Helena Sturm has established herself internationally as a choreographer, dance dramaturg, and stage performer. Born in Augsburg, she received her diploma in Ballet, Contemporary Dance and Jazz Dance from the Iwanson International School of Contemporary Dance in 2015 and completed her studies in Theatre, Film and Media Studies at the University of Vienna in 2022.

As a choreographer, Ms. Sturm has created work for stage, musical theatre, and a range of interdisciplinary contexts. Her recent projects include Die Verwandlung for Staatstheater Augsburg and Theater Winterthur, directed by André Bücker, as well as Spamalot at Staatstheater Augsburg, directed by Anna Weber. Further choreographic work includes Mia bella Signorina at MuTh Wien, as well as independent works presented at Tanzart and Tanzart II.

Alongside her own choreographic work, Ms. Sturm has gained extensive experience as an assistant choreographer, with engagements at Landestheater Linz and Staatstheater Augsburg, among others, on opera, operetta, and musical theatre productions including La Traviata, Die lustige Witwe, Der Graf von Luxemburg, Kiss Me, Kate!, Evita, Jekyll & Hyde, Cabaret, and Der Mann von La Mancha. Her background as a dancer and musical performer includes engagements at Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Bayerische Staatsoper, Theater Heidelberg, Theater Münster, Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, Oper Köln, Bregenzer Festspiele, and the Bayreuth Festival.

From 2023 to 2026, Ms. Sturm served as Director of Dramaturgy for Ballett Dortmund and NRW Juniorballett, where she worked on the staging and dramaturgy of productions featuring works by artists including Xin Peng Wang, Nadav Zelner, Tess Voelker, Jiří Kylián, David Dawson, Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, Edward Clug, Alexander Ekman, Marco Goecke, and others. She now continues her collaboration with Theater Dortmund as a guest dramaturg.

A central focus of Ms. Sturm’s work lies in the dialogue between choreography and dramaturgy. Her artistic practice combines movement-based creation, dramaturgical analysis, and a deep understanding of production processes across opera, ballet, musical theatre, and interdisciplinary stage work.