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jennifer for a day (GER)

October - November 2023

The group jennifer for a day, consisting of Caroline Beach, Amelie Sabbagh, Tian Jinx Rüger, Laura Morales Dávila and Steph Quinci, are performers, dancers, strip performers, musicians, set and costume designers, media artists and researchers. The interconnections and collaborations between them are complex and sticky, the group is less a fixed collective than a container for chaotic growth.

jennifer for a day was selected as the artist group from Germany for the Moving Identities residency programme 2023-2024.

Lisa Rüger

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Lisa Rüger (Bergisch Gladbach, 1993) is a performance artist, strip performer, costume designer and set designer. She is a passionate advocate of the pro-sexwork movement with a focus on queer female bodies. In 2022, Rüger completed her studies in stage and costume design at the HfBK Dresden and also studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Her work has been shown in various off-spaces, at festivals and in clubs as well as at the Fusion Festival, the August Everding Theatre Academy in Munich, the NS Documentation Centre in Munich, the Körber Studio Junge Regie 2021, the Staatstheater Saarbrücken, the Staatstheater Kassel and HELLERAU.

Steph Quinci

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Steph Quinci is a Berlin-based dance and performance artist. Quinci's aesthetic and research-based activities are characterised by soft, legato posture, sculptural study, release and suppleness. Quinci's dance background is a mix of classical ballet, American modern dance and has trained as a junior collective member at Compania Zappala in Sicily. Quinci has been dancing with Paula Rosolen/Haptic Hide (Frankfurt am Main) for five years and works regularly with the go plastic company (Dresden), Caroline Beach (Berlin), Sandra Man (Berlin) and Enad Marouf (Berlin).

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Laura Morales Dávila

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Laura Morales Dávila (Seville, 1986) is a choreographer and performer and a graduate of a professional dance conservatory in Seville, Spain. She received the AISGE Foundation's Best Dancer Award for her participation as an international choreographer at the American Dance Festival. In 2013, together with Greta García, she founded the multidisciplinary collective Hermanas Gestring, which won first prize at the Certamen Coreográfico de Madrid. She performed her first solo in 2017 and founded her own company, Laura Morales, in the same year. She has worked with Horacio Macuacua, Aitana Cordero and Judith Sánchez Ruiz in "Encaje for Ten", with Caroline Beach in "Sailor on Aisle 5" and "SONDERANGEBOT".

Caroline Beach

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Caroline Beach (Dallas, Texas, 1990) is a choreographer and performance artist living in Dresden and Berlin. She has a Masters in Choreography from the Palucca University and is currently completing a Masters at the AdBK Nuremberg with Prof JP Raether. She has created works for a variety of spaces and media, including theatres, galleries, offspaces, a lake, the internet and a media storage room. She explores much of her work through the lens of Sailor, a slippery and permeable avatar that sails beyond the neoliberal stranglehold around the materiality of desire. She plays with Casey Ouzounis in the band Cocktail Napkin.

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Amelie Sabbagh

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Amelie Sabbagh (Würzburg, 1991) is a performance artist, stage and costume designer and activist in the fields of theatre, dance and performance. After studying theatre, film and media studies in Vienna, she studied stage and costume design at the HfBK Dresden and fine arts at the University of Leeds in England. She deals with topics such as the sexualisation of female bodies, female rage, gender inequality and racism in both digital and analogue space. Her work has been shown at the Volkstheater Vienna, the objekt klein in Dresden, the Hole of Fame and the Festspielhaus Hellerau, among others. She was the costume designer for "The Kidnapping of the Bride", which won the Short Film Jury Award at the Sundance Film Festival 2023.

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