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contact:

antoniasophiesteffens@gmail.com

IG: newborin_

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education:

2023-2025: MfA, Planetary Poetics, Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam

2021-2023: Acupuncture, TCM at Shenzhou Open University

2014-2018: BA Choreography at SNDO Amsterdam, AHK

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

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internships:

2012: PACT Zollverein, Essen, publicity

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

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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

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nominations:

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

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works:

2023-24: "CC you", Springwounds, Kunstkapel Amsterdam, 4Bid Gallery, Sandberg Institute

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

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commissions:

2024: Archival work on work of Pauline de Groot, Nederlandse Dansdagen, SNDO, Fransien van der Putt

2023: "Line, loosing Line", archival work, comissioned by Fransien van der Putt

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selected residencies:

2025: Lawayakacurrent, Atacama, Chile

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

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teachings:

2023

Movement reserach, WeliveHere, Summer academy, NB projects, BAU Amsterdam

Movement research, SNDO intensive course, AHK Amsterdam

2024

Movement Research at SNDO, BA choreography, year 2 +3 , Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten

Movement Research at ISAC, BA and MA choreography, Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts, Ecole supérieure des Arts, Brussels

Body awareness at BA 1st year, theatre pedagogy, university of applied science Osnabrück

Movement Research at SNDO, BA choreography, 1st Year, Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten

Comflictidy 
A Comflictidy may be a residing, state or thing at the intersection of commodity, conflict and comfort. Stimulated by the need to generate a space to escape, comflictidies typically produce a reflectional echo, recalling the conflicts they partially stem from. Confronted by that echo, usually presented in temporary, mental blockages of the user, a sort of  psychic and somatic dead-end sensation occurs, similar to a foggy wall, both dazing the user’s perspective and at the same time, hinting at the pre-conditional root discomfort or conflicts. On an advantageous note, most Comflictidies potentially operate both as an experienced limitation, and at the same time offer a place to rest, hesitate or contemplate. Comflictidies are not particularly enjoyable places, but function as a provisory shelter from live challenges too big to understand or too dynamic to move along with. Comflictidies can occur within artistic practices, in spatial design, in escapism, therapy sessions and in the finalising moments of procrastination. Comflictidies have been referred to as a double sided sword bending in retrovers, where the user is not just holding but simultaneously balancing on it, like on a thin line, unable to find proper quiet or precise insight of how to move on ( Metaphor).

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CCyou

♲ Line,losing line ♲

Weaving Passages for the momentous

An Attendee

Orange Rest/Sacrifice

Spinner

Hope, Test

Metamotion for 270degrees

Night Flying Project

Movement

delineations

Unfamiliarities

PAST-Present-future

February + March: teaching Movement Research, BA choreography, SNDO, Amsterdam
16th of March: performing at the Finissage, the seeds of Memory by Mercedes Azpilicueta, together with Toni Brell and Antonella Fittipaldi, Fries Musem, Leeuwaarden
April: teaching Movement Research, BA and MA of choreography, ISAC Brussels
18 +19 of May: Higher Xtnd, by Michele Rizzo, PS1, MOMA, New York City
March-June : teaching Movement Research, BA theater pedagogy,  at Technical University Osnabrück
26 of July: Higher Xtnd, by Michele Rizzo, VAC Vilnius
September/ October: teaching Movement research, BA choreography, SNDO, Amsterdam
28th of September: Higher Xtnd, by Michele Rizzo, Porto ( tbc )
5th of October: sketch presentation after working with Pauline de Groots archive, founder of SNDO, together with Elisa Zuppini and Fransien van der Putt, Nederlandse Dansdagen, theater aan het Vrijthof Maastricht
15+16 of November: performing the Archive,presentation after working with Pauline de Groots archive, founder of SNDO, together with Elisa Zuppini and Fransien van der Putt, Plein theater, Amsterdam
end of November : workshop on drawing x movement, Crèche Amsterdam (more details to be announced)
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Salomes dress is so transparent that she doesn’t understand anymore where her dress ends and her skin starts. It seems almost she is wearing a double skin protecting the irritated and itchy surface of her thies and belly. Salome has scabies. (...)