Dr. Petra Sabisch

Künstlerische Arbeitsweisen und Kritik in der zeitgenössischen Tanz- und
Performance-Kunst an der Schnittstelle von Produktion und Ästhetik (Arbeitstitel)

Dr. Petra Sabisch is a choreographer and philosopher (professional focus: choreography and dance sciences, aesthetic theory, methodology, practical philosophy).

Among her most important works are: method, unplugged#17 (In-Presentable Festival, Madrid, 2012), method, unplugged#1 (Living Room Festival, Berlin, 2010) das <conversation piece: work release> (Tanzfabrik Berlin, 2008), the lecture-performance Contaminated (Atelier Frankfurt, 2005), the site-spefific audio-choreography Cartographics (Danças Na Cidade, Lisbon, 2002), the choreographic research project Laboratoire du désoeuvrement (Paris, 2001), and artistic collaborations in Paris and Berlin with Antonia Baehr, Jérôme Bel, Alice Chauchat, Valentina Desideri, Laurent Goldring, Mette Ingvartsen, Krõõt Juurak, Eduard Mont de Palol, and several others.
Sabisch teaches at renowned art schools and art institutions throughout Europe (such as the Dans- och cirkushögskolan in Stockholm, Hochschule für Musik und Tanz in Cologne, the Inter-University Centre for Dance Berlin, and the Département Danse de Université de Paris 8).
From January to September of 2012, in the framework of a visiting professorship for dance sciences (W3), Sabisch headed the Master's degree course Choreography and Performance at the Institute of Applied Theater Sciences of the University of Gießen. In addition, in September of 2012, she was invited by the International Dance Program of the Swedish Arts Grants Committee (Konstärsnämnden) to initiate in Stockholm its first international Practice Symposium, which she conducted together with Stina Nyberg, Zoë Poluch, and Uri Turkenich.
Her publications include numerous international contributions in anthologies and specialized journals for the performing arts. In 2011, Sabisch received the NRW Dance Studies Prize, awarded every five years, from the Cologne Dance Archives, the Ministry of Innovation, Science & Research of the Land of North Rhine-Westphalia, and the SK Culture Foundation for her dissertation Choreographing Relations: Practical Philosophy and Contemporary Choreoraphy in the works of Antonia Baehr, Gilles Deleuze, Juan Dominguez, Félix Guattari, Xavier Le Roy & Eszter Salamon (epodium, Munich, 2011). With this work in 2010, Sabisch was awarded her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in London, and funding from the Dance Plan Germany, an initiative of the Federal Culture Foundation.