URSULA is a dedication to her grandmother. A love letter to the life of a woman who retreated into vivid inner worlds to find space, voice, and release.
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URSULA
Three performers move through a shifting landscape of fabrics and songs, slipping between layers of reality and imagination. Through whispered confessions, fractured harmonies and tactile movement, URSULA explores the blurred line between presence and absence, memory and invention, the collective and the individual.
It speaks to the long history of women labeled 'hysterical' for feeling too much, imagining too freely — a story not of personal pathology, but of collective survival and resistance. Where does imagination end and madness begin?
On four evenings the graduates of the BA Dance, Context, Choreography show their final projects. With works by Mateo Argerich, Ella Olivia Bender, Anton Gerzina, Sefa Okutan, Mahshad Rezai, Milena Stein, Marie Stremmel, Frida Zack.
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Concept & Choreography: Ella Olivia Bender SemerciPerformance & co-creation: Lotta Leitz, Diana Pop, Ella Olivia Bender SemerciSound design: Matias MillingStage design: Madeleine DuflotMentor: Lina Gómez
Ella Olivia Bender Semerci is a Berlin and Cologne-based singer, performer, dancer, and choreographer, exploring the intersection of dance and music through improvisation, collaboration, and songwriting. Her work delves into themes such as tradition, nature, vulnerability, and flow.
Ella Olivia Bender Semerci is a Berlin and Cologne-based singer, performer, dancer, and choreographer, exploring the intersection of dance and music through improvisation, collaboration, and songwriting. Her work delves into themes such as tradition, nature, vulnerability, and flow.
Dates
September 2025
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