Palucca Hochschule für Tanz Dresden

Matthias Markstein was born in 1981 in Bad Schlema, Germany. He began his dance education at the Palucca – University of dance Dresden, Germany. After his graduation in 2001 he worked in different professional companies. He danced choreographies of Martin Stiefermann, Marguerite Donlon, Hans Henning Paar, Jan Pusch, Jiří Kilián, Christian Spuck, Tero Saarinnen, Rui Horta, Robert North, Constanza Macras, Ina Christel Johannessen. Always fascinated by contemporary dance, he began to concentrate more on contemporary dance techniques and improvisation. He attended a two year teacher’s course at the Palucca University. Matthias is now a permanent teacher for Contemporary dance at the Palucca University of Dance Dresden. He is also known as a guest trainer for professional companies. Beside that he gives workshops in contemporary dance and it´s methodology at different Institutions. Last summer Matthias went into Laban-Bartenieff Movement studies at EUROLAB e.V., planning to become a “Certified Laban Movement Analyst”.