I am an artist-researcher based in Berlin, working with and through the body. My work focuses on intermateriality in site-specific movement and choreographic practices. I collaborate with materials and organisms of many different orders as active agents in the making of movement, performance and choreography, and as partners in the creation of daily life and sense-making.

I am committed to relating to sites through practices of long-term physical exposure and deep listening and believe in the fundamental role of creative sensory-based practices for our future survival on this planet: What choreographic practices do we need to envision a collaborative future on earth?

I currently work on several independent projects, including research on contemporary pioneers of outdoor dance practices and a project of long-term body-based research on a cemetery in Berlin-Baumschulenweg.

My artistic practice is rooted in Amerta Movement (Suprapto Suryodarmo, 1945 – 2019, Java) and I work through movement research labs in rural and urban outdoor locations that include writing, mark-making, clay, photography and video. Site-specific performance, awareness based improvisation, somatic practices and a postgraduate degree in Political Sciences (FU Berlin, 2005) all influence my work.

I have completed an artistic PhD in Dance at Coventry University (UK) in 2015, Dancing Materiality (available for download here), followed by a three-year post-doc position at the Centre for Artistic Research (CfAR) at Uniarts Helsinki (FI) (2016 – 2019). I have also completed three years of Helen Poynor’s Walk of Life Training Programme in Non-stylised and Environmental Movement (Foundation 2010-2011, Continuation 2015-2016, Mentorship 2022-2023).