Susanne Grau, currently based in Berlin, works as a dancer, performer and choreographer. She studied Contemporary Dance at the University for Music and Dance in Cologne and the MA program Performing arts practice and visual culture in Madrid. 2013 she was an intern at Movement Research New York. Since 2012 she was a member of the Cologne based MichaelDouglas Kollektiv. In 2015 she was recipient of the danceWEB scholarship at ImpulsTanz Festival Vienna. As a performer she worked with artists like Alexandra Pirici, Fabrice Mazliah, Mårten Spångberg, Davis Freeman, Özlem Alkis, Choy Ka Fai, Maayan Danoch, May Zarhy, Juana del Mar Jimenez Infante, Reut Shemesh. Across projects she explores relationships of language and physicality, imagination and somatic experience and the affective effect of rhythm. She likes to see performative practice as a facilitation of encounters, as a kind of seance and psychomagical field of experimentation. This year she received residencies in Lipken in Brandenburg and at ada studio Berlin for deepening her own improvisation practice. Since 2020 she is training in Rolfing-structural integration.
