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Mareike

Steffens

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ABOUT

I am a freelance dancer, movement artist, performer and teacher.

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My understanding of dance and movement was shaped, enriched and deepened by conventional techniques as well as by somatic and sensory work.

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In 2010 I completed my training as a contemporary stage dancer at SOZO visions in motion in Kassel and since then I have been working freelance.

Years of intensive practice, years of research and understanding, translation and artistic implementation passed. In the past twelf years I have worked with various companies and choreographers, such as: Iris van Peppen, Michael Langeneckert, Laurent Chetouane, Maya M. Carroll, Johannes Wieland, AktionTheaterKassel, MUTE Comp. Copenhagen, Valentina Cabro, Pavlos Kountouriotis u. a.

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I am inspired by cross-pollination through interdisciplinary collaborations - how multifaceted different genres can feed and enrich each other.

I appreciate improvisation in collaboration with musicians and have produced a wide variety of performance works in collaboration with poets, actors, filmmakers and visual artists.

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Over the past few years, over 25 works have been created, from solo to extended group pieces, in which I have been involved, both in creation and as a dancer and performer. These have been performed occasionally in Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Marocco.

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I was also involved in the founding of various collectives, these are: the Belka & Strelka collective, tanzwerk Kassel e.V. and Kompanie OFFSPACE.

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By sharing my work, I want to make it accessible to others that I have a deep dedication to make the power and poetry of dance and its physicality visible and tangible.

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Photo: Stephan Rech

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