michela filzi -
dancer, dance writer and
eco-somatic researcher
works artist-statement collaborations about
michela flzi (she/her) is an independent artist based in Berlin. She received a BA from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam in 2016 and an MA in Solo Dance Authorship from the Hzt, Berlin in 2021. Her ongoing artistic research revolves around questions of human and non-human agency and ecological thinking in the context of the performing arts.She is a permaculture apprentice at the Moulin Scalagrand, a self-sustaining farm in the South of France, and brings her relationship with the land to her artistic work. Her performances are site-specific and are at the intersection of ritual, storytelling, herbalism and dance.
She is an independent dance writer and part of STREAM, a platform for live art motivated writing and part of Tanzfabrik, Berlin. Since 2021 she is part of the collective WILD ACCESS and regularly collaborates with Berlin-based dancers and choreographers such as Alice Chauchat, Niels Weijer and Beatrix Joyce among others.
2018 © self-portrait - video by michela filzi
2023 © URBAN PLANTARIUM - photo by Evgenia Chetvertkova