Karin Hermes

Karin Hermes (born 1966) is a choreographer, dancer, dance coach and specialist  for dance notation. She trained as dancer at the Ballettakademie Zürich  and the School of American Ballet in New York. She studied dance  pedagogy, movement analysis and notation at the Hochschule für Musik und  Tanz Köln and the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de  Danse de Paris, where she was awarded a “1er prix” in core area  reconstruction for her “Cycle de Perfectionnement”. She has created  choreographies for numerous dance-theatre productions and has  experimented with various working techniques in dealing with historical  dance works. 2005 and 2008 she was guest artist at the Centre National  de la Danse Pantin/Paris. She has been the Chair of the Interantional  Council of Kinetography Laban. Karin Hermes has realised numerous  projects in the area of dance mediation and is a lecturer in Berne as  well as a guest lecturer at various universities abroad.

Source: Swiss Dance Awards