Klaudia Wittmann
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Klaudia's movement practice began as a rhythmic gymnast in Germany, where she competed for the national team for 5 years from the age of 13. After ending her career, she moved to the UK and studied dance and physical theatre at London Studio Centre and with Jasmin Vardimon Company. Later, she also trained as a dance movement psychotherapist at Goldsmiths University of London and is continuing her psychoanalytic formation at the Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis.
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As a freelance dance artist, Klaudia worked for a number of choreographers and companies in all sorts of settings: national & international tours, outdoor shows, film and video projects, experimental performance... interested in whichever methods she could find to explore the moving body in new ways. During that time, she had the chance to perform pieces by Jasmin Vardimon, Pascal Merighi, Balbir Singh, Lara Ritosa-Roberst, Sarah Blanc, Acrojou, Isabel Baquero, amongst others.
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Soon she felt an urge to transform her own ideas, thinking and feelings into artistic works. Since 2020, Klaudia has focused on putting together interdisciplinary projects as artistic director of KWAM Collective, exploring different subject matters with collaborators from film, music and visual art. As a collective, KWAM is by now supported by UK organisations including Arts Council England, UK Arts and Humanities Research Council, The Place, East London Dance, ECHO, Redbridge Drama Centre, Abderrahim Crickmay Charitable Settlement, Royal Philharmonic Society.
After being selected by multiple festivals and winning 13 international awards for experimental short film SOMA (2023), Klaudia is currently working with longterm collaborator Arturo Bandinelli on narrative short film Grace Period (2026).​ At the same time, she is also touring her most recent creation, dance theatre piece head bucket bed, with international performances at Dumbo Dance Festival NYC (2025) and Artsintank Dance Festival (2026), and further development planned in 2026/27.
Additionally, Klaudia is completing an ARHC-funded artistic practice research project (PhD) at the Centre for Dance Research in Coventry. This research is taking her 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 practices in the context of gendered violence.
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