Cofounder of the wee dance company. Received a "BA in Theater Arts" at the U.C. Santa Cruz University. Was a member of the award winning theater company The Fifth Floor in San Francisco. In 1996 she founded the dance-theater group
Torque, for which she choreographed several pieces. In the Fall of 1998 she came with a scholarship to Berlin and has been working there ever since, as a freelancer choreographing original pieces, as a guest dancer and assistant at Johann Kresnik's dance company at the Volksbühne, as company teacher for Sasha Waltz and Thomas Ostermeier at the Schaubühne.
Independent Productions, amongst others:
2007 - "Yes, yes to Moscow!" / Deutsches Theater
2005 - "Gute Laune Löffeln" (Good-Mood-Spooning) / Theater unterm Dach, Berlin
2004 - "American Night" / Magdeburg City Theatre; "Creatures of Habbit" / Sophiensæle, Berlin
2003 - "Jerusalem Syndrom" / Sophiensæle, Berlin
2002 - "Remains" / Sophiensæle, Berlin
2000 - "Intervista" / Sophiensæle, Berlin
with wee dance:
blocked,
let's sleep on it,
old hat (co-choreographer and dancer)
Äug (co-choreographer and dancer)
plan b (co-choreographer and dancer)
the butterfly defect (dancer and dramaturgic assistance)
nebenan (co-choreographer and performer)
shortcut (co-choreographer and performer).
Home page:
www.sommer-ulrickson.com
