Petra Sabisch/ contact Veranda

is choreographer, performer and philosopher (performing arts/ aesthetic theory & practical philosophy).

From January 2012 Sabisch is Visiting Professor (Dance Studies, W3) for the MA Choreography & Performance at the Justus-Liebig University Giessen.

Her choreographic works encompass method, unplugged (Living Room Festival Berlin 2010), the choreography <conversation piece: work release> (Tanzfabrik Berlin 2008), "Dance"-"Lecture" with Frédéric Gies (2007, Giessen), the lecture-performance Contaminated (2005, Atelier Frankfurt), the site-specific audio-choreography Cartographics (2002, Danças Na Cidade, Lissabon), and the research Laboratoire du désoeuvrement (2001, Paris).

After a several artistic and theoretical collaborations in Paris and Berlin (Antonia Baehr, Jérôme Bel, Alice Chauchat, Frédéric Gies, Mette Ingvartsen et al.), Sabisch received the award of the University of Greenwich (London) in 2004 for her theoretical research on contemporary choreography and the works of Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari.

From 2004 to 2007 Sabisch has been involved as co-commissioner in the artist and producer collective Fernwärme im Ausland (Berlin); from 2005 on, she is engaged in the development of the Performing Arts Forum (PAF, St. Erme) and in the application of open source strategies in the Performing Arts with the open group Everybodys.

In 2010, Sabisch is awarded the doctor of philosophy (PhD) with 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 (München: epodium/ Tanzplan Deutschland 2010).

In 2011 Sabisch receives the award for dance studies (tanzwissenschaftspreis nrw) by Tanzarchiv Köln, Ministerium für Innovation, Wissenschaft & Forschung des Landes Nordrhein)-Westfalen, SK Kultur Stiftung.

In the last years, Sabisch has been lecturing and teaching in key institutions of art, e.g. in the M.A. choreography and in the B.A. Dance in the Univ. of Dance Stockholm, the M.A. Choreographie und Performance at the University of Giessen, at the Hochschule für Musik & Tanz in Köln, the Inter-University Center of Dance Berlin (HZT), Université Paris 8.

Diverse international publications on dance/philosophy in Performing Arts Journals, anthologies; as well as translations from French.