Autor: Jole Berlage-Buccellati

Jole Berlage-Buccellati was born in Germany as the daughter of a German father and an Italian mother. Right after school she went to study Biology, Anthropology and Music (Piano) at Bates College, USA. (B.A.) She started training in karate while at Bates College and this has strongly shaped her approach to the body-mind system. In 1985, she completed the 14-week course (National Theater Institute Semester) at the National Theatre Institute, New London, USA. The training blocks consisted of dance, acting, directing and playwriting. In 1986, she went to live in London and completed her Pilates training with Alan Herdman in 1988. Upon returning to Germany she earned a Magister degree in Anthropology and Physical Anthropology from the Johann-Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt. At that time, she started to take singing lessons. When she moved back to Lon-don in 1992 she began to study voice with Esther Salaman, Laura Sarti, David Harper and others. In 1997 she moved to Hamburg, where she met Tom Krause in 2009. In 2015 she began to work as a coach and in 2017 she completed a master»s degree in Music Therapy at the Hamburg Hochschule für Musik. The fascination with the psyche, the body and mind-body systems has been a key theme of the author»s vita. The thousand voices of life and expressions of cultural preferences of emotional and physical expression have been central to her research.