“I feel inspired by topics emerging from and developing within our society, leaving traces and questions in everyday life.“ Silke Z. wants to know what happens between people, she explores relationships and stages encounters, even between the audience and the actors, for adults and adolescents alike. She shines a light on the role of the body in public and private life in her productions, which often leave the conventional stage setting, experimenting with new spatial alignments or daring to venture into places that are alien to theatre.Together with her company Silke Z./resistdance., she scrutinizes current phenomena which bear no general solutions, in search of neuralgic points.

 

Silke Z. studied at the German Sport University Cologne with a focus on Dance and Skiing and graduated at the European Dance Development Center (EDCC) in Arnheim/ Düsseldorf in 1997. Post-graduate, she was a visiting student at the Moving On Center – School for Participatory Arts and Research in San Francisco. Silke Z. is a co-founder of Studio 11 and of die.idee//artist.network –an interregional dance cooperation network. Her productions earned her multiple awards such as the Cologne Dance Award and the Sponsorship Award of Freie Theater NRW Theaterzwang. In 2008, she was a nominee for the German Theatre Award Der Faust. Between 2004 and 2008, she also acted as the artistic project director for the series Tanzkonkret in Cologne.

 

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