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contact:

antoniasophiesteffens@gmail.com

+31 628174578

IG: newborin_

education:

2021-present: TCM at Shenzhou Open University

2014-2018: BA Choreography at SNDO Amsterdam, AHK

2012-2014: BA Dance at ZZT Cologne, HfMT Köln

internships:

2012: PACT Zollverein, Essen, publicity

2011-2012: Platform 3, Saarbrücken under the direction of Seraina Stoffel, LAG Saarland

Scholarships:

2016: Dance Web Scholarship holder, Impulstanz Vienna

2016-2018: Schuurman Schimmel, Stichting van Outeren Scholarship holder

2017-2018: Stichting Bekker la Bastide Fonds Scholarship holder

nominations:

2018: Nomination for the Moving Forward Trajectory with "Metamotion for 270degrees"

works:

2020: An Attendee, Veem House for Performance, NBprojects

2019-22: Spinner, in collaboration with Sigrid Stigsdatter, coproduced by AFK Amsterdam, Dansmakers, Veem House for Performance, 8Athens, Flam Festival, New Fears Gallery Berlin

2018: 270degrees, Fraslab production at Frascati Theatre

2018: Metamotion for 270degrees, SNDO, Frascati Theatre

2017: Night Flying Project, SNDO, Veem House for Performance

selected residencies:

March/April 2022: Workspace Brussels

January 2022: The PickUp Club Amsterdam

Jan/February 2021: Bau Studios Amsterdam during Come Together Festival

February 2020: Veem House for Performance, Amsterdam

January 2020: 8Athens, critical Laboratory for Arts and Politics

July 2019: ResiDance, Amsterdam

September 2019: Resident at de Ruimte, Festival Why Not

March/April 2019: New Adventures Residency, Dansmakers Amsterdam

November 2018: Fraslab, Frascati Theatre Amsterdam

September 2018: Choreographic Dialogues, Pact Zollverein Amsterdam


Attending/attendees
Attending describes the process and attempt of overcoming binary modes of experiencing, typically when subobjects, strangers, “formerly known (entities) as x” cross paths, while they are also in complicated, transitional states. Not only linked to subobjective realties, the process can further be observed within ecosystems, that appear to deal with a temporal or lasting tension, like the state of reconfiguration of crisis, healing, imbalance and chaos, Often times, those localities deal with strong emotionally charged confusion or hopelessness and are at the verge of “giving up”. Attending operates mostly as a mobiliser of a potential 3rd space, challenging the binary process of identity-making. It aspires to dissolve the phallic crisis by materialising agents beyond their self-proclaimed defined boundaries and deliberately attune to the procedures of space from “within between” the present entities. Colloquial called “attendees”, these spaces operate as mediators, that allow for cross-interference,-information and mutual regulation. Attending offers ways to operate within disquiet but leave entities, subobjects and localities usually permanently altered.

Weaving Passages for the momentous

An Attendee

Orange Rest/Sacrifice

Spinner

Metamotion for 270degrees

Hope, Test

Night Flying Project

Movement

delineations

Unfamiliarities

DATES/ NEWS

2-3/09/2023: "Line,lo0sing line", Research Presentation at Oldenaller, commissioned by Fransien van der Putt, working with the archive of painter Claartje Berger
3-5/07/2023: Research residency at Oldenaller, commissioned by Fransien van der Putt, working with the archive of painter Claartje Berger
23/06/2023: "THE FATE CAST / IN THE SEARCH / OF FOUR PETALS", during " Even in the dark I know I am sleeping with myself" at Perdu Amsterdam, Collaboration with Mercedes Azpilicueta
24/05/2023: "SPRING WOUNDS" as part of the warp, a shared evening at KUNSTKAPEL, AMSTERDAM
14/04/2023: "ORANGE REST/ SACRIFICE", ATELIERS PACT ZOLLVEREIN, ESSEN
30/03/2023: "WEAVING PASSAGES FOR THE MOMENTOUS", Extra Intra Reader #2 :A SLIGHT BREATH, editors HARRIET FOYSTER, ROSIE HAWARD, NELL SCHWAN, editorial board for  intercurricular Programmes, GERRIT RIETVELD ACADEMY, SAN SERIFFE, AMSTERDAM 2023
10/11/2022:  "HOPE,TEST- A STRATEGY OF PERFORMATIVE MEMORIES", PUBLISHER: 4BID GALLERY AMSTERDAM
SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2022: "SPINAL CATASTROPHE" RESEARCH PROJECT, SUPPORTED BY NEUSTART KULTUR, #TAKE HEART, PACT ZOLLVEREIN, BERLIN/AMSTERDAM, RESEARCH
SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2022: DRAMATURGY FOR ELVAN TEKIN, TANZFABRIK BERLIN
08/07/2022: "THE FATE CAST / IN THE SEARCH / OF FOUR PETALS", DURING "CHANGE FEELING" , COLLABORATION WITH MERCEDES AZPILICUETA, VANABBE MUSEUM EINDHOVEN  
02+03/07/2022: "ON J0YFUL MILITANCY", PERFORMING FOR MERCEDES AZPILICUETA, ROZENSTRAAT, AMSTERDAM
19/05/2022: "SPINNER" PREMIER AT FLAM FESTIVAL AMSTERDAM
08/05/2022: "AN ATTENDEE" MANDALA FESTIVAL, WROCLAV
14/03-04/04: RESIDENCY AT WORKSPACE BRUSSELS