Julek Kreutzer

Photo by: Dorota Michalak

Julek Kreutzer is a dancer and choreographer based in Berlin. She studied dance, context and choreography at Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz Berlin (HZT Berlin) and is a founding member of the association Tänzer ohne Grenzen e.V. As a dancer, she has worked with Lina Gómez, Anna Nowak, Alice Chauchat, Lyllie Rouvière, Kasia Wolinska and Bella Hager, a.o. Her choreographic work combines movement, speech and performance while bringing together performers with and without prior stage experience (Entenübersetzung, 2018; Dances of Exhaustion 2020). In collaboration with Xenia Koghilaki and Dorota Michalak, Julek investigates through the ongoing project „Nudes and Conspiracies“ how to conspire with the non-human. Since 2020, she has co-curated the student and alumni festival A.PART at ada Studio Berlin with Diethild Meier and Gabi Beier. Julek received the scholarship pilot project Tanzpraxis 2020/21 of the Berlin Senate, was a DanceWeb-er in 2021 and was one of 6 artists of the international residency programme DanceMe in 2021/22. In 2023, she started working the solo „NOISE“ with the support of Residenzförderung of Fonds Darstellende Künste through Mousonturm Frankfurt am Main. NOISE is the model through which she enlarges and develops her research at DAS Choreography.

Juleks choreographic work feeds on various practices: the work happens primarily through the body, drawing on different practices, improvisation, and various techniques to investigate the body's possibilities in, along and tangent to form and imagery. A writing practice accompanies the choreographic practice: Julek is interested in methods of scripting dance and understanding the dialogue between the pre-written script of a piece and the hands-on work in the studio in the attempt to make situations, dispositifs, affect and thought tangible. Juleks choreographic work includes speech, the articulation between movement and word, and how they open spaces both for the spectator and performer.

In the frame of DAS Choreography Julek develops an investigation on NOISE. NOISE in capital letter, as it holds at this time all her questions regarding choreography and none of them at once, and the capital letters leave more space for the questions and concepts to inscribe themselves into a word written on paper or screen. NOISE grew out of the necessity to understand, overcome and find a humourous and sufferable perspective concerning darkness, (state) machinery, a neverending flow of information and apocalyptic news, the absurdity of hype, being overwhelmed while holding up possibly and impossibly EVERYTHING and acting possibly and impossibly on EVERYTHING. Through NOISE, Julek investigates the following questions: How to script dance? How to resist and how to mobilise? How to make space (in the body)? How to find strength in vulnerability? How to speak and move at the same time? How to continue?

NOISE is the image of a crisis.