Selina Koch (she/her)

Foto: Yen Lee

Selina studied at Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln and the National Academy of the Arts in Oslo. She received her bachelor’s degree in contemporary dance in 2019 and has since worked as a freelance dancer for and with choreographers such as Tanztheater Erdmann-Rajski, MIRA-Company, Johannes Blattner, Julia Brendle, Claudia Senoner and Yolanda Guitterez, Milan Pesçl, as well as with Lee Brummer and Israel Aloni, with whose junior company ilYoung she worked in Sweden in 2022. Since 2020 she has worked closely with Smadar Goshen in several productions. She choreographed the solo ‘the pluralist deconstructed humerous body of her’ for Smadar Goshen, which was performed at Stuttgart International Theatre Dance Festival. In 2023, she was employed as a guest dancer and worked with Hege Haagenrud for Theater der jungen Welt, Leipzig.

The duo Remanenz, which she created together with Mira Plakat, won the prize for best newcomer duo, as well as the audience award at the SoloDuo Festival Cologne and first prize at the SzólóDuó Festival in Poland. In 2023, she received a scholarship from Marie Desoubeaux and her organisation Présomtions de Présences to support her in her own artistic work. Her solo ‘the vertical expression of horizontal feelings’ was shown at the Signes d’Automne festival in Paris. In 2024, she choreographed ‘sketches on bewildered bodies’ in collaboration with Julia Brendle, which the two are currently presenting in various theatres in Limassol, Cyprus.

Selina is a certified Gyrokinesis teacher and is currently training to become a Gyrotnic trainer.