SITA OSTHEIMER
After finishing her study at the University for Music and Performance Art in Frankfurt Germany 2001,
Sita Ostheimer joined MS Schrittmacher at Staatstheater Oldenburg,
worked with Itzik Galili in Groningen and Krisztina de Chatel in Amsterdam 2004-2007 .
In 2007 she joined Hofesh Shechter Company and worked
with him as a dancer, workshop leader and choreographic assistant until 2018.
She re-staged his work at companies such as NDT I, Paris Opera Ballet, Ballet Basel,
Staatsballett Berlin, Aterballetto Italy, Hessisches Staatsballett Wiesbaden and Staatstheater Kassel.
As a freelance Choreographer she created commissioned works for the
Xiexin Dance Theatre Shanghai, Hessische Staatsballett Wiesbaden, Staatstheater Kassel, Staatstheater Braunschweig, Frontier Danceland Singapore, MIRdance Company Gelsenkirchen, Stadttheater Pforzheim, Volkstheater Rostock.
University creations with Verve post graduate company — Northern School of Contemporary Dance Leeds,
Bodhi project postgraduate company- Sead Experimental Academy of Dance Salzburg and Universities such as the Folkwang University Essen, HfMT Köln, Linz Anton Bruckner Private University.
Ostheimer's focus today is on developing and deepening her own movement aesthetics,
philosophy and choreographic poetry.
Since 2017 she is the Artistic Director of her Berlin based platform Sita Ostheimer Company, with the core team of the light-designer Barnaby Booth and music composer Adrien Casalis.
With the Company artists she created work such as Molimo, Chasm, Us, Two, Human in pieces, Everything that’s left,
The Inevitable and You.
The work performed at Fuori Programma Festival Rome, BolzanoDanza, Festival Aperto Reggio Emilia, Daegu International Dance Festival Korea, Španski Borci Cultural Center Ljubljana, Deltebre Dansa Spain and Dock11 Berlin.
In 2021 Sita Ostheimer received an Artist Prize by POOL -INTERNATIONALES TanzFilmFestival BERLIN / DOCK 11, for her ongoing work in Berlin on stage and outstanding aesthetics in choreography and film. With her workshop series COMPLEX SIMPLICITY, she shares her philosophy and physicality world wide.
COMMISSIONED Productions
2024 Hasard & Bolero
MirDance Company
Musiktheater im Revier Gelsenkirchen, DE
2024 Full Circle
Staattheater Braunschweig, DE
2023 Dawn & Day
Staatstheater Kassel, DE
(second season)
Last Man Standing
XinXie Dance Theatre Shanghai
Premiere: 23.12.2023 Grand Theatre
International Dance Centre Shangahi, CN
TWO Part I & II
Kalamta Dance Festival, GRC
2022 You’re all I need
Volkstheater Rostock, DE
Dawn & Day
Staatstheater Kassel, DE
2021 The Unbearable
Verve - Northern School of
Contemporary Dance Leeds, UK
Nowhere but 2.5 Meters
Frontier Danceland Singapore /
SOTA Studio Theatre Singapore, SGP
2018 Species Pitches
Folkwang University Essen, DE
2016 Ubuntu
Sead Salzburg
Touring: Austria, Germany and Israel
SITA OSTHEIMER COMPANY Productions
2022 The Inevitable and You
Performance and Film
Premiere: DOCK 11, Berlin, DE
Touring: Deltebre Dansa Festival Barcelona, ES/
Chania Dance Day GR / Dock11 Theater Berlin
2021 Lost with you
Premiere: DOCK 11, Berlin, DE
Touring: Santiago Off, CL
Everything that’s left
Premiere: Fuori Programma Festival, Rome, IT
2020 Bolero - Îakaré
Funded by Berliner Senatsverwaltung for Kultur und Europa - unfinished due to COVID-19
Four Songs | film
Premiere: POOL - INTERNATIONALES
TanzFilmFestival BERLIN, DE
Touring: Solidairfest Online Festival 2021, FR
2018 Human in Pieces
Première: La Bâtie Festival Genève, CH
Touring: DOCK 11, Berlin, DE
Us
Premiere: DOCK 11, Berlin, DE
Touring: Bolzano Danza, IT /
Fuori programma Festival, IT
Two
Premiere: DOCK 11, Berlin, DE
Touring: Bolzano Danza, IT /
Fuori programma Festival, IT
2017 Chasm
Premiere: Dance Theatre Studio Singapore, SGP
Touring: International Choreography Festival (DICfe) KOR DOCK 11 Berlin, DE
Molimo
Premiere: DOCK 11, Berlin, DE
Touring: Deltebre Dansa Festival Barcelona, ES / Bolzano Danza, IT / Španski borci Cultural
REHEARSAL DIRECTION //
RE-STAGING Director Hofesh Shechter
2017 WOLF by Hofesh Shechter
re-staging director for AterballettoItaly,IT
THE ART OF NOT LOOKING BACK
by Hofesh Shechter
re-staging director for Staatsballett Berlin, DE Paris Opéra Ballet, FR
2015 CODA creation Shechter Junior Company Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, IT
2014/15 Johannes Wieland Company
Staatstheater Kassel Rehearsal Director
2014 DOG by Hofesh Shechter
re-staging director for Staatstheater Kassel, DE
DANCER // PERFORMER
2018/19 ANNA - The Worlds of InfiniteShifts by Alexandra Waierstall
2007-17 Hofesh Shechter Company
2006-07 Krisztina de Châtel Amsterdam, NL
2004-06 Galili Dance/ Itzik Galili Groningen, NL
2001-04 MS Schrittmacher / Martin Stiefermann Staatstheater Oldenburg, DE
WORKSHOPS // MASTERCLASSES since2007
Founder of COMPLEX SIMPLICITY technique
SitaOstheimerWorkshopOrganisation since 2018
at Eden Studios***** Berlin
Company Masterclasses
Hofesh Shechter Company / NDT I / Paris Opera / Staatsballett Berlin / The Royal Danish Ballet / Aterballetto
Festivals
Contemporary Dance Intensive
Workshop,Porto /
B12 Festival Berlin 2017- 2019 /
One Small Step Festival, Corfu ‘17-18 /
Deltebre Dansa festival, Spain ‘18-’24 /
Kinissis Festival, Chile ‘23 /
Dance Days Chania, Greece ‘24 /
Complex Simplicity Workshops Berlin by
Sita Ostheimer since 2018.
Universities
Paris Conservatoire / HfMDK Frankfurt /
Iwanson International school of contemporary dance / The Place London / Verve - Northern School of contemporary dance / SEAD - experimental academy of dance Salzburg / Mentor at International Contemporary Dance Program, NOD Torino (2020) / Mentor program The Place London 2024