Caroline Simon / Stück (Piece)

Caroline Simon was born in Brussels in 1977. She studied contemporary dance at the Performing Arts Research and Training Studios, directed by AnneTeresa de Keersmaeker. She graduated in June 2001 at the Rotterdam Dance Academy as a dancer, dance teacher and choreographer.

She performed in performances by Minke Brands (NL), Ex Nihilo (F), Ilona Pászthy, Katja F. M. Wolf, Alexandra Dederichs and Silke Z. (D). Since May 2001, Caroline Simon lives and works in Cologne, where she produces her own work: Time Trap – or short genuine stories (2002), descent (2003) and BLUFF (2004), nominated for the Cologne Dance Award 2004, Bluff II and Flooded (2005), SELECT! (2006).

Since April 2005 she is the artistic director of STUDIO 11, a production studio in Cologne for free lance theater and dance makers. In 2006 she received the choreography grant from the Kunststiftung NRW for somatic studies in San Francisco.

In 2008, together with the companies Lupita Pulpo (Berlin), Ludica. (Düsseldorf) and silke.z:resistdance. (Cologne), she co-founded of the nationwide network die.idee // bewegt sich // artist network.

She is a core member of resistdance&friends/Silke Z. since 2008.