My pieces arise from a queer-feminist position and together with the people I work with. The aesthetics are inspired by pop culture, science fiction, activism, movies, the horror genre and the visual arts. They convince the audience with strong images, dance virtuosity, content and choreographic conciseness and atmospheric density.
My practice: WILDING means outsider, wild animal or denotes what marauding gangs do. I am describing my practice of unlearning: WILDING queer-feminist, moving thinking, practices that reopen the future. WILDING creates space for something that is coming, not yet there, strange, new connections, celebrating ambivalences, destroying labels and meanings, claiming a hetero-topic space in which different bodies can move in order to unlearn and to learn from one another, getting rid of violent aftermath without forgetting our history. WILDING constantly questions the term choreography, turning away from mainstream and normality in order to turn to the diverse sources of animalistic beings and interspecies collaborations.
ARTISTIC EDUCATION
Master of Choreography / ArtEZ Institute of
the Arts Arnhem
2012-14
Dance / Ballettinstitut Rheinland-Pfalz /
Ludwigshafen
1999-2002
Philosophy & Political Science / University of
Mannheim
1998-2002
YOP Year of Performance / Community
Performance Teacher
2003-04
OTHER IMPORTANT EXPERIENCES
I'm mother of 3 kids, long time single-mother and queer-feminist activist, I worked with
old people, did care work in this field, worked for safe spaces for young women, worked
as a shop assistant. I left my original family who were musicians at the age of 15 and I
lived with my Iranian family for some years and learned and received a lot – thank you so
much!
PRIZES
Conception Funding Fonds Dakü 2021-23
Diehl&Ritter Neustart Kultur Reconnect
Funding
2021
BKS Scholarship Reload 2020
Promising Talent 2019 / Tanz Magazin 2019
3-Years Grant from the City Stadt of
Hamburg
2019-21
Mentoring Price 2018 / Hauptsache Frei
Festival
2018
K3 Choreographic Center Hamburg /
Choreographer 8 month Residency
2011/212
Dance WEB Scholarship / Impuls Tanz
Festival / Vienna
Scholarship Goethe Institute
2011
Surviving Dance / Residency / Angela
Guerreiro / Hamburg
2011
SELECTION of PRODUCTIONS
COSMICBODIES / Kampnagel Hamburg /
Ballhaus Ost Berlin
2022
3
fux – for young audiences with and without
visual impairments / Kampnagel hamburg /
Tanzfaktur Cologne / Dschungel Wien
2021
REVENANTS / Kampnagel Hamburg /
Tanzfaktur Cologne / Ballhaus Ost Berlin /
HochX Munich / Tanzfestival NRW Tanzhaus
NRW, Feuerwache Cologne, Ballsaal Bonn
2020/21
WITCHES / Kampnagel Hamburg /
Tanzfaktur Cologne / Ballhaus Ost Berlin /
HochX Munich / Favoriten Festival
Dortmund / Zeylonka Festival Ukraine /
Forma Festival Moscow
2019/2020/21
BLUE MOON / Kampnagel Hamburg /
Tanzfaktur Cologne / Hauptsache Frei
Festival / Ballhaus Ost Berlin
2018/19
BARE BODIES / bodies & states of
exception / Kampnagel Hamburg
2017
RESISTING BODIES / body – dance –
activism / Kunstverein Harburg Bhf
2016
excellent birds / Kunstverein Harburg Bhf /
Perform Now! Winterthur Switzerland
2015
your outside is in and your inside is out /
Hamburger Sprechwerk
we’ve got to get in to get out / video-
choreo-sophy / ArtEZ Arnhem /
Performance Philosophy Conference
Groningen Netherlands / Tanz in Hamburg /
Tanztausch Cologne
2014
SELECTION of COLLABORATIONS
Spoken Dance / research on Audio
description as an artistic tool together with
Rykena&Juengst
2021
Audio Description & Performance & Co-
Choreography in Rose La Rose by
Rykena&Juengst / Kampnagel Hamburg
2021
Erschöpfung & Wahrheit / Marc Carrera /
Kraftwerk Bille Hamburg
2019
Don’t Come On! Solo: Katharina Roll / FFT
Düsseldorf, Theater im Ballsaal Bonn,
Studiobühne Cologne
2018
4
Treffen Total on Tourism / Elbkulturfonds /
K3
2010/2013/2016/2018
Massive Dreams / Antje Velsinger 2017/18
Think / Fernanda Oritz/Projektraum
Hamburg
2016
Temptress / Angela Kecinski / Limited
Edition K3
2015
SELECTION of other ACTIVITIES
Audio Description for Erna Omarsdottir's
Romeo & Juliet / Kampnagel and for She
Legend by Rykena&Juengst
2019/20
Mentor for Bottom Up School / Kampnagel
& K3
From 2021 on
Choreography and Dance Classes for CDSH
(Contemporary Dance School Hamburg)
2010-20
Mentoring for LIMITED EDITION at K3
Choreographic Center
2019/21
Lecturer at University of Hamburg,
University of Cologne and Hochschule
Fresenius
Performing Arts Productions
