Claudia Jeschke

Along with her studies of Theaterwissenschaft at Munich University and a doctoral dissertation on the history of dance notation systems, Claudia Jeschke was professionally trained in various dance forms.

Deeply interested in theater she started with choreographing and performing as well as acting and directing – always with strong emphasis placed on issues of documentation, notation and archiving. Her respective academic and practical expertise allows her to approach dance heritage as well as current developments both 'in actu' on stage and in academic writing – for example in deciphering Vaclav Nijinsky’s dance notation system and restoring his ballet L’Après Midi d’un Faune (with Ann Hutchinson Guest).

As guest professor, she has taught in Europe, the USA (University of California at Riverside), Canada (University of Toronto), Asia (several universities in Tokyo and a lecture tour to China) and South America (universities of Sao Paulo and Porto Alegre), and she helped introduce dance studies as an academic discipline in German theater and dance departments such as Munich, Leipzig and Cologne.

In 2004 she joined the faculty of the academic Department for Studies in the Fine Arts, Music, and Dance at Salzburg University as the then first and only professor of dance studies in Austria and became head of the Derra de Moroda Dance Archives (ddmarchiv.org)

Her publications and performances focus on dance-historical and theoretical issues as well as on movement research and notation – and the discursive transfers between these fields and strategies of research. Spectres is her third collaboration with Brooklyn Ballet.