Jess Curtis/Gravity

Ulrike Bodammer
Performer/Collaborator

Ulrike Bodammer (Berlin, Germany) graduated in 2002 from L`Ecole Supèrieur des Arts du Cirque in Brussels where she specialized in partner acrobatics. She is a certified power vinyasa flow yoga teacher, a Kundalini yoga teacher, a Reiki master and a mother. Ulrike worked with the Belgian nouveau cirque company, Feria Musika, and Wire Monkey Dance Company from Massachusetts. She choreographed her own work: Lowrise; "die Liebe ist Unklar, deshalb bleiben Sie lieber Angeschnallt“ (with Jule Reinartz), “she must come soon“ (with Maria Francesca Scaroni), performing them at venues such as The Half Machine Festival in Copenhagen and Feld Dock11 Berlin. Since 2006 she has been dancing and setting the work of Tino Seghal – "kiss“ and "Instead of allowing some thing to rise up to your face dancing bruce and dan and other things“, on the 4th Berlin Biennale 2006, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Guggenheim New York, and Pinchuk Art Centre Kiev.

Recently, Ulrike created the installation work "Gimme Shelter“ together with her partner Frank Willens and their son Elijas.