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(Foto: Tadas Almantas)

So­fia Seta is a per­for­mer, cho­reo­gra­pher, and dance tea­cher born in Bue­nos Ai­res, Ar­gen­ti­na, and ba­sed in Ber­lin sin­ce 2019. She works at the in­ter­sec­tion of dance, thea­ter and per­for­mance and is cur­r­ent­ly en­rol­led at HFMDK in the MA CoDE pro­gram­me. Her mo­ve­ment back­ground in­clu­des Ar­gen­ti­ni­an Folk­lo­re, Con­tem­pora­ry Tech­ni­ques, and Street Dan­ces. In re­cent ye­ars, she has fo­cu­sed on Im­pro­vi­sa­ti­on and in 2023, she was awar­ded the "Dis-tanz Solo" Sti­pen­di­um to de­ve­lop "Sha­red Prac­tice," a re­se­arch pro­ject that in­te­gra­tes ele­ments of Qi Gong and dance.

She has cho­reo­gra­phed and per­for­med several works, in­clu­ding "Mi­gran­tes”, ”Tran­si­ti­on," "The Anxious Body," "Can­ti­cles," and "Sta­te of Joint," at dif­fe­rent fes­ti­vals and thea­ters around Ger­ma­ny, Aus­tria, Fran­ce, Chi­le, and Ar­gen­ti­na. Bet­ween 2015-2017 in Bue­nos Ai­res, she has co-fun­ded Colec­tivo MUTA and per­for­med with Brea­king Tan­go Dance Com­pa­ny. Ad­di­tio­nal­ly, she has worked in Ber­lin as a per­for­mer with Con­stan­za Ma­cras, the ar­tis­tic collec­tive By­ström Käl­l­blad (Tanz im Au­gust), in­ter­di­sci­pli­na­ry ar­tist Kyo­co Ta­ni­ya­ma, with Eli­sa­beth Kind­ler, and mu­sic pro­du­cer and di­rec­tor Sö­ren Sie­bel. As a cho­reo­gra­pher, she has col­la­bo­ra­ted clo­se­ly with thea­ter di­rec­tor An­drea Pin­kow­ski in Ber­lin and pro­vi­ded dance trai­ning for the Burg­Thea­ter (Ross­lau) and Poe­ten­Pack Thea­ter (Pots­dam).

In par­al­lel, sin­ce 2019, she has been fa­ci­li­ta­ting dance prac­tices and work­shops for pro­fes­sio­nal and non-pro­fes­sio­nal dan­cers in Ger­ma­ny (Dock11, Ma­ra­meo, Ur­ban­raum, Be­tha­ni­en, Ka­ta­pult, La Ca­mi­na­da), Chi­le, and Ar­gen­ti­na, with a fo­cus on im­pro­vi­sa­ti­on and mo­ve­ment re­se­arch. Ad­di­tio­nal­ly she works free­lan­ce as a cer­ti­fied Ba­si® Pi­la­tes tea­cher.      

“My long-term in­te­rest is to bridge dance with other pro­fes­si­ons, crea­ting in­clu­si­ve spaces whe­re in­di­vi­du­als from di­ver­se back­grounds can find em­power­ment, com­mu­ni­ty and de­ve­lop their ar­tis­tic voice. I want to keep brin­ging dance in the pu­blic sphe­re, through dance ses­si­ons and/or per­for­mance for­mat, ma­king it more ac­ces­si­ble to broa­der au­di­en­ces.”