Cecilia Xuetong Feng is a performance artist based in Berlin. With a background in architecture, scenography, theater, and media arts, she creates multidisciplinary performances that explore the mechanism of perception and the apparatus of gaze. Growing up in an oppressive social environment, she finds freedom in the refuge of imagination and builds shelter within artistic practice for herself and others.
Her performances were presented at The Watermill Center (USA), Triennale Milano (Italy), Studio Alta (Czech Republic), Sfumato Theater (Bulgaria), and Tranzit House (Romania), as well as at independent venues in Germany such as Liebig 12, NYT Art Space, Taborkirche, Flusser Archiv, Lake Studios, Ernst- Reuter-Platz, and Käferklause. Her video was screened at the Locarno and Pesaro film festivals. She has performed for artists including Isabel Lewis, Eva Koťátková, Simone Forti, and Robert Wilson in Venice and New York.
As a scenographer, her works were realized at Uferstudios, Stadttheater Spandau, Potsdamer Tanztage, Schopf2(Germany), and Ars Electronica (Austria). As co-designer/associate, she has been working with set designer Jan Pappelbaum since 2023 on productions between New York, Boston, London, and Berlin.
alexz (she/her, italy/berlin) is a dancer, performer, set designer and -maker with a multidisciplinary background. Working with movement, habitat creation, light and different mixed media, she is interested in exploring how the interweaving of existing matters can bring out new further spaces of possibility. Researching different resistance's devices to the present time, alexz likes to design experiences able to change and morph the imaginary of a place/body and the way of inhabiting it.
Through a feminist, ecological and situated approach, her work explores investigative methodologies for a political and poetic rewriting of affections/relationships/landscape. She stands, plays and questions the in between and togetherness states for a space-time of embodied and radical imagination.
Her works have been exhibited in various formats at Tanzfabrik (DE), Uferstudios (DE), Lake Studios (DE), Institut für Architektur (DE), Tatwerk (DE), Culterim (DE), NYT (DE), BIRCA (DK), Santarcangelo Festival (IT), Istituto Svizzero (IT), Casa Flesh Art (IT), Teatro India (IT), The Peggy Guggenheim Collection (IT), Palazzo Grassi (IT), Teatro Coppola (IT), RGB Light Experience Festival (IT), Venere in Teatro (IT),
She has collaborated in various configurations with Amanda Piña, Milla Koistinen, Lisanne Goodhue, Grazyna Roguski, Rahel Kraft, Cristina Crystal Rizzo, William Kentridge and Julian Hetzel.
Chelsea Reichert is a dancer and performer based in Berlin. She received her BFA in dance from Marymount Manhattan College, and also studied at the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance. Chelsea is motivated by the potential that dance has to create an embodied connection to ourselves, each other, and the world around us, and she values the way that creativity and playfulness can help us to imagine new possibilities for what our lives can be. She’s had the pleasure to collaborate/perform in works by Diana Naber, Zina Vaessen, Bob Kil & Nina Beier, Tangaj Collective/Simona Deaconescu, tinypistol/Maurya Kerr, Sharp & Fine, Larry Arrington, Courtney Mazeika, Nicole von Arx, and Emily Hansel (among others).
Luca Schüssler (they/them) is a dance maker, performer and musician based in Berlin. Inspired by everyday observations and peculiarities, Luca’s artistic work is characterized by a rather minimalist, delicate, and humorous matter-of-factness. As a queer person, Luca questions the conditions and norms under which spaces are usually inhabited, how they can be reimagined and made fluid fields for radical experimentation. Somatics are an important part of their practice, providing a foundation for connection with their own body, with other and other-than-human bodies.
Luca has performed in works by i.a. Alex Baczyński-Jenkins, Marlin de Haan, Justin F. Kennedy, Milla Koistinen, Lina Lapelytė, Patricia Carolin Mai and Nicola Mascia.
Marta-Liisa Talvet (*1998) is an Estonian musician and composer based in Berlin. She studied composition at the Universität der Künste Berlin with Kirsten Reese and Elena Mendoza and is currently part of the DAI Art Master’s Program. She has written music for ensembles such as Zafraan and Ensemble L’Itinéraire. Her works have been performed at the Kontakte Festival at the Akademie der Künste, at the World Music Days, and as part of the Unerhörte Musik series. Her current work is centered on live performance, creating electroacoustic soundscapes and opening space for vocal exploration. She performs regularly in Berlin, both as a solo artist and as part of the duo Unsuspecting Carpenters with Uo Ray’m. She has performed at venues such as Laden 2, Arkaoda, Peppi Guggenheim, SoundsAbout Gallery, Neue Zukunft, Petersburg Artspace, Studio 54, and Kühlspot Social Club.
Ama Tomberli is a multimedia artist working between Berlin and Italy. They work with themes of textile history, care work and Ecology, through the medium of traditional textile practices. They explore art practices that influence the fabric of society directly by inviting the viewer to be an active part of their works. They strive for an art that repairs, that longs for connection, art that finds a way to make it possible, a different kind of activism.
Coming from a background in costume and stage design. In 2015, Ama moved to Germany and, after working in fashion, became interested in performing arts. At Schaubühne Berlin, gained their first experience in Theater and assisted e.g. Lilja Rupprecht and Anne-Cécile Vandalem. After the costume design for the movie Apollo & Artemisia by Savio de Bernardis, Ama worked as a resident assistant at the Kassel State Theater 2020/2022. Since then, they have worked internationally as a freelance designer, collaborating with Candela Capitàn, Kristel Van Issum, Deva Schubet, Silvia Costa, Lars Ole-Walburg, Christiane Pole, and others.
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