"Solo-Tanz"
"Miracles only come through work“
"There are many forming steps on the way to unity of creation and dancer, creator/choreographer"

With her intense coaching Susanne Linke is supporting and challenging the autonomy of each person. Everybody will contineously work on a prepared solo meaning mainly clarifications which transform a „big idea“ into a mentally consistent concept, mostly by repeated reductions. Every step in the work is partially an artistic self-determination, a decision for a topic. Every participant will concentrate on her/his solo, will work very hard learning about precision in every detail. Precision of the body does not exist in itself, but comes from a crisp idea. To keep the balance between flexibility in the process and following clearly an idea without locking yourself in is an important yet difficult part of the artistic creation.
Susanne Linke
With her innovative development of the expressive solo dance Susanne Linke is wellknown as one of the protagonists of German Tanztheater. After her studies at the Mary Wigman Institute and at the Folkwangschule Essen she built up a new Folkwang dance studio over 10 years choreographing numerous pieces for the ensemble. Since 1981 she has worked as a soloist. She was invited regularly as a guest choreographer to international companies, including the Limon Company in New York, GRCOP at the Opera of Paris and the Netherlands Dance Theater. In the beginning of the 1990ies she founded the "Company Susanne Linke" and created "Ruhr-Ort" and „"Märkische Landschaften". Together with her partner Urs Dietrich as co-director she headed the Bremer Tanztheater (Germany) from 1994 to 2000. In the years of 2000-2001 Susanne Linke has been a foundation member of the Choreographic Centre Essen and its designated artistic director. Since 2001 she has been working as a independant choreographer again.