UPCOMING DNA Stage works:
KÖRPER, SPUREN, SPÜREN
Lecture performance by Mareike Buchmann
Where do our bodily traces lead us? How do they become perceptible? Performance artist and movement researcher Mareike Buchmann speaks of her own bodily traces, of poetic sensing bodies, and speculates on modes of being that move beside the line.
The lecture performance interweaves traces of language and movement, visual and acoustic sound traces, the biographical with the fictional, the sensual with the poetic — the I with the You with the We.
The audience is invited to listen, to lose themselves, to sense, and to discover their own traces.
When: 30.10.2025 at 19:00
Where: Kulturei, Mainz
Duration: 50 mins + aftertalk
Lecture in German
Mareike Buchmann is an interdisciplinary performance artist and movement researcher. In addition to her own artistic projects, she leads the IDA FLUX Ensemble and shares her symsomatic movement practice in workshops. Mareike earned her PhD at the intersection of science and art in Salzburg, focusing on “Body, Traces, Sensing.” Currently, her interests lie particularly in an embodied practice of traces and in a practical philosophy of co-embodiment.
IN VISIBLE POTENCIAL
Work - in - progress by Sarah Altherr und Laura Hesie
“in visible potential” is a work-in-progress that investigates how observation shapes our actions and impulses. Inspired by quantum mechanics and the phenomenon of superposition - where particles exist in multiple states until observed - the piece explores the interrelation of visibility and invisibility, and reveals the potential inherent in the undefined.
The work invites the audience to witness how observation itself becomes movement and how their gaze upon the performers’ bodies acts as a shaping force.
When: 22.11.2025 at 20:00
Where: Dance & Arts, Mainz
Duration: 45 mins + aftertalk
Laura Heise is a German freelance dancer, choreographer, and performer based in Mainz. She danced in theatres for seven years (2018–2021 at Landestheater Eisenach, 2021–2024 at Mainfranken Theater Würzburg), gaining a broad movement repertoire across many choreographic styles. Now working in the independent dance scene, Laura develops her own choreographic voice with projects focused on socio-ecological and philosophical themes.
Sarah Altherr, born in 1996, grew up in Italy, Switzerland, France, and Germany. After completing her ballet education in Mainz (2015), she danced with companies such as Staatstheater Schwerin, Ballets de France Toulouse, and Theater Lüneburg. Since 2022, she is a freelance performer, choreographer, and singer in Frankfurt, creating interdisciplinary works like the 2024 solo radically resting, exploring deceleration, body-memory, and heritage.