DANCER
CHOREOGRAPHER
PERFORMER
About
Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, to a German/Spanish mother, a painter, and to a Filipino/American father, a drummer and composer. She danced as far back as she can remember. Currently based in Berlin with her young daughter, she took a decisive break from the stage to focus on raising her daughter.
Having never stopped dancing and honoring a different pace of working that comes with motherhood, has paved the way for new experimentations in different mediums.
Motherhood is far from being one dimensional. Taking a hiatus from the stage to immerse in motherhood as well as working off the radar, has been quintessentially integral to her trajectory as an artist. The two worlds, art and motherhood, are intrinsically blended for her now.
Using the body to depart from and meet in the mediums of music, poetry, film and visual art, she explores the dimensions of intense physicality, to question and examine the language of kinesthetic texture, rhythm and expression, in relation to the abstract and our social fabric.
Alongside her own work, she continues to work as a hired performer and co-creator on productions with renowned directors, choreographers and artists.
Experience
Anuschka von Oppen is an ongoing freelance company performer and choreographic assistant to the Brussels´ based dance theater company Cie SOIT- Hans Van den Broeck, and has performed in and co-created over 12 international/Belgian productions such as En Servicio (2006-2008 tour), We Was Them (2009-2011 tour), Messiah Run! (2012 tour), Settlement Bastia (2008), Nomads Sydney (2008), Settlement Wellington (2008), Settlement Vienna (2008), Homeland Sydney (2011), Mellika Melouni´s adaptation of Chekov, The Three Sisters at the Stadsteatern in Gothenburg, Sweden (2013), Settlement Los Angeles/Box Gallery, with Los Angeles Poverty Department (2014), Hunt Los Angeles (2015), Celestial Commute Brussels (2015), The Lee Ellroy Show (2014-2018 Tour).
She has worked and studied extensively in a wide range of dance genres. She has studied dance at the Alvin Ailey Dance Conservatory (NYC), Merce Cunningham School (NYC), and at several institutions and cutting-edge dance studios with teachers from Los Angeles to New York City, to Brussels, Berlin and Vienna. She had a dance web Scholarship at the Impulstanz festival in Vienna in 2011.
Additional touring in international productions include: Cie Toula Limnaios in Spuren, Double Sens, Short Stories ( DE); Hyoung Min- Kim, Call Back and Dust (DE); Tommi Zeuggin, Dust (CH/(DE); Louise Vanneste- Rising Horses, Gone In A Heart Beat (BE); Adekwhat/ Philippe Blanchart and Gemma Higginbothom, Bits Of Bob’s Life (BE, UK, SW); Dagmar Bock, Numb (CH(DE); Jamie Lee (BE) and Stanislav Dobak (BE); The activist theater group, Los Angeles Poverty Department with John Malpede and Henriëtte Brouwers (CA), tanzApartment- Vanessa and Lorenz Huber (DE), Isabella Soupa (BE); Perola Filmes (DE); James Peter Brown (AU); Giacomo Gorini (BE); Sarah Sampelayo (BE), Gala Moody (BE), Gert Verboven - Mountain View Productions (BE); Michiel Soete (BE), Arun Leander (DE); Marco Rios Bollinger (CA); Anthea Lewis (UK).
Some of her performances, choreography, sound, poetry and experimental films conceived for the stage, as well as site specific-settings and exhibitions in galleries and museums, include: Landing On Tarmac (2023- not yet released), The Smell Of Trees After Rain (2022), Recorder (2022), Before Light (2021), Red Ice (2015), Improvising with Joan Mitchell at Kunst Haus Bregenz Museum (2014), Unnamed My Eyes Ablaze (2012), Subsurface Project series- Dragon Whistle, Dangle Legs, Heat, Skin, Blue J, Breathe (2012-2016), Nearby Buffalo (2011).
Performances, residencies and support have been through Norwegian Theater Academy (NTO); the Piano Fabrik (BE); Bain Connective (BE); Tanz Fabrik/UFA studios (DE); Dock 11 Theater (DE); Cie SOIT; Renold Space (BE); Ultima Vez Studio (BE); Jaus Gallery (CA); The Australian Arts Council; The Box Gallery (CA); Ivo Dimchev´s former Volksroom (BE); Pieter Space residency in collaboration with the Hammer Museum Los Angeles.
She has taught at The Norwegian Theatre Akademy Ostfold (NTO); The National University of the Arts in Seoul, Korea; Renold Space in Brussels; Carriageworks in Sydney, Australia; Fidget Company in Wellington, New Zealand; Constanza Macras/Dorky Park Company in Berlin; Pieter Space Los Angeles. She has led classes for auditions and workshops with Cie SOIT, internationally.
Anuschka von Oppen offers professional dance classes and workshops and is an ongoing dance teacher at the Lebenshilfe Institute in Berlin.
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