FIONA GORDON
Fiona Gordon is the founder of this organisation. She began her career originally as a professional dancer and dance teacher. She's a great lover of observing and working with the human body, the posture, the movement and the expression.
She has the ability to illuminate peoples' personalities by interpreting their movement or posture, through observing their bodys' movement patterns, consequently finding ways to help them make subtle changes to allow her students to grow both physically and psychologically, both externally and internally.
Fiona Gordon comes primarily from England and studied Contemporary Dance at the renowned Laban Centre in London from 1986 to 1990. Later she danced in the "Transitions Dance Company" and got the opportunity to work with famous choreographers like Claude Brumachon and Herve Jourdet (France), Matthew Bourne and Yolande Snaith (England). Since then, she has gained numerous dance experiences with many different international choreographers, including Mark Murphy, (England), Muriel Baader (Zurich) Angela Guerreiro (Portugal), Rica Blunck and Jan Pusch (Germany). Together with them she toured worldwide. In 1999 she won first prize at the "International Solo Dance Competition, Stuttgart" with the solo "Please Help Yourself".
She works as a Contempoirary Dance and Improvisation teacher since 30 years at the Erika Klütz Schule and has freelanced at CDSH, K3-Zentrum für Choreografie and the Volkhochschule.
She also works as a choreographer, producing pieces for the opening of the internationally renowned Street festival: Altonale, in Hamburg, Carmen 2000, and also has worked on numerous pieces in the Thalia Theater, Hamburg.
Fiona has been working as a teacher in Hamburg since 1994 at the state-approved school "Erika Klütz - Training for Theatre Dance and Dance Pedagogy". She has also taught at the "Contemporary Dance School Hamburg" (CDSH) since its opening in 2001 - 2018. She teaches Contemporary Dance, improvisation and choreography techniques at these schools. Furthermore she choreographs numerous pieces together with her students, for various projects and performances.
She also offers open training for professional dancers and dance teachers in Hamburg.
As a guest teacher she can be experienced twice a year, at K3 - choreographic centre, at Kampnagel. She also participated in the community project "with dance for tolerance".
April 2019 she worked with her BUT I FLY DANCE COMPANY and guests on her project "Ebbe und Flut", for the opening of the Altonale, one of the biggest cultural street festivals in Europe.
LINN PETERS
Linn Anika Peters is a state-recognised dance teacher.
She is a founding member of BUT I FLY DANCE e.V. and her great passion has always been dance, musicals and theatre. She has been dancing for over 20 years now. She started out in ballet at the theatre and ballet school in Heide and flew to Zanzibar in 2016 for a three-week dance project. Linn and her crew came 3rd at the North German DTHO Championships in Bad Oldesloe. After graduating from high school, she did a six-month internship at the Altona Theatre and assisted at the Heide Theatre and Ballet School until 2023. In 2018, Linn decided to make dancing her profession and completed a three-year training programme to become a dance teacher. During her training, she took part in the dance theatre production "Lucky Lindy Hop" and started working as a choreographic assistant at the Altona Theatre in March 2018. The highlight of the dance pedagogy training was a performance of the final choreographies, in which Linn was the organisational director and acted as a dancer in 5 choreographies. In 2021/2022, Linn continued her training at the CDSH, specialising in contemporary dance. In autumn 2022, Linn began training as an occupational therapist to deepen her knowledge and interaction with people of different ages and abilities, and in the future she would like to work primarily on dance and theatre projects that involve all people.
CHARLOTTE LEFEBVRE
In Charlotte's footsteps
Charlotte is a dancer, choreographer, dance teacher and dance therapist.
She trained as a dancer in Lyon and as a dance teacher in Nantes and Paris.
She then went to New York to train in various modern techniques (Graham, Horton, Limón, Cunningham, Gaga, etc.), and to Israel to deepen her Gaga practice with Ohad Naharin and the Batsheva Dance Company.
Finally, to deepen her relationship with dance both professionally and personally, she wanted to train in dance therapy, so she did a degree in psychology and a master's in dance therapy.
Charlotte has been working in the world of dance for over 15 years now, working with children, teenagers, adults, senior citizens, people with disabilities and people facing difficulties and/or life issues on a one-off or long-term basis. She has worked in France, Australia, Turkey, West Africa and Spain. Since 2019, she has been working as an entrepreneur in Germany, which gives her a great deal of freedom to pursue her various artistic, educational and therapeutic projects.
Dance has played an important role in Charlotte's life from an early age. Her dance creations and her work around musicality, movement and the relationship with the body nourish and are nourished by her personal and professional development, which are constantly connected.
SARAH EDNA SCHNEIDER
“I love my job as a dance teacher and I believe that this is my calling. I have been dancing my whole life with pure joy. Processing my own feelings and expressing them with my body is what dance can express for me.”
After studying education in Chemnitz, Sarah took the direct route back to dance and successfully graduated from the Erika Klütz Schule für Theater Tanz und Tanzpädagogik in 2019 as a state-approved dance teacher. In the years before, as well as during her training and in the current period, it is more than important to the dance teacher to constantly educate herself, try out new dance styles and discover new directions. Sarah is at home in ballet, but she is also very fond of modern dance and hip hop dance.
Sarah currently works full-time as a dance teacher at a wide variety of spots in Hamburg in the areas of children's dance, ballet, JMC and project work. In BUT I FLY DANCE e.V. she sits on the board and together with Fiona Gordon organizes workshops, dance events or an exchange between youth companies.
As a choreographer she has worked on “Lucky Lindys Hop” (2021 under the direction of Ruby Doo), “Was soll en aus uns werden” (2024 under the direction of Manfred Hüttmann) or children's plays such as “Im Land der Eiskönigin” (2022 own production) or “Die Unterwasserwelt der kleinen Meerjungfrau” (2024 own production). Projects where I was seen as a dancer include “Ebbe und Flut” (opening piece, Altonale 2019 under the direction of Fiona Gordon), “Love Est” (Elbhilharmonie 2023 under the direction of Kian Jazdi) or “Was soll denn aus uns werden” (Deutsches Schauspielhaus, 2024 under the direction of Manfred Hütmann)
If there's one thing Sarah really likes, it's working with children, young people and adults. “They are creative and have a curiosity that also inspires me. It's a great feeling to see what can be achieved together.”
