Bio
Ramona Sekulovic is a German/US dancer, choreographer, and guild certified Feldenkrais Practitioner. Trained as a dancer as well as visual anthropologist, she currently strives to incorporate the experience, sensation, and perception of her own body as well as its individual anatomical aesthetics into choreographic practice. To this end she combines an array of dance techniques and vocabularies, ideas from the Feldenkrais method, anthropological fieldwork, and the medium of film into a methodology for research into the individual dancing body. The results of this research take shape in choreographic works as well autobiographical writings and ethnographic dance films.
Ramona most recently received research funding from the Fonds Darstellende Künste and the Dachverband Tanz in Germany, as well as project funding from the Senate Department for Culture and Europe, the National Performance Net, and Draussenstadt / Call for Action.
Ramona founded the Ramona Ganssloser TanzKunst Project, a contemporary dance company, in 1999 in New York, and choreographed for the company until 2005. She now works on a project to project basis, allowing her to focus extensively on research based choreography. Her dances most recently have been produced by Gibney, Chop Shop Contemporary Dance Festival, Austin Dance Festival, Movement Research at Judson Church, WestFest, Mark Morris Dance Center, Green Space Studio, Dixon Place, the SoloDuo Festival, and the Dumbo Dance Festival. In the past she has presented her work at Joyce Soho, Dance Theater Workshop, the Limon Institute, WAX, and University Settlement among other venues in New York, and has received commissions by the Yale University School of Drama as well as a Weatherhead grant from the East Asian Institute at Columbia University.
Ramona further produced, shot, and edited several dance films. Her recent filmic work investigates sensory perception of the body as a dancer as well as the influence of space and place on movement vocabulary and choreography. The film “Humans Are Here, Too” is a sensorial ethnographic film about the daily practice of dance shot in Studio 5, City Center, New York.
In Europe she has been working as a dancer at the Theater des Westens Berlin, Germany, as well as for the Theater des Augenblicks in Austria and Belgium.
Ramona studied the Feldenkrais Method at the Feldenkrais Institute in New York under David Zemach Bersin. She holds a MA in Visual Anthropology from the Freie Universität in Berlin, Germany, and a BA in Anthropology from Columbia University. She studied dance at the Theaterschool Amsterdam and the Rotterdamse Dansacademie (now Codarts), the Netherlands.