Staggering / spinning / slumping / swaying / surging / fainting / 

dizziness / lift-feeling / gait insecurity / ...

In this Vertical Dance research I deal with the theme of Vertigo and experiment with different facets of vertigo. 

I explore the Vertical Dance and deepen my practice, visit workshops, companies and enter into exchange with practitioners in order to incorporate my findings playfully and aesthetically in my further work.

2023  (work in progress)

How do we come together, how does a familiar togetherness develop? What role do our personal space and boundaries play in this context? And what dynamics create closeness and distance between us? We embark on a search for rapprochement and fusion, using flying together as a poetic solution within our own limitations.

During a residency in Cottbus, we experimented on the facades and in the spaces of the Brandenburg State Museum of Modern Art in Cottbus.

PREMIERE  June 2022 /  Brandenburgisches Landesmuseum für moderne Kunst / Vernissage of "Verwandschaften"

listening

save space  /  extend  /  sharing weight

vulnerability

body  /  eyes  /  contact

hugs  /  touch  /  naked

deep connection

PREMIERE  June 2022 /  Brandenburgisches Landesmuseum für moderne Kunst 

In this research project I investigate the possibilities and the limits of movement with a bungee/elastic rope. In relation to different inner states and mental health, I explore the body in space as well as while floating and falling. Everyday perceptions, balance and struggles of young people are key points of my content-related research. The book "Clouds in the sky" about  the nature of our thoughts and moods by Ivo Cussianovich with illustrations by Nashla Abdelnour will serve as an inspiration and base for video projection and animation.

A concept for an aerial dance production for a younger audience shall be created. 

2022  (ongoing)

This bungee - dance - video project is part of a radio play - installation, which invites one person at a time to an exclusive 60-minute performance and intense experience.

Inspired by the life and work of the Swedish painter Hilma af Klint, "We bleed without being wounded" questions death as a projection surface and deals with the universal power of transformation. Playing with insights from astro- and quantum physics and spiritual knowledge, the installation allows the human longing for freedom and immortality to grow wings.

PREMIERE  November 2021 /  Festival "Theater der Dinge" Berlin

In a laboratory, under the artistic guidance of Juan Leiba, a 30-minute vertical dance installation was created, in which six performers explore the vertical space, the in-between, the below and above. They are moved by inner states, the search for togetherness and common ground. Sometimes straying, sometimes levitating, they take the audience on a personal journey through the ruins of the Teufelsberg in Berlin. Vertical dance performances were also shown on other walls and surfaces of the historical site within the scope of the 1st Vertical Dance Fusion 2021 in Berlin. 

SHOWING  September 2021 / Teufelsberg Berlin