Dance & body work ​

Nadine Wolters, born 1980 in Jülich/Germany

At the age of five years I started my early dance education. First, I visited a children's competition dance group, but very quickly turned out that I felt too much more attracted to classical ballet, and so I started one year later with ballet lessons. After a change of schools to ballet school Ms Marlis Motsch (trained by Tatjana Gsovsky in Berlin and first ballet lessons with Ferencz Pergel in Düsseldorf/Germany) I soon learned the basics of classical dance by Russian academic style (Agrippina Vaganova method).

 

Attracted by my ability to concentrate deeply and great care in performing the exercises the school management decided very quickly to promote me even further in ballet classes and I was already at the age of eight years a member of the Children's Dance Company. Since then until my exit due to university studies I was entrusted with many solo parts and leading roles. My personal highlight during this time was the role of Odette in Tchaikovsky's famous "Swan Lake" (choreography by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov), which I as a former laymen pupil was allowed to perform alongside the Romanian professional dancer and now director of Illo Tempore Ballettcompanie Dortmund, Alexandru Fotescu.

 

As a teenager I also began my career as a competition dancer and since then I have actively pursued this sport sixteen years. During this time I was able to win many titles and had the chance to bring a number of different characters and styles to the stage as a soloist, in duos or with the formation. Again I found my challenge here very early, as at the age of  thirteen I became already "young coach", and so the way which should eventually lead me to my future professional dance education began.

 

I started the dance teachers training  at the professional school for stage dance and dance education Pergel-Ernst in Düsseldorf/Germany (Member of the Association German Stage Dependants GDBA) with a major in classical dance by Russian methodology, point work and repertoire, as well as numerous minor subjects in other disciplines (see Vita). Since I was able to gather experience very early in choreographic works, I now had here the opportunity to fully utilize my creativity. What began as a hobby became a professional education, and from this calling derived my passion: being a teacher and dance pedagogue!

 

Especially my university studies for teachers in biology and English contribute to my pedagogical skills, here especially educational sciences with exam focus social psychology and Montessori pedagogics (further subjects see CV). This study I successfully completed with state exam.