Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln / Zentrum für Zeitgenössischen Tanz

Vera Sander is director of the Centre for Contemporary Dance and Professor for Contemporary Dance at the University for Music and Dance Cologne and has since been central to its development as a teacher, publisher and organizer. She teaches e.g. Contemporary Dance, Choreography and Performance Practice. She has worked as a choreographer, dancer or teacher with e.g. Tanzforum Köln (D), Dansgroep Krisztina de Chatel (NL), Itzik Galili (NL), Semperoper Dresden (D), DV8 (UK), Adventures in Motion Pictures (UK), as well as for various international festivals. Her interest centers on choreographic and body knowledge as a source for interdisciplinary and intercultural creativity. She has been regularly invited to choreograph, to lead workshops and classes, as well as to collaborate in lectures where she shares her research. She is one of the four speakers of the Dance Education Conference (AK|T) and as such member of the steering group of the Dance Education Biennale. She participated in the research project “Dance Technqiues 2010” initiated by Tanzplan Deutschland and is currently occupied with the establishment and development of study programs and exchange formats in the field of dance. Vera Sander studied at the London Contemporary Dance School (UK) and Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Amsterdam (NL). She is one oft he four speakers of the Ausbildungkonferenz Tanz (AK|T), the association of Professional Dance Training Institutions of Germany.
As artistic director of the 5th Dance Education Biennial, Vera Sander has taken over the task of curating and developing an artistic-content conception. According to her featured topic “feedback and reflection” she has promoted the design of the Cologne Biennial as a collaborative and participatory process.