About
Benina Berger is a multi-faceted contemporary vocal artist, dance performer, and teacher whose work blends music, movement, and improvisation into a unique and expressive art form.
She holds a degree in MUSIC & MOVEMENT (Bachelor of Rhythmics / Elementary Music Pedagogy), a holistic and widely practiced method of music education that treats music and movement as one unified language.
Improvisation and artistic design are central to her approach, interweaving sensory perception, physical expression, spatial awareness, musicality, interaction, communication, and self-discovery.
During her studies, she delved deeply into vocal and dance improvisation. Her artistic practice explores sound in all its textures—rattles, phonetics, sound surfaces, tone colors, patterns, and soundscapes—turning them into her creative material.
Her special interest lies in the interdisciplinary dialogue between DANCE and MUSIC.
The Art of Improvisation as a stage performance itself.
A performance in the moment.
She collaborates with musicians, dancers, visual artists, and other performers across disciplines.
MusicDanceArt
Founded by Benina Berger, MusicDanceArt is an interdisciplinary artistic and educational initiative that brings together music, movement, and creative expression into a unified practice. It was founded on the belief that artistic learning is most powerful when sound, body, and imagination are experienced as one.
Rooted in traditions such as rhythmics and contemporary performance, MusicDanceArt creates spaces where individuals—especially children and young people—can explore creativity through voice, movement, improvisation, and collaboration. The approach emphasizes holistic development, encouraging not only technical skills but also confidence, communication, cultural awareness, and emotional expression.
Through workshops, school programs, performances, and community-based projects, MusicDanceArt aims to make the arts accessible, inclusive, and deeply human. It values process over perfection, diversity over uniformity, and connection over competition.
With experience across international and intercultural contexts, MusicDanceArt seeks to build bridges between disciplines, communities, and ways of learning—fostering environments where creativity becomes a shared language.
Music is movement. Movement is music.
WORK
2013-present Interdisciplinary Creative Arts Educator (Music & Dance)
Holistic Program Developer MusicDanceArt
Musik- und Bewegungspädagogik (Rhythmik/EMP)
International (based in Germany)
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2019-2025 Creative Director, Coordination and Teaching:
Creative Music & Dance Programs//Vocal Coach
Belau National Museum, Palau
..for elementary schools, afterschool programs,
intercession and summer programs with stage performances
in collaboration with
Ministry of Education Palau
Ministry HRTCD Palau
(Human Resources, Tourism, Culture and Development)
Ministry of Health Palau
(previously funded by Non-communicable-deceases (NCD) fund)
Foreign Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Manila
2019 Founder of "MusicDanceArt"
2018 Educational Performing Art Projects
South East Asia and the Pacific, Palau
2016-2018 piccolino Music & Movement Educator
Musikakademie Kapfenburg, Germany
..monitoring and mentoring the primary student’s mental and individual development
using music and movement
2015-2018 MuBiKiN Music & Movement Educator
Nuernberg, Germany
..Elementary School for mentally disabled children with special needs and refugee children’s classes
2014-2015 New Dance, Tanzproject
Tanzschule Trossingen, Germany
since 2013 performer and teacher in several projects
nationwide Germany
EDUCATION
2015 Bachelor of Music Music&Movement (Rhythmics/EMP)
State University of Music Trossingen Germany
MAIN STUDIES
New Dance
Contemporary Dance
Improvisation in Music and Dance
Rhythmic/Elementary Music Education
Children- and Adult-Didactic and Methodology
Practical and theoretical teaching skills/ pedagogics
Singing and Vocal Improv (Classical, Jazz, Improv, Soul&Pop)
strongly influenced by:
Lilo Stahl, Harald Kimmig, Claudia Kolbus, Rosemarie Jakschitsch,
Prof. Sabine Vliex, Prof. Dierk Zaiser and Anika Koese