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artistic direction
Lucia Baumgartner
Artistic Director and Choreographer
Lucía Baumgartner has spent her childhood in various swiss cantons, spanish regions and in Africa. While studying to be a teacher, she discovered Modern Dance. She then studied at the London Contemporary Dance School, where she obtained a Master of Arts degree in choreography in 1998. She is trained in a number of contemporary dance and theatre styles. Her other interests include yoga, shiatsu, climbing and swimming.
Since 1999 she has been artistic director of the inFlux company.
Her itinerant lifestyle has been a dominant influence since her childhood and has helped her in various projects in Switzerland and abroad. She participated with inFlux in festivals and has given workshops in Germany, France, Spain, Portugal, Kosovo, South Africa, Mozambique, Mexico and Venezuela.
Her philosophy of dance is influenced by various other art forms aswell as psychology.
Her creations combine mediterranean temperament with swiss sobriety.
Grants and prizes
2007 Development Grant Canton Bern for 'Cloudcatcher'
2003 Berner Atelier Cité intern. des Arts, Paris (6 months), canton Berne
2002 Culture Promotion Award, Thun
2001 Grant On/Off Werkstatt Bern, Workshop with David Zambrano
2000 Finalist in the 4th Intern. Solo Dance Theatre Festival Stuttgart with 'I am Looking for the blue flower'
1999 Selected as choreographer for SiWiC (Swiss International Further Training Course in Choreography), Zurich
1997/98 Trust of LCDS, London grant
1998 Links Fund, London grant
1997 Grant from the Foundation for the Promotion of the Representative Arts, Zurich
Lucia as a commissioned choreographer for dance and theatre projects
with dancers (ao national Dancecompany danzaluz Venezuela)
with children (ao UNO and DEZA projects)
with amateurs (Skulptur06) With actors (ao Kosovo.Blood.Project
with Markus Zohner,Prishtina Kosovo)
with musicians (ao Acapickels goes to Las Vegas)
Lucia as a dancer with unique movement language
'Sternstunde Religion' on SF1 as Maria Magdalena
'Aguacero', a site specific production by Projecto Babel, commissioned by city of Zaragoza (Spain)
Lucia as a dance teacher
movement teacher and choreographer Highschool Rämibühl, Zürich regular classes in Bern and Neuenburg
coach for newcomer choreographers
workshops in Switzerland and abroad (her knowledge has benefited synchronised swimming coaches, theologians, teachers, inmates of a woman's prison, actors, amateurs, children, people who are hearing impaired and social workers.)
commissioned by Steps 2008 and 2010 for leading 'Mach mit'-classes in swiss schools
Kulturzeiger Thun (PDF 70 KB)
Thuner Kulturförderpreis 2002
Oberländisches Volksblatt & Thuner Tagblatt 30. Oktober 2002 (PDF 79 KB), Teil 1 Oberländisches Volksblatt & Thuner Tagblatt 30. Oktober 2002 (PDF 206 KB), Teil 2
Fondo Forastero (Koproduktion mit Danzaluz, Venezuela)
Maracaibo 9. März 2008 (PDF 140 KB) » Fotos
SiWiC
Tanz & Gymnastik 3/1999 (764 KB)