Irmgard Himstedt
Irmgard Himstedt is a performance artist, dancer, improvisation musician (flute, voice) and teacher.
She studied rhythmics at the Musikhochschule Trossingen with Prof. Elisabeth Gutjahr, majoring in music and movement and improvisation. She later received improvisation lessons from Dieter Heitkamp, Alito Alessi (contact improvisation), Julyen Hamilton (music and dance), Guy Dartnell (voic(e)motion) and Michael Dick (BeWegen), among others. Since 2000 she has dedicated herself to the study of free movement art according to Suprapto Suryodarmo (Amerta Movement). With the actress A. Barbara Hagin, she toured throughout Germany for 15 years with four scenic musical productions. Since 2017, she has been intensively involved in the development of improvised solo performance art with music, movement, voice, language, emotion and object installation.
Her freelance concert activities, musical direction, performance art festivals and her involvement in the independent theatre scene have taken her abroad time and again, including to CH, HR, ESP, GB and NL. She is a member of the Cologne PAE Aktionslabor für Performance Kunst, the Kölner Gesellschaft für Neue Musik (kgnm), the Performance Kollektivs PML and the Cologne Stimmfeld-Verein, which deals with the study of the human voice without limits (extended voice according to Roy Hart).
Performer in
- Tier/Ich/Tier
- Performance Kollektiv PML