Kai Strathmann is an interdisciplinary artist with a focus on
choreography, electronic composition and audiovisual art. After
a solid training in urban dance (including in Los Angeles, Sweden /
Copenhagen and Germany), he studied contemporary dance (B.A.) and
choreography (M.A.) at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen,
Germany. At the same time, he was a guest dancer for 5 years at the
Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch. In 2025 he completed his second
Master degree (M.Mus.) in Integrative Composition at ICEM/Folkwang
with top marks.
Since 2019 he has been working as a composer and artistic assistant at
YIBU and regularly realizes interdisciplinary works at the interface
of dance, sound, video and space. His choreographic and compositional
works have been presented at Tanzmesse NRW, MOVE! Festival, First and
Further Steps and at Theater Lüneburg.
In addition to numerous international teaching assignments (including
Beijing Dance Academy, Cloud Move China, Asters Studio Greece, The
HipDrop Sweden), he regularly teaches workshops in Germany. In his
practice, Strathmann combines in-depth knowledge of movement with
experimental sound and video art - characterized by choreographic
thinking, technical precision and atmospheric density.