Klaudia Wittmann

My movement journey began as a rhythmic gymnast in Germany, where I competed for the national team from the age of 13. After ending my career, I moved to the UK and studied dance and physical theatre at London Studio Centre and later with Jasmin Vardimon Company. 

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As a freelancer, I worked for a number of choreographers and companies in London in all sorts of settings: national & international tours, outdoor shows, film and video projects, experimental performance... interested in whichever methods I could find to explore the moving body in new ways.

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I soon realised that what I really loved was to create, to bring my own ideas, thinking and feelings into artistic projects. I enjoy collaborating with different art forms and exploring where creative processes can take us when grappling with questions that feel unsolvable. 

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Since 2020, I have focused on putting together multidisciplinary projects as part of KWAM Collective, working on different subject matters with some amazing collaborators from film, composition and visual art. As a collective, we are grateful to be supported by a number of UK organisations including The Place, East London Dance, ECHO, Redbridge Drama Centre, the Abderrahim Crickmay Charitable Settlement, Royal Philharmonic Society and Arts Council England. After being selected by multiple international festivals and winning almost 20 awards for our experimental short film SOMA (2023), we are excited to produce a narrative short film in 2025.

 

Currently, I am also pursuing ARHC-funded artistic practice research (PhD) at the Centre for Dance Research in Coventry. This research is taking me from the UK to Europe to the US to work with survivors of the recent abuse scandals in women's gymnastics to explore new choreographic methods in the context of gender.

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