Caroline Simon

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, artscenico, Alexandra Dederichs and Silke Z. (D). Since May 2001, Caroline Simon lives and works in Cologne, where she produces her own work, a.o.: Time Trap – or short genuine stories (2002), BLUFF (2004) nominated for the Cologne Dance Award 2004, SELECT! (2006), piece (2008) nominated for the Cologne Dance Award 2008 and selected for the european festival Aerowaves.

2010 she creates the piece "Corpus Delicti - je est un autre" for the theater TIG7 in Mannheim.

Since April 2005 she is the artistic director of STUDIO 11, a production studio in Cologne for free lance theater and dance makers. Together with Silke Z., she is the artistic director of the series studioworks.

In 2006 she received the choreography grant from the Kunststiftung NRW for somatic studies in San Francisco.

In 2009, she was nominated "best female performer" at the Dublin Fringe Festival.

She is a core member of Silke Z./resistdance. since 2009.

Work

Since 2003, Caroline Simon presents her productions descent, Bluff (I and II), FLOODED and SELECT! to a broad audience. Her interest lies within contemporary themes, the daily and making the underlying visible.

“When you walk down the street in the summer, do men look at you in the face or at your neckline?” a dancer asks the audience in SELECT!. The states of mind and being, are brought across to the audience as directly as possible in Caroline Simon’s work. She focuses on the performer’s authenticity, his or her own expression and personality. One of these aspect’s main goal is to reduce the gap between audience and performer.

Caroline Simon creates intesive moments where poetic athmospheres and unexpected irony are combined. Subtile feeling for the here and now, and the possibility to escape from it, or let it surpise us.