Anca Frankenhaeuser
BA Hons, Contemporary Dance
MDA, Movement Studies
Anca performed, taught and choreographed with London Contemporary Dance Theatre for fifteen years touring throughout UK and internationally.
In Australia since 1990 she has taught extensively in dance schools, colleges and tertiary institutions, as well as co-creating and performing independent work with likeminded dancers, actors, singers, musicians and visual artists, including eleven productions with eminent sculptor Ken Unsworth and the Australian Dance Artists.
Other ventures include various performances with Livingroom Theatre, Canberra Dance Theatre, the National Portrait Gallery and BOLD Festival in Canberra, presenting Long Life, Short Dances in Finland with her partner Patrick Harding-Irmer, an Australia-Singapore digital collaboration Bubbles, as well as collaborations with choreographer/filmmaker Sue Healey, which include Moving Portraits at AGNSW, the short film Solitude, which premiered at The Lincoln Centre in NYC, and several projects with the late Eileen Kramer, who kept creating until her death at the age of 110 in 2024.
She continues to work as a deviser/director/choreographer/performer, as well as lecturer/tutor of choreography & movement for actors.