BIO
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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, navigating the rich space between the intuitive and the disciplined body. Through improvisation, she explored the body as a poetic vessel—sensitive, responsive, and deeply personal—while remaining rooted in the precision and rigor of her technical training. This interplay became a defining force in her early development.
She has worked with 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.
In 2018, Edith and three other dance artists founded Company HAA, a collaborative platform for dance-related art. With this, she transitioned toward a focus on choreography and collaborative processes. Most of Edith’s choreographic work until 2023 has been released under the name Company HAA.
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.
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.
Following this line of collaborations, she is currently pursuing further education at CINTIMA to become an Intimacy Coordinator.
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.
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ARTIST STATEMENT
“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 . It can help us laugh at our stupidity and at times absurd nature. I aim at creating work that can do all those things, work that challenges all senses and gives a haptic yet poetic experience, not solely something to watch.
I understand my works as a continuous research that develops a range of perspectives on topics such as instinct, identity, image, social constructs and Compassion in the widest sense. I am inspired by relating, the ability to communicate and the lack thereof, by Love as a verb, things I do not understand about my self and “us” and behaviours I find peculiar, funny or grotesque. My art serves to create awareness on critical social topics and is a reflection of human nature and its development.
My artistic approach is rooted in score-based choreography, Instant Composition and improvisation, favouring an ongoing-research and a re-evaluation of current processes. I am exited by the human body, by its physical and cognitive skills, its multitude of possibilities for expression and its capacity for countless transformations.
I am exited by the abstractive of the art form dance because it’s sensory experience that unites people in the diversity of their experience and I am continuously searching for innovative ways to translate movement into a language that can be understood by a diverse audience and be concrete in what it expresses.
Through my work with Actors and non-Dancers; with bodies that may or may not have a background in dance, I developed a interest and desire to work with various types of performers, and despite my rather classical dance background, to not search for the “perfect” dancer body, but to search for the beauty in the imperfect, honest and at times grotesk expression.
I am fascinated by the form of “Theater” in it self because the idea of placing people in a room to watch my work, could be both extremely rewarding and almost violent at the same time for the watcher. Playing with the simple natures of a form, such as the immediate response from an audience in Theater, or the repetition and idea of immortality in film, I find very interesting.
I believe in exchange, search, tryouts, failures as a vital part of making, a non-hierarchical working environment and a collaborative process. I aim at contributing to a process in which the people I work with and my self can be curious, allow for the grotesque, un-behaved, fragile and vulnerable, and a space where we sense and know, what we are creating and what it dose to us and its audience.
I feel that form and skill is meant to be questioned and played with. I believe in creating “Gesamtkunstwerke” that focuses on what it does to people rather that who does it and uses whatever tools the project needs. I strongly feel that the times, where dance was dance, and theatre was solely spoken words, are over. It's time for collaboration, exchange, and un-boxing.”
LIST OF SELECTED WORKS AND COLLABORATIONS
COMING UP “Kristian”
Artistic Documentary // Directress To be Premiered in 2025
"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
COMING UP “Kristian”
Artistic Documentary // Directress To be Premiered in 2025
"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
BIOGRAPHIE
Edith ist eine in Berlin lebende dänische Tänzerin, Choreografin und Lehrerin. Sie machte 2011 ihren Abschluss an der Ballettakademie Kopenhagen und der Iwanson International School of Contemporary Dance in München.
Edith begann ihre Karriere als Tänzerin und arbeitete mit einem breiten Spektrum von Choreographen zusammen, wobei sie sich im Spannungsfeld zwischen dem intuitiven und dem disziplinierten Körper bewegte. Durch Improvisation erforschte sie den Körper als poetisches Gefäß - sensibel, reaktionsschnell und zutiefst persönlich - und blieb gleichzeitig in der Präzision und Strenge ihrer technischen Ausbildung verwurzelt. Dieses Zusammenspiel wurde zu einer entscheidenden Kraft in ihrer frühen Entwicklung.
Sie hat mit Jiří Kylián/Karine Guizzo, Dali Touiti, Sebastian Prantl/TanzAtelier Wien, Stephan Dreher, Ilona Roth/Transitheart Productions, Rasmus Soerinus/CampNorr/Varq de Alvo Co. gearbeitet, Joao Cidade, Corinna Speith, FIGURA Ensemble, Doris Schäffer/Regenbogen Tanztheater, Frank Balve, Martin Eder, RP Kahl, Jahman Davine, Zawirowania Dance Theatre, und DOT504 mit Thomas Steyart, um nur einige zu nennen.
2018 gründete Edith mit drei weiteren Tanzkünstlern die Company HAA, eine kollaborative Plattform für tanzbezogene Kunst. Damit hat sie ihren Fokus auf Choreografie und kollaborative Prozesse verlagert. Die meisten von Ediths choreografischen Arbeiten bis 2023 sind unter dem Namen Company HAA veröffentlicht worden.
Ihre Arbeit wurde von den Ada Studios, dem ROZBARK Dance Theater Bytom, dem FITS Festival Sibiu, den Sophiensaele mit Fate of the Galaxies (Gewinner des Jury-Preises bei 100° Berlin), dem Acker Stadt Palast, dem Schäxpir Festival in Linz und dem Nationaltheater Radu Stanca Sibiu, Rumänien, unterstützt und präsentiert, wo sie derzeit zwei Produktionen im Repertoire hat: you.topia und Woyzeck. Für letzteres wurde sie zusammen mit ihrem Co-Regisseur Hunor von Horvath bei der Uniter Gala 2024 für die beste Regie nominiert.
Im Jahr 2021 begann Edith, sich mit Tanz im Film zu beschäftigen, und 2022 wurde ihr preisgekrönter Film Os, Ingen uraufgeführt, der unter anderem mit dem FIFF Award für den besten Experimentalfilm ausgezeichnet und in die Auswahl bei On Art und dem Saint Kilda Film Festival aufgenommen wurde. Derzeit läuft Os, Ingen auf einer Tournee in Mexiko im Rahmen des Wanderfestivals Coctelito de Videodanza.
Zu ihren neuesten Arbeiten gehören Passion für die zeitgenössische Ballettkompanie Cisne Negro in São Paulo, das im Mai 2024 im SESC Consolação uraufgeführt wurde, und Freedom nr. 35-149, das im April 2025 mit Studenten der Athanor Academy uraufgeführt wurde. Es wird auch an der Universitatea Tehnică in Bukarest und beim FITS-Festival in Sibiu im Juni 2025 aufgeführt werden.
Als Anerkennung für ihre Arbeit als Tanzkünstlerin erhielt Edith 2021 das Ehrenstipendium „Peter, Ingrid og Ralph Hernöe's Fond“.
Darüber hinaus entwickelt Edith Choreografien und Körpersprache für Spielfilme, Theaterstücke und Opern, in Zusammenarbeit mit Regisseuren wie Rolf Heim (Königliche Oper, Kopenhagen), Morten K. Rosen, Per Linderoth, Florian von Hoerrmann, Valquire Velkovicq, Michael Venus (Sleep, Premiere auf der Berlinale 2020) und Florin Vidamski, zuletzt am Tomca Sandor National Theater in Robbers (nominiert für den Uniter-Preis), Antigone, ein Requiem, und mit Hunor von Horvath für The Maids - beide am Teatrul Național Radu Stanca.
Im Anschluss an diese Zusammenarbeit bildet sie sich derzeit bei CINTIMA zur Intimitätskoordinatorin weiter.
Edith ist assoziierte Dozentin an der Athanor Academy, wo sie Schauspiel- und Regiestudenten in Tanz und Choreografie unterrichtet. Außerdem ist sie Gastprofessorin an der West University in Timișoara.
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KÜNSTLER STATEMENT
„Meine künstlerische Praxis versteht sich als fortlaufende Erforschung eines Themenfelds, das die letzten drei Jahre im Zentrum meine Arbeit stand: Sie entwickelt beständig neue Perspektiven auf Themen wie Instinkt, Identität, Bildhaftigkeit und Territorialität. Sie speist sich aus Beziehungen, alltäglichen Begegnungen, sozialen Konstrukten, gelingender und misslingender Kommunikation. Sie will das Bewusstsein für kritische soziale Fragen schärfen und begreift sich als Reflexion auf die menschliche Natur und ihre Entwicklung.
Was mich am Tanz als künstlerischer Ausdrucksform fasziniert, ist die Abstraktionsfähigkeit, die es ermöglicht, die Diversität der Eindrücke in einer geteilten sinnlichen Erfahrung zu versammeln. Mit meiner Arbeit, die sich in und an urbanen Räumen, aber auch im klassischen Theatersetting realisiert, suche ich den direkten Kontakt zu allen Beteiligten. Ich bin kontinuierlich auf der Suche nach neuen und innovativen Wegen, die Bewegungen des Körpers in eine Sprache zu verwandeln, die einem diversen Publikum zugänglich ist.
Mein Ansatz beruht auf score-basierter Choreographie und Improvisation und realisiert sich als fortlaufende Forschung und ständige Neubewertung der gegenwärtigen Prozesse. Mich fasziniert der menschliche Körper, seine physischen und kognitiven Fähigkeiten, die Vielfältigkeit seiner Ausdrucksweisen und seine Fähigkeit zu immer neuen Metamorphosen.
In meiner Arbeit ziele ich auf eine ausgeprägte Physikalität und auf körperlichen Ausdruck ab. Neben Objekte oder materielle Strukturen im raum verwende ich den Körper als skulpturale Struktur und Bühnen Bild, um jeweils spezifische Bilderwelten zu schaffen, die die Arbeit reflektieren und ihr Anliegen und betonen. Mein ziel ist es, arbeiten zu schaffen die alle sinne in Anspruch nehmen, und eine haptischen und zugleich poetischen Erfahrung bietet, nicht nur zur Gegenstand passiven Betrachten werden.“
