Artist
Performer
Producer
Kati Masami Menze is a freelance artist working in the field of performing arts, also as a performer and producer. She sees all three rolls as an equal part of her practice, which itself is rooted in dance.
Artist
Performer
Producer
About
In her work she creates spaces to question existing social and political structures. In order to communicate and to bring those topics/stories closer to the audience she makes the process of the work and things that might stay hidden, transparent. The so called „Liminal space“, the space which exists at any kind of theme between multiple realities, is the ground where she starts to explore. Through an observational stance, the recurring role as intermediary communicator and the focus on details, she opens interstitial spaces. In this she reflects through tools such as glitch, transparency and humor on multiple realities.
Her artistic vocabulary is orientated in bodypractices, often used in combination with other resources placed between performing arts and fine arts. She draws strength from collective work and attaches great importance to fair and qualitative cooperations.
She has a great interest in networking and is committed to the local independent dance scene and the cultural politics in Essen. Among other things, she is also involved in the Cultural Advisory Council of Essen city as a representative of the independent scene.
Since 2020, she has also been working as a certified GYROKINESIS method trainer. She offers classes at places such as FREIRAUM in Düsseldorf.
From the age of eight to eighteen she has been living in Tokyo. Japan has influenced her deeply. She graduated from Highschool there. Her family lives distributed in Germany and Japan and since 2016 she is based in Essen/NRW.
Education
since 2023 |
MA scenic research, Ruhr University Bochum, DE |
2021 |
BA Dance, Folkwang University of Arts, DE |
2016 |
Tokyo Metropolitan Senior High School, JP |
Awards/Grants
2021 |
DIS-TANZ-SOLO - Stellvertreter:innen |
2019 |
scholarship Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes |
2019 |
Third Price for the Solo Late Summer @All Japan Dance Competition |
Residencies
2022 |
TakeHeart - TrackMap (AT) with Toni Brell and Daria Nazarenko |
2022 |
TakeHeart - what do we belong to? (AT) |
2022 |
space | lab Residency - what do I belong to? |
2021 |
BORDELAND Residencies @Schloss Ringenberg |
as an Artist
2023 |
Exercises for Ungrounding: workshop withToni Brell und Daria Nazarenko @Maschinen Haus Essen |
2022 |
TakeHeart - TrackMap (AT) with Toni Brell and Daria Nazarenko: research |
2022 |
TakeHeart - what do we belong to? (AT): research |
2022 |
space | lab Residency - what do I belong to?: research |
2021 |
BORDELAND Residencies: research |
2021 |
DIS-TANZ-SOLO - Stellvertreter:innen: research |
2021 |
park stage: performance for installation by Mischa Kuball @Museum Morsbroich |
2012 |
to start,: performance |
2021 |
Quarantine: short documentation |
2021 |
take away: installation with Daria Nazrenko @NAILS Projectroom Düsseldorf |
2020 |
Sunlit Portion of Domestication#2: film with Daria Nazarenko @Pact Zollverein Atelier No.64 |
2019 |
LIMINALITIES: performance @Theater Vacant Tokyo |
as a Performer
2023 |
Vor dem Vorhang ist hinter dem Vorhang: a showing by Marie-Lena Kaiser part of „Ein Festival zum Frühling!“ @PACT Zollverein |
2023 |
Unsolved: piece concept & development: Polymer DMT Fang Yun Lo, resumption as part of Tanz Mainz Festival 2023 |
2022 |
BuschLab 8: research with Marlin de Haan @ProjektRaumKunst Busch 8 |
2022 |
Peeking through a Brickwall (AT): research with Marie-Lena Kaiser @Maschinenhaus Essen |
2022 |
In between us: research with Josephine Kalies |
2021 |
Bibliopark Ex: installation/performance concept: miu |
2020 |
five twenty: film @Stadtbesetzung in NRW Gühtersloh |
2020 |
Analog vs. Digital: research with Marie-Lena Kaiser @Maschinenhaus Essen |
2020 |
Zehn nach Zehn: performance concept: Marie-Lena Kaiser part of 10 Jahre Kulturhauptstadt und Ruhr Museum/Essen ZollvereinGo for Good ll |
2019 |
FIRST THE BODY: performance Marie-Lena Kaiser, part of Impuls Bauhaus Festival – TRY AGAIN, FAIL BETTER @Ruhr Museum and Kokerei Zollverein |
2015 |
Canto Ostinat: choreography: Kazuyuki Futami @Tokyo Metropolitan Theater |
as a Producer
2023 |
somebody @ maschinenhaus: dance&performance plattform for and from the free scene Essen @Maschinenhaus Essen |
2022 |
K.I.T.C.H.E.N. : installation/perfromance by Marlin de Haan @Kunst Museum Bochum |
2022 |
space | lab is running: festival - for and by the freelance scene in Essen |
since 2020 |
coordination, communication format development for space | lab Polymer DMT Fang Yun Lo and IG Tanz Essen |
Imprint
Kati Masami Menze
hi@katimasamimenze.de
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