Working at the intersection of production and curation, with eclectic, boundary-pushing artists and the institutions that support them.
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I support artists and arts organisations to develop their visions within space, time, and budget, across live performance, live music, the club scene, and contemporary art.
Based in Berlin for over a decade, I have built a practice spanning both institutional and independent contexts, producing large-scale live events, developing dance programmes, and serving on national jury panels for choreography. My work moves fluidly between production and curation, bringing the same rigour to a 50-person event as to a 10,000+ person festival. Over the years I have built a reliable network of collaborators across every discipline an event requires, from sound and lighting to stagehands, front of house, door, security, and awareness teams.
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A contemporary dance trio by Jack Bannerman exploring how we experience events and information in the age of social media, shortened attention spans and constant stimulation. A residency and WIP showing, email to join.
Tanzhaus Basel, Magazin 1
Selected Productions
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CLEF LUTE TANGO LOUD PHOTON
A sonic and visual exploration of Halle am Berghain by Amnesia Scanner, Debit, and Jenna Sutela
LAS Art Foundation, Halle am Berghain, Berlin
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Cicciolina's Dream
Opening celebration of Maja Malou Lÿse's work at the Danish Pavilion, 61st Venice Biennale, with Ilona Staller, Courtesy, Mina Galán, and felicita. Commissioned by the Danish Arts Foundation.
TRAUMA, Venice, Italy
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Liminals
A large-scale immersive commission by Pierre Huyghe delving into quantum uncertainty through film, sound, and vibration
LAS Art Foundation, Halle am Berghain, Berlin
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Abimal. Painting as a Language of Gratitude
An immersive exhibition and performance work by Hamza Shah transforming St. Elisabeth Kirche into a space of inner reflection
St. Elisabeth Kirche, Berlin
Selected Curatorial Projects
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Ripe
An afternoon of wine tasting paired with live performance
Studio Liquid, Berlin
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From the Throat to the Dawn
Sorour Darabi with Petra Hermanova, Bella Báguena, Djibril Sall, Detente, Li-Yun Hu, Pablo Altar, and Sebastian Abarbanell. An endurance piece for eight performers combining live music, dance and experimental opera, staged within a sculptural environment of slowly melting ice.
TRAUMA Arts and Culture, Berlin
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Mist
Choreography by Damien Jalet for NDT, filmed by Rahi Rezvani. Prelude live poetry by Dove. A multidisciplinary dance film exploring a liminal space between reality and mirage through eighteen dancers of NDT 1 interacting with sculptural fog.
TRAUMA Arts and Culture, Berlin
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Deepspace
James Batchelor with Chloe Chignell & GiGi FM. A two-part evening opening with a deep listening sonic experience by GiGi FM, followed by a choreographic duet by James Batchelor. An immersive journey through space, science, and the unknown.
TRAUMA Arts and Culture, Berlin
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Open to production mandates, curatorial collaborations, and consulting for arts organisations across Europe.
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Production
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CLEF LUTE TANGO LOUD PHOTON
A sonic and visual exploration of Halle am Berghain by Amnesia Scanner, Debit, and Jenna Sutela
LAS Art Foundation, Halle am Berghain, Berlin
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Cicciolina's Dream
Opening celebration of Maja Malou Lÿse's work at the Danish Pavilion, 61st Venice Biennale, with Ilona Staller, Courtesy, Mina Galán, and felicita. Commissioned by the Danish Arts Foundation.
TRAUMA, Venice, Italy
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WHOLE Festival — Editions 7 & 8
The largest queer electronic music festival in the world, 10,000+ guests across six stages at Ferropolis
Ferropolis, Gräfenhainichen
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Liminals
A large-scale immersive commission by Pierre Huyghe delving into quantum uncertainty through film, sound, and vibration
LAS Art Foundation, Halle am Berghain, Berlin
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Abimal. Painting as a Language of Gratitude
An immersive exhibition and performance work by Hamza Shah transforming St. Elisabeth Kirche into a space of inner reflection
St. Elisabeth Kirche, Berlin
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Lollapalooza Berlin
Berlin, Germany
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Pictoplasma Festival
Berlin, Germany
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Superbloom
Munich, Germany
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Melt Festival
Ferropolis, Germany
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Fairground Festival
Hannover, Germany
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DANCÆ
Berlin, Germany
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Centre National de la Danse
Pantin, France
Curatorial Projects
My curatorial practice moves across contemporary dance, ballet, urban and performative forms, with a consistent investment in work that is immersive, choreographed, and set to live music.
A recurring interest runs through the work: the deconstruction of the traditional theatre experience. Frontal staging, fixed duration, the clear separation between performance and audience, these are the conventions I find myself drawn to question, in favour of formats where the time, space and frame of the performance itself become part of the work.
My experience spans artist residencies, fully realised performances, and large-scale live events. For several years I shaped the dance programme at TRAUMA Arts and Culture in Berlin, consistently oriented toward experimentation and early-stage artists, providing infrastructure and curatorial support for work that often had nowhere else to develop. More recently, I have been developing Ripe, an independent series pairing wine with live performance, placing the body and the senses in direct conversation.
The work gathered here is made exclusively with artists who operate at the edges of their disciplines. Queer perspectives and marginalised voices are constitutive of this practice, present in the work itself rather than proposed as framework. The subtlety of that presence is, I hope, something you will find for yourself.
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Ripe
An afternoon of wine tasting paired with live performance
Studio Liquid, Berlin
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From the Throat to the Dawn
Sorour Darabi with Petra Hermanova, Bella Báguena, Djibril Sall, Detente, Li-Yun Hu, Pablo Altar, and Sebastian Abarbanell. An endurance piece for eight performers combining live music, dance and experimental opera, staged within a sculptural environment of slowly melting ice.
TRAUMA Arts and Culture, Berlin
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Mist
Choreography by Damien Jalet for NDT, filmed by Rahi Rezvani. Prelude live poetry by Dove. A multidisciplinary dance film exploring a liminal space between reality and mirage through eighteen dancers of NDT 1 interacting with sculptural fog.
TRAUMA Arts and Culture, Berlin
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Deepspace
James Batchelor with Chloe Chignell & GiGi FM. A two-part evening opening with a deep listening sonic experience by GiGi FM, followed by a choreographic duet by James Batchelor. An immersive journey through space, science, and the unknown.
TRAUMA Arts and Culture, Berlin
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4:4:1
Charlotte Rousseau, Flora Pilet, Sebastian Abarbanell, Steven Fast. A four-week experimental residency bringing together four choreographers around the theme of impossible repetitions, culminating in two evenings of public presentations in France and Germany. In partnership with CDCN Chorège, supported by DRAC Normandie and Neustart Kultur, Initiative Musik. With the help of La Coopérative Chorégraphique de Caen, Le Sépulcre.
TRAUMA Arts and Culture, Berlin, and CDCN Chorège, Falaise
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Lounge
Marga Alfeirão with Mariana Benenge, Myriam Lucas, and Shaka Lion. A choreographic exploration of relaxation, comfort, and assertive femininity, influenced by dance cultures of the African diaspora. Restaging of the original duo in an expanded cast, with a new lighting design created for TRAUMA. Originally produced with Sophiensaele, funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe.
TRAUMA Arts and Culture, Berlin
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Main Body — Opening
Choreography by Johnny McMillan, performed by Sally von Rosen. A commissioned contemporary interpretation of L'Après-midi d'un faune as a 15-minute solo.
TRAUMA Arts and Culture, Berlin
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Jury Member, Dance Commission
DRAC Normandie and Hauts-de-France, Ministère de la Culture, France
Workshops
A series of long-format workshops designed for professional movers and dedicated amateurs, co-conceptualised with the instructors and hosted at TRAUMA's dance studio. Each workshop approached a single theme from multiple perspectives, bridging theory and practice within an intimate group setting.
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Body of the Heart: Tools for Openness
Michelle Moura & Elisabete Finger
A workshop exploring the psychophysical dimensions that move us, drawing on tools from Kundalini Yoga and contemporary dance practice.
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Holding Each Other: Moving and Writing Through Vulnerability
Sorour Darabi, Saura & oxi pëng
A five-hour journey through collective vulnerability, weaving movement, writing, and shared sensory experience into bubbly manifestos and bodily archives.
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Caretaking: Tools for Sustaining in the Berlin Dance Scene
Cree Barnett Williams & Shannon Leypoldt
A workshop and discussion for freelance dancers in Berlin, exchanging resources, care strategies, and tools for sustaining long-term dance careers.
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Death in Spring
Saura
A yoga session touching on death and life as a full cycle, exploring each pose as if for the first and last time.
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Vibrations
Saura
An active meditation journey exploring physical and introspective vibrations, set within TRAUMA's club floor transformed into a yoga space.
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Holiday Grounding Session
Saura
An extended yoga class drawing from the Ashtanga Primary series, releasing the energies of the year through breathwork, flexibility, and shared tea.
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Open to production mandates, curatorial collaborations, and consulting for arts organisations across Europe.
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Pierre Renard
Berlin, Germany
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