Maja Zimmerlin - Dance Film Creator & Visionary Coach

Maja Zimmerlin - Dance Film Creator & Visionary Coach Maja Zimmerlin
Award winning dance film maker & visionary coach

I am a dance film maker passionate about the power of birth.

Supporting dance film makers in realising their visions with heart & flow

22/05/2026

For years, I thought I had to choose. 🤔

Being the artist OR the mother.

When I was dancing or choreographing, I left the “mother in me” behind.

When I was with my kids, I abandoned the “artist in me”.

It was exhausting.

But learning to allow ALL my identities in EVERY moment? That brought me immense relief. It brought joy back into my days and clarity on how to build my career as a freelance artist. 🌿✨

You don’t have to split yourself to succeed.

I help dance filmmakers and artists embody their full identities, moving out of struggle and overwhelm through a clear, step-by-step path.

If you feel ready to merge your worlds:

DM me “Vision” and let’s chat. 💌

20/05/2026

Where sketches meet movement: The journey begins! 🪓📐💃

We are getting ready to launch our new participative project: SMALL CELLS – BIG COMMUNITY.

The choreography and acrobatics are taking their first shapes in our notebooks. 

And the sketches by coming to life:

At this very moment the actual scenography is  being built with sawdust and tools! 

The soul of the project is already here: In the collaboration, in the ideas, in the joy of preparation. 🌱

It’s all leading to one goal: A mobile stage for kids to climb, to hide, to grow. A space to experience:

„I am good exactly the way I am, and I am part of a community.“ ✨

Supported by
Berliner Projektfonds Kulturelle Bildung
BVV Sondermittel Steglitz-Zehlendorf
Förderverein Petrusheimer
Förderverein Alt-Lankwitzer Grundschule

A production by: ANASA e.V.

19/05/2026

When I was struggling as a kids my dad always used to tell me a wisdom, that i keep dear to my heart until today.

Life is hard. BUT COLORFUL 🌈

I am a mom of three kids and freelance choreographer

You know what?! Life is hard!!! Yes i am struggling too.

But 6 years ago i started to shifted, step by step:

To put my BOUNDERIES

Know my VALUES

AND STOPP DOING IT ALL BY MYSELF.

Invest in help, accept help .

And it made me see and live those colors again 🩵💙💛🩷❤️

ENJOY THEM

With my family.
In my dancing.
When choreographing.
When working with my teams.

I WISH THAT FOR YOU TOO 💖

18/05/2026

The moment that I really shifted from

💭HAVING VISIONS AND DREAMS

to actually

💎REALISING VISIONS AND DREAMS

👇✨️ WHERE and HOW do you show up for your visions!?

15/05/2026

I was 24. Pregnant. And told: “As an artist, you must first build your career. Once you’re successful, you can have a family.”

I didn’t listen. I figured out my own way.

Today, I have 3 kids, 3 award-winning dance films, am creating for my new live creation CELLULA and have a life I love. Because I learned: You don’t have to choose between family and your dream. You just have to build a path that fits you.

If you’re told to wait until you’re “ready” or “successful” to start your life: Stop waiting. Start now. Step by step. This is how you climb a mountain, this is how you build a life you love.

11/05/2026

MY WHY ... 💫

10/05/2026

If you really want to achieve something, you can get there 😛💯
Let’s do it like the kids — try, fall, repeat, and keep going.

Move through the fear.
Move through the discomfort.

Figure out the steps it takes…
and do them.
One by one. ✨

Do you have a dream you’re working toward? 👇

08/05/2026

I always believed in my path, even when it was unconventional. ✨

At 19, I decided to become a dancer and choreographer—eventhough i started dancing very late. I worked my ass off, moved to another country, and studied at my dream dance school. Then, I quit. I was called to a different path.

I found love. I had my first child just 1.5 years after finishing dance school. By the age of 30, I had:
3 kids
Premiered 3 dance pieces
Created 3 award-winning dance films Lived in 4 different countries
Danced in various pieces

No one told me this was possible. No one told me I could have it all—family, art, adventure, and a career I love. But I figured it out. Not by choosing one over the other. But by building a life where they all fit. And by doing it my way 😉

07/05/2026

9 out of 10 successfully realized visions come true because of one thing: approaching them step by step. ✨

But what does that really mean?

For me, it meant saying goodbye to the old rule: 'Build your career first, family later.' I was 24 and pregnant when I heard that. It didn’t work.

I had to find my own way. A way where you can be a wonderful mom AND do your dream job. Where you don’t have to choose between the two and where it can nourish eachother.

If you feel stuck in that 'either-or' loop, know this: You don’t have to choose.
It starts from a clear vision and then:
with one small step.

👇 What’s the vision you would love to realize?

23/04/2026

Bursting with ideas.
Envisioning projects.
Birthing new concepts.
As artists, we don’t lack ideas.

The problem is this:
turning vision into reality.

Not thinking it.

But actually doing it.

Bringing it into form
instead of letting it dissolve in overwhelm
or drift into the “someday” space.

Most artists don’t get stuck in creativity.

They get stuck in:
starting.
continuing.
finishing.

As a mom of three
and a working choreographer and dance filmmaker,
I had to learn one thing very well:
The next step.
And how to take it.

Again and again.

Because when you strip it down,

it’s not as overwhelming as it feels.
You don’t need more ideas.

You need:
clarity.
structure.
support.

That’s how vision becomes real.
I’m living this process every day.

What do you currently get stuck in most?



10/04/2026

Little story snippet WHY I ACTUALLY GOT INTO DANCE FILM MAKING...

Happy in Zurich, as a guest at the .on.screen Festival. Join the shorts programme in Arthouse Piccadilly: 9.-12.4. , always 20:30!

Masterclass coming up: April 12th : sign up for YOUR FOUNDATION FOR A DANCEFILM

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