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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

Quadrupedalism 
‍Quadrupedalism is a form of terrestrial locomotion where a tetrapod animal uses all four limbs to bear weight, walk, and run. (google) 
Human beings practicing Quadrupedalism engage in an initiative to remember their planetary pasts, with a physical condition of moving with the face closer to the ground and the back exposed to the sky and sun. The proximity to the legs, feet, sexual and internal organs and intestines, combined with the amplified sensation of the function of the lungs creates a naif, intimate “self-folding”, that has been compared with the activity of navel-staring. Arguably bypassing a state of self indulgence through imitation of animal reality, the intimacy with themselves is generated precisely, through a process of species estrangement and the resulting amplified experience of the bearing of one’s own body. Quadrupedalism has been interpreted as a process of hopeful re-situating through strategic disorientation. As the human body’s dominant navigation faculties, the eyes, are actively restraint from perspective and overview, human beings, practicing quadrupedalism, usually seek for a physical experience of the re-negotiation of domestic hierarchies. Practitioners have been further expressed feelings of relief and nostalgic dwelling, describing the achieved state within exercising as moments to remember, where the species could have evolved to otherwise. The intrinsic potential of this “otherwise” has become particular desirable for practitioners to sense, in the face of human made crisis and devastation.

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UNder armour

♲ 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

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JUNE 11-14 : PLANETARY POETICS / SANDBERG GRADUATION SHOW AT FRAMER FRAMED AMSTERDAM, HEART BREAK RADIO, 12TH OF JUNE, 5PM, 13TH OF JUNE 1;30PM, PERFORMANCE UNDER ARMOUR, 13TH OF JUNE 6PM, 14 OF JUNE 4PM
SEPTEMBER 14: In collaboration with TONI BRELL at Kunstfort bij Vijfhuizen, Performance at 4:15pm, Finissage Toen de dieren nog spraken
SEPTEMBER 20: BROKEN HEART DANCES, WORKSHOP DURING RE-NATURE FESTIVAL/ GRIEF SPACES, 2PM, FULL INFO: https://re-nature.org/
September + October 2025 : teaching movement research at the university for applied sciences, Osnabrück, BA theatre pedagogy
NOVEMBER 2025 : TEACHING MOVEMENT RESEARCH AT SNDO AMSTERDAM, BA CHOREOGRAPHY
DECEMBER 2025 : CREATION TOGETHER THE WITH 2ND AND 3RD YEAR STUDENTS OF SNDO, AMSTERDAM IN COLLABORATION WITH CHOREOGRAPHER ELISA ZUPPINI

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Orange

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. (...)