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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
I am Marlon Barrios Solano (Venezuela–USA), an interdisciplinary artist, creative technologist, and researcher working at the intersection of generative AI, performance, creative coding, and critical cognition. My practice unfolds as […]
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 […]
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 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 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 (*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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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, 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 (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 (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 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 […]
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 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 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 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 are a performing artist duo. They develop their choreographic and dance work together moving across the fields of education, dramaturgy, curating and writing. In […]
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 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 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 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 (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 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 (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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 […]
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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 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 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 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 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, 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 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 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 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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 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 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 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, […]
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 […]
Artistic Direction and Production Management since 2013 Marcela Giesche (1983 – Mainz, Germany): Marcela graduated in 2006 with a BFA in Dance from Ohio State University and Codarts, Rotterdam. She […]
Design & Image Mark’s work moves between graphic, interior and product design. Simplicity and reduced function define his projects, underlined by craftsmanship, methodology and a pure aesthetic. His carpentry ‘Gesellenstück’ […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Kazuma has been a pioneer in the experimental dance battle scene since the 2000’s; winning multiple international titles with his signature finger dance concept (YUBI Technique) and developing theatrical pieces […]
Christian works in schools and kindergardens as self employed sports teacher. He is practicing the Brasilian martial art of Capoeira for 8 years. Besides general movement classes for children in […]
Production Support, Tech & Maintenance, Camera Kanella is a photographer and audiovisual artist born in 1995 in Tripoli (GR), and based in Berlin (DE). She holds a BA in Photography […]
Support & Maintenance Juan Manuel Romero is an artist, architect, art teacher and designer. He studied for 6 years at the Universidad Nacional de Mexico and La Esmeralda School of […]
Light & Tech: Cathy Walsch, Filippos TatakisCamera: Nobutaka Shomura, Kanella Petropoulou, Noam Gorbat Production Assistance: Lynne ScharfModerators Unfinished Fridays: Ilana Reynolds, Maeve Johnson, Teoma Nacarrato, Sasha Amaya, Valentin Schmehl, Jessy TuddenhamCommunity Outreach – Dance Teacher […]