Nira Priore Nouak

Nira Priore Nouak is Brazilian and has been working as a dancer and dance teacher in Germany since 1987. She studied architecture in Brazil, German language and literature, philosophy and sign language in Germany. In 2009, she completed a master's degree in Contemporary Dance Education at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt am Main (HfMDK), and in 2011, she supplemented this with training as a learning and development facilitator at the Institute for Movement and Learning Development (IBL) in Hamburg. The core of her work is senso-motoric bodywork in the context of learning development, improvisation techniques, as well as the connection of theory and practice in group process-oriented work. She teaches contemporary dance and leads various projects, such as the further education KitaTanz, dance-in-schools projects, and in 2016 the project Odyssee_21 for the Hessian State Ballet. She is also a guest lecturer at the University of Koblenz and co-founder of DAS PLATEAU, a platform for workshops in contemporary dance in Frankfurt am Main. As of this season, she is the director of dance education for the Hessisches Staatsballett.