Marthe Meier
About
As a performer and choreographer, I trust my imagination as a way into physical and emotional transformation, driven by a passion for play and spontaneous connections. My strengths are instant composition, improvisation and character work.
In my work, I search for intensity, which inclines me to take physical and emotional risks. In places of exhaustion and extreme I look for daring and vulnerability.
I’m interested in studying the contrasts and contradictions we live with, and to explore movements that are already inscribed in our bodies through our realities and experiences.
With a background in philosophy, theatre, and classical and contemporary music, I have an interdisciplinary approach that keeps me excited about mixing different materials and weaving connections between them.
Education
10/2022 – 06/2022 M.A. Critical Dance Studies – Free University, Berlin
10/2021 – 09/2024 Contemporary Dance Education – Danceworks Academy of Contemporary Dance, Berlin
10/2020 – 09/2021 Dance Pedagogy Education – Lola Rogge School of Dance and Dance Pedagogy, Hamburg
10/2016 – 08/2020 B.A. Philosophy (major), German Language and Literature (minor) – University of Hamburg
Collaborations
As a dancer I have worked with choreographers such as Kosmas Kosmopoulos, Amanda Piña, Saar Magal, Melissa Kieffer and Frank Willens.
Teachers that influenced me are Stella Zannou and Johannes Wieland.
As an assistant, I have worked with directors such as Yael Ronen and Jessica Nupen.
Showreel
Projects
- Come to your Senses
Come to your senses was born from the sensation of feeling caged in the forms and structures of everyday life, craving to feel the edges and limits of my body and skin. Searching for extremes and intensity and sensations and fullness and liberation. A desire that makes me question how I position my body between … - Hold On
Duet Work in Progress / Research Showing 12.09.2025 Hold on, don’t leave. Between rough edges I want to feel you. Crash into me, let me take you. Let me take you down. Where are you? Come closer. Hold on, you better hold on. Special thanks to Melissa Kieffer and JTW Spandau for the opportunity to … - Shopping Cart Research
Within my studies as a researcher, I have been exploring undiscipline, and what it could mean to undiscipline dance or be an undisciplined dancer. While dance and discipline seem closely connected, undisciplined dance may reinvestigate the relationship of dance and choreography to form, technique, risk, freedom, subversion, productivity and conceptions of time and linearity. These … - Warmup Routine
I have a red and black sports resistance band that I’ve been using to work on my strength and flexibility as a dancer. The band is a stretchy elastic loop, strong enough to pull my body weight. I got curious how the resistance and rebound of the band influences the physicality of dancing bodies. Warmup … - SoundSteps
SoundSteps is an international youth exchange for 40 young dancers and musicians from Ukraine, France, Germany, Armenia, Greece and Morocco, by the NGO Beyond Borders e.V. After being postponed twice due to the pandemic, it took place 6-21 August 2022 in Hamburg, Germany. Within 16 days, the participants created a dance and music performance together … - Monopoly Piece
Work in progress performance 06/2023 Composition project of former year 2, Danceworks A game works because it has rules. Rules are often understood as opposite to freedom. Following the rules might not be what you want, and in that case the rule limits your freedom. Breaking a rule feels like breaking free. At the same …