Dancer, Choreographer and Butoh teacher currently based in Berlin. Sonja Heller danced classical ballet for 11 years and studied acting at the European Institute for Theater in Berlin. Her first encounter with butoh was in 1999 in a workshop of Minako Seki. During and after her acting education she intensified her studies of butoh with teachers Atsushi Takenouchi, Imre Thormann, Yuko Kaseki, Yumiko Yoshioka, Katsura Kan and others.
She also went to classes of Fe Reichelt, who was a student of Mary Wigman, and learned German expressionist dance and breathing-movement-exercises on the basis of Qigong from her.
She presented so far Solo- and Ensemble works in Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden and France. End of 2011 she will also dance and teach in Chile and Brazil.
A main part of her work contains the research of the treatment of native folks of the nature and the roots of our culture. A part of her dance in general and especially in her collaboration with Raven is also the relations between humans as well as the connection of the human being and its environment.
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