Dance, 20min
2026
Shifting one’s focus—from what is loud, central, and visible—to what is quieter, to the details, to the delicate, to the in-between. Movements, rhythms, volumes, and intensities collide, coexist for a while, or exist in parallel: elsewhere.
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Dance, 40min
2026
the feeling that something is dimming down
a never ending dimming
dimming that lets other intensities,
rhythms on other scales unfold
a release
a shift in tonality, texture and presence
inhabiting the shift
cohabiting space
a ground for thought
still dancing
volumes of bodies
after all dancing
volumes of rhythm, subtleties, details
ending and dancing
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Performance Lecture, 30min
2025
I activate my choreographic archive – a collection
of notes, quotes, songs, film excerpts, memories, dried lemons, an apple, a metronome,
my cello, a microwave and popcorn.
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Durational Performance
2025
… so we returned to resting and dedicated this dance to letting go. We held each other’s heads, lifted, carried, shifted them, and rested them on our bodies. Listening to the time it needs to sink in, to let go of surface tension, of deep tension. Holding each other and letting go.
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Dance, 30min
2025
What if each movement is a place where I go to listen?
What if the theatre space is a place where I go to listen?
What if when I listen, the I goes?
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Durational Performance
2023
Attuning to the temporality of the tides. Dancing over the course of 6-7 hours. Flowing with a river.
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Installation
2022
Traces of a mutual dance between a block of clay and my body unfolding over the course of several months.
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My work lives in the following words:
subtle
details
sensitive textures
time passing
timing
temporality
dwelling
surrendering
nuances
timbre
reverberation
shift of focus
leaning close
everyday
falling into place
now
intensities
rhythms
The two columns WORKS and AROUND can be scrolled up and down. Thereby, new connections between the contents of the columns emerge. This corresponds to the relation I see between the category WORKS and AROUND.: They speak into each other.
Whereas WORKS contains all projects that got presented to an audience in a classical way, AROUND holds what happens outside of that realm, around the works.
WORKS contains that what got labelled as work through instutitions.
AROUND contains what I believe is part of my work too.
The Danish National School of Performing Arts
2024-2026
Dance Education “Dance Intensive”
Tanzfabrik Berlin
2022-2023
BA Integrated Design
University of the Arts Bremen
2018-2022
Violoncello classes
2007-2017
2020 - 2026
ATLAS scholarship
Residency and mentoring programme during
Impultanz Vienna
2025
SUMMERSCHOOLS
2026
Scenes of Transformation and Resistance
Summerschool of the Artistic PHD Program of the University of the Arts Bremen,
Palazzo Michiel, Venice
2024
Lesarten und Schreibweisen
Residency at Thealit, Bremen
2024
Residency at Zentrum für Kunst (Tabakquartier), Bremen
2024
Un-learning Dance
Summerschool/ Festival in Ponderosa, Stolzenhagen
2021
Beyond Repair
Summerschool of the University of the Arts Bremen in the frame of the 58. Art Biennale in Venedig
2019
Teaching at the Nordic Drawing School, Lund together with Mona Schieren, Andreas Berg and Juana Bustamante
08/2026
Research associate and tutor of/ for
Mona Schieren, Professor for Transcultural
Art Histories,
2020-2022
Conference on blind and deaf dramaturgy and anti-racism in audio description in dance and performance hosted by Community of Reception and Tanzhaus NRW
2025
2-day seminar “Perspectives on: Sustainability and Equity in the Arts/ Navigating Times of Crisis“ hosted by HAUT and UrbanApa
2025
July-August 2025
Many different workshops during ImpulsTanz Vienna. Especially the workshop of Matteo Fargion stands out for me. Matteo was also my mentor in the work “A possibility to land“
September 6, 2024
“Seeking unicorns“ | Chiara Bersani | Dansehallerne, Copenhagen
September 5, 2024
“Very concrete imagination“ | Manon Santkin | Dansehallerne, Copenhagen
July 23-28, 2023
“Embodying Time and Music“ | Maya M. Carroll | Tanzfabrik, Berlin
May 2022
Butoh: “The Unfamiliar Body“ | Natsuko Kono | Dock 11, Berlin
April 29 - May 1st, 2022
“Garden as Studio“ | Shelly Etkin | Ponderosa, Stolzenhagen
March 21-23, 2022
Butoh: “Materiality“ | Natsuko Kono | Dock 11, Berlin
January 7-9, 2022
“Sense Appeal“ | Melanie Maar | Tanzfabrik, Berlin
March 1-3, 2021
“Working with Scores“ | Antonia Baehr | online
October 29 - November 19, 2021
“Flying beyond four walls“| Eva Karzcag | (online)
“Das fehlende Segment“ together with
Cedric Müller and Chiara Rika Kwade
2022
‘https://bastard.blog/graduation-show-from-mfa-in-choreography-den-danske-scenekunstskole/
2026
Anderswo
https://www.kultur-mv.de/kunst-kultur/darstellende-kunst/tanztheater-baltic-perspectives.html
2026
In 2020, I co-founded the collective “Tremenda Corporea“. The collective grew over the last years with currently six members from El Salvador, Colombia, Chile, Germany and Austria. We are all differently involved in the different projects of the collective. We are a resource for each other, sometimes we bring our different professions and work together on a projects, at other times, we are accompanying each other in more subtle, slightly invisible ways. Friendship plays a big role.
I was a part of the following works of the collective:
Bodies of Resonance (Concept, Creation), 2021, Schwankhalle, Bremen
https://schwankhalle.de/en/events/tremenda-corporea-bodies-of-resonance
Paradoxical Myth of the Crazed Jaguar and Nene del Solar (choreographic support), 2022, Schwankhalle, Bremen
https://artigavictor.com/paradoxical-myth
Thoughts on Fluid Assemblages (Co-choreography, co-dramaturgy, performance), 2023-24,
Radialsystem, Berlin
https://forecast-platform.com/forecast-festival-8-victor-artiga-rodriguez/
Scoring: How scores have nothing to do with goals (Performance), 2024, Dauerwelle/ GAK, Bremen
https://www.hfk-bremen.de/en/events/documenting-in-artistic-research/11698
Lithium Lovestories (choreographic support), 2025, Schwankhalle, Bremen
https://schwankhalle.de/de/veranstaltungen/lithium-love-stories
With Emilia Sting and Julia Höft I am in an ongoing project on embodied writing.
We started in 2022 with the text and reading performance “Begrenzt Genzenlos“, which we presented in the frame of our BA graduation from the University of the Arts Bremen at Weserburg. In 2024, we had residency at Thealit (more infos -> here) where we were silently writing together for two weeks.
A bit later, we were part of the project Create Space! by Literaturhaus Bremen and continued our collective writings at a Litfasssäule in the city space of Bremen.
We are exploring how words can flow into each others bodies, pour over. We ask how bodily sensations transform into words and we explore how we can become one collective “Schriftkörper“,
a body of text.
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