​"Throughout my education and working experiences, I have realized that I can help people finding their individual,   authentic performance presence. My artistic aim is to create work that is challenging and open for exploration and  social interaction within a simple and set frame. I want to inspire new audiences, reengage viewers who are familiar with contemporary dance, motivate different dance artists to trust in their skills and engage them to practice and create dance for each and everyone."

Annika KompArt works as a professional and international dance artist, choreographer and teacher. She is currently associated artist to Tanz Station- Barmer Bahnhof Wuppertal by Thusnelda Mercy and Pascal Merighi and is dancing & teaching in a Project with Sasha Waltz& Guests.
Last year she graduate of the first MfA in Performing Arts at The Danish National School of Performing Arts in Copenhagen; including masterclasses by Falk Richter, Runar Hodne and others.  She recently won the semi final of MArte Live Europe with her solo dance piece Speech(less) and was assistant choreographer to a new production for Tanztheater Wuppertal.

She presented her Solo Tanztheater piece Mephisto as Guestplay at die Börse, Wuppertal www.tanzweb.org/highlights-nrw/videoimpressionen-von-mephisto?fbclid=IwAR2Z6W44JeH_ucaNzXGTdPHNVrQhE1P8WvoHmgfPKH_Wkk9jfUeNkE0Lv5s 

As co- creator to Tanz Station Barmer Bahnhof, Wuppertal she currently danced and performed with company merighi I mercy as part of Soli Cuts Urban as well as the Invasion of the Tanz Station. Moreover she danced and performed at LOCH Kulturcenter, with Gintersdorfer/Klaßen at Schauspielhaus Wuppertal, Pina Bausch as part of the Under Constructions Festival ( https://under-construction-wuppertal.de/en/persons/annika-kompart) as well as with Oriantheatre in Paris, FR, Sisters Hope and Gazart Danseteater at Folketeater in Copenhagen and to the Hakawy International Arts Festival for children in Cairo, EGY. Moreover she has been performing and touring with Teater GLIMT (https://vimeo.com/214523639) and is regularly touring with Reckless Sleepers A String Section, fx. at Triennale Brugge, BE as well as at Studiobühne Köln, Festival Teaterszene Europa, DE, Metropolis Festival, DK, Aberdeen in Scotland UK and  

Last year she has founded a company TanzKompArt with a start up residency at BIRCA, Bornholm.

She got selected for a 4 weeks funded Artistic Residency researching the concept VINTAGE dance with simple technology at Performing Arts Platform together with Sarah Fdili Alaoui (FR), DK

She received Danish Arts Council Funding to support her work We Are not Unique, together with Ida Frost and My Lambertsen, that premiered at Teater Momentum in Odense DK.

Her work TREFFPUNKT SPEECH(LESS) staging of EXPERIMENT SPEECH(LESS), which has been trough a two weeks residency at Forsøgsstationen DK and got presented at Bådteatret  CPH, Teater Momentum, Probebühne, Tanzplan Hamburg, DE. 

She presented her work MoZert a violin dance duet together with Nicolaj Frederik Wamberg at Opernloft Hamburg as part of a Tanzfest, DE. Furthermore, she got official support from GRAMEX to participate a Gaga Course in Tel Arviv and to train with Batsheva Dance Company in December.

​She works cross-disciplinary on a high professional level and international scale. Her work as visual artist has been presented at ARoS Museum for Moderne Kunst (http://www.aros.dk) Aarhus, in Dansehallerne (http://www.dansehallerne.dk) Copenhagen, DK, at Agitart Festival (http://www.agitartcompanyia.com) Figueres, ES, at Yorkshire Dance (http://www.yorkshiredance.com), at Seven Arts (http://www.sevenleeds.co.uk),at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance (NSCD, http://www.nscd.ac.uk) Leeds, UK and at Lichthof Theater (http://www.lichthof-theater.de/aktuelle-produktionen.html) Hamburg, DE

Annika graduated with a first honored BPA degree from the Northern School of Contemporary Dance in Leeds, Uk in 2014.  As part and final project of her studies and in collaboration with the dancers she has created The Last Knit, a durational dance installation of seven hours, performed by seven dancers, merging movement, voice, film projection, time, a knitted dress, plenty of thoughts, ideas, senses and wonders. The Maria Abramovic Institut ( MAI, http://www.mai-hudson.org/about-mai/) New York, US, has found her durational work on the Internet and have shown interest to potential collaborations.                                                                                                         

After graduating, she has lived and worked mainly in London, where she has taken and participated varies professional classes, company classes, workshops and dance events. Traveling to,- living and dancing in different places, has broadened and expanded her network in the contemporary dance scene to an international level. Furthermore she has received British Arts Council funding (http://www.artscouncil.org.uk) to restage her durational work with the original cast as well as developing it further to One More Dress with artists 60+ in December 2014.

Her previous degree at the Erika Klütz School (http://www.kluetzschule.de) Hamburg, DE has qualified her as a teacher in dance and education. Since 2011 is she employed as regular guest teacher and choreographer to the students.
Academic studies such as anatomy, psychology, music and dance history where part of the curriculum, in addition to the different dance techniques. They enabled her to gain a fundamental, functional understanding of the human body as well as a broadened her knowledge about psychology and pedagogics.
"I see those skills as essential to create abstract, metaphorically rich pieces and performances". 

She has been involved in various performances, cross-arts collaborations, not only as a dancer/ performer but also as a musician playing the violin.
Beside her professional education, has she joined the Ballroom Formation/ Company Schwarz- Gold- Göttingen and has been dancing competitions and shows as single/ pair as well as in a group.

 

 

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