Elisa Siegmund

by Elisa Siegmund / February 19, 2020 / in Artist, Uncategorized / 0 comments

Professional Development

2025 Skating skills and dance coaching on synthetic ice for Florentina Holzinger’s production “A Year Without Summer”

Zirkus ON residency with work in progress showing at Schloss Bröllin with the project “Hybrid” (working title) and finalization of the Zirkus ON Mentoring Program

2024 Residency at LAKE Studios Berlin with the project “Hybrid” (wt) and acceptance into the Zirkus ON Mentoring Program 2024/2025 with follow-up residencies and work in progress showings at Tollhaus Karlsruhe and ATOLL Festival, as well as at Schloss Bröllin. Performance with the project “Chambers” in Berlin, Screening of the dance film “Moving2Silence” and premiere of the performance “how strange you are” at the IceLab Leipzig Open Stage

2023 Conception and scenic research for the project “Hybrid” (WT), screenings of the dance film “Moving2Silence” in France and Germany

Premiere of the performance “When the Ice breaks…” in France, and “Puzzle(is)land” research performance of the project Floating Interspaces at the 48 Hours Neukölln art festival

2022 continuation: interdisciplinary research on synthetic ice, conception “Reinventing UNFREEZE” in collaboration with eiskunst-werkstatt and IceLab Leipzig as well as guest performance in Germany at IceLab Leipzig in “updating your future … ERROR” and Detox Productions in “Cryptoheroes“. Founding member of the international organization Contemporary Skating Alliance

2021 material, movement and interdisciplinary research on “Chances of a synthetic ice floor in contemporary dance” as well as artistic assistance in the digital dance mediation format “Let’s talk about dance & ice” of the eiskunst-werkstatt, with the collaboration of TANZSCOUT

2020 invitation to teach at the “Virtual Meetup” of the American Contemporary Skating Festival in cooperation with American Ice Theatre and AIT Minneapolis-St. Paul

2017 – 2019 Founding and organizing team member of the international UNFREEZE Contemporary Ice Skating Festival Berlin in Berlin, Germany

2015 – 2020 contemporary ice skating performance in the Trafic de Styles production “Glace”  in France

2014 – 2018 presentations of own works at contemporary ice skating festivals, at the UNFREEZE Contemporary Ice Skating Festival Berlin in Germany, at the Festival -5° Sur Scène in Monéteau, France, and at the American Contemporary Skating Festival in Boston, USA.

2013 – 2018 set new impulses for competitive figure skaters throughout dance-like designed skating skills practice in Germany and China

2012 invitation to guest appearances in NYC for the Home Season and Benefit Gala events of the Ice Theater of New York with first contemporary skating piece “Tender Contradiction”

2010 start of contemporary choreography on ice and presentation at the first Young Artists Showcase, the world’s only competition for youth figure skating choreographers

2006 dramaturgy, conception, choreographic realization and artistic direction of the ice show “StreetStyle” in Berlin / Germany on behalf of the eiskunst-werkstatt

2005 – 2018 teaching “specific dance and movement classes for figure skaters” based on own specially developed training method in Germany and China

2004 – 2016 performances in ice shows and exhibition galas worldwide as in the productions of Art on Ice, Ice Theater of New York, Spotlight Productions, Holiday on Ice, Disney on Ice, Entertainment on Ice, The Russian Ice Stars, Frozen Feet Theater, eiskunst-werkstatt and Moins 5 in Chile, Argentina, Europe, England, Turkey, Philippines, Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, UAE and USA

2004 – 2019 choreography for competitive figure skaters from Germany, China, Japan, Indonesia, England, France and NYC. Choreography of show programs for events in Berlin and Cologne (such as Stars & Sternchen, Skate ‘n Smile – Die Show, BTSC on Ice, Fabulous on Ice) and performance pieces for companies amongst others for eiskunst-werkstatt in Berlin and Frozen Feet Theater in NYC

2003 assistant choreographer of the dance production “Haltungen” to Night of the Museums in Chemnitz / Germany

2002 – 2016 choreographic and dance realization of the concert production “FU:XX & The Sounds of 007” as well as dance performances amongst others with Dance Works Chicago, The Lab Art & Media GmbH and Norddeutsche Konzertdirektion in “Love Hurts… Petruschka” and Musikakademie Rheinsberg in “Orpheus und Eurydike” in Germany, Spain and Czech Republic


Professional, Dance and Choreographic Education

2025 Broadway Dance Center, Peridance Capezio Center, New York City / USA

2024 – present Dock 11, Germany

2022 Dramaturgical training with Dr. Maren Witte, Germany

2012 – 2019 Broadway Dance Center,  PMT, EXPG, Peridance Capezio Center, New York City / USA

2006 – 2012 Sydney Dance Company, Dock 11, Tanzfabrik, Marameo, Motion*s, El Laboratorio, Dance Center Cologne, Germany and Australia

2000 – 2006 Folkwang University of the Arts, Germany

1997 – 2000 Palucca University of Dance, Germany