Nina

Nina Geraldine Stadler was born in the city of Bern, Switzerland, on August 9, 1979. She has been working nationally as a freelance dancer and choreographer for six years. She also teaches modern jazz dance at the City Ballet Halamka in Bern.Dance has dominated Ms. Stadler’s life since she was four years old. After years of classical ballet training at the City Ballet Halamka and obtaining a teacher’s diploma at the Teacher Training College Bern, she went to New York in 2002 to spend a year at the famous Alvin Ailey School, where she not only continued her ballet and modern jazz studies but also learnt new styles, such as Horton, Graham, and Hip-Hop, and acquired the art of improvisation. Next to this intense schedule, she also found time to train with New York choreographer Nina Buisson’s modern jazz company.Highly motivated and full of new ideas, Ms. Stadler returned to Bern and immediately began to put her wide-ranging experience as a dancer and choreographer into practice throughout Switzerland. Ms. Stadler captivates her audiences with her mature craftsmanship, lively and spirited choreographies, and charismatic stage presence. The numerous opportunities she has had to showcase these qualities include: “Slumberland” (Dampfzentrale Bern 2004), her own piece for dance theater; “soif” (Dampfzentrale Bern 2002) and “le voleur du moment” (Dampfzentrale Bern 2006), as a member of the L.E.S. dance company directed by Nicole Voyat; and the musical “Basileia” (Basel 2006), directed by Felix Duméril and Misato Heimann. She has demonstrated her gifts as a choreographer and dancer in “Csàrdas Fürstin” (Stadttheater Biel/Solothurn 2004), “il mondo de la luna” (2004) and “Die verkaufte Braut” (2006) at the open-air opera in the Botanical Garden Basel. She has also toured the Czech Republic with the City Ballet Halamka (2005), appeared with the naway dance company (Zurich 2006), and exhibited her artistry in a solo piece on texts by Meret Oppenheim (2006) and “Puss in Boots” (2007) at the Bern Museum of Art, and in “Orpheus and Euridice” (Kongresszentrum Biel 2007). Her latest production is “My Age Symphony,” in collaboration with conductor Drujelub Yanakiew, at the “Kornhausforum” (Bern 2007).Nina Stadler is a remarkable young choreographer who inspires the Swiss dance scene with a new kind of self-confidence.