DAMIAN
RITA
Teaching Profile
2012-Now
Teaching Experience in Professional Dance & Higher Education
- PALUCCA HOCHSCHULE FÜR TANZ DRESDEN BA Dance program: Teaching Contemporary Dance Techniques/Styles, Partnering/CI, Capoeira, Improvisation, Repertory (Guest-Artist)
- SOZO VISIONS IN MOTION Dance Programme: Teaching Contemporary Dance Techniques, Capoeira (Faculty Member)
- TANZHAUS ZÜRICH Professional Dancer Training-Program: Contemporary Dance. Workshop Capoeira / "Running on Instincts", in collaboration with Bruno Caverna (Guest-Artist)
- ZÜRCHER TANZTHEATER SCHULE (ZTTS), TANZWERK 101 ZÜRICH HF Contemporary & Urban Dance" Program: Guest-Teaching Contemporary Dance Techniques/Styles (Guest-Artist)
- K3/KAMPNAGEL HAMBURG Professional Dancer Training-Program: Contemporary Dance (Guest-Artist)
- MARAMEO BERLIN Professional Dancer Training-Program: Contemporary Dance (Guest-Artist)
- TAIPEI NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF ARTS: TAIPEIDEA (TAIWAN) Bachelor Dance Program: Teaching Contemporary Dance Techniques, Capoeira (Guest-Artist)
- TSOYING HIGH SCHOOL (TAIWAN) Highschool Dance Program: Teaching Contemporary Dance Techniques. Creating choreographic work (Guest-Artist)
- STAATSTHEATER BRAUNSCHWEIG (Dir: Gregor Zöllig) Company Dancer´s Training: Teaching Contemporary Dance centred on stylistic fluidity, technical precision and refined sensory awareness (Guest-Artist)
- THEATER GIESSEN (Dir: Tarek Assam) Company Dancer´s Training: Teaching Contemporary Dance centred on stylistic fluidity, technical precision and refined sensory awareness (Guest-Artist with Tarek Assam)
- DEUTSCHE SPORTHOCHSCHULE KÖLN MA Program Tanzkultur V.I.E.W.: Teaching Contemporary Dance Techniques (Guest-Artist). BreakAnatomy Program: Workshop instructor for Contemporary Dance Techniques at Program for BBoying
- STAATSTHEATER KASSEL (Dir: Johannes Wieland) Company Dancer´s Training: Teaching Contemporary Dance centred on stylistic fluidity, technical precision and refined sensory awareness (Guest-Artist)
- DANCE THEATRE FESTIVAL ATHEN Workshop instructor for Contemporary Dance Techniques
- THEATER BIELEFELD (Dir: Gregor Zöllig, Simone Sandroni) Company Dancer´s Training: Teaching Contemporary Dance centred on stylistic fluidity, technical precision and refined sensory awareness (Guest-Artist)
- TANZMOTO DANCE COMPANY Company Dancer´s Training: Teaching Contemporary Dance (Guest-Artist)
- COOPERATIVA MAURA MORALES Company Dancer´s Training: Teaching Contemporary Dance (Guest-Artist)
- THEATER OSNABRÜCK (Dir: Nanine Lining, Mauro de Candia) Company Dancer´s Training: Teaching Contemporary Dance centred on stylistic fluidity, technical precision and refined sensory awareness (Guest-Artist)
- HOCHSCHULE FÜR MUSIK UND TANZ KÖLN / ZZTBA Dance program: Teaching Contemporary Dance Techniques/Styles (Guest-Artist)
- THEATER HEIDELBERG (Dir: Nanine Lining) Company Dancer´s Training: Teaching Contemporary Dance centred on stylistic fluidity, technical precision and refined sensory awareness (Guest-Artist)
- TANZZENTRALE LEIPZIG Dance Programme: Teaching Contemporary Dance Techniques, Repertoty, Coaching (Guest-Artist)
- THEATER PFORZHEIM (Dir: Guido Markowitz) Company Dancer´s Training: Teaching Contemporary Dance centred on stylistic fluidity, technical precision and refined sensory awareness (Guest-Artist)
- MAINFRANKEN THEATER WÜRZBURG (Dir: Dominique Dumas) Company Dancer´s Training: Teaching Contemporary Dance centred on stylistic fluidity, technical precision and refined sensory awareness (Guest-Artist)
- LANDESBÜHNE SACHSEN (Dir: Carlos Matos, Wegner Moreira, Natalie Wagner) Company Dancer´s Training: Teaching Contemporary Dance centred on stylistic fluidity, technical precision and refined sensory awareness (Guest-Artist)
- TANZHAUS NRW DÜSSELDORF Professional Dancer Training: Contemporary Dance (Faculty Member)
- THEATER NORDHAUSEN (Dir: Ivan Alboresi) Company Dancer´s Training: Teaching Contemporary Dance centred on stylistic fluidity, technical precision and refined sensory awareness (Guest-Artist)
- ZHdK ZÜRICH BA Dance program: Teaching Contemporary Dance, Repertory (Guest-Artist)
2008-now
Teacher for Dance Schools
- TANZHAUS NRW - Contemporary Dance Techniques, Capoeira
- CAPOEIRA COMPANHIA PERNAS PRO AR - Capoeira (Mestres Poqruinho & Boca de Peixe)
- TSZ ROYAL WULFEN - Contemporary Dance Techniques, Capoeira
- TANZ FRANKFURT - Contemporary Dance Techniques, Contact Improvisation
- FLUGFISCH LEIPZIG - Contemporary Dance Techniques, Capoeira
- TANZFESTIAL / Tanzfestival Bielefeld - Contemporary Dance Techniques
2006-2016
Teacher for Community & School Projects
- DANCE4LIFE - International Dance Project for schools to push back HIV/AIDS
- STAATSHTEATER DARMSTADT - Participatory dance project "Looking for Romeo" created for/with young dancers.
- WILHELM LEUSCHNER SCHOOL DARMSTADT - Participatory dance project created for/with students of the school.
- TANZHAUS NRW - Take-off: Junger Tanz. Directing and choreographing dance projects for young dancers.
- KULTURAGENTEN ESSEN - Participatory dance projects in schools.
On Stage & Professional Experiences
2023-now
Professor f. Contemporary Dance and Vice-Rector for Artistic Affairs at Palucca University For Dance Dresden
2023 - 2025
Professor f. Contemporary Dance (Contemporary Dance Techniques, Partnering/CI, Capoeira, Artistic Coaching, Choreography) and director of the Dance Program at University for Music and Performing Arts Frankfurt a.M. (HfMDK).
2016 - 2023
Co-Director, Rehearsal Director and House-Choreographer at Dance Theatre Pforzheim
2008 - 2016
Freelancing Dance Artist (performance, choreography, artistic creation and education) a.o. Silke Z. (Köln) , Tanzhaus nrw (Düsseldorf), Sozio Vision in Motion (Kassel).
2006 - 2007
Iceland Dance Company (Professional Dance Artist)
2005 - 2006
Dance Company Staatstheater Darmstadt (Professional Dance Artist)
2003 - 2005
Dance Company Staatstheater Oldenburg, MS Schrittmacher Berlin (Professional Dance Artist)
2001 - 2003
Ballet Dessau; Anhaltisches Theater Dessau (Professional Dance Artist)
2000 - 2001
Dance Company Bühnen Bern (Professional Dance Artist)
1997 - 2000
Ballet Theater St. Gallen (Professional Dance Artist)
1994 - 1997
T.E.C.S. / Dance Ensemble Cathy Sharp Basel (Professional Dance Artist)
Studies & Training
2017 - 2020
Master of Arts "Dance Teacher / Rehearsal Director" - Palucca Univestiy for Dance Dresden
2018 - 2020
GAGA Teacher Program - Suzanne Dellal Center Tel Aviv, Israel
2015 - 2016
Contact Improvisation Training Program (Jörg Hassmann & Daniel Werner) - Tanzfabrik Berlin
2007 - 2010
Master of Arts "Cultural Management" - City University of Applied Sciences Bremen
2006-2016
Capoeira Teacher (Professor) - Companhia Pernas Pro Ar
2005 - Now
Intensive Dance Workshops a. o. Impuls Dance Festival, Tanzhaus nrw, Ultima Vez / Wim Vandekeybus, GAGA Lab/GAGA Intensives
1996 - 2006
B.A. Bachelor of Arts - Open University, Milton Keynes/ U.K. (Distance Studies)
1988 - 1994
Tanzakademie Zürich (Schweizerische Ballettberufsschule Zürich/SBBS), International Dance School Zürich
1988
Abitur Typus B, Kantonsschule Zürcher Oberland, Schweiz