Marion Dieterle lives and works in Cologne. She studied contemporary dance and performance at the University of the Arts Arnhem/Düsseldorf, the former European Dance Development Center. She has been most influenced in her position and her compositional work as a dancer by American Postmodernism (Judson Church Movement and the subsequent generation). Marion Dieterle is a stage personality whose love for poetic and bizarre gestures, appearances and images gazes upon bodies and their existence in the world anew, time and time again. Dance, to her, is a medium that combines debate, expression and play of movement, transporting content in a special manner. She positions herself in relation to social topics as a choreographer, dancer and lecturer, having presented her own choreographic works as DOSSIER 3-D-Poetry since 2006. She mainly focuses on the topic of physicalness in contemporary social spaces. With sociological subtlety, performing and playful at the same time, she interweaves perception patterns of the body and the space with lived-in and constructed categories of the self and its surroundings. She plays with the integration of “two-dimensional” ideas, drawings and sketches into dance space. She develops her projects in collaboration with musician and composer Ralf Freudenberger (Freiburg).