She trained as a dancer, ballet and dance teacher at the Ballettförderzentrum in Nuremberg in 2003. She then worked as a dancer in the independent scene, including at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Stuttgart State Opera. In 2006, she spent time abroad as a guest teacher in Yekaterinburg, Russia, and in 2009/10 another in Limerick, Ireland. In 2010, she successfully completed her studies in cultural and media education with a focus on theater/literature and music. She then completed a master's degree in dance education/community dance at the Palucca University of Dance in Dresden. Since 2005, she has worked as a choreographer (mainly for children and operas), ballet/dance teacher and stage manager. In 2015, she worked at TanzSzene Baden-Württemberg in the area of “KoKo-Tanz”, the competence and coordination center for dance education in early childhood cultural education. She has been a
dance teacher at the Stuttgart Ballet since 2015/16. She also holds teaching positions at the Ludwigsburg University of Education and the GS Marienthal Hamburg. In 2020, she was project manager for dance education at the Ballett am Rhein Düsseldorf. Since 2023, she has been a lecturer at the University of Education, where she teaches at the interface between sport and dance in the fields of early childhood education, teaching, educational science, play/theater pedagogy and cultural and media pedagogy. Her teaching activities focus on the areas of community dance and dance ability.
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