Nicole Berndt-Caccivio was born in Switzerland in 1963. She studied classical and modern dance in Europe and at Cunningham Studios in New York City. As a dancer since the 80’s in the independent scene, she worked mainly with the Tanzfabrik Berlin as well as the ch-tanztheater Zurich. With her own company Ljada (Biel-Bienne 1988–94) she won the first prize at the Festival of the Suzanne Dellal Center in Tel Aviv in 1992 together with the company Ricochet. She is a guest lecturer for contemporary dance at MUK Vienna, Dance Department of the Hochschule für Darstellende Künste in Frankfurt a. M., ImPulsTanz Vienna, Etage Berlin, La Faktoria in Spain, La Manufacture in Lausanne and TRY in Italy-Lucca among others. She is part of artistic, co-teaching, solo and performative collaborations with David Bloom (Berlin), Claude Hofer (Olten), Kollektiv F (Bern), Nicolas Caccivio (Basel), Ada Fischer (Basel), Annelie André (Vienna), Renae Shadler (Berlin) and since 2019 of the SPHERE collective also in Berlin.
Since 2009 she is the artistic director of Age Company, where she creates pieces with life-experienced people. She initiates ‘Golden Age Workshops’ where elder people come into contact and exchange on a physical and artistic level. As a biodynamic craniosacral therapist since 2004, she explores in her work the exchange between generations as well as her own aging as a performer, through solo projects with Caccivio en Compagnie (Biel-Bienne since 2020) and keeps the physical and choreographic expertise with her own social visions in focus. For her projects Body and Space (2022) and Meta-Morphosen (2023) she is supported by Culture Bienne | Kultur Biel as well as SWISSLOS Canton Bern.
18.06.2024
