Dance yoga and seminar trips to Sicily by the sea

I am happy to show people a part of this beautiful island and teach here, make films, write plays, choreograph, swim, the sea, the land.
And the city of Cefalú! I've been spending more time here since 2020 and also give Ayurvedic healing massages.

Nora Curcio

Director and owner of the theater gallery.
Is a dancer, actress, bodyworker, teacher for yoga, dance and Tai Chi, a wonderful cook and a sensitive, humorous, sometimes strict teacher. As a natural talent for movement, she was a competitive and synchronized swimmer at a young age, studied ballet at the famous John Cranko School and later trained as a modern dancer in New York with, among others, Alvin Ailey and the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Art .
Further training in yoga, tai chi, qi gong, bodywork/massage (according to Shika/India), tango, salsa and belly dance followed. She has a German mother, a Sicilian father, a Latvian grandmother and a grandfather who was born in Ukraine.
Also a wonderful son! Her longing is always traveling and learning.
Many of her “learning journeys” have been spiritual retreats or visiting a country to learn. She currently lives in Sicily and Germany.

 

She worked and lived as a dancer
in New York City
in Nai Ni Chen's NYC dance company, a modern Chinese dance company in New York City/ USA and various choreographers.

Director of the Theater Gallery.
Artist on stage and teacher For 25 years she taught at various ballet and acting schools in Stuttgart and trained young people.
In 1995 she opened the theater gallery in Neckartailfingen and received
the Baden-Württemberg cabaret prize for her choreography "Hallo". Living yoga and living dance, teaching, giving healing massages and going into the desert.
Sicily is her second home.
Her family lives here. In Morocco she lives her heart and feels very connected to the inhabitants.

Her curiosity about all types of movement
has allowed her to learn a lot from an early age: ballet and hip hop, tango and salsa, belly dance, modern dance and jazz, African dance and Chinese folklore, tai chi, aikido and yoga – in every style and every form of movement To see and feel the elementary, the fundamental in a very short time, to understand and to be able to do it correctly - that is her special strength. 

 

Desert trips with program

Nora loves the desert and has felt at home there for 20 years.
She accompanies people to the Sahara in Morocco with different programs in combination with camel trekking, yoga, dance and tai chi. Organization of Spiritual Desert Retreats.

dance into femininity in the ore mountains

Retreats in the Ore Mountains

"I love my alternating activities"

stations of life

1972 Stuttgart: 7 years at the John Cranko Ballet School
1982 Stuttgart: 2.5-year professional training as a sports and gymnastics teacher
1984 Stuttgart: acting training at private schools
1986 New York: three-year training as a contemporary dancer at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and the Martha Graham School of Contemporary –
1987 New York: As a dancer - member of the ensemble at
Nai Ni Chen (Chinese Modern Dance Company NY)
1990 to 2015 Stuttgart: Lecturer and teacher for dance and movement at TanzArt Nellingen/ Ronecker Ballet School/ LiveAct Drama School
1990 Stuttgart: Dancer at Raca Brasil - Brazilian dance company
1994 India: 6-month yoga and meditation trip (Poona and Rischikesch)
1995 Neckartailfingen: Foundation of the theater gallery – until today
1995 Stuttgart: Training: 3 years Tai-Chi Chuan- with Tjoa
1996 Birth of her son Lorin
2000 Foundation of NioN tanztheater with Nina Oelmann – until today
2000 Kleinkunstpreis Baden Württemberg
2001 St. Goarshausen: Tai Chi advanced training at the Forum Germany Volker Jung
2013 Koblenz: TAO Yoga with Renu Li – advanced training
2016 India: – Ayurvedic bodywork and massage according to Shika
2020 Live and work in Sicily

NORA CURCIO

♦ Dancer Actress Choreographer
Yoga Dance Tai Chi Bodyworker Desert Journeys Retreats Dance Journeys