Maresa von Stockert came to the UK in 1999 to set up her own dance theatre company in London. Since then she has received wide recognition and numerous awards for her work that stands out through its combination of striking imagery, visual theatricality and a movement language that is sometimes beautifully subtle, sometimes disturbingly brutal.

Most recently Maresa von Stockert has been nominated for the shortlist of the 2005 Critics’ Circle National Dance Award in Contemporary Choreography.

In 2005 Maresa von Stockert & Tilted Co., the choreographer’s own company (now called Tilted Productions), extensively toured More Grim(m) Desires , a 75 minute stage piece funded by the Arts Council England and the Jerwood Charity.

More Grim(m) Desires originated from the site-specific piece Grim(m) Desires, created by von Stockert in 2004 commissioned by The Wapping Project and the Jerwood Charity. Grim(m) Desires was a sell-out success and ran for four solid weeks at The Wapping Project.

Other site-specific works by Maresa von Stockert include a 5 minute piece commissioned by the South Bank and performed in the ballroom at the Royal Festival Hall in 2004 as part of Dodi Nash’s Berio Lounge installation and La Sardina, a short piece created for the restaurant at The Wapping project, commissioned by the Jerwood Charity and The Wapping Project.

In 2004 von Stockert was also commissioned to create polystyrene dreams for Phoenix Dance Theatre, which was performed at Sadler’s Wells in London and is touring worldwide until 2006.

Sought after as a guest choreographer, von Stockert’s other commissions include Julie and the Wolf for EDGE, Hairy Days for Transitions Dance Company and Fish City for Loop Tanztheater.

From 2003-2004 Maresa von Stockert & Tilted Co. toured theatres nationally and internationally with its highly successful double bill Nightmares in Black and Green and Beyond the Seven Seas. The tour was funded by the Arts Council England and co-commissioned by LABAN.

In 2002 Maresa von Stockert won a Jerwood Choreography Award. The award funded a research project in 2003 which was the starting point of the piece Beyond the Seven Seas.
A 2002 ZONE3 Production Award Maresa von Stockert received from Jacksons Lane, enabled her to create Nightmares in Butter Cream (later developed into Nightmares in Black and Green).
Both works were created with the support of The Place Choreodrome 2002 and 2003.

In 2002 Maresa von Stockert also created Like Nobody’s Business for her own company. The piece was supported by London Arts and the Bonnie Bird Fund and was performed at the Laban Centre, London and the Clore Studio Upstairs at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London.

In 2001, which saw von Stockert honoured with a Bonnie Bird UK New Choreography Award, she created and presented 753 Seconds Before Waking Up in The Place Evolution 2001 Festival at the Bloomsbury Theatre, London, and, in the same year, created the dance film Barber, which was screened at the dancefilmforum at Hoxton Hall.

In 1999, after two years teaching and choreographing in Germany, von Stockert moved to London to start her own dance company, then called ‘Dance at the Edge’. Her first short work Metallized was shown at Resolution 2000 at The Place Theatre in London. The next piece Worm’s Eye View followed soon after and was performed at Jacksons Lane, London.

Honoured with a Bessie Schoenberg scholarship, Maresa von Stockert received her Master of Fine Arts degree in Dance and Choreography in 1996 from Sarah Lawrence College in New York, US.
Originally from Germany, Maresa von Stockert first studied at the Laban Centre London in 1992/93.

Associate Artist at The Place, London from 2002 – 2004, von Stockert is currently Associate Artist at DanceEast and from 2007 she will be Choreographer in Residence at The South Bank, London.