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antoniasophiesteffens@gmail.com

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education:

2021-present: TCM at Shenzhou Open University

2014-2018: BA Choreography at SNDO Amsterdam, AHK

2012-2014: BA Dance at ZZT Cologne, HfMT Köln

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internships:

2012: PACT Zollverein, Essen, publicity

2011-2012: Platform 3, Saarbrücken under the direction of Seraina Stoffel, LAG Saarland

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Scholarships:

2016: Dance Web Scholarship holder, Impulstanz Vienna

2016-2018: Schuurman Schimmel, Stichting van Outeren Scholarship holder

2017-2018: Stichting Bekker la Bastide Fonds Scholarship holder

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nominations:

2018: Nomination for the Moving Forward Trajectory with "Metamotion for 270degrees"

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works:

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2020: An Attendee, Veem House for Performance, NBprojects

2019-22: Spinner, in collaboration with Sigrid Stigsdatter, coproduced by AFK Amsterdam, Dansmakers, Veem House for Performance, 8Athens, Flam Festival, New Fears Gallery Berlin

2018: 270degrees, Fraslab production at Frascati Theatre

2018: Metamotion for 270degrees, SNDO, Frascati Theatre

2017: Night Flying Project, SNDO, Veem House for Performance

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selected residencies:

March/April 2022: Workspace Brussels

January 2022: The PickUp Club Amsterdam

Jan/February 2021: Bau Studios Amsterdam during Come Together Festival

February 2020: Veem House for Performance, Amsterdam

January 2020: 8Athens, critical Laboratory for Arts and Politics

July 2019: ResiDance, Amsterdam

September 2019: Resident at de Ruimte, Festival Why Not

March/April 2019: New Adventures Residency, Dansmakers Amsterdam

November 2018: Fraslab, Frascati Theatre Amsterdam

September 2018: Choreographic Dialogues, Pact Zollverein Amsterdam

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Quadrupedalism 
‍Quadrupedalism is a form of terrestrial locomotion where a tetrapod animal uses all four limbs to bear weight, walk, and run. (google) 
Human beings practicing Quadrupedalism engage in an initiative to remember their planetary pasts, with a physical condition of moving with the face closer to the ground and the back exposed to the sky and sun. The proximity to the legs, feet, sexual and internal organs and intestines, combined with the amplified sensation of the function of the lungs creates a naif, intimate “self-folding”, that has been compared with the activity of navel-staring. Arguably bypassing a state of self indulgence through imitation of animal reality, the intimacy with themselves is generated precisely, through a process of species estrangement and the resulting amplified experience of the bearing of one’s own body. Quadrupedalism has been interpreted as a process of hopeful re-situating through strategic disorientation. As the human body’s dominant navigation faculties, the eyes, are actively restraint from perspective and overview, human beings, practicing quadrupedalism, usually seek for a physical experience of the re-negotiation of domestic hierarchies. Practitioners have been further expressed feelings of relief and nostalgic dwelling, describing the achieved state within exercising as moments to remember, where the species could have evolved to otherwise. The intrinsic potential of this “otherwise” has become particular desirable for practitioners to sense, in the face of human made crisis and devastation.

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Weaving Passages for the momentous

An Attendee

Orange Rest/Sacrifice

Spinner

Metamotion for 270degrees

Hope, Test

Night Flying Project

Movement

delineations

Unfamiliarities

DATES/ NEWS

2-3/09/2023: "Line,lo0sing line", Research Presentation at Oldenaller, commissioned by Fransien van der Putt, working with the archive of painter Claartje Berger
3-5/07/2023: Research residency at Oldenaller, commissioned by Fransien van der Putt, working with the archive of painter Claartje Berger
23/06/2023: "THE FATE CAST / IN THE SEARCH / OF FOUR PETALS", during " Even in the dark I know I am sleeping with myself" at Perdu Amsterdam, Collaboration with Mercedes Azpilicueta
24/05/2023: "SPRING WOUNDS" as part of the warp, a shared evening at KUNSTKAPEL, AMSTERDAM
14/04/2023: "ORANGE REST/ SACRIFICE", ATELIERS PACT ZOLLVEREIN, ESSEN
30/03/2023: "WEAVING PASSAGES FOR THE MOMENTOUS", Extra Intra Reader #2 :A SLIGHT BREATH, editors HARRIET FOYSTER, ROSIE HAWARD, NELL SCHWAN, editorial board for  intercurricular Programmes, GERRIT RIETVELD ACADEMY, SAN SERIFFE, AMSTERDAM 2023
10/11/2022:  "HOPE,TEST- A STRATEGY OF PERFORMATIVE MEMORIES", PUBLISHER: 4BID GALLERY AMSTERDAM
SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2022: "SPINAL CATASTROPHE" RESEARCH PROJECT, SUPPORTED BY NEUSTART KULTUR, #TAKE HEART, PACT ZOLLVEREIN, BERLIN/AMSTERDAM, RESEARCH
SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2022: DRAMATURGY FOR ELVAN TEKIN, TANZFABRIK BERLIN
08/07/2022: "THE FATE CAST / IN THE SEARCH / OF FOUR PETALS", DURING "CHANGE FEELING" , COLLABORATION WITH MERCEDES AZPILICUETA, VANABBE MUSEUM EINDHOVEN  
02+03/07/2022: "ON J0YFUL MILITANCY", PERFORMING FOR MERCEDES AZPILICUETA, ROZENSTRAAT, AMSTERDAM
19/05/2022: "SPINNER" PREMIER AT FLAM FESTIVAL AMSTERDAM
08/05/2022: "AN ATTENDEE" MANDALA FESTIVAL, WROCLAV
14/03-04/04: RESIDENCY AT WORKSPACE BRUSSELS

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Salomes dress is so transparent that she doesn’t understand anymore where her dress ends and her skin starts. It seems almost she is wearing a double skin protecting the irritated and itchy surface of her thies and belly. Salome has scabies. (...)