Artist Talk

Marc Philipp Gabriel is a Berlin-based performance artist working between body, voice, installation, video, and architecture from the perspective of dance and movement. His work offers unconventional angles on social norms, contributing to the discourse of future models of how to be together on and with planet Earth.

His artistic collaborators include Gretchen Blegen, Helena Botto, Liselotte Singer, Burkhard Körner and Tino Sehgal. His solo “AJIMA” for Maija Karhunen has traveled to Cyprus, Norway, the UK, Switzerland, Finland, and Germany. In 2017 his collaboration “DOWN TO EARTH” with Kieron Jina was featured at Theatertreffen (Berlin) and National Arts Festival (South Africa). Marc received the danceWEB scholarship 2013 (Vienna), completed the BA Dance, Context and Choreography at HZT Berlin, and is co-founder of Breakfast Club Collective. In collaboration with BlingBlingRecycling collective Marc has instigated the weekly performance practice Monday FEAST at various performance venues in Berlin. In 2019 he has been working with the Portuguese dance company Dançando com a Diferença as a fellow of the Pina Bausch Foundation.

In 1999 I started training at the Circus School La Arena, in contemporary dance, and in theater with different teachers in Argentina and Spain. From the year 2000 until today I work for different companies of theater, circus, and dance in Argentina and Europe.

I’ve started to make my own creations from the year 2006. Since 2007 I have lived in Madrid, Spain. So far my projects have been presented in countries such as Germany, Turkey, Argentina, Brazil, the Netherlands, USA, Greece, Denmark, Chile, Spain, and Italy. I’ve been supported by Robert Wilson, Compañía Nacional de Danza (Spain) and Centro Danza Canal (Spain).

The objective of my art is to achieve a scenic work that, through dance, acrobatics, and theater, transmits emotions and connects with the viewer, enhancing all the senses on stage. Each project seeks a language of its own movement and particular stage poetry.

I work as a director and teacher, teaching acrobatics, contemporary dance classes, and creation workshops. Developing my own methodologies, Lucid Motion and Sensitive Memory, I stay in constant dialogue with my creations, sharing with different companies, schools of circus, theatre, and dance conservatories in Spain, Germany, Brazil, Greece, Switzerland, Italy, Belgium, and Argentina.

Originally from Poland, Rita undertook her studies in audiovisual arts between the cities of Granada and Madrid. With an undergraduate in Audiovisual Communication from the University of Granada and a Master’s Degree in Documentary Films, she started off her professional career as an editor. Her experience as a dancer combined with her technical preparation as a filmmaker made her explore the field of dance films from a perspective of a video director.

While searching for new artistic forms and experiences I have been involved with many alternative projects. I constantly search with experiments and crossovers to find the proper medium to transmit the timbre of my human filter. This is a never-ending process. Either the message transforms, or the medium evolves into something more direct that can be transmitted. My main artistic platform is music, while on the side I take pictures, shoot videos, and dance. I love to make music for dance, improvise on stage, and program for video, dance, and performances. At the core of my art is almost always a juxtaposition between the abstract and the real, while searching for my personal equilibrium.