He has worked extensively as a teacher of contemporary dance and choreographic practice in Germany and internationally. He is currently professor of choreography and musical staging at the University of the Arts Berlin, where long term collaboration with colleagues and students has resulted in a portfolio of over 12 new music theatre productions. He is also founder member of the new Inter University Centre for Dance Berlin, where he instigated and now leads the postgraduate Master of Arts in Solo Dance Authorship. Recent research activities include practice led investigations into the relationship of dance, theatre and film; connections between performance theory and popular performance practice; and choreographic interventions in extended social contexts. The latter has involved a series of ongoing collaborations with the education program of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. These were Hausoper (2007) involving members of the local community, das Paradies und die Peri (2008) with prison inmates and in 2010, with 176 school children and students, with an invitation to choreograph the new orchestral work Swing Symphony commissioned for this purpose from leading American jazz composer Wynton Marsalis and which involved nearly two hundred Berlin school pupils and students. The performances were conducted by Sir Simon Rattle.