Maria
Zimpel

Maria Zimpel, choreographer, dance artist. She researches the realm of senses, examining the limits of physicality. She is creating her own dance language. She draws on somatics, and autobiographical abstraction. Author of many solo and collaborative projects, shown all around the world. She has worked as a dancer with dance artists such as: Rosalind Crisp, Isabelle Schad, Kat Valastur. She studied „Dance, Choreography and Context” at HZT (Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz in Berlin) at University of the Arts (UdK). In 2009 she was a recipient of DanceWeb Scholarship; in 2016 her choreography „noish~” was selected for the European Platform AerowavesTwenty, and Polish Dance Platform in 2017. Recipient of K3|Tanzplan Hamburg scholarship 2019/2020. Gyrokinesis apprentice teacher. Living in Hamburg.