Performance art course with Sigrid Schwarz (student of Beuys)
Kunstakademie Düsseldorf: Painting and Movement Project
Workshops in Modern Dance and Jazz Dance at Centre de Danse Rosella Hightower Cannes; Dance Centre London and in Copenhagen
1980
Amsterdam Theaterschool: Opleiding Moderne Dans, one training year
1981
Clown at Roy Bosier, Rome
Commedia dell’Arte with Ferruchio Soleri
plays street theatre in Italy
1981-84
Berlin, Method Acting – Strasberg Method with Walter Lott
Acting studies with Grotowski in Wroclaw (PL) and at the Roy Hart Theatre (F)
Breath, speech and voice training according to Schlaffhorst-Andersen
Voice, voice and movement by composer Vladimir Rodzianko
Member of the theatre company Ratibor Theatre
Dance project with Sara Shelton-Mann SF in Freiburg (BewegungsArt)
Dancer in the film project of Monika Vogel (DFFB)
1979-84
Solo dance pieces, films, street performances
1984-86 (NYC)
Training at the Merce Cunningham School, studies with the Trisha Brown Dance Company and Viola Faber
Contactimprovisation, Releasework, Dance Therapy with Nancy Stark-Smith and other faculty from Movement Research and Naropa Institute (Boulder)
Releasework after Alan Wayne with Tamar Rogoff
Choreography Workshops with Robert Ellis Dunn and Trisha Brown
Jazz singing with Jeanne Lee, voice through the body with Lisa Sokolov
Dancing in pieces by Meredith Monk, Bread and Puppet Theatre, Tamar Rogoff, David Finkelstein
Own Duo – Productions in NYC
1986-89
Tour with solo evening Aquarium
Interdisciplinary performances in Switzerland
1989-2003
Foundation of the group Britta Lieberknecht & Technicians with the physical actor Reinhard Gerum, numerous interdisciplinary dance productions and guest performances, presented among others at the Tanzhaus NRW, Opéra de Lille, The Place Theatre London, Akademie der Künste Berlin, Skulpturenmuseum Marl, Charleroi Danse, Dies de Dansa Barcelona
The successful piece Bombsville has had 30 guest performances
1989-91
Ensemble member at PLAN K – Frédéric Flamand, Brussels
since 1992
lives in Cologne, invited by Madeline Ritter to found the production company Mammut Tanzproduktion with Keith Ormand and Ricardo Viviani
1994
Start of collaboration with the trombonist Paul Hubweber, development of several performance works and series. Exploration of the possibilities of equal performative interaction of dance and music with physical partnership
2000
Cancellation of the Mammut Studio and opening of the company’s own production facility in Bergisch Gladbach
since 2003
Drawings and exhibitions, including Städtische Galerie Neuss
2006
nominated for the Kölner Tanztheaterpreis with Beben Vibrato
2007/2009
Repertory workshops at the Trisha Brown Dance Company
since 2007
Dancer, choreographer and co-director for the theater monteure for young audiences
2007
Start of collaboration with the visual artist Brele Scholz
2009
Kölner Tanztheaterpreis for Berühren – Zerreissen
2013
Foundation of Britta Lieberknecht & Company with Die Kunst des Staubsaugens with five dancers and the pianist Laurenz Gemmer as musical collaborator
Start of the choreographic exploration of new and early music
2014
Begin of the collaboration with the visual artist Reni Scholz with the performance for her work Krisenhocker
2017
As host and participant of the Galerie im Wiesengrund with her studio in Bergisch Gladbach.
Begin of the collaboration with the visual artist Jutta Dunkel
Begin of the collaboration with the dancer and performance artist Susanne Helmes
2018
Start of collaboration with PAERsche Aktionslabor, platform for performance art
Start of the exploration of improvisation as performance
Development of her form of dance action painting with the performance Momentschicht in the Betonbox Düsseldorf
2020
Founding member of the Performance Kollektive PML
2023
Start of the collaboration with the dancer and choreographer Christiane Budden with the performance à table
Begin of the collaboration with the accordionist Eva Zöllner with the production Leise schäumt das Jetzt
