Anne Retzlaff

Anne Retzlaff is a Berlin-based choreographer, performer, and movement researcher working across dance, performance, film, and visual art. She studied dance and choreography at the Palucca University of Dance Dresden and works freelance at the intersection of performance, cinematic practice, and contemporary music theater.

Her artistic research is grounded in somatic practice and embodied knowledge. She completed a two-year Somatic Yoga training at the Somatic Academy Berlin and works with movement both as an artistic method and as a preventive, health-oriented practice. Alongside her artistic work she teaches choreography, movement, and performance at institutions including Berlin University of the Arts and Kassel Art Academy.

Annes work has been presented at institutions such as Schaubühne Berlin, Hebbel am Ufer, Münchner Kammerspiele, and Sophiensæle. Her dance piece most was invited to the main program of Tanzplattform Deutschland. She has received fellowships from PACT Zollverein, Künstlerhaus Lukas Ahrenshoop, Künstlerhäuser Worpswede, and Broadway Dance Center New York.

Her practice explores how bodies relate to environments and to one another. How attention, perception and regulation shape movement. Recent work focuses on participatory and environmental performance formats. Projects such as SEABIRDS CALLING and Dances in Grey, Blue and Green engage with marine ecosystems and ecological fragility, developed in dialogue with scientists and local communities. Connecting movement, awareness and embodied perception to questions of ecology, care and interrelation.

Across her work she is interested in creating shared moments of pause. Movement and rest function as tools for presence, nervous system regulation and collective awareness.