Daniele Albanese_Compagnia Stalker
Daniele Albanese is a choreographer, dancer and performer based between Italy and Berlin.After having trained as a gymnast and ballet dancer, he obtained a BA at EDDC (now ArtEZ) inArnhem […]
ENCHANTED ISLANDS
ENCHANTED ISLANDS is a performance series, which explores the 1972 speechless pantomime “The Enchanted Island” by the Soviet queer poet Evgenii Kharitonov by addressing inter-species transformations, cross-dressings and gender fluidities. […]
Danila Lipatov & Karen Zimmermann
Danila Lipatov (*1989 in Moscow) and Karen Zimmermann (*1986 in Iserlohn) live and work in Berlin. They studied together at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. Since 2017, Danila and […]
Profanation of Summer
Following the intertwined research between rhythm and dance to address the notion of sacrifice. The etymology of the word refers to the act of sacrificing something of value for a […]
Rocio Marano
Rocío Marano, Argentinian dancer and choreographer based in Berlin since 2014, has a diverse background in physical theatre, martial arts and contemporary dance. She has followed an independent training and […]
Trauerband Anemonen-Fisch
„Das Kind steht vor dem Spiegel. Es spielt Großvater. Es zieht sich den Joggingkörper an: Das Hüpfen. Das Arme locker an der Seite. Es zieht sich den Fußballkörper an: Das […]
Kirsten Burger, Franziska PackKirsten Burger & Rocío Rodríguez
Kirsten Burger works as a film and theatre director, writer and director of the young RambaZamba Theatre, Berlin. From 1996 -1998 she studied free arts with Prof. Adolf Frohner in […]
Eastern Body Vs. Western Body, and Beyond
What is my experience in my body as an Iranian body-holder? How is it different fromothers? How much these differences are connected to the living background, culture,education system, location, and […]
FARNOUSH ALLAH VERDI NIK
I was born and raised in a small city south east of Iran. Moved to the capital in 23, andafter going to many different direction including studying Architecture, doingphotography, having […]
Listening Bodies
Listening Bodies is a teaching and artistic framework developed by Italian choreographer and Movement Researcher Monica Gentile and American composer and sound artist Michael Reiley . Their work includes practices […]
WEspering
Have you ever been in a situation where it seemed like people were in the same conversation but talking about different things? Languages can be confusing sometimes. In conversations, the […]
Pei-Ling Kao
Pei-Ling Kao is a Taiwanese choreographer, dance educator, and performer. Since moving to the U.S. in 2007, she has been working with choreographers of different aesthetic frameworks, collaborating with interdisciplinary […]
Yahoo! Dance! #2 : The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions.
Yahoo! Dance! comes from a singular practice which involves taking headlines from Yahoo!News, an internet news feed, and using them as inspiration for eccentric dances, fake robots and bizarre conversations. […]
Pauline Payen
Pauline, Agnès a.k.a. Nghiêm, Yannie, Payen (or PAYP) ate a spider age 2. She/They work at the crossing of dance, performance, and visual arts. Pauline is particularly interested in paradoxes, voices, […]
DUO
Percussion: Matilda Rolfsson Dance: Marcela Giesche Matilda Rolfsson and Marcela Giesche first met in Berlin 2018, then in a trio together with Swedish pianist Sten Sandell) a- 45 min “carte- blanche” freely […]
Marcela Giesche & Matilda Rolfsson
Marcela Giesche (1983, USA / DE), is a free-lance choreographer, performer, and teacher currently based in Berlin. Her choreographic work is physical, sensitive, animalistic, and plays with shifting states and performativity. When […]
Aw…
Aw… addresses the topic of emotional discomfort and pain. It portrays a journey of identifying uncomfortable feelings in oneself and practicing strategies to help oneself. This practice that starts in […]
Inky Lee, Marie Yan & Makisig Akin
Inky Lee (they/them) is a multidisciplinary artist and a writer living in Berlin. Inky’s work focuses on amplifying the voices of marginalised individuals and communities. This interest initiated from untangling […]
The innumerable who
The object is, in some way, the simile that’s capable of containing the truth of the absent one that the other doesn’t have, even it is now right here. It’s […]
César René Pérez & Vera Rivas
César René Pérez Performer and stage director, graduated from the Universidad Veracruzana. His work insists on the body as the epicenter of stage creation. As a performer he has worked […]
wie Wolken
zwischen dem Himmel und der Erde,oder sowohl, als auch;wie zwei reisende Wolken oder alleswas wir uns wie Wolken vorstellenwas, wenn sie uns, unsere Liebsten und unsere Umgebung färben könnten… Choreografie: […]
Caricature
After studying a drama degree I moved to dance 12 years ago and left theatre behind. However in the last year an interest in working with character has emerged and […]
Azzie McCutcheon
Azzie McCutcheon is a Berlin based dance artist creating work as a dancer, choreographer, movement practitioner and teacher. Her work in the contemporary dance scene spans different performative styles and collaborations […]
Big Picture
Big Picture is a video installation consisting of a rotating video projection and a large-scale circular canvas, as a contemporary version of a 19th century panorama – the hugely popular entertainment […]
Magnus Pind
Magnus Pind is an artist and designer based in Copenhagen. Magnus works exclusively with found objects, which he changes into new forms and shapes using video projections, light and movement […]
house of cards (working title)
A perpetual creating, destroying, and balancing; of falling too far on one side and finding the way to the other, of destruction’s potency to create, of wavering between space and noise, of the lines we keep drawing, of entertaining the […]
Yasmine Lindskog Visanko
Yasmine Lindskog Visanko is a dance artist and improviser based in Brussels, Belgium. Her artistic research is often rooted in dynamic systems, heightened states of consciousness, the-more-than-human world, place, the […]
SHAPES
To be in a state of outward expression, to give, to release, to show, to find solace in a triangle.Myself, a shape, moving with shapes, seeing them everywhere.
Sophie Holmes (she/her)
Sophie Holmes is a performance, dance and interdisciplinary artist from Upstate New York, whohas been traveling the US, and now Germany, engaging with artistic process and communities.She holds a BFA […]
Between the lines
In this research project we set out to investigate the concepts of orientation and disorientation as bodily processes in continuous unfolding. Through our own movement practices and a detailed study […]
Ana Laura Lozza & Bárbara Hang
Ana Laura Lozza & Bárbara Hang are a performing artist duo. They develop their choreographic and dance work together moving across the fields of education, dramaturgy, curating and writing. In […]
Jess & erika’s residency
As interdisciplinary collaborative artists, we are shaping a mixed-media installation exploring the (re)combining of disparate and unique memories, moments, experiences, conversations, and stories to form new wholes. We are shaping […]
Jess Pierce & erika roos
erika is a mixed-discipline artist working across contemporary dance, performance-making, emergent media, language, and design to investigate in-betweenness, ambiguity, and fluidity; the interdependence of fear, desire, vulnerability, and (non)(be)longing; and […]
dance and wrapping
In this research I will try to give attention to the dancer’s work (often invisible), by finding a form that makes it perceivable. In order to look at this I […]
Hanako Hayakawa
Hanako is a Japanese dancer and dance maker currently based in Berlin, Brussels, and Tokyo. She studied in Tama art University where she majored in Performing Arts mentored by Saburo […]
space as material
My curiosity for the residency „space as material“ is to look at how encounters with the empty space between the things can be the inspiration and the source material for […]
Hannah Schillinger
Hannah Schillinger is a choreographer, dancer and artist based in Berlin. She studied BA Modern Theatre Dance at the AHK Amsterdam and danced in the ensemble of the dance company ICK […]
ALBUM, subjectivity of a jazzmuse
ALBUM, subjectivity of a Jazzmuse is a performance by one dancer, one musician and a record player, based on Jazztunes composed by- or named after Jazzmusician’s wives. ALBUM will consist […]
Naïma Mazic / n ï m company
Naïma Mazić founded the Austrian association more2rhythm and the international company n ï m in 2016. In 2018/19 she was choreographer in residence at K3 Tanzplan Hamburg/Kampnagel and has an […]
warp
warp is a sensorial choreographic experience in the dark. Four performers move with reflex weaves that respond to touch by making sound, in a soundscape panning in-between eight speakers. What unfolds […]
Gry Tingskog
Gry Tingskog (they/them) works with choreography through perception, bodies, crafted objects, technology, light, sound and text. Approaching these as materials rather than tools, Gry explores choreographies that could produce other […]
Chōri(調理/조리) Dance
Chōri means cooking in both Korea and Japanese. This is part of a long-term collaboration project with two Japanese artist (Maharu Maeno, Shuntaro Yoshida) and cooking is used as a […]
Yuni (Hoa Yun) Chung
Yuni (Hoa Yun) Chung is a visual artist based in Berlin, works with object, drawing, performance, video, sound and text. She studied literature and visual arts in South Korea, and […]
Azathoth
Azathoth is a meditation on the elation and horror of the unknowable, contemplating creation through chaos. The practitioners – movers and musicians alike – embody individual journeys within a collective […]
Omer Keinan
Omer Keinan (Israel, 1997) is a performance artist and scholar. He received a diploma in choreography from the International Choreographic Exchange postgraduate program at SEAD Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance […]
Dream
Alexandra Llorens’ solo dance piece DREAM is based on her research and interest in the function of dreams and the theory that dreams are based on our own reality. One […]
Alexandra Llorens
Alexandra Llorens was born in France in 1991. She studied dance at the CCN of Roubaix, at the University Lille 3, at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen […]
A confrontation with – the unredeemable – time
(time as a possibility and as a challenge) Main focus of the current time given in the residence lies in the research process: Timegiven to work at the studio, deconstruct […]
Dafne Narvaez Berlfein
Dafne Narvaez Berlfein is an artist & researcher born in Quito, Ecuador. Her artistic andacademic practices are based on multi- and interdisciplinary collaborative processes from anintersectional perspective.Through Film, videotape field-recordings, […]
unchartered property
unchartered property‘ (WT) is a project by BNSL studio and Aaron Lang, in which a dancer and an AI-based setup meet. In a performative installation, in which the setup constantly […]
Aaron Lang
Aaron Lang is a dancer and creator based in Berlin. With a background in Architecture and Sociology he works with movement through improvisation and state work in an interdisciplinary setting. […]
storm’s residency
This month at Lake Studios, marion storm is doing two things at once – researching site-responsivity as a method for dancing + re-working a long poem called “Exit Thru the […]
marion storm
marion storm is a dance artist based in Montpellier, France. storm’s dance projects have been presented by Exponential Festival, AUNTS, La Mama Moves! Festival, and Brooklyn Art Book Festival, at […]
Songs we remember
Songs we remember is the process of Kaja and Armin’s study of these weeks at Lake Studios. When devices are put aside and songs are a horizen in which we […]
Armin Hokmi
Armin Hokmi is involved within the performance realm between theater and dance. Working through text, dances and choreographies, recent works include Passages (2019), Public Dance, Permutable Stage (2021) and International […]
The Climate, The Worry, The Dance
The project The Climate, The Worry, The Dance is a long-term collective research project addressing relations between climate anxiety, dance and the possibility to generate forms of social ecologies based […]
Mårten Spångberg
Mårten Spångberg is an interdisciplinary artist and thinker living and working in Berlin. He is currently working on a larger-scale research project around improvisation and its possible affiliations with interspecies […]
Water dramaturgies as methods of connecting across distance
Since 2015, I’ve been experimenting with water dramaturgies, developing performance-making and writing methodologies that take water as formal inspiration and writing critically about site-specificity and the hyper-local, asking: What happens […]
Cory Tamler
Cory Tamler is a writer, dramaturg, interdisciplinary artist/scholar, and translator. She is a member of In Kinship Collective. Her book A Permanent Parliament: Notes on Social Choregraphy was published in 2022 by Segal Center Publications/The […]
Fire Burns Fire
Fogo Quema Fogo is a research between Gabriela Cordovez and Dani Paiva de Miranda: Possibly we will achieve immortality, but it will have been at the price of life. Whoever […]
Dani Paiva de Miranda
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Many Lives
Many Lives is a dynamic interplay between two performers who sporadically switch roles of director and directed using poetic and non-rational logics in order to access surprising and energetic states of […]
Jorge De Hoyos & Kira Kirsch
Jorge De Hoyos (Los Angeles, 1984) is a U.S. American dancer and choreographer based in Berlin since 2012. He studied Cultural Anthropology at the University of California at Santa Cruz and […]
MARLON BARRIOS SOLANO
Dance-tech Partner & Artist in Residence Marlon Barrios Solano is an international interdisciplinary artist and researcher working at the intersection of software engineering, generative AI, creative coding, dance improvisation, and […]
Former LAKE Team Members
Naïma Mazic (Interim Artistic Director 2024, SUBMERGE Festival 2024), Madeline Roberston (Production Assistance 2023 – 2024), Eliot Blue (Light Design 2020 – 2023), Margit Kasper (Production Assistance 2021 – 2023), […]