My art, or more to say my maneuvers of working and living as an artist has always had the intent to encourage a vision in others and to inspire them to act towards realizing it. My art is continually being born out of the situations I create for the artists to work with me. My daily motivation is the curiosity for life-long learning coupled with the social duty and passion to help artists live well and to create space and opportunity for them to do so. With a strong classical background, I have been able to discover and work in a diverse range of genres from neo classical to contemporary, from Tanztheater to performance, installation and conceptual work.
Short Biography
She completed her dance training, as well as an additional teaching diploma, at the Royal Ballet School in London. She then danced for 14 years in opera houses and state theatres in Germany and abroad. Among others, she interpreted leading roles such as Juliet (Romeo and Juliet), Odette (Swan Lake), Klara and Sugar Plum Fairy (The Nutcracker) and worked with various contemporary choreographers such as Henning Paar, Trisha Brown Reinhild Hoffmann and Ana Mondini.
For the last 10 years her own choreographies have been presented on many stages at home and abroad. She founded SOZO visions in motion vocational school for contemporary stage dance in 2007 and the dance theatre company in 2010. Quan Dao Kung fu inspires and influences her work and leadership. She wants to pass on her own artistic experience to young talents in order to promote individual gifts and creativity. Together with her husband Michael Wicke, she created HALLE 2, a dance house for training, rehearsals and performance, a home for SOZO visions in motion. In 2012 and 2015 she won the Kulturförderpreis of the city of Kassel and in 2019 for her life's work "SOZO". She taught contemporary dance, ballet and movement research in the BA and MA programmes at the Anton Bruckner University in Linz, Austria.
The aim of this training and dance company is to support and accompany people on this "journey of discovery". SOZO is meant to be a "laboratory" where creativity always remains in "motion". Visions are transformed into movements; "Visions in Motion".
How many possibilities are there? It's up to each individual. There is an infinite amount to discover.
Here you can find a nice interview introducing the SOZO vision in motion academy.
