DAMIAN
RITA
Teaching Work - Overview
2012-now: Teaching Professional Dance Companies &
Universities
- PALUCCA HOCHSCHULE FÜR TANZ DRESDEN Teaching in the Bachelor Dance & Dance Education Program (Modern/Contemporary Dance, Capoeira, Improvisation, Repertory)
- SOZO VISIONS IN MOTION Teaching in the Dance Program (Contemporary Dance, Capoeira)
- TANZHAUS ZÜRICH Teaching Professional Dancer Trainings (Contemporary Dance with Running on Instincts/Capoeira / co-operation with Bruno Caverna)
- ZTTS ZÜRCHER TANZTHEATER SCHULE / TANZWERK 101 ZÜRICH Teaching in the Dance Program (Contemporary Dance)
- K3/KAMPNAGEL HAMBURG Teaching Professional Dancer Trainings (Contemporary Dance, Capoeira)
- MARAMEO BERLIN Teaching Professional Dancer Trainings (Contemporary Dance)
- TAIPEIDEA: TAIPEI NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF ARTS (TAIWAN) Teaching for the Bachelor Dance Program (Contemporary Dance, Capoeira)
- TSOYING HIGH SCHOOL KAOSHIUNG (TAIWAN) Teaching for the Highschool Dance Program (Contemporary Dance)
- TANZKOMPANIE STAATSTHEATER BRAUNSCHWEIG Teaching Professional Dancer Trainings (Contemporary Dance)
- TANZKOMPANIE STADTTHEATER GIESSEN Teaching Professional Dancer Trainings (Contemporary Dance)
- DEUTSCHE SPORTHOCHSCHULE KÖLN Teaching workshop for BreakAnatomy (Contemporary/Urban Dance), Lectureship Masterstudiengang Tanzkultur V.I.E.W. (Modern/Contemporary Dance)
- TANZKOMPANIE STAATSTHEATER KASSEL Teaching Professional Dancer Trainings (Contemporary Dance, Capoeira)
- DANCE THEATRE FESTIVAL ATHEN Teaching Dance Workshop (Contemporary Dance)
- TANZKOMPANIE THEATER BIELEFELD Teaching Professional Dancer Trainings (Contemporary Dance)
- TANZMOTO DANCE COMPANY Teaching Professional Dancer Trainings (Contemporary Dance)
- COOPERATIVA MAURA MORALES Teaching Professional Dancer Trainings (Contemporary Dance)
- TANZKOMPANIE THEATER OSNABRÜCK Teaching Professional Dancer Trainings (Contemporary Dance)
- HOCHSCHULE FÜR MUSIK UND TANZ KÖLN / ZZT Teaching for the Bachelor Dance Program (Contemporary Dance, Choreography)
- TANZKOMPANIE THEATER HEIDELBERG Teaching Professional Dancer Trainings (Contemporary Dance)
- TANZZENTRALE LEIPZIG Teaching Workshops (Improvisation/Contemporary Dance, Repertory)
- TANZ THEATER PFORZHEIM Teaching Dancer Trainings (Modern/Contemporary Dance)
- TANZKOMPANIE MAINFRANKEN THEATER WÜRZBURG Teaching Professional Dancer Trainings (Capoeira, Contemporary Dance)
- LANDESBÜHNE SACHSEN Teaching Professional Dancer Trainings (Contemporary Dance)
- TANZHAUS NRW DÜSSELDORF Teaching Professional Dancer Trainings (Contemporary Dance)
- BALLETT THEATER NORDHAUSEN Teaching Professional Dancer Trainings (Contemporary Dance, Repertory, Choreography)
- ZHdK ZÜRICH Teaching in the Bachelor Dance Program (Contemporary Dance, Repertory, Choreography)
2008-now: Teacher for Dance Schools
- TANZHAUS NRW Capoeira, Modern/Contemporary Dance
- CAPOEIRA COMPANHIA PERNAS PRO AR Capoeira
- TSZ ROYAL WULFEN Capoeira, Contemporary Dance
- TANZ FRANKFURT Modern/Contemporary Dance, Contact Improvisation
- FLUGFISCH LEIPZIG Modern/Contemporary Dance, Capoeira
- TANZFESTIAL / Tanzfestival Bielefeld Modern/Contemporary Dance
2006-2016: Teacher for Social & School Projects
- DANCE4LIFE Dance & Music Project for schools to push back HIV & AIDS
- STAATSHTEATER DARMSTADT Project "Looking for Romeo". Performance with dance-interested young people
- WILHELM LEUSCHNER SCHOOL DARMSTADT School-Dance Project with students of the school
- TANZHAUS NRW Youth Dance Project
- KULTURAGENTEN ESSEN School-Dance Project with students of the school
On Stage & Professional Experiences
2023-now
Professor f. Contemporary Dance / Director Dance Program, Univestiy of Music and Performing Arts (HfMDK) Frankfurt a.M.
2017-2023
Co-Director, House- Choreographer, Rehearsal Director Dance Theatre Pforzheim
2011- 2016
Freelance Dance Artist: Teacher/Choreographer/ Performing Arts Manager
2008 - 2010
Freelance Dance Artist: Cooperations a.o. with Silke Z., Productions at Tanzhaus nrw.
2006 - 2007
Iceland Dance Company / Dance Artist
2005 - 2006
Tanztheater Staatstheater Darmstadt / Dance Artist
2003 - 2005
MS Schrittmacher Berlin - Tanzkompanie Oldenburgisches Staatstheater / Dance Artist
2001 - 2003
DessauBallett / Anhaltisches Theater Dessau / Dance Artist
2000 - 2001
Tanzkompanie Theater Bern / Dance Artist
1997 - 2000
Tanzkompanie Theater St. Gallen / Dance Artist
1994 - 1997
TECS: Tanz Ensemble Cathy Sharp Basel / Dance Artist
Studies & Training
2017 - 2020
Master of Arts - Palucca Hochschule für Tanz Dresden, Masterstudies "Dance Teacher/Ballet Master"
2018 - 2020
Gaga Teacher Program, Suzanne Dellal Center Tel Aviv
2015 - 2016
Contact Improvisation Training Program, Tanzfabrik Berlin, Jörg Hassmann & Daniel Werner
2007 - 2010
Master of Arts Cultural Management - Hochschule Bremen, Masterstudies "Musik- und Kulturmanagement"
2006-2016
Cia. Pernas Pro Ar - Graduated Capoeirista / Capoeira Teacher
2005 on
Intensive Dance Workshops amongst other Impuls Dance Festival, Tanzhaus nrw, Ultima Vez Bruxelles / Wim Vandekeybus, Gaga Lab/Gaga Intensives,
1996 - 2006
B.A. Bachelor of Arts, Open University, Milton Keynes/ U.K. (Distance Studies) (Spanish, System Thinking, Social Sciences, Object Oriented Programming)
1988 - 1994
Schweizerische Ballettberufschule Zürich SBBS, International Dance School Zürich
1988
Abitur Typus B, Kantonsschule Zürcher Oberland, Schweiz