Significant contributor to new dance developments as well as establishment of improvisation as a stage form.
Co-founder of bewegungs-art Freiburg (1979), from 2006 – July 2021 co-director of TIP – Full-time education in dance, improvisation and performance.

Since 1981 she danced and created solo and ensemble pieces, 1987 – 91 member of Anzu Furukawa`s Company Dance Butter Tokyo; she has been performing with dancers and musicians in international ensembles since the mid-nineties; she constantly works in duets with Harald Kimmig and in quintet with trio Kimmig-Studer-Zimmerlin & Michael Schumacher / Michael Shapira.

In 2021 she was working on „what if“ – part of a solo research «silence & noise» supported by DIS-TANZ-SOLO – premiere sounDance-festival Berlin June 21.
In her teaching she draws from decades of research in dance, improvisation and performance. Her interest is exclusively in artistic processes. The focus of her work is equally on the body, breath, intensity and devotion as well as the breaking of movement and thought patterns. Dance technique, dance expression, creativity and design unite.

Irene Carreño Monsalve grew up with dance in a family of artists in Colombia. After her training at bewegungs-art freiburg, she now works as a freelance performer and choreographer. Her dance pieces inhabit surreal moving images and have been performed in Germany and internationally - often together with the dance collective Quizzical Körper. Her most recent production "transformater" premiered at the end of March 2023. Her artistic development is deeply influenced by her regular practice and performance of Instant Composition. In recent years, she has specialized in accompanying and choreographically supporting students and professional dancers in the creation of their pieces. Her teaching work focuses on the anatomy of the human body as well as the refinement of sensory perception and its stimulation. In addition, her classes are influenced by floor technique, body mind centering and dance improvisation. She co-curates the format tanzwuchs in Freiburg and the onCe Festival. Since September 2021 she is the co-director of the VOCATIONAL TRAINING and CONTINUING EDUCATION bewegungs-art freiburg.

www.irenemovement.com