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witch is an interdisciplinary annual exhibit created by dancers from around the world to raise money for charity, hosted by Nederlands Dans Theater (NL). Switch provides the dancers of NDT the opportunity to create an entire evening of art and dance. It serves as a chance to choreograph in a professional setting, take the organizational helm, and delve into the other aspects of this art form we may not always experience. It also serves as a platform for any kind of creativity.
It all started in 1988 when the dancers of NDT started informally creating their own choreographies in their free time. Interest grew and soon they decided to dedicate an evening in the studios to showcase their creations to their fellow colleagues, they called this evening ‘Workshops’. World renowned choreographers such as Paul Lightfoot, Sol León, Nacho Duato, Jorma Elo, Johan Inger and Medhi Walerski all began their choreographic careers with Switch. Over the past decades, Switch as a project has grown in both popularity and diversity, while developing into a full evening of dance. This allowed Switch to serve the greater purpose of supporting numerous charities and act as an ever-changing creative platform for all forms of artistic expression, becoming the Switch we know today.
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Movementtalks had the chance to be in conversation with Cullberg managing director Stina Dahlström and choreographer Jérôme Bel. Here they share their opinion and goals concerning the emission of CO2 in the atmosphere and the contemporary world of performance.
Stina Dahlström was born in 1982 in Kiruna. She has an education in literature, dance, theatre, economics and project management at the University of Stockholm. Stina Dahlström has worked as a freelance producer, and as head of production at MDT, an international co-producing and presenting plattform for contemporary dance in Stockholm. As of 2016, Stina Dahlström is managing director of Cullberg, the national and international repertoire contemporary dance company in Sweden.
Jérôme Bel lives in Paris and works worldwide. nom donné par l’auteur (1994) is a choreography of objects. Jérôme Bel (1995) is based on the total nudity of the performers. Shirtology (1997) presents an actor wearing many T-shirts. The last performance (1998) quotes a solo by the choreographer Susanne Linke, as well as Hamlet and André Agassi. Xavier Le Roy (2000) was claimed by Jérôme Bel as his own, but was actually choreographed by Xavier Le Roy. The show must go on (2001) brings toghether twenty performers, nineteen pop songs and one DJ. Véronique Doisneau (2004) is a solo on the work of the dancer Véronique Doisneau, from the Paris Opera. Isabel Torres (2005), for the ballet of the Teatro Municipal of Rio de Janeiro, is its Brazilian version. Pichet Klunchun and myself (2005) was created in Bangkok with the Thai traditional dancer Pichet Klunchun. Follows Cédric Andrieux (2009), dancer of Merce Cunningham. 3Abschied (2010) is a collaboration between Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Jérôme Bel based on The Song of the Earth by Gustav Malher. Disabled Theater (2012) is a piece with a Zurich-based company, Theater Hora, consisting of professional actors with learning disabilities. Cour d’honneur (2013) stages fourteen spectators of the Cour d’honneur of the Palais des Papes in Avignon. In Gala (2015), the choreographer stages together professional people from the dance field and amateurs coming from different backgrounds. In Tombe (2016), performance created at the invitation of Opéra National de Paris, Jérôme Bel proposed to some dancers of the ballet to invite, for a duet, the person with who they would never share the stage. Posé arabesque, temps lié en arrière, marche, marche (2017) is a piece for all the dancers of the Ballet de l’Opéra de Lyon based on the famous “Entrance of the shadows” of the ballet La Bayadère. Dancing as if nobody is watching (2018) and the reading of the Lecture on nothing by John Cage call for a contemplative aesthetic attitude. With Retrospective, Jérôme Bel goes back through his video archives and makes a cross section within his corpus, to better bring out the linkage between dance and politics. Isadora Duncan (2019) paints a picture of this choreographer. In 2013 Emails 2009-2010, written with the French choreographer Boris Charmatz, is edited (Les Presses du Réel). This book is published on line and in English, still by Les Presses du Réel, in 2016.
This interview was recorded with no CO2 emission.
Interviewees: Stina Dahlström and Jérôme Bel
Concept: Giacomo Della Marina
Camera: Erica Espling and Oskar Hökerberg (Stina Dahlström)
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Whistle While You Work is a platform lead by dancers, choreographers, and artists that calls out harassment, discrimination, and violence towards women and marginalized groups particularly while at work in the arts, especially in professional dance and performance. Initiated in 2017 by writer/artist Robyn Doty and dancer/choreographer Frances Chiaverini, the platform has given Open Forums in the US and Germany; workshops at dance festivals and conferences throughout Germany and has been featured in prominent dance magazines (US, UK, EU).
Frances Chiaverini was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and she is based in Frankfurt. She is a performer, activist, choreographer. She was a member of The Forsythe Company in its final seasons and has most recently performed with Adam Linder, Luisa Saraiva, Fabrice Mazliah, and Trajal Harrell. In 2017, she co-creates with Robyn Doty Whistle while you work. She is a 2019-20 Resident Fellow at NYU’s Center for Ballet and the Arts. She is a choreographic consultant for Anne Imhof for works at Tate Modern, The Venice Biennale, MoMa PS. 1, Pompidou, Hamburger Bahnhof, Art Basel, and La Biennale de Montréal. Her most recent works include The Body Violent (2017, PACT) Open Carry/Concealed Carry (2018), and she most recently created a new original work called It’s my house and I live here. (2019) supported by a grant from the Theaterförderung durch die Stadt Frankfurt am Main with Julia Eichten.
Robyn Doty graduates in 2019 with an M.A. from the Goethe University Frankfurt where she studied and was active in Memory Studies and Transcultural Studies. In 2017 she co-organized a weeklong postcolonial studies Summer School about performance at the Goethe University Frankfurt. Since 2016 she has collaborated as a writer and dramaturg with BOHL (Frances Chiaverini and Katja Cheraneva); as a writer and dramaturg for Roderick George’s kNoname dance company’s DUST, FLESHLESS BEAST (Berlin); and with Katja Cheraneva on Cards Against Contemporary Dance. She has shown her own work at the Goethe University and has had her poetry and photography published by Belleville Park Pages. She is the project manager and dramaturg for Whistle while you work. She collaborated with Chiaverini for the creation of It’s my house and I live here., and is Chiaverini’s collaborator during their NYU CBA Fellowship in 2020.
Julia Eichten danced with Camille A. Brown & Dancers, as well as Aszure Barton & Artists. Julia was a founding member of L.A. Dance Project. Based in Los Angeles, Julia continues to work with Gerard & Kelly as a performer and collaborator. Last year she assisted them on Solange’s collaboration with Uniqlo, “Metratronia” as well as a month of performances at Pioneer Works(NY) in, “Clockwork.” Julia is a proud founding member of AMOC* as a dancer and choreographer. Most recently Julia danced in Carly Rae Jepsen’s latest video, “Too Much” as well as working as an assistant choreographer for One Republic’s yet to be released new music and video, “Wanted.” As well as premiering two new original works, “She is Her,” at the Sweat Spot and “PHRASEHXR” at Highways Performance Space. She continues her daily practice of improvisation and video art and is pleased to have premiered with collaborator Frances Chiaverini earlier this season.
Contact: http://www.nobody100.com/contact
Website: www.whistlewhileyouwork.art
Interviewee: Frances Chiaverini, Robyn Doty, Julia Eichten
Concept: Giacomo Della Marina
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Born in Barcelona, Spain, Daniel Mariblanca Sirmans began his professional dance career immediately after graduating from the L'Institut del Teatre in Barcelona. In 2016, after 15+years of dancing professionally around Europe, Daniel joined Carte Blanche. At the beginning of his gender transition, Daniel founded 71BODIES, a transgender inclusive professional dance and performance company based in Bergen, Norway. The company was born out of an urgency to both understand and document the complexities that lie within the transgender identity.
Photo: Skjalg Ekeland/BA
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Boston Gallacher (25) is a contemporary dance artist originating from Glasgow, Scotland and currently working at Nederlands Dans Theater. They place importance on improvisation and imagery and endeavour towards a more inclusive working environment. As the first non-binary dancer at NDT they are shaping what it means to be non-binary in such a long standing institution and intend to implement enduring change in the system.
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Arika Yamada is a coach and a professional dancer.
In 2020 Arika founded the AHA room, a coaching practice that works with High Performers, Artistic Leaders, and Creative Minds. Identifying, cultivating and nurturing one’s unique identity in order to perform at their best.Arika Yamada was born in Detroit, Michigan, USA in 1987 to her parents who moved to Detroit from Japan in the mid 80’s.
She received her early training from The Joffrey Ballet School, Nutmeg Conservatory and EDGE Performing Arts Center in Los Angeles. In her teens she’s was represented by Bloc Agency and appeared in a European Coca-Cola Commercial. Her mentor and coach Elena Tchernichova privately trained her in NY and brought her to St. Petersburg Russia at the age of 15 where she was invited to train at The Vaganova School.
In 2009 Arika received her BFA from The Juilliard School under the directorship of Lawrence Rhodes. Upon graduation she joined Gallim Dance in NY and originated roles in multiple works with Andrea Miller such as ‘Wonderland’ which she has received recognitions for in The New York Times. In 2012 she also performed with Company XIV, a 28 show run at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
In 2013 Arika crossed the pond to Holland to join Spenser Theberge at Korzo Theater (Den Haag) where he created ‘I Saw, She Saw’ which they performed as a part the production ’ Here We Live and Now.’
Arika was invited to audition for GöteborgsOperan Danskompani which she joined during season 2013/2014 under Adolphe Binder, and in the present with director, Katrin Hall.
In Göteborg Arika originated roles in creation with choreographers such as Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Damien Jalet, Alan Lucien Oyen, Marina Mascarell, Marcos Morau, Michael Keegan Dolan, Wang/Ramirez, and Alexander Ekman. She has also reinterpreted repertoires of Ohad Naharin, Sharon Eyal, and Crystal Pite. She has performed Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s ‘Noetic’ 100+ through Europe.
As a creator Arika has been commissioned by GöteborgsOperan to co-create ‘Many Much More’ with Spenser Theberge, and ‘Try not to spill’ with Dorotea Saykaly. in 2015 Open Look Festival in St. Petersburg, Russia commissioned Arika and her partner Jim De Block to make ‘Digressing from the 4 Tons of Grey.’ In 2016 Arika, Jim, and co-creator Oleg Stepanov were invited to create a full length, site specific work by Chalmers University of Technology at their 3 day festival hosted by the Department of Architecture and the Department of Physics. Since 2016 Arika and Jim has been curating a creative platform called If We, Then which gathers artists with varied mediums to share space and process together. -
Alessandro Sciarroni is an Italian artist active in the field of Performing Arts with several years of experience in visual arts and theater research. His works are featured in contemporary dance and theater festivals, museums and art galleries, as well as in unconventional spaces and involve professionals from different disciplines. In 2019 he was awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in Dance by the Venice Bienniale.
Photo: Andrea Macchia
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Dana Caspersen is conflict engagement specialist, award-winning performing artist, and author. She has developed teaching, communication, and public dialogue models and practices that integrate traditional conflict engagement strategies with choreographic methodologies, engaging thousands of people from diverse communities across the globe. Her book, Changing the Conversation: The 17 Principles of Conflict Resolution (A Joost Elffers Book), has been translated into 8 languages and is widely used as a training tool by organizations, schools and individuals worldwide. She has a master’s degree in Conflict Studies and Mediation and an MFA in Dance.
As a leading collaborator of the choreographer William Forsythe for over 30 years, Caspersen has co-created and performed across the world as a principal artist with the Ballet Frankfurt and the Forsythe Company. Their collaborations range from the visual arts, as in the creation of work commissioned by Artangel in London, to the development of award-winning stage works such as Eidos : Telos and I Don’t Believe in Outer Space. Dana has received the Bessie Award for Outstanding Creative Achievement in the United States and was nominated for the Lawrence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in England.
For more information on Dana’s work, please visit danacaspersen.com
Photo: Dominik Mentzos
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Isabel Lewis (1981, Berlin) is an artist of Dominican and American origin who grew up on a suburban island off the coast of southwest Florida. She lived in New York City where she danced for many choreographers and where she has shown commissioned works from 2004 onward at The Kitchen, New Museum, and Movement Research at Judson Church among others. Lewis is based in Berlin since 2009. Trained in literary criticism, dance, and philosophy her current work takes the form of hosted occasions which are celebratory meetings of things, people, music, smells and dances and have been presented internationally and most recently at Tate Modern.
Lewis' interests circle dance (as a cultural storage system, as a technology of the self) and aesthetics in the space of social encounter. In the format she calls hosted occasions, particular conditions are created for a celebratory meeting of things, that conjure perhaps the ancient Greek symposium, where philosophizing, drinking and the sensual were inseparable. The entire human sensorium is engaged including the sense of smell with scents composed in collaboration with Norwegian chemist and smell researcher Sissel Tolaas.
In the last years Lewis has been working and crafting a specific way of performing which combines the skills of the dancer, the DJ, and the orator. In this way of performing a dancer becomes a host crafting the atmosphere, and attending to her guests offering stimulus and sociality in a space that is imagined as a kind of indoor garden and meeting place. It is a space for the exercise of the aesthetic, the spiritual, and the political.
Different from theatrical dance performances that create a space of distanced observation and intellectual contemplation and work with the excitement and anticipation of the "event," this format works towards creating the conditions for a bodily experience of relaxation and well-being. In this new format sound, smell, and touch play as important a role as sight. As the host Lewis unfolds a dramaturgy specific to each occasion, its guests and their energies, that includes dances, smells, music, and spoken address in a way that allows for conversation, contemplation, dancing, listening, or just simply being. Her regular collaborators are Sissel Tolaas and Juan Chacón of architecture collective Zuloark.
Ph: Isabel Lewis by Joanna Seitz
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Marina Mascarell (Oliva, Spain,1980) is a choreographer based in The Netherlands. Resident Choreographer at Korzo Theatre in The Hague between 2011-21 and Associated Artist at Mercat de les Flors in Barcelona since 2018.
In her art the reflexions, inquiries and concepts turn into a poetic fight, where thought transforms into corporeality and movement. Marina is interested in a rebellious body characterized by questioning ‘normativity’. In the dancing body as a form of resistance, deeply rooted in a political and social action.
Beside her independent work Marina has also been commissioned to create pieces by different institutions such as GöteborgsOperans Danskompani, Biennale de la Danse of Lyon with Lyon Opera Ballet, Skanes Dansteater, Dance Forum Taipei or Nederlands Dans Theater.
She collaborates as well with fellow artists in the fields of visual arts, film, music and theatre. Her work has been seen in The Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Spain, Italy, France, Greece, Taiwan, China, Korea, Brazil, Argentina and Chile.
She has been recognised and awarded with several prizes along her career such as BNG Excellent Dans Award 2015 and the past years she has been nominated by Barcelona Critics Awards and Butaca Awards. Along side with her work as a choreographer Marina has developed a practice which is strongly linked to her choreographic process. A method focus in movement research and the increase of body awareness. She teaches workshops at different festivals, institutions or schools.
Ph: Jubal Battisti
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Kat Válastur (born in Athens, Greece ) is a choreographer and performer based in Berlin. Her work is defined by the creation of a distinctive dance as well as visual language. In her creations our desires, fiction and reality merge into speculative notions creating highly intense atmospheres that challenge the senses with their shifting and intimate qualities.
In 2013/14 she was an invited artist at the Institute of spatial experimentation a project initiated by Olafur Eliasson and the University of the Arts, Berlin. During the program she began researching on a new series of works under the title The marginal sculptures of Newtopia exploring the encounter between the body and a virtual topology it inhabits. The concept of a fictional virtual space yet unknown applied to these creations a speculative character. During her participation as an invited artist she took part in the exhibition-festival of future nows at the Neue nationalgalerie Berlin (2014) with the work We were better in the future in which she transformed the space of the museum into a working space for her upcoming project.
She studied dance at the Hellenic School of Dance in Athens, at the Trisha Brown Studios in New York on a Fulbright scholarship, and received a Master Degree from the (SODA) Master Program at the Inter-University for Dance in Berlin.
Her work are presented internationally in venues such as: HAU Hebbel-am-Ufer, Théâtre de la Ville ( Paris), Recontres Choregraphiques de Seine-Saint-Denis, Theatre de Nimes, Tanz im August festival, Aerowaves, Springdance festival, Tanzquartier Wien, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, STUK, Hellerau, Theatre festival basel, Athens and Epidaurus festival, B Motion festival, The Place, Onassis Cultural Centre, Madrid en Danza festival, Hamburger Bahnhof Museum, Serralves museum, Julidans, among others. -
Karol Tyminski is a choreographer and a performer based in Berlin. He co-founded the Centrum w Ruchu [Centre In Motion] collective. He is a graduate of the Warsaw Ballet Academy and the Performing Arts Research and Training Studios (P.A.R.T.S.) in Belgium and DAS Graduate School in Amsterdam. Tymiński focuses on creating motion which explores the structure of the human body. The latter is presented rather as some physical matter and not so much a fully developed individual. It thus becomes a plateau for questioning the established cultural human image. In his brutalist dance Tymiński oscillates between physical labour and ritual, thoroughly penetrating the performer’s physicality, and at the same time: reaching his emotional dimension. Tymiński’s works have been presented at numerous international stages, such as: American Realness (NYC), Esplenade Theatre (Singapore), Reykjavik Dance Festival, Impuls Tanz (Vienna),La Maison de la culture d’Amiens (France), Sophiensaele (Berlin), and many more.
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Originally from Montreal, Dorotea Saykaly started her professional career with Compagnie Marie Chouinard in 2006, touring internationally and performing lead roles such as Prélude à l’après midi d’un faune. During the next 8 years with the company, Dorotea also experimented with the mediums of screen dance. She co-created, choreographed and performed in the screen dance films PAINTED (2012) and Brief Candle (2013) which were featured in international film festivals such as Dance Camera West in LA, Cinedans in Amsterdam, Dance on Camera in NY and Festival du Nouveau Cinema in Montreal.
In 2014, Dorotea relocated to Sweden to join the Goteborg Danskompani where she has worked with renown choreographers such as Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Marcos Morau, Sharon Eyal and Alan Lucien Oyen. Initiating opportunities to create herself, she choreographed her first solo UNraveling which was later awarded the Audience Prize at the Warsaw Zawirowania Competition.
She has since then created Try Not To Spill (a collaboration with Arika Yamada) for NUDANS 2017, a creation program with the Goteborg Danskompani; Sing to me a deeper Song, a duet premiering May 2017; Within the gaps, the birds sang for OpenFLR 2017 summer festival in Florence; Rosy Retrospection which premiered April 2018 in Gothenburg as part of the 3D National collaboration project, lead by the Goteborg Danskompani, which toured to Dansenshus in Stockholm in and Skanes Dansteatern in Malmo; DOUBLE BLINDED a duet for two men presented on the small stage at the Goteborg Operans in June 2019; and finally SHE, her second solo which premiered in Montreal, Sept 2019 and based on the the novel “The Passion According to G.H.” by Brazilian author, Clarice Lispector. Her short film SHE, springing from her stage solo, will be released in Summer 2020.
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Astrid Boons (BE) is a choreographer and performer. Astrid graduated from The Royal Ballet School of Antwerp (BE). She holds a BA Dance from Codarts (NL) and a BA of Arts (Honours) in Humanities (Art History and Philosophy) from the Open University (UK). As a dancer Astrid worked with Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch (2017-2018), Nederlands Dans Theater 1 (2017), GöteborgsOperans Danskompani(2013-2016), Nederlands Dans Theater 2 (2009-2013), Dansgroep Amsterdam(2009) and Dansgroep Krisztina De Châtel (2008). Astrid received the prestigious BNG Bank Dance Award 2017 and Piket Art Award 2017 for her duet Rhizoma (2016). Her work Vestige (2017) was shortlisted in the top 5 performances of 2017 in Amsterdam based newspaper Het Parool. Since 2017 Astrid is connected as a choreographer to Korzo Theatre in The Hague, The Netherlands.
Photo:©David Krooshof
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Michele Rizzo (1984, Italy) studied at the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam and at the School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam, where he is often a guest tutor in choreography and movement research. He has participated in residencies at the International Choreographic Arts Centre in Amsterdam, Q21 Museum Quarter in Vienna, and Live Works Centrale Fies in Trento. His work has been presented and performed at venues and festivals including URB Festival, Helsinki; Rencontres Chorégraphiques Internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis; La Briqueterie, Paris; Santarcangelo Festival, Rimini; Short Theater, Rome; Festival DDD, Porto; CAMPO, Ghent; Triennale Teatro dell’Arte, Milan; and Actoral, Montreal.
Photo: Alwin Poiana
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Yotam Peled was born in 1989, in a Kibbutz in the north of Israel. Since childhood he has practiced fine arts, athletics, and Capoeira. At the age of 21, after finishing service in the Israeli defense forces, he began dancing, and later on pursued higher education in contemporary circus. in 2015 he relocated to Berlin, and since then he has been working as a freelance performer for several European choreographers, among them Maura Morales (Dusseldorf), Yann L’hereux (Montpellier), Troels Primdahl (Aarhus/Berlin), Jill Crovisier (Luxembourg), Mitia Fedotenko (Montpellier). In the last years he has been creating his own work which was presented in festivals and venues in Israel, Germany, Italy, Spain, Japan and Vietnam, and had received several awards. Yotam’s main research topic is the relation between gender roles, sexual identity and power structures in modern society, and uses choreographed, highly physical movement, to explore it. In August 2019 his new creation ‘ALPHA’ will premiere in Trauma bar und kino, Berlin.
Photo: Merlin Ettore
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Papadopoulos graduated from the School for New Dance Development (SNDO) of the Amsterdam School of the Arts, The Netherlands in 2003 and from the Dramatic School of the National Theatre of Greece in 1999. Christos is a founding member of the dance company Leon and the Wolf. His personal projects include: OPUS (Aerowaves Twenty18, Porta Theatre 2016, Théâtre de la Ville-Danse Elargie 2016, Jonkoping, Sweden 2017) Elvedon (Aerowaves Twenty16, Porta Theatre, ARC For Dance Festival, Athens 2015), Counter Reset (Melkweg Amsterdam 2003). In collaboration with choreographer Vaso Giannakopoulou, he conceived and developed the performance Digono / Panorama Dance Festival, Athens, Alexandria Egypt 2005, Istanbul Turkey and Arnhem Holland 2006. As a performer Christos has participated in dance projects by Dimitris Papaioannou, Alexandra Waierstall – Noema Dance Company, Kirstin Kuyl Anderson – WEGO dance company, Robert Stain, Fotis Nikolaou company X-it, Natassa Zouka, Marousso Karaleka, Saskia van de heur, Martin van de Drift, Mariella Nestora and Ria Higler. He has also worked extensively as a choreographer and movement director for theatrical productions. Christos was a member of the choreography team responsible for the opening ceremony of the European Games in Baku 2015 and opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympic Games in Athens 2004. Since 2013 he collaborates with Odeion Athinon Theatre Academy as an instructor of choreography, composition and improvisation. He has also taught workshops on technique, composition and improvisation in Athens, Chania, Thessaloniki, Copenhagen.
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Cristina Planas Leitão, Porto (PT), 1983. Holds a BA in Dance Performance from ArtEZ – Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in Arnhem (NL) – 2006. From 2007 to 2012 collaborated with Italian – Dutch based choreographer Gabriella Maiorino and Dansmakers Amsterdam (NL) participating in all her pieces during this period as a performer or rehearsal director. Since then as performed for Isabelle Schad (DE); Flávio Rodrigues / BCN (PT): Vloeistof (NL); Catarina Miranda (PT) and is currently performing in Marco da Silva Ferreira’s piece Brother. As rehearsal director she has worked as well for Hofesh Shechter (2012-2014) and Gregory Maqoma (2015) for Companhia Instável. In 2015, she is one of the selected artists to participate in The Porto Sessions – a project drawn and developed by Meg Stuart/ Damaged Goods and Mezzannine. Since 2016 she runs and coordinates Aquecimento Paralelo for Teatro Municipal do Porto and in 2017 she is invited to collaborate with the theater for Festival DDD within the context of the audience mediation team. From September 2018 on she has been appointed executive coordinator of Festival DDD. In 2012, co-creates The very delicious piece with Jasmina Krizaj with more than 30 international performances and nominated for the Gibanica prize, in Slovenia. With this creation they established a long-term collaboration continuing later on in 2014, with the making of The Very Boring Piece. In 2014, engaging on her own authorship, she premiered the solo bear me and in 2016, FM [featuring mortuum] with an extensive national tour. In the same year, with an XL version of The Very Delicious Piece, she was finalist, together with Jasmina Krizaj and a cast of 8 performers at Danse Élargie 2016 – Théâtre de la Ville, Paris. In 2018 she has created a song for the end for the BA Modern Theaterdans of Amsterdam University for the Arts and premiered the new piece UM [unimal].
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Federica Dauri is a performer, choreographer and visual artist, born in Italy and currently living in Berlin.
She lived and worked in New York and Amsterdam for the last ten years.
While studying ballet, contemporary dance and choreography at the National Academy of dance in Rome, Dauri specialized in a more critical investigation on the body politics , philosophy and critical theory and performing art.
Her studies enabled her to pursue a manifold range of artist mediums.
Her creative work fnds its roots on a critical engagement with Rudolf Steiner’s system of Eurythmy, a rhythmical and physical vocalic expression, as well as the Japanese performance art Butoh.
She refned her performance signature under the lead direction of Trisha Brown in New York, Akira Kasai in Italy, and Masaki Iwana in France.
Dauri’s body becomes the spatial and temporal site through which social norms are explored, challenged, and deconstructed.
She has produced and directed original performance work for art residencies, established exhibition spaces and performing art festivals in Europe such Gallery Xavier Laboulbenne,
Santarcangelo festival, Bufer Fringe festival, Enter Art Foundation, Sch, ICK Amsterdam, University Fine Art Sofa, Volksbuhne Berlin, Sculpture Quadrennial Riga and many others and many others.
Her artistic practice focuses on the use of the body as the subject and as the object of her creations. Through the performative act, her body becomes the creation itself.
The body is both a medium and a creative tool which feel the urge to communicate.
Her current work as a performance artist decentralises the normative ‘corpus’ and denaturalises the social body as a site of normalisation.
Her work reflects a critical engagement with her interests in interrogating notions of ‘the erotic’ in body politics through a post-humanist subversion of anthropocentrism.Photo: Gunther Lepkowski
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In 1988 Marco Goecke completed his ballet education at the Heinz-Bosl-Stiftung Ballet Academy in Munich, after which he graduated at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague in 1995.
Subsequently Goecke worked together with the Deutschen Oper Berlin and the Theater Hagen. Here Goecke made his first choreography in 2000. Since then Goecke is one of the world's most sought-after choreographers, due to his particular movement language. Goecke's work is performed by dance companies worldwide. Since 2005 Goecke is resident choreographer at the Stuttgart Ballet, between 2006 and 2011 with Scapino Ballet Rotterdam and since 2013 he is also associate choreographer with Nederlands Dans Theater. In the past decade, he has created over fourty choreographies, including two full-length performances: The Nutcracker and Orlando for the Stuttgart Ballet. Goecke further created for Les Ballets de Monte Carlo, Hamburg Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet in Seattle, Nederlands Dans Theater 1 and 2, the Norwegian National Ballet, the Leipzig Ballet and Zurich Ballet.
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