Jenny Beyer

(1981, GER) studied ballet and modern dance at the Hamburg Ballet School and the Rotterdam Danceacademy. In the Netherlands she performed for Jaakko Toivonen/Company Koorts and realized her first choreographical works at Dansateliers Rotterdam. Since 2007 she is based in Hamburg/Germany where she was choreographer in residence at K3-Zentrum für Choreographie/Tanzplan Hamburg.

One of Jenny Beyer’s strategies is to find a way to combine heterogeneous body materials and see what gestures, postures and intensities can be generated.
Since 2006 she is part of Sweet&Tender Collaborations, an artist-driven initiative that focuses on self-organization of artistic processes and production and emphasizes collaborative forms of working.

Her recent works, "Uniek" (in collaboration with Chris Leuenberger) and “III” (collaboration with Chris Leuenberger and Anja Müller) where shown internationally at festivals such as the Spring Dance Festival / Utrecht /NL 2009 and 8:tension/ Impulstanz Festival Vienna 2010.
2010 she initiated “Treffen Total”, a cooperation of Sweet&Tender Collaborations and K3-Center for Choreography/Tanzplan Hamburg, dedicated to the exploration of self-education and alternative working and communication models within the performing arts.

2006 stipend of danceWEB, Vienna
2007 Choreographer in residence at K3/Zentrum für Choreographie Tanzplan Hamburg
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