Belinda Winkelmann is a choreographer, performer, and artistic researcher. She completed her training in dance, improvisation, and performance at bewegungs-art Freiburg and holds an M.A. in Social Sciences from the University of Freiburg. Born in Switzerland, she lives and works in Germany.
She is a co-founder of com.dance e.V., an association that initiates artistic projects at the intersection of dance and social participation, and a member of the advisory board of Tanznetz Freiburg, where she is committed to connecting and strengthening the independent dance community.
Her artistic practice is rooted in long-term collaborations and intercultural contexts. These include her collaboration with Raúl Martínez (CR/SLV), in which different cultural and geographical perspectives encounter one another and evolve into a shared artistic process, as well as the duo twOne Company with Ewelina Kotwa.
Her artistic work is guided by the principle “Dance is Transformation.” She understands dance as a process of change – within the body, in consciousness, and in our relationships: with ourselves, with one another, and with the world. At the heart of her artistic practice is an exploration of transformation and interconnectedness within a living ecosystem. Her works inhabit states of transition and open up spaces of experience in which relationship and change can be felt. Dance becomes a space in which transformation unfolds and interconnectedness can be experienced through the senses.
Her work develops through collaborative and, wherever possible, non-hierarchical artistic processes. She understands choreography as a collective practice: a field in which different perspectives, bodies, and experiences come together and transform one another.
For Belinda Winkelmann, art is a form of embodied knowledge rooted in communal and originally sacred forms of human expression. Her movement language seeks forms for what cannot be translated into words – reduced, poetic, and contemplative. Her aesthetic focuses on presence, perception, and relationship.