Choreographer, dance teacher, yoga teacher and social pedagogue.
Trained as a stage dancer at the Iwanson School, Academy for Contemporary Dance in Munich, Master of Arts in Choreography at the Palucca School, University of Dance in Dresden, Bachelor of Arts in Social Pedagogy at the Ksh Munich.
After a scholarship at the Marie Brolin Tani Danstheater in Arhus, Denmark and several study visits to New York, numerous engagements as a stage dancer in opera, film, television, musical and contemporary productions followed. He has performed at the Bregenz and Salzburg Festivals, the Bavarian State Opera, the Semperoper Dresden and the Frankfurt Opera, among others.
Since 2000, choreographer at various state and municipal theaters in Germany, Austria and France, including the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus (»Orpheus Illegal«), the Residenztheater Munich (»Aus dem bürgerlichen Heldenleben«), at the Marstalltheater Munich (»Mefistocks«), at the Schauburg Munich (»Gästebett«), at the Schauspielhaus Graz (»Medea«), at the Vienna Chamber Opera (»Moskau Moskau«), at the state theaters in Kiel (»Struwelpeter«), Oldenburg (»Hello Dolly«) and Dortmund (»Anatevka«, »The Seasons«), at the city theaters of Hildesheim (»Hair«), Trier (»Into the Woods«) and Hagen (»Spring Awakening«), at the Folkwang Hochschule Essen (»How to sucseed in business without really trying«), at the Burgfestspiele Bad Vilbel (»Evita«) at the Landestheater Passau (»Csárdásfürstin«, »Manon«, »Ariodante«) and Linz (»Next to Normal«), at the Opera National de Lorrain Nancy/France (»Merry Widow«), at the Semperoper Dresden (»Wildschütz«, »Capriccio«) and at the Frankfurt Opera (»Martha«). Numerous choreographies (»Kopfstimme«, »Rent«, »Spring Awakening«) and teaching assignments from 1998 – summer semester 2019, at the Bayerische Theaterakademie August Everding/Hochschule für Musik und Theater im Prinzregententheater in Munich.
2019 Appointment as Professor of Dance at the Institute of Music, Musical Studies (B.A.) at Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences.
His most recent choreographic works were for »Shakespeare in Love« and »Istanbul« at the Osnabrück Theatre, as well as »Little Shop of Horrors« and »I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change« at the Theater an der Rott.
Michael Schmieder has already appeared as a guest at the Heidelberg Theatre in »La Cenerentola«.