Board of the Society for Dance Research (gtf)

1st Chairwoman

Prof. Dr. Katja Schneider

Prof Dr Katja Schneider has been teaching dance studies at the HfMDK Frankfurt since 2019. She was previously a research assistant at the Institute for Theatre Studies at LMU Munich, where she wrote her habilitation thesis Tanz und Text. On Figurations of Movement and Language. She received her doctorate in Modern German Literature at the LMU with an interdisciplinary thesis on the theatre author Johann Christian Krüger (1996). Between 1992 and 2012, she wrote as a critic for dance and performance for the Süddeutsche Zeitung and reported for Deutschlandfunk; she worked as an editor for the specialist magazines tanzdrama, tanzjournal and tanz (1992-2012), and as a dramaturge for the Munich festival "Dance" (20012-2023). She is a founding member of tanznetz.de, Access to Dance/Tanzbasis München e. V. and Fokus Tanz/Tanz und Schule.

1st Deputy Chairwoman

Dr. Anna Wieczorek

Dr. Anna Wieczorek is a dance scholar and, since 2025, Assistant Professor of Applied Dance Studies at the Institute for Music and Dance Education (Orff) at the Mozarteum University Salzburg. Previously, she was a research associate specializing in dance at the Institute for Media, Theater, and Popular Culture at the University of Hildesheim. After studying dramaturgy in Munich, she earned her PhD from the University of Salzburg. Her dissertation, “Historical (Re-)Formulations,” takes a post/decolonial perspective on dance historiography and was published in the series Media and Theater by OLMS Verlag / University Press of Hildesheim (Open Access). Her research consistently operates at the intersection of theory and practice, with a particular interest in scores and notation, dance and archives, and aesthetics of access / dance and audio description.

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Dr. Dominika Cohn

Dr Dominika Cohn is a dance scholar and choreographer. She currently works as a research assistant at the Institute for Media, Theatre and Popular Culture at the University of Hildesheim. From 2019-2022 she was a member of the Hildesheim DFG Research Training Group 2477 "Aesthetic Practice", where she wrote her doctoral thesis entitled "Choreographies of the Tactile: Zur Rezeption korporal-sensuell partizipativer Choreografie als ästhetische Praxis" was written. Dominika Cohn first completed a practical stage dance degree at the LABAN Centre in London before completing her Master's degree in Dance Studies at the FU Berlin while working as a freelance dancer. From 2015 to 2018, she worked as a dance mediator at the Braunschweig State Theatre. In 2010, Dominika Cohn co-founded the YET Company, with which she has been realising choreographic projects ever since.

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Dr. Anja Arend 

Dr Anja K. Arend is a dance and musicologist and currently a research assistant at the Institute for Contemporary Dance at the Folkwang University of the Arts, where she is responsible for teaching dance history and dance studies as well as the Folkwang Dance Archive. After studying musicology and dance studies with additional studies in history and theology, she completed her doctorate at the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg. Her research focusses on 19th and 20th century dance history, historical notation practice, the interplay between music and dance and questions of archiving dance. Her work is characterised by a clearly interdisciplinary approach, which is reflected in both interdisciplinary teaching and research.

Dr. Christiana Rosenberg-Ahlhaus

Dr. Christiana Rosenberg-Ahlhaus became a two-time world champion in rhythmic gymnastics (ball and clubs) in 1975 and subsequently studied at the German Sport University Cologne. After completing her studies, she taught for three years at the sports university as a lecturer in the field of rhythmics and dance. She then worked as a research associate at the University of Konstanz until 2023, where she was responsible, among other things, for education in dance and dance studies. She has published several academic books on dance and dance education. Her 1996 dissertation deals with the significance of phenomenology for dance pedagogy. Until 2022, she directed the university’s dance group and in 2019 received the Tina Ulmer Teaching Award from the University of Konstanz. She is currently a board member of the Gesellschaft für Tanzforschung and is also active in the Network Modern Dance.

Sebastian Matthias

Sebastian Matthias is a choreographer and dance researcher. Since May 2019 he is a post-doc at the research project "Participatory Art Based Research" at the HafenCity University Hamburg in collaboration with K3| Tanzplan Hamburg. He also works internationally at independent production houses and closely with the Bürgerbühne at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden and the Theater Basel until 2021 through the funding Doppelpass of the German Federal Cultural Foundation. He studied dance at the Juilliard School in New York and dance studies at the Free University of Berlin.

As an associated artist at the K3 | Centre for Choreography, he develops his artistic-scientific research practice and received his PhD in 2018 as part of the Research Training Group Assembly and Participation: Urban Public Spheres and Performative Arts at HafenCity University Hamburg. His dissertation project was published in 2018 by transcript under the title "Gefühlter Groove - Kollektivität zwischen Dancefloor und Bühne". In his choreographic work, he deals with modular improvisation systems that he develops collectively with the dancers.

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