Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main, ZuKT

Dieter Heitkamp is a professor for contemporary dance at the HfMDK (University of Music and Performing Arts) Frankfurt am Main and director of the ZuKT training area. From 2007 – 2014, he was one of the speakers at the AK|T and from 2006 – 2015, he was in the management team of Tanzlabor_21. He was a founding and collective member of the Tanzfabrik Berlin and until 1995, one of their artistic directors; he also worked as a guest choreograph for the Frankfurt ballet and created choreography and stage sets for the ballet “Le Disperazioni del Signor Pulcinella” (music: Hans Werner Henze) at the Berlin State Opera. His choreography was shown throughout Germany, in fifteen European countries, Canada, the USA, Japan, Hong Kong and Brazil. For 38 years, he has been intensively dealing with the study, teaching, documentation and performance of contact improvisation.