angela schubot is a dancer, artist, choreographer, researcher and bodyworker-healer based in berlin with roots in peru and canada. she does solo works, in planning the ritual-performance MOSSBELLY (2020) in collaboration with shelley etkin and the trilogy “Körper ohne Macht” (bodies without power, 2015) and is co-founder of the former group Two Fish (2000–2012) together with martin clausen. since 2009, she works with jared gradinger, developing pieces about the debordering of the body. since 2017 gradinger/schubot include non-human bodies in their work and co-create with plant nature. from 2011–2015 she worked with and for margrét sara gudjónsdóttir and with robert steijn in 2016. in addition to her most continuous collaboration partners, she is deeply influenced by the artists rosalind crisp and benoît lachambre.

schubot teaches movement research and coaches a.o. at DOCH/University of Dance and Circus in Stockholm, ImPulsTanz Wien, HZT-Berlin and SMASH Berlin. she has developed a body state that resonates with the inner flow in her body and other bodies; an interest that was deepened by her fascia therapy education/method danis bois and intensified by working with healing rituals, plant consciousness and master-plant diets.

 

since more than 8 years, angela schubot's artistic practice has been researching and developing methods and possibilities of acknowledging non-human principles and beings and interacting with them. especially the work with plant consciousness and with the autonomous non-human principles in and around us has become a fundamental foundation of her artistic work.  from this work, alone and in collaborations, especially with jared gradinger, new languages of movement emerge, which question and enrich our habitual anthropocentric way of thinking not dystopically but utopianly.

 

"we can develop other bodies that make a completely different economy of being together possible.  and i am asking the system question.  but from within.  and from a reciprocity with what is non-human.  in us and around us.  i'm looking for a real alternative that doesn't have to be dystopia.  beyond spiritual exaltation and ecological exploitation; a nature-conscious dissolution of the ego to the world; a posthuman act of equality of all life."

 

schubot seeks this utopian alternative in concrete translations into artistic languages and alternative bodies in the form of dance pieces, in participatory formats, in research, teaching and healing practices and in collaborations with human and non-human beings.

 

the constant movement from introspective autonomous solo works to introspective research phases to collectively fruitful collaborations provide the rhythm and dynamics that lead to her artistic results.  she describes her path to a holistic revelation with and through the other as "throwing oneself on the other as an escape from identity hell".