A woman (Claudia Feest) sits on a stool - she looks thoughtfully at a ram's horn lying on the floor. It is a performance situation on a brightly lit white stage, the dancer is dressed in black.
Photo Hilde Léon

Claudia Feest

Claudia Feest was a member of the Round Table Dance in Berlin in 2018/19 and has since 2020 been a member of the Tanzarchiv Berlin steering committee. She is a dancer, choreographer, biologist, breathing and movement teacher and a therapist. She is the initiator and co-founder of Tanzfabrik Berlin and was its artistic director until the end of 2003. Until 2004 she was artistic director of Tanznacht Berlin and Tanz made in Berlin. She is co-founder of the Dachverband Tanz Deutschland and was a board member until the end of 2021. From 2003 until 2007, Feest was the second chairwoman of the Gesellschaft für Tanzforschung (GTF); in 2006/07 she coordinated the Berlin Senate’s Inter-University Center for Dance -Pilot Project Tanzplan Berlin; in 2016/17 she chaired the dance commission for the direction of the Hochschulausbildung Tanz in NRW. Since 2014, Feest has been a member of the Tanztreffen der Jugend board of trustees and from 2017-2021 she was a board member of Aktion Tanz – Bundesverband Tanz in Bildung und Gesellschaft. In 2022/23 she was one of the curators of the symposium Tanzausbildung im Wandel at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich. She is a member of various juries for dance and the performing arts.