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Biography
Heike Salzer is a performer and choreographer, screendance artist and curator, lecturer and researcher having lived and worked in several countries.
Her interdisciplinary practice comprises screendances, installations and choreographies with an interest in artistic collaboration and somatic and embodied research methods, focusing on philosophies of space and place, emotional geography, site-specific inquiry, romanticism and visual and aural rhythmic structures. This interdisciplinary work crosses the genres of sequential narratives, digital media, dance and performance and reaches audiences in traditional venues, public spaces, live and online.
Under the name of Salts she collaborates with international artists and her work has been invited to numerous international venues and festivals, such as the International Videodance Festival Burgundy (FR), Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema (US), Bang-VII Barcelona Videoart Festival, (SP), Athens Video Dance Project (GR), Aesthetica Film Festival (UK), Screen Moves (DK) among others.
Together with Mexican/American artist Ana Baer she founded the screendance company WECreate in 2014, producing collaboratively site-specific screendances, inspired by their travels to extreme landscapes.
In 2018 Heike was invited to join the Board of Directors of the Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema, Boulder, CO. She co-directed and produced Tees Dance Film Fest (UK) in 2015+16 including tours to Mexico and United States.
Heike has had a varied career teaching in vocational and Higher Education. She joined Roehampton in 2017 having previously been a faculty member at the conservatoires Fontys Dance Academy, ArtEZ Dance Academy, Stedelijk Lyceum (NL) and The Icelandic Ballet School (IS). She set up and chaired the dance department at Teesside University (UK) from 2008-2017. As a visiting lecturer, she has been invited to teach and choreograph at international dance institutions such as Dancehallerne (DK), University of Malta (MT), Texas State University (US), Slippery Rock University (US), and Stichting voor Art and Culture Gelderland (NL).
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
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, 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 → 2019Network
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
Research Output
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Framing and reframing screendance: A site specific practice
Salzer, H. & Baer, A., 26 Feb 2020, (Submitted) In: Videodance Studies.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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
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From Physical Sensation to Digital Presentation: Exploring Interdisciplinary World Building
Salzer, H., Jensson, I., Williams, D. & Gunnarsson, Z., 15 Jan 2020, (Accepted/In press).Research output: Contribution to conference › Other › peer-review
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Latent Spaces Reframed - Ukraine
Salzer, H., Baer, A. & Burton, R., 2 Jun 2020, (Accepted/In press)Research output: Non-textual form › Exhibition
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WECreate Memories
Salzer, H., Baer, A., Nance, M. & Burton, R., 2 Jun 2020, (Accepted/In press)Research output: Non-textual form › Digital or Visual Products
Prizes
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5th Festival Internacional de Videodanza de la CMDX-Honourable Mention
Salzer, Heike (Recipient) & Ana Baer (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) & Ana Baer (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) & Ana Baer (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) & Ana Baer (Recipient), 20 Feb 2020
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Activities
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Hosting Filmmaker Marlene Millar and Quartiers Danse Festival
Heike Salzer (Organiser)
11 Mar 2020 → 12 Mar 2020Activity: Public engagement and outreach › Other
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Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema Curation team chat
Heike Salzer (Speaker), Ana Baer (Speaker), Michelle Bernier (Speaker) & Rosely Conz (Speaker)
25 Sep 2020Activity: Public engagement and outreach › Invited talk
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Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema (External organisation)
Heike Salzer (Reviewer)
10 Apr 2020 → 2021Activity: Public engagement and outreach › Festival/Exhibition
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Presentation -WECreate Productions Videodance- Muestra Virtual de Trabajos Creativos produced by Cuerpo Academico de Artes Escénicas
Heike Salzer (Speaker), Ana Baer (Speaker), Rocio Luna Urdaibay (Organiser), Robert Burton (Contributor) & Michelle Nance (Contributor)
1 Sep 2020Activity: Public engagement and outreach › Invited talk
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Artist Chat: Bodies in Spaces - Where Site Specificity Meets the Screen
Heike Salzer (Chair) & Michelle Bernier (Organiser)
1 Oct 2020Activity: Public engagement and outreach › Public lecture/debate/seminar
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
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WECreate Spaces - In Betweenness,” Winner of Our January Video of the Month Contest
Heike Salzer & Ana Baer
5/02/20
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
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PRODUCTIVO Y EXITOSO EL CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL DE ARTES ESCÉNICAS
2/07/19
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
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Interview - Artist residency Appalachian State University
12/03/19
1 Media contribution
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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