Choreography: Modern Ballet

Workshop with Tanja Emmerich

Winterakademie

Following a short warm-up, this course will focus on learning a choreography. Tanja Emmerich will integrate many classical movement elements, combining them with modern dance movement material. Participants will dance to pop ballads. Dancers experienced in pointe work are invited to bring their pointe shoes and dance the choreography accordingly.

Portrait of 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.