Modern Dance

Course with Tanja Emmerich

“That’s exactly how I love it: trying out new movements in a playful way and letting my body and feelings guide me.” Tanja attaches great importance to situating the dancing body in space. She wants to convey the various techniques of modern dance as well as strengthen the participants' self-awareness. Tanja develops a story in feasible choreographies or provides space for the expression of feelings. "I like to alternate between the flowing and accentuated movements as practiced in the Limón technique, and my choreographies are sometimes loud and wild, sometimes reserved and mysterious, sometimes dramatic and expansive."

Portrait photo: Tanja Emmerich

Tanja Emmerich

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Tanja Emmerich started dancing ballet at age eight. Later on, she took additional classes in modern dance and jazz with Carlo Melis and others. As a youth, she discovered the variety on offer at tanzhaus nrw and took even more classes in jazz dance and hip hop. Tanja studied at the ArtEZ University of the Arts in Arnhem and completed her dance pedagogy studies at the Weber-Schule in Düsseldorf. Following this, she obtained a certificate as a dance pedagogue at the Ballettseminar Stuttgart under the direction of Eva Steinbrecher. She has been teaching children, youths and adults in different dance styles while also working regularly as a choreographer for dance and theatre productions such as the Neusser Musical-Wochen. She has been a member of the core instructional team at tanzhaus nrw since 2015.