HEAR & NOW Play Sessions — 15 December, 16:00-20:00
The year’s final task based improvisation evening for dancers & jazz/creative improvising musicians — hosted together with Beyond Our House!
Residency Space Available — 12.01-24.04.2025
Kick off 2025 with a self-directed LAKE Residency!
Unfinished Fridays Vol. 112 — 22 Nov, 19:30
The last Unfinished Friday in 2024, featuring new works/excerpts by LAKE resident artists and special guests.
Morning Meditations — 28 October-1 November
Mindful Mornings with Marlon Barrios Solano are back for the week! Daily from 8:30 – 9:30am.
Keep our Lights On!
We are deeply concerned about the proposed funding cuts to Berlin’s cultural sector, especially given their disproportionate impact on smaller institutions and initiatives that support freelancers, diversity, and community-driven programs. […]
Looking for Studio Space?
With three sprung-floor studios and a media lab, LAKE has studio space for all your creative needs. Click here for details.
Residency Spot Available!
LAKE has a self-directed residency spot available in October. It is open for any artist, with or without children, but does offer special childcare features for artist parents! – Dates: […]
Reservation & Cancellation Policy
As an artist run space with high rent costs to cover, we need some security to proceed with reservations: RESIDENCY WORKSHOP OR PERFORMANCE Reservations are taken in order of acceptance […]
SUBMERGE Summer Festival — 29.07 – 31.08
Choreographic LABS & performances! Rhythm & groove! Program online and registration open. Dive in!
Book Publication by Hend Elbalouty – 21 July, 18:00
Join us for a special book event: Mahraganat Dance in Egypt: Between Acceptance & Rejection تشفير وتشكيل، عن رقص المهرجانات في مص
SUBMERGE 2024 Performance Tickets
SUBMERGE celebrates artistic exchange and the craft of choreography. Join us for our performance events, lighting the stage for curated works that highlight rhythm and groove. Reserve your tickets with […]
Open Call — Submerge 2024
We are seeking finished performance works on the theme “Pleasure & Groove, Rhythm & Resistance” with a focus on (live) music and dance. Application deadline: May 15th.
SUBMERGE 2024 OPEN CALL, PLEASURE & GROOVE, RHYTHM & RESISTANCE
To round out our 2024 SUBMERGE program, we are seeking finished performance works that explore the intersections of (live) music and dance. We are particularly interested in artists and works […]
Mindful Mornings
GREAT NEWS! Morning Meditations return for one week! From 28 October until 1 November, Marlon will host his Mindful Mornings in person at LAKE Studios. Join us daily, 8:30-9:30am. Join […]
The Art of Falling — 10 February, 16-20h
A chance to learn from, and dance with, renowned artist, Mr. Kriss!
Research is Choreography — 17 February, 18h
DANCE PERFORMANCE and DISCUSSION with Dagmar Spain and collaborators.
Mindful Day-long Retreat — 4 May, 2024
Join us the 1st Saturday of each month for day-long meditation retreats led by Marlon Barrios Solano.
Kleine Geschichten von Tolstoi — June 4, 10:00
Dance, theater, and music for children ages 4 and older and adults!
Shared Practice — Mon, Wed & Fri 10:00-11:30
Our morning movement research sessions with guest teachers and LAKE resident artists.
Visit Our AI Infused Super Blog
A project of Body Digital n.3 (2023), this blog is chock full of videos, musings, metafictions, decoded rituals, and our own chat bot!
Marlon Barrios Solano
Marlon started meditating at the Village Zendo in NYC with Sensei Enkio O’hara in 1997 and shifted to practicing vipassana meditation at Insight Meditation Society in 2009. Since 2016, he […]
Meditation Offerings
Rooted in the early Buddhist tradition of Insight Meditation, Marlon Barrios Solano holds space for daily meditations, mindful discussions, and day long retreats. Mindful Mornings Group meditation, Monday through Friday […]
Birth Stories — December 3, 17-22h
Workshop, jam, and sauna on sense, touch, sound, movement. With Moss Beynon Juckes & Rosalind Holgate Smith.
STREAMS. Catching Caches. — Dec 9th & 10th
Special performance by and with Julia Novacek, Artemiy Shokin, Clara Reiner, Eni Brandner, Monika Schmatzberger & Sara Trawöger
EMBRACING TRANQUILITY — Dec 22 & 23, 10:00 – 17:00
Two days of silent reflection and mindful exploration.
Lisa Gaden
Lisa lebt und arbeitet in Berlin – immer und überall auf leidenschaftlicher Bewegungssuche,- Findung und Erfindung. Nach einer dreijährigen Bühnentanzausbildung bei DANCEWORKS Berlin studierte sie zeitgenössischen Tanz am Anton Bruckner […]
SENSE & DANCE — Zeitgenössischer Tanz
In each class we enter the journey into anatomical body structures. Zooming in and out into Muscles, Fascia, Organs, Meridians and Triggerpoints we will find our way from the perceived […]
Feral Encounters — 9 & 10 September
Exploring dance and performance art practices devoted to a sensorial approach to other-than-human people.
mov*ed – IMPULSTAGE, 10-14 September
A 5-day forum open to Berlin based movement and dance educators interested in exchange and research.
Workshop: A Bit Like a Tree — 10 AUGUST
Movement, garden, lake, shared food and somatic experiences. A day of encounters at the LAKE.
OPEN CALL — Unfinished Fridays Vol 91-100
We are looking for dance and performance artists who would like to present their work-in-progress during our 10 Year Anniversary Festival from 20 June-1 July, 2023. Application DEADLINE 8.04.23
OPEN CALL — Unfinished Fridays JUNIOR
A paid residency and performance opportunity that inspires artists to try their hand at creating work for young audiences. Application DEADLINE 8.04.23
10 Year Anniversary Festival — 20.06-02.07.23
Photo impressions of the festival coming soon!
Unfinished Fridays Vol. 86 — 16 DECEMBER, 19:30
Join us for our next monthly performance event — featuring new duets and solos.
DIGITAL BODY ARCHIVE
Dig into the Digital Body 2022 archives for behind-the-scene impressions of the lab and residencies.
CONNECT WITH LAKE Studio’s ARTISTS
The Artist’s Blog is where LAKE Resident Artists open their process to the public with writings, images and videos.
Doreen Wagner
Artist and painter, based in Berlin. Certified Dance Educator. www.doreenwagner.net ~ inspired by the dance of (inner) nature
Move & Create(u)res: Kindertanz/Kreativstunde
Combining dance, movement and creativity, these classes guide children to get to know themselves and their bodies through exploration and play. Move the body – feel the body. Energy released […]
JESSY TUDDENHAM
Texts & Editing, Associate Director 2025, Co-Artistic Director SUBMERGE Festival 2025 Jessy is a dancer, writer and performer with over twenty years’ experience performing in Europe and the Americas. She […]
MARIA KOUSI
Production Manager, Stage Manager, Photography Maria studied Greek Philology at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and Modern Greek Literature & Culture (MFA) at Freie Universität Berlin. Her interests travel between literature […]
OLGA RAMIREZ OFERIL
Administration & Finance Olga is a dancer/performer and production manager/financial supervisor. She studied Classical Philology in Barcelona and worked as a high school teacher before turning to dance full-time. As […]
(Roughly) 86 (collectively sourced) steps towards an ideal cultural economy (ecology)**
**Inspired by the 2016 handbook on how to ‘Become the ideal cultural worker in 86 steps’ – a performance-text that was part of Choreographing Calculation (2012) that premiered at the […]
Some Unresolved Questions
ABOUT DANCE — Forming Futures, Vol 2 on Work & Play (Do we) how do we teach the ability to play? What is the role of art in society? Is […]
BIBLIOGRAPHY
ABOUT DANCE — Forming Futures, Vol 1 on Ecology Ahmed, Sara. 2006. Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others. Duke University Press. Bateson, Gregory. 2000 [1972]. Steps to an Ecology of Mind. […]
ABOUT DANCE — Forming Futures, Vol 1 on Ecology
Introduction In calling forth the future of dance, the first About Dance forum included six speakers, Zooming in from six distant locations — oracles, if you will. The forum’s moderators […]
ABOUT DANCE — Forming Futures, Vol 2 on Work & Play
The ABOUT DANCE, Vol 2 participants spent two days discussing labor, work, play, virtuosity, and new tenets for an ideal cultural economy. Prompted into various forms of dialogue by forum […]
ABOUT DANCE — forming futures, Vol 3 on Artistic Curation
The framing question for ABOUT DANCE, Vol 3 was, “What Do We Need?” Over the course of two days this question provided the guiding thread for an exploration of the […]
ABOUT DANCE — Forming Futures, Vol 4 on Collective Retrospection
For the fourth volume of ABOUT DANCE — Forming Futures we gathered in Lake Studios Garden to reflect, discuss, dance and meditate about the preceding one and a half years […]
ABOUT DANCE — forming futures, Vol 5 on Pain & Care
The final ABOUT DANCE weekend of 2021, hosted by Jeremy Wade and a cast of colorful characters, took a unique approach to the forum structure. The first day took on […]