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Personal profile
Biography
Heike Salzer is a German dance artist fluidly operating in performance, choreography and site specific screendance. Her work is seeking to discover the unseen, the in-betweenness and the things that are in transformation. She sees the body as a place of inquiry utilising the visceral experience of tuning into the environment as a way to inform, reveal and reflect on place and emotional geographies of individuals, communities and society.
Heike has lived and worked in several countries and is currently a Senior Lecturer in Dance Professional Practice at the University of Roehampton, where she convenes the MFA Dance and Embodied Practice, teaches on UG and PG degrees, and supervises PhD Practice as Research projects.
Under the name of Salts she collaborates with international artists and her screendances have been invited to numerous festivals. In 2014 Heike founded the screendance company WECreate Productions together with Ana Baer (US/MX) jointly directing screendances and multi-media performances.
A recent research interest is the field of Ludochoreology-The study of the art of movement in games, together with Deborah Williams.
She is the secretary of the board and European liaison of the International Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema (US) and has been a curator of the festival since 2015. She co-directed and produced Tees Dance Film Fest (UK) in 2015+16 including tours to Mexico and the United States.
Heike has been a faculty member at the conservatoires Fontys Dance Academy, ArtEZ Dance Academy, Stedelijk Lyceum (NL) and The Icelandic Ballet School (IS). She chaired the dance department at Teesside University (UK) from 2008-2017 and has been invited to teach and choreograph at international institutions such as Dancehallerne (DK), University of Malta (MT), Texas State University (US), Slippery Rock University (US), Appalachian State University (US), the Icelandic Dance Company (ICE) and Michoacán University of Saint Nicholas of Hidalgo (MEX).
Heike graduated as a certified Anna Herrmann Gymnastic teacher in Germany, trained at ArtEZ-Dance Academy (NL) and holds a MA Choreography from the University of Leeds (GB) / Fontys Dance Academy, (NL). She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and was awarded a PhD by Completed Work by the University of Roehampton (UK).
Qualifications
PhD by Published Work, University of Roehampton (UK)
MA Choreography, University of Leeds (UK) / Fontys Dans Academie (NL)
Dance Education / Dance Performance, Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Arnhem (NL)
Certified Gymnastic Teacher (Gymnastilehrerin), Anna Herrmann Schule (GER)
Teaching
Dance Practice, Screendance, Mediated Choreography, Dance and Embodied Practice, Dance Sustainability and the Environment, Choreography
Professional affiliations
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Secretary of the board - International Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema (Boulder, USA)
Links
Education/Academic qualification
PhD
2017 → 2019
2002 → 2004
1997 → 2000
1994 → 1997
External positions
External Examiner- MA Screendance, London Contemporary Dance School
30 Sep 2020 → 31 Aug 2024
External Examiner, BA Dance, University of Chester
1 Sep 2020 → …
Secretary, Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema
2018 → …
External Examiner, BA Dance in the Community & BA Dance and Physical Education, University of Worcester
2015 → 2019
Network
Projects
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Exploring Interdisciplinary World Building in Games Design
Salzer, H., Williams, D., Jensson, I., Gunnarsson, Z. & Burton, R.
10/07/19 → …
Project: Research
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HinterTerra: Screendance
Salzer, H., Baer, A., Nance, M., Camilleri, F., Burton, R. & Laidlaw, J., 2023, (Submitted)Research output: Non-textual form › Digital or Visual Products
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Latent Spaces Reframed - Malta
Salzer, H., Baer, A., Nance, M., Camilleri, F., Burton, R., Hall, R., Laidlaw, J., Jensson, I., Guzzanti, P. & Azzopardi, D., 10 Dec 2022Research output: Non-textual form › Exhibition
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Framing and reframing screendance: A site specific practice
Salzer, H. & Baer, A., 8 Feb 2021, Videodance Studies: Analysis and Evolutions. Payri, B. (ed.). València: Universitat Politècnica de ValènciaResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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WECreate Spaces – Limerick
Salzer, H., Baer, A., Nance, M. & Lopez Chas, J., 22 May 2021Research output: Non-textual form › Digital or Visual Products
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From Physical Sensation to Digital Presentation: Exploring Interdisciplinary World Building
Salzer, H., Jensson, I., Williams, D. & Gunnarsson, Z., 20 Jan 2020, (Accepted/In press).Research output: Contribution to conference › Other › peer-review
Prizes
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5th Festival Internacional de Videodanza de la CMDX-Honourable Mention
Salzer, Heike (Recipient) & Baer, Ana (Recipient), 10 Oct 2020
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Athens International Digital Film Festival - Award for Best Documentary Short
Salzer, Heike (Recipient) & Baer, Ana (Recipient), Oct 2020
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Dance Magazine.Video of the Month award January 2020
Salzer, Heike (Recipient) & Baer, Ana (Recipient), 5 Feb 2020
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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D'Olhar Festival - honourable mention award 2017
Salzer, Heike (Recipient), May 2017
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Frostbite International Indie Film Festival - Winner of Best Original Score
Salzer, Heike (Recipient) & Baer, Ana (Recipient), 20 Feb 2020
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Activities
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Site specific screendance making: a collaborative embodied wandering practice
Heike Salzer (Presenter), Dirk Dumon (Organiser) & Keith Derrick Randolph (Organiser)
24 Jan 2023 → 25 Jan 2023Activity: Public engagement and outreach › Workshop and other training
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Improvisación como Creación-Improvisation as Creation
Heike Salzer (Presenter), Ana Baer (Presenter) & Rocio Luna Urdaibay (Organiser)
7 Feb 2022 → 24 Jun 2022Activity: Public engagement and outreach › Performance Arts/Exhibitions/Festival outside Roehampton
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Thule - Beyond the borders of the known world : Official selection at 6th One Earth Awards, Bangalore, Karnataka (India)
Heike Salzer (Presenter) & Ana Baer (Presenter)
31 Mar 2022Activity: Public engagement and outreach › Performance Arts/Exhibitions/Festival outside Roehampton
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Curating Sans Souci Festival's 19th Annual Festival Season 2022-23
Heike Salzer (Reviewer), Michelle Bernier (Chair) & Ana Baer (Reviewer)
Sep 2022 → May 2023Activity: Public engagement and outreach › Contribution to the work of non-academic organisations
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Locals, nomads and strangers: reflections on the body in socially engaged landscape art
Heike Salzer (Presenter) & Ana Baer (Organiser)
Aug 2022Activity: Public engagement and outreach › Public speaking engagements
Press / Media
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Colorado has more than just Telluride Film Fest. Here’s when you can see films in Denver, Vail, Breckenridge and beyond.
19/09/22
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
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Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema tempts viewers to ‘sway, spin and dance along’ for year 19
1/09/22
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
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As Dance Returns to Theaters, Will We Keep Investing in Screendance?
Heike Salzer & Michelle Bernier
7/02/22
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
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Sans Souci dance film fest to screen 11 short vignettes at the Dairy Arts Center’s drive-in
Heike Salzer & Michelle Bernier
27/08/20
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
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Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema Brazil Edition at Unicamp
8/08/20
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
Thesis
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Wanderlust in screendance: the body in landscapes
Author: Salzer, H., 18 Jan 2020Supervisor: Claid, E. (Supervisor), Protopapa, E. (Supervisor) & Whalley, B. (External person) (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis
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