Katja Cheranva

Katja Cheraneva is a freelance dancer and choreographer based in Frankfurt. She holds a Diploma from HfMDK, Frankfurt (Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst, Zeitgenosische und Klassische Tanz) and an MA in Arts from MA CuP (Choreography und Performance), ATW, Giessen (Angewandte Theater Wissenschaft).

Her recent work explores notions of rehearsal/rehearsing, learning/unlearning, memory, and undoing. In the past, she has worked in close collaboration as a performer, co-creator, and choreographic consultant with choreographers such as Fabrice Mazliah, Lea Letzel, Francis Chiaverini, Janina Arendt, Ksenia Ravvina, Yasmeen Godder; as well as visual artists such as Anne Imhof (NATURE MORTE 2021, FAUST and FAUST JR. 2017, ANGST I, II 2016), Dudu Quintanilha, Gabriele Rendina Cattani, Dorota Gaweda and Egle Kulbokaite (BROOD 2023).

She was a member of The Forsythe Company (2010-2015) and a founder member of HOOD(Host Organisation fOr proDuction), which held an artistic fellowship at PACT Zollverein from 2017 - 2019. In 2023, she joined Theater Basel as a guest dancer for a production of Telling Stories by Fabrice Mazliah.

Together with Mazliah, she has been managing a project space, Werkstatt (2021-2023), in Frankfurt. Werkstatt received support through #TakePart and, as of October 2021, Tanzpakt Reconnect.

Since 2011, Cheraneva has been actively teaching in various contexts and educational programs and working with students choreographically through mentoring and creating short pieces for and with the students. She mainly teaches improvisation and composition, choreographic approaches and movement research, and voice and text as an extension of the body/dance.