Susi Rosenfeld

 

For over twenty years, I’ve been dancing with people of all ages and backgrounds — in studios, theatres, schools, community spaces, care homes, museums, streets and parks.
I explore creative processes, body awareness, improvisation, and performance,
always looking for playfulness and the joy of movement.
 

Improvisation is central to my work — a way for people to connect without words and to create a shared language through moving together. To delve into movement and express what moves you. It can bring relaxation, curiosity, and a sense of belonging to something larger.
 

In my choreographic practice, I’m drawn to the surreal and poetic in dance. I always work in a collective, enjoy the input of other disciplines and I am looking for different ways to let the audiance participate. I also like to work site-responsive to connect art and everyday life. My background in geography continues to shape how I explore space, place, and presence.

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I work with somatic approaches such as Body-Mind Centering®, Bartenieff Fundamentals, Feldenkrais and early developmental movement patterns. These practices help us access the embodied knowledge we all have. Through sensing, moving and touch, we discover pathways in the body that make movement natural and effortless. We explore different movement qualities and states of mind, creating space for awareness, creativity and ease in motion.

As an artist educator, I bring these principles into diverse contexts — using dance in its broadest sense as a way to meet, express, and create together.

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Methods I work with
Anna Halprin’s Life Art Process & RSVP Cycle · Creative Dance · Community Dance · Laban Work · Performance Art · Release Technique · Floorwork · Gaga · Contact Improvisation · Boal’s Games · Score Work (Yoko Ono, Nancy Stark Smith) · Active Listening · Authentic Movement ·
Somatic practices such as Body-Mind Centering, Bartenieff Fundamentals, and Feldenkrais
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Collaborations include
Het Wilde Westen (Utrecht) · ArtEZ University of the Arts (Arnhem) · IJsselstein Library · Studio Moio (Leiden) · NIET NORMAAL Foundation (Come Alive) · Het Ubuntuhuis (Utrecht) · Museum De Lakenhal (Imagine Intuition) · Willem de Kooning Academy (Rotterdam) · Andrea Marton (Munich) · Tanzimpulse (Cologne) · Aktion Tanz (Berlin) · Les Tournesols (Luxembourg)
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Supported by
Municipality of Utrecht · Municipality of IJsselstein · KF Hein Fund · VSB Fund · Fentener van Vlissingen Fund · Plan Einstein · Prins Bernhard Culture Fund · Fund for Cultural Participation · Elise Mathilde Fund · Cultural Office of the City of Cologne · Arts Foundation NRW · Ministry of Culture and Science NRW · RheinEnergie Foundation for Culture · SK Foundation for Culture