Claudia Feest is a breathing and movement educator, as well as a breathing and body therapist, a qualified biologist, a dancer and a choreographer. She is a co-founder of Tanzfabrik Berlin and served as its artistic director until 2003. Furthermore, she has played a formative role in numerous cultural-political and institutional contexts within the field of dance, including as a co-founder of the Dachverband Tanz Deutschland. She teaches and conducts research with a focus on elementary breathing and movement theory as well as body awareness. Her practice is based on the Gindler-Gora method (bodywork according to Elsa Gindler / Frieda Goralewski) and the breathing method of Ilse Middendorf (‘Der Erfahrbare Atem’). She has been working as a freelancer and in her own group practice in Berlin since 1997.