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I am a white freelance dance artist engaging in Hanover, Kassel, and Barcelona.
I am interested in collaborating with different communities and individuals, animals and plants, using dance to move, explore, create, and perform together. Following the principle of "rehearsing the social world we want to be part of “.

In my work, I often deal with individual and collective body experiences, and I like to explore the political dimension of the micro movements influencing us.
I like to work very physically, in different landscapes and surroundings, and become something together, overstepping boundaries and drawing them again.
It's mostly about relationships, interrelationships, and connections.

I like to work in my practice with material in a somatic way and with touch. Writing stories and drawing help me approach the material on different levels.

I feel connected to queerfeminist, ecosomatic, and anarchist perspectives and movements and let them influence my approaches and research.

I am curious about unlearning things we know and listening to things we don't know, both on an intellectual and physical level. We might once have known the abandoned places within us where the ghosts are living.

I am holding a BA in special education and art (Leibniz Universität Hannover) and a state-approved professional degree as a contemporary stage dancer (Sozo vim in Kassel) and I am a pilates trainer.

I received for half a year the Distanzen Solo scholarship, where I had the chance to explore the topic: Dance and Activism: Interfaces between dance, emancipatory movements, and community.
Special thanks to Ahlam Dirani, Janina Rohlik, Franziska Ullrich, femtak Basel, queerpunkt Hannover, which inspired, created, and were involved in the process of research.

I am part of the performance collective RAWsberries in Barcelona, which is working on the topic of touch, embedded in one's social position.

Also I am part of the Tanz ohne Boden Kollektive in Hannover, creating participatory performance projects for queers and friends.

My last collective work includes “They stayed restless”, “Niemals genug Hände, um uns zu entknoten”, “Becoming Ida – a different type of caring” and ""ausgelassen unbehaglich".

Besides that, I am teaching contemporary dance technics, and I am giving workshops like "radical softness", “improvising in a complex body”, "bodyanarchy movement research" (with Franziska Ullrich together), and a "care lab" (with Janina Rohlik together), and I have cooperated with dance studios in Kassel, Hannover (Germany), Barcelona (Catalonia), and Beirut (Lebanon).

Vita

Studies/education

09/2020-07/2022 SOZO visions in motion: vocational school for contemporary stage dance Qualification: State certified stage dancer. Kassel, Germany

09/2019-07/2020 Dance education in Area Espai de Dansa i Creació. Barcelona, Spain

10/2018 Bachelor's degree in special education/art. Leibniz University Hannover, Germany

Internships, Certificates

10/2014-02/2015 Internship for the additional course "Performance Studies" in Bremen, Germany - Topic: Art meets science - a theatrical approach

2022 embodied activism at the Embody Lab (https://learn.theembodylab.com) with Nkem Ndefo, Rae Johnson, Farzana Khan.

Performances:

05/2015-10/2017 Performances - Site specific in public spaces on the topic – female friendship in patriarchal environment (collective work)

12/2019 Miquel Barcelona – silent trees (Barcelona)

12/2019 Anne Mourin – no titel (Barcelona)

02/2020 Quim Vilagran Casanovas – no title (Barcelona)

02/2020 Ona Mestre- no title (Barcelona)

05/2021 Janina Rohlik- “... they run through our bodies and form the landscapes we move within...”(Kassel)

07/2021 Regina van Berkel – clapping rain (Kassel)

01/2022 They stayed restless - FLINTA anger (Kassel)

04/2022 Paulina Bedkowska – nonsense body (Kassel)

06/2022 Sebastian Blasius – VANITAS (Staatstheater, Kassel)

07/2022 Annamari Keskinen – masticate (Kassel)

11/2022 Franziska Ullrich and Sophie Sengle - Niemals genug Hände, um uns zu entknoten (Barcelona, NunArt, 2022)

02 & 03/2023 Taiat dansa – Judith (Valencia, Spain)

07/2023 Franziska Ullrich and Sophie Sengle - Niemals genug Hände, um uns zu entknoten (Tranas at the Fringe Festival, Sweden)

06/2023 Janina Rohlik and Sophie Sengle - Becoming Ida - a different type of caring (Hannover, Eisfabrik)

07/2023 Leuphana concert Lab - overload (Lünebürg)

08/2023 Franziska Ullrich and Sophie Sengle - Niemals genug Hände, um uns zu entknoten (Sommerwerft Frankfurt)

09/2023 Performance of six - a multisensorial participatory performance, culture night at Praksis, Oslo

10/2023 Franziska Ullrich and Sophie Sengle - Niemals genug Hände, um uns zu entknoten (Kassel RAW Tanz and Performance Festival Kassel

12/2023 Franziska Ullrich and Sophie Sengle - Niemals genug Hände, um uns zu entknoten (Dresden Tenza Studio Round)

01/2023 Performance at Leuphana concert Lab - connecting (Lüneburg)

02/2024 Franziska Ullrich and Sophie Sengle - Bodyanarchy Workshop and Niemals genug Hände, um uns zu entknoten Workshop and Participatory performative Walk (Winterwerft Frankfurt)

02/2024 Vanitas Art Collective - Showing - Überflüssig (Sala Melmac, Barcelona)

03/2024 Labormanifest Tanznetz Freiburg. Care about. with our project: becoming Ida - a different type of caring (Freiburg)

04/2024 ausgelassen unbehaglich - Franziska Ullrich and Sophie Sengle (Dock 4, Kassel)

05/2024 Janina Rohlik and Sophie Sengle - Becoming Ida a different type of caring, sesaon 2 (Quartiertheater Hannover)

07/24 Franziska Ullrich and Sophie Sengle - ausgelassen unbehaglich ( Tranas at the Fringe Festival, Sweden)

07/24 Stina Nelson, Franziska Ullrich and Sophie Sengle - the rhythm of the city a site specific performance (Tranas at the Fringe Festival, Sweden)

07/24 Franziska Ullrich and Sophie Sengle - never enough hands to unknot (Spectrum - Villach, Austria)

18/09/24 RAWsberries Kollektiv - berühr Bar (Quartiertheater Hannover, Germany)

26-29/09/24 Vika Kukla and Sophie Sengle. Sitespecific performance - Bewegte Statuen, Einladung kollektiver Geister (Spaziertänze, Friedrichsplatz Kassel, Germany)

18/10/24 Tanz ohne Boden Kollektiv - ich kann nicht tanzen - participatory performance (OSCO, Platzprojekt Hannover, Germany)

Residencies:

11/2021 Research residency with performance to FLINTA anger in Dock4, Kassel, Germany

10-11/2022 Reseach and Performance “Niemals genug Hände, um uns zu entknoten” with Franziska Ullrich at NunArt Guinardo, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

04/2023 Research residency with Janina Rohlik at Werkraum and Paddlehalle, Basel, Switzerland

06/2023 Research residency with Ahlam Dirani at Amalgam, Beirut, Lebanon

09/2023 Residency at Praksis Oslo - R24 Held - Experiments in touch, Oslo, Norway

11/2023 Residency Laroc Espai de Moviment with the collective RAWsberries, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

02/2023 Residency and showing at Sala Melmac with the collective Vaquitas, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Scholarship:

01/2023- 06/2023 scholarship of Dis-Tanzen Solo, Dachverband Tanz, Neustart Kultur.