Claire Vivianne Sobottke
Alma Toaspern
Double bill: Velvet & _plex
Velvet
Velvet is a sensuous study of the history of the feminine body.
Claire Vivianne Sobottke's solo work unfolds in a constructed miniature garden - of soil, plants and stone - and examines loneliness and sexuality. Sobottke constructs a series of portraits of creatures that move in these landscapes, challenging norms of ways of seeing and thinking the world. Velvet moves between the poetic and the irrational to both construct and deconstruct embodiments and identities—including the idea of the feminine and the feminine.
_Plex
IN __plex choreographer Alma Toaspern dives into the sensuous and emotional intensity of pop culture. Inspired by musician John Oswald's visionary album Plexure (1993) — a collage of over 1,000 pop hits — the work translates fragments of sound into movement, rhythm and presence. Through the Body is examined how we navigate in an era marked by constant media noise, algorithmic remix culture and fleeting impulses.
Powerful, humorous and overwhelming, each movement seeks to create meaning amid the overstimulation -- a flash of clarity in chaos.
About
Claire Vivianne Sobottke is a Franco-German performance artist who defines her work as a haven of resistance. Here norms of ways of seeing and thinking the world can be challenged and redefined.
Sobottke is a trained actor in Berlin, but works primarily as a performer and dancer. Her practice revolves around the voice as a source of movement and on the “untamed” as a poetic and bodily space.
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Claire Vivianne Sobottke is a Franco-German performance artist who defines her work as a haven of resistance. Here norms of ways of seeing and thinking the world can be challenged and redefined.
Sobottke is a trained actor in Berlin, but works primarily as a performer and dancer. Her practice revolves around the voice as a source of movement and on the “untamed” as a poetic and bodily space.
Choreographer Alma Toaspern studied contemporary and classical dance and graduated from P.A.R.T.S., Brussels, under the direction of Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker. She was a resident choreographer at Kaserne Basel in the 2025/2026 season and at Dansk Danseteater in 2024. She collaborates internationally as a dancer, musician and co-creator a.o. with Tim Etchells, Bobbi Jene, Tilman O'Donnell, Trajal Harrell, Ben Frost, Ioannis Mandafounis, Alexandra Bachzetsis, the Royal Danish Orchestra and Symphonic Orchestra Basel.
Since 2020, she has co-directed the interdisciplinary company toaspern|moeller with composer and singer Mathias Monrad Møller, creating works at the intersection of dance and music, such as their duet LIEBE (K:Selekt 2024). Their work is mostly co-produced and toured in Switzerland, Germany, Norway and Denmark. Between 2018-2022 she was a member of the experimental dance Company Corpus as part of the Royal Danish Ballet in Copenhagen.
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Velvet//choreographer Claire Vivianne Sobottke performer Claire Vivianne Sobottke music Tian Rat Veel lighting devices and techniques Catalina Fernandez
_plex//choreographer, dancer Alma Toaspern choreographic co-creation Lúa Mayenco Outside Eye Mathias Monrad Møller Costume Sabrina Seifried Lighting designer Martin Mulik production toaspern|moeller producer Anne Mai Slot Vilmann
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