As a dance artist with a background in Krump, Nach explores her identity as a dancer and as a woman, whilst defying restrictive categorisations. Having grown up in Bobigny, France, in a family with Senegalese, Cape Verdean and Vietnamese roots, she recalls the constant presence of music and dance as part of social and community life.

As the Valeska Gert Guest Professor, Nach is dedicated to practice-based research into the power of the marginalised, their narratives and their independent, self-assured and resistant creativity. Can protest dance unleash liberating and political power through the writing of movement, the development of choreographic scores and the telling of stories? What is the relationship with historical and personal archives? How can we break free from inherited attitudes and traditional bonds by writing new scores? And if so: what exactly defines a score?

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Welcome
Nele Hertling, dramaturg, theatre director, director of the Performing Arts Section
Prof. Dr. Lucia Ruprecht, dance scholar, director of the master's programme in Critical Dance Stuides at Freie Universität Berlin

Lecture
Nach – The Powerful Margins. Dance of Struggles and Bodies of Resistance

Talk
With Lucia Ruprecht and Nach