Biography
Lotte Sigh, Choreographer and Artistic Director.
Since 2005 Lotte Sigh has, a long her career as choreographer,
been the artistic director of Copenhagen Contemporary Dance
School and been affiliated with The Royal Danish Ballet as a
teacher, censor and choreographer.
Lotte Sigh has been commissioned to choreograph for
numerous international artistic collaborations and has
choreographed for companies, theaters, festivals, museums,
films, TV and operas. She has created works for amongst
others the Royal Danish Ballet, Pantera Chamber Ballet in
Russia, National Gallery of Denmark, The Dance Company of
the Regional Theatre West in Sweden, Intradance in Russia,
D-CAF in Cairo and Dies De Dansa in Barcelona, Campnorr
in Copenhagen, KHIO in Oslo and has been commissioned to
choreographed for the opera Aria composed by Paul
Schwartz.
As a teacher and choreographic coach she has taught at The
Royal Ballet Summer school, KHIO in Oslo, Dansehallerne in
Copenhagen, University of Stavanger, Theater Region West in
Sweden, PRODA in Oslo, The Bartholin Seminar at The Royal
Danish Ballet, Ballet Academie in Lyon, Contemporary Dance
Festival in Kazan in Russia and a number of company classes.
She is regularly assigned as an external examiner to numerous
examinations at other educational institutions.
Her works develop and play with a world of nuances of the art
of dance working with precision and instinct luring around
every corner. Her point of departure is often inspired by the
traces the world leaves in human beings and the relationships
that occur between us as individuals and between groups in
society. Always in search of the different collective
subconsciousness her works are all imaginatively illustrated
and interpreted in close collaboration with other artists.
Several works has been created in collaboration with visual
designer Lars Egegaard Sørensen who for 3 decades has
developed original visual scenography, light- and 3D design.
With a special sense for flow, dynamic and vivid images they
have created riveting perspectives on the human body in the
world of today. Together they have presented Transparency,
Cast Eyes On, JOURNAL 753, the film Into the woods, Les
Bohemians for the opening of the Touleuse Lautrec exibition
at The National Museum of Arts, sight specific performance
for Dies De Dansa in Barcelona as well as the Good, the Bad
and You for the Intradance Festival in Moscow.
Her works have been performed in venues such as The Royal
Danish Theatre, Copenhagen Summer Dance by Danish Dance
Theatre, Copenhagen Music Theatre, Bora Bora in Århus,
Hatch and Dancespace in New York, Picasso Museum in
Barcelona, Dansehallerne in Copenhagen, Femenko in
Moscow, Unix in Kazan, The Aarhus Festival in Denmark,
Spinnihalle in Switzerland, French Cultural Institute in Egypt,
American Univerity of Cairo, Aarhus Music Theatre and at a
large number of museums and sight specific venues.
Education
Lotte Sigh is educated at Rotterdamse Dansacademie,
Hogeschool vor Muziek en Theater Rotterdam (NL), at Sport
and Biomechanics at The University of Southern Denmark
and through Scholarship at Jennifer Muller (New York).
Further more she is certified in Gyrotonic® and Gyrokinesis®
(New York) and has attended a long line of international
workshops. In 2000 she was awarded a scholarship as a dancer
and choreographer for the DanceWeb programme under
Impulstanz in Vienna.