Silke Z. resistdance
Since 1999, Silke Z. has developed over 40 dance productions in Germany and abroad, in cooperation with international, national and regional institutions and artists. She presents her work worldwide (e.g. South Africa, USA, Canada, Estonia, Lithuania, Portugal, Finland, France, Poland, Spain). She has received the Cologne Dance and Theatre Prize several times, won the Cologne Children's and Young People's Theatre Prize (2015) and twice won the "Förderpreis freier Theater" as part of the festival "Theaterzwang" (now Favoriten). She was nominated for the Isadora Duncan Prize in California and for the FAUST Theatre Prize in 2008. She develops and curates festival formats (including TanzKonkret, Echt.Jetzt, Wie Leben geht, Tanz.Fest.Spiele). Her intergenerational ensemble die metabolisten developed intergenerational productions as part of the concept Der empathische Körper (The empathic body), which were first presented digitally, then at Junges Schauspielhaus Bochum. A multi-year cooperation (2020-2022) with Junges Schauspielhaus Bochum includes premieres, outreach formats and laboratory. A multi-year cooperation with the organisation FOKUS TANZ Munich includes residencies, outreach formats and guest performances (2020-2022). In addition to the productions, Silke Z. and her ensemble develop artistic dance research and laboratory work with people over 60 under the title the distant body with performance output in Cologne, Bochum and Ludwigsburg. She also curates the multi-year performance series DIVERSITY (2022-2023) with international guest performances and short productions by her own ensemble. Internationally networking, Silke Z. founded the European dance network STUDIOTRADE.
SILKE Z.
c/o ehrenfeldstudios
Wissmannstrasse 38
50823 Köln
Tel: +49-221-2226663
Mail: organisation@resistdance.de
Website: www.resistdance.de