
16/04/2025
Meet Our Mentor: Sandra Noeth
Sandra Noeth is a professor at the HZT Inter-University Centre for Dance Berlin and works internationally as a curator in independent and international contexts. For more than twenty years she has accompanied artists as a dramaturge in their research and working processes; from 2009-14 as head dramaturge at Tanzquartier Wien. In her dramaturgical practice and various mentoring projects, she is particularly concerned with strategies of collective learning and working in the arts, and with working methods that are developed outside the western canon. Her own research and publication projects often aim to bring together knowledge from different artistic, social, political and activist fields and disciplines to reflect on current socio-political developments. Recent projects focused the role, status and agency of bodies in bordering processes; the relation between arts, bodies and unequal politics of protection; the embodiment of violence; the performativity of class dynamics in arts as well as the ambivalent status of the body in international humanitarian law. Sandra worked as an educator with SKH-Stockholm University of the Arts and Ashkal Alwan Beirut, among others. She is the author of Resilient Bodies, Residual Effects. Borders and Collectivity from Lebanon and Palestine (transcript, 2019) as well as a co-editor of Breathe. Critical Investigations into the Inequalities of Life (with J. Janša, 2023) and Shielding: Body-based Studies on Integrity and Protextion (with J. Janša and S. Umathum, 2024).
Languages: English, French and German.