My love and expertise in dance is in couples dancing. I have explored around 20 couple dances since 1998 - from the world dance program to other Latin and African-American dances, and even contemporary couple dances.

I have been giving couple dance lessons since 2007 and dedicating myself to dance research. My focus here is on couple dance history and didactics. As a qualified social worker, I successfully used couple dancing in youth work and adult education from 2010 to 2019. Whether young, older or mixed-abled: every target group was and is an enriching experience for me.

In this context, I am also a qualified intercultural trainer. From 2019 onwards, several dance education and dance therapy qualifications followed. I regularly attend training courses in physical and dance practices.

From my practical experience and research, I developed an alternative couples dance concept called Zweisam Tanzen and became self-employed in 2020. From 2021 to 2023 I then deepened my expertise in couple dance research at the Cologne Dance Archive and now work in the library at the University of Music and Dance. Next year I will also complete my master's degree in dance science here, which I will also dedicate to couple dance research.

I have had professional experience as a solo trainer for couples' dance since 2007 and work with rock'n'roll, merengue, fusion and blues dance.

An essential element of my work are Afro-diasporic dance principles, which I culturally and historically contextualize in my classes with the utmost appreciation. With the resulting intuitive and improvisational dance practice, I encourage individual development in dance. The additional integration of intra- and interpersonal reflection and the imparting of body knowledge also enable students to appreciate and get to know their own body as well as its abilities and limitations. In the sensitive context of interpersonal encounters, I offer a resource-oriented, safe space for individual expression and processual growth; away from the standardization of dance movements.

My diversity-sensitive teaching practice offers participants the opportunity to experience movements and take on roles that are good for them and support their development process. I offer a variety of approaches to this - be it through my needs-oriented, multi-method didactics, non-binary leading and following or the focus on physical variation apart from right and wrong. With me, dance is not a boot camp.

I place particular emphasis on the qualities of musicality and connection in the dance couple. The connection to one's own body, the music and fellow dancers are central elements of my teaching.

Because of these values, I prefer teaching settings that give the participants time to arrive and develop. From calm to wild, as a personal experience or with the aim of a stage performance: I look forward to dancing with you! 

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