Veronica BoniottiVeronica studied philosophy at La Sapienza (Rome) and the Sorbonne (Paris), later specializing in cognitive science and psychology at the University of Bristol and the University of Trento. In […]
Mikah Simone bd (she/they)is an Arab-American dance artist based in Philadelphia. Her work navigates holding her many identities and researches the impacts of Westernization upon memory among the women and […]
Paweł Reczek is a Polish artist whose multidisciplinary practice spans performance, drawing, painting, film, sculpture, and photography, exploring the body as both material and tool. With a background in theatre […]
Barbie Diewald is a dancer, choreographer and Associate Professor of Dance at Mount Holyoke College. She is a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellow in Choreography and New England Foundation for the […]
Talitha Maslin is an Australian contemporary dance artist currently working in Europe. Her practice is research-led and process-oriented, operating across choreography, performance, pedagogy, and community-based work. She engages movement as a […]
Jan Gehmlich is a Berlin-based writer, composer and sound artist who works for radio and stage. With Joana Tischkau he co-wrote and co-directed PLAYBLACK RADIO for WDR which won the […]
My work has, for most of my life, sought to engage questions of existence, experience, and environment—initially through my own lived perspective, and more distinctly through encounters with others whose […]
i am called henya, for a long time i thought i was very important, and now i also think so, but in a very different way. i want to meet you, shall […]
We, Josefine Ehs and Siri Viola, are performance- and visual artists collaborating between Vienna and Copenhagen. In our shared practice we work with themes of friendship, longing and resistance. Rooted […]
Katharina Schmelting, born in 1992, lives in Berlin and is a freelance theatre professional. As a trained designer, she discovered theatre during her studies and has since been involved in […]
Hailing from California, Uma’s work bridges the realms of dance, theater, music, technology and ceramics. She works from many angles – writing, directing, and performing. Her creative projects are marked […]
Kia S. Smith is a Chicago native and she is the Founder, Resident Choreographer and Director of Vision and Strategy for South Chicago Dance Theatre. As a freelance choreographer, Kia’s […]
After making their first appearance at LAKE in SUBMERGE Festival 2025, Cie iLondzo Dance Company returned last November & December for the LAKE residency program: ON DISPLAY. Cie iLondzo – […]
Dally Schwarz and Marcos Aganju have been working together artistically since 2014, creating shows, performances, and cross-disciplinary works between dance, music, and visual arts. Originally from Brazil, they have lived […]
Estelle Ebenga is a French creative entrepreneur, dancer and choreographer. Born in 1988 in Lille, France with Congolese roots. She starts dancing at 7 with modern jazz and discovered Hip Hop […]
Maria O’Herce, Daniel Sauer, and Theo Altmann come together in their first collaborative project, blending movement, composition, and improvisation. Maria, based between Barcelona and Berlin, is a choreographer and performer whose […]
Billie Bryerton is a freelance dancer, choreographer, and multimedia artist based in Berlin. They are particularly interested in exploring dance in relation to ecology, queerness, and social justice; often finding […]
Giovana Sanchez is a Brazilian dance artist and performer, and a graduate of PERA – School of Performing Arts (GAU) in Cyprus. Her artistic journey has led her to collaborate […]
Cecilia Xuetong Feng (Beijing) is a Berlin-based artist and designer. Her interdisciplinary practice explores the mechanisms of perception, articulating thresholds between presence and absence while framing the apparatus of the […]
Tamara Rettenmund is a Berlin-based choreographer, dancer, and performance artist working between Butoh,contemporary dance, and physical theatre. Her artistic practice explores phenomenology, spatial agency, andthe dialogue between human and artificial […]
Florencia Beatriz Turiace is an Argentinian dancer and yoga instructor, born and raised in Buenos Aires. She graduated from Arte XXI in 2016 and, a year later, moved to Germany, […]
Mira Fowler is a dance video artist working to dissect dancers’ performative identities and expectations. Her work is birthed by the consciousness of a young girl – now a woman […]
We are artists from Northern California who will be working at Lake Studios for our second residency. During our last stay, we filmed footage for what became our first collaborative […]
Melle Lowenthal is a mover, choreographer and video artist based in the Northeast USA. She is currently a senior at Bennington College where she studies Dance and Video. With an […]
Egypt Pooler is a dancer and writer from Portland, Maine where she is currently a toddler teacher. She studied dance and poetry at Bennington college with a focus on choreography […]
Alexa Wilson is an interdisciplinary artist in dance, performance art, video and text from New Zealand based in Berlin 10 years, recently NYC based. She creates solo performance art projects […]
Yasmine Lindskog Visanko is a Swedish/Finnish/American dance artist and improviser. She is fascinated by the collective energy and is often drawn to curating collective experiences in her work. Often working […]
Wiam El-Tamami is an Egyptian writer, literary translator, cook, and wanderer. Her writing and translation has been featured in publications such as The Paris Review, Granta, Ploughshares, Freeman’s, AGNI, Literary […]
LAB: 19-20 August | 10-16h PERFORMANCE: 23 August | 20h
LAB: 15 August | 10-16h & ABOUT DANCE FORUM PERFORMANCE: 16 August | 12h[OPENING EVENT FOR ABOUT DANCE]
LAB: 13 – 14 August | 10-16h PERFORMANCE: 15 August | 20h
LAB: 11 – 12 August | 10-16h VIDEO INSTALLATION: 11 – 17 August | Ongoing
LAB: 4 – 7 August | 10-16h PERFORMANCE: 9 August | 20h
LABS: 29 – 31 July | 10-16h (Professionals)2 AUGUST | 11-12:30h (KIDS 6+) PERFORMANCE: 2 August | 18h
LAB: 25 – 26 July | 10-16h PERFORMANCE: 27 July | 17h
LAB: 21 – 22 July | 10-16h PERFORMANCE: 26 July | 20h
Hailing from the United States, Angie Flanagan creates live performances and video collections that include dance, poetry, and sound to curate from the chaos the memories, stories, and the extraordinary […]
Beatrix Joyce is a choreographer, writer and researcher based in Berlin. She works across the domains of dance, writing and sound. She is inspired by sites, ecologies and fictions and […]
Wiam El-Tamami is an Egyptian writer, translator, editor, and wanderer. She has spent the last twenty years moving between different cultures and communities across the Middle East, Europe, Southeast Asia, […]
Disruption, Excess, Hyper Vulnerability, Critical Care – Jeremy Wade is an extreme performer and performance maker with an extensive practice of curating and teaching to boot. After graduating from the School […]
Valentin Alfery is a self-taught dancer and choreographer coming from the street and club style community. While being rooted in the European jam and battle scene, he started to work as a […]
Nellie Gossen (they/them) is an interdisciplinary artist based between the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh first nations, and Berlin. Working through the media of fashion, costume, textiles […]
Maisha Maene is a Congolese visual artist and director based in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo. As an artist, he works on issues of human rights and the environment. As […]
Jana Kubánková is violinist, cross-disciplinary artist and movement therapist based in Czechia.She graduated from music and theory of performance at Academy of performing Arts in Prague and studied music also […]
We are Josefine Ehs and Siri Viola, artists based in Vienna and Copenhagen. We have collaborated across waters for a while now, working with distance and water as companies. In […]
Cinzia Schincariol is a dance and film artist, performer, facilitator, mentor and somatic practitioner working between Australia and EuropeCinzia places the body at the center of her enquiry examining place, […]
Fred Agni: I’m a circus artist which has been focusing mostly on dance the last two years, I still feel quite new to it as I feel dance on stage […]
yauhenija (she/her) is a researcher with two main instruments – love and play. the research takes place thorugh moving, writing, sleeping and other media. yauhenija is curious how these two pillars […]
Martí Corbera / artistic alias Martí (direction, dance) Martí Corbera, born in Barcelona in 1997, is a creative director and dancer who merges his experience in flamenco with various artistic disciplines, including […]
Achraf Lansari (he/him) born and raised in Casablanca, is a multifaceted artist whose life revolves around movement and sound. with a background in dance and music that allows him to […]
Paulina has recently graduated from her Mfa degree in Dance and Participation program at the Danish National School for Performing Arts, Copenhagen (2024) currently an intern of n ï m […]
Julia Biłat Julia Biłat is a classically trained cellist, improviser, composer, and performer based in Berlin since 2014. She is dedicated to her exploratory, genre-bending practice at the intersection of improvisation, […]
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 […]
(Courtney Gabrielle Osteen) Lives and works in Chico, California Dancer/Emotional, Painter/Dreamy, Poet/Indecisive Possibly Psychic, Probably Crazy, Definitely Sensitive
RICARDO SARMIENTO SAMÍREZ (he/him, they/them) is a Cuban author, performer, director, and filmmaker whose work explores themes of identity, migration, public interventions, and artivism. With a focus on literature, theater, […]
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 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 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 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 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 […]
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 (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 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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 (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 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 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 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 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, 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, […]
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 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 (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, […]
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 […]
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 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 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, […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 (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 (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, 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 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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
