As a trained actress and singer I spent years and years discovering the world via body, movement & emotions. Exploring & expressing the connection between me & the world through art seemed to be the most appropriate way. Relations in Space, the discussions about form and content in art, After spending my first three Berlin years WORKING - meaning: putting my time into various things /jobs/ projects that had money as an outcome or connections - sometimes not connected to art or beauty at all...I became to know why it is so important to help bringing back joy, art & relaxation by PLAYING into mine and other people's lives. For 5 years now I am discovering the connection between art, self discovery & expression, beauty & earning a living anew. Meanwhile I am running a successful drama business and therefore am looking for a studio to rent (fulltime. An international acting school and theatre for amateurs and semi-professionals is in the planning. The first English Drama Course from March to June 2009 was one of these projects, the following drama projects were well perceived and culmulated in the English Community Theatre. Amongst other things I am working as a director and drama educator at the English Theatre Berlin, for TUSCH and in various other schools in Berlin. Photo: Andra Kokott

Trainings: academic studies of Diplom-Kulturpädagogik theatre & music actors training: ° Bergen Community College N.J. USA ° Theater Orange Hamburg(now buehnenstudio ° private lessons with Lukas Scheja (artrium-hamburg) Voice training at Hamburger Schule für Sprech- und Schauspielkunst with Dieter Bartel Basic movement - a combination of Javanese Sumarah Meditation and free movement - based on the Joged Amerta Movement of Suprapto Suryodarmo ( as you can now even see on youtube: Biodanza with Cristina Arrieta Further trainings in ° family constellations training (B. Hellinger) ° forum theatre (Augusto Boal) ° Grotowski trainings ° Method Acting ° Yoga (Ashtanga, Kundalini, Iyengar) Balanced View Training since 2010