Claudia Jeschke studied theatre sciences and German philology in Munique graduating 1979. 1994 she got the professorship at the institute for theatre sciences in Leipzig and made her habilitation there. 2000 she got the professorship for dance sciences at the University of Music in Cologne. Since 2004 she is full professor for dance sciences at the University of Salzburg. She is guest professor at European and American Universities. Claudia Jeschke is the author of several publications where she, being a dancer, looks at dance history mainly from a perspective of movement analysis and daily practice. The connection of history, theory and practice documents in several re-constructions relating to dance phenomena of the 18th, 19th and 20th century.