artistic direction, choreography, solodance

how can art make us think about our relationship with insects? anno bolender's first solo project uses dance as a means and looks at this question through the prism of physicality. inspired by the nuances of everyday encounters between insects and humans, dey creates an extraordinary visual and acoustic experience in the city's public space. the performance with design by isabella koeters and sound composition by cat woywod was performed 5 times in different public places in frankfurt from june-august 2024.
more: interview to the project and press article

curation, research, choreoraphy, performance/dance

7 interviews with trans* and queer people about their relationship to the strange construct we call ‘family’ are at the heart of the performative exhibition. the collective verwilderte fasern invites you to experience these stories in a tangible, heartbreaking, but also heartwarming way. vernissage on 1st June 2024 in the basement of the ehemaliges studierendenhaus bockenheim. the exhibition has already been shown at 2 festivals in bochum and frankfurt in 2024.

artistic direction, choreography, dance

slow movements. the peeling down of layers to the skin. and underneath? the shedding of fabric. of undressing. the female-read body like a seismograph of historically grown sexualisation and the fixation of binary gender identities. the female-read, queer, non-binary body, caught in a never-ending striptease. the multi-layered performance will premiere on january the 17th 2024 at the queer performance festival ‘beyond bodies’ at the württenbergischer kunstverein and was created in collaboration with leo ahlers and lou siebold. the performance was accompanied by a short movie that was shown at sommerwerft festival 2024 and at kinothek asta nielsen in frankfurt 2025.

artistic direction, choreography, dance, text

‘oh nightcreature, so vanish, and uncrumble me’ - the sexpositive dance and spoken word performance was performed at the museum für angewandte kunst in frankfurt on august 29th 2023. it revolves around sexuality and afab queerness between shame and violence. collaboration with lou siebold and dj slambear. a reprise took place at the sommerwerft festival 2024. more: video from full performance

artistic direction, choreography, performance, concept, text

how can we encounter the city, and ourselves as part of it, tenderly? the installative performance in public space poses questions about the topography of urban norms and leads into a utopian idea of the city as a decaying potential. premiere was on may 13th 2023 during the dance festival wiesbaden tanzt. in 2024, the performance was invited to the festival hessische theatertage in gießen.

concept, performance, text

die asteroiden is a short performance that was created in a mini residency for mobile albania during the implantieren festival 2023. together with the artist lou siebold, it deals with the senselessness of empty spaces. shown on january 13th 2023. In summer 2024 there was a repirse in public space during the "new europpean bauhaus" project by oha frankfurt.

direction

the experimental theatre text by kyra shmyreva was staged as a scenic reading at the maxim gorki theatre in berlin during queerweek22 by discursive.formation and performed at studio r on september 8th 2022

artistic direction, performance, conzept, text

soft earth, unburned is the title of the interdisciplinary performance/video project in collaboration with lukas picard and ira wichert. the artists* approach the field of tension between tenderness, violence and material. the vernissage was on the 13th of august 2022 at the aterlier siegele in darmstadt. on the 31st of July 2023 there was a reprise at the night of dance in frankfurt.
more: film on vimeo by balduin pfeffer

conzept, artistic direction, pedagogical work

what is reality? can we put it to the test? what does it mean to be ‘authentic’ and is that even possible? how do i present myself and how do i imagine others? what is a mistake, a lie? what is fiction, what is narrative? do we always need clarity?
emmi esefeld and anno bolender wanted to stay in the game, in the appearance and in the fake itself with the participating young people - what can the supposedly false, lying, others tell us about us and our so-called ‘reality’? at the end of the project, which lasted several months, there was an exhibition around kadebe in schlüchtern on 13th september 2024.

more: press article

artistic direction, concept, pedagogical work

"art [...] is no longer seeking to represent utopias; rather, it is trying to construct concrete spaces" (nicolas bourriad, relational aesthetics, p. 45)
the project deals with the paradox of simultaneously overabundant space and the lack of space for subcultures and young people in the countryside. together with a group of 12 young people and the artist jihae an, we developed the ever.be.space, which was performed from 4 to 6 november 2023 at the cold market in schlüchtern. the art zine of the same name ‘ever.be.space’ was created
more: press article

choreography, artistic direction, dance pedagogics

the reclaiming dance performance collective worked in a new, inclusive discursive.formation on a piece concept on the theme of participation/resonance/spaces. once again they worked with people with different experiences, ages, with and without disabilities. the result was a performative dance/space installation, which was shown in public space on the 28th and 29th of may.
more: press article and video on youtube

choreography, artistic direction, dance pedagogics

the sociocultural performance dance project took place in summer 2021 in collaboration with keiko schmitt in offenbach and aimed to demonstrate dance potentials for democracy education in the arts. the performance piece ‘me, you, us’, which emerged from the collaboration, premiered in public space in offenbach on september 18th and 19th 2021.
more: press article

artistic direction, concept, text, design

this short journey takes readers around the world in offenbach. with reflections on the postcolonial and feminist context of travel literature, the city tour makes transculturaility tangible, which will be published in the urban art project reissaus travel agency in summer 2021 by experimental urban researcher lars maritz. illustrator and writer nicole berns is co-designing the journey.