Annerose Schmidt

Annerose Schmidt studied dance at CODARTS/University of the Arts, Rotterdam and the Ballet Academy Zurich. She developed an international artistic practice as a dancer, choreographer, and lecturer with a focus on interdisciplinary and contemporary stage formats. In the Dutch dance scene, she worked as a freelance dancer in Rotterdam and Amsterdam, including with Jerome Bel. From 1998–2005, she danced as an ensemble member at NEUER TANZ/VA Wölfl in Düsseldorf, performing on national and international guest tours in New York – APAP Dance Fair, Paris – Concours de Bagnolet, Hongkong Arts Festival, Hebbeltheater Berlin, Mousonturm Frankfurt, Sprengelmuseum Hannover, Expo 2000 Hannover, Deutsche Botschaft Paris – Salon international pour la photographie Carrousel du Louvre. VA Wölfl's work is characterized by interdisciplinary approaches and the exploration of perceptual boundaries, which significantly shaped Annerose Schmidt's artistic profile.

With her own choreographic work, she participated in the International Choreographers Atelier Munich and followed an invitation from the Goethe Institute Bangkok to present her solo work. During her several-month UNESCO scholarship, she realized the production "Travelling Artists," a choreographic work situated in public urban space in cooperation with Chulalongkorn University Bangkok. With this production, she traveled to China for the Guangdong Dance Festival, where her work was presented.

From 2012 to 2022, she worked as a choreographer at the Young Dance Theatre of the Residenztheater München. There, she developed interdisciplinary productions at the intersection of dance, theatre, and music. Beyond this, she was active in various institutional contexts, including Next Liberty Jugendtheater Graz, Münchner Kammerspiele, Schauburg Munich, and as part of the artistic leadership team of the youth program CAMPUS of the Bavarian State Ballet.

With Fokus Tanz München, numerous choreographic works were created with the Münchner Philharmoniker, Haus der Kunst, and Cuvilliés Theater München.

Her productions RAUSCH and SENSE were winners of the Federal Competitions of the Berliner Festspiele. She has extensive teaching experience in contemporary dance education and worked as a lecturer at national and international training institutions. Since 2022, she has taught as a lecturer at LMU Munich, teaching dance in theory and practice in the BA and MA programs at the Faculty of Theatre Studies.