The Living Body

Sarantoula Sarantaki is an interdisciplinary artist, choreographer, researcher, and geographer, based in Berlin, Germany. She works with somatic movement and improvisation. The choreographies are a mosaic of dance, theatre, and visual art that create immersive, layered experiences, exploring body, presence, and environment.She found and direct artistically Roh collective through which complete a trilogy — Rock Water Spell (2021), Silken Veil (2022), and Water Our Future (2024) — funded by the Hessisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst in Kassel. Since 2023 she received fund for research on kinesthetic intelligence from Distanz Fonds Daku. Under which developing a somatic-based approach on moving body & mind in action with touch, sound and movement. She has taught in vocational dance trainings in Freiburg & Kassel, as well as international festivals. The approach has influence from somatic methods (Feldenkrais, BMC, Qi gong) and roots in instant composition & contact improvisation. All classes are devoted in the presence and art of the moving body that deals with instant expression in time and space.

Jana works as a freelance dance artist, teacher, somatic practitioner and creative chef. Her research within a practice of CI spins around ontology and politics of touch, thinking body as presence and CI as a social and performative art practice. For the past 7 years she has been engaged with the practice through the lens of BMC, approaching it as an individual and collective prayer.