Dr. Maiada Aboud

Maiada Aboud’s work deals with ways that social, political and religious structures interconnect and influence the individual. Using performance art, she draws on a unique and personal perspective. Born in […]

LOLA

(Courtney Gabrielle Osteen) Lives and works in Chico, California Dancer/Emotional, Painter/Dreamy, Poet/Indecisive  Possibly Psychic, Probably Crazy, Definitely Sensitive

William Ruiz Morales & Gabriela Burdsall

WILLIAM RUIZ MORALES is a Los Angeles-based Cuban dramaturg who writes on, curates and creates performances. His practice manifests in research-based experimental collaborative projects such as Restless (2022) with composer Nina Fukuoka […]

Luisa Pisetta Ravanelli

Luisa Pisetta Ravanelli is a sound-based artist based in Vienna. In her art practice, she continues to question human rights discourses, currently focusing on how discrimination against sexual minorities is […]

Jacob Reynolds and Miriam Eskildsen

Jacob and Miriam are Freelance Dance and Visual Artists whose practices straddle the worlds of Movement, Video and the Written form. Jacob Reynolds is a Freelance artist currently working in […]

Biret Haarla Pieski

Biret Haarla Pieski is a dancer and performing artist from Ohcejohka, the Finnish side of Sápmi. She got her Bachelor in Dance Diploma at P.A.R.T.S in Brussels. Her work with […]

Sophie Prins

Sophie Prins is a Dutch singer and dancer, based in Berlin.She grew up playing clarinet and dancing Streetstyles. After a Bachelor in Contemporary Dance she studied Jazz as a singer […]

Mariana Romagnani

Mariana Romagnani is a performer and choreographer based in Berlin. Her work emerges from a bodily-poetic research informed by personal experiences and infused by a field of images, memories and […]

Sara Shelton Mann & Jesse Zaritt

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Farnoush A. Nik & Ava Jalali

Farnoush A. Nik Farnoush is an experimental contemporary dancer and choreographer whose main focus is improvisational dance, particularly in relation to the inner and outer space of her skin – where […]

Yulia Kim

Yulia Kim (born 1998) is a choreographer and dancer based between Berlin and Seoul. She holds a BA in Dance and Performing Arts and an MA in Performing Arts from […]

Cardin Chung

Cardin Chung is a dancer and musician from Longview, WA and is based in Los Angeles CA, and Portland Oregon. Under the life mentorship of Corina Kinnear, Cardin trained at […]

Evi Filippou

Evi Filippou originally from Greece is a Berlin based percussionist. Performing with numerous projects, in the fields of jazz and improvised music, interdisciplinary art and contemporary music. She also composes […]

Manuela Lucia Tessi 

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Marie-Louise Schneider

Marie-Louise Schneider lives in Basel and works as an artist with the media of voice, body, text and violin. She creates solo and collectively in various collaborations. In their last collaboration […]

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 […]

LAKE Studios Lighting: Plan & Inventory

Elisa Siegmund | IceDanceTheater-Fusion

Elisa Siegmund founded the IceDanceTheater-Fusion project as a format in which iceskating is understood exclusively as art. Here she explores her material: a moving body, iceskates, the slippery floor and […]

Angie Flanagan 

I am, at heart, a collector of stories. I create both live performances and video collections that include dance, poetry and sound as a means to curate from the chaos […]

Kiryl Masheka 

Actor/ performer/ civil activist I work with taboo topics in the State thru my voice, body, performing and acting More information for Kiryl’s bio and work: https://kalektar.org/in/names/oUwaJEqKn0OGp0OjePsR

Ana Libório

Ana Libório (they/them) is a performer, a creative collaborator, an instigator and a dance maker from Portugal. A Berlin based artist since 2021, Ana Libório considers choreography as a decentralized practice […]

Cathy Walsh 

Cathy Walsh is a dance artist and lighting technician based in Berlin. She has a BA in Drama and Theatre Studies from University College Cork, an MA in Contemporary Dance […]

Malika Lamwersiek

Malika Lamwersiek is a berlin based dancer. Her dance is rooted in Hip Hop freestyle, its Music, transfer of knowledge, cypher and battles as contexts for expression. Throughout the years […]

Janessa Clark

Janessa Clark is a BESSIE Award nominated choreographer, dance filmmaker, performer, and installation artist. Her practice combines dance, video, and language to create socially-engaged art for stage, screen, and site-specific […]

Markus Lauterbach

Markus Lauterbach is a visual artist and researcher in Human-Computer- Interaction. His contemporary art installations extend into augmented and virtual realities and have been exhibited internationally at Art & Design hot spots […]

Seung Hwan Lee

Seung Hwan Lee, born in South Korea in 1991, began working as a freelancer in Germany after completing his dance training at the Korea National University of Arts. From 2016-2019, […]

Nadja Pärssinen

choreographer, dancer & teacher During the last few years, Finnish choreographer and dancer Nadja Pärssinen has repeatedly been inspired in her choreographic thinking by e.g. about the effect of visuality […]

Alma Reiss-Navarre

Alma is a multidisciplinary artist from New York City. They study Visual Art, Dance, and Accessibility at Bennington College, and will graduate with a Bachelor of Arts this spring. Through […]

RILABEN

RILABEN (also Enrico L’Abbate) is an artist and performer. Studied dance technique with A. Nikolais/Luis, N.York Foundation, and Performing Art Programme IYMT at the Universities of Bilbao/Amsterdam/Leeds. Further studies on Release, […]

Maria Coma

Singer, composer, performance artist and educator based between Barcelona and Berlin. Their work meets at the intersection of music composition, singing, sound art, performance and embodiment. Their artistic practice is […]

Nico Migdal

I am a multimedia artist working to channel my sensuality into empowerment. Combining movement practice with animation, projection and ceramics, I’m exploring how to layer the body on itself beyond […]

Nobutaka Shomura

Nobutaka Shomura is an electronic musician, contemporary dancer, and media artist based in Berlin, originally from Japan.His work and its organic materials for performances represents his interest in the embodiment […]

Moss Beynon Juckes

Moss Beynon Juckes is a multidisciplinary dance artist born in Sydney, raised in the U.K, based in Berlin. Moss is researching her new work on oration, dance, performance and musicality, […]

Dennis Deter, Anja Müller & Lea Martini

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Katya Volkova

Katya Volkova is an undisciplined artist, choreographer and performer, operating in Berlin. Her creative interests lie at the intersection of unconventional applications of dance, new technologies, sound art and community […]

Marlon Barrios Solano

Marlon Barrios Solano is an international interdisciplinary artist and researcher working at the intersection of software engineering, generative AI, creative coding, dance improvisation, and mindfulness. His work is expressed through […]

César René Pérez

Mexican performer, stage director and manager graduated in theater from the Universidad Veracruzana (2013). His work sees in the body of experience the ground where scenic creation grows. As a […]

Vera Rivas

Mexican multidisciplinary stage researcher and creator. For almost a decade he has worked as a stage director, dramaturgist, performer and producer for pieces of dance, theater and performance. Founder of […]

Dakota Comín.

Dakota Comín (she/her) – is a performer and dance maker based in Berlin. As a performer she collaborates with different choreographers and artists like Natalia Fernandes, Mårten Spånberg, Mey-ling Bisogno, Maite […]

Attila Andrasi

Attila Andrasi (UK/HU) is a graduate of the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance and holds an MFA in Choreography from Trinity Laban Conservatorie, where he received a Leverhulme Arts scholarship. […]

Polina Fenko

Polina Fenko, born in 1997 in Saint-Petersburg, is a dance artist and dance dramaturge currently based between Berlin and Amsterdam. She holds an MA in Contemporary Theatre, Dance and Dramaturgy […]

Marlon Barrios Solano

Marlon Barrios Solano is an international interdisciplinary artist and researcher with expertise in software engineering, generative AI, dance improvisation, and mindfulness. His varied portfolio encompasses AI-driven apps, digital therapeutics, web […]

Jenna Eve Taus

My work amplifies the vast abundance of emotions through choreographic and methodical play. I create systems for generating material in the form of movement and visual arts. I (re)collect and […]

Cary Shiu, Katye Coe & Roni Katz

Born in Hong Kong, living in Berlin since 2019, Cary Shiu works as a freelance dancer performer. In recent years, he collaborated with Roni Katz, Felix Ruckert, Suet-Wa Tam, Lee […]

Rheremita Cera

Rheremita Cera sings poetry creating non-binary narratives inciting new pussybilities in the face of the mono-culture society we live in.Born in the peripheral Vila Císper, São Paulo – BR, 1995 […]

Polina Sonis & Alina Belyagina

Polina Sonis is a dancer and performer with a degree in Arts & Philology. 2018-2020 she worked in Tel Aviv with Nimrod Freed Tami Dance Company, later was a dancer and […]

Marcos Zoe Nacar

Marcos Nacar is a dance and performance artist with a background in more theoretical disciplines such as law and philosophy. He works mainly with movement and video, using poetry and […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Michael Reiley and Monica Gentile

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Gizem Aksu

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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Dani Paiva de Miranda 

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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 […]

Jessy Layne Tuddenham

Jessy here … I am busy with a practice that mainly revolves around writing — be it experimental short fiction to be read out loud, or trying to compose the […]

SASHA AMAYA

Sasha Amaya is working in dance, choreography, installation, and spatial design. Using the media of music, movement, dance, art history, collage, text, and architectural surrounds, she is particularly interested in […]

MARIA COMA

Maria Coma is singer, composer, performance artist and educator based in Berlin, with their roots between theCatalonia and Mallorca.Their work meets at the intersection of music, sound art, performance and […]

Nicola van Straaten

Nicola van Straaten is an artist, performer, writer and witch who was born in Durban and currently lives in Berlin. They are concerned with the psychosomatic and spiritual inheritances of […]

Zee Zunnur & Chew Shaw En

Zee Zunnur, born and raised in Singapore with roots within the UK and Australia scene, is a movement artist who currently dances for Hofesh Shechter Company (UK). With her strong foundations […]

BENJAMIN KRIEG & PHILLIP HOHENWARTER

Benjamin Krieg and Phillip Hohenwarter work independently and in various collaborations as video/film artists in the fields of performance, dance, theatre, visual arts, film and music. In close exchange with […]

LYNNE SCHARF

Lynne Scharf grew up in a small town on the west side of the Hudson River not far from the bountiful influence of the New York City arts scene. She […]

TAMÁS-ANDREA-KATA

Tamás Barkó (H) born blind. Since my youth I have been involved in various artistic forms. Since 2003 I have been an active performer in the Tánceánia Ensemble (H). -The complex […]

MARY-DORA BLOCH-HANSEN

MD is a neurodiverse, non-binary multi-disciplinary artist, careworker, community-based researcher, somatic educator and student living and working primarily on Turtle Island, in Tkaronto (Treaty 13). Their work centres on the […]

Dakota Comín

Dakota Comín is a contemporary dancer, teacher, and choreographer, graduated in 2013 in the Professional Conservatory of Dance of Valencia, Spain. She keeps on studying in Madrid between 2014 and […]

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 […]

JUDITH FÖRSTER

Judith Försters works are situated on the shore of dance and visual arts. Her artistic research focuses of fractalized narration in dance, bridging live action role play with movement and […]

NICOLE ZARAY

Nicole Zaray is a multifaceted vocalist and movement, sound and video artist who is known for theatrical and mixed-media performances. She spent childhood years in the Lower East Side and […]

MARY PEARSON

Mary Pearson is a performance maker, re-claimed dancer, former entertainer, and co-organiser. Her multi-disciplinary practice is rooted in improvisation and collaboration. Her projects ask complex and troubling social questions. In a hungry, […]

LEILA BAKHTALI

Bremen (DE) based, Leila Bakhtali is a dance artist working as a performer, choreographer and pedagogue (teaching dance and yoga classes) throughout Europe. After her training at Royal Ballet School […]