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.

Doreen Wagner

Artist and painter, based in Berlin. Certified Dance Educator. Meine Name ist Doreen. Seit meiner Kindheit bin ich in künstlerisch und bewegender Richtung unterwegs. Es schafft mir einen Ausgleich meiner […]

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

Content & Editorial Strategy, Associate Director LAKE & 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. She has been active in movement […]

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 […]

ANGELA FEGERS

Marketing, PR & Social Media Angela Fegers (1990) is a U.S.-American director, producer, and dancer from C. Florida, based between Berlin & Thessaloniki. She holds a BFA in Dance from […]

(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 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 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 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 […]

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 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 […]