JULIA KLOCKOW
(*1983 Berlin)
Julia Klockow is a freelance choreographer, dancer and performer based in Freiburg im Breisgau.
Julia Klockow understands the human body as a cultural storehouse of knowledge with intuitive resources that are neglected in our society. In her view, the performance situation is a social moment that triggers transformative processes. In her work, she explores in particular how the relationship between audience and performer is shaped. She uses specific practices of body awareness, imagination and meditation to create physical states from which she develops choreographic material. She is currently working in particular on the topic of temporality in dance and in interdisciplinary settings.
She received her professional training from 2015 - 2018 at the TIP - School for Dance, Improvisation & Performance and in various intensive courses. She also acquired body knowledge in her further studies of sports science (B.A. & M.A.). She has performed in pieces by Alexandra Pirici (Art Basel 2019/ Kunsthalle Mannheim 2020), Mia Habib (Theater Freiburg, 2018), Doris Uhlich (Boom 2017), Zina Vaessen (2021), Heike Schuster (2020), with the Accomplices Instant Composition Performance Group by Lilo Stahl and in her own works.
STAGE PRODUCTIONS
In October 2024, her interdisciplinary dance performance ‘tell.me.sth.new!’ premiered (co-production with E-WERK Freiburg and ‘Labor à Trois’ residency, a programme by ROXY Birsfelden, CDCN Pole-Sud Strasbourg, Tanznetz Freiburg/E-WERK), funded by the Freiburg Department of Culture and the Freiburg Regional Council. It was her third full-length stage production.
In 2020, she received funding from the city of Freiburg for the first time, as well as funding from the state of Baden-Württemberg and the LBBW Foundation, with which she realised her first full-length piece "vague" (premiere June 2021, Lokhalle Freiburg). Her second full-length play "tuningtime" (premiere March 2022, SÜDUFER Freiburg, funded by the LBBW Foundation in cooperation with E-WERK Freiburg). She showed her first short works from 2018 for "crashtest paradise" at E-WERK (solo: licht✧bricht, July 2018) and at tanzwuchs#1 (dreiviertel, Sept. 2018), with which she performed in Bern (Junge Bühne Bern) and at the Anvil Festival in Lucerne in 2019.
OFF-SPACES AND MUSEUMS
She usually explores her interest in the interfaces between performance, dance and visual art in off-spaces or exhibition spaces outside the black box. She regularly works in OFF-SPACES and museums, such as with Zina Vaessen at the Museumsnacht Freiburg 2024 in ‘about time’ or “shadow” at the Museum für Neue Kunst Freiburg in the exhibition ‘Modern Times’. A series of performances by her moves on the border between nude drawing, painting and dance and was presented in 2022 under the title AKT (Atelierhaus Klingenthal, DELPHI_space) and in 2023 in collaboration with the visual artist Cristina Ohlmer as AKTNACKTKUSS at the Museum für Neue Kunst Freiburg. In 2019 she was also shown at Kulturgarage L6 Freiburg in the performance "Relation" for the visual artist Max Siebenhaar and in 2020 at DELPHI_space Freiburg with the interactive 1:1 performance "taskx" on 4m2, which also made a guest appearance at Goethe Exil in Hanover (September 2021).
RESEARCH
In 2020, she received the One-to-One Mentoring Grant from Tanznetz Freiburg and researched interactive stage settings with her mentor Margret Sarah Gudjonnsdottir (Iceland/Berlin). This was followed in 2021 by a #take care-funded research project on ‘Dance Mediation’ and the DISTANZ-SOLO 3 grant on ‘Power Structures of Performers & Audiences’. In 2022 she realised the research ‘torn into time’ DISTANZ-SOLO 4 as well as the Flausen+ take heart residency on the topic ‘ENDE’ in cooperation with E-WERK Freiburg and Fonds Darstellende Künste in 2023. Since 2021 she is part of a research group led by Lilo Stahl, with regular Instant Composition Performances.
DANCE MEDIATION
Klockow is a dance mediator in various settings. In 2025, she leads the dance studio at the art parcour for young adults ‘Move the body - move the system’. A group of 20 interested people spent 3 months exploring the question of when dance art is activist. In 2024, they worked together with Omas gegen Rechts Freiburg and created a flash mob. In May 2024, she choreographed a short piece as part of the INNEHALTE project as a commissioned work for ROXY Birsfelden, which was presented at Tanzfest Basel with 11 non-professional dance enthusiasts. In 2020 and 2021, she assisted in the projects of Zina Vaessen, who created 3 pieces in the series ‘Woher, Wohin’ in 3 different churches with amateurs in the Fribourg region, in which a total of 52 people aged between 10 and 87 took part.
EDUCATION
TIP - School for Dance, Improvisation & Performance 2016 - 2018 professional stage dancer. Free Music Centre Munich: Further training in dance education 2016. TU Munich: M.A. Sport, Media & Communication 2010. University of Halle-Wittenberg: B.A. Sports Science 2008.
Portrait "Badische Zeitung" 19.03.2022
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