Ilka Vierkant

Play

Actress, musician, film maker, movement pedagogue. Founded the company VASISTDAS, Toulouse/France and produced a theatre play about her grandfather "OPA!" (play, puppet construction, co-author) and co-directed a film "Ma rencontre avec Jean et Marie" with the French director Francis Fourcou.
In France, she wrote and performed the play "I love you, moi non plus" with Marc Fauroux and worked closely with the director and playwright Dominique Pompougnac. For 17 years, she toured the world with the Flöz family as a musician, mask player and author. She has worked in Germany at the Volksbühne, in Poland with Lechek Radchak and in England with the Company of Strangers.
She has taught at the Humboldt University, Berlin, the Alice-Salomon University of Applied Sciences, Berlin, the Felix-Mendelson-Bartholdy Academy of Dramatic Arts, Leipzig and the Freie Theaterschule Berlin She trained at the Folkwang Hochschule Essen, the Hochschule für Schauspielkunst, Berlin and the Ecole Philippe Gaulier et Monika Pagneux, Paris and is currently completing her Alexander Technique training (ATI) in Toulouse.