Christina Comtesse - A Short Curriculum Vitae

After completing a B.Sc. in Chemistry at the University of Exeter, Christina Comtesse studied at the London School of Contemporary Dance, The Place. After a short time working in London with 181 Dance and The Danceband as well as teaching at Middlesex Polytechnic and The Place, she was offered a contract with Theater Osnabrück Germany.

Afterwards, followed engagements in Bremer Tanztheater, Berliner Volksbühne, dancing eleven years with Johann Kresnik. She has worked as guest trainer and assistant in the Komische Oper Berlin and Linz in Austria and has choreographed for the Volksbühne and Schaubühne in Berlin as well as for Theater Konstanz, Krefeld/Mönchengladbach, Graz in Austria and Luzern in Switzerland.

From 2004 to 2006 she was engaged as Ballet Mistress and Rehearsal Director in Luzern and since 2006 as Rehearsal and Deputy Director in Staatstheater Darmstadt under Mei Hong Lin. In Darmstadt she has choreographed Immer Wieder Weihnachten, Der Dritte Sinn, Jesus Christ Super Star, 7 Tage as well as choreographing for many plays and operas.

She has also been responsible for restaging Ulrike Meinhof and Sylvia Plath from Johann Kresnik as well as Bernarda Alba from Mei Hong Lin.

Her most recent productions in 2015 have been as choreographer for "Lohengrin" for the Konzert Theater Bern, Switzerland, “Die 120 Tage von Sodom”, Volksbühne Berlin as choreographic assistant to Johann Kresnik and Ismael Ivo, “Spieluhr" Tanzcompagnie Giessen, as well as guesting in Landestheater Linz, Austria.