Martin Nachbar

Martin Nachbar is a choreographer, researcher,  teacher, curator and writer in the field of contemporary dance and  performance. Since 2020 he holds a professorship for movement and  creative senses for actors at the HfMDK in Frankfurt. From 2019 to 2020  he was coordinator of the MA dance at the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp.  Since 2008 Martin has also taught for various institutions in Europe.

As dancer and performer he worked with companies and choreographers  such as Les Ballets C. de las B., Vera Mantero, Thomas Lehmen, Jochen  Roller, Nicole Beutler and Meg Stuart. Since 2004 he has choreographed  more than 30 small and larger scale pieces, for different spaces, with  different kinds of performers and for different audiences. Among these  pieces are Urheben  Aufheben with a reconstruction of Dore Hoyer’s Affectos Humanos, and Repeater,  with which Martin brought family relations and archives with and  through movement on to the stage. This duet with his 70-year old father  toured worldwide. Martin has also organised several festivals and  symposia such as meeting on dance education 2005, Tierforme/l/n and FELDspiele.  From 2018 to 2019 he was founding member of FELD Theatre for Young  Audiences. His work has been sponsored by the Berlin Senate, the HKF,  the NPN, the Kunststiftung NRW, the Goethe-Institut and others.

In his work he mixes somatic approaches with movement and dance, and  with choreographic thought. The outcomes are performances that invite an  audience to co-think and -feel around the topic addressed. Martin tries  to give his dancers and other co-workers as much agency in the process  as possible. While he likes to give direction to the outcome, he is not  interested in controlling it. His teaching is based on similar  principles.

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