Claudia Kappenberg

Claudia Kappenberg is Senior Lecturer in Dance and Visual Arts and lectures across the Visual Performing Arts area. Her subjects include movement research, performance, screen based practices, installation and critical theory.

Claudia trained in Modern Dance, Butoh and Movement Analysis and danced professionally in Europe and New Zealand before coming to London in 1991.

She completed an MA Fine Art/Film and Video at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in 1998 and taught at Central Saint Martins and London Guildhall University until 2002. Alongside her teaching at the University of Brighton she works freelance as videographer for Tate Modern and Tate Britain as well as other theatre and arts organisations. She has contributed to projects and documented work for artists such as Christian Marclay, Joan Jonas and Bruce Nauman.

Using video as an alternative means to engage with the curriculum in secondary education she runs regular projects with minority communities at schools in Camden, London. She also works with the deaf community, using new mobile technologies and the web in the production of video based gallery guides and web based learning and teaching aids.

As artist she draws on her background of dance as well as visual arts and film to create work which consists of minimal choreographies and examines patterns of the everyday. Shifting between play, ritual and the absurd, they create a sense of continuity and rhythm to provide a framework for small jumps, jolts and surprises.

The work is often developed for particular sites or reconfigured in their relocation to other sites and exhibited in the form of live interventions, gallery based performances, installations or in traditional performance venues.