Laura Waltz is a Berlin-based performer with a focus on dance, performance and movement research. Educated in dance, acting and puppetry/object theater, she explores the deep meaning of movements and especially interdisciplinarity. She is interested in combining these different possibilities on stage as an extension of the expressive potential, and in the creative process of how these different forms can nourish and influence each other. She experiments with using her own body as an instrument or animating something external, the fusion but also the separation of it, and all the possibilities that lie in between as well as the parallelism between motion capture and animation principles. She questions the various effects resulting as dramaturgical choices.
This performative approach and creative process is core to her work. And so she was guest in the inclusive production "VOM UMTAUSCH AUSGESCHLOSSEN", (R: M. Couturier), at Theater Thikwa (invited to PAF 2021), as well as a dancer at Sophiensaele (Festival White Money by FLINN WORKS, 2021), at the "SpeeDance Project" at Dock11, and recently at Theater Oyoun in the production "Re-Rooting" by and with Nora Amin. She is currently researching with "Own my Body?", funded by Residenzförderung für Absolvent:innen/NeuStartKultur/Fonds Darstellende Künste, as part of #TAKEHEART, supported by Kampnagel and has been selected as a Fellowship of the ITI Academy Germany for 2022/2023.
In terms of content, Laura engages with feminism and inclusion, experimenting with and positioning herself against hypersexualization, objectification of the female body, patriarchal dynamics and their persecution, attributions, foreign appropriation of bodies, discrimination against women and FLINTA*, etc. Currently, based on feminist sociological theses, she is researching about the witch hunt and the current social forms of it.
Photo: David Baltzer