Forster Marianne

Marianne Forster received her first dance lessons from Grete Müller and regularly attended intensive courses with Sigurd Leeder in Herisau. She completed further training through summer courses in Switzerland, Cologne, and Bonn, as well as at the London School of Contemporary Dance and with Maja Lex at the German Sport University Cologne. From 1977 onwards, she spent extended periods in New York, where she completed two semesters at the Nikolais-Louis Dance Lab, among other activities, and maintained close ties to the contemporary American dance scene. Forster danced with the Bern-based group Akar and in the May O’Donnell Repertory Group in New York. After obtaining her SBTG diploma, she founded the studio The Dance Experience in Basel, where she taught, organized workshops and performances, and initiated the Tanz im Wenken festival in Riehen. Furthermore, Forster worked as a dance critic for the Basler Zeitung, wrote for various publications, gave lectures on dance training and dance history, served as an editor for the magazine Tanz&Gymnastik, and was active in the news editorial team of Der Tanz der Dinge.