Rosalie began her career as a dancer with international companies such as Cie. Déjà Donné (IT) and Netzwerk AKS (AT). Early on, she started creating her own choreographic work—often performing in it herself—both in self-produced projects and within commissioned or collaborative frameworks. She also regularly performs with live musicians in performative concert formats, with a strong emphasis on improvised dance.
Rosalie's early choreographic explorations were shaped by collaborations with fellow dancers Cecilia Loffredo and Tamara Krinner, with whom she initiated first experiments in blending Argentine tango and contemporary dance—such as in CASINAS and MANTIS.
Since 2015, she has worked regularly with cello soloist Ana Topalovic in their duo DAN_CE_LLO, and invited her into projects including BEZIRZUNGEN and LANDSCAPES OF MY INNER DIASPORA. In 2025 they will premier FRAGMENTANGO, in collaboration with Rodrigo Pardo.
Since 2017, she has collaborated with deaf dancer and actress Kassandra Wedel, merging sign language and dance to deepen the link between physical and linguistic expression. Their joint works - VISUAL VIBRATIONS and MANI-FEST - highlight political and poetic dimensions of embodied language.
Her partnership with Argentine choreographer Rodrigo Pardo began in 2018 and continues through joint explorations of tango and contemporary dance forms.
Since 2016, Rosalie has also worked closely with Paola Evelina—former dancer, architect, and photographer. In 2022, they initiated the research project CAPTURES, investigating the relationship between body and architecture. This work evolved into the 2024 lecture performance STAINS, focusing on body image and architectural ideology during fascist regimes in Germany, Austria, and Italy.
In 2022 and 2023, Rosalie was engaged by the Immling Opera Festival to choreograph María de Buenos Aires, the tango operita by Astor Piazzolla, in which she also danced the leading role. In 2023, she choreographed The Threepenny Opera (Die Dreigroschenoper) by Brecht/Weill/Hauptmann, both under the direction of Verena von Kerssenbrock.
Trailer Maria
Trailer Drei Groschen Oper
Rosalie's first full-length production BEZIRZUNGEN (Enchantments) was commissioned by the City of Munich in 2015 for the Villa Stuck Museum.
In 2018, she was commissioned to create an evening-length work to compositions by four contemporary composers for the Festival of New Music in Munich: DIFFERENZEN.
In 2019, she created WANDERLUST, a performative concert for the Long Night of the Churches at Linz Cathedral. That same year, she adapted her earlier pieces MANTIS and TERRITORIO ( ) CUERPO ( ) MEMORIA into the site-specific work BECOMING for the historic entrance hall of Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich.
Also in 2019, she choreographed scenes in Buenos Aires from the unpublished ballet The Stranger / El Extraño, composed by Eduardo Grau for Austrian dancer Isolde Klietmann, who fled to Argentina during the Nazi era due to her husband's Jewish heritage.
In 2022, Rosalie and her long-time collaborator, deaf performer Kassandra Wedel, were commissioned to choreograph a protest in sign language in remembrance of the victims of the NSU neo-Nazi terror network, demanding justice and visibility: MANI-FEST
In 2016, Rosalie was invited to Klagenfurt as Stadttänzerin (Dance Artist in Residence), where she created the solo PLAYGROUND.
In 2017, she performed a series of instant compositions for the Anne Uhrland Gallery and created a solo for the Werner Berg Museum during the Long Night of Dance in Carinthia, Austria. She returned there in 2021 with her duo DAN_CE_LLO.
Also in 2017, she traveled to China for the art video production June Fourth Elegies by video artist Ina Chen, filmed at the Temple of Suzhou.
In 2018, she joined Argentine choreographer Rodrigo Pardo for his site-specific works TOILET TANGO and 2 Ambientes live / Napoli.
In 2019, Rosalie was invited to the International Festival of Poetry in Ostuni, Puglia, where she performed to poems by Bolivian poet Norah Zapata-Prill, whose texts she had previously used in her own productions.
In 2021, she joined the touring project Tango – The Art of Surviving by Sabine Steinwender-Schnitzius, performed in ten churches and synagogues across Germany as part of the program "321 – 1700 Years of Jewish Life in Germany," alongside singer Sharon Brauner.
Video June fourth Elegies
Photos:
Verena von Kerssenbrock - Ina Chen - Vivi d'Angelo - Urosh Grabner - Richard & Maria Kirchner - Verena Friedrich - Paola Evelina