this question after reading Bell Hooks’ All About Love and starting my research on love. Bell Hooks writes: love is an active force that leads us into communion with the world. How do I, as an artist, go into communion with the world? In communion with space, with the audience, and with my collaborators? How can we truly encounter one another? With open eyes, with attentiveness? How do we create spaces not only of agreement, but of connection beyond agreement? My research on love has become the central question of my practice and connects my choreographic work with my practice as an intimacy coordinator. My work as an intimacy coordinator informs my choreographic practice in that I cultivate respectful, safe, and consent-based working environments. Beyond that, I aim to question and break normative narratives around sexuality, intimacy, and the body, in favor of complexity, multiplicity, and diverse identities. My choreographic practice, it is rooted in score based choreography, improvisation and instant composition. favouring an ongoing-research and a re-evaluation of current processes. I am exited by the human body, by its physical and cognitive skills, by its history and its multitude of possibilities for expression and its capacity for countless transformations. I Nourish a collaborative working atmosphere that focusses on the process. I value a certain lightness paired with thorough, beyond-the-surface research. I invite laughter as much as tears and enjoy working with contrasts. I am particularly interested in resonance, in silence and dynamics and In the ideas of sociologist Hartmut Rosa’s thoughts on resonance and our relationship to the world. That encounters require time, that relationships and resonance can emerge when we make ourselves approachable to the world: open, attentive, and ready to be moved.
My work explores themes of identity, social structures and human behaviour, and aims at creating sensory and poetic experiences that invite audiences into a shared space of reflection and empathy. My focus lies in cultivating these shared spaces: working and performance environments for resonance, encounter, and embodied experience. I consciously work with intergenerational and interdisciplinary groups and understand dance as a social and discursive space in which different perspectives, bodies, and lived experiences come into relation. I strongly believe in diversity on stage, both in terms of subjectivities and corporealities. Everyone can dance if the space exists for it, and dance can be many things. My work engages with questions of belonging, collectivity, and social fragmentation, and artistically negotiates contemporary cultural and social theoretical discourses on resonance and singularization. In doing so, I aim to contribute to current discourses on community, empathy, and artistic responsibility in a present marked by fragmentation.
COMING UP Kristian Artistic Documentary // Directress The Love Project no. 1 Choreographer, Directress and writer // A durational dance performance with spoken word In collaboration with Athanor Akademie and its 3rd year students 2026 Showing in Uferstudios Berlin August 2026 PAST
Freedom nr. 39-145 Choreographer and directress // A dance performance for Students at Athanor Academy, Passau 2025
Passion Choreographer and Directress // A dance performance for Ballet Compnay Cisne Negro in Sao Paolo Brasil Premiere In Sesc Consolasao Sao Paolo 2024
“Woyzeck” Choreographer and Directress // A dance and theater performance created for Radu Stancs national theater, 2023 Nominated for best directing and winner of best lighting at UNTER gala 2024
“In Venus” Dance film // Directress
Winner Best Experimental FIFF 2022 Kunst Nacht Passau Innstadtbrauerei 2022 Finalist Best Experimental beim SIFF 2022 Nominee Best Experimental Berlin International Art film Festival 2022 Nominee Best Dance Film FIFF 2022 Selection On Art 2022 Schäxpir Festival 2023 Frauen Theater Festival Screening 2024 Saint Kilda Film Fest 2024
“Milk” Choreographer and Directress // A dance and multi media performance At Athanor Theater 2023, FITS Festival Sibiu 2024 (Uferstudios Berlin Oktober 2025)
“Elefanten in Bluttadern” Choreographer and Dancer // a Dance and theatre performance for children 6+ At Schäxpir Festival in Linz 2023
“Wenn der Wespenmann tschüss sagt” Choreographer and Directress // A dance and Theater performance At FITS Sibiu internațional Theater Festival 2023
“after a murky blush” a duet, Premiere at Publico Festival in Acker stadt Palast Berlin 2022
“Die Zofen” A theater piece directed by Hunor von Horvath at Tatrul National Radu Stanca, Sibiu Rumania 2022
“Ypsilos, the birth of the tragedy” A dance performance for 7 actors, FLIGHT festival Timmisoara Rumania, 2022
“Os, Ingen” (we, nobody) Dance film,- Nominated for Best experimental and Best Dance film at FIFF 2022
“you• topia” a dance piece Directing in Collaboration with Florian von Horrmann for 12 actors at Tatrul National Radu Stanca, Sibiu Rumania 2021
“Räuber” by Friedrich Schiller a theater play by Director Florin Vidamski at Tomca Sandor National Theater, Odorheiu Rumania 2021 NOMINATED for Best Play 2022 at Uniter-prize
“white” a dance piece for 7 women, for Athanor Theater 2021
“Methods of Completion, a being haunted by purpose” Solo for Dancer Jonathan Sanchez, as part of residency format #share in Ackerstadtpalast 2021
“ALPHA” Quartet created for Athanor Theater, Passau 2020
“Methods of Completion, a being that causes it self” Solo performance, with and by Edith, created within granted residency at Ada / Ufer Studios, Berlin. 2020
“Schlaff” Feature film by Michael Venus & Juna Film Productions. Premiere during Berlinale 2020
“MURKY BLUSH” made for Athanor Theater Passau, Germany & Teatr Studio Festival, Rumänia 2019
“Before we Die” in Collaboration with Philip Kevin Brehse/The living Theater, at Acker Stadt Palast, Berlin 2019
“smell.me.ordinary piece” premiered at ROZBARK Dance and Movement Theater in Bytom. during "Youth on Stage Residency” Poland 2019
“DECADES” fashion show by WAHL, shown at Messe Düsseldorf, & Paris Expo Porte de Versailles & Pala Alpitour Turin, Awarded “Show of The Year” 2019 at ONHAIR
“Venture” a site specific dance performance, performed at Festival Salon K & ACUD Gallery , Eschloraque & Berlin Wall East Side Gallery & Panke, Berlin 2018 - now..
“Through The Eyes of The Other” a solo dance exchange in collaboration with choreographer Alexander Windner Lieberman at Acker Stadt Palast, Berlin 2018
“Sisyphus in Violent Torment” A solo theater performance in Collaboration with Director and Performer Jahman Davine at Acker Stadt Palast, Berlin 2018
Koltès – “Die Sprache der Dämmerung” multimedia Theaterproject with students of Athanor Academi, in collaboration with Director Florian von Horrmann, at Athanor Theater 2018
“Sisters- Harvesting Insects” ”Tetrapodomorph Deconstruktor” Dance films both in Collaboration with Valquire Velkovip Premiered at Festival "Turn around Bright Eyes" in Berlin, 2015 and 17
“SNAK” a Dance/Sound Duet , in collaboration with Musician Michael Bennetsen, performed in variuos galleries in Germany, 2017-18
“Fate of the Galaxies" a Dance Performance by Collective ONE:THIRD Winner of 100 grad Festival 2015 Performed during SounDance Festival Dock11 2017 & in Labor Grass, Sophiensaele, Kulturwerkstatt Charlottenburg, Ida Nowhere, Eschschloraque TheaterHaus Mitte , Berlin & The Zone, Theater Kana in Stettin, Poland 2015-17
“Alverden Godnat” a Opera production directed by Rolf Heim, in The National Opera House Copenhagen, 2014