Ingo Diehl is head of the Master for Contemporary Dance Education (MA CoDE), Vice President of the University for Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt (HfMDK) and President of the Hessian Theatre Academy.

He studied dance in Hanover and New York, dance education in Cologne and worked as a dancer, choreographer and rehearsal director.

From 2005 - 2011 Ingo Diehl was responsible for the issues and the overall conception of the educational programme of Tanzplan Deutschland, an initiative of the German Federal Cultural Foundation. There he developed the 1st Biennale Tanzausbildung/Tanzplan Deutschland and led the research project Tanztechniken 2010/Tanzplan Deutschland.

In 2011 he founded together with Madeline Ritter the non-profit entrepreneurial company DIEHL+RITTER and developed the Tanzfonds also a project of the German Federal Cultural Foundation, addressing cultural heritage and - cultural education. In 2019, he curated the international student campus for the festival of the Akademie der Künste Berlin under the title "What the Body Remembers".

He is a founding member of the Bundesverband Tanz in Schulen (Federal Association of Dance in Schools), initiator of the Ausbildungskonferenz Tanz (Dance Education Conference), expert for accreditations of study programs and collaborating partner of the Motion Bank Project. His activities on the boards of trustees of the Tanztreffen der Jugend and Take Off Junger Tanz at the Tanzhaus NRW, as well as his advisory work for the German Dance Congress - serves to place a vivid exchange around dance education.

Photo@ Rebecca Hahn