Zeynep Acim

Born into a family with backgrounds in fine arts, physical education, and music, she developed an early interest in dance, painting, and music. Throughout her school years in Turkey, she […]

Sasha J. Langford

Sasha J. Langford is an interdisciplinary artist based on the occupied xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ territories known as Vancouver, B.C., Canada. Working at the intersection of sound, writing, performance, and […]

Lift

This residency research focuses on the creation of the two main characters of a site-specific performance inspired by Aesop’s fable The Ant and the Cicada. The work explores the possibility of […]

Luis Fernando Colombo

Luis Fernando Colombo is an Italo-Colombian artist, born in Colombia and later adopted in Italy. His artistic path moves across performing arts, site-specific performance, physical theatre, dance theatre, acting, and […]

Andrea Berchtold

Born in 1961 in Switzerland, I migrated to Australia when 18 years old and dabbled in different dance styles and acro. At 30 I felt too old to start dance […]

Piper Morrison

Piper Morrison is a dancer, improviser, image maker, and chef with a background in Contact Improvisation, Aikido, and contemporary dance. She is curious lately about what lies on the outside […]

Isidora Vincenteli

Isidora is a British-Italian performance artist based in Athens. Her work spans choreography, embodied voice and performance-making, often developed in relation to site and landscape. She operates between contemporary dance […]

Zhuojun Li

Zhuojun currently studying in the IDA Master’s Program in Movement Research at Anton Bruckner University in Austria.She continuously pay attention to the evolutionary relationship between public context experience and individual […]

Paula Catalina F. Riofrio

Paula is South American Interdisciplinary Artist based in somatic practices. She is also a Writer, Arts Facilitator and Translator. Her practice is rooted in somatic listening, authentic movement, improvisation and […]

Constança Pinheiro Torres/ Coco

Constança (Coco) is a visual artist and performer. Her work transforms narratives into participatory installations, blending research, movement, and digital media. She explores the relationship between artist and audience, questioning […]

Angela Fegers

Angela Fegers is a dancer, choreographer and human from central Florida. She has been working professionally since 2011 and has performed and presented work in NYC, Miami and San Francisco, […]

Manuel Lindner

Manuel Lindner is a dance artist based in Berlin. In his artistic practice, he explores sensory-somatic processes of perception and the voice as an embodied and political material. At the […]

Julia Chubareva

Julia Chubareva is a Ukrainian freelance dancer and dance teacher, who has over 7 years of teaching experience, having worked in Kyiv and later in Bremen with students of different […]

Min Yoon

With post/butoh dance, vocals, and philosophy, Min Yoon makes intimate, surreal, and psychophysical performances and experimental moments of heightened complex / relational emotions. Min’s dance collages intense imagery, physicality, stillness, […]

Tricycle Trauma

Tricycle Trauma is a performance art collective situated in Zagreb, Croatia. Natively based in mostly non-verbal, experimental theatre and contemporary circus, they continuously explore and incorporate methods and approaches from […]

Ina Kurotschkin

Ina Kurotschkin is a cultural anthropologist, dancer, and performance artist whose work combines theoretical research and choreographic practice. Her artistic research explores how social structures shape bodies, identities, and everyday […]

Veronica Boniotti & Helene Cæcilie Mørck

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 & Samira Mendoza

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

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 

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

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

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 […]

Carson Reiners

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 […]

henya trapeznikava

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 […]

Siri Viola & Josefine Ehs 

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 / Cutterfly

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 […]

Uma Supatra-Campbell 

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 / South Chicago Dance Theatre

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 […]

Dally Schwarz & Marcos Aganju

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 / Cie ILONDZO 

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 & Theo Altmann

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

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 

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

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 […]

Glitch & Grace – weaving body and algorithm

We are E:xe – a non-binary artists collective of body and code. We continue Ada Lovelace’s dream of calculating patterns of luck and flight in a choreographic research between dance […]

Tamara Rettenmund

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

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

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 […]

Dorian Victor Rohlfes & LOLA

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 […]

 from the ordinary to the peculiar 

examining the turning point of when the regular becomes special turning to a resort, a place you can escape to sense and connect with the unusual in order to manage […]

Michal Agasi

Choreographer, dancer, performance artist and movement researcher. 

Melle Lowenthal

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 […]

Julia Duva & Egypt Pooler

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

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

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 […]

Always a Woman to Watch the Light

As human beings, we share in common ancestors who gathered around fires to share the light as they shared their stories. Always a Woman to Watch the Light brings Yuna […]

Angie Flanagan & Yuna Masson Cariou

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 […]

Always a Woman to Watch the Light 

As human beings, we share in common ancestors who gathered around fires to share the light as they shared their stories. Always a Woman to Watch the Light brings Yuna […]

Angie Flanagan & Yuna Masson Cariou

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 […]

Wiam El-Tamami

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, […]

Jeremy Wade

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 

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

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’s Residency

Saturday, March 15th, 19:00 Join us for a screening of three short films by award-winning Congolese artist, Maisha Maene. There will be a Q & A with the artist following […]

Maisha Maene

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

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 […]

Josefine Ehs & Siri Viola

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

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 & Aaron Lang

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 trapeznikava 

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

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 […]

House Dance Residency

Our residency is digging into House dance, focusing on its footwork, grooves, and musicality. We’ll zoom in on key elements and explore how they connect with movement principles from popping, […]

Hannah Juliane Steenbeck & Achraf Lansari 

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 […]

tame me, land

My aim is to stay becoming the entanglements of events including current socio-political contexts, studio practice, n ï m company and lake studio as different environments and moving structures.If we are carrying our archive […]

Paulina Rewucka

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 […]

Polymorphic body

We are working with experiences that have shaped and conditioned our bodies. Care becomes a practice that leads to a state of vulnerability and discomfort. The cello and performers come […]

Julia Biłat & Almoudena Vernhes

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, […]

exits/endings : decolonising memories and deaths.

Acts of resistance in the face of exits and endings- ‘If the ordinary and the everyday is portrayed as threatening it throws a doubt on your assumptions about the world […]

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’s Residency

The process of experience is making a movie about Lola. The work is a collection of The Past, The Present, and The Future; with appearances by Eternity, The Prince of Time, […]

LOLA

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

On Work

Ricardo Sarmiento with William Ruiz Morales, Gabriela Burdsall & Kiko Faxas at residency. At LAKE Studios, we collaboratively developed the lecture performance “On Work.” The research-based piece became our way […]

Ricardo Sarmiento Ramírez with William Ruiz Morales & Gabriela Burdsall

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, […]

dis\spiri 

My desire is the source of pain of my family.The perversion I am facing is an embodied absence of the narrative about the natural path.To avoid perdition here I have […]

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 […]

soft graft, peeling body

Our residency will focus on exploring a variety of improvisational and choreographic tasks to build an archive of choreographic material alongside aesthetic exploration through the integration of AV elements focused […]

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 […]

Main Character

Main Character is a movement-based performance that explores the performativity of the body in public space, shaped by social norms. The performance invites us to step in the shoes of different […]

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’s Residency

A research on the journey of the healthy, sick, fighting, surrendering, flowing musical body through the landscape of life. Can I dance or sing a duet with myself? After being […]

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 […]

If you hold a stone

My residency at Lake studios involves developing material for a new short film, in partnership with my five-year-old son, and a movement research for a solo piece. Both projects go […]

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 […]

within the heart/secrets

ROBBIE SWEENY

Sara Shelton Mann & Jesse Zaritt

ROBBIE SWEENY

Come-Bat

When you are born under an authoritarian system, you are born as two – One who is molded by the forces that seek to shape you, and another who is […]

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’s Residency

Blooming again from where it died,Blooming again from where it died, Everything goes and comes back again,Like inhaling and exhaling Drawing a circle,Drawing a circle, Where the flow of time […]

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 […]

Visceral Resonance

Dancer and music. These often exist on a two-way street, one in response to the other. But what if we introduce a third element, changing this two-way street into a […]

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 […]

inEvitable / a passing magic show

We are all collages of our experiences, connections and regrets. We consist of many layers and there’s so much inexplicable and uncontrollable in us and the world. How do all […]

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 

by Lindsey Appolis

Poems (content, form and musicality) as a basis for choreographies with dance, voice and violin

I improvise 6 minutes with body, voice and violin one after the other and draw conclusions and interests from them (2 rounds several times a day) .Poems that I write […]

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 […]

Elisa’s Residency

With ice skates and an ice floor I examine emotional imbalances in a gliding game with gravitationalforces. The climate-induced loss of ice drove me to the „alternative“ of synthetic ice […]

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 […]

Elisa Siegmund

bio coming soon…

Angie’s Residency

Angie is working in 2 pieces: –A rethinking of The Dying Swan. It may seem odd to start from one of the most classical of classical ballets, but I began […]